He also plays as a duo with various other guitarists including Belfast guitar maestro Gordon McAllister, virtuoso Dublin blues slide guitarist Ed Deane and ace Lisburn blues guitarist Ronnie Greer as well as selected guest appearances with the Ronnie Greer Band
Influences
MUSIC:
Bob Dylan, The Band, Levon Helm, The Stanley Brothers, Taj Mahal, Merle Haggard, Delbert McClinton, The Amazing Rhythm Aces, John Fogerty, Guy Clark, John Prine, Doug Sahm, Steve Earle, Kieran Kane, Ry Cooder, Bill Withers, Eddie Harris, Boz Scaggs, Randy Newman, Stephen Bruton, Gary Nicholson, Jesse Winchester, Ry Cooder, Andy Fairweather-Low, Ray Charles, The Crusaders, Bap Kennedy, Lyle Lovett, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, The Staple Singers, Willie Nelson, Lowell George, Mississippi John Hurt, Dr John, Lucinda Williams, Steve Reilly & the Mamou Playboys, Mary Gauthier, Joel Sonnier, Leon Russell and so many, many more...
MOVIES
The childhood cowboy in me loves classy westerns and great modern American classics like:
Deadwood, Lonesome Dove, Unforgiven, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The Missing, 21 Grams, Monsters Ball, Mystic River, The Proposition (Australian), The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford, No Country for Old Men
MOVIE HEROES:
Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Johnny Depp, Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Matt Damon, Kathy Burke, George Clooney, Ray Winstone, William H. Macey, Ian McShane, Brendan Gleason, Liam Neeson, Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis.... and loads of others!
FAVOURITE AUTHORS:
Cormac McCarthy, Geoffrey Lent, John Steinbeck, Michael Connolly, Ian Rankin, Jamie Lee Burke, Annie Proulx, Elmore Leonard, Larry McMurtry, Harlan Coben... and loads of others!
FAVOURITE PLACES:
Canada, Joshua Tree National Park in California, Monterrey in CA, Virginia City in Nevada, Santa Fe in New Mexico, Dublin in Ireland, County Donegal in Ireland, Portstewart, Co Derry in N.Ireland, Cuba, Brunswick Heads in eastern Australia
New CD "No Borders" due for release August/September 2009
IN SUPPORT OF HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE in NORTHERN IRELAND
Proceeds of all sales to Huntington's Disease Association Northern Ireland
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Errol was born in Coleraine, Co Derry, Northern Ireland... native of Portstewart.... emigrated to Canada during the late sixties and become a singer and songwriter.
By the early seventies returned to the UK and moved to the Isle of Arran on the West Coast of Scotland... learning and growing.
Returned to Ireland and moved to the magical 'Kingdom of Kerry' for a few years before moving to Dublin with current band at that time "Stagalee".
After a few years of great music in a funky/soul vein with Stagalee, Errol moved into a bluesier vein with a band called "The Business" inherited from Paul Brady's 'Hard Station' album.
'Stagalee' and 'The Business' benefitted from the remarkable talents of many of Dublin's leading musicians of that period (Jimmy Faulkner, Pat O'Farrell, James Delaney, Tommy Moore, Fran Breen, Don Baker, Declan McNeilis, Dave Gaynor, Carl Geraghty, John Forbes, Greg Boland, Dave McHale, Eoin O'Neill, Phillip Donnelly) and a few talented Scottish imports from Glasgow band Cado Belle (Colin Tully, Maggie Reilly and Gavin Hodgson). There was even a short lived exploration of rock meets folk with leading Irish female singer, Mary Black! Mary eventually recovered from the shock, refined her needs and continued her upward trajectory to international stardom.
The eighties saw Errol in London where he founded several new bands featuring, at different times, legendary pedal steel player, B.J.Cole, multi-instrumentalist Steve Simpson, ex Sutherland Brothers sidemen Tim Renwick and Willie Wilson and virtuoso Dublin born guitarist Ed Deane.
In the nineties 'Coyotes' enjoyed considerable success in the 'Americana' genre including appearances at major Americana festivals and a 'Best Album 1997'award at the BBC television 'British Country Music Awards'.
That same year Errol found himself in Nashville, in a studio with some of Nashville's finest from Kieran Kane's 'Dead Reckoning' stable.
The resulting album 'Waltzin' In The Water' won the coveted 'Northern Lights - Spirit Of Antrim' award for contributions to the Irish music industry (previous recipients included Brian Kennedy and Liam O'Flynn)
Today, Errol lives in beautiful Glenariff (God's own little acre!) in the Glens of Antrim where he continues to write and play sporadically and make the occasional foray to gigs and festivals abroad.
Errol devotes most of his time to working with the Huntington's Disease Association Northern Ireland
Yes, I met Pat last year in Limerick - I was in town for a day and this guy came speeding up to me on a push bike and was hugging me before I realized who it was. The bold Pat Ryan indeed, happy and healthy. If I catch him again I'll certainly pass on your kind regards.
I did meet you a few times in Limerick - I was friends with Paul Hanrahan and I'm sure we were in company at various occasions - However I hope everything is going well for you
Hi Errol !!! :) Yes...... London seems a lifetime ago.... good memories at that! How nice to hear from you, I hope all is well with you - I enjoyed reading your profile, a lot of familiar names and more good memories coming back.
Good stuff, all the work you're doing for the Huntington foundation! All the best, great to hear from you, Miriam
Errol, Enjoyed the music on Sat night, and what a band! Great to have seen you all again and a pleasure to watch musicians enjoying themselves....AND get paid!! Where would you get it!Lol! Dino & Annie
Can you email me your new phone number...I've tried to call a few times around your birthday but couldn't get through. I'd love to catch up! cheers, Baz
Hey... i dunno, it's taken me long enough to shake the living-room nerves.. Wavy has been a major help though i have to say. Thanks for the vote of confidence though, always nice to hear :-) For a long time i was never sure if it was everyone just being nice! Have the album Raising Sand and love their version of Killing the Blues.. I usually sing Shawn Colvin's version but the harmonies on the Raising Sand album are class. See you Friday! x
Hey Errol, hope you survived Friday night alright,was mighty craic. Really enjoyed the gig, finally got to hear you playing in a bar instead of a living room lol.. See you Friday!
Hey Fellow Honkie, Thanks for the card dude! Happy Christmas to you & Susan & hope to catch you in the New Year for some pickin' & maybe a cold one or two. I hear Hag has had recent lung cancer surgery but is doing good. Hope things are going good in the new pad See y'all .......
This will be our final gig, and what better way to go out than sharing a stage with one of our favourite bands? Thanks to all the people we've worked and played with over the last few years; we hope we've turned some frowns upside down...we've certainly had so much fun it probably should've been illegal! I think it could be summed up best by one of the great thinkers of our time, Mr Vinnie Jones: "It's been emotional..."
