Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 27/06/2026 The Path – Show Of Hands This week we return to my collection of 32 albums by Devon based folk act Show Of Hands with their 2003 release, The Path, the fifth album by this acclaimed duo to be selected so far. The Path is a unique album in the broad and extensive catalogue of Show Of Hands releases as it’s a purely instrumental album, written to mark the 25 th anniversary of the opening of the South West coastal footpath. This a path that runs from Minehead in Somerset and stretches for 630 miles around the South West coastline of England and finishes at Poole in Dorset. The final section of the path was completed in 1978, a route which covers some fantastic coastline and scenery that includes many areas of historical, heritage and cultural importance. The album, The Path, was composed as a musical journey around the footpath with each track named after a significant area or town along the way. What we hav...
