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Shaun Belcher

Last Farmer of Rattledown Row - The Missing Years CD finally available! Listen here. Purchase through new store.

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Track 'City of stars' renamed 'Big City Nights' on re-release CD



CD NOW AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AT $10 VIA TRAILER STAR STORE

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Originally released 1993 as a Horseshoe Tape

'LAST FARMER OF RATTLEDOWN ROW' - 1993 Horseshoe Tape (HS 003)

The story behind the songs...

The Big Time! Moved back to London -got my Fostex working overtime ( well three out of four channels anyway) and made the tape that would ensure I'd go down as the Berkshire Hank Williams! Ended up playing some pretty ridiculous gigs with a drunken bunch of HIGH PRIESTS which gained some attention and a debut 7"(click name to see full story).

Thought I was Tom Waits/ Raymond Carver and the ghost of Old Hank Williams until I sent out the tapes to all and sundry and received just two replies from a head honcho at EMI believe it or not who said the words were good -the music and singing not -and someone at Roundtower Records who was too polite to tell me I wasn't the next Tom Russell but who sent me some of Tom's discs anyway (for guidance?) so that made me feel a lot better.

Guess what ...I still think 17 years later that I'm the Berkshire ghost of Hank Williams...too late to stop now.................and there's a bloke down the chip shop swears he's Elvis...no really he's the spitting image......

Original cassette sleeve art

Tags: americana, anglocana, blues, british, country, folk, uk

Shaun Belcher Comment by Shaun Belcher on February 16, 2010 at 10:59am
1993 - 2010......only took 17 years....at this rate next disc be out around 2037 :-)

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