An Americana album which is powerful through precision and compelling from start to finish, what more could you wish for?...
Tag Archives: The Stray Birds
The roots trio have brought in a producer, bolstered their sound and come up with another album of serious quality...
Songwriting goes to Cambridge and meets a young American band who are steeped in the most venerable of folk traditions...
Songwriting saunters along to Cherry Hinton Hall for one of the friendliest festivals, featuring a wide array of folk talent...
Cambridge Folk Festival 2015 has announced the first batch of performers, with Nick Mulvey among the artists to be confirmed...
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I have been writing songs now for over 40 years and I am not about to stop.
Notebook writing even day
I wrote 'Start a party' for Freedom day and the nightclub scene. It all started with Gary Barlow's course, I am now on the TSA
I have plenty of ideas and try to get one end product at one time! Focus, making, listen to it until I am satisfied with
Continue to build an incredible music catalogue
I have been writing songs privately for the last 5 years, but never recorded any. I almost gave up on recording, and was going to
It's my passion, to be honest.