Bob Bell continues the story of his road journey, hunting down the music of the USA in 1980
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Bob Bell continues the story of his road journey, hunting down the music of the USA in 1980
Bob Bell heads for Jackson - or at least he did in 1980n when he was hitch-hiking across America
In this excerpt Bob Bell hitches his way north to Wyoming 40 long years ago….
In this episode of Bob Bell’s Letters From America the English hitch-hiking rolling stone visits the Grand Canyon
Bob Bell continues his 1980 journey hitch-hiking across North America while searching out the music which changed the world
James Crowden - poet, author and all-round splendid fellow - is celebrating the launch of his amazing book The Frozen River this week. This account of village life in the high Himalayas over 40 years ago is, I think, one of the finest tomes ever to come out of the English West Country
Another episode in Bob Bells diaries from 1980 when he hitch-hiked across America looking for good music
Another episode in Bob Bell’s beautifully written account of hitch-hiking through the USA in 1980
In Part 5 of his memoirs of hitch-hiking across North America in 1980, Bob Bell recounts the long rides that took him across the giant State of Texas
Episode from Bob Bell’s 1980 diaries in which he sets of to hitch-hike through bayou-country to Texas
Bob Bell’s Journals from 1980 continue with his explorations of the New Orleans music scene
In the second episode taken from his extraordinary diaries of life on the American road, Bob Bell recalls how 40 years ago he took The Crescent line to New Orleans to discover the music of the South
This page introduces a new series based on the diaries and notes of Bob Bell, a British blues band manager who toured the USA for a quarter of a century with Roomful of Blues, one of the most iconic R&B bands on the planet