My main partners in crime are Paul Lush - guitarist (LSOL),
Jim "The One and Only" Morrison - fiddle and mandolin (LSOL),
Chris Clarke - bass (LSOL/Rockingbirds),
Phil Van Couver - Drums (LSOL),
Sean Read - bvs, keys, brass, tambourine (LSOL/Rockingbirds), Andy Hackett - guitar (Rockingbirds), Dave Morgan - drums (Rockingbirds/LSOL), Patrick Arbuthnot - pedal steel (Rockingbirds)
Influences
Waylon Jennings, Townes Van Zandt, Gene Clark, Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman, Elvis Presley, Pete Dello, Bob Dylan, Doug Sahm, Freddie Fender, Nanci Griffith, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Bill Jo Spears, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Roy Harper, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Hartford, Mark Olsen, Kris Kristofferson, The Faces, Loretta Lynn, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, The Byrds, Dan Penn, Billy Jo Shaver, The Gourds, The Rolling Stones, The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Steeleye Span, The Watersons, Beer Wines and Spirits, Neil Young, Link Wray, Rick Nelson, Ricky Nelson, Admiral Nelson, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, The Band, British 70s Pub Rock, Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Kinks, The Flamin' Groovies, Woody Guthrie, Seddon Atkinson Trucks, The Louvin Bros, The New York Dolls, White Mansions, Pennies From Heaven, Ewan MacColl, Jason McNiff, Charlie Feathers
My English country rock adventure began back in the early nineties with my band The Rockingbirds. Inspired by the cosmic American music of Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers, we made two critically acclaimed albums on the Heavenly (Sony/Columbia) label -The Rockingbirds (1992) and Whatever Happened to the Rockingbirds (1994) and the band went on to tour the UK extensively, with festival appearances at Glastonbury, Reading, Phoenix, Cambridge, and Finsbury Park Fleadh and TV appearances on things like Later with Jools Holland, Top of the Pops and MTV. The band split in 1995 but in 2008 we re-united to play the Heavenly 18th birthday celebrations at the South Bank in London, and this led to the re-release of the long deleted first album on Heavenly and a short UK tour.
In between all this, I've made 4 albums, 2 under the name of Alan Tyler and the Lost Sons of Littlefield, 3 for our Spanish friends Hanky Panky records.
Faithful - Alan Tyler (Littlefield Records - 2002)
Alan Tyler and the Lost Sons of Littlefield (Hanky Panky 2006)
So Far - Alan Tyler (Hanky Panky 2007)
Lonesome Cowboys - Alan Tyler and the Lost Sons of Littlefield (2008)
I continue to write and perform with the Lost Sons, the Rockingbirds, and as a solo artist. I also run my Sunday afternoon music event Come Down and Meet the Folks every second and last Sunday of the month at the Apple Tree pub in Clerkenwell, London.
http://comedownandmeetthefolks.co.uk
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The BellRays headline a night of maximum rock'n'soul on Thursday next
week at The Borderline with Los Chicos and King Salami & The
Cumberland 3 playing live and Corn Rocket Club DJs on the wheels of
steel.
Click on flyer for tickets.....
Other forthcoming NTSOBC action:
July
Thrs 9 BellRays + Los Chicos + King Salami & The Cumberland 3 @ Borderline, London, W1
Thrs 16 Micheal Sheehy & The Hired Mourners + Gemma Ray @ The Lexington, London, N1
Thrs 23 O’Death @ The 100 Club, London, W1
September
Friday 11 T-Model Ford @ The Luminaire, London, NW6
Saturday 12 T-Model Ford @ The Luminaire, London, NW6
Tues 15 Bob Log III @ The Luminaire, Kilburn, London, NW6
Hiya! I just wanted to let you know how much your support means to me. So to show how much I appriciate the love you have given I am showin some love right back atcha! For the next 24 hours you can download my new single "Havent Got The Time" on Reverb Nation FREE! My gift to you! , XoXo
“ COME DOWN AND MEET THE FOLKS” BLUES AND ROOTS SPECIAL!
Sun 28TH June@ The Apple Tree Pub 45 Mount Pleasent, Clerkenwell,London WC1.
4PM Till 9PM. FREE! { donations appreciated }
This Coming Sunday we have a down home southern folks special Featuring:
JOHN CRAMPTON {John Hollers like a mountain jack & plays a 1938 national steel guitar,banjo & harmonica. He beats out the rhythm on a stomper board,just like ol’ Johnny Lee usta!}
DOLLAR BILL {Dollar Bill is a one man band with full drumkit in the style of the late great Dr Ross & Joe Hill Lois. He sho nuff done got the boogie disease!}
ONIONS “THE ALTERED STATESMAN” {A very fine guitarist indeed! Sorta Hooker meets Hillage Meets underwater psyche!}
Your’s Truly on the decks ,spinning a steaming southern blues ,folk & country gumbo!
The Kittiwakes - CD Launch - Clerkenwell 22nd June
Leigh-on-Sea 3-piece, The Kittiwakes, celebrate the release of their Midwich Records debut, ‘Lofoten Calling’, a collection of original folk songs written about the people, landscape, folklore and history of the Lofoten Islands above the Arctic Circle and influenced by the traditional music of Norway and the British Isles.
'The Kittiwakes craft timeless and magical acoustically dappled folk treats - gentle and alluring ostensibly Gaelic in sound texture and gorgeously flighty braided as they are by corteges of mandolins, accordions and violins.' [LOSING TODAY]
'The Kittiwakes (rissa tridactyla): delicious, intriguing and evocative music, beautifully played and sung by this talented trio. Recommended to twitchers and lovers of folk music alike' [LEIGH FOLK FESTIVAL]
Catch
That Rockabilly Fever by Sheree Homer is a candid account of life on the
road and in the studio with '50s legends and today's talent. These are personal
stories told by the artists themselves. It's a soft cover biography that will
be published in October 2009 by McFarland Publishers and retail for $39.95. It
will have never before seen photos (strictly 1950's photos of the legends) and
rare stories from the artists themselves. Catch
That Rockabilly Fever will be approximately 350 pages in length. It will be
unlike any other rockabilly book on the market since it will include some of
today's hottest young talent plus insightful stories from 1950's backing
musicians and engineers for the first time, such as James Kirkland (Bob Luman,
Ricky Nelson), Richie Frost (Ricky Nelson), Steve Handford (Bobby Lee
Trammell), Tony Austin (Rock and Roll Trio), Stanley Walker (Ray Smith), Bobby
Poe (Wanda Jackson), Vernon Sandusky (Big Al Downing) and Bob Sullivan
(KWKH/Louisiana Hayride). Foreword by acclaimed writer Ken Burke.
These forty-six artists will have individual profiles and one
glamorous photo per musician: Glen Glenn, Lew Williams, Art Adams, Elvis
Presley, Ricky Nelson, Bob Luman, Ed Bruce, Dickey Lee, Jack Earls, Hayden
Thompson, Maddox Brothers and Rose, Sonny Burgess, Carl Mann, Ray Smith, Johnny
Powers, Larry Donn, Pat Cupp, Ronnie Hawkins, Bobby Lee Trammell, Huelyn
Duvall, Gene Summers, Sonny West, Buddy Holly, The Collins Kids, Wanda Jackson,
Charlie Gracie, Big Al Downing, Laura Lee Perkins, The Rock and Roll Trio,
Narvel Felts, The Dave and Deke Combo, Kim Lenz, Go Cat Go, High Noon, Larry
Cole, Cari Lee Merritt, Josie Kreuzer, Eddie Clendening, Suzy and Buddy Dughi,
The Casey Sisters, Carl Sonny Leyland, Dawn Shipley, Sue Moreno, Ruby Ann, and Tex
Rubinowitz.
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Exciting News! We are featured in the current issue of Maverick
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Just to let you know I've launched a new website: www.StressFreePrint.co.uk. If you get a sec, please take a look around and let me know what you think. As always, give me a shout if you need any leaflets, flyers or posters to promote your gigs. Hope I can help you out sometime.
Take care and keep up the good work, Tom.
P.S. Cheers for your friendship. As a thank you, enter voucher code 'myspace' when ordering leaflet printing, flyer printing or poster printing and I'll knock 15 quid off the cost!
The Coal Porters are looking for a double bass player. Please put out the word, Alan, okay? You dudes must know someone. We play The Green Note Sat May 16 if you are free. best always, Sid Griffin
