The Blackguard album was made to celebrate a new arrival, my new '52 Style Telecaster, made from parts (see guitar bores corner).

One of my students had asked what kind of music you would play on a guitar like that, to which I replied "anything". This collection of instrumentals sets out to do just that. The 12 tracks were recorded soon after I put the guitar together. Only one, "Overhanger" was written before - it was written when I was at college in the early 80s.

The title refers to the nickname given to Fender Broadcaster / Nocaster / Telecasters made between 1948 and 1953. The AD 2007 is a reference to the year mine was put together and the pretty terrible film "Dracula AD 1972".

1. dressing down
2. white van soul man
3. summer rain
4. out of the sun
5. lifeline
6. swamp thing
7. overhanger
8. smokey
9. no morning after
10. sledgehammer
11. reason
12. psych'd