#andy powell

Wishbone Ash There’s the Rub 1974 MCA ——————————————————————— Tracks: 1. Silver Shoes 2. Don’t Come Back 3. Persephone 4. Hometown 5. Lady Jay 6. F.U.B.B. ———————————————————————

Andy Powell

Martin Turner

Steve Upton

Laurie Wisefield

folded into swans. Brioche. Soft, folded sweaters. Please, they’re yours. Boiled

wool. It’s so fine if you accept my offerings and smile and throw them away

around the corner. Folded self on slightly mussed sheets. Knees

folded into belly. Butter. Folded corners of pages with folded hearts inside. Shy

& soft but a snail doesn’t go to die when it slides back into its shell,

it waits to move when the world will let it move at its own pace. I shy

& I soft & I don’t hold your hand until I know you can tender.

"The feeling was that post-1967, which is classed as a watershed year with the Sgt. Pepper album, the floodgates had opened and everything was up for grabs. There was no corporate rock. There was a great innocence and ignorance in us. We would draw on fifties jazz, folk music, Celtic music, R&B- anything that got the juices flowing. We had no qualms either about delving down alleys in search of inspiration and it got very eclectic, never mainstream."