Guitar/Vocals - Steve Tilston
Guest Instruments:
Sax - Andy Sheppard
Slide Guitar - Martin Simpson
Accordian - Chris Parkinson
Fiddles - Nancy Kerr, Richard Curran
Bass - Martin Allcock
Piano/Keyboards - Anna Ryder/James Fagan/Rupert Hine
Flute - Maggie Boyle
Drums - Roy Dodds
Influences
Big Bill Broonzey, Josh White, Skip James, Snooks Eaglin, Charlie Byrd, Davey Graham, Bob Dylan, Bert Jansch, Robin Williamson, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, The Beatles.
Sounds Like
The Water Hole - Live @ The QEH Bristol
Madam Muse - Live @ Shrewsbury Folk Festival
Rambling Comber - Live
Dust From My Heels - With Martin Allcock @ Shrewsbury Folk Festival2007
This Profile is run by Steve and with a little help from his son Joe.
"Steve Tilston" writes Dirty Linen magazine "can stand shoulder to shoulder with any singer/songwriter/guitarist in the world."
The writer of the classic songs "The Slip Jigs and Reels", "The Naked Highwayman", and "Here's to Tom Paine" has a new album out on Hubris Records. Entitled Ziggurat, hear Tilston deftly weave his mastery on a dozen new insightful songs of love, loss, war and gold, plus the reworking of a couple of gems from the tradition; with special guest musicians Dave Bowie, Chris Parkinson, Richard Curran, Fin McArdle and Maggie Boyle.
Steve Tilston is one of this country’s greatest song-writers with many of his songs considered modern folk-song classics and covered by the likes of Fairport Convention, Dolores Keane, John Wright and others. He’s also renowned for the way he takes a favourite traditional “old chestnut” and makes it his own. His career was marked last year by the release of Reaching Back a 5-CD boxed-set retrospective. Not one to stand still though and with “Madame Muse” on his heels, Steve is “reaching forward” with this new collection.
Born in Liverpool and raised in the Midlands, Steve has been quietly ploughing his own artistic furrow, turning out quality albums since the early 70s; again it has born fruit with the masterful new album. In the past he has toured as guitarist with Ballet Rambert, as a member of Ship of Fools, with John Renbourn and more recently with WAZ! He is a celebrated artist both in Britain and abroad, winning accolades in Europe, Australia and the USA, where "Here's to Tom Paine," has been chosen as the theme song for the Tom Paine society of America.
Steve is one of the most engaging performers on the scene today.
“…in better form than I’ve ever heard him.” MIKE HARDING, BBC RADIO 2
"Gently intoxicating and uplifting stuff" MOJO MAGAZINE, UK
"His music has a flow and poignancy which makes it stand out from the plethora of singer-songwriters on the scene" GUITAR MAGAZINE, USA
"Steve is of that rare breed of singer, songwriter and guitarist who actually excels in all departments" FROOTS MAGAZINE, UK
"His songs are at once familiar, yet objects of wonder" RHYTHMS, AUS
COMMENTS ON "Of Many Hands"
"Classic songs sung & played beautifully.
A truly wonderful CD." - Mike Harding.
"100%- exactly what we've come to expect from Steve Tilston." - John Tams.
Enjoyed seeing and hearing you again at Banbury Folk Club t'other evening - sitting working on the PC now, sun shining in through the window whilst listening to Ziggurat....mmmm, lovely!
Travel safely - look forward to catching one of your shows again soon
You may like to check out my recently released book - 100 Great Albums. It's a 220 page review of the best music recorded during the period 1965-08 featuring the Beatles,Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Sex Pistols, Joy Division, U2, Nirvana, Radiohead, the Strokes and many more! Also, 500 vital album tracks are spotlighted (split between five categories... pre-1970, the 70's, 80's, 90's and 2000-08).
My aim is to prolong the existence of something close to my heart, something currently under severe threat from the download generation - The Album! With the modern world increasingly more interested in cherry-picking individual tracks, it seems to me a great shame that the sacred long-player is losing its importance. I'm on a mission to save the album before it's too late. All musicians, whether new or old to the scene, can appreciate the importance of that.
If you click on the button below you can access further details about the book (including an option to preview some of the content) before deciding whether you want to buy. All the best Andy.
Just a quick note (sort of a myspace round robin) to let people know there's a new song - Picturebook - on me profile. As always, any thoughts and comments are more than welcome.
thanks for the add, really enjoyed supporting you with The Floozies the other week in Bury.Thanks for the c.d, have been playing it on loop practically since:) Hope to see you sometime again Daisy:)
Hi, just dropping by to say hello and also hoping that you might check out the latest track to come out of ITG Productions in Poole. Great rates available for use of studio! Check us out! All the best, Martin.
