ABOUT THIS ITEM

Just a couple of years ago 'lost legend' Nick Garrie entered a songwriting competition at a bar in London and, unsurprisingly, won. His prize – a website which allowed those very few select people who had been transfixed by his 'lost' classic album from 1969 to realise that he was very much alive. A clutch of record labels immediately got in touch and as a result "The Nightmare of JB Stanislas", an album that had only ever reached the promotional copy stage at the end of the 1960s, was finally released in 2005 to widespread critical acclaim on the Rev-Ola label. A compilation of lost songs emerged on the same label the following year… Cut to 2008 and Garrie is introduced to fast-rising Scottish singer/songwriter Ally Kerr through Rev-Ola records's head honcho Joe Foster. Fans and friends also involved in the recording process included Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) and Duglas T. Stewart (BMX Bandits) on production duties with Duncan Cameron (Delgados, Travis, Trashcan Sinatras) engineering. The recording was emotional, the results were incredible with songs written from the heart, full of poignancy, purity and reflecting the life of this wandering minstrel.