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axework from Ewan Lund, this is a piece influenced by Tom’s love of Peter Green songs. It is a
kind of call and response duetting and it is outstanding. A prize winner IMHO.

‘Nothing Worth Knowing Comes Easy’ is a piece owing much to Bob Dylan and is the story of
a journey home across a night time landscape. There is again excellent guitar support, this time
from Paul Hemmings of The La's and The Lightning Seeds, who is also the producer of this
excellent album and as an item of trivia, also composed the theme song for the BBC daytime
soap opera Doctors.

Get a copy of this cracking album NOW!

Ian K McKenzie

Half Deaf Clatch—Beyond The Horizon's Shadow—Self
Produced

Clatch is a phenomenon. One of the most prolific artists in the
UK blues music field, when he wants a sound, he doesn’t mess
around. He learns a new instrument that will fill his needs.
Recently he has taught himself to play the cello and it is well to
the fore on this delightful collection of science (more accurately
astronomy) based descriptive pieces.

Called, ‘Approaching the Horizon’, ‘Light Never Escapes’, ‘Beyond
the Horizon's Shadow’ and ‘Observing the Singularity’, these are
truly wonderful instrumental pieces that one might have on in the background while attempting
to finish (yet again) Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time”. The melodies are both
haunting and descriptive. They are in a very real way, the music of the spheres. No doubt, before
too long this will be the music for a movie about black holes, event horizons and (as is Clatch’s
way) death and destruction. Quite, quite wonderful.

Ian K McKenzie

Greyhound George Band—No Time To Cry—Timezone

This album is part of a trilogy, commencing in 2020 with
“Electrified”, followed in 2021 by “Get Up and Walk”. The third
element is as good as the others.

George is Jürgen Schildmann, from Germany. In 2017 he won the
German Blues Challenge with Greyhound´s Washboard Band. In
2018 the band was a finalist at the International Blues Challenge
in Memphis.

Now, those of you who read BiTS regularly will know that I am a
sucker for a horn section - and they don’t come much better than
this, the wonderfully named, three part horn section, the Lohmann Wonderbras.

The music is outstanding too. Sounds of Memphis, New Orleans, Chicago and Germany, the
music is in turn foot tapping and thoughtful, and has that special feel that only comes when a
band of accomplished musicians are really enjoying themselves.

Check it out—You won’t regret it!

Ian K McKenzie