Name: Old Friend by Stu Gough - guitarist/songwriter in 2021
Duration: 2 min 48 s
Description: Two guitar instrumental (though it started life as a song) written circa 1999.

Well done Stu - two tracks - now you just need to add vocals

2021

“You’re happy within when you’re travelling”

Moving On

City Song (The Long Way Home)

Our Northern Game

“Lion hearted warrior behind a walking frame”

An Old Man Walking

“I just wanna sit here and watch the trains go by”

Watching the Trains

You Bring Me Love

Chocolate Cake (demo)

My re-work of the old Jansch and Renbourn tune written as a duet for two guitars. Played on a Martin OM35 and a Fred Watson classical guitar.

Hole In The Coal 2020 version

In the year 1069 King William 1st ordered the slaughter of all people and animals in the North of England. For around 20 years our area (Nidderdale) was de-populated and laid waste, to the extent that there were no footprints in the Winter snow

After The Clearance (Hills of Nidderdale)

Beside You in the Rain

Beside You In The Rain

I wrote this in 2015 after house buyers tried to cheat on us, and find that it has more resonance today than it did then - for a variety of reasons!!
Nerdy info: single condenser mic live recording

Lying And Cheating Ways

Fairytale folk rock, live at Ripon Wilfrid's Folk Club, September 2022. What happens when Little Red Riding Hood turns 17 and decides on her own path...?

Cloaked

Cloaked Live At Wilf's Sept 22

This is a song I wrote in response to news stories breaking in Jan and Feb 2023. As I was writing, more stories were breaking which moved me. There are so many people ostracised and harmed or even killed just for being who they are. It makes my blood boil. The world would be so dull if we were all the same and yet so many fear difference. We have a long way to go before we are an inclusive, equal society.

Swimming Upstream

Swimming Upstream Demo

Often in a set list but unlikely to be on an album...
Based on what Jeff used to hear his neighbours screaming at each other when he lived in a flat in Newcastle.

This "rough demo" version was recorded separately during Lockdown 2020

Sparks

Two guitar instrumental (though it started life as a song) written circa 1999.

Old Friend

Pat and Nuala first visited Harrogate Folk Club in 2019 and during the Coronavirus Pandemic have become regulars on our monthly Zoom singaround. This song is from their album 'Ever Changing Blue'.

Ever Changing Blue

All Manner Of Things - Cobalt Tales

But you gotta make your own kind of music, Sing your own special song, Make your own kind of music
Even if nobody else sings along - Mann/Weil

Old Friend

Stu Gough - guitarist/songwriter

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