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Lynn originally sang with the Bo Weevils, a folk-rock group based in Merseyside in the mid-late Sixties. Martin Craig played guitar & sang harmony vocals. 

Reformed as the harmony duo MG & Lynnette in 1991, Lynn & Martin performed their 'Acoustic Roots Of Rock'n'Roll' live set at a huge variety of venues; both traditional pubs & clubs and at care homes, prisons and festivals. 

In 2007, Lynn brought out her 'labour of love' nod to the Bo-Weevils album; mainly made up of traditional songs she sang with that band in the 1960s.

In 2010, Lynn released an album of some of her favourite covers, called 'Off-Grid'. This reflected the fact that the duo had moved to a former shepherd's bothy in a remote part of Scotland which had no mains electricity, gas or water services. Recording & mixing was carried out in their cottage using a generator to power the equipment.

In September, 2014 Martin remastered many of the Rock'n'Roll tracks they recorded in the 1990s as MG & Lynnette. Twenty of these songs are being released in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand & Japan & other territories as 'Acoustic Roots Of Rock'n'Roll Vol 1' by The Border Rebels. 

(This latest release currently excludes the USA, Canada, Mexico, India & Pakistan, due to those countries' complex systems of collecting composers' royalties.)

Martin & Lynn's first band was the Bo-Weevils, a early UK folk-rock outfit based on Merseyside in the mid-late 1960s. They played a mixture of British & American folk tunes (Leadbelly was a favourite!) together with songs by artists such as Carolyn Hester & Bob Dylan. Lynn was the main vocalist; Martin played guitar & sang harmonies.

Between 1970 & 1981, Martin was in Rock'n'Roll bands such as the Hot Rod Gang, The Sabrejets (who were signed to Blueport Music & achieved success in several countries) and Diesel & the Firebirds.

In 1991, the area Martin worked in suffered large-scale rioting. During the week of the riots, Lynn suggested that they sing through some of their favourite Rock'n'Roll songs to drive away the 'post-riot blues' and keep their spirits up during that stressful time. This evolved into the duo 'MG & Lynnette', who played many gigs in both the traditional pub/club venues in the North-East of England and venues and many care homes, prison and festivals.

Recordings made at that time are only now being released in 2014, on the 20-track album 'Acoustic Roots of Rock'n'Roll.

Martin has also supported Lynn's solo work on guitar, with her traditional album 'Greenwood Side' (based on her Bo-Weevils repertoire & released in 2007) and her covers album, 'Off-Grid' (released in 2011).



Vintage rocker with a background in community activism as well as music. Bands include the Bo-Weevils (Liverpool, 1960s) the Hot Rod Gang & the Sabrejets (Tyneside, 1970s) the Firebirds, the Kindness of Strangers, duos as MG & Lynnette - now The Border Rebels - and with the singer-songwriter the late Irene Sutherland. 

I ran a music & songwriting group in a prison for 13 years; I play guitar for solo singer Lynn Craig and I'm currently rehearsing for a new music project in the Scottish Borders. Some of my newer songs seem to be getting increasingly political - blame the politicians for that!

Most of what I post here will be solo, live-to-stereo acoustic recordings of my original songs. They're often quite different from other versions I've recorded or played with bands. I hope you like them, many thanks for stopping by...

MARTIN STEPHENSON has been one of the UK’s best-loved musicians for 30 years, his band The Daintees released 4 classic albums in the 80's and he has went on to release many more

New album Haunted Highway sees him reunited with The Daintees, the band he’s intermittently fronted through a string of albums - and hundreds of gigs - since his teens in the North East.

Always popular on the circuit, Stephenson’s “must see” live performances are an exuberant tour-de-force combining heart-in-your-mouth intimacy with playful humour and warm self-deprecation.

The Daintees’ critically acclaimed 1986 debut BOAT TO BOLIVIA opened up an always interesting story. It showcased Stephenson’s songwriting, poetic romanticism and spiritual depth – so marking him out as a soulful cream of the leftfield crop during the self-obsessed 1980s.

Never pandering to a particular scene, Stephenson’s lightness of touch on a varied mix of musical styles was immediately apparent. His path was destined to be a lifelong journey through the music he loved: folk, ragtime, jazz, rockabilly, show tunes, punk-pop and country.

CALIFORNIA STAR continues his tradition for eclectic roots songwriting, and is the perfect middle-age bookend on a discography now amounting to 40 albums.

 

Je compose ma musique dans mon petit studio à Paris sur un ordinateur dans lequel je branche ma carte son, mes guitares, mon piano et mon micro pour chanter, rapper et parler de moi. 

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