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Oh yes. “I am waiting on for things to come my way.” Like I say, they don’t come easy, those things, but I do spend a lot of time− ‘Somebody Wants My Soul’. God. I mean the groove on that. And ‘Darker The Midnight’. I love that in fact, good grief, ‘Got Me a Party’. I made my demo of ‘Got Me a Party’− I filmed myself− A cousin of mine came in and in my front room I filmed a version of me with my demo. I played my guitar along with it. It’s hard writing a simple song and that’s a simple song. I like the lyric. I like the groove and I love the solo. The solo took me ages but it’s kind of got an op divider on it. Yeah, I’m proud of that album Flang Dang. And I like the title of the album. I love the album cover. I’m a happy budgie at the moment. My perspective on music since 'Sweet Soulful Music' has not really changed. It’s always the same approach. It was my demos then, it’s my demos now. Andy Fairweather Low Jase, thank you. You know it’s been years since I’ve talked. Now, this album was done in 2019, and 2020 it was finished. So, yeah, I’m getting to talk and, like I say, I love it and thank you. Thank you for liking the album. I love it.

Stars feel kindly towards him. When Low was on his uppers, Clapton sent a telegram of encouragement before a chance meeting in a studio led to a 30-plus year working relationship. Low played with Roger Waters for 23 years. “A lot of people don’t take to Roger for many reasons, but he treated me unbelievably well,” he says. And you mentioned Roger Waters earlier. The scale, even from the first tour that you did on Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking , must have been just something else. After the D7 bar, you’ll play a very cool G-chord run: Slide with your first finger, barring the top two strings, to imply a G7 chord that morphs its way into a G triad played on strings 2 and 3, fretted with the first and second fingers, respectively. Maintain that shape as you descend chromatically down to another G played on the open G and B strings. I refuse to reignite the Amen Corner franchise. I get invited to be a guest on shows and they want me to be who I was, and I’m too old to be who I was. This is a period for me to bewho I am.” In 1965 I was there, and the staircase that Iput my foot on is still there. And I put my foot on it again. It was a bizarre feeling, but it was also the perfect thing. Two years of Covid, didn’t know what to do. And then Kingsley (Ward), suggested that I come down. And I thought, you know what? I think I’ll take Kingsley up on his offer. And I did.

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Johnson employed this style of bass-driven playing from time to time, but more often he would break up the sound. For instance, in Ex. 2, which is similar to a motif in his “Terraplane Blues,” the I chord sounds quite different. It still starts out with the low-bass sound courtesy of the fifth and fourth strings, but then jumps to the higher strings, hitting G-type chords. Not so much in the 70s, no. We knew each other because we’re both Ry Cooder fans. I’d seen him at a few Ry Cooder concerts, stuff like that, and it was in the 90s. I went to Japan. It basically was Eric Clapton’s band and I got sort of brought into that band at that time and we did a couple of months in Japan playing live with George. That was pretty special. Then he did a concert at the Albert Hall for the Natural Law party and I got called for that. Then he was guesting with Gary Moore at the Albert Hall for two nights and he just phoned me up and he said, “You fancy coming up and playing with me?” and I went, “Yeah. Why not?” And then, halfway through the conversation he said, “It’s a long way isn’t it?” and I said, “I’m coming.” So I went to Friar Park and we stayed the night, then we went and played for two nights. Oh man, I loved him. He was good. My pal, I think is what we say. My pal. He was my pal. Yeah he’s a lovely man. Very funny. A fabulous slide player too and what a song writer. Talk about in a category all of his own. Nobody wrote songs like George and that’s a fact.

Oh God. Oh yes. They certainly− We’d gone in at a certain level and we were passed around at that level and then finally ended up we were sold to Andrew Oldham with Immediate and then he went into liquidation, put himself in as the biggest guy who’s owed the most money − and just a total mess. Split up Amen Corner and just got rid of it. Got rid of those people. Best thing we ever did. We never got the money but, had I got the money, I wouldn’t have done anything good with it. I wouldn’t have had anything sensible. I would have just had further to fall because I was definitely on my way down. My perspective on music since Sweet Soulful Music has not really changed. It’s always the same approach. It was my demos then, it’s my demos now. And I have days when I’m sort of spiritual and I have days when I’m not. That’s great Andy. What a pleasure it is to speak with you and even greater pleasure to listen to your fantastic new album. I wish you all the best with that release and just to say thank you so much for your time today.

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Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. FLANG DANG oozes with the kind of blues, country, and gospel that Andy has made his own; a style once described as a “prayer without pretension in every infectious song.” The stuff that he did. Even songs that arguably are slightly lesser known like ‘Old Brown Shoe’ are just classics.