Ah, the stories behind the making of Bronco’s COUNTRY HOME album. There’s a lot of fairly recent interviews with Jess in the book about this album, telling us how he was learning to song-write and got together with a few friends – Johnny Pasternack, Kevyn Gammond and Robbie Blunt….oh to be in in Kidderminster that week!
The boys met up with Pete Robinson and started rehearsing in Arley Village Hall… if you are from the Midlands, all these names should be ringing bells… they lived in Bellmans Farm, went to the Bellmans Cross pub and also rehearsed in Shatterford Village Hall… and then the band got into a recording studio with producers Diga (Richard Digby Smith) and Paul Samwell Smith and with Barry Humphries – the band was certainly given the best people in town to work with
One thing that did interupt the sessions was if they were recording on a Saturday – everything ahd to stop at 50m for the fottball results as Jess is such an avid Wolves fan. Still is.
Jess gives the history of the house at Laudate, that is pictured on the inside gatefold of the album and reputedly where John Lennon wrote Bungalow Bill
Bill.Robbie signed his first contract with Island when he was twenty.
Kidderminster will never be the same
