Pete Morton Congratulations.

Subject: Pete Morton Congratulations.
From: Acorn4
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 10:48 AM

Pete and his partner Victoria now have a baby son, Arthur Leon Peter born a couple of days ago and weighing in at 8lb 3oz. There are quite a lot of messages on Pete's Facebook page - congratulations to them both. Expect some great new songs !

Subject: RE: Pete Morton Congratulations.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 11:03 AM

congratulations to parents & new baby!

Subject: RE: Pete Morton Congratulations.
From: alanabit
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 11:30 AM

Wonderful news! Thanks for posting.

Subject: RE: Pete Morton Congratulations.
From: GUEST, Tom Bliss
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 12:40 PM

Then he is indeed The Luckiest Man (you're related to me!)

Hugs

Tom

Subject: RE: Pete Morton Congratulations.
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 01:54 PM

Very best wishes from the guy you met Pete, at Grantham Festival Songwriter clinic.

Congratulations!

Subject: RE: Pete Morton Congratulations.
From: MAG
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 02:27 PM

make sure to get him a bike w/ training wheels --

Subject: RE: Pete Morton Congratulations.
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 02:38 PM

Well done and congratulations Pete and Victoria. I remeber Pete coming to Swinton for the first time - He wasn't much older than Arthur Leon Peter :-)

All the best from all at Swinton

Dave.

Subject: RE: Pete Morton Congratulations.
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 02:42 PM

Thanks Acorn4 for letting us know - and I've sent a message to Pete on Facebook.

Kitty

PS Hope to catch up with you and J at a festival soonish...

Subject: RE: Pete Morton Congratulations.
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 05:29 PM

Yes, yes! Congratulations!

Subject: RE: Pete Morton Congratulations.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Sep 20 - 05:45 PM

I saw Pete Morton perform at Whitby, so I've always assumed him to be English. But so many of his songs sound American. Where's he from?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Pete Morton Congratulations.
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 27 Sep 20 - 08:42 PM

Leicester
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Morton#Biography


Definitely English ,,,, here he is chatting with Maggie Boyle
https://youtu.be/zUj51D6aEZY?t=50s

Subject: RE: Pete Morton Congratulations.
From: Vic Smith
Date: 28 Sep 20 - 06:25 AM

That sounds strange to me, Joe. I always think of Pete as an arche-typal English performer.
You may have been sitting behind me at that concert in Whitby. You certainly were at one Whitby concert.

Subject: RE: Pete Morton Congratulations.
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 28 Sep 20 - 12:08 PM

https://youtu.be/j7PnGq7Da_g?t=51s

I quite often hear if in him Joe.
It not always the case but this one shows him sounding Americanised to me.
I couldn't explain it but I think his delivery style sounds American too.

[Haven't we got another thread about British artists singing in Ameraccent?]

Subject: RE: Pete Morton Congratulations.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Sep 20 - 12:49 PM

Mind you, I saw him perform only once at Whitby, in 2002, back when I was young and cute. And I'm an old man now and my memory's imperfect - but I THINK it was Pete Coe and I thought he was English, but he sounded very American to me. I loved that recording you linked to, Freddy. The Irish performers I was hearing about the same time also sounded American - singing country music with a twang.

Nobody's trying to be American these days. We've lost whatever good reputation we had.


-Joe-

Subject: RE: Pete Morton Congratulations.
From: Anne Lister
Date: 28 Sep 20 - 04:51 PM

Joe, Pete Coe and Pete Morton are very definitely English, and also very different individuals! And both have songwriting styles which are also very idiosyncratic and not American. Had you perhaps supped freely of fine ale at Whitby?