In 1975, after spending 5 years as a floor singer around the many folk clubs in the North East of England as well as being a resident singer at the famous Davylamp Folk Club in Washington, BOB FOX met fellow North Easterner TOM McCONVILLE and his career as a professional folk singer/musician began.

In the duo with TOM he toured the vibrant folk club scene of mid 70’s Britain playing a mixture of Irish and Scottish dance music and singing mainly traditional songs primarily from their native North East, TOM on fiddle and BOB playing guitar and piano.

After 2 very successful years BOB and TOM parted company and the duo with ex Hedgehog Pie man STU LUCKLEY was formed.

This proved to be one of the most innovative and highly acclaimed collaborations ever seen on the folk scene and led to BOB FOX and STU LUCKLEY releasing their first album “NOWT SO GOOD’LL PASS” which was voted FOLK ALBUM OF THE YEAR and remains a unique and classic album.

In 1978 COLIN IRWIN wrote an article in MELODY MAKER entitled “A Meeting of Two Minds” in which he described them as “the progressive dynamic duo” and went on “Great White Hopes of Folk are such a rarity you’ll forgive us for making an excessive fuss when we encounter one, two even!

Following the success of this L.P. BOB and STU were in great demand and played almost every folk club and festival in the U.K. including CAMBRIDGE, CROPREDY, EDINBURGH, FYLDE, CORNWALL, and were support artists on major British tours for RICHARD and LINDA THOMPSON and RALPH McTELL.

The duo also toured GERMANY, HOLLAND, AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND in their own right and released a second album “WISH WE NEVER HAD PARTED” in 1982 before breaking up to pursue individual projects.

Since that time BOB has continued to work as a solo artist.

He has also been singer/keyboard player in Celtic Band THE RUB and in the short lived VIN GARBUTT BAND.

He has been FOLK ARTIST IN RESIDENCE for the District of Blyth Valley and MUSIC DEVELOPMENT WORKER for Easington District Council during which time he was inspired by the discovery of a photographic archive to produce a songs/slide show with BENNY GRAHAM celebrating the rich and varied culture of the coal mining communities of Durham and Northumberland “HOW ARE YOU OFF FOR COALS?”

This project brought BOB back to recording after almost 15 years when he and BENNY produced a CD collection of mining songs “HOW ARE YOU OFF FOR COALS?” FECD 111 and the following year re-recorded 14 songs from his albums with STU on the CD “BOX OF GOLD” FECD 124 (Fellside Recordings, Cumbria.)