John Burke's a-Musings

For a friend having a bit of a hard week - my version of Hazel O'Connor's "Will You". I met her (Hazel not the friend) a f...

Just spent three and a half hours working out arrangements and recording this one following a challenge on the Billy Fury website by fellow...

Monday night saw David and I playing at a junior school prom. I think that an apt description of the audience would be " wildly enthusi...

Yep, ok... I've seen it now! Sorted! It was a mistake not a new collection...

Welcome to the first entry under the new blog name " John Burke's a-Musings ". I wanted the blog to be found a bit easier if a...

The monthly track for October on the Billy Fury website is one from my solo album. It's a Patty Loveless country song called " Bla...

This afternoon, once the rain stopped and the sun came out, the two flowerpot men shook off their flowerpots and rocked around the little we...

A lot of people ask me how long I've been playing guitar and I can nail it down to the day. This is Christmas Day 1965. I was 11 and...

Last night David and I played at Larbreck Hall Caravan Park. Bob had a prior engagement with The Old School Band but we gave them a good nig...

Well the weather forecast was anything but good, but in the event it was quite kind to us! We took up our usual spot in one of the outbuildi...

Hazel O'Connor and Ingrid Pitt Actress and singer, Hazel O'Connor (the film "Breaking Glass" gave her punk rock status and...

I've added an album of photos of myself with some celebrity friends to my Picasa site. Bond Girls Caroline Munro, Martine Beswick, Tan...

After leaving the AoC NILTA conference yesterday, I drove down to Taunton, where today I've delivered a session at an RSC seminar for So...

A while ago on the blog site of my band Creeping Bentgrass , I mentioned Billy Fury and got a reply from Moya from the website http://www.b...

Hi all, Well after trying MySpace for a while I decided that I was going to keep that for work-related stuff and following the success of t...