Open Toed & Flapping

Wild Willy Barret's CD features Wild Willy Barrett (vocals, guitar, slide guitar, balalaika, banjo, fiddle, piano, harmonium); Freeman (vocals, whistle, castanets); Linton (harmonica); Ward (harmonium).

Wild Willy Barrett is an English folk singer best known for his collaborations with John Otway. His musical style is witty and his humour onstage is dry. He is known for virtuoso fiddle playing, ability with a great number of stringed instruments, and playing slide guitar with a whole raw egg. He has performed vocal and strings for Sleeping Dogz, and closed the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2003, 2004 and 2005. He is credited with supporting guitar / fiddle / vocals in a number of other albums, from Rolf Harris's version of Stairway to Heaven to playing fiddle, guitar and mandolin for George Hamilton IV. 15 tracks. Park Records. 2008.