Bob Bell embarks upon more memories of the US tour he did way back in the 19080s with the band Roomful of Blues - photo Joe Rosen
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Bob Bell embarks upon more memories of the US tour he did way back in the 19080s with the band Roomful of Blues - photo Joe Rosen
Bob Bell continues his recollections of touring the USA with the band Roomful of Blues, way back in the 1980s. As usual, Bob’s writing is a tour-de-force…
Bob Bell reminisces in a kind of beautiful prose poem his early boyhood days when he first fell in love with music - it’s what he’s thinking about as he drives across the great empty wastes of south and west USA…
Colin White continues his recollections, looking back at the technical wizardry - and the shortcuts - of his old Devon workplace in times past
More of Bob Bell’s remarkable memoirs of times out on the American highways with a touring band and plenty of bookings to go and gig - and all of them 100s miles apart
Continuing his Roomful of Blues Hot Little Mama tour of 1981 Bob Bell recalls reaching the West Coast and San Francisco
Tim Bannerman’s masterclass in glass continues with these fascinating thoughts on the most beautiful object in the world (at least, it was in Roman times), and how the very delicacy of glass can interweave between high politics and friendships
Bob Bell continues his memoirs of remarkable journeyings across the USA with the band Roomful of Blues in 1981
Bob Bell continues his memoirs of going out on the big American road with the band Roomful of Blues
Tim Bannerman is orchid hunting again - this time for the extremely illusive Military Orchid
Colin White recalls the kind of adventure teenagers have when they are young and head off into the Cornish countryside
Bob Bell continues with his recollections of the Roomful of Blues Hot Little Mamma Tour 1981
Tim Bannerman is still thinking about orchids, but they lead off down other avenues. This time it is an extraordinary road which takes him to the battlefields of France and memories of his father and grandfather and their astonishing experiences in both World War One and Two…
Bob Bell who was once production manager at Trojan Records recalls the loss of an amazing record archive
Tim Bannerman tells pub tales from Bampfylde Clump to far far beyond - the wonderful old inns of England and Wales way beyond the highways and towns…
Tim Bannerman continues his remarkable series outlining how and why he began to have a love affair with orchids
The second part of Bob Bell’s recollections of the Hot Little Mama Tour 1981
Writer and West Country boffin Colin White recalls a lecture he once gave in mid-Germany in midwinter
Cars and orchids? Sounds like an odd mix but in this article Tim Bannerman celebrates both