Big Boy Pete and Hilton Valentine

"Merry Skifflemas"

(Released November 2011)

Legendary rockers Big Boy Pete and his old buddy Hilton Valentine (from the Animals) come together to bring you a unique album of Christmas Skiffle songs. A festive blend of traditional oldies and original newbies.

Pete and Hilton first met in 1963 when Pete was playing in Hilton's home town of Newcastle, UK. The previous night, Pete's Gretsch guitar had been stolen and Hilton was trusting enough to lend Pete his own Gretsch Tennessean for a couple of days.

This record was made the old way - with only three days in the recording studio using all analog tape recorders. Everyone playing together and singing at the same time . . . Fun - Fun - Fun!

Click on a song to listen:

1. It's Skifflemas Time
2. Silent Night
3. The Littlest Snowflake
4. Naughty Naughty Santa
5. Yo Ho Ho
6. My Old Man's a Santa
7. I Wanna

8. God Rest Ye Gerry Mulligan
9. Little Drummer Boy
10. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
11. White Christmas
12. Mistletoe Medley
13. The 12 Lays of Christmas
14. Auld Lang Syne

Big Boy Pete and the
Offbeats skiffle group

"Winklepickin"

(Released August 2010)

Who else but Big Boy Pete would make the first real skiffle album in over 50 years!

And he did it with the members of his original group from 1959 - The Offbeats.

No old worn-out skiffle cover songs here, just twelve brand new original tunes, complete with washboard, strumming guitars and upright bass.

Did you know that the Beatles had a skiffle group before they played rock and roll?

Click on a song to listen:

1. Do The Moony
2. Fishin
3. When Lonnie was King
4. Hemsby Gap
5. Last Train from Lowestoft
6. S.H.I.T.E. for Brains

7. The Ballad of Ada Woe
8. A.D.’s Axe
9. The Life of Riley
10. Let’s Make it One in a Row
11. Rum Do
12. Be Better - More Room

Big Boy Pete - "Bark!"

Released May 2010, this is a limited edition CD of only 100 advanced promotional copies.

Take six parts Bach piano preludes. Frost with 12 original new melodies played on guitar that totally meld with - but in no way compromise the original pieces. Result: Bach as never before.

Has anybody had the audacity to deplume Bach as an indentured servant? With great respect for The Master, Pete’s new compositions leave the Bach underlay completely unblemished. and neither undermine their beauty nor overwhelm their significance.

The album ends with a 18 minute rendition of the Largo movement from Dvorak’s New World Symphony which is played by a solitary guitar - accompanied only by the sound of a waterfall.

Click here to listen to a medley of the tunes.

Peter Miller

"Rockin is my Bizness"

Released in 1986. Only a few copies remaining.

One dozen lesser-known rock 'n roll oldies covered in Pete's unique interpretation, leaving no rock unrolled and no guitar unscathed.

From Johnny Cash to Ricky Nelson by way of Brook Benton, these songs should have been hits.

"Claudine" is a previousy unheard compostion written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard.

"Rosalie" is a never-before-heard song that came from a demo tape by legendary songsmiths Johnny and Dorsey Burnette.

The back-up musicians on this record are all world-class players in their own right.

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