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my phone, so I always have quite a lot of music in store and now and then my friend Tim, sends me
his work, his lyrics and then when I find something interesting, I try to fit my music with his lyrics.
Or sometimes I don't have any music, but for whatever reason, his lyrics give me an idea for the
music. It's usually pretty quick to work out a song. Yes, we've done a lot of CDs together. He writes

the lyrics. I've got another guy on this CD. He's an American guy from Houston, Texas and he has
written two songs on the CD.

BiTS: How badly have you been affected by COVID?

CB: It's awful. Since March I've played five gigs and we had to postpone, cancel over a hundred gigs
so far. The whole of the US. I play a lot in North America, US and Canada, so all of that has been
postponed until next year, hopefully, we will be able to do it next year. We still don't know, but
we've rescheduled the gigs anyway. Yeah, I don't know. We don't see no end to this thing, so it's a
difficult time for the whole industry. It's a catastrophe. I don't know how it's going to start again. It
will start again, but when and how, we really don't know. Yeah, and as you are self-employed, you
don't have any income. You sell a few CDs online, but that don't pay the bills, so financially it's a

really tough year.

BiTS: I can believe that. Have you been able to do anything online?

CB: We have a very poor signal down here, so we can't just do a live online gig, so we pre-recorded

a gig, and we've sold it. There was a club in America, they wanted us to record a gig for them, so
we've shot a gig down here and they bought it. Again, you sell this thing for $500 once, and that's
it, after six months. I played two gigs in England it was earlier, just before the lockdown, between
two lockdowns. I played one gig in Portsmouth and another one down in Devon in someplace and
three gigs in Germany in September and that's it since March. Yeah, it's not really funny, you know,
not at all.

BiTS: Okay, that's terrific, Claude, I won't take any more of your time. I've got one last question
for you really, when you're listening to musicians these days, who do you listen to, what
contemporary music?

CB: Contemporary music, J.J. Cale. Is he contemporary, I don't know? Yeah, I like J.J. Cale.

BiTS: Yeah, wonderful artist. Lets leave it like that!

CB: Okay, thank you so much, Ian.

BiTS: Bye.

CB: Bye-bye.