SHAUN BELCHER: SONGWRITER

This wonderful set of renditions of my lyrics came out in 2003 and pretty quickly sank in the quicksands of the music ‘bizness’. All the artists volunteered their tracks by MP3 and Kris and Joe of Cicero Buck tied it all together on Super Tiny Records and that was it basically….various artists records, let alone a Charity record don’t get shelf space on the market so that was that until now and the beauties of NING which mean I can represent it complete with no fear of downloads…..so if you want a hard copy you gotta pay some dues to Cancer Research UK. It was dedicated to my father who sadly died of Pancreatic Cancer in 2004. My mother has now been diagnosed with a separate form of cancer so time to highlight this gem and pray yet again….

I cannot thank enough the artists who contributed to it and hope this post helps shine a light on them in return as a form of thanks……keep on shining…..

MOON OVER THE DOWNS PAGE ON FACEBOOK
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Moon-Over-the-Downs/165452872506
Like The Moon over the Downs…

Shaun Belcher on behalf of the late great Trailer Star

THE TRAILER STAR TRIBUTE – SUPER TINY RECORDS – STR002
the tribute to the star that never was – 15 groovy tracks by the likes of Jim Roll, Deanna Varagona, Bob Cheevers, Ronny Elliott..

Vist the original website

http://www.shaunbelcher.com/moon

No longer available through Super Tiny Records but a few on Amazon still here…

Trailer Star’s track Johnny Rush is featured on the front page of American Sonwriter magazine’s website…..alongside Pete Molinari…..maybe he’s the old Molinari….

http://www.americansongwriter.com/

Painted Spoken (London)

Shaun Belcher’s unique creation Trailer Star appears on two albums, the first by Trailer Star himself, Suit of Nettles. The second is a beautiful tribute album, Moon Over the Downs on Super Tiny Records, dedicated to the tragic victim of a automobile accident “on a deserted downland bend high above Newbury.” It uses Trailer Stars lyrics set to each of the performers’ own compositions. Trailer Star has the same relationship to Belcher as the nearly real artist Nat Tyler has to his creator William Boyd. Though there is fun to be had in “signalling” Berkshire born and bred Trailer Star’s “pivotal position in the development of English country blues” this is a project with lyrical and musical depth. Belcher on Suit and the dozen plus musicians on Moon play and sing it straight, exploring non-metropolitan England through varieties of American form. Oh, and £4 from every sale of Moon goes to Cancer Research UK.

Richard Price

available online at

http://www.hydrohotel.net/PSInformation6.htm

Chuffed to bits to be included in Songs Illinois music blog ( one of the best in my opinion)

This is what they had to say…see full entry ( alongside Ron Sexsmith…one of my heroes how cool is that :-)

http://www.songsillinois.net

I’m always talking the talk about over-produced records and how something lofi is usually ultimately more satisfying. Well today we walk the walk with the new record from Trailer Star aka Shaun Belcher. This arrived unannounced in my inbox by way of England. Shaun Belcher is a singer songwriter along the lines of our own Jim White. That means he’s concerned with sin and salvation and creates folk music that has a southern gothic feel to it. To go along with the music Shaun creates original artwork that is clearly influenced by the folk art of the deep south. Here’s his song “Firework Factory” and the artwork that goes with it.Suit of Nettles is the new record and the limited edition cd can be purchased here.

Shaun Belcher / Trailer Star will feature in the ‘Unsigned’ section of forthcoming Blues Matter Publication #39 August/September 2007

Latest issue available now £4.95 from Selectadisc, Nottingham, Virgin Megastore, Borders and HMV etc etc

http://www.myspace.com/bluesmatterspublication

http://bluesmatters.com