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Hello to my new Fans in Japan!
Thankyou for buying the music of EXETER GROOVE
 new album in the wings
Dave O'Leary on Song Writing and the Exeter Groove,
Son House said "the blues ain't nothing but a man thinking bout is woman"
So I wrote about it.
I live with a woman who loves me with passion
and hates with vengeance so I write songs about her and me
…My house is built by a train line, at 3 am in the morning I awake
to the sound of the picture frames vibrating on the walls,
the thud builds till I can hardly hear a thing,

So I write about that too.

I bought my first Blues album at 19 "Little Walter quarter to twelve"
from "Gas Light" in Melbourne.
I've hitchhiked from Victoria to Darwin and back and driven there
in a beat-up old Holden HG Kingswood,
I've left the Highlands a dozen times but as the proverb goes.

"you know. dogs…and… vomit".

In the old days I played anywhere to anyone who had ears to listen,
Terry sat on a Darwin Veranda slapping bugs while he taught me Slide.
Back in Melbourne I met my first Mistress, the "Takamine"

(Japanese for Bloody good Guitar)

I busked on street corners, played in stinking smoked
filled pubs and in cheap coffee shops.($25 and a meal
for free) In 1999 Exeter Blues was formed as a 4 piece
with influence from Paul Butterfield & Mike Bloomfield,
BB King & Early Fleetwood Mac.
At the 2000 Australian Blues Festival we were entered
in a busking competition as well as performing many
gigs in the Southern Highlands, & regulars at the
Sutton Forest Inn, the band metamorphosed a few times
as members and their agendas reshaped the size and sound,
during which the music took on it's own life and the
"groove " was born.
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"Exeter Blues Groove "was the first release with Lachlan McBean
on drums,Lachlan has since moved to Blue Toung Breweries in Newcastle.
Without a drummer for a few months, the groove and my writing grew as
special guest Robbie Souter provided his drumming mastery in "Let it Flow"
On the last Album "Human Touch" current drummer, Dave Sell and producer and
lead singer for the Bondi Cigars, Shane Pacey, brought their magic to a profound
and thinking mans album with a lot of dance and groove to the sound.
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