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LATEST NEWS :
12/8 : GIGS page updated today.
12/1: GIGS page updated today, to include those of The Hard Travelers, featuring Dave Sharp, Henry McCullough, Zoot Money & Colin Allen, with whom Gary will be playing some dates during 2008. More info here: www.hardtravelers.org/
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22/7: Gary was extremely sorry that due to the extreme flooding he was unable to play the Upton upon Severn festival today, and wishes all those affected by the floods generally a speedy return to normality.
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
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