Justin Morrissey

Hi Everyone!!

Well if you found your way here, then thanks for your continued interest in my music.

Just recently I travelled to the USA, for an artist residency at Salem Art Works in Upstate New York. It was a great experience to work with some of the artists that I met in Germany last year at Salem.

One of the participants from Germany last year was JJ Beck, who has just started up a recording studio called Akin Studios in Hoosick, USA. The studio is on the top level of an huge old brick building, and the timber floors and walls, make the space a really beautiful studio.


I have written these three new songs whilst travelling and experiencing life at the colony, watching how people interact in new countries and how relaxed you can be in the country. I felt at complete peace after being in this place for about 3 days, knowing that I had another several weeks there to just create music and engage in the arts.

I started the Gunbarrel Highway project with a vision to continue my music over the next many years, to come to a place where I was comfortable as a song writer again, after leaving songwriting on the back burner for many years. I thought I might never really write music again, but this project has really brought that back to life, and I think it's really just the beginning of where my music will go.

I am planning on making a full record next year, with the guys from Akin Studios.

I'm trying to get the funds together to make my CD's ahead of time, so that I can pay for them to be produced in the coming month. For me to do that, I just don't have the cash to do it, so I really need your help.

Make sure you let me know your postal address for the CD's!!

Best Wishes
Justin

P.S.
Where did I get the name....? I'm glad you asked that, well the Gunbarrel Highway was laid down or at least surveyed by none other than Len Beadle, an amazing pioneer and adventurers man. The Gunbarrel serviced the first trucks to the nuclear explosion site at Maralinga in South Australia. Now well the Gunbarrel still exists it is one of the most interesting routes and road you will ever take in outback Australia.

P.P.S
As a side note, whilst in the states I also got to jump on this fat boy (wait that sounds kinda kinky) BUT
we were invited to perform at a new Sculpture Park which is opening up in West Rutland and I got to play some traditional Blue grass with this band.

Being a musician is the biggest risk, we play a lot of music and don't really earn a lot of money for it, so making CD's is probably the best way for us to finance buying new strings and getting our instruments repaired - like reskinning my banjo and putting new strings on my ukelule!!! ahhhh