My music - page 2

Previous... When I started guitar I also learned a little piano and lots of blues harp - I just wanted to play anything and everything! However, the first forum for my amateur efforts was in the 1960s folk scene in the north of England. Eventually, I upgraded guitars, ending up with a 1964 Epiphone Texan sunburst acoustic, in the days when these guitars were still made in Kalamazoo. My first bought albums were of Leadbelly, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Howling Wolf and other black American blues artists.

When I moved down to London in the late 1960s, I fell into the folk and blues scene in venues such as the Troubadour, Les Cousins and Bunjies. My "local heroes" at that time were doyens of the British folk & blues scene such as Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, the Pentangle - and also bluesmen such as John Mayall and Clapton. I joined a folk-influenced jug band called The Egbert Souse All Stars, and we started a weekly residency at The Redan in Queensway in London's Bayswater district which lasted for 5 years. Gradually, our jug band stuff got jazzier and more dance-band orientated. Next...