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Can now be heard on Horseshoe Tapes page on Soundcloud<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>home made cassettes 1981- 1990<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PRE – 1990<\/strong><br \/>\nThere were a few hundred failed songs which made their way onto a bizarre array of badly recorded cassette tapes …some of my nicer friends still have things like ‘The Sugar Eels: Six Songs’, ‘Man of Straw, Wall of Rain’, ‘The Skylarks; Skeletons on the Roundabout’, ‘Black River’, ‘Train Songs’…etc..etc. Thanks through these times to a bunch of collaborators and\/or sufferers including Mike Arnold, Tim Featherstone, Tim Brown, Neal Weston, Grant, Stephe Hitchman, David Stephenson, Simon Hobbs etc.etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>homemade cassettes 1991- 1998<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>‘BLACK RIVER ‘ – 1991 Horseshoe Tape (HS 001)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Black River won the John Tobler (music critic) award for worst recorded tape he’d ever received!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/blackriver.jpg?resize=464%2C284\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>‘TWELVE SONGS’ – 1992 Horseshoe Tape (HS 002)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-297\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/famer1SM.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1\" alt=\"famer1SM\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/famer1SM.jpg?w=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/famer1SM.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/famer1SM.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong> ‘LAST FARMER OF RATTLEDOWN ROW’ – 1993 Horseshoe Tape (HS 00<\/strong>3)<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thehighpriests\">HIGH PRIESTS<\/a> which gained some attention and a debut 7″(click name to see full story).<br \/>\nThought 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 I’m the Berkshire ghost of Hank Williams 15 years later…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……<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/farmer.jpg?resize=468%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These recordings have been re-released as ‘LAST FARMER OF RATTLEDOWN ROW’ – see player above and <a title=\"orange capri\" href=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/?page_id=52\">LAST FARMER<\/a> page <a title=\"orange capri\" href=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/?page_id=52\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>‘PILLBOX MOON’ – Songs 1994 Horseshoe Tape (HS 004)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the disappointments of the High Priests saga and the complete rejection of the ‘Last Farmer’ tape I somehow managed to bundle a years worth of songs together. We moved to Edinburgh in August 1994 so things were a bit disjointed. Favourite songs ‘Thames Valley Boy’ and ‘Canada Geese’ – rest were a bit sad really.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/pillbox.jpg?resize=468%2C304\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>‘RIVER GHOSTS & <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/lyrics96.htm\"><strong>BLACK TIN BARNS<\/strong><\/a><strong>‘- Songs 1995 &1996 Horseshoe Tape (HS 005 dbl.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My ‘Edinburgh Suite’ recorded on an already ailing Fostex in a tiny third-floor flat near the Meadows. Scotland was a weird mix of the fantastic (Hamish Henderson\/ Sorley Maclean, Norman MacCaig \/ Boys of the Lough) and the not so fantastic ( Bank temp. jobs).<br \/>\nHats off to the Edinburgh Songwriters and The Shore Poets for keeping my head above the water. I like these songs -my most ‘Steve Earle’ period. Also Edinburgh Central Library had the best collection of folk\/country\/blues I’ve ever seen -some of that rubbed off too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>‘FARM-HAND’S RADIO”& Extras – Songs 1997 Horseshoe Tape (HS 006)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just to confuse things even further there’s a song in here called ‘Farm-Hand’s Radio’ that has nothing to do with the poem of the same name! I liked the title so much I used it twice. There’s also a lot of farms and horses around throughout. There were some songs from the same time that are extras -including ‘Caravan Park’ and ‘Skidding on a Bend’.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/lyrics97.htm\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/radio.jpg?resize=467%2C221\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"221\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/lyrics98.htm\"><strong>‘FLINT FIELDS’ – Songs 1998 Horseshoe Tape (HS 007)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the Fostex gave up the ghost I wangled a way of recording using mikes through its mortal remains and into my cassette machine -this is the result. 12 lo-fi efforts including ‘Great Song’ which ain’t and ‘Truck in the trees’ which might be – go figure.<br \/>\nThe whole set named after a poem – they call it recycling I believe – or I just ain’t got that much of an imagination. I’m listening to Damien Jurado’s ‘Letters and Drawings’ whilst typing this and it’s beautiful and he’s a lot better than me ..oh well….that’s life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/lyrics98.htm\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/flint.jpg?resize=456%2C215\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"215\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE TRAILER STAR YEARS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/cierzo.htm\">CIERZO MOON<\/a> – Songs 1999<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/cierzo.htm#floodplain\">FLOODPLAIN<\/a> – Songs 2000<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/cierzo.htm#floodplain\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/flub.jpg?resize=299%2C189\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"189\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/lyrics01.htm\">TEA IN THE DEVIL’S PARLOUR<\/a> SONGS 2001<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/lyrics02.htm\">BLOODSTREAMS<\/a> SONGS 2002<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/lyrics03.htm\">SILVER BIRCH <\/a> SONGS 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can now be heard on Horseshoe Tapes page on Soundcloud home made cassettes 1981- 1990 PRE – 1990 There were a few hundred failed songs which made their way onto a bizarre…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-175","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7DCHF-2P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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