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Bob Fox & Benny Graham
12+ albums
UKbritishenglandUnited Kingdom
about
In 1975, after spending 5 years as a floor singer around the many folk clubs in the North East ofEngland as well as being a resident singer at the famous Davylamp Folk Club in Washington, Bob Fox met fellow North Easterner Tom McConville and his career as a professional folk singer/musician began. In the duo with TOM he toured the vibrant folk club scene of mid 70's Britain playing a mixture of Irish and Scottish dance music and singing mainly traditional songs primarily from their native North East, Tom on fiddle and Bob playing guitar and piano. After 2 very successful years Bob and Tom parted company and the duo with ex Hedgehog Pie man Stu Luckley was formed This proved to be one of the most innovative and highly acclaimed collaborations ever seen on the folkscene and led to Bob Fox and Stu Luckley releasing their first album ‘Nowt So Good’ll Pass’ which was voted folk album of the year and remains a unique and classic album. Following the success of this L.P. Bob and Stu were in great demand and played almost every folk club and festival in the U.K. including Cambridge, Cropredy, Edinburgh, Fylde, Cornwall, and were support artists on major British tours for Richard and Linda Thompson and Ralph Mctell. The duo also toured Germany, Holland, Australia and New Zealand in their own right and released a second album 'Wish We Never Had Parted' in 1982 before breaking up to pursue individual projects. Since that time Bob has continued to work as a solo artist. He has al
