BBC award winning singer songwriter Steve Knightley of "Show of Hands"
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Steve writes:
"Over the past six years Mick Burch has become one of the characters of the Devonshire folk scene. Most weeks
he can be found playing, or enjoying acoustic music somewhere in the Exeter area. Yet until recently this
prolific songwriter was virtually unknown.
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Mick's love of music started as a teenager with national service in Germany - a cheap guitar and harmonica,
three chords, a few mates and the "Rock Island Skifflers" were up and rocking albeit usually in regimental blues.
But with a family to raise and a business to build other priorities inevitably loomed and suddenly 40 years had passed.
There was now more time on his hands and no excuse for not returning to music. |
The Recent years have brought a big change in his life. Encouraged by friends to become involved in the local folk scene and to write his own
songs he began regularly playing and singing both as a solo performer,
in a blues duo and in a folk rock band. He was then asked to play harmonica on the Show of Hands 'Country life' album and the new CD by Mick Groves
of the legendary Spinners. By now Mick had enough material for his own record and he was delighted when the multi-talented
Phil Beer offered to produce and record his songs".
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