The 40th series of Later with Jools Holland returned to the BBC this month and this week’s second episode was a right humdinger of a show. It featured an array of North American artists playing that region’s traditional forms of music, as well as an Irish group celebrating fifty years together. To celebrate this milestone, The Chieftains have teamed up with producer T Bone Burnett on an album called Voice of Ages. The Chieftains are no strangers to merging different styles of traditional music, as evidenced by their version of The Long Black Veil with Mick Jagger below. They are joined on the new album by a number of bands that have previously appeared on Later: Imelda May and Lisa Hannigan from Ireland; Paolo Nutini from Scotland; Bon Iver, The Civil Wars, The Decemberists, Paolo Nutini, Carolina Chocolate Drops and The Secret Sisters from the States
