Hi there Darryl

Sorry for the long wait to your questions in the thread on Raglan Road in Mudcat but I only recently came across the thread again

Thanks for the contribution, Bruce.
I'd love to hear just what was on the recording. The band allowed me to record two of their original numbers live at the Thurles Castle way back in the mid-80s. I have treasured that tape and have since transferred those recordings onto CD and also uploaded them as MP3s onto the SOULSEEK free file share site.
'O'Shaunessy's Fandango'
'Mandolin Road'
Who were the friends who tried to get the folk club going? Are they still in the area?
You can contact me more directly at darrylcowell50@gmail.com.au OR
at dsc4258@hotmail.co.uk
All this rare music deserves to be preserved. Someday, someone out there with taste and sensitivity will rediscover it - hopefully. I freely share as much rare material as I can. ocassionally there may be some copyright issues, but I believe in the current climate of disregard for the past and for the the wealth of insight and just pleasure that has been accumulated in creativity,the important thing is to preserve what there is left by dispersing it widely and introducing as many people to it as possible.
Anyway, thanks for the input. If yiu could get that music to me somehow I would be very grateful.
Darryl (Ratskelter)


My friend were Bob and Kerry Johnson, when they lived in Cowra, Bob was a house husband, and Kerry a Teacher in Cowra, they had move to Cowra as Kerry had gotten a teaching position there, this was in about 1985/86, after a couple of years, they moved to Greenethorpe to run the Hotel there, leaving sometime in 1989/2000 .

Before moving to Cowra, Bob and Kerry run a number of Folk Clubs around Sydney, including ones at the Australia Hotel, Agincourt Hotel, Cat & Fiddle, and at another Hotel in Balmain. They were a pair of mainly shanty singers often singing with Dave Alexander at Festivals round NSW from the late 70’s until they went to England in about 1984/6.

Unluckily I have lost contact with both when they separated. In the 1990’s.

Bruce D