“…..Too often with Reg it is easy to overlook the skilled musician because your focus is held by the lyricism and cleverly woven stories.
From his opening chords the audience was spellbound and the magic lasted throughout the performance. This ability to captivate the listener is clearly one of his greatest strengths but like Thackray, Reg also has a real talent for playing with words.
His inspiration is from many sources but he researches the events before re-telling them in haunting songs such as Lizzie Loved A Highwayman, which strips away the romanticism from the tale of Dick Turpin.
However, best known and by far one of the most moving songs was And Jesus Wept, which tells the story of a private, one of 306 men shot at dawn for cowardice in the First World War.”
