In 2005, Seth Lakeman was reputedly broke and stranded by the side of the road
awaiting assistance after his car had broken down when he had a phone call
telling him that Kitty Jay - the album he had made for £300 in his brother's
kitchen - had been shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize. From that point he
didn't look back. Lakeman's personable personality coupled with his driving
fiddle rhythms and evocative songs built from Dartmoor's rich heritage of myths
and legends quickly launched him into mainstream consciousness, dramatically
raising the profile of folk music on the wa...