My first attempt at playing music was in the school penny whistle band then the school choir then moving on to violin and trumpet until my father brought home a guitar one day and that was it for me. However, music was never considered a career option in working class Scotland at that time so it was an education and a real job for you laddie. After leaving school with a fistful of O levels and A levels I went to live and work in England, first Coventry then Nottingham. I always had my guitar with me and played for my own amusement until one fateful evening in a Nottingham pub, things started to change. Long story short, I got offered a gig and didn't even know what a gig was, some guy was willing to pay me to play music in his pub. Well, f--- me that was something I did for fun. I learned real fast, after a short while I was "gigging" six nights a week and making more money than I was in my day job.

I learned real fast that in the music game it was more about who you knew as to what you knew. So I made friends and contacts and through one of those friends, an Australian musician named Don Fletcher, I was introduced to an agent in London called Ann Dex, who sent me on my first foreign gig, Oslo, Norway. The date was February 1982. Well, Norway in the early 80's turned my head a little to say the least. I loved it, the life of a traveling musician, what the hell, I was young. So, 24 years further on up the road I am still doing it, what a hell of a ride it has been too. Like any occupation it has had it's up's and down's but I don't regret any of it, 24 years of interesting countries like Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, New Zealand, America, England, Scotland, yep I've been around. 24 years of playing some great music with some truly great people in some weird, wacky, wonderful, not so wonderful places that most people have never heard of never mind traveled to.

In 2001 my long time partner and good friend Barry Richards and I played in the world's most northern venue Hotel Finken, Svalbard then a month later, totally by coincidence after a chance meet with a very fine lady called Anna Brown we ended up playing in the world's most southern venue, The South Sea Hotel, Stewart Island, New Zealand. You couldn't plan it if you wanted to. These days most of my live work is around Bergen, Norway (where I now reside), Denmark, Bornholm (in the Summer), Austria, Switzerland (in the Winter), but you never know what can be round the next corner. So for now the wheels are still rolling and the music keeps coming.
 

If it is true that the entire history of this type of music can be encapsulated in the last sixty years, then that is at least reasonable to hope that there exists certain pockets of activity where artists can work in the original mold. This is really why Steve Morgan has such a magnetic attraction, because he is at one and the same time a symbol of the fount of the blues and a highly original contemporary performer. Performing Solo, Duo, Trio, or Band with a selection of some of the finest musicians on the circuit today including, Helge Nyheim (Drum/Vocals), Arild Seim (Guitars), Barry Richards (Guitars/Vocals). Kai Thule (Bass), Geir Johannesen (Piano/Keyboards), Ross Gardiner (Piano/Keyboards), James Exell (Bass/Vocals), Hage (Piano/Vocals). Atle  "Freddy" Johnsen. (Guitars).