Around 1987 Martin Cilia and I started working on a number of country style songs as I loved the then “modern” country of Garth Brooks et al.  I think we came up with a number of really good songs but we’ve never recorded them (except as demos – although Martin recorded one with a band of his on cd)  Unfortunately some of them my voice just doesn’t suit – don’t have that smooth molasses Randy Travis tone and can’t pitch like Garth. A few though worked very well, maybe one day some big artist will record them. Get in touch if you’re a country artist looking for material and we can send you a demo. Here’s one of the songs, which we played live a couple of times including Tamworth.

ALL BECAUSE OF YOU

Pool balls stop a clickin’

When you walk through that door

Quiet men start talking

Like they never talked before

My heart starts a pounding

Like a big b52

Everything’s astounding

All because of you

It snows in middle summer

It floods in desert plains

They’re sailing boats through sand-dunes

Where there never been no rain

And I start buying flowers

And knowing each perfume

Something weird keeps happening

Every time you’re in the room

All because of you

All because of you

This whole world is different

All because of you

All because of you

The air I taste is sweet

All because of you

I’m suddenly complete

At nights I do not want to sleep

There’s so much there to do

And every little bit I want to

Do that bit with you

All because of you

All because of you

This whole world is different

All because of you

This whole world is different

All because of you