Gary's second solo album, long awaited by many fans, has now been released on the BGO label (BGO CD780) and is available to purchase both in the shops & online via this site, Amazon and many others.  Already featured on Bob Harris's Radio 2 Saturday night show, with an interview & session scheduled with Bob for 28 July, the CD contains 12 tracks and incorporates the talents of Rob Townsend from The Blues Band on drums, John Evans on lead guitar, and Gary's son, Jack Fletcher, on bass.  The album is co-produced by Gary and Bill Gautier, with additional mixing assistance from Dennis Greaves, and also features the superb musicianship of Bernie Marsden & Micky Moody from Whitesnake, Dennis Greaves & Mark Feltham from Nine Below Zero, Paul Jones & Dave Kelly from The Blues Band, Steve Simpson, Lou Stonebridge & Bill Gautier.  Sleeve design is by Bill Smith.  Sound clips are available on the Shop page.

 Dorset Echo, 6 July 2007

It’s back to the stereo for the last item under the microscope this week, namely the Human Spirit album by Blues Band bassist and mainstay Gary Fletcher. Perhaps less celebrated than some of his more high-profile bandmates, Fletcher has nevertheless been quietly nurturing a rather profound songwriting talent for some years now, and the album is a low-key but absorbing triumph. Using blues music as a jumping-off point, Fletcher deftly avoids any of the stylistic limitations to which the genre is often prone by keeping the melody quotient high and the lyrical content sincere. Like a more credible Mark Knopfler or a more animated J J Cale, this is rootsy fare with impeccably underplayed musicianship, at its most effective on emotive songs such as Solanki’s Knife, about the surgeon who saved Fletcher’s son’s life.   MARCO ROSSI