thought I’d lost these they were on Mike’s website all along..
thanks to Mike Crook (Wire Duck) for filming
http://www.wire-duck.com/

see TSTAR TV page for other film..Poisoned Water

Through an industrious mix and mash of elements from wordpress, ning and twitter I have a fully functional always on player driven catalogue that I can never charge for.. so what’s the point?

Well I believe and research by others backs it up that the old product driven recording industry is dead.

This is what I think the future will look like. All recordings available all the time and no spotify/last fm/mog whatever badging and branding and advertising. If I can do it anybody can. How will artists survive well not by selling CD’s , books or any other ‘hard’ copy but by creating online ‘presence’ and basically building up a global, personally driven online environment which includes (next step folks..not there yet) online streaming…..the tools are there just a matter of time before available for all…..and as for recording..that’s another blog post:-)

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…..

Like The Moon over the Downs…

LISTEN HERE

Shaun Belcher on behalf of the late great Trailer Star

To listen to Trailer’s original LO-FI tapes go to

MOON OVER THE BARNS

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..

http://www.americansongwriter.com/

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

The ‘Suit of Nettles’ hand-made digipack will be available as a limited edition (50 only made) at £10.00 each.

1. Barns and Stars. Songs 2005 – 2006

14 songs

when completed will be added as a player above.

Secondly as part of the Horseshoe Tapes archive series I also finishing off

2. Black Tin Barns - Songs 1996

Originally recorded direct to an old AKAI reel to Reel in Oxford. I am transferring the tracks to my T.O.A. 8-track cassette then to minidisc and digitised versions. Maybe finished by Xmas.

The first Horseshoe Tapes archive is playable HERE ‘Orange Capri’ HS003 from 1993

black tin barns 1996 didcot
Horseshoe Tapes 005

1. PRODIGAL SON
2. BLACK TIN BARNS
3. TWO RIVERS MEET
4. ROOM 22
5. THE ROAD IS A RIVER
6. MY LITTLE TOWN
7. RAIN POURS THROUGH THE ROOF
8. THESE THREE ROOMS
9. BALLAD OF THE ORANGE TREE
10. DEVIL’S ADDRESS
11. THE FACTORY
12. MY FATHER’S TREES
13. RAIN COMING DOWN
14. THE LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH FLOOD
15. WISHING FIELD
16. BACK OF BEYOND

full lyrics here