Recorded at Crosstown Studios in Liverpool with Jon Lawton and Pippa Murdie. 
“This is an autobiographical song. 
When I was in junior school, Christopher Roberts was a school class friend I had. 
Being a catholic school and doing our 11 plus exam 
Everyone in our class ended up going to different senior schools. 
I never saw him again once we moved on and I often wonder how life treated him, did he marry, has he a fam-ily?
I sometimes think that as over 50 years have passed, I could be sitting facing him in a pub or next to him at a bus stop and be totally unaware it is him.”
I was tempted to call my new album “63” after my age like Adele does with her albums but I bottled it out 
because it looked a bit naff on the cover plus I’d be questioned where the other 62 albums where in my 
catalogue”

Incidentally the father and child recordings at the be-ginning of the song talking about school is actually me and my Dad from about 1964.
“Christopher Roberts”
Release date of May 5th 2023 from all digital platforms and available now from John’s Website and Bandcamp

John Jenkins - Christopher Roberts

Lonely Road is the first song written with Mike Dampf.  His lyrics paint a lovely picture.

Lonely Road
M: Dan Swanson
L: Mike Dampf

There’s a somewhere that lives in my heart
Where a sleepy river flows
With busy hummingbirds and buzzing bees
By a cottage down a lonely road

Was it ever really there?
Is it just a lovely dream I want to share?
   
A river’s running through my sleepy[, sleepy] mind
Where dusk and dawn entwine
Her Sunday clothes are hanging on the line
At the cottage down that lonely road

Was there a way to change her mind?
Are these just shadows of another time?

It’s a somewhere that lives in my heart
where that sleepy river flows
with buzzing hummingbirds and busy bees
at that cottage down a lonely road

Was she ever really there?
Is this just a lovely dream I want to share?

There’s a woman in a dress of green
sitting on an old porch swing
the river whispers, meandering
past the cottage down that lonely road

Don’t look back, Don’t look back….

Copyright 2024 Swanson& Dampf

Lonely Road

When rivers end (DEMO)

Father and Son

Grow From the Ground

Winter (demo)

Beginning of Me (original demo)

Orden

Waves

Day We Met - Grace Burnett

"Lookin' back down these many roads....."

I Just Carry On (Take Two)

John Jenkins is carving out a path for himself as a renowned singer/songwriter on the UK folk, country, and Americana scene. Jenkins is a master of melody, understated lyrics, and deft chord changes, while his songs have been hailed wherever music is written about.

Jenkins has developed an engaged audience of fans and has established himself as a live touring act, both solo and collaboratively and has supported Chris Difford (Squeeze), Jarrod Dickenson, Robert Vincent (AMAUK Artist of the Year), and Steve Tilson in recent years. 

He recently completed a 12-date UK tour in July 2023 with Oxford’s ‘Pippa Murdie’ (Storm the Palace). 


Jenkins’s latest body of work, the 2023 album ‘Tuebrook’ released very recently has gained the admiration from the likes of Folk Radio UK, Americana UK, Fatea and many more magazines.


The album was so-produced by John Jenkins and Jon Lawton (Sami Yusuf, Two Black Sheep) and mastered by Pete Maher (The Rolling Stones, U2, Patti Smith). It is available on CD and Digital and features the singles “Shadows” and “Christopher Roberts”


Two singles from the forthcoming album “Tuebrook” have been released in recent months.

“One to watch” - NSAI – Nashville Songwriters Association International

Americana UK 2021 “Emerging Artist” Runner Up

GSMC 2021 Music Award “Newcomer” Finalist

Praise for the “Tuebrook” Album

Maximum Volume 

“This is the work of one of the UK’s best and most original songwriters”.

Americana UK

“This masterful collection highlights why Jenkins is fast becoming one of Liverpool’s most respected singer-songwriters”.

Rocking Magpie

“Nothing could prepare me what was about to unfold …This Album let me speechless”.

Spill Magazine Toronto Canada

“One incredible Album ... Tuebrook stands out in the same way Nebraska stood out for Bruce Springsteen”.

Liverpool Acoustic
“This is a fantastic album and solidifies Jenkins as a truly formidable songwriting talent”.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
‘Tuebrook” is a piece of art that moves the listener, cajoles it, defends the right of the listener to feel the crush of overwhelming humanity, and then lifts with hope…this is an album for the age, and to hear it is to love it.”

Stereo Stickman 30th June 2023
A uniquely evocative collection of songs. ‘Tuebrook’ makes for a timeless and consistently heartfelt listen, and effectively extends further still the ever-genuine repertoire of John Jenkins.
Fatea Magazine July 2023
“At times warmly nostalgic but without rose-tinted glasses, at others movingly sad, it’s an album for those of a certain age who have come to look back on their own younger days and those with whom they shared them, and as such, it’s a little gem

At The Barrier Magazine Aug 2023 
“Some of the warmest and most intimate, wistful, confessional reveries that you’re likely to hear this side of Christmas”.

John Jenkins - Christopher Roberts

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