Music:
Member Since: 04/10/2007
Band Members: Often work with Lynn Craig as a duo, but this is where my solo songs live.
Influences: Lonnie Donegan, the classic 50s rockers (British and American), Woody Guthrie, Huddie Leadbetter, John Lee Hooker, Elizabeth Cotten, Lightnin' Hopkins, British Bikes, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, T-Bone Walker, Doo-Wop, John Gunn of Badbea, the Beat Generation writers and poets, traditional music, 50s & 60s sci-fi writers, Soho after dark, John Steinbeck, Arlo Guthrie, Nelson Algren, Liverpool & Birkenhead, Lenny Bruce, Phil Spector, The Ace Cafe, Phil Ochs, European Japanese & Hong Kong cinema, The Rendezvous Cafe (Whitley Bay), John Cash, Bert Jansch, Jean-Paul Sartre, Shane MacGowan, Captain Beefheart, Luis Bunuel, Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth, Tom Paxton, Albert Camus, Pete Seeger, Lou Reed, Newcastle and Gateshead, Sonny & Brownie, Bob Dylan, Kitchen Sink Realism, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Mr. Faddy, J.J. Cale, Ewan MacColl, Miles Davis, Carolyn Hester, Squeeze, The Dubliners, Antoine Legris, Willie Nelson, Paris in the Winter, Neil Young, Dick Gaughan, Nicolas Nixon, Tom Waits, Davy Graham, Patti Smith, Jean-Luc Goddard, Mike 'Professor Roxoff' Maurice, Steve Earle, John Peel, Peggy Seeger, Shadow Morton, Guy Peellaert, The Highlands of Scotland, Kirsty MacColl, George Turner, Martin Carthy, Elvis Costello, Nik Cohn, Marianne Faithfull, Joe Strummer, Joni Mitchell, Charlie Parker, The Beatles, The Hoppings, Charles Mingus, John Cale, Salvador Dali, Ronnie Scott...
Sounds Like: he could do with a lot less corporate bull and political doubletalk in the world. Fewer gatekeepers, more facilitators. Cross? More than a little. Optimistic? Of course.
Record Label: Goldmist
Type of Label: Indie
