Miles Cain

Miles Cain

Miles Cain is a York-based singer and songwriter whose debut is dated to 1989. He works in a style shaped by acoustic and singer-songwriter influences, with references in his material to artists such as Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Van Morrison, alongside later names including Damien Rice and Ray LaMontagne.

Career

Cain’s first full-length album, The Dark and The Light, appears in 1993. A Way Of Being Free is his fourth album after that debut. On that release he revisits two songs first heard on the earlier record, The Ship I Sail and Stranger In This World. Other tracks noted from the album include the radio-friendly Stay With Me Til Summer, the post-9/11 blues song A Man Outside Your Door, and Mystery Girl, which has a Motown influence.

Live work and radio

He has played gigs with Jackie Leven, Ed Harcourt, Juliet Turner, Jess Klein and The Blockheads. He also appears at festivals and on radio, including the Cambridge Folk Festival, the Beverley Folk Festival, and The Riverside Festival in Stockton on Tees. Radio work includes interviews or sessions on Minster FM, BBC Radio York, BBC Radio Stockton and BBC Radio Humberside, and he is described as a regular on BBC radio.

Reception

A review of a 2006 performance in The Talk magazine notes that he has pop sensibilities that may lead to national success.