{"name":"James Yorkston","title":"James Yorkston","id":1717,"slug":"james-yorkston","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/api/v3/core/authors/1717/?format=json","bio_short":"James Yorkston is a Scottish folk musician.  A native of Fife, James Yorkston was an integral early member of the Fence Collective whose reach across contemporary music continues to lengthen: King Creosote, The Aliens, KT Tunstall, The Beta Band. Yorkston is primarily a singer-songwriter, although he also tackles a variety of traditional songs, learned from singers such as Anne Briggs, Dick Gaughan, Nic Jones, Martin Carthy, Lal Waterson, John Strachan & Adrian Crowley. His quoted main influences are Anne Briggs, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Michael Hurley, Can, and the Malagasy D'Gary.","artist_img":"//guitarparty.overcastcdn.com/images/JamesYorkstonyor.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x675-c100.format-jpeg.jpg","songs":[{"id":23671,"title":"Hríseyjar-Marta","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/hriseyjar-marta/"},{"id":1889,"title":"Molly Malone","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/molly-malone/"}]}