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Terence McCullagh aka. Tully McCully, has pulled in keyboard specialist Gordon Mackay to partner with him on his first solo album.  Tully and Gordon have performed together in McCully Workshop, but what they are offering this time is very different to the sort of music they do in their band.  Tully started out recording this new material on his own and then saw that it would be appropriate to have an instrument that is featured in solos and special parts of the songs. Tully is a multi-instrumentalist with bass and guitar being his specialities.   Adding Gordon, who is  classically schooled and a  virtuoso electric keyboard player, provided just the right additional elements required for the musical style they are recording. Keyboard guru, Gordon Mackay with his Hammond organ.  Pic  (c) 2020 L Mackay. Gordon is the brother of well known rock musician, Duncan Mackay, who made a name for himself in the UK in the 1980s, notably with the band...

Blues licks and Irony The latest Lesley Rae Dowling track, from the 2020 re-mix project, is the new version of Sophistication, re-named  Sophistication, the name of the game . Lesley's vocal, with her tongue in cheek text and the superb electric guitar work of the late Jethrow Butow,  make this and outstanding re-release.  Jethro played on many of the cuts on her first album, but perhaps none of his playing added to the mood of her songs more than on this production. Producer Terence McCullagh remixed the track in the midst of the Corona lockdown of the last couple of months.  He says: "At the time we recorded the original, I thought Lesley was having a dig at me and my girlfriend, when she came up with the lyrics. Now I see it is more universal in its scorn".  Lesley Rae Dowling (c) Songwrights Publisher He has presented the track as a guitar blues song. Though Lesley's uncharacteristically bluesy piano playing is still there, it is the vocal and guitar that c...