'Sunjay gets away with it.......'


words fail me. So typical mudcat. The utter negativity towards a boy scarcely 18 years.....

The real comparison is listening to 2o year old Eric Clapton fumbling his way through his firsttentative grasp of the pentatonic scale in the the Yardbirds albums. And frankly the mature Eric Clapton for the first three acoustic albums would scarcely have raised a flicker of interest - as one acoustic player I know said - take that down the folk club and the reaction would be ....so what!

I've seen Chris Smither. Woody Mann and I've heard Roy Bookbinder.

You have not a CLUE what you are talking about. I watched Sunjay play Seaton FC last week. Paul Downes, who was sitting next to me in the audience, looked at the queues that were surrounding Sunjay in the interval and said - I have never seen anything approaching that....

What makes Sunjay unique is that he is following a tradition. Not 'the tradtion - but a tradtion. The coffee bar cowboys - so despised by 'the traddies'. His style is defined not only by Chris Smither - but derek Brimstone, Gerry Lockran, Roger Brooks, Grossman (and with him comes all the major American black blues artists), Jack Hudson and I suppose myself.

Anyway are any of the people on your list doing free gigs in pubs or working at the bottom of the bill in festivals?

Getting away with it...you have no idea what it takes to become a Sunjay Brayne.