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The Long Road were formed with a single mad idea to go back to the source to explore and reimagine what might grow out of the great musical roots of USA; a crazy notion to try distil something original and powerful from the elements that made some of the most potent music ever heard by human ears. The band call it Moonshine Music: taking a few simple, authentic ingredients adding a little heat and magic to try to conjure up some rare, raw spirit.
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American Wilderness Odyssey Tour
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The stories behind the songs
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The Long Road to now...What makes a folk Song? Who decides? Who sets the rules? Who specifies the instruments? It is the oldest form of human expression, predating cave art, maybe even speech itself yet often it is now locked in a bell jar and labelled of a time and a place.
For The Long Road, folk music is simply the extraordinary stories of ordinary folk. It is alive and well, practiced all over the world, expressing the personal, close-to, experience of the writer and performer. Through craft, inspiration, a deep feeling for the raw materials used and commitment to the authentic and the real. Hence ‘artisan’. It is the antithesis of the programmed, digitised, big brother music that is the mainstream. They are committed members of the global brother and sisterhood carrying on the peripatetic tradition of the troubadour. Often unrecognised, sometimes not even aware of each other, they press on from the front line of life, singing how it is. Rise of the Artisan - or The Long Road to now. Filmed and edited by Kat Hodgkinson and Gemma Caldwell. Supported by Arts Council England. Recorded at Woodworm Studios, Banbury, UK. |
The Long Road
Moonshine? Take a few simple ingredients and conjure up some raw spirit... Take Americana, folk, country blues, the spirit of the trail, the hobo and the outlaw. Take three guys with a 100 years of performing all over the world between them and a mad passion to renew this beautiful dirt music. Three albums in (Reliance, The Girl with the Rattlesnake Heart and American Wilderness Odyssey - this is band on the move. Recipe: fry yourself up some country blues and Dr John; a slice or two of some Honky Tonk and Folk; a portion of Professor Longhair and some best quality Americana. Sprinkle in a finest ground Rock and a thicken with some slow voodoo and some of that fiery Cajun jazz and you’ve got a night to remember! |
Steve Bonham and The Bishop
Good-Time Music for a mixed-up world! Kickback, pour yourself a long one or a table full of small ones. Get your friends on board and listen to Steve Bonham and the Bishop (Christopher Lydon) and if you haven’t got any friends you soon will have. Let’s stir up the magic with great songs spanning the whole damned gamut from Louisiana to London, New Jersey to Newcastle, the Mississippi to the Mersey – stuff you’ve heard before and stuff you wish you had heard before. An evening or hell make it the morning, noon and night too, to let go and enjoy some toe-tapping, table-thumping, hand-clapping delight. A bit of country, a bit of swampy blues, some Stones, Springsteen and Dr John. You know it’s time for a gooooodddd-time |
Steve Bonham solo
Steve Bonham is a storyteller, a published author, an inveterate traveller, for decades a songwriter, performer and musician, and an award-winning psychologist. Born in Derbyshire, England, Steve studied psychology and philosophy at university. He has recorded more than 10 albums; written two musicals; and several books including his latest: A Beautiful Broken Dream. He is the author of the Vagabond Philosopher blog and proud member of The Long Road |
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