Nelson Brothers

English roots rock-band the Nelson Brothers comprised Steve Nelson (vocals/guitar), Simon Nelson (guitar, dulcimer, keyboards and sitar), Ben Nicholls (bass) and Andrew Tween (drums/marimba). Their music mixed the ethnic customs of New Orleans Cajun, Celtic folk and Afro-Caribbean rhythms, followed from the brothers’ lucid songwriting. The Nelsons was raised in Stafford, Western Midlands, Britain, where these were members of varied local rings as teens. Culling influences from your albums of Johnny Money, Paul Simon, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, aswell as jazz and rock and roll, they started to write their personal songs together even though still teens. Their 1st group was entitled Alias, whose live repertoire included tunes drawn from your songbooks from the Byrds and Moving Stones aswell as originals. Alias received both ‘new skill’ and ‘songwriting’ types of a nationwide competition sponsored by Pye Information, but split because of musical variations before documenting. The brothers after that journeyed to Amsterdam, Netherlands, collectively as the 1st stage inside a round-the-world trek, consuming European countries, North Africa, America and lastly Bermuda (getting residents in the Bermuda Folk Golf club). Upon time for England they used college programs (Steve reaching platinum medal standard in the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Artwork while Simon analyzed jazz acoustic guitar and structure). In 1983 Simon spent a 12 months in Australia, dealing with acts like the Az Smoke Revue, just before he came back to Britain in the next year to synergy with Steve once again, clean from another stint in Bermuda. The past due 80s noticed them back again at university, both attaining Bachelor and Experts levels, and in 1990 they constructed their very own demo/jingle studio. In addition they go about forging an effective band jointly, with these line-up the eventual result. Their debut record found its way to November 1993, with studio room guests including Abdul Tee Jay (from Sierra Leone), Geraint Watkins (accordion) and Glucose Hajischacalli (bouzouki). The name monitor, ‘Hometown’, was created in cooperation with Steve Booker.