Trailer Star Catalogue Online

From 2001 – 2011 which exactly ten years I recorded a series of lo-fi mini-messes or masterpieces depending on your taste. Inspired by Townes Van Zandt,  Johnny Dowd, Daniel Johnston,  Lucinda Williams, Grant McLennan and Pete Astor I half sang/croaked my poetic lyrics over some ramshackle and rudimentary backings. The results are now complete and… Continue reading Trailer Star Catalogue Online

Trailer Star complete – the boxset

Inspired by Pete Astor’s songbox project I have put the three Trailerstar discs together in the Suit of Nettles Art Show box. Each CD individually hand drawn. Very limited and available for £10 plus post and packing of £2.00 All tracks available for FREE download at Bandcamp http://trailerstar.bandcamp.com/

Moon Over the Downs revisited….

This wonderful set of renditions of my lyrics came out in 2003 and pretty quickly sank in the quicksands of the music ‘bizness’. All the artists volunteered their tracks by MP3 and Kris and Joe of Cicero Buck tied it all together on Super Tiny Records and that was it basically….various artists records, let alone… Continue reading Moon Over the Downs revisited….

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American Songwriter pick…

Trailer Star’s track Johnny Rush is featured on the front page of American Sonwriter magazine’s website…..alongside Pete Molinari…..maybe he’s the old Molinari…. http://www.americansongwriter.com/

Painted Spoken Review

Painted Spoken (London) Shaun Belcher’s unique creation Trailer Star appears on two albums, store the first by Trailer Star himself, buy Suit of Nettles. The second is a beautiful tribute album, Moon Over the Downs on Super Tiny Records, dedicated to the tragic victim of a automobile accident “on a deserted downland bend high above… Continue reading Painted Spoken Review

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Songs Illinois!

Chuffed to bits to be included in Songs Illinois music blog ( one of the best in my opinion) This is what they had to say…see full entry ( alongside Ron Sexsmith…one of my heroes how cool is that 🙂 http://www.songsillinois.net I’m always talking the talk about over-produced records and how something lofi is usually ultimately… Continue reading Songs Illinois!