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Steve Bonham is a storyteller, a published author, an inveterate traveller, for decades a songwriter, performer and musician, and an award-winning psychologist. Born in Derbyshire, England, Steve studied psychology and philosophy at university. He has recorded more than 10 albums; written two musicals; and several books including his latest: A Beautiful Broken Dream. He is the author of the Vagabond Philosopher blog and proud member of The Long Road

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Moonshine? Take a few simple ingredients and conjure up some raw spirit... Take Americana, folk, country blues, the spirit of the trail, the hobo and the outlaw. Take three guys with a 100 years of performing all over the world between them and a mad passion to renew this beautiful dirt music.

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Steve Bonham and The Long Road have gone back to the source to make music born of rediscovery, reinvention and reimagining. The outcome? A year-long mission exploring the moonshine, myth and madness of America through a collection of songs to be progressively released as 4 EPs And now comes the 2nd: Moonshine Elegy

Moonshine Elegy - released late April 2020. The tracks which were recorded in an intense 8 day session at Woodworm Studios in Oxfordshire in January. All the songs are written by Steve or in partnership with Kev and Chris. All the instruments were played by the band creating what we feel is an incredible sense of togetherness and vibe on each song. Moonshine Running is good ol’ piece of country rock in praise of the moonshine drivers of legend. The Ballad of Duane and Billy Marie is a change of mood, something the band do well. Enigmatic and mysterious it grew out of a trek on foot Steve made through the Appalachian forests and mountains and is co-written with Kev. The structure shifts and changes with some great guitar from Kev and echoing ghostly piano from Chris. It is at once strange and yet absolutely Americana. This edgy sound is continued on Canyons in the Desert. A sense of threat, of being lost, a voice offering salvation but how real is it? The last track: Silver Moon, Silver Girl takes a New Orleansy feel with Chris’s piano letting you know exactly where it is coming from. A surreal road trip of a song.

Moonshine Elegy close to release - preparing videos and back up materials for April Launch.

Renegade Americana for the outlaw in us all

Steve Bonham performances

Look for solo, duo and whole band performances from Steve Bonham with his great compadres; Chris 'the Bishop' Lydon and the 'Big Man' Kev Moore.

Also Steve appears a book and arts festivals combining his poetry, songs and stories

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Renegade Americana! Raw and gutsy, plaintive and gentle, it’s singular music, part Americana, part roots, and something that speaks to us all.

A unique and personal exploration in words and music of the myth of America, and a universal journey of self-discovery.

Wide brimmed hat. Long dark coat. Guitar slung on back. 21 years on the road. A 100,000 miles and half a thousand hotel rooms. From the Berlin Wall to Atlas Mountains, from Sahara Desert to the streets of Hong Kong: a memory brewed in the long simmering soup of people and place. A man who has learned to watch and to listen, to walk and talk in the ebb and flow of meeting and parting. He is a chronicler of the human spirit in words and music.