My new single is out now, an acoustic cover of Elton John's iconic "Rocket Man" 🚀

One of the things I love about Elton John’s original recording of "Rocket Man" is the soaring, epic arrangement. Everything fits and elevates the song so that you feel as if Elton really is going to take off and leave the earth behind. I didn’t set out to subvert that amazing arrangement, but that’s what happened. Plucking away on an acoustic guitar one day, a few notes of Rocket Man suggested themselves and I started working out a version of the song.

Over the course of a year or so the version grew and morphed and shrank until the point at which I decided to record it for the “unplugged” album Out in Space. By this point, the song for me had become a lament, a yearning for connection, a desire to be seen, with an understanding that one can’t ever be fully seen.

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Rocket Man

Cosmic country tinged-folk. Second track from Simon Shippey's (Custom Blue) Peace For Old Ghosts debut LP Sideways + Downwards hitting shops in May...

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Contemporary rock musician.
Explorer of ideas.
Bearer of beautiful, uncomfortable truths.

Rocket Man

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