about the author
Max Bolch (* 1994) is a physician, amateur musician and occasional writer from Germany. As a physician, he wants to provide talk-orientated primary care to the Bavarian-Czech border area. As an amateur musician he is interested in the intersection area between European folk, classical and pop music, especially focussing on the electric guitar and various kinds of stringed and keyboard instruments. His main band is The Lindau Project, which re-imagines the music of Popol Vuh (www.thelindauproject.de). As an occasional writer he occasionally writes shorter and longer stories, essays, songs and the odd poem.
to contact the author
you may write a mail to: maximilian.bolch@gmail.com
Any comments you send - anecdotes, kind words, opinions, corrections, criticism, new sources - are welcome and shall in some way be reflected on this site, given time.
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donations
In order to keep this website as ad-free as any real book in a real library, I am paying a small amount of money per month for the operation of this site. Sometimes, some more money is necessary to obtain relevant sources - and not least I'd like to do a research trip to the UK. Donations for all those causes may be made using Ko-Fi or Go-Fund-Me (links in the footline). Cheers!
last but not least - the credits.
I thank all the lovely people who have contributed to the project by sending mails, agreeing to interviews or sharing various documents or sources - Royston Wood's friends, family members, colleagues and acquaintances, and all the other wonderful people from the British and American folk scene. A more or less complete contributors' list will follow at a later stage of this project.
Special thanks apply to Mr. Mike Butler, the acclaimed author from Manchester who is currently working on the fascinating multi-part biography Sounding the Century (click here) about the English working-class folk music producer Bill Leader (who also happened to collaborate with Royston). Mike is following this project and kindly proofreads the text as it develops, and has, overall, been a great adviser.