With thanks to Andy

Welcome to the Hunter Muskett website.

Formed in 1968 and still going strong, Hunter Muskett are:

  • Terry Hiscock - acoustic and electric guitars, slide guitar, piano, vocals
  • Doug Morter - acoustic and electric guitars, vocals
  • Rog Trevitt - bass guitar, mandolin, vocals

News

RnR Magazine: new album - sneak preview

The latest (March-April) edition, of RnR Magazine offers a sneak-preview of the new Muskett album. Ahead of release the track 'Roll On Woody' is featured in the magazine's 'Un-Herd' sampler CD. Written by Terry (with a little help from Woody Guthrie and a nudge from Marj Mitchell at Dartford Folk Club), the song is set to be the opener on the forthcoming CD.

RnR, March-April, is available from 15th March at all good newsagents.
Looking ahead, a full band article by Jeremy Searle is scheduled to appear in RnR's May-June edition.

New Muskett album

With the everything now all but complete, we are looking to have the new album ready for the spring tour at latest.
Of our earlier recordings only the Bradley's CD, 'Hunter Muskett', is now officially available (from Airmail Recordings, Tokyo).

However, all original band tracks from 'That Was Then This Is Now' and 'Unafraid and Sober' are now available for download on Bandcamp.

Muskett - Dutch Folk Pioneers

Back in the day Tom Steenbergen booked a host of UK 'folk' acts onto tours of Holland. We stayed with Tom whilst over there playing the usual places: De Toverbal in Maassluis, Theater De Lantaren in Rotterdam, The Paradiso in Amsterdam... Back in the UK Tom caught up with us in Island studios during our recording sessions with Keith Relf.
After rising to the dizzy heights of marketing director at Polygram Tom has finally taken time out to write down his memories from those early days. His book, 'Folk Pioneers - Roots & Singer-Songwriters', contains a wealth of detail on the visiting acts - Hunter Muskett included. Exactly what Tom says about us is unclear as, despite the English title, the book is in Dutch!

 Muskett CD released in Japan

Our 1973 album Hunter Muskett has been re-released in Japan by Air Mail Recordings of Tokyo. The CD using the original 70s artwork features 12 tracks: the original nine tracks, the John Blair single and, for the first time since the 1970s, the two tracks from 'Bradleys live at the Marquee'.

Muskett in WH Smith

Michael Bjorn’s article on the band is now available in ‘Shindig’ magazine issue #133. The article, to be found under the ‘The Vinyl Clicks’ section, covers Muskett in the Bradleys era and includes the photo of the band performing at the Festival Hall London in, 1973.  Shindig magazine is available on the shelves of all good news-agents.

Tending the Pale Bloom – on-line interview

Texas retrospective website ‘Tending the Pale Bloom’ approached the band for an on-line interview on the Hunter Muskett story. For those with an hour and a half to spare Roger’s exhaustive (not to say exhausting) conversation with Greg Chance is now available on:
Muskett interview – Tending the Pale Bloom

The French Connection
Bradley’s CD to coincide with Keith Relf Biography

A Heart Full of Soul: The Life of the Yardbird’s Keith Relf written by US author David French and published by McFarland Books is now available in the UK.  This is the first full biography of the singer and harmonica player.

As Keith produced our 1973 album ‘Hunter Muskett’ David asked us to help him with a few memories from those times, both in the studio and later on tour with the Bradley’s Roadshow. Sadly we were unable to provide a photo of us with Keith (as far as we know none were taken), but David has kindly included the album sleeve in his book.

Many thanks to Yardbird expert Josh Cicek who also helped with the book. Josh contacted us from Australia with some Muskett tracks copied from Keith’s personal tapes – including an alternative version of Laze Around All Day.

The Hunter Muskett CD re-released to coincide with the book is now sold out.

Leave It With Mine – Archie Fisher

After performing Terry’s song ‘Leave It With Mine’ at the Edinburgh Fringe, Archie Fisher has now released a live version. It appears on the CD ‘The Best Times After All’ recorded in Canada by Archie along with Garnett Rogers. There is also a projected studio version in the pipeline. This is in keeping with Archie’s habit of recording Terry’s songs twice – he recorded two versions of ‘Silver Coin’ some years ago.

Terry's solo CD – Falling More Slowly

All but two of the songs are Hiscock originals and Terry plays the instruments himself with just a little help from Tom Leary on fiddle. Noel Gander and Gayna Taylor contribute vocals and John Ellis, who did Muskett's 'That Was Then This Is Now' CD, engineered at his Limefield Studio.
We could tell you how good it is but why not read an impartial review in FATEA on-line magazine Terry Hiscock CD review?
Copies of the CD are available by contacting Terry's website or by going to one of his solo gigs also listed on the site (assuming he remembers to take them along).

As always, if you would like to get in touch do feel free to use our e-mail link on the ‘Contact Us’ page

Best Wishes

Hunter Muskett

Available Albums

Hunter Muskett

Hunter Muskett

CD now available from Air Mail Recordings, Tokyo

Unafraid and Sober

Unafraid and Sober

Streaming available at Hunter Muskett Bandcamp (all tracks except The Scarecrow)

That was Then, This is Now

That was then this is now

Streaming available at Hunter Muskett Bandcamp (all tracks except Walk Away Renée)

Live Dates

Hunter Muskett FULL BAND Dates

2024

April

Fri 5 Milkmaid Folk Club, Risbygate Sports Club, Westley Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 3RR
Sat 6 The Gather Centre, Ennerdale Bridge, Cumbria CA23 3AR
Tues 9 Dartford Folk Club, Dartford Working Men's Club, 40 Essex Road, Dartford, Kent DA1 2AU
Wed 10 Redbourn Folk Club, Old School Room at The Hollybush, Church End, Redbourn AL3 7DU
Fri 12 Orpington Liberal Club, 7 Station Road Orpington Kent BR6 0RZ
Sat 13 Southern Maltings, Kibes Lane, Ware Herts SG12 7BS
Fri 19 North Ferriby Village Hall, 50 Church Road, North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, HU14 3AA
Sat 20 Zeffirelli's Jazz Bar, 2 Compston Rd, Ambleside LA22 9DJ
Sun 21 Grimsby Folk and Acoustic, Spider's Web, Carr Lane, Grimsby NE Lincs DN32 8LN
Mon 22 Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street Colchester, Essex CO1 1NF

May

Wed 8 Haverfolk, The Golden Lion, 2 High St, Romford, Essex RM1 1HR
Thur 9 Bowes Park Folk Club, Mum's Bistro, Myddleton Road, N22 8NG

July

Tues 9 Bølgen, Svendborg Havn, Funen, Denmark
Thur 11 Forsamlingshus, Skovsbovej 338, Egense - 5700, Svendborg, Funen, Denmark
Sat 13 Private Party, Stenstrup, Funen, Denmark

October

Wed 30 Faversham Folk Club, The Limes, Preston Street, Faversham ME13 8PG
Thurs 31 Bishops Stortford Acoustic Club, South Mills Arts Centre, 1-3 South Road, Bishops Stortford CM23 3IG

November

Fri 1 Hadleigh Folk & Acoustic, Ansell Centre, Market Place, Hadleigh, Suffolk IP7 5DL
Sun 3 Readifolk, Watlington House, 44 Watlington Street, Reading RG1 4RA
Mon 4 Tonbridge Folk Club, Ye Olde Chequers Inn, 122 High St, Tonbridge, TN9 1AS
Tues 5 St Neots Folk Club, The Eatons Community Centre, 18 The Maltings, Eaton Socon, St Neots PE19 8ES
Thur 7 Black Swan Folk Club, Peasholme Green, York, YO1 7PR
Fri 8 Water Yeat Village Hall, Water Yeat, Ulverston LA12 8DJ
Sun 10 Barny's Live Music, The Queen Victoria Pub, 5 Gloucester Street, Stroud GL5 1QG
Tue 12 Bracknell Folk Club, The Forester's Arms, 173, London Rd, Bagshot  GU19 5DH
Wed 13 Willows Folk Club, Wrea Green, Wrea Green Institute, Preston PR4 2PH
Thurs 14 Newport Folk Club, Newport Fugitives Athletic Club, High Cross Road, Newport NP10 9AE 
Sat 16 CAA Club, 20 Bedford Street, London WC2E 9HP
Thur 21 Wivenhoe Folk Club, The Royal British Legion, The Quay, Wivenhoe, Essex CO7 9BX
Fri 22 Cambridge Folk Club, The Golden Hind, 355 Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1SP
Sun 24 Folk on the Moor Moorland Hotel, Wotter, Devon, PL7 5HP
Wed 27 Dorking Folk Club, Dorking Golf Club, Deepdene Avenue, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 4BX .

If anyone out there would like to book us , or if you know someone who might, then please get in touch.

Terry’s Solo/Duo dates:

Please go to Terry’s Website  for a full listing

Zen and Meow

That was Zen this is Meow

With thanks to John Lamb for his reinterpretation....