The Ballad of The Orange Tree – The story behind the song
This entire series of songs are the most personal and autobiographical I have ever written. I have never delved so deeply into folk and personal stories as here a sign…
January 2017
The rain pours through the roof – The story behind the song
Latest addition to the Black Tin Barns album on bandcamp. This song is about the slow decline and eventual closure of the British Leyland Rover factory in Cowley. My Uncle…
My Little Town – the story behind the song
MY LITTLE TOWN There’s a road runs straight through my little town Half way down it there’s a picture house Now they’ve turned it into a bingo hall They don’t…
Black Tin Barns and River Ghosts: The Edinburgh Tapes 1995-6
I and my then partner Ana from Zaragoza got on a train and moved to Edinburgh in August 1994. It was a spur of the moment idea and we then…