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of a left field song, but to me every time I hear it, I feel emotional. It's got

this beautiful violin in it.

BiTS: Yes, absolutely fabulous. Do I gather from what you just said that you've

actually started gigging this thing already?

TBS: Well, as you know, the
Jo Chambers release is on February 1st.

We're playing the Blackpool

Festival, Solid Entertainments,

or whatever they call it. So

we're releasing on the 1st of

February, and we're going to

Italy and Belgium and to

London and around. I've put a

few songs out just because I
wanted to play them out,

really, but not all of them. One

or two songs as a tester, and

they've gone down really well.

BiTS: Trevor, tell me

something about the guitars

that you use. Both, I think are

National Steel. Is that right?

TBS: Yeah, I use three guitars. One is a Style N, National, which is the same
as the style O that the old blues guys play. It's the same as that but without

the etching on. And then I also played a National Tricone which has got the
three small cones in it. That's on several of the tracks, and I also use a wooden

resonator, it says National on it, but I brought it and it’s a fake, I think, but

it sounds great. It’s on couple of the tracks, especially on the last track… on

track ten. I paid a couple of hundred quid for it. It's a cheapest guitar I own

and one of the best sounding, ironically.

BiTS: On one or two tracks you play with the slide. What sort of slide do you

use?