Lal Waterson has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 21 episodes and was first played on 3 April 2016.

Lal & Mike Waterson were members of The Watersons, an English folk group from Hull, Yorkshire. In 1972, Lal Waterson and Mike Waterson teamed up to record an album, Bright Phoebus, for the Trailer label. The album is quite unlike anything else they ever did, as it features self-penned songs (of which there are none on any of their other albums) as well as an all-star instrumental backing band, including Richard Thompson and Ashley Hutchings.