Tinsley Waterhouse

Tinsley Robert Waterhouse is an Australian R&B and blues musician. He has performed in various groups since the late 1960s, initially as a drummer. As a vocalist he led numerous line-ups of the Tinsley Waterhouse Band from July 1980. They have released three albums, After the Mudd You've Got ... The Tinsley Waterhouse Band (October 1982), Hangin' Round, and I've Been Dreaming (1988).

Biography

Tinsley Robert Waterhouse, started as a drummer in the 1960s in Melbourne, first with blues groups, the Gravy Train and then the Horse before briefly joining a New Zealand-formed band, Chants R&B in mid-1967. He formed Tinsley Waterhouse's Old Tracks in 1979, which became the Tinsley-Townsend Band in April of the following year and then the Tinsley Waterhouse Band in July 1980.

Tinsley Waterhouse Band's debut album, After the Mudd You've Got ... The Tinsley Waterhouse Band, appeared in October 1982 via EMI Custom. In March of the following year his backing band were Joyce and Roberston joined by Paul Hitchins on drums (ex-the Sports, Nighthawks), Chris Stockley on guitar (ex-Cam-Pact, Axiom, Dingoes, Stockley See Mason Band, Rock Doctors), and Neil Wyatt on saxophone (ex-Dutch Tilders, Keith Lamb's Airport). As of early 2020, Waterhouse, in his seventies, was still performing.

Discography

Albums

After the Mudd You've Got ... The Tinsley Waterhouse Band (October 1982) – EMI Custom Hangin' Round (1985) – EMI Custom (YPRX-2240) Direct from the Black Lagoon (1986) Live at the Skull Cave (live album, 1986) I've Been Dreaming (1988) – Cleopatra Records (CLP252) Blues 'n' Western (with Driftwood Lounge) (2010) – Ray Vonn Records (RVRCD102)

Extended plays

Full of Ink an' Talkin' Shorthand (February 1981) – Project 9 Records (DD 10081)

Singles

"Don't Get Mad" (1985)