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SHAUN BELCHER.

Born Oxford, England 1959, has harboured delusions of artistic grandeur ever since but has finally realised that the most significant art forms of the 20th century are Eccles Cakes, Arsenal F.C and John Lee Hooker's snakeskin boots.

 

Johnny Dowd - Worried Mind

Charlie Rich - Old Time Religion

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy

Tom House - I got neighbours

The Old Joe Clarks - Breaking ground

The Okra All-Stars - Purple Rain

Songs Ohia - When Your Love Has Gone

Waren Zevon - Splendid Isolation

Jesse Winchester & The Fairfield Four - Wander My Way Home

Duke Bardwell - Linin' Track

DOUG HOEKSTRA.

Originally from Chicago but now living in Nashville.Has had short stories published in various magazines as well as releasing a batch of outstanding recordings.Latest disc 'Make me Believe' was described as 'downright visionary' by CDNOW in the U.S.

 

Try a little tenderness - Otis Redding

Tired of being alone - Al Green

Waiting for a miracle - Leonard Cohen

Someone to watch over me - George Gershwin

Quiet night and quiet stars - Antonio Joabim

I should have known better - The Beatles

Series of dreams - Bob Dylan

My life - Iris Dement

When doves cry - Prince

Little girl blue -Nina Simone

TERRY CLARKE

Reading, England's answer to Joe Ely and Gram Parsons has released several albums including the sublime 'Shelley River' and recent jazz-tinged 'Lucky'. One of Butch Hancock's favourite songwriters his heart lies somewhere across the border.

 

Change Partners - Steven Stills

Concierto De Aranjuez - Miles Davis

Bess you is my woman now - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong.

She - Gram Parsons

Dont' blame me - The Everly Brothers

Lush Life - Billy Strayhorn

The party's over - Winton Marsalis

Skylark - June Christy

Born to be with you - Dion DiNucci

Big River - Johnny Cash

 

BOB PATERSON

Country Music Radio, Europe's Alternative Country D.J. and promoter of singer-songwriters here there and everywhere.Researcher for Bob Harris Show and all round lover of a team that wins things....ok..wins everything!

 

Hadacol - Better Than This

Tammy Rogers - Thought You Should Know

Ron Sexsmith - Feel For You

The Damnations TX - Half Mad Moon

Kevin Meisel - Little Magnolia

Stacey Earle - Show Me How

Patty Griffin - One Big Love

Grand Drive - Tell It Like It Is

Nadine - Out On A Limb

Howard Iceberg & The Titanics - You're The One I Want

LOU ANN BARDASH

Originally from a small farming town in the midwest Lou Ann Bardash now lives in Austin with Tom Ovans and together they founded NSR recordings. As well as releasing her own Live at the Vortex disc she is a talented painter and illustrator. Her work can be found in this issue on the Doug Hoekstra short story page.

 

David Bowie - Changes

John Lennon - #9 Dream/Mind Games (tie)

Tom Ovans - Killing Me

Heart - Crazy on You

Leonard Cohen - Joan of Arc

Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion/Dream On (tie)

Michelle Shocked - Anchorage

Nick Cave - The Mercy Seat

Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles - Lady Marmalade

Martin Stephenson - Wholly Humble Heart

TOM McEWEN

Tom McEwan was born in the fifties, educated in Scotland and Washington DC.By 1993, fresh from Detroit, via Nashville he started the Edinburgh Songwriters Showcase and retrained in Multimedia. His research interest is creating a copy-protected architecture for compressed music for replay from Flash Memory Devices.

 

Apologies to all the songwriters in Edinburgh - you coulda taken top ten by yourselves.But who would I miss out!

Love Minus Zero/ No Limit - Bob Dylan

Incident on 52nd St - Bruce Springsteen

Tear Stained Letter - Richard Thompson

Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner - Warren Zevon

Poncho & Lefty - Townes Van Zandt

Angel From Montgomery - Bonnie Raitt & John Prine

Willin - Little Feat

It's Over - Roy Orbison

Pretty Pamela Brown - Leo Kottke

Wild Horses - Flying Burritos (not the Stones!)

BRIAN LILLIE

Musician and songwriter from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Leader of a large folk rock band called The Squirrel Mountain Orchestra. Lives on a farm with his wife and a bunch of friends. Working on his third release.

 

Sweet Thing - Van Morrison

Tumbling Dice - The Rolling Stones

Gauzy Dress in the Sun - Richard Buckner

Ain't Life a Brook - Ferron

Unsatisfied - The Replacements

Man Out of Time - Elvis Costello

Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan

Night of the Swallows - Kate Bush

A Pair of Brown Eyes - The Pogues

Jet - Paul McCartney and Wings

'COLONEL' TONY GREEN

Lead singery-guitar person with noted Oxford UK country rockers Overground - has a penchant for sideburns, Lovin' Spoonful and flowery shirts.

 

Rocks off - Rolling Stone

Rip this joint - Rolling Stones

Shake your hips - Slim Harpo/Rolling Stones

Casino Boogie - Rolling Stones

Tumbling Dice - Rolling Stones

Sweet Virginia - Rolling Stones

Torn and frayed - Rolling Stones

Sweet black angel - Rolling Stones

Loving cup - Rolling Stones

Happy - Rolling stones

ED STAINSBY

Bass man with Overground. Likes the GoBetweens a lot.

 

XTC - Senses working overtime

Be Bop deluxe - Maid in heaven

The Go-Betweens - Part company

Magazine - Believe that I understand

The Lilac Time - Rooftrees

The Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash

Small faces - Itchycoo Park

Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia

ATL - Puy your hand up if your first word's F**k in the morning

Colonel Tony Green - Superman

JAKE NAGLE

Not his real name. The 'Jake' comes from the poacher in WITHNAIL & I: the 'Nagle' comes from the leader of the Mystery Trend. Miscellaneous likes; Somerset C.C.C., Alejandro Josorowsky, Ruddles County, Saskia R. Mason. Miscellaneous dislikes; too numerous to mention. Wants to be a lighthouse keeper when he grows up.

 

The Zombies - This will be our year

Spearmint - Goldmine

Adge Cutler & The Wurzels -Champion dung spreader

Alexander Spence - Weighted down(the prison song)

Maurice Ravel - String quartet in F minor

The Relationships - Hide & seek

Ivor Cutler - Bicarbonate of chicken

Scott Engel - The old man's back again

( The neo-Stalinist regime)

Alex Chilton - Can't seem to make you mine

Vivian Stanshall & his Gargantuan Chums -Suspicion