My first solo album, released in 2012. 

Layer is my naming of names: stories that flesh out the backbone of the past. There are sea captains and admirals here, farmers and millworkers, wine importers and brewers of beer, Methodist preachers and high church vicars, Huguenot weavers, a dead-end of Smiths, and a great-uncle killed on the first day of the Somme. All stumbling through history to the sound of folk, blues and country. Whatever tells the tale...