New Album – The Latest News
Things are pretty hectic here at the moment.
The official release date for the new album ‘In My Life’ is August 24th. Proper Distribution will be distributing the album and it will be available in record shops, from Amazon and also available as Digital Downloads.
If you can’t wait that long it will also be available in a few days from my website, along with my other albums ‘Masquerades and Operas’ and ‘September Road’, and my Fiddle Tutor DVD.
Radio Sheffield Live interviewed me on Dave Eyre’s “Thank Goodness It’s Folk” show. The interview and preview tracks can be heard here
BBC Radio 2 are going to preview “In My Life” on Mike Harding’s show. We think it’s going to be on the show on the 15th of July.
I’ve just recorded an interview with BBC Radio Merseyside which will be broadcast when the album is released.
Looking For An Amp
I’ve been playing my Fender Squier Telecaster guitar through an old Woolworth’s “Audition” solid state amp. It must have been made in the late 60’s, I bought it years ago at a car boot sale.
My Squier sounded great through it, it was a bit like listening to an old car radio. I liked the cheap sound and I used the old amp at gigs.
Sound checks were always good for a laugh, watching the sound engineer search the amp for a line out, sometimes after I’d explained that there wasn’t one.
Recently I got an old Fender Telecaster and I had an old set of Seymore Duncan pick ups fitted. When I plugged into my old “Woolie’s” amp it sounded like it was permanently on the verge of feeding back. I’ve managed to tame the sound a bit, but at all volumes it’s on the edge and sounds really tinny.
A friend pointed out that Woolie’s Guitars weren’t very good and so my Woolie’s amp was probably designed to make cheap guitars sound good and can’t really cope with a good guitar with good quality pick ups.
I need to get an amp that will cope with my new old tele’, I want the old valve sound plus reverb. I’m looking at Vox AC 15’s at the moment, unless I pick up something special at a car boot sale . . .
Sheffield Live! Interview
Dave Eyre invited me into the studios of Radio Sheffield Live to do an interview and to preview “In My Life” on his show, “Thank Goodness It’s Folk”. We had a good natter and he played some tracks from the new CD.
Gina and Dave Eyre in the studio for "Thank Goodness it's Folk"
You can listen to the whole interview by clicking on the play button below.
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