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Please use the menu at the top of each page to find your way around.
On this site you will find articles, reviews and interviews on Ralph McTell and his music, including a comprehensive
We try to keep up to date on Tour News where possible.
If you have any articles, interviews or reviews, perhaps you could let us know. We are particularly looking for articles from 70s publications, such as Melody Maker, Sounds, New Musical Express and Folk Roots, along with any articles from the national and local press.
If you would like to add a Review of a Ralph McTell concert you have attended, or of a favourite McTell album, then email it to us and we will add it to the appropriate page.
We plan to send short email updates out from time to time, with any current news – Radio appearances, Tour amendments etc. If you would like an update, please let us know. You don’t have to be in the UK for this – it will just keep you up to date with what Ralph is up to.
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Ralph has started a journal on his website in which he discusses the artistic progress of his next studio CD.
Ralph says, "I have decided to keep you informed as to my progress or lack of it as we move into record mode. I will try to explain how decisions are made and how I arrive at the treatment a song gets."
In his blog, Ralph reveals that the CD is to be called "Somewhere Down The Road", and that he has worked on the following titles in the studio - of which 14 have progressed to the final mixing stage:
'Cannabis Creek', 'Reverend Thunder', 'The Break of the Union', 'Lantern Slides', 'Citizen Kane', 'The London Apprentice', 'A Sunny Day', 'Kettle Woblins', 'Somewhere Down the Road', 'Moon June and a Cajun Tune', 'Rosa Linda', 'The Ghost of Robert Johnson', 'Walk into the Morning', 'The Girl on the Jersey Ferry', 'Bed Bug Blues', 'Around the Wild Cape Horn' and 'A Kiss in the Rain'.
Breaking news (19 July 2010): "I have now had the songs in running order for a week or so and after a slight volume level change on 'Moon June and a Cajun Tune' all mixes will stay as they are. John Cornfield mastered them over this weekend and they will be sent off to the pressing plant once the art work is finished."
You can read the whole of the journal as it unfolds on Ralph's website.
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Revelation Films is releasing a DVD of 'Tickle on the Tum' Series One on 23rd August 2010. Series Two will follow later.
Sarah Watkins, who is part of the production and marketing team involved in the release, is looking for as many different extras as possible to go with the DVDs. She hopes to include the short interview we did with producer Martyn Day.
More details when we get them...
You can pre-order the DVD from several webshops. The cheapest we have found are at HMV and Amazon - a snip at £5.99 including postage to UK addresses.
__________________________________________________________ Ralph McTell - Backstage with James Taylor at the Brighton Centre, March 31st, 2003
My thanks to Iconic Music for sharing this image with me. From left to right the shot features Ralph, Jacqui McShee (Pentangle), James Taylor, Dave Pegg (Fairport) and Gerry Conway (Fairport and Pentangle).
Please note this picture is © Rob Beattie. Please do not reproduce this image anywhere else without permission from Rob. Check out Rob's Web Site. __________________________________________________________
