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Kate Clarke
Feb 11, 20222 min read
Music Wednesday
I had those videos digitised The ones that sat in a slouching stack. “Yeah, I must get around to that," you said. Too late – they’re...
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Kate Clarke
Jan 23, 20221 min read
Moon Songs
Terry wrote more moon songs than anyone I know. He loved other people's moon songs too, particularly that heartbreaker from Jimmy Webb....
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Kate Clarke
Aug 15, 20212 min read
Gladiolus
As soon as they came into season Terry would buy gladiolus - for me, for the house, for those audacious colours, but mostly because they...
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Kate Clarke
Jul 29, 20214 min read
Berkshire Beat, Terracotta Streets and River Songs
Here's an interview I did with Terry for the Reading Chronicle in May 2004, before we got together - a few days after we met, in fact....
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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 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
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
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 9, 20219 min read
Terry Clarke Talks About Walk Like a King
Terry and I sat down for a chat about his album Walk Like a King, Songs For Dylan Thomas, while he was recording it. Here, he shares...
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Kate Clarke
Jan 3, 20211 min read
Night Ride to Birmingham
Just received a letter from someone Terry had good times with 50 years ago. They drove to Birmingham together in '68, in Dave's dad's...
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Kate Clarke
Jan 2, 20212 min read
Pictures and Paintings
It's an odd expression, isn't it, to 'get over' someone. I don't really know what it means. Do you get over a beautiful view, a great...
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Kate Clarke
Dec 17, 20201 min read
The Smell of The Whiskey
I dreamed of you again last night is it the Baileys I add to my coffee are you tempted home by the smell of the whiskey? It's you, so...
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Kate Clarke
Dec 16, 20202 min read
Jewellery, Windows and Wine
If you don't get a Christmas card from me I can only apologise. I have never sent one in my life. Terry did all of that stuff. He was the...
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Kate Clarke
Dec 6, 20203 min read
Walk Like A King
I'm very happy to release Terry's album, Walk Like a King: Songs For Dylan Thomas. It is the last one he recorded with Wes McGhee and...
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Kate Clarke
Dec 5, 20201 min read
Review: Walk Like a King, Songs for Dylan Thomas
A review from Country Music People. I wonder if this is the first time Frankie Vaughan, Dave Edmunds and Johnny Cash have been mentioned...
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