{"id":750,"date":"2015-02-11T16:45:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T16:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/?p=750"},"modified":"2016-06-14T10:15:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T10:15:27","slug":"trailer-star-catalogue-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Trailer Star Catalogue Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFrom 2001 – 2011 which exactly ten years I recorded a series of lo-fi mini-messes or masterpieces depending on your taste. Inspired by Townes Van Zandt, \u00a0Johnny Dowd, Daniel Johnston, \u00a0Lucinda Williams, Grant McLennan and Pete Astor I half sang\/croaked my poetic lyrics over some ramshackle and rudimentary backings. The results are now complete and uploaded to bandcamp for your delight or derision.<\/p>\n

What to expect well Paul Kerr wrote the following health warning……advance at your peril:-) To think Dylan was complaining about people criticising his voice…as Johnny Dowd said we ‘ain’t no Carusos’ \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

p.s. for artistic relief and to hear what my songs sound like with ‘singing’ check out the Moon Over the Downs<\/a> on the bandcamp page:-)<\/p>\n

Paul Kerr – Babble and Smoke 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the world goes wonky with financial instability and summer temperatures in October (apart from Scotland where the heavens opened) Blabber\u2019n\u2019Smoke<\/strong> hunkered down in the bunker and set to listening to an album that\u2019s been sitting on the hard drive for some time. Black River is purportedly the final album from Trailer Star<\/strong>, the last in a line of intriguing releases swathed in a mythology summoned from the mind of the man behind it all, Shaun Belcher, Originally Trailer Star was meant to be a legendary Berkshire bluesman who met an untimely end. As his executor Belcher was able to release a series of cassettes and CDs of his music. This culminated in a well received tribute album Moon Over the Downs where Belcher was able to corral a bunch of artists to cover his songs. Now he\u2019s decided to draw to a close this episode with Black River stating<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is Trailer Star\u2019s final and exhaustive round up. All tracks recorded between 2005-2010. These are all the late great Trailer\u2019s recorded tracks and signals the final volume in the three CD Trailer Archive series from Tstar records.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Mythology apart the album sounds primitive, home made and home grown. The sound recalls the ambience Neil Young created with Campaigner, stripped down but chockfull of emotion. It\u2019s intimate and ultimately very personal with songs relating to the death of Belcher\u2019s father dominating the latter part. Much is said about the redemptive power of music and one hopes that these stark and dark tales ultimately did some good for the author.
\nFor the listener it\u2019s hard going at times but glory can come from misery. The canon is stuffed full of songs from disenfranchised black bluesmen, poor sharecroppers, troubled minds. Trailer Star mines the same seam as the late Skip Spence on some of the songs here. The fragility and the feeling of being on the edge of toppling over is balanced by the skeletal beauty of the songs.
\nThe album is available in several ways, in fact the whole story of Trailer star can be read on the website where the various albums can be listened to and even on occasion downloaded. Head over there to look at the whole impressive saga.<\/p>\n

Painted Spoken (London)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shaun Belcher\u2019s unique creation Trailer Star appears on two albums, the first by Trailer Star himself, Suit of Nettles<\/em>. The second is a beautiful tribute album, Moon Over the Downs<\/em> on Super Tiny Records<\/a>, dedicated to the tragic victim of a automobile accident \u201con a deserted downland bend high above Newbury.\u201d It uses Trailer Stars lyrics set to each of the performers\u2019 own compositions. Trailer Star has the same relationship to Belcher as the nearly real artist Nat Tyler has to his creator William Boyd. Though there is fun to be had in \u201csignalling\u201d Berkshire born and bred Trailer Star\u2019s \u201cpivotal position in the development of English country blues\u201d this is a project with lyrical and musical depth. Belcher on Suit and the dozen plus musicians on Moon play and sing it straight, exploring non-metropolitan England through varieties of American form. Oh, and \u00a34 from every sale of Moon goes to Cancer Research UK.<\/p>\n

Richard Price<\/p>\n

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From 2001 – 2011 which exactly ten years I recorded a series of lo-fi mini-messes or masterpieces depending on your taste. Inspired by Townes Van Zandt, \u00a0Johnny Dowd, Daniel Johnston, \u00a0Lucinda Williams, Grant McLennan and Pete Astor I half sang\/croaked my poetic lyrics over some ramshackle and rudimentary backings. The results are now complete and… Continue reading Trailer Star Catalogue Online<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,18,19,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd","category-collaborations","category-press","category-review","category-trailer-star","category-trailerstar-records","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}