{"id":25,"date":"2010-08-21T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/tstar\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2015-02-10T19:35:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T19:35:14","slug":"last-farmer-of-rattledown-row","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"Last Farmer of Rattledown Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Original cassette sleeve art<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/farmer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-714\" src=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/farmer.jpg\" alt=\"farmer\" width=\"468\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/farmer.jpg 468w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/farmer-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Track &#8216;City of stars&#8217; renamed &#8216;Big City Nights&#8217; on re-release CD<\/p>\n<p>Listen through Bandcamp &#8211; go to website to download<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailerstar.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.trailerstar.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[bandcamp width=350 height=470 album=2475512081 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false]<\/p>\n<p>TSR006 2006<\/p>\n<p>Originally released 1993 as a Horseshoe Tape<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;LAST FARMER OF RATTLEDOWN ROW&#8217; &#8211; 1993 Horseshoe Tape (HS 003)<\/p>\n<p>The story behind the songs&#8230;<\/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&#8217;d go down as the Berkshire Hank Williams! Ended up playing some pretty ridiculous gigs with a drunken bunch of <a href=\"http:\/\/thehighpriests.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">HIGH PRIESTS<\/a> which gained some attention and a debut 7&#8243;(click name to see full story).<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t the next Tom Russell but who sent me some of Tom&#8217;s discs anyway (for guidance?) so that made me feel a lot better.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Press Pack I made in 1993&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[scribd id=255333317 key=key-K5K2VsKqIYB3wQnnHnrb mode=scroll]<\/p>\n<p>Guess what &#8230;I still think 17 years later that I&#8217;m the Berkshire ghost of Hank Williams&#8230;too late to stop now&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..and there&#8217;s a bloke down the chip shop swears he&#8217;s Elvis&#8230;no really he&#8217;s the spitting image&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original cassette sleeve art &nbsp; Track &#8216;City of stars&#8217; renamed &#8216;Big City Nights&#8217; on re-release CD Listen through Bandcamp &#8211; go to website to download http:\/\/www.trailerstar.bandcamp.com [bandcamp width=350 height=470 album=2475512081 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false] TSR006 2006 Originally released 1993 as a Horseshoe Tape &#8216;LAST FARMER OF RATTLEDOWN ROW&#8217; &#8211; 1993 Horseshoe Tape (HS 003) The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/?page_id=25\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last Farmer of Rattledown Row<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/717"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}