My father was not an active musician himself, but he always encouraged me in my passion for the steel guitar, and often drove me around to gigs before I was able to do so myself. He also built me a…
Aug 11 2020
TOURING WITH THE VERVE.
How I got to go on an American tour with the Verve was an unlikely combination of circumstances.
Following the falling out of Richard Ashcroft and Verve guitarist Nick McCabe, I got a call from Richard asking me to join…
Jul 14 2020
NO REGRETS
The first half of the 1970’s was my most intense period of session work.
Following the high profile use of my Steel Guitar on Elton John’s track ‘Tiny Dancer’, everybody wanted to use me. Of the arrangers I worked with,…
Jul 11 2020
THE NIGHT REG CALLED!
I'll never forget getting the call to work on 'Tiny Dancer'.
Late one evening in 1972, around 10 PM, the phone rang. It was Steve Brown of Dick James Music, he was in London's Soho, working on a project, and…
Jul 11 2020
THE RETURN OF COWPIE
Back in the late 1970’s Country music in the UK was in a worse state than it is today, but that didn’t stop me establishing a record label dedicated to encouraging British musical talent who wished to express themselves through…