Karl Broadie Album Cover Image 2013

Hanging Out With The Music Men Part Three! I will always remember the day in 2013 when I was just pottering around the apartment when the message lit up on Facebook. Good friend Karl Brodie who recently completed work on his fifth album shot through the front cover artwork. At first I was not sure if it was my image of Karl on the cover. But after close inspection of his recent image folder I found that it was one of the images we created together a few months earlier on Bronte Road and at the back of the Curious Cafe also located on Bronte Road. The image from our extensive photographic shoot that made the front cover of “A Side B Side Seaside” was one of the Curious Cafe images. Karl and I were totally relaxed and just hanging loose as the saying goes which I think helped heaps when we found our backdrops to compose our imagery. I was really looking forward to listening to more soulful sounds and new offerings from one Scotland’s finest musical talents. Karl was originally from my home patch the beautiful city of Edinburgh, Scotland. And like this displaced Scotsman he spent many years living and working in and around Leith! Karl was a recipient of the International Songwriting Contest (Americana category) in 2005. He also won Golden Guitar Nominee 2014 for Alt-Country Album of The Year Published by Mushroom Music. Karl Broadie had hundreds of co-writes and has a multitude of cuts on other artist’s records. Sadly Karl passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer on the morning of the 19th of April, 2016.