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We're All Idiots
I've been going through some photographs, looking for something. There are hundreds of them, all carefully archived and dated - Terry had...

Kate Clarke
Feb 13, 20212 min read
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Jack and that Beanstalk
I don't know why I think a song is a sacred thing, to be elevated and adored above almost everything else. Particularly a profane song....

Kate Clarke
Feb 3, 20211 min read
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Western Style
This might sound crazy, but bear with me. Terry had a beautiful Western shirt. He had a lot of those. I bought this one for him - he...

Kate Clarke
Jan 29, 20211 min read
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Terry Clarke Talks About Walk Like a King
Terry and I sat down for a chat about his album Walk Like a King, Songs For Dylan Thomas, while he was recording it. Here, he shares...

Kate Clarke
Jan 9, 20219 min read
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Night Ride to Birmingham
Just received a letter from someone Terry had good times with 50 years ago. They drove to Birmingham together in '68, in Dave's dad's...

Kate Clarke
Jan 3, 20211 min read
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Pictures and Paintings
It's an odd expression, isn't it, to 'get over' someone. I don't really know what it means. Do you get over a beautiful view, a great...

Kate Clarke
Jan 2, 20212 min read
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The Smell of The Whiskey
I dreamed of you again last night is it the Baileys I add to my coffee are you tempted home by the smell of the whiskey? It's you, so...

Kate Clarke
Dec 17, 20201 min read
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Jewellery, Windows and Wine
If you don't get a Christmas card from me I can only apologise. I have never sent one in my life. Terry did all of that stuff. He was the...

Kate Clarke
Dec 16, 20202 min read
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Soft-Soaping Swindler
The hysteria has gone. I've been dreading this. At least I still have the intermittent horror to cling to. I know what you're thinking:...

Kate Clarke
Dec 7, 20201 min read
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Walk Like A King
I'm very happy to release Terry's album, Walk Like a King: Songs For Dylan Thomas. It is the last one he recorded with Wes McGhee and...

Kate Clarke
Dec 6, 20203 min read
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Review: Walk Like a King, Songs for Dylan Thomas
A review from Country Music People. I wonder if this is the first time Frankie Vaughan, Dave Edmunds and Johnny Cash have been mentioned...

Kate Clarke
Dec 5, 20201 min read
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Walk Like a King Review
"It would be a pointless exercise to attempt to describe all sixteen tracks on this album. They range across seventy years and both sides...

Kate Clarke
Dec 4, 20201 min read
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The Wicked Witch of the West
The vast sea of ex-journalists who are trying to scratch a living out here, put their cuttings and old interviews on their blogs, don't...

Kate Clarke
Nov 26, 20202 min read
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Those Clarke Boys
I may have said this before, I lose track. When Terry's son, Joseph, visited us, there was a ritual. They would come into the house,...

Kate Clarke
Nov 16, 20201 min read
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Listen Less
We hiked a lot when we were kids Dorset or Cornwall, on holiday with another family A brood of boys, mum, and me Their dad, Ted, a...

Kate Clarke
Nov 14, 20201 min read
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Enjoy Every Sandwich
An old friend of Terry's sent me this photo, with the message: 'A picture of your beautiful man having his breakfast on the Rio Grande,...

Kate Clarke
Nov 6, 20202 min read
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Trailers For Sale or Rent
I don't do much socialising. My mother worries about it. If I go to a gathering it tends to be a business event and I'm there for my...

Kate Clarke
Nov 5, 20202 min read
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Danny Kaye
It shouldn't have come as a shock, that this grief so resembles a love affair. Could there be this deep well of loss, if love hadn't...

Kate Clarke
Oct 30, 20201 min read
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Big Road, The Caithness Sessions
The sleeve notes to Terry Clarke's album: Big Road, The Caithness Sessions. During August 2005 I toured as part of The Unholy Trinity...

Kate Clarke
Oct 30, 20203 min read
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Mother Indigo
Terry Clarke's sleevenotes from his 1999 release, Mother Indigo, on Gadfly Records. Chris Britton's Wired Studios... ....just over the...

Kate Clarke
Oct 29, 20204 min read
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