Description
Welsh singer, songwriter, rock and roll pianist and accordionist. He has backed many notable artists, including Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Van Morrison, Mark Knopfler, Paul McCartney, and most recently Status Quo. He has also pursued a solo career and issued a number of albums under his own name.
Aide Memoire is a forty-one track two CD set which draws attention to a wondrous selection of material from albums in a solo career that has only rarely been glimpsed between Watkins’ distinguished work for other artists Most of these songs are examples of his own compositions – shaped by a broad and impeccable taste in music – with the bonus of a small clutch of fabulous renderings of some classic titles, incomparably re-modelled by the same pair of hands.
As a songwriter, Geraint had had his compositions covered by Don McLean, Pokey LaFarge,13 Dave Edmunds,14 NRBQ, Pearl Harbor,15 and the Holmes Brothers16 amongst others.
