2014 album, from Andy Gunn.. mixing blues, rock and folk. Produced my Martin Stephenson..

Road That Leads Back Home

Are We Thru?

test take of a Bob Neuwirth track, that I learned from Martin Stephenson.. a simple but powerful song

Great Spirit

Ballad from the '92 'Shades Of Blue' album.. a blast from the past alright!

More And More

A little demo of a song I wrote a few years ago, which will be on the new blues album we're working on... features my new 00028 Martin guitar :-)

Mississippi Ground

An acoustic version of this classic, with a bit of National Steel slide guitar thrown in for good measure. Enjoy!

My Old Friend The Blues

A little demo I put together in the studio one night for a friend who has a radio show.. Mark Ellen at Sheppey FM.. he heard me play this and fancied sharing it with his listeners.. and so this little home spun demo! Hope you enjoy!

Jesus On The Mainline

New album from Andy and the cream of Scottish blues musicians, due for release Feb 2018.

Too Many Guitars To Give Up Now

Fronted by Scottish guitar virtuoso Andy Gunn, From T-Bone to Trucks will take you on a journey through the decades, showcasing the most loved and respected exponents of the blues. Featuring songs from T-Bone Walker, B.B King, Freddie and Albert King, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and many more. Music performed by Andy Gunn and his nine-piece band, the cream of the Scottish blues scene.

Show running  20th - 25th Aug 2018, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/andy-gunn-presents-from-t-bone-to-trucks

"33 Years / I'm A King Bee" (Muddy Waters)

"Bold As Love / In From The Storm" (Jimi Hendrix)

"Damn Right I Got The Blues" (Buddy Guy)

A demo for an upcoming album to be released in the spring of 2019, a song about the tragic tale of a young musician Baris Yagzi from Turkey who whilst fleeing from the coup in 2017 died in the Aegean Sea. He was a violinist and guitarist and his dream was to go to a music school in Belgium. Please read the article below to learn of his story.
It was written whilst on a songwriting retreat in Dumfries Scotland, very close to where Robert Burns lived and wrote many of his great works. I've tried to echo some of the sentiments in his songs and poems about the futility and madness of war and also the despair I have for human nature sometimes. 
The title is from the Greek classic The Illiad that initially glorifies war but then turns and shows the devastation it brings to everyone involved.
The album version will be similar but with other singers, instruments and musicians added too.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-boat-sinking-turkey-aegean-baris-yazgi-kurdish-violinist-belgium-musician-story-family-a7718551.html

Illiad Red Sky

V1 - It’s a peaceful day, nothing but the wind in the trees
A voice in creation, air silent but for the musings
I’m laden with this heavy privilege, sparkling autumn water
In Burns’ country, by the well of song

CH - You followed the music, across the Aegean
You never made it ashore, melody lost to the waves
Now the world is reading of another senseless waste
this Illiad Red Sky, makes me feel so helpless

V2 - My heart is cold in this shade, to think of how similar we are
Drunk on insane youth, the burning of lifted hands
The pain un-articulated, the breaks I got and you didn’t
Away to follow your heart, I don’t blame you for a second

CH - You followed the music, across the Aegean
You never made it ashore, melody lost to the waves
Now the world is reading of another senseless waste
this Illiad Red Sky, makes me feel so helpless

Bridge - I mourn the songs that'll never be sung, for this idiotic thirst for power
The moronic march of another generation’s forgotten washed soldiers
But you walked the taut wire, with grace and skill
Turned into music, what was in your soul

I’m laden with this heavy privilege, sparkling autumn water
In Burns’ country, by the well of song

CH - You followed the music, across the Aegean
You never made it ashore, melody lost to the waves
Now the world is reading of another senseless waste
this Illiad Red Sky, makes me feel so helpless

'Iliad Red Sky' Demo

A song written when I was in New Orleans a couple of years after Hurricane Katrina which I only recently got round to recording. 
Whilst visiting I was struck by the spirit of the people, literally come hell or high water they would find a way to get back home..
So, I wrote this song, which is in fact three songs in one - 
the 'Who Dat Who Dat' part is what the New Orlean Saints American Football team fans chant at games.
When The Saints Go Marching In, the traditional classic and
the verses which I wrote myself..
so, you can't get better value than that, don't say I'm not good to you! x

Going Home Again

A song by Bob Neuwirth that I learned from my old friend Martin Stephenson that is based around the Native American prayer and the sentiments of the indigenous people of that continent. It is heart breaking to see what's been done to them and Mother Earth. 

I recorded this version using Ukulele as I thought it sounded different from Bob and Martin's versions plus I needed some material for my new Edinburgh Fringe show 'Fingers and Thumbs' which is based around various stringed instruments.

The Great Spirit Prayer

Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind, whose breath gives life to all the world. 

Hear me; I need your strength and wisdom. 

Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. 

Make my hands respect the things you have made and my ears sharp to hear your voice. 

Make me wise so that I may understand the things you have taught my people. 

Help me to remain calm and strong in the face of all that comes towards me. 

Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock. 

Help me seek pure thoughts and act with the intention of helping others. 

Help me find compassion without empathy overwhelming me. 

I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy, Myself.

Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes.

So when life fades, as the fading sunset, my spirit may come to you without shame.

-Unknown

A song I've always loved so I thought I'd try a version on the Ukulele for my new 2019 Edinburgh Fringe show 'Fingers and Thumbs' which features songs on various stringed instruments. 
I'd known the song for years but I decided to learn it the night before we made loads of acoustic type videos as promo for the show and they'll eventually all be on my channel at www.youtube.com/andygunnmusic

Come along to the shows 3, 10, 17th at artSpace@StMarks if you're in Edinburgh in August.

When Something Is Wrong With My Baby

an acoustic version of this old Negro spiritual song, I put together verses from various places and created my my own arrangement. Edinburgh musicians Rob Harrison kindly played some Harmonium, whilst Amy Hawthorn added a beautiful second vocal, the part actually written by contemporary Gaelic Folk artist Fiona MacKenzie from Inverness. 

'he had me once but had to let me go'..

Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen

Fats Domino was one of the first artists I would've heard, Mum used to play him, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Elvis around the house.. and then dad playing Dolly Parton and Scottish country dance music, no wonder I grew up a confused child lol.
Anyway, thought I'd do a version on the Ukulele as a tribute to Fats and Mum. Will be doing this in my new Edinburgh Fringe show 'Fingers and Thumbs'. As they say in Edinburgh, daeyersel a favourn mon doon!

Walking To New Orleans

so as part of this new Edinburgh Fringe show 'Fingers and Thumbs' I'll be playing a Cigar Box guitar, open tuned, gnarly, low and funky and this is one of the songs we'll be doing.. Albert King classic 'Born Under a Bad Sign' I been down since I began to crawl!
come along to the show and see what it's all about!

Born Under A Bad Sign

As part of this Edinburgh Fringe show 'Fingers and Thumbs' to feature something on the National Steel guitar I recorded the old Robert Johnson classic, When You Got A Good Friend.

I dunno if he sold his soul to the devil or just practiced like one, but he was definitely light years ahead of players then and even now I'd say and to be able to sing at the same time is pretty mind boggling. There was this theory that all the recordings we listen to of Robert are actually at the wrong speed, that a record company exec speeded them up to make them sound more appealing and commercial. I would say this is correct because if you listen to the album Steady Rollin' Man, where someone has digitally slowed them down, the guitar is at concert pitch and the whole thing sounds much more realistic. The music has a gravitas and a real lonesome, haunting quality to it, worth searching out.

When you got a good friend, have them stay right by your side,
give her all your sweet time, love and treat her right!

When You Got A Good Friend

Johnny Winter's brilliant Leland Mississippi track, recorded on a lovely Martin acoustic for new Ed Fringe show 'Fingers and Thumbs'.
Johnny definitely had the fingers! such a legend of guitar, was one of the players I really tried to emulate when I first started learning, the soulful bends and vibrato.. cool as it gets.
come down to the show if you're in Edinburgh in Aug!

Leland Mississippi

another song from Robert Johnson featuring a Cigar Box Guitar from St Blues Guitars in Memphis, who I have an endorsement deal with.. but Mr Johnson was definitely the business, loved all his music and this song in particular, I identify with Robert!

Come hear me play this and other stringed instruments at the Fringe show.

Drunken Hearted Man

A track off my first self produced album, Flip Flop Kinetics, featuring some nice guitar and great backing vocals from Jo Hamilton..

Holdin' The Storm

A good time funky blues, from the Flip Flop Kinetics Album...

Kissing My Blues Goodbye

How Longs A While

Angel In The Morning

Andy Gunn



Recently heralded as ‘a great lost Scottish talent and one of our finest ever blues players’, Andy Gunn’s inspirational return to the music scene was proclaimed, in his own undeniable style, by the acclaimed 2015 album Miracle of Healing.
Andy’s truly original, intuitive and soulful playing has drawn comparisons to Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix. He has shared the stage and billing with some big names too -  highlights of his career this far include supporting Buddy Guy at The Queens’ Hall, jamming with Albert Collins and backing Geno Washington at the first Belladrum Festival.
Andy pays tribute to his parents for the gift of his first guitar at an early age, and to his mother’s rock’n’roll collection for leading him to Blues masters like Lightening Hopkins and Muddy Waters. This early development formed a precocious talent -  Andy’s first band Jumpin’ the Gunn were signed by Virgin’s blues label, Point Blank, and they travelled to Memphis just as he was leaving school. This early experience gave Andy the enviable opportunity to learn from and exchange riffs with Al Green’s rhythm section and Pop Staples, to name a few. Here, his raw talent developed into a prodigious touch which led to Andy being ranked as a world class talent.
When Andy returned to Scotland, a new chapter in his career began. He played alongside The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, with members of Gary Moore’s Midnight Blues Band, Martin Stephenson, and toured with 4 times British Blues best harp player Errol Linton. Years later Andy was to return to the US, on a voyage of musical discovery touring New York, Chicago, Memphis, Nashville and New Orleans, jamming with many great musicians, igniting the music scene and sparking the comment ‘damn, I didn’t know they picked cotton in Scotland!’.
However, not everything has been gifted to Andy, and this explains his lost years. When Rob Ellen wrote ‘Andy Gunn is the blues’, he was referring to the deep personal tragedies that have affected Andy’s life and health. Born with Haemophilia, as a child, Andy was one of the patients affected by blood products contaminated with HIV and Hepatitis C via the clotting medication Factor 8. For many years, Andy campaigned to bring justice for his fellow victims of the contaminated blood scandal. These protests eventually helped to bring ex gratia payments to the bleeding disorder community. 
But his desire to play and the strong support he received from fellow musicians during this period resulted in a phoenix from the ashes moment in that, the years lost to illness were transmuted, with great thanks to Martin Stephenson, into the brilliant and soulful album ‘Miracle of Healing’. It was also during this period that Andy battled an HIV related cancer for the second time and came through the other side. Here, his intelligent articulation of personal tragedy, wealth of experience and unique talent shows, in Ellen’s words, why ‘Andy is a true guitar great of the old school and a living blues legend of the modern age’.
However, although Andy can articulate the blues like no other, his optimism, style and astounding talent means seeing him perform is an electrifying, uplifting and unforgettable experience. When Blues in Britain described Andy’s music as ‘a resounding triumph over adversity’, they were exactly right.  The Andy Gunn Band goes from strength to strength, playing gigs throughout the UK, recently taking the stage at the Darlington, Orkney and Dundee Blues Festivals and at the Northern Roots Festival in Inverness.
Andy's fifth and highly anticipated album ‘Too Many Guitars To Give Up Now’ is due for release early 2018 and features some of the best musicians in Scotland, taking Andy back to his blues roots.

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