Name: My Old Friend The Blues by andygunnmusic
Duration: 3 min 44 s
Description: An acoustic version of this classic, with a bit of National Steel slide guitar thrown in for good measure. Enjoy!

beautiful falsetto and a very intense, nice version of this Earl classic!

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Water Music

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

My reworking of my favourite Warren Zevon classic. Best opening line ever, plus possibly the only song which managed to squeeze 'brucellosis' into the lyric!
Been playing this live for a while now, thought it was time I recorded it. Please give it a listen and if you like it, leave a comment...

Play It All Night Long (Zevon cover)- Jim Condie's Distant Cousins

Dave Fleming:  Acoustic guitar and Lead vocal
Martin Stephenson:  Bass

Recorded in Martin's living room in Barbaraville studios, ross-shire, highlands for Dave's upcoming album Quiet Hotel

Every Mirror 2017

A picture painted by artist Steve Carroll depicting the song 'She Rides Horses' written for Anna Lavigne from the new Daintees album 'Bayswater Road'  xx

10 - Martin Stephenson And The Daintees - SHE RIDES HORSES - GB9TT1700021

Adam talks with Irish actor, stand-up comedian and writer Aisling Bea about getting soaked in exotic locations, the time things got weird when they both refused to wear free shoes at a comedy gig, the influences that paved the path to Aisling’s career in stand up, weird on-set behaviour, confrontations and the value of difficult conversations. Aisling also talks about the article she wrote last year for The Guardian in which she described losing her father when she was very young and how she dealt with learning the truth about his death years later. 

Thanks to Seamus Murphy Mitchell for production support and Jack Bushell for additional editing. 

Music & jingles by Adam Buxton

EP.67 - AISLING BEA

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

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.

My Old Friend The Blues

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