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Posted By: FreddyHeadey
06-Feb-25 - 07:57 AM
Thread Name: Search 4 tape: Mick Stuart - Thankyou My Friends
Subject: RE: Search 4 tape: Mick Stuart - Thankyou My Friends
fwiw (I see Andy has already commented there)
Theres a 2011 blog with some YouTube links at Coventry Music Scene Archive
Mick Stuart - Coventry Acoustic Blues player


"Mick Stuart, who was very active on the Coventry
folk scene for many years played a mixture of classic blues songs (with impressive guitar arrangements), including 'Nobody Knows You When You're
Down and Out' and his own songs (including 'Sweet Young and Lovely' if I remember the title correctly).
Mick moved away from Coventry for a few years to live near family in Devon, then returned and ran his own club here for several years. He left again around three years ago although the club (Styvechale Folk Club) is still run by former regulars. It's a shame he never made a bigger name for himself. But he did record a few cassettes with the help of local fans and home studios." (Photo shows Mick Stuart Swain outside Gretna Street Coventry May 1967 Photo by Paul Kennelly).


"Mick Stuart is another friend of mine from the Tuesday Coventry folk night at the Freemasons Tavern in Harnal Lane, where Jan Budd used to run it. It was a great night out there with the Marston Pedergre. Martin Jenkins played every week there with a band.... Roddy Felton was always there holding the bar up.
On a Thursday it was the Coventry Blues Club, which i ran for about three years.
I played with The Traveling Riverside Blues Band there lots of times, and we use to pack the place out, and so did The DT's plus a few blues solo artists like Mick Stuart.......... They were great times........Mojo. "


https://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.com/2011/07/mick-stuart-coventry-acoustic-blues.html