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22/3: Gigs page updated today.

 

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The link below will take you to an interview Gary recently did with Alan White who runs a very comprehensive website covering pretty much all areas of the Blues. Alan is a true enthusiast and very supportive of all UK gigging blues players  www.earlyblues.com/blues%20interviews%20list.htm  (copy & paste into a separate browser window).
 
When the GFB play Twickenham's legendary Eel Pie Club on Weds May 27th the band will be augmented by a good friend of Gary's, Mark Feltham, on harmonica. Mark's 'day-job' is working with his ace R&B band Nine Below Zero' which together with guitarist Dennis Greaves he formed way back in 1976. In addition to this, Mark spent several years in the late, great Rory Gallagher's band and has toured playing with Oasis and numerous other heavy hitters.

 

26/10: Gary with Bob Harris.  The radio interview & live session he did on Bob's show recently will follow shortly.  A transcript can be read here.

 

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.

The Bob Harris Show, Radio 2, 25 June 2007

Gary Fletcher : Human Spirit

"Some great names on this album and it's excellent."

"Very pleasantly Mark Knopflerish."  (track played : Payback).

 

 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

 

Lancashire Telegraph, 22 June 2007

GARY FLETCHER : Human Spirit (Universal)  LONGTIME Blues Band bassist Gary Fletcher makes his solo debut after 25 years - and if you like understated, quality R&B it’s been worth the wait. Boasting a who’s who of R&B, it’s a subtle offering a little reminiscent of Dire Straits when they were good.  Some real quality.   JOHN ANSON