Bob Fox

In 1975, after spending 5 years as a floor singer around the many folk clubs in the North East of England as well as being a resident singer at the famous Davylamp Folk Club in Washington, Bob Fox met fellow North Easterner Tom McConville and his career as a professional folk singer/musician began.

In the duo with Tom he toured the vibrant folk club scene of mid 70′s Britain playing a mixture of Irish and Scottish dance music and singing mainly traditional songs primarily from their native North East, Tom on fiddle and Bob playing guitar and piano.

After 2 very successful years Bob and Tom parted company and the duo with ex Hedgehog Pie man Stu Luckley was formed

This proved to be one of the most innovative and highly acclaimed collaborations ever seen on the folkscene and led to Bob Fox and Stu Luckley releasing their first album ‘Nowt So Good’ll Pass ’ which was voted folk album of the year and remains a unique and classic album.

In 1978 Colin Irwin wrote an article in Melody Maker entitled ‘ A Meeting of Two Minds’ in which he described them as ‘the progressive dynamic duo’ and went on ‘Great White Hopes of Folk are such a rarity you’ll forgive us for making an excessive fuss when we encounter one, two even!’

Following the success of this L.P. Bob and Stu were in great demand and played almost every folk club and festival in the U.K. including Cambridge, Cropredy, Edinburgh, Fylde, Cornwall, and were support artists on major British tours for Richard and Linda Thompson and Ralph Mctell.  The duo also toured Germany, Holland, Australia and New Zealand in their own right and released a second album ‘Wish We Never Had Parted ‘ in 1982 before breaking up to pursue individual projects.

Since that time Bob has continued to work as a solo artist. He has also been singer/keyboard player in Celtic Band The Rub and in the short lived Vin Garbutt Band.
Early in 2006 Bob was invited to join an elite group of folk singers, writers and musicians to record 6 new Radio Ballads commissioned by the BBC and produced and recorded by John Tams and John Leonard. Bob can be heard on all but the first of these and the series of six received great critical acclaim.  His working relationship with John Tams was so successful that when Bob recorded his most recent CD “THE BLAST” he asked John to produce it.  Together they worked on the material and format of the album, mostly traditional songs with Bob’s superb voice accompanied only by his equally wonderful guitar playing

“At last, the record we’ve been waiting for from Bob, it’s the sound we hear in live performance, that astonishing guitar  technique coupled with one of England’s finest voices.”  -  Ralph McTell

Apart from the usual grueling round of solo touring Bob teamed up with old mate Billy Mitchell ex-Lindisfarne front man for a very special duo tour in the Autumn of 2006 which resulted in a great live CD being produced called “5 Star B & B.”
(Bob thought of that!)

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