Christmas Day, Germany 2018. Here we are in the small Kloster Heisterbach graveyard where half a dozen untended graves, moss-ridden and illegible as to who are the inhabitants, lie worn and almost invisible in the grass amongst the trees. The monastery, built at the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century, flourished until the Cistercian monks’ suppression in 1803 and final destruction of the monastery in 1809. The picture, taken by Charly Wulff, reminds me of McDonald and Giles’ lone album cover from 1971 – or perhaps […]
UK Tour March 2019
GET YOUR TICKETS HERE I really can’t imagine what I was thinking? I played all over England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with all of my bands and musical projects, starting in the seventies and continuing way into the 21st century. But for some reason apart from some sporadic shows in London over the years, I have never ventured out into the country proper. Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Bristol – I have managed to miss them all. Well, all that will be changing with this announcement, because in March next year […]
Festival show in Meschede, Germany – Friday, July 20th
Olivia and I will be playing at the Live Am See festival in Meschede tomorrow. “Live Am See” means Live By The Lake because… What will be different from last year? Well, I wanted to play some obscure cover songs (not obscure to me and those that love them) like The Dolphins by Fred Neil and Blues Runs The Game by Jackson C. Frank. In the sixties talented singer-songwriters would often include contemporaries’ songs on their albums simply because they were great songs. The lack of ego benefitting the quality […]
US Tour 2018 – Gallery & Thank You’s
Live at the Cutting Room, New York City, 22/02/2018 Live at Colony, Woodstock, 20/02/2018 [Audio] High As A Kite, San Francisco, 13/02/2018 Gig Gallery THANK YOU to an amazing band: Olivia Willson-Piper (Violin, Cellolin & Backing Vocals) Don Piper (Acoustic Guitar & Backing Vocals) Hannah Moorhead (Bass & Backing Vocals) Patti Hood (Harp in Los Angeles) Rory Mackenzie (Drums in Los Angeles) Jonny Cragg (Drums in Seattle) And everyone who made this tour possible: John Bechtold Trevor & Tricia Boyd William Buras & Julie Bell Buras Denny Burkes Bucks Burnett […]