'Words and Music' Category
BOLUS – debut release
What happens when Penny Goring and I collaborate on a words and music project? BOLUS, that’s what. Penny is, as any of you who know her work from her blog and the Year Zero Writers website, a pretty extraordinary writer – and her spoken word delivery marvellously detached and deadpan. I’ve wanted to do more [...]
Download – Head For The Country
Who said folk songs had to be quiet, anyway? This is a song I wrote a couple of years ago, which, now that the Telecaster has been dusted off, I thought I’d revisit with guitars turned up to 11. I normally play this song on concertina, but this version is just electric guitars, a drum [...]
Download – Cuckoo’s Nest
I’ve fallen in love with my Telecaster all over again – the tele has a crunch to its sound that no other electric guitar possesses, especially when the action is set up for really heavy gauge strings. And then there’s my equally-lapsed love of drum machines. I used to use electronics quite a lot but [...]