At the moment, and for the past few years, I've been working on my own doing live shows.
My fantastic brother Pete has mostly always been involved in the production , whether it's producer, co-producer, or just general arse kicker of samantha who takes bloody ages doing everything. Pete is very very talented and of course always right. He writes songs, plays brilliant guitar, mandolin, mandola. beautiful whistle, bass and has a voice not to be argued with.
i have another brother Richard, who is the most amazing drummer...and also writes great music, and who is an inspiration as a person.
Herbie Flowers, I'm privileged to say, has played bass with me periodically...if only I were 20 years older!
Also on bass over the years...Ed Poole, Ian Maidman( now Jennifer...love to hear from you x ), David Levy, oh dear...I can't remember everyone, anyway there's some.
the beautiful Carol Isaacs played keyboards with us for a while.
Mitt Gamen played harmonica with us in Australia wearing Full black leather regalia there in the summer....a leg end!!
Jakko Jacsyk, Gavin Harrison Phil Palmer, David Gilmore, oh yes, and
MY DAD....has played guitar, and fiddle and mandolin I believe.
MY DAD IS FANTASTIC!
....and, er, Jools....Mr. Fantastic... Holland!
Also my bestest friend Margo has sung with me forever, since before we were born....(and that is quite tricky I should say!)
Aitch McRobbie has sung, so has lovely Claudia Fontaine...er, Jim Capaldi, Phil Saatchi....I know I'm going to forget someone....Aaron McRobbie played bass. wow.there's more, but now my mind's gone blank...!
Influences
...my mum, Thelma Houston, Randy Newman, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Blondie, Lowell George and Little Feat , Stevland Morris, Pink Floyd, 10cc, Syreeta, Earth Wind and Fire, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, ...think I'll have to add to this later!
Hello.I seem to have been singing and writing songs for umpteen years now.I absolutely love my musical life. I've worked with lots of very wonderful people, and every single person has inspired me in one way or another.Music has taken me to many different places, physically and emotionally....playing and listening and feeling. Lucky me.
i play(just about!) piano, ukulele and bass, and I suppose in some way, my songs have been a narrative to my life.
and so the story goes... If you like my music you can buy it at www.sambrownshop.com...
Its been a while and we thought it was about time we updated you on what we've been up to. Our debut EP Little World is now available at our gigs and will soon be available from our myspace and facebook pages, you will also be able to download it from itunes, but we don't have a release date for this as yet.
To celebrate the fact that we have now reached 25,000 plays on myspace, we are giving you a free MP3 of Rockabye Baby. All you have to do is send your email address to queen.elvis@yahoo.ie and we will send it to you.
We have spent the last year rehearsing with a full band and are now ready to bring it on the road. You can get a look at us when we appear on Balcony TV this week with the full line up. We are currently taking bookings for gigs/concerts/festivals and can be contacted on the email above, or through our myspace and facebook pages.
Thankyou for your continued support in what has been a great year for us!
Just uncovered a rare old ukemonkey 78 'It's only a little chipolata'
recorded sometime between some wars off the end of Blackpool pier.
Hope you like it!
Loves ya,
ukemonkey
