Moonshine music.
Renegade Americana.
Welcome to The Long Road…
… where a single mad idea led us back to the roots of American music, exploring and reimagining its essence to create something original and powerful.
We call it Moonshine Music…
… a distillation of authentic ingredients with a touch of heat and magic, conjuring rare and raw spirits through captivating melodies and storytelling.
Join us on this musical journey
and experience the potent magic.
Check out our discography
All our records, past, present and even some future!
Including download links for media people/DJs.
What’s happening on The Long Road?
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Latest record: HTSAT EP
Our Arts Council England-supported project to create a mental health wellbeing show is well under way. How To Survive and Thrive in an Impossible World - with a piano! is on tour now - and this is some of the music from it!
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American Wilderness Odyssey tour pack
Join three adventurers on an incredible journey, searching for the moonshine, myth and madness of the American Wilderness.
An evening of stories and songs. Tales of outlaws, ghost towns, the emigrant, the doomed lover, the extraordinary lives of ordinary people, real and imagined.
If you’re a venue programmer, get in touch today!
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Rise of the Artisan documentary
Folk songs are the oldest human expression, but their definition remains open. The Long Road believes “folk” music is about extraordinary stories of ordinary people, expressed authentically and intimately. As committed artisans, they embrace the troubadour tradition, singing about real life rather than conforming to mainstream programmed music. They are part of a global brotherhood of troubadours, united by their heartfelt songs.
Steve Bonham
and The Long Road
Moonshine? Take a few simple ingredients and conjure up some raw spirit... Take Americana, folk, country blues, the spirit of the trail, the hobo and the outlaw. Take three guys with a 100 years of performing all over the world between them and a mad passion to renew this beautiful dirt music.
Three albums in (Reliance, The Girl with the Rattlesnake Heart and American Wilderness Odyssey) - this is band on the move.
Recipe: fry yourself up some country blues and Dr John; a slice or two of some Honky Tonk and Folk; a portion of Professor Longhair and some best quality Americana. Sprinkle in a finest ground Rock and a thicken with some slow voodoo and some of that fiery Cajun jazz and you’ve got a night to remember!
Steve Bonham
and The Bishop
Good-Time Music for a mixed-up world!
Kickback, pour yourself a long one or a table full of small ones. Get your friends on board and listen to Steve Bonham and the Bishop (Christopher Lydon) and if you haven’t got any friends you soon will have. Let’s stir up the magic with great songs spanning the whole damned gamut from Louisiana to London, New Jersey to Newcastle, the Mississippi to the Mersey – stuff you’ve heard before and stuff you wish you had heard before. An evening or hell make it the morning, noon and night too, to let go and enjoy some toe-tapping, table-thumping, hand-clapping delight. A bit of country, a bit of swampy blues, some Stones, Springsteen and Dr John. You know it’s time for a gooooodddd-time.
Steve Bonham
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Steve Bonham is a storyteller, a published author, an inveterate traveller, for decades a songwriter, performer and musician, and an award-winning psychologist. Born in Derbyshire, England, Steve studied psychology and philosophy at university. He has recorded more than 10 albums; written two musicals; and several books including his latest: A Beautiful Broken Dream. He is the author of the Vagabond Philosopher blog and proud member of The Long Road.