A chance phone call got the dam to break. 10 lives. 10 interviews. 10 songs in as many days…. well not really. 9 songs done and a few more days to write another two. All of the songs relate to the lives of those who have lived in the Northeast…. including me.
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In 1985 I got the job of presenting Folkal Point on Radio Leeds. I was ably assisted by Tim Crowther and Phil Wallace and it was a time of smoky offices, razor blades, chinagraph pencils, tape and magnets. I was a child of the 50s and radio was everything. I was so excited to be…
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It has always been a life-long ambition of mine to make a live album. I was given the chance by my long time, school friend Keith Donnelly and my new friend Bill Bates. Once, in 1981, I played at Cleckheaton Folk Festival and played only my own songs. I had never considered myself to be…
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