Terry Wilson Slesser added backing vocals to , but is best known as the singer in Back Street Crawler, the post- band formed by . Koss died in March 1976 but still casts a long shadow and his spirit lives on throughout this, the frontman’s first solo album – laced with reminders of Koss’s style on guitar played by John Buckton. Neatly, too, all the original BSC band (plus ) feature somewhere across the 12 originals here.
Wilson-Slesser delivers each in a high register, often over co-writer Mark Taylor’s electric piano, in a laid-back blues soundscape that has echoes of late period . and stand out but, for blue-eyed soul fans, there are treats a plenty. Freelance contributor to and several of its offshoots since 2006.
In the 1980s he began a 15-year spell working for intially as a cub reviewer and later as Geoff Barton’s deputy and then pouring precious metal into test tubes as editor of its Special Projects division. Has spent quality time with Robert Plant, Keith Richards, Ritchie Blackmore, Rory Gallagher and Gary Moore – and also spent time in a maximum security prison alongside Love/Hate. Loves Rush, Aerosmith and beer.
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