Jim Ghedi (and Friends) in Crookes and the Moss Valley

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8 • 526 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

A finger style guitarist with a uniquely impassioned vocal style, Jim Ghedi was born and brought up in the Crookes area of Sheffield. He takes Matthew Bannister to his Nan and Grandad’s terraced house where he heard a lot of Irish music as a child. Jim rejected folk music at first, but found his way back to it as a teenager. Now he’s steeped in the tradition, citing the guitar playing of Bert Jansch and the singing of Norma Waterson as influences. At a beautiful vantage point at the top of one of Sheffield’s seven hills, we are joined by his friends dbh (on fiddle) and Neil Heppleston (on double bass).

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0:00.0	It's spring and the lockdown is easing and we've come to Sheffield so my heart has leapt because I'm back in my old city, the city where I was born and brought up.
0:11.9	And we've come to the suburb of Crooks, up one of the seven hills of Sheffield.
0:17.3	And we're in a street of terraced houses and we're here to meet one of the most impassioned
0:21.9	and original musicians I've heard for many a long year.
0:52.3	Music Sometimes you hear an album and it just leaps out of the speakers and hits you between the ears. And that's what happened to me with In the Furrows of Commonplace by Jim Geddy,
0:58.4	a young lad from Sheffield,
1:00.6	who is imbued with landscape,
1:03.9	imbued with a sense of place
1:05.4	and a sense of the people and the community
1:08.1	where he was born and grew up.
1:11.1	And he's going to tell us about that on our walk today.
1:25.1	Hi, how are we doing?
1:27.2	Back in the mother, one. Yeah, exactly. How we doing? I love coming back here. I know, to be honest with you, I had that same feeling because I've not been back to this part for absolutely ages and I just got that kind of, ah, great. I've been pointing out everything to them on the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you've left for a bit, you kind of,
1:46.0	oh, look, there's the children's hospital.
1:48.0	Jim, where are we?
1:50.0	We're outside Minan's old house, which I was born and lived my early childhood in.
2:00.0	It's an old terrace house in Crooks, New Louse Road, a bit of a
2:04.6	famous road, that's Taska Road, another famous musician was born on that. What famous
2:11.6	music?
2:12.6	One of the Cockers, what's his name, Joe Cocker? Joe Cocker, Yeah. He was born... And he actually knew, he actually
2:18.0	knew my non and granddad. They used to see him causing trouble and stuff. He was a bit of a hellraiser by the sounds of it. So was there any music in the house here? Oh, there was loads of music. I remember as a kid, just mad scenes going on because my granddad's parents were born in Ireland in Los Common and he spent most of his childhood in Ireland in a tiny little place called Cluna Holly, which is right in the sticks.
2:40.5	And so they were part of this Irish Catholic community that in Sheffield at the time was huge.
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