Chris Cox

Sometime back in the Era 1 BC (Before Corona) four chaps from Oxford went into a studio - all at the same time, together with an engineer and wearing no facemasks (GASP! - I know this is now hard to imagine) - and recorded the following tunes, 'Cruising' and 'On the Hook', playing simultaneously with minimal social distancing and minimal post production. The noises we made are hereby offered as light relief in these uncertain times. Enjoy....

I've been asked to upload this tune - from the archives of the Telephone Bill days. An old pop - soul song of mine, here beautifully sung by Steve Reynolds who was in the band at the time. Steve still sings with bands in Cambridge and is in as good a voice as ever. Enjoy, and a Happy Christmas to all

"To be or not to be" is kind of a companion piece to"Frozen in Motion" - uploaded earlier this year - in that they bookend a life between them. "Once upon a time" is in one of the classic American Songbook formats - a single verse beginning and ending the tune with a mandolin instrumental sandwich filling (that perhaps rather less classic!). Polymath Jazz pianist Kenny Hung does the honors on the keyboard chops here. Feedback as ever welcome!

In celebration of the 200,00 N1M plays milestone being reached today - March 9th (really?) - I have uploaded another acoustic guitar/mandolin based tune - 'I-Spy'. The inspiration for this lullaby (also the muse behind the instrumental 'Rosie') recently also reached milestone of her own - 21 years old. How 'Time Flies'. Keep listening. Chris

'Judgement Day' is arguably seasonally appropriate. Performed here some years ago now by 'Telephone Bill' (with lead vocal from Gerry Hale who also played fiddle on an earlier instrumental upload 'Hard Drive') reflects a level of religious ambiguity I have never really shaken off. 'Obvious' is from a much later collection of tunes - (Even the Willows are Weeping) - and fantasises encouragement I sometimes wish I could have had. Thank you to all for your kind comments this last year and for listening to these compositions. Best wishes, Chris