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Clive Collins — Banjo exponent in Stoney Lonesome
Clive Collins was born in 1944 in Palmerston North and after living in numerous towns during his childhood, eventually settled in Christchurch in 1961. He is now retired and lives with his wife of 48 years Lesley. After a lifetime of playing many musical instruments in numerous bands, he finally laid his instruments down five years ago and took up photography with the acquisition of a serious Nikon camera. While he spent most of his early years concentrating on landscapes, he now enjoys the challenge of capturing high quality bird images.
Clive and friends played in various string bands and when the guitarist in his old-timey Instantaneous String Band departed, he drafted fellow Folk Centre regular Jim Doak in as a replacement. But the band didn't last and by early 1968 it was just Collins and Doak. At the end of the year, The Beale Street String Benders disbanded and Collins and Doak reverted to a duo using the moniker Amelia's Custard Crooners as a nod to the Country Touch episode. They added upright bass player and tenor singer Miles Reay and became The Stoney Lonesome Boys — so named after Bill Monroe's bluegrass instrumental "Stoney Lonesome". |
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