Album Notes

The LATEST ALBUM "Boy on a beach",took 14 months to complete and was released on Smokey Rooms Productions on 1st June 07.All songs are written by Steve and he is joined on this album by musicians and friends,Kevan Bartholomew on Pedal Steel,Gordon Cook on Bass,Dave Crawford,backing voice and harmonies,Teresa Capewell on keyboard.We also used two drummers Matt Parker and Cozy(Clive Dixon)
Boy on the beach track is about Steve's son Greg.



Steve Gifford
BIOGRAPHY

Having played guitar since his teens, Steve Gifford worked the London music scene for over 7 years. He very soon found that with the help of three top music agencies and self discipline he was kept gigging virtually five nights a week.
He met Karen, his wife, after a Kinks gig at Alexandra Palace, North London, and decided to commit himself wholly to family life. Steve may have thought his performing and writing days were over; however, this was far from the truth. Six years ago, while the family settled into the rural back garden of Woburn Abbey.

Steve wrote ten new songs in quick succession, helped along by his newly acquired Martin acoustic guitar. The resulting album 'Cut and Run' came out in September 2002 re-igniting Steve's musical career.
Through a mutual contact Steve was introduced to Mike Silver, whose successful album 'Solid Silver' was featuring daily on Terry Wogan’s breakfast show. Mike and Steve looked for a suitable venue to jointly promote their albums – the performance at the Union Chapel in Islington, North London, in October 2003, was an unforgettable evening, captured on a live CD available direct from Digitage, the show's promoter www.splodge.biz.
The Stables at Wavendon Milton Keynes heard Steve’s 'Cut and Run' album and booked him successively over the following eighteen months; where he performed with Ten Years After, Aynsley Lister and Carl Palmer from Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Touring Americana artists, Joe D'Urso and later Stewboss, both from the U.S., also heard Steve’s music and each invited him to join them for gig's on their 2004 tours.

Two years on from the release of his debut album, the creative flow hasn’t faltered.  On a Yamaha recording desk in his own studio and co-produced by John Bowman at Notivate.Steve constructed his second album 'Building Bridges', released on the smokey Rooms label in March 2005. As with 'Cut and Run' the fluid melodies of 'Building Bridges' perfectly fill the contours of the heartfelt lyrics, which convey, with clarity and honesty, an emotional journey through a landscape of life experiences. The thirteen subtle acoustic songs are intertwined with the sweet sounds of Steve’s new Lowden guitar, plaintive harmonica and haunting cello.

For details of the latest album "Boy on a beach" see the details above.

For further information:Tel: 07659145137
email :steveswg@aol.com
Web site:www.stevegifford.co.uk
Management:flattopmusic@boomboom.f9.co.uk