RAISING THE TONE...
Regular readers may recall that a little while ago I decided to have a crack at recording a demo of fingerstyle acoustic guitar pieces I’d written, then ended up being talked into making a proper album. My mentor and producer in all this was the hugely talented Chris Turpin of the band Ida Mae, whose new album, Thunder Above You, is an impeccably performed and produced tour de force. So his studio was a more-than-decent place to record my own ramblings on six strings – but, just as importantly, like the proper producer he is, Chris persuaded me to take them seriously as art and bend all my efforts to making an honest-to-god decent record.
When we’d first met up, Chris and I had talked about folk guitar records we both admired from the 60s and we developed a loose plan to try to
