One in the Eye: The Words and Photographs of Terry Cryer

Ian Clayton

Terry Cryer

Yorkshire Art Circus

Biographies & Memoirs

Entertaining Angels

History

Europe

Saint George's Church & Crypt

The author loves jazz, blues, rock, soul, the works.  He'll go virtually anywhere in the world for a positive musical experience: a festival in Ireland, a hole-in-the-wall in New Delhi, a record store in, well, anywhere. . . Sometimes charming, sometimes rambling."" Kirkus Reviews 11/15/07

Bringing It All Back Home

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Route

'Ian's book is brimming with laughter, tall stories, great memories and endless rounds of wonderful beer. It's also a call to arms to save this unique institution.' - Roger Protz, Editor Good Beer Guide 2000-2018 Where do we go to meet old friends? What is our first port of call when we want to show new mates something that speaks about our identity? The pub of course, or better still our local. Author Ian Clayton embarked on a lifelong love affair with local pubs in the middle of the 1970s. He has raised a glass in neighbourhood bars around the world for more than forty years. His stories are intertwined with quests to find perfect pints and peoples' palaces and about joining in with the joy he finds in the unique gathering place we call the public house. He moves across the generations and boundaries to take a glimpse at what makes the pub tick. Humorous and poignant by turns, It's The Beer Talking tells of the laughter, the tears, the cheers, the remembering and forgetting, but most of all the camaraderie we all crave. This book will resonate with anyone who as ever uttered that immortal phrase, 'Do you fancy a pint?'

It's The Beer Talking: Adventures in Public Houses

Professionals & Academics

Route Publishing

It's the swinging sixties and a young man leaves behind a humdrum Northern life and heads for London. He lands smack dab in the middle of Carnaby Street. Within months he is in a band and a year later he's invited to audition for Fairport Convention. He shares lead vocal duties first with Judy Dyble and then with Sandy Denny in perhaps the greatest line-up of that much loved band of folk-rock pioneers. In 1970, he forms Matthews Southern Comfort and has an international hit with an arrangement of Joni Mitchell's counter-culture classic 'Woodstock'. With the ultimate earworm still high in the charts, Iain walks out on the band and after just a few months of reflection, releases the classic album If You Saw Thro' My Eyes. Then with Andy Roberts, he puts together the highly revered Plainsong. They make just one LP, the critically acclaimed In Search of Amelia Earhart. Iain then takes the opportunity to move to California to pursue an interest in the emerging West Coast singer-songwriter movement. He criss-crosses the States for the next thirty years, first as a major label artist, initially with Elektra and then Columbia, and eventually as a latter day troubadour with a guitar and a pickup truck. Back in Europe since the turn of the millennium, Iain finally settles down with a wife and family but continues to pursue the muse. Still possessed of one of the greatest male singing voices Britain ever produced, Matthews is now in his sixth decade as a professional musician. He has written a compelling memoir of a life on the road, in the studio and at home. It's a story of music, journeys, life and what it does to us, through the eyes of one of our most enduring singer-songwriters.

Thro' My Eyes: A Memoir

Iain Matthews

Arts & Photography

Music

Book 9781901927870

Realms of the Kingdom Volume 2 Trading in the Heavens

Religion & Spirituality

Son of Thunder Publications

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