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Berkshire Beat, Terracotta Streets and River Songs
Here's an interview I did with Terry for the Reading Chronicle in May 2004, before we got together - a few days after we met, in fact....

Kate Clarke
Jul 29, 20214 min read


Dowsing
I had a boyfriend once, who was one of those Led Zeppelin fans into cheesecloth shirts, the Solstice, castle ruins, standing stones....

Kate Clarke
Jul 27, 20211 min read


Deke Leonard
Here's an interview I did in 2006 with Deke Leonard. I won't make a habit of posting my back-pages but I'm sharing this one because I...

Kate Clarke
Jul 21, 20215 min read


Tiresome, Posturing Pricks
I have finished reading everything in Terry's 'immediate stack' of books - the one that sits at the edge of the dining room table, that...

Kate Clarke
Jul 18, 20212 min read


Ninety Percent
I guess all parents know this, but I had no idea, that most of life’s enjoyment comes from watching someone else’s; Laughing at some...

Kate Clarke
Jun 25, 20211 min read


Steve Gibbons
There's a petition going around to get Steve Gibbons a star on the Birmingham Walk of Fame. While they are at it can someone get him a...

Kate Clarke
Jun 24, 20213 min read


Rome, Johnny Mercer, Johnnie Ray
An archive Terry Clarke Interview from an Italian publication, Late For The Sky by Fabrizio Pezzoli, after a tour of Italy. (April 2001)...

Kate Clarke
Jun 20, 20215 min read


Green Voodoo
Notes on the songs, by Terry Clarke October, November 2001 ... Merel Bregante & Sarah Pierce Cribworks Digital Audio studio in the Shoal...

Kate Clarke
Jun 16, 20214 min read


The New Van Casts His Spell
Review by Nick Dalton, Daily Express, 2002 Terry Clarke is the new Van Morrison. He's a man who starts with the basics of Irish music and...

Kate Clarke
Jun 16, 20212 min read


Early Days
Here's an early interview with Terry, before his first album, Call Up a Hurricane , was released. The piece was written by David...

Kate Clarke
Jun 8, 20211 min read


Arrest This Moment
I'm reading that book about Michael Marra that I bought for you but you hadn't yet read. 'From Kate, Easter 2018' - you always wrote the...

Kate Clarke
May 15, 20212 min read


Mario Ferlito
Terry wrote this piece for his website in 2006 about Mario Ferlito: The song Mario Ferlito was written shortly after my wife and I moved...

Kate Clarke
May 9, 20213 min read


Brief Encounters
They won't remember me now, those people who did a small thing to nudge me towards a way out, and a better way of living. Dave Kett, who...

Kate Clarke
Apr 25, 20211 min read


Cal Vincent
Terry wrote this piece on his website, March 2, 2017. Back in the day, Cal looked like Elvis Presley's older brother who might have been...

Kate Clarke
Apr 22, 20214 min read


A Year
It's been a year, doll. Or it might be an hour, a month, or just a few minutes. Everything's changed and nothing has changed and I have...

Kate Clarke
Apr 6, 20212 min read


West Highland Blues
Terry wrote this piece about his West Highland Blues album, which is now out on Bandcamp, while he was working on it.....Many thanks to...

Kate Clarke
Mar 20, 20213 min read


A Year
April has quietly set her traps laced my path with snags and hooks; the heat and damp rises in my old crying field the sunlight slants on...

Kate Clarke
Mar 19, 20211 min read


What’s Her Name?
On meeting another dog-walker, a little embarrassed, we’d say: “Vera, but we didn’t choose it for her.” And it is the name of a sturdy...

Kate Clarke
Mar 18, 20211 min read


Walk Like a King - Rock & Reel Review
Thanks to Alan Clayson for this heartfelt review of Terry's Walk Like a King: Songs for Dylan Thomas. "...certain lines, instanced by:...

Kate Clarke
Mar 17, 20211 min read


A Red Coat, A Red Apple
I've spent a few days back and forth to the hospital. It's the same one Terry and I went when he had a heart issue a couple of years ago....

Kate Clarke
Feb 17, 20212 min read
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