Sound of the Rain

Another true story..recovery of tracks recorded to reel 2 reel in 1991.

The Day the Snow Came Down

The original version of 'Devil's House' from 'Moon Over The Downs' with Fats Kaplin on fiddle :-)

The Devil's House - Claudia Scott & Fats Kaplin

Down By The River

Shooting Stars Turn Blue

Dusty Trees

Lynton And Lynmouth Flood

My homage to The Go-Betweens and The Triffids...from a home recording dated 1993. Recorded in a top floor London Earls Court bedsit. Full story here
http://www.trailerstar.co.uk/songwriter/floodplain-demos/last-farmer-of-rattledown-row/

full album available for free on bandcamp at:
https://trailerstar.bandcamp.com/album/last-farmer-of-rattledown-row

FLOOR OF WOOD

This house was built of planks ten years after the war
I spent my childhood days watching the wind blowing the straw
As the sixties twisted away and the motorways came
I would stand at the window playing with toy cars in the rain

This time I'm really leaving these green fields for good
But I'll leave my heart under this floor of wood

Slate roof is full of holes, the walls are covered in rambling rose
Nothing lives here now but the ghosts
I push a broken door against broken plaster and ash
And watch the wind blow through windows all smashed

This time I'm leaving these green fields for good
But I'll leave my heart underneath this floor of wood

Since I was a boy England has drifted from fields to city
All these cornfields been turned to golf courses or light industry
Plaster crumbles and dusts my shoes just like chalk
I walk away, scratches on my arm, I try to close the door.

This time I'm leaving these green fields for good
But I'll leave my heart buried under this floor of wood

© shaun belcher - horseshoe songs 1999

Last Farmer of Rattledown Row

Floor Of Wood

I bought an old manual typewriter and thought now I had it I better write a song on it..so I did…simple really…

how to solve writers block just get away from the screen for a while 😉

further info: http://www.trailerstar.co.uk/songwriter/2019/07/06/a-1000-birds-new-song-new-typewriter/

Inspired by Darrell Scott’s song believe it or not. ‘You’ll never leave Harlan alive’ .

I heard versions of his song by Dave Alvin, Kathy Mattea and his original version
oh my  what a song!

My Berkshire farmer’s version of same theme:-)

p.s. birds true..as a kid I saw a thousand or more Redwings launch up from a fieldside never forgot it 🙂

Oh and ice and cattle yup did that too..as a boy

1000 Birds Demo

the back catalogue of a poet who plays guitar or a guitarist who writes poems..

Shaun Belcher

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