E-Newsletter Archive

23 August 2023

OLD HIGHWAY 40… 
Before the Interstate, the quickest way to get from Nashville to anywhere in North Carolina was to take ‘old highway 40.’ That means on any given day at least a hundred country music stars would be on…

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11 July 2023

MORE PEAKY BLINDERS THAN LOVE BOAT 
I’ve never done a music cruise but I hear they are pretty cool. You know the ones: sailing the high seas with your favourite musicians on-tap nearly 24-7. I'm told there's a Blues Cruise…

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15 June 2023

Take Some Guitar Lessons, Man!
A group of some of my most loyal and enthusiastic fans went on a deep sea fishing trip together one summer. Also, booked on the same boat for the same trip was none other than…

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24 May 2023

ARE YOU SOMEONE?
It was perhaps a bit extravagant to book Abbey Road Studios in London, but I felt my friend's final recording deserved a 1st Class send-off - and Abbey Road is about as 1st Class as it gets…

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9 May 2023

WHOEVER YOU ARE
   In mid-December we were on the road late at night heading for Chem19 Studio near Glasgow, where we were to begin mixing the Songs Of Don Everly album that Rab Noakes and I recorded shortly before his…

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28 February 2023

GUITAR MEDITATIONS
I've been enjoying this new Atkin T-52, especially playing it first thing in the morning with the amp volume really low. The neighbours, I'm sure, appreciate it! Here's a link to two of these morning guitar meditations.

WHEELS

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9 January 2023

 

G-Live Gala Concert on 4 January
 
It was an honour to join Paul Jones, Jools Holland, Madeleine Bell, Paddy Milner and a host of other superbly talented musicians at G-Live Concert Hall the other night to support The Prostate Project

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7 December 2022

 

REMEMBERING RAB NOAKES
 
On Thursday 15th December 2022, we're honouring our friend Rab Noakes at Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club in Scotland. Rab, a longtime friend of the club, was booked to play there on December 15th. After his passing…

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7 November 2022

 

FIRST USA GIGS SINCE MARCH 2020!
 
I'm back to the USA to sing and play for the first time since March 2020. I'm really pleased to be back in the part of the world where it all began for me.…

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10 October 2022

 

OCTOBER & BEYOND!
 
There's a bountiful variety of music on-hand for this month. My head's already spinning from the sheer delight of it all.
 

 
This is just October...
 

 
14th SoundBox, Chester, Cheshire (Brooks & Dan Walsh) 
 
21st Village Hall

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26 September 2022

 

WRITING RECORDING GIGGING!
 
In the height of those dark lockdown days I made a promise to myself: if we get outta of here I'm gonna dive headlong into my musical collaborations and see what kind of music we can make

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22 August 2022

 

FORTUNE BY DESIGN!
 
Encourage by so many people who saw our split-screen performance of "Columbus Stockade Blues" way back in 2020, Dan Walsh and I formed a duo. Over the past year we've done a handful of gigs, got ourselves

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