Biography
Whilst still too early to clarify all details it appears that Trailer Star’s truck left the bend on a deserted part of the Berkshire downland between Reading and Newbury late Tuesday 28th January 2003. Police who were quickly upon the scene could not revive the already ailing folk country star who it appeared had been drinking. There was a half bottle of scotch on the passenger seat and some female clothing from an as yet unidentified passenger who had notified the police. In a chilling re-enactment of the circumstances of his favourite artist Jackson Pollock’s death on Jackson's birthday and in the same manner it appears that it could have been suicide or simply coincidence. The truck had rolled three times demolishing the driver side but leaving the passenger side miraculously intact.
Tributes from Trailer Star’s chequered past started streaming in as soon as news agencies were informed. His pivotal position in the development of English country Blues is now sealed by this tragic crash. A close friend the artist Shaun Belcher said...well he went out in a truly rock and roll way which is what he would have wanted. Mr. Belcher, an abstract painter, is now heir to a considerable archive tucked away over years in the crumbling caravan where the Trailer spent his last years. “ there’s a hell of a lot in there” said an understandably upset Mr. Belcher. “Letters. Old reel to reel tapes, songs, even half completed autobiography which he was working on at his death. It’ll take years to archive and preserve it all but I’ll try. Some of the stuff goes back to the late sixties and there are even a few drawings and stuff”.
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Not all the tributes were so fulsome...a colleague from the pig farm the Trailer Star had recently lost his employment at said …’well ‘ee wasn’t quite the full ticket in my opinion...and he drank too much...never did quite fit in round here if you know what I mean...we is god fearing people...he talked about devil too much for my liking...probably down there with him now” For now the single late cd the Floodplain demos is all we have to remember him by.
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