Upcoming Events
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FROM A DISTANCE – an online Songwriting Retreat with Reg Meuross & Findlay Napier
February 2 @ 10:00 am - February 4 @ 8:00 pm -
Calendar Concerts: February – Reg Meuross live & online
February 17 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm -
Calendar Concerts: March – Reg Meuross live & online
March 17 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
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Latest News
- Thinking about John Lennon who died 40 years ago today.
One of the greatest and certainly one of the most succesful songwriters of my time. A huge influence when I was starting out and a more or less constant presence since, when it comes to quality control.This is a programme … Continue reading →
- Songwriting Retreat – Reg with Findlay Napier
I’m running another beautiful songwriting retreat at Halsway Manor. It’s 1st to 5th February – so three full concentrated days for you to focus on your songwriting and nothing else. Halsway is a stunning location for bringing people together in … Continue reading →
- Reg Meuross – 6 Retrospective Reissues
Six titles from Reg Meuross’s back catalogue of albums which had been out of print for a while are being officially re released via Proper Records on Friday December 4th 2020. The re-issued titles are The Goodbye Hat (1996), Short Stories (2004), Still (2006), Dragonfly (2008), All This Longing (2010) and Leaves … 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)