Steve Gibbons:
The Dylan Project - The First Two Albums
Available May 1st 2008
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New CD:
Nelson - Somewhere
Available Now
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New Release:
The Steve Gibbons Band : Ridin' Out the Dark (Live in Hamburg 1990)
Road Goes On Forever Records are proud to work with Steve Gibbons. 2007 is the tenth anniversary of our relationship with Steve, and we are pleased to mark the anniversary with another reissue from his back catalogue, the ninth album in a continuing series which now includes three double albums and three single albums. More info...
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New Release:
Pete Dodds & Rudy's Music Shop: The Colour Blue a new project which features two very experienced musicians whose past includes involvement with such names as The Beatles, Sting, Madonna, etc., and an as yet unknown young music graduate. More info...
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New Release:
The Peter Donegan Band : Live at the Elephant
Featuring the songs of Lonnie Donegan, performed by a new band featuring his sons, David and Peter. 24 tracks, including Rock Island Line, Midnight Special, Lost John & The Battle of New Orleans. more info...
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New Book:
Northstars
Featuring original interviews with and chapters on (among others) Eric Burdon & John Steel (Animals), Eliza Carthy, David Coverdale, Bryan Ferry, Brian Johnson (AC/DC), Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits), Rod Clements (Lindisfarne), Jez Lowe, Hank Marvin & Bruce Welch (Shadows), Paddy McAloon (Prefab Sprout), John Miles, PJ & Duncan (Ant & Dec), Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), Sting, and Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys), 'Northstars' is a book in which interviews by Chris Phipps for Tyne Tees Television have been used as the basis for expanded chapters written by John Tobler and/or Sid Smith on a substantial number of notable musicians whose roots are in the North East.
The 256 page book illustrated with mostly unseen photographs is published in collaboration with ITV Tyne Tees by Zymurgy Publishing of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 'Northstars' is available from RGF Records for £14 (UK) and £15 (non-UK) including postage and packing. How to order |
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In the Press:
RGF featured in Record Collector Magazine
Label of Love - In business since 1992, The Road Goes on Forever has a shadowy link with Zigzag, the 1970s rock periodical co-founded by John Tobler, noted writer and broadcaster, battle-hardened by decades in the record industry. As agreeable a fusion of humour and seriousness as you could hope to read, Zigzag adapted itself to the latest trends with more than enough inegrity to weather glam, pub-rock and, finally, punk.
Each Road Goes on Forever release, whether a retrospective or a new collection, has reflected Tobler's overall preference as sometime editor of Zigzag for musicianly artists with understated images. After hitting the road with albums from Steve Ashley, The Strawbs and (something of a coup) Fairport Convention, all signposts seem seemed to point towards folk and acoustic singer-songwriters via offerings by the likes of Ralph McTell, Carolyn Hester, Bridget St. John, SHow of Hands and an intriguing duo of ex-settler Patty Vetta and Times journalist Alan Franks.
Other RGF signings have included Gentle Giant and Jackie McAuley (once of Them), though the flagship act has to be Steve Gibbons, who retains undimmed competence as a composer and delivers performances that are as compelling as those from his optimum moment as a pop star in the late 1970s.
More recently, however, Tobler has been shop-windowing entertainers local to his present home in the north-east, most conspicuously on Angels of the North, the first in a series of samplers from a company that remains motivated as much by personal zeal as financial gain.
Alan Clayson
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