Sam Fender shares emotive cover of 1970’s folk track ‘Winter Song’
Sam Fender has today (November 24) shared an emotive cover of the 1970’s folk track, ‘Winter Song’.Described as a “stark, raw and heartfelt recording”, the song is a cover of a track originally recorded by Alan Hull and Lindisfarne.A press release described Alan Hull as “a local legend” for the people of Newcastle, where Fender is from.The press release added: “As meaningful to the people of Newcastle as The Beatles were to the people of Liverpool, Lindisfarne might never have reached the dizzying heights of John Lennon’s men, but in vocalist and songwriter Alan Hull, they had an artist whose music reached and touched millions, and who hundreds of thousands of Geordies, over the generations, remain fiercely proud.”Speaking about the song,