Alan Tunbridge

Alan Tunbridge

Alan Tunbridge is an English artist and songwriter.

Normally painting in oils, he has also designed a great number of book dust-jacket illustrations, mainly in scraperboard.

He is particularly noted for his songwriting. Many of his songs have been recorded by his friend Wizz Jones, the noted folk and country blues singer and guitarist. With Jones, Tunbridge ran the ground-breaking MOJO folk club [ [http://www.wizzjones.com/timetunnel/60_tunbridge.html] ] at the King's Arms pub in Putney, South London in the early 1960s. Often he wrote the words spontaneously to Wizz Jones' chord sequences. His songs are also in the repertoires of Ralph McTell, John Renbourn, Maggie Holland and others. McTell was inspired by Tunbridge's lyrics of the evocative "National Seven" to tread the road which bears this name down to the south of France. [ [http://www.g4uxd.talktalk.net/nwbn/nl-02-02/16tons.htm] ] The title of Bert Jansch's biography 'Dazzling Stranger' originated from the title of a Tunbridge song.

Alan now lives in Sydney, concentrating on his artwork, and no longer writes songs. Over the past decade he has focussed on using his writing and design skills to help develop the Schizophrenia Research Institute in Australia. [ [http://www.schizophreniaresearch.org.au] ]

His recorded songs include:

* Dazzling Stranger
* See How the Time is Flying
* The Legendary Me
* When I Cease to Care
* Nobody Told You So
* Beggar Man
* Dazzling Stranger
* Slow Down to My Speed
* Stick a Little Label on It
* Which of Them You Love the Best
* City of the Angels
* The Raven †
* Find a Man for You Girl
* Mary Go 'Round
* Deep Water †
* When You're Gone
* National Seven
* Second-Hand Mini-Me
* The Grapes of Life
* Massacre at Beziers
* Pictures

† jointly with Wizz Jones

External link to Alan Tunbridge Artworks

[http://homepage.mac.com/alantun/PhotoAlbum11.html Alan's Artworks site]

External links about Alan Tunbridge songs

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45et8VP_fw0 John Renbourn plays "National Seven" on "YouTube"]
* [http://www.terrascope.co.uk/MyBackPages/Wizz_Jones.htm Terrascope]
* [http://singersong.homestead.com/WizzJones.html Homestead]


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