This is a collaboration with a prolific chap called James Higgins (oldrottenhead on songcrafters.org), based on an instrumental of mine from a couple of years ago: http://alonetone.com/andyr/tracks/muletide I was quietly minding my own business…

So I was locked in the broom-cupboard, checking out some old songs that need recording. I'd just picked one and then suddenly this thing came out of nowehere. It started with one of those guitarist doodles that other musicians love so much…

Found this little chappie while I was preparing my latest original for loading. It was a quick demo recorded on my Boss Micro BR sometime in October or so last year (2011) while I was working on Shine. It was a sort of "blow the cobwebs out…

Well, here we go then... **** **Cobwebs - A A J Russe** Yeah you know what it is that I want Oh you knew, didn't you, before I did? How many times did you wonder whether I would dare? Oh never mind... Take off your underwear Over…

I wrote this thing in 1994. When I played it to some friends back then they went "yeah, but where's the rest of it?" I've been struggling with that concept ever since. Then, a while ago, a couple of kindly souls removed that worry from me…

Well I started this with a little guitar groovin' thing I was playing with and laid it down to a click track thinking I was going to just keep it just guitar , bass and vocals and off it went. This song really is just all about life moving by…

I keep walking Through the bush And I pass death I can almost touch And I hide my eyes From the light And there's rain and thunder in my soul I'm a traveller in the night I'm a night traveller I call again on the dark A place where ghosts whisper…

Started with a funky guitar groove and it evolved from there.

woke up from a bad sleep because there was a mosquito in my room driving me crazy ... I had no words to this tune and just spontaneously put down what ever came into my head and sang it .

I've always wanted to do a big band blues tune ... this is as close as I'll ever get!