Were the gender and year not given in the clue, I might have considered PJ Harvey, whose last album was very much about England, and who, coincidentally, also has a song called “Down by the Water.”periwinkle wrote:Decemberists were a response in 2011, in the category "The Rock 'n' Roll Calendar":This Is Kirk! wrote:Now that I think about it, the most likely artists to record an album about the Magna Carta are probably Sufjan Stevens or the Decemberists and I don't think either is quite FJ material!
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In early 2011 "Portlandia" debuted on TV & this Portland band went to No. 1
"Down by the water /
Down by the old main drag..."
I guessed Elton John.