Reg Meuross
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Reg Meuross | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Reginald Lawrence Meuross |
| Born | 1953 Stockton-on-Tees |
| Genres | Folk music |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar, banjo, dulcimer, voice |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Labels | Hatsongs, Stockfisch Records |
| Website | http://www.regmeuross.com |
Reg Meuross is an English singer and songwriter based in Somerset, England (Music_of_Somerset).
Meuross first emerged on the British acoustic music scene when he formed The Panic Brothers with comedian Richard Morton in 1986. Five years of touring and TV work followed their album In The Red, produced by Clive Gregson with the "Brothers" appearing regularly on TV, including Friday Night Live, and at Edinburgh, Sidmouth, Glastonbury and other festivals.
Reg Meuross then moved on to form a roots band, The Flamingos, featuring ex-Graham Parker guitarist, Martin Belmont, Bob Loveday from the Penguin Café Orchestra & Bob Geldof's band and Alison Jones of The Barely Works. They recorded the album Arrested in 1991. Meuross also toured, continuing until 2009, with Hank Wangford and The Lost Cowboys as a member of the band and also as a solo artist with Hank Wangford on the "No Hall Too Small" tour.[1] tours.
Reg's solo recording and touring career began in 1996 since when he has released 13 albums. In his review of December in 2016 Robin Denselow described Meuross in The Guardian as "..one of the more versatile, under-sung survivors of the English acoustic scene."[2]
He was awarded Best Male Vocalist 2013 by Fatea magazine.[3]
Meuross co-wrote Seth Lakeman's first single release Divided We Will Fall from the album Well Worn Path released on the Cooking Vinyl label in November 2018.[4]
Solo albums[edit]
In 1996 Reg released his first solo album, The Goodbye Hat.
In 2004, Reg released Short Stories, his second solo album. Country Music Records'. Short Stories was followed in 2006 by the album, Still.
July 2008 brought the release of Dragonfly. One of its songs, "And Jesus Wept", was inspired by the true story of Harry Farr, a first World War soldier who, having served his country for two years in the trenches, began to suffer the effects of shell-shock and was shot at dawn for cowardice and desertion. "Lizzie Loved a Highwayman" is the true story of highwayman Dick Turpin. Romanticised by generations, "Lizzie" is told from the viewpoint of Turpin's unfortunate widow. These two songs were performed by Meuross at the Royal Albert Hall on 25 March 2009, as part of a concert for the Teenage Cancer Trust[5]. The title track of the album, "Dragonfly", is written about the events of 9/11[6] and the 7 July bombings in London.
In 2010 Meuross released All This Longing,[7] an all-acoustic album featuring Paul Sartin (Bellowhead), Andy Cutting on accordion, Jackie Oates on viola, Simon Edwards on bass and Roy Dodds (Fairground Attraction) on percussion. The album includes the song "The Heart Of Ann Lee" which tells the story of the Manchester-born 18th century founder of the Shakers, Ann Lee, who rejected sex but was forced into marriage, bearing four children (and four stillborn) "taken before they were ten", before fleeing to the United States to escape persecution.[7]
In 2011 Meuross released The Dreamed And The Drowned, a collection of previously unreleased tracks recorded between 2006 and 2011.[8]
Meuross's Leaves and Feathers album was released in 2013,[9] His album England Green and England Grey was released in 2014.
December, released in 2016 was the first in a trilogy of completely solo Reg Meuross albums, with no other musicians involved in the recordings. This was among Martin Chilton of The Telegraph's selection for Best Folk Albums of 2016.[10]
In 2017 Meuross released Faraway People the title track of which was awarded Best Song of 2017 in Fatea Magazine's annual awards show.[11]
Discography[edit]
- Panic Brothers In The Red (Special Delivery 1987)
- Reg Meuross with The Flamingos – Arrested (1991)
- Reg Meuross – The Goodbye Hat (1996)
- Reg Meuross – Short Stories (2004)
- Reg Meuross – Still (2006)
- Reg Meuross – Dragonfly (Hatsongs; 2008)[6]
- Reg Meuross – All This Longing (Hatsongs; 2010)[7]
- Reg Meuross – The Dreamed and the Drowned (Hatsongs; 2011)[8]
- Reg Meuross – Leaves & Feathers (Hatsongs; 2013)[9]
- Reg Meuross – England Green & England Grey (Hatsongs; 2014)[12]
- Reg Meuross – December (March 2016)
- Reg Meuross – Faraway People (July 2017)
- Reg Meuross – Songs About A Train (February 2018)
- Reg Meuross – Reg Meuross (April 2018) Released by Stockfisch Records
- Reg Meuross – 12 Silk Handkerchiefs (December 2018)
References[edit]
- ↑ BBC. "No Hall Too Small". www.bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ Denselow, Robin (17 March 2016). "Reg Meuross: December review – a very English kind of Americana". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
- ↑ "FATEA - Home". www.fatea-records.co.uk.
- ↑ "Divided We Will Fall Archives - Folking.com". folking.com.
- ↑ "Teenage Cancer Trust 2009 Setlists". The Setlist Wiki. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Carter, Malcolm. "Reg Meuross: Dragonfly". Penny Black magazine. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Davies, Mike (September 2010). "Reg Meuross — All This Longing (Hatsongs)". NetRhythms. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Davies, Mike (September 2011). "Reg Meuross — The Dreamed And The Drowned 2006–2010 (Hat)". NetRhythms. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Davies, Mike (February 2013). "Reg Meuross – Leaves and Feathers (Hatsongs)". NetRhythms. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- ↑ Chilton, Martin (19 January 2016). "The best folk music albums of 2016". The Telegraph – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ↑ "FATEA - Home". www.fatea-records.co.uk.
- ↑ Chilton, Martin (4 September 2014). "Reg Meuross, England Green & England Grey, album review". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
External links[edit]
Category:English male singer-songwriters
Category:People from Somerset
Category:Living people
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:English male guitarists
Category:English banjoists
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