In memory of my brother and dear dear friend, Stewart James Earnshaw. We met at Rothbury centuries ago and killed our fingers from playing solidly for 3 days. We wrote songs together (including this one) and learned so so much as musicians from each other.  This recording is in tribute to Stew, I've tried to be faithful to our original 4 track recording and his singing and guitar work. 
We met up having not seen each other for over a decade and this was the song we played together to catch up, here is a video of us doing so (and being attached by bees!)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBAtcfkPoHk

Miss you, old moose-head, love you, bro  RIP

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John (Prine)'s album came out in April (2018) and Sarah and I sang this song to each other all that year. We were thrilled to see John play it live in Birmingham in the August, just another of the many magic times we had during what we both called the best summer of our lives - which later turned out to be Sarah's last - making the song all the more poignant. It was only after that I realised that it must have been Sarah singing the refrain to me rather than the other way around - "You Don't Have To Be Alone" . . . .

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