Limelight
HENRY PARKER
Yorkshire psych-folk songwriter taps into Bert Jansch and dials up Theo Travis.
Henry Parker: blurring the lines.
LIAM DAVIDSON
LESS THAN A DECADE ago, Henry Parker was playing guitar in ear-mangling heavy metal bands. Today, he’s steadily building a reputation as one of the UK’s most intriguing singer-songwriters, with a sound rooted in folk but infused with psychedelic flair and frequent prog-friendly embellishments. As he explains to Prog, the transition from massive, foot-on-the-monitor riffs to elegiac, acoustic introspection was surprisingly smooth.