Andy Sharrocks & The Smokin' Jackets

Andy Sharrocks was born in Manchester and started playing serious music in punk band Accident On The East Lancs. They released 2 singles We Want It Legalised/Tell Me What Ya Mean and Back End Of Nowhere/Rat Race, and an album Shotguns And Hotshots. One journalist recently suggested The Strokes should record Tell Me What Ya Mean.
On his first solo album Walking In Familiar Footsteps, Andy had no other than ex Rolling Stone Mick Taylor guesting on guitar and Paul Jones from The Blues Band and radio 2 fame guesting on blues harp, with Jeff and Tommy Vee, Bobby Vee's sons on bass and drums.