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Music Minds Charity Album
Read more: Music Minds Charity AlbumReally happy to have contributed a cover version of one of my favourite Ronnie Lane songs to a wonderful album raising money and awareness for mental health charities that will be released next month. Here’s a video with details about the album, artists and charities: The album, 40 songs deep, features some extremely well known…
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Globe, Glossop 8th & 15th September
Read more: Globe, Glossop 8th & 15th SeptemberTwo local gigs for me, the first a bit late notice, both at the best vegan Pub in the country, The Globe, High St West, Glossop. Tonight (8th) I’m opening for the Rattlebag songwriters circle featuring Matt Hill, Emma Thorpe and Huw Costin. 8pm and this is free entry, so quite a treat it is.…
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Read All about It
Read more: Read All about ItWell maybe not all, but a couple of mentions I’ve enjoyed recently. The first is from the gig in Liverpool where I opened for Bennett Wilson Poole a couple of weeks ago (go and see them, listen and enjoy. Superb band breathing new life in to the Byrdsian jangle) and you can read it here.…
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Shake It Make It & Don’t Fake It
Read more: Shake It Make It & Don’t Fake ItMy second solo album is now available from my Bandcamp site (still on iTunes and Spotify too and all the others). High resolution downloads available – name your own price. I hadn’t listened to it for a long time and I’m pleased with how it sounds, lo-fi yes, but it kind of suits the songs…
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Liverpool Friday 11th May
Read more: Liverpool Friday 11th MayQuick post to say I’m playing the wonderful 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool venue on Friday. I’m opening for the superb Bennet Wilson Poole who fans of Americana/Byrds/Petty will absolutely love. Im on at 9 pm for 40 minutes and I’m doing all guitar songs going from Old 16 Tambourines songs right up to the here…
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Skin & Bone Acoustic Collection
Read more: Skin & Bone Acoustic CollectionIt’s hard to remember a time when there weren’t acoustic guitar slingers on every street corner en route to the back rooms of pubs around the country to play their bedroom classics at open mics and sessions, but at the time I recorded the songs on this collection, it was difficult for the budding James…
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The Sunny One
Read more: The Sunny OneThe Sunny One I think this is my favourite of the many songs I’ve written with Brian Chin Smithers. For years Brian and I got together once a week to write songs and we must have written, though a lot were never finished, a couple of hundred. My recollection is that it was usually a…
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Easily Read
Read more: Easily ReadThe thing I like doing more than anything is reading, I can waste, if that’s the word, days with my head in a book. I wrote a song about authors and writing, the real life and the imagined one. The song can be listened to below after the lyrics and I love the bass clarinet…
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This is a Cold War
Read more: This is a Cold WarHere’s a live video of This Is a Cold War (the song’s from the second Cold War EP) I recorded on my phone while practicing at Silver Lining Studios last week. I had my own practice room until recently so it was nice to spend a couple of hours going through songs old and new…