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I had those videos digitised The ones that sat in a slouching stack. “Yeah, I must get around to that," you said. Too late – they’re...

Kate Clarke
Feb 11, 20222 min read
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Moon Songs
Terry wrote more moon songs than anyone I know. He loved other people's moon songs too, particularly that heartbreaker from Jimmy Webb....

Kate Clarke
Jan 23, 20221 min read
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Gladiolus
As soon as they came into season Terry would buy gladiolus - for me, for the house, for those audacious colours, but mostly because they...

Kate Clarke
Aug 15, 20212 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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