It's very nice to know your music is reaching out to different parts of the world. Belgium Roots magazine have done a feature on the ‘TUEBROOK’ album and here is the link

https://www.rootstime.be/index.html?https://www.rootstime.be/CD%20REVIEUW/2024/MA1/CD36.html

Its written in Dutch but the translation reads as so … 

John Jenkins is a British folk singer and songwriter from Tuebrook, an area of ​​West Derby in the north-east of Liverpool. “Tuebrook” is also the title of his recently released album with eleven self-composed songs that he arranged, recorded and produced together with multi-instrumentalist Jon Lawton at the 'Crosstown Studios' in Liverpool.

We also include the first two songs on this album in the videos: first you get the opening track "Shadows" and then follows the story about a certain "Christopher Roberts", a long-lost childhood friend from primary school days. The song “William” is also about a boy next door from his youth.

John Jenkins usually writes songs about fictional characters or places, such as in the song “Idaho”, but on this record he also nostalgically returns to his memories of life in Tuebrook, which has a population of barely 15,000, in several autobiographical songs. The album-closing song “Mr. Ford's Hardware Store” is a real memory from his childhood of a tiny store that was always stacked with all kinds of household items.

In the song “A Child's Sense Of Wonder” John Jenkins reminisces about his grandmother with whom he was always very close until her death in 1987. She took care of him and his two sisters until they could go to school . “43 And Counting” is a true story about a woman who was left by her husband for a younger woman. She always wanted to have children, but her husband did not and when he abandoned her she was too old for that. The song “Passing Time” is also about growing older and doubts about whether the most valuable things have been extracted from life so far.

John Jenkins is a storyteller 'pur sang' in folk songs that remind us of the work of someone like the American troubadour James Taylor. The album “Tuebrook” is the successor to the album “If You Can't Forgive You Can't Love”, which was released in August 2021. That album was also created after an intensive collaboration with Jon Lawton and Pippa Murdie, who played and sang along on “Tuebrook” on guitar and mandolin, also played on mandolin. Finally, for the sake of completeness, we would also like to mention that Chris Howard played on keyboards on 'Tuebrook