Brendan Croker is a musician from Leeds

Leeds

Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

 who has recorded albums under his own name and with occasional backing band The Five O'Clock Shadows. He was also a member of The Notting Hillbillies

The Notting Hillbillies

The Notting Hillbillies was a country music project formed by Mark Knopfler, who was then lead guitarist and singer of the Dire Straits, with Brendan Croker, Steve Phillips, and Knopfler's bandmate Guy Fletcher. They made just one album, Missing...Presumed Having a Good Time. This album was...

. During the late 1980s he was an auxiliary member of The Mekons and a full-time member of Sally Timms

Sally Timms

Sally Timms is an English singer and songwriter. Timms is best known for her long involvement with the Mekons whom she joined in 1985....

 and the Drifting Cowgirls.

He has recorded with Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...

, Tanita Tikaram

Tanita Tikaram

Tanita Tikaram is a British pop/folk singer-songwriter, best known for the hits "Twist in My Sobriety" and "Good Tradition" from her 1988 debut album, Ancient Heart...

, Mark Knopfler

Mark Knopfler

Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE is a Scottish-born British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977...

, Kevin Coyne

Kevin Coyne

Kevin Coyne was a musician, singer, composer, film-maker, and a writer of lyrics, stories and poems. The former "anti-star" was born on 27 January 1944 in Derby, UK, and died in his adopted home of Nuremberg, Germany, on 2 December 2004....

, and Chet Atkins

Chet Atkins

Chester Burton Atkins , known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle...

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Albums

• Central Station Hotel (1985)
• A Close Shave (1986)
• Boat Trips in The Bay (1987)
• On The Big Hill (1988) - soundtrack
• Brendan Croker and The 5 O'Clock Shadows (1989)
• Country Blues Guitar (1990) - instrumental
• The Great Indoors (1991)
• Time Off (1992)
• Made in Europe (1993)
• Redneck State of The Art (1995)
• The Kershaw Sessions (1995)
• Three Chord Lovesongs (1996)
• Not Just A Hillbilly... More Like a Best of Brendan Croker (2000)
• Life Is Almost Wonderful

External links

• Website
• [ Brendan Croker] at Allmusic