The British folk music tradition has a long history of story songs. Charting the history and lives and stories and folk tales of the UK and all its amazing peoples. Songs were news items often, with tales of tragedy and triumphs, lost loves and found loves. Celebrations of the seasons and festivals. Here’s just a small selection of original songs from singer songwriter Phil Ryan (who began his musical career in folk clubs across the county of Hertfordshire aged just fourteen years of age)