Music review: James Yorkston, Summerhall, Edinburgh
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“BIT nervy,” muttered Fife folk songwriter James Yorkston near the beginning of a show which was also the first of a tour to accompany his new record, The Route to the Harmonium. “Still, this one doesn’t have any words, so I should be okay…” It seems unusual to hear Yorkston – an artist with nearly 20 years of recording and performing history behind him – admit to such shyness, even partly in jest, but at the moment it’s a feeling which appears to propel his muse more than ever; a sense of restless, hopeful, insecure questioning of his position in life.