Birmingham drummer and playwright, emerging from behind the cymbals. First cut: Miles.

Songwriter/Composer


Songs of Land and Sea
This is an album of my songs with other singers performing them, it will hopefully be released sometime in August 2025

Latest release:

Modern Traveller 
Released on the Factual label by Lift Music, published by Boost Music for use in TV and film.
My titles include:
1. Sitar Sunrise 

Beneath the Western Sky (21/06/2025)

Gone Fishing 
Released on the POKE music label by Lift Music and Boost Music library, for use in TV and film.
My titles include:
1. The Brook
2. Backwaters
3.  Castin' a Line
4. The Fishermen
5. Still Waters
6. Tales of the River Bank
7. Gone Fishing
8. Off the Beaten Track
9. Ripples

Whispers From A Pink Moon,
Released on The Box label at Bibliotheque Music, Published by Cavendish Music.
Tracks include:
1. Rolling Along 
6. Maybe Today 
9. Summer Skies 
link below (aka JGKT)

By The Wind Sailor, released by Will Keating on his album A Remembered Walk

Discography: 
(All available on Spotify and all the others)

Albums:

Beneath the Western Sky (2025) downloadable on Bandcamp see links

Into The Waves (2023)

Dystopian Landscapes (2020)

Little Hollow Farm, Instrumentals (2020) 

Full Circle (2020)

Dangling (2019)

The Rook (2012)

Country Roads (2008) 

Into the Wildness (2006) 

Dance To I love You (1990 -2005, very early rough demos from another lifetime J T).

Indie-Folk singer/songwriter from Cambridge, UK. Think Norah Jones, Carole King and Belle & Sebastian. Piano led, dark and moody - new single The Old Oak is out now.

Hello,

And welcome to my little corner of the internet. This is where I place the music that is good enough for other people to listen to, and to buy if they so wish. I play electric, acoustic, lap steel, and resonator guitars, fretted and fretless bass, banjo, mandolin, bouzouki, ukulele, and some accordion and concertina. Theremin, Harmonica and Low Whistles also sometimes show their faces.

My influences, as a guitarist range from Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, Chris Rea, Bonnie Raitt, Duanne Allman, Mark Knopfler, Eric Johnson, Derek Trucks, Jerry Douglas, and many others, whilst as a Bassist is it Jaco Pastorius and Victor Wotton, on Banjo it is Earl Scruggs, Bela Fleck and Gabrielle the Frog from Bagpuss, and anyone else with a decent tune and song. I am enjoying discovering new sounds and people on Soundcloud, and if you like one of my tracks, please let me know, as I plan to leave comments on some of the tracks I listen to. My music is also available on Bandcamp at: https://benmacnair.bandcamp.com/follow_me

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