What was the first song you wrote? The Loneliest Boy In The World, I wrote it with my best friend from high school Bentley Rumble. When we were lads we had a band called Holly Golightly. I still play it live although it has morphed over the years.
Tell us about the new album. My new album is Twice I Fell Down Once. It was recorded with my band The Elizabethans in Los Angeles in 2016 and was mixed in Tel Aviv Israel. My last two albums were more of the singer/songwriter with extra musicians to help out. This one is more of a band feel as the three of us played the majority of the music, with a little extra help from some friends on percussion and such.
Any songwriting secrets to share? Carry a notebook and a recorder, and don’t worry if everyone doesn’t like or get what you do.
Tell us about the title of your new album. The title comes from something Woodie Guthrie’s daughter Cathy said to him once. She died in a house fire when she was very young and Woodie never got over it.
What is the song that changed your life? I was at a dinner party last week and someone asked what my favourite song was and I said Black Is The Colour, I became obsessed with the dark haired girl who so inspired the writer of this song hundreds of years ago.
