There’ll be some press stuff soon, including this week’s Sunday Herald, which reveals some of what 2015 has been for me so far. There were a few cancellations and absences earlier in the year which had a reason. Back in February…
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Hello all, Welcome to September and some fresh news with a further update on, amongst other things, the new album ‘I’m walkin’ here’. As announced last month we have now set 16th October as the release date for the album….
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Hello all, Welcome to the new Rab Noakes website. It’s been a while but it’s here now. I’ve had great assistance from Dave Arcari, Stephy Pordage, Richy Lamb and James Black to get this designed, built and finally, up-and-running. I’ll…
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IN THE caring, sharing of spirit of Christmas, veteran cult troubadour Rab Noakes ceded some of the spotlight at this good-natured gathering to a couple of special guests. Singer/songwriter Jill Jackson, formerly of Speedway, now with The Chaplins, harmonised gently…
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RAB Noakes’ third album, Red Pump Special was a high budget, Nashville recorded debut for Warner Brothers in 1974. The two singles from the LP, Branch and Clear Day, became turntable hits, but failed to sell in sufficient quantities to make…
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IN addition to 40th anniversary tours, the thing to do live nowadays is to play a significant album from your catalogue in its entirety. Rab Noakes combined the two, billing his show From Nashville To Muirend, with the first half…
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THERE’S a tour starting in April and at least one date, if not more, really does belong in your diary. It combines the enduring talents of Barbara Dickson and Rab Noakes, reunited with the essential simplicity of two guitars and…
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RAB Noakes is recalling the trip to the U.S. in 1973 that saw the Fife-born singer-songwriter recording in Nashville with a record producer, Elliot Mazer, who had just overseen one of the decade’s most popular albums, Neil Young’s Harvest, and…
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SOME demos and rarities stay in the vaults for good reasons. Others, like these nineteen tracks, make you wonder why they have, in most cases, been hidden away for so long. The opening track will be familiar to those who…
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The new Rab Noakes website is online and will evolve to include more content…please bear with us while we update everything.