Jim Moray
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Biography
Douglas Oates, known professionally as Jimâ¯Moray, was born on 20â¯Augustâ¯1981 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, and is an English folk singerâsongwriterâproducer who played guitar, keyboard, melodeon and drums. While studying classical composition at the Birmingham Conservatory, he released the homeârecorded Iâ¯Amâ¯Jimâ¯Moray EP released in 2001 and performed at Glastonbury and the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2002, which brought him to the attention of the folk press. His debut album Sweetâ¯England (Juneâ¯2003), recorded in his bedroom and issued on his Niblick Is a Giraffe label, earned a BBC Radioâ¯2 Folk Award for Album of the Year and a Horizon Award for Best Newcomer in 2004. Subsequent releases-Jimâ¯Moray (2006), Lowâ¯Culture (2008), Inâ¯Modernâ¯History (2010), Skulk (2012), Upcetera (2016), Theâ¯Outlander (2019), and Beflean: An Alternative History 2002-2023 (2023)-showed a progression from electronic experimentation to orchestral and strippedâdown styles, with collaborations featuring Samâ¯Carter, Bellowheadâs Samâ¯Sweeney, and his sister Jackieâ¯Oates. He produced and mixed work for artists such as Oysterband, Jackieâ¯Oates, Tirâ¯Eolas, and Artâ¯Brut, and toured with Oysterband, Eliza Carthy, and Richard Thompson, solidified his place in contemporary British folk. In 2026, he released his tenth studio album, titled Gallants.
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Albums
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- The Straight Line and the Curve
- Sounds of Earth
- Lord Ellenwater
- Eppie Moray
- Bold Lovell
- The Suffolk Miracle
- The Flying Cloud
- Lord Franklin
- When This Old Hat Was New
- The Foggy Dew
- Flow My Tears
- Fair Margaret and Sweet William
- William of Barbary
- Across the Western Ocean
- Edward of the Lowlands
- Another Man's Wedding
- Who's the Fool?
- Nightvisiting
- Longing for Lucy
- The Nightingale
- Gilderoy
- Leaving Australia
- Magic When You're Near
- Early One Morning / Young Collins
