Peers Sing His Praises and His Songs ; It Takes a Lot of Talent to Impress the Discerning Music Lover, but Even More to Win the Praises of Your Contemporaries in the Business. Steve Tilston has Managed to Do Both, Winning Fans with Both His Poignant, Insightful Songs and His Remarkable Guitar Playing, and the Evidence for This Feat Can Be Witnessed in an Intimate Gig in Exeter This Weekend.

Western Morning News, The › June 13, 2009

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It takes a lot of talent to impress the discerning music lover, but even more to win the praises of your contemporaries in the business. Steve Tilston has managed to do both, winning fans with both his poignant, insightful songs and his remarkable guitar playing, and the evidence for this feat can be witnessed in an intimate gig in Exeter this weekend.

The accolades come thick and fast whenever Steve's name is mentioned in English folk circles. He has been described as an artist of "stylistic versatility and consummate musicality", "a complete guitarist", "a singer songwriter of rare talent" and "absurdly accomplished".

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Peers Sing His Praises and His Songs ; It Takes a Lot of Talent to Impress the Discerning Music Lover, but Even More to Win the Praises of Your Contemporaries in the Business. Steve Tilston has Managed to Do Both, Winning Fans with Both His Poignant, Insightful Songs and His Remarkable Guitar Playing, and the Evidence for This Feat Can Be Witnessed in an Intimate Gig in Exeter This Weekend.

Ralph McTell says of Steve: "When our generation of songwrite...

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