The Childballads

Taking their name from Francis J. Child, the man who first researched and cataloged British folk music, New York City's the Childballads marked the return of Stewart Lupton, who had earned a small but fervent cult following in the 1990s as the lead singer with Jonathan Fire*Eater. Lupton was raised in Washington, D.C., and had known his bandmates in Jonathan Fire*Eater since they were kids. After graduating from the upscale St. Albans prep school in D.C., Lupton went on to study poetry at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, but before long his main priority was Jonathan Fire*Ea...