Reg Meuross

The release in November 2019 of RAW completed Meuross's trilogy of unaccompanied (by other musicians) albums, on which only Meuross himself sings and plays his instruments, being guitar, banjo, dulcimer, tenor guitar and harmonica.

Meuross co-wrote Seth Lakeman's first single "Divided We Will Fall" from the album The Well Worn Path released on the Cooking Vinyl label in November 2018.

Meuross's 2018 album 12 Silk Handkerchiefs comprises a song cycle with narrated interludes, which together encapsulate the history of the 1968 Hull triple trawler tragedy in which 58 men died, and the subsequent campaign led by fishwife Lillian Bilocca for improved safety conditions on trawlers.

Inspired by the book The Headscarf Revolutionaries by Brian W. Lavery, the full song cycle was first performed as a multimedia show in Hull Minster on 8 November 2018, with Lavery narrating, and local Hull musicians Sam Martyn and Mick McGarry completing the musical line-up with Meuross.

In 2017 Meuross released Faraway People, the title track of which was awarded Song of the Year 2017 in Fatea Magazine's annual awards show.

December, released in 2016 was the first in a trilogy of completely unaccompanied Reg Meuross albums, with no other musicians involved in the recordings. This was among Martin Chilton of The Telegraph's selection for Best Folk Albums of 2016.

Meuross's Leaves and Feathers album was released in 2013, and his album England Green and England Grey was released in 2014.

In 2011 Meuross released The Dreamed and the Drowned, a collection of previously unreleased tracks recorded between 2006 and 2011.

In 2010 Meuross released All This Longing, an all-acoustic album featuring Paul Sartin (Bellowhead), Andy Cutting on accordion, Jackie Oates on viola, Simon Edwards on bass and Roy Dodds (Fairground Attraction) on percussion. The album includes the song "The Heart Of Ann Lee" which tells the story of the Manchester-born 18th century founder of the Shakers, Ann Lee, who rejected sex but was forced into marriage, bearing four children (and four stillborn) "taken before they were ten", before fleeing to the United States to escape persecution.

Meuross toured until 2009 with Hank Wangford and The Lost Cowboys as a member of the band and also as a solo artist with Hank Wangford on the "No Hall Too Small" tour.

July 2008 brought the release of Dragonfly. One of its songs, "And Jesus Wept", was inspired by the true story of Harry Farr, a first World War soldier who, having served his country for two years in the trenches, began to suffer the effects of shell-shock and was shot at dawn for cowardice and desertion. "Lizzie Loved a Highwayman" is the true story of highwayman Dick Turpin. Romanticised by generations, "Lizzie" is told from the viewpoint of Turpin's unfortunate widow. These two songs were performed by Meuross at the Royal Albert Hall on 25 March 2009, as part of a concert for the Teenage Cancer Trust. The title track of the album, "Dragonfly", is written about the events of 9/11 and the 7 July bombings in London.

Meuross's solo recording and touring career began in 1996. As a solo artist he has released 14 albums. In his review of December in 2016 Robin Denselow described Meuross in The Guardian as "…one of the more versatile, under-sung survivors of the English acoustic scene."

In 1996 Meuross released his first solo album, The Goodbye Hat. It was followed by Short Stories in 2004, and Still in 2006.

Following his work with The Panic Brothers, Meuross formed a roots band, The Flamingos, featuring ex-Graham Parker guitarist Martin Belmont, Bob Loveday from the Penguin Café Orchestra & Bob Geldof's band and Alison Jones of The Barely Works. The Flamingos recorded the album Arrested in 1991.

Meuross first emerged on the British acoustic music scene when he formed The Panic Brothers with comedian Richard Morton in 1986. Five years of touring and TV work followed their album In The Red, produced by Clive Gregson with the "Brothers" appearing regularly on TV, including Friday Night Live, and at Edinburgh, Sidmouth, Glastonbury and other festivals.

Meuross's work can be described as folk music in the living tradition. He writes about real people and their lives, delivering his songs on stringed instruments – primarily a restored 1944 Martin 017 guitar – that are often played in a fingerpicking style. His subject matter is varied and his repertoire includes songs about historical characters and events, protest songs, political and social commentary, love songs, and flights of imagination inspired by personal experiences.