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BiTS: [Laughing] Pretty good English sarcasm!

CB: No, really it just happened, it was the end of the 90s, I was living in France, and then I met a
guy from Portsmouth. His name is Clive Goodwin, and he started to get me gigs over here. Early in

2000 there was still a lot of pubs putting on live music, so I had a lot of gigs in pubs and blues
clubs, all kind of gigs in pubs and clubs, so I was spending more time in England than in France,
and this friend had a big house, and he said why don't you move over here, and I moved over here?
My then-girlfriend, now wife came with me. We had a little baby with us and then they started to
go to school and then life took over. Now my son is 22, [chuckles] and he's the English one of the

family.

BiTS: Over the years Claude, you've made, I can't tell you how many, dozens of records. Do you
have any idea how many albums you've made?

CB: No, I haven't counted them. Probably 15, or
something like that. I just have a new one out now.

BiTS: Oh, really?

CB: Yeah, a couple of weeks ago and it's called
“Home Cooked”.

BiTS: Tell me about that one, where was it

recorded?

CB: Here at home. In my studio here and plenty of
time at the moment, since March. I did it here and
wrote it here, recorded it here and, yeah, it's just
been released. There's 16 tracks on it and it’s called
‘Home Cooked’.

BiTS: Is it a solo piece, just you?

CB: Yeah, yeah, it's just me. It's a bit electric, acoustic. I play a bit of electric guitar on it as well
and double-track electric guitars and a few vocals as well. It's only me, but it's been a little bit

embellished if you want, but it's me, yeah.

BiTS: Where is that available from, Claude?

CB: You can get it from my website www.claudebourbon.org.

BiTS: How do you go about writing a song?

CB: I don't write the lyrics. Most of the tunes are in English, except one, which is in French.
There's 16 tracks, there are maybe ten, 11 songs and six, seven instrumentals. The lyrics are

written by a guy called Tim Leaning. He lives in York, and we have done quite a few CDs together
and so I always have a bit of music here and there and I always play the guitar and record stuff on