Upcoming Events
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Reg Meuross @ Blakeney Harbour Room Folk, Poetry and Beer Festival
July 8 @ 8:00 pm -
Reg Meuross @ New Forest Folk Festival
July 9 -
Reg Meuross with special guest Katie Spencer at Cubley Hall
July 14 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm -
Reg Meuross @ Folk at the Barlow
July 15 @ 8:00 pm -
Reg Meuross @ The cornerHOUSE Community Arts Centre
July 19 @ 8:00 pm
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Latest News
- Songs of Love and Death – on tour
Live dates: 19 MARCH The Gather Ennerdale CUMBRIA (also live streamed) TICKETS 13 APRIL Folk @ Ash KENT TICKETS 14 APRIL John Peel Centre SUFFOLK TICKETS 15 APRIL Sound Lounge SUTTON TICKETS 16 APRIL Green Note CAMDEN TICKETS 17 APRIL Cantonacre … Continue reading →
- Stolen From God – A song cycle unfolding the history of England’s involvement in the Transatlantic slave trade – by Reg Meuross
The total number of slaves transported by British boats during the ‘legitimate’ trading years of 1672 to 1807 is widely estimated at around four million – and could be considerably higher. The recorded number transported in boats from Bristol in … Continue reading →
- Songs of Love & Death – on tour in Spring
Songs of Love & Death is the new collaborative album from two of this country’s finest and most engaging folk/acoustic acts: Reg Meuross and Harbottle & Jonas. The album is available HERE and the first live tour begins in March. … Continue reading →
REG MEUROSS new album review from Dutch music mag RootsTime
UK Album Launch gig is Friday 13th July (limited copies of the CD will be available for sale at the gig). TICKETS HERE
Online order from Germany HERE
“Love, death, political events and social themes are the subjects of the songs of English singer-songwriter Reg Meuross from Somerset. He is a modern folk troubadour who pays a lot of attention to his lyrics and has already won several prizes in his own country for his songs and albums, in addition to the general appreciation he has earned for his work. Several music critics think that elements from the sound of great folk singers like Tom Paxton, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen can be heard in his music. Why do not we know this active musician for several decades in our regions, you might wonder? We have not been able to come up with a real answer to this, but we can now make up for this together with you by listening to the songs on his latest album “Reg Meuross” recorded by the German record label “Stockfisch Records” by musical talent-discoverer Günter Pauler which will be brought onto the market next month.
Reg Meuross has a beautiful voice and he is an absolute master-narrator in his songs, something beautifully illustrated in “Good With His Hands”, “The Man In Edward Hopper’s Bar” and “Jesus Wept” about a soldier who was unjustly shot for desertion during the 1st World War. And there are more stories in “Looking For Johnny Ray” about the famous singer of the world hit “Cry” and in “The Band Played” Sweet Marie “, a story about the woman who bought a violin for her fiancée, the bandleader of the orchestra that played on the ‘Titanic’ and drowned while playing, according to the myth. In the simple but sincere love song Reg Meuross excels, like “One Way Ticket To Louise”, “For Sophie (This Beautiful Day)”, “I Need You” and the closing track “Worry No More”.
‘Stockfisch Records’ has re-recorded all of these songs and provided great orchestration for the songs in the studio. The excellent SACD sound (= Super Audio CD) of this recording makes for an especially enjoyable hour of folk songs by Reg Meuross and for a very pleasant introduction to the work of this English songwriter from Somerset.”
(partial translation from Dutch – full review HERE)