Kate Clarke
Tiresome, Posturing Pricks
I have finished reading everything in Terry's 'immediate stack' of books - the one that sits at the edge of the dining room table, that...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 25, 20211 min read
Ninety Percent
I guess all parents know this, but I had no idea, that most of life’s enjoyment comes from watching someone else’s; Laughing at some...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 24, 20213 min read
Steve Gibbons
There's a petition going around to get Steve Gibbons a star on the Birmingham Walk of Fame. While they are at it can someone get him a...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 20, 20215 min read
Rome, Johnny Mercer, Johnnie Ray
An archive Terry Clarke Interview from an Italian publication, Late For The Sky by Fabrizio Pezzoli, after a tour of Italy. (April 2001)...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 16, 20214 min read
Green Voodoo
Notes on the songs, by Terry Clarke October, November 2001 ... Merel Bregante & Sarah Pierce Cribworks Digital Audio studio in the Shoal...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 16, 20212 min read
The New Van Casts His Spell
Review by Nick Dalton, Daily Express, 2002 Terry Clarke is the new Van Morrison. He's a man who starts with the basics of Irish music and...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 8, 20211 min read
Early Days
Here's an early interview with Terry, before his first album, Call Up a Hurricane , was released. The piece was written by David...
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Kate Clarke
May 15, 20212 min read
Arrest This Moment
I'm reading that book about Michael Marra that I bought for you but you hadn't yet read. 'From Kate, Easter 2018' - you always wrote the...
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Kate Clarke
May 9, 20213 min read
Mario Ferlito
Terry wrote this piece for his website in 2006 about Mario Ferlito: The song Mario Ferlito was written shortly after my wife and I moved...
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Kate Clarke
Apr 25, 20211 min read
Brief Encounters
They won't remember me now, those people who did a small thing to nudge me towards a way out, and a better way of living. Dave Kett, who...
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Kate Clarke
Apr 22, 20214 min read
Cal Vincent
Terry wrote this piece on his website, March 2, 2017. Back in the day, Cal looked like Elvis Presley's older brother who might have been...
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Kate Clarke
Apr 6, 20212 min read
A Year
It's been a year, doll. Or it might be an hour, a month, or just a few minutes. Everything's changed and nothing has changed and I have...
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Kate Clarke
Mar 20, 20213 min read
West Highland Blues
Terry wrote this piece about his West Highland Blues album, which is now out on Bandcamp, while he was working on it.....Many thanks to...
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Kate Clarke
Mar 19, 20211 min read
A Year
April has quietly set her traps laced my path with snags and hooks; the heat and damp rises in my old crying field the sunlight slants on...
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Kate Clarke
Mar 18, 20211 min read
What’s Her Name?
On meeting another dog-walker, a little embarrassed, we’d say: “Vera, but we didn’t choose it for her.” And it is the name of a sturdy...
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Kate Clarke
Mar 17, 20211 min read
Walk Like a King - Rock & Reel Review
Thanks to Alan Clayson for this heartfelt review of Terry's Walk Like a King: Songs for Dylan Thomas. "...certain lines, instanced by:...
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Kate Clarke
Feb 17, 20212 min read
A Red Coat, A Red Apple
I've spent a few days back and forth to the hospital. It's the same one Terry and I went when he had a heart issue a couple of years ago....
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Kate Clarke
Feb 13, 20212 min read
We're All Idiots
I've been going through some photographs, looking for something. There are hundreds of them, all carefully archived and dated - Terry had...
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Kate Clarke
Feb 3, 20211 min read
Jack and that Beanstalk
I don't know why I think a song is a sacred thing, to be elevated and adored above almost everything else. Particularly a profane song....
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Kate Clarke
Jan 29, 20211 min read
Western Style
This might sound crazy, but bear with me. Terry had a beautiful Western shirt. He had a lot of those. I bought this one for him - he...
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