Last Farmer of Rattledown Row – The Missing Years CD finally available! Listen here. Purchase through new store.
Shaun Belcher
Posted On February 16, 2010
Track ‘City of stars’ renamed ‘Big City Nights’ on re-release CD
CD NOW AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AT $10 VIA TRAILER STAR STORE
trailer star records TSR005
Originally released 1993 as a Horseshoe Tape
‘LAST FARMER OF RATTLEDOWN ROW’ – 1993 Horseshoe Tape (HS 003)
The story behind the songs…
The Big Time! Moved back to London -got my Fostex working overtime ( well three out of four channels anyway) and made the tape that would ensure I’d go down as the Berkshire Hank Williams! Ended up playing some pretty ridiculous gigs with a drunken bunch of HIGH PRIESTS which gained some attention and a debut 7″(click name to see full story).
Thought I was Tom Waits/ Raymond Carver and the ghost of Old Hank Williams until I sent out the tapes to all and sundry and received just two replies from a head honcho at EMI believe it or not who said the words were good -the music and singing not -and someone at Roundtower Records who was too polite to tell me I wasn’t the next Tom Russell but who sent me some of Tom’s discs anyway (for guidance?) so that made me feel a lot better.
Guess what …I still think 17 years later that I’m the Berkshire ghost of Hank Williams…too late to stop now……………..and there’s a bloke down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis…no really he’s the spitting image……
Original cassette sleeve art
