Malcolm Guite

Born in Nigeria, raised in Africa and Canada, Malcolm Guite is a poet and singer-songwriter living in Cambridge, also a priest, chaplain, teacher and author of various essays and articles and a book about contemporary Christianity. His Album The Green Man is a collection of songs inspired by everything from his feel for the threatened English country-side to his passionate love of Blues and Americana.

Songs range from lyrical love poetry, to righteous rocking and carry echoes of and allusions to the poets and song-writers who have helped form Malcolm's imagination. The album was put together with contributions from members of Mystery Train, the Cambridge blues rock outfit Malcolm has fronted for the last seven years, but the Green Man sees him in more reflective/acoustic mode. These songs explore some of the realms of sorrow but are in the final analysis, about renewal and transformation.