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recorded it, and they sent me this recording of it and it sat in my phone and on the
computer for a long time. Then last year, when I was working in the greenhouse, I

fell over and broke my rib so I couldn't actually work in the greenhouse, but I could
still deliver the plants to the shops. On the way back from delivering these plants I
came across the recording, and I listened to it because I'd forgotten about it. Literally,
I thought, bloody hell, this is not bad. I should do something with this because I

haven't done anything for so long and
I managed to give it to my friend and

he mastered it, cleaned it up, and
that's how the new CD came about.

BiTS: Any chance of any more,

because I think it's fabulous?

LP: I'll have to send you my older
one, which I did in 2011. I'll send you

that one so you can have a listen. Yes,
I'm slowly starting to get back into it
and I'm actually playing this year at

Upton Blues Festival. They’ve asked
me to come. I asked if I could play
there, they said yes, great. Yeah,

come along. That's nice that I've got
the CD, and that new CD was
recorded when I last was there, and

now I've got something more to give to people. A lot of the time, you go and see
somebody live and then you buy their CD, and you put it on and it's not the same. It's
like, oh, hang on.

BiTS: That's unfortunately too often true.

LP: Yes, so that is why the one you've got now, this new one, I'm probably most
happiest about because basically when I first got it and heard it after it had been

made into a CD, I put it on my rubbish little stereo in my front room, put it on. I walked
out of the room, and I was outside with the windows open, and I could actually think
that I was in there, in my front room, playing live as I was standing outside listening

to it. So that was like the first time that I'd actually heard what I must sound like live,
which was an eye opener, to be honest with you.

BiTS: Tell me, how did you actually learn to sing like that?

LP: Like if I hit my toe, for example, you shout ugh, or whatever. You do it with
anything if you have a little accident or something. And then I started thinking why

when I'm singing, why do I hold back? So now I don't. It's like my voice is like a wild
horse. I let it go. If I try and keep the reins on, it doesn't work. It's like it's fighting
constantly to be free and so I just let it go.