The Albion Band has been played on NTS in shows including Black Impulse, featured first on 8 August 2015. Songs played include Poor Old Horse, Ragged Heroes/Father Williams and Afro Blue.

The Albion Band is an English folk band founded by the former member of Fairport Convention Ashley Hutchings. The band has gone through many evolutions of membership, and indeed name: initially Albion Country Band, then variations The Albion Dance Band, The Albion Christmas Band, and spilling over into "Ridgeriders" (Ashley Hutchings, Phil Beer, Chris While, et. al). These apparently different groups share members, tunes, and CD tracks in a fairly confusing fashion, and sometime…