HW: Huw/Widowmaker/etc.

[John Majka]

I heard one of the Widowmaker albums (I don't remember which one) some years
back and thought it was some of the most godawful crap I'd ever heard, and
Huw's guitar wasn't very audible.  You might try getting Steve Swindell's
album "Fresh Blood" on which Huw plays all the guitars (including the
original version of Shot Down in the Night), and Simon King plays drums.  I
haven't listened to it in a long time, but it wasn't terrible.... it's the
sort of thing you would hear a lot in the early eighties, with those stoopid
sort of "city life is tough"- type lyrics that were so chic then.  It's a
fairly mainstream, new wavish album, but Huw's guitar is loud and clear on
both rhythm and lead, and he does, by the way, play some cool lead stuff.
I'm a big fan of Huw's playing.  I truly think he's one of the unrecognized
greats, and he really has a recognizable style quite unlike anyone else.  I
read somewhere that he had written a regular column for a UK guitar magazine
in the 80s.... Does anyone have those magazines?  Or does anyone even know
what magazine that would be?  Perhaps I could contact the magazine, if I
only knew which one, and try to find those ancient issues.  I'd be curious
what he has to say about guitar playing.  Does anyone know what he's up to
now?  Any recent releases?  I never could find a copy of River Run.  Does
anyone know where I might be able to get one and for how much?  Also, I'd be
interested in getting bootleg tapes of any of Huw's shows, such as his batch
of acoustic shows he's been doing.
Thanks,
John Majka
flossbac at wcic.org