Howard

Thanks for kind remark about my lyrics. I remember Sidney blowing that horn, whilst at the same time wearing a British Army helmet of Boer War vintage. I also remember him being bodily picked up and moved out of the way by Noel Murphy when he was there.

I met a bloke the other day at a folk festival in Lechlade who used to go to the Molly Miller. It all seems so long ago.

More lyrics from that song:

Its more than 35 years past
We'd travel by the train
Down to the Molly Miller Inn
Down Molly Millers Lane
We brought guitars and banjos
We came to smoke and booze
We came to change the universe
By singing folk and blues

Then the chorus, Bill Boazman sang...etc...


I guess that single of yours is a bit of a collectors item now. I have Mike Cooper's "Oh Really" which reflects the type of music he was playing in the Molly Miller era. I'd kill to get a recording of Bill Boazman around that time. He did a great version of "Blues run the game" as I remember.

I used to go to the guitar basement of Hickies music shop in Reading around 1966, just to hang around. Mike Cooper would be in there as often as not, and I learnt quite a lot from listening to him. He was a few years older than me, and I was a bit intimidated by the mean moustache, boots and flying jacket persona to be honest, but I was surprised what a nice, easy going bloke he was.

I used to have a bash at playing in clubs myself at that time, though I had terrible stage fright. I used to do Candy Man, which was almost compulsory then. I took up playing again in my late 30s, and have played in bands and solo ever since. What the Boazmans and Coopers could learn in a few weeks would take me about 15 years, but I keep developing my music slowly.


Cheers


Good to talk to you again

Terry