The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113921   Message #2426647
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish 1
31-Aug-08 - 04:40 AM
Thread Name: Mike Harding played my request
Subject: RE: Mike Harding played my request
"Reg Meuross has been around for the last quarter of a century, at the very least and I think Mike Harding, despite his dumbed down persona, has probably been aware of his work for rather longer than the past few weeks."



Mike Harding, talking about finding Reg's music...for the *first* time.

"....I also get a real kick at "discovering" new people - new to me at least. And these last few weeks I've been playing CDs by Reg Meuross and Lissa Schneckenburger because they're amongst the best things I've heard in a long while. Lissa Schneckenburger is a fabulous old-timey fiddler and singer while Reg Meuross is a home grown West Country lad who writes some quite amazing songs. The reaction after we played his And Jesus Wept on the programme last week was amongst the strongest we've had to anything we've ever played - we've been inundated with requests to hear more from his album Dragonfly..."