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Janice: What is fascinating is your family’s allegiance to drawing on Medieval Music.    What are the connections, Gary? Gary:  As young children growing up in the 1950’s, my elder brother Brian and I listened to quite a wide range of music and the earliest musical influences came from what we heard on the BBC Light Programme.  The radio was on from the time we got up in the morning, so we’d get used to hearing anything that was being broadcast.  Mum & Dad also let us have an old radio in our bedroom and we’d lay in bed listening to Radio Luxembourg, who broadcast Pop programmes in the evenings.   Our Grandmother, Milly Thatcher, who lived with the family, loved to sing Music Hall songs, so we learned all the words to ‘Boiled Beef & Carrots’ and ‘I Like Piccalilli’ (among many others) from her.  We were never shy of joining in and think that we gained a lot of confidence from doing that.  Everyone in the family sang along to the radio...

  Janice: What is fascinating is your family's allegiance to drawing on Medieval music...what are the connections Gary? Gary:  I was indeed fortunate to have an older brother who was very adventurous in the kind of music he listened to and used to go out to see live bands play when he was still only 15. Once I became old enough, he'd take me along with him and we saw bands like The Who, The Moody Blues, The Creation & The Yardbirds which made a deep impression on me. It was he that also persuaded me to join the band he was in when I was still at school. They needed a lead singer and it all seemed a bit of a lark so I joined, little realising I was setting off on a voyage that would last my entire life. Ours was a household in which music was constantly being played and everyone was encouraged to sing along. My grandmother lived with us and she'd sing a lot of music hall songs, all of which we learned and sang. We were exposed to a wide variety of musical styles. Fast fo...

Don't forget you can now listen to CURVED RADIO PODCASTS! I'm guest host on the following: 12:07:15 Cookin' up an electrical storm on the 204th edition of Curved Radio! https://www.mixcloud.com/curvedradio/   To listen to more music from the Reeves brothers check out the following: Mountain Songs is a project dedicated to my brother Brian Reeves (aka Rocky Mountain, 1948–2012), an accomplished songwriter, guitarist and arranger. He was the creative force behind so many of the songs on this page. If you have time, please click for lyrics and track history. This is for you Bri, with love and thanks from us all. We miss you. (Gary Reeves) My brother Terry's songs can also be heard on @ crippleclub and @ rootdivision https://soundcloud.com/mountain-songs   Imre Lodbrog https://soundcloud.com/imre-lodbrog Barbara Browning   Here's a little essay I wrote about the uke covers (it's totally true!): www.brooklynrail.org/2012/05/expr...