St Andrews Folk Club with Allan Taylor & Alex Atterson 09-10-77 (full concert) скачать в хорошем качестве

St Andrews Folk Club with Allan Taylor & Alex Atterson 09-10-77 (full concert)

Singer/songwriter ALLAN TAYLOR needs no introduction to lovers of traditional and contemporary folk music. Born September 1945 in Brighton Allan has written and performed music around the world for over 50 years. Leaving school in 1961 he became an apprentice in telecommunications field until 1965. During which period, inspired by skiffle and the beat generation, he started singing and playing guitar in the folk clubs of Brighton. In 1966 he became a full-time musician leaving Brighton to become part of the music scene in London. He toured the UK, playing some of the most prestigious folk clubs, and sometimes supported Fairport Convention. In 1970 he signed a recording contract with United Artists. He then moved to New York and became part of the singer-songwriter scene in Greenwich Village, toured throughout America and recorded his “American Album” in Nashville and Los Angeles In the mid-1970's, he returned to the UK, and formed the band Cajun Moon. In 1976, he ended the band and returned to being a solo artist releasing three records with Black Crow/Rubber Records from 1978 to 1983. Along with his touring he graduated with three academic degrees and presented several documentary programmes for the BBC. Since 1995 he has continued touring Europe and the UK performing at festivals, concerts, festivals and clubs and releasing several further records on the Stockfisch label. His latest “The Road Well Travelled” is now out and getting some great reviews. It is available direct from Stockfisch Records. He is without doubt one of the foremost singer-songwriters and guitarists in his genre, with more than one hundred recorded versions of his songs performed by Artists in ten different languages. ALEX ATTERSON was born in 1931, in Cambusbarron, a small village, a mile south-west of Stirling, the only child of a working nanny and a semi-skilled tradesman, with a variety of skills to his name. Alex trained at St Andrews University as an industrial chemist which, following graduation, led him to Peterborough to work for the British Sugar Corporation and then subsequently to Norwich in the employment of Reckitt & Coleman. It was in Norwich he would settle permanently and later take up a teaching position.. Alex was a prime mover behind the establishment of the Norwich Folk Festival, in the late 60's, at which time he also turned professional performer for the first time. He would be found singing regularly at the local Sunday night folk club as well as appearing at other clubs around the country. During this time he recorded two albums of his Scottish folk songs, the best of which was 1977’s Pushing The Business On. Two years later however he had to abandon professional singing and take up more secure work as a teacher. By the time he retired in July 1996 he had risen to be Head of Science at Acle High School. During his brief professional career, Alex established a reputation as a reliable, warm-hearted performer, whose tastes extended from traditional ballads to jazzy rags and foot-stompers, and he was an artiste held in particularly highly regard by folk club organisers and other musicians. Alex passed away in September 1996