Take Risks & Get Across The River The music, the parts, they all represent things. Time, places, people, events, feelings, dreams, changes, challenges, experiences, victories, defeats – all captured in a snapshot of sound but echoing with hidden memories of how it all was, is, might be, or even how it all will be. No […]

If You Want The Good Stuff To Happen – You Have To Keep Going I remember telling myself that over and again, since ever I can remember. It’s always panned out that way, no matter what or how it feels like in the middle of all the cycles and changes of things – anyone that […]

Old Faces, Acquaintances – You Who Thought You Could Rearrange The End That line and phrase is from a Roy Harper album called The Unknown Soldier, it’s got Dave Gilmour on it and Kate Bush pops up on a track. Something made me think of the album today and in turn, all the people I […]

Get Close – Then The Shapes Change Grey Cooper Blues Experience album Big Road, got a heck of airplay from Blues DJ’s here in the UK, across Europe and even two States in America, Kansas & New York. The album was even nominated for a UK Blues award. But this bag, Modern Man Blues, it […]

Pack Up Or Crack On? With the band being split that is 20% of the income for the studio gone. I get the news that my studio partner Jim, is splitting his band and that now means that over 50% of the income for the studio is gone. We got the rehearsal space in 2008 […]

Work In A Band, Is Like Work In The Wind Let me see, that is 3 existing songs from the current set and 9 new songs I have written for the new album. Fittingly, the very last one of them would become the album title:  Modern Man Blues. We had rehearsed all of the nine […]

Running A Band Is Not All Glamour ‘If you can just change these three lines here in the second verse and a line in the chorus to these following lyrics, then everything should be fine’. I think when you wake up to an email from a band member, calmly announcing that he has decided to […]