Gwyn Ashton
Prohibition


Tracks:

1. Get Up, Get Over It
2. Medley: Come On/Don't Walk, Run!
3. Back To You
4. Castaway
5. Secret Agent
6. Ain't My Style
7. Prohibition
8. The Road Is My Religion
9. Ball And Chain
10. Are You Lonely
11. Guitar Town
12. Rest In Paradise (For Stevie)
13. Judgement Day
14. Shake It On Down

Line up:

Gwyn Ashton - Guitars, Vocals
Chris Glen - Bass
Ted McKenna - Drums
Don Airey - Keyboards (track 8,10)

Record Label / Year of Release:

Riverside Records 2007

Notes:

Gwyn Ashton (born 1961, Wales) is a blues and rock guitarist. Welsh-born Ashton migrated to Adelaide, South Australia in the 1960s, picked up a guitar at 12 and from the age of 16 and played many bars and festivals in the area.

He relocated to Sydney in the 1980s, playing stints with Swanee and Stevie Wright. With his own band, he played stages nationwide – some in the middle of nowhere, fronted with chicken wire, sometimes driving for days through the outback to get to the next show.

In the 1990s he moved to Melbourne, played with Jim Keays and Mick Pealing, recorded his first two albums and opened for Junior Wells, Rory Gallagher, Steve Morse and Albert Lee.

Following record company advice to base himself where the best record sales were happening for him, in 1996 Ashton moved to the UK to be located closer to Europe.

In 2006 Ashton recorded Prohibition with Chris Glen (Sensational Alex Harvey Band), Ted McKenna (Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore) and Don Airey (Deep Purple, Rainbow, Whitesnake). First available in 2006 as i-download, in 2007 released on cd by Riverside Records.