AhGeeBe is the stage name of Welsh songwriter, pedal-steel player and general all round multi- instrumentalist, Rhodri Gwyn Brooks. Through the past decade performing and recording with various artists (Melin Melyn, Gia Margaret, Novo Amor, Georgia Ruth & Ivan Moult to name a few), Rhodri has drawn on inspiration from artists such as George Harrison, Wilco and Neil Young, to produce his distinct brand of country Americana. Through Bubblewrap, Rhodri has released lo-fi home recordings and a couple of EP’s under his own name, as well as a Welsh Music Prize nominated album ‘Pontvane’, alongside Eugene Capper. Now, a decade in the making, AhGeeBe’s debut album ‘Chin Up, Chief‘ drops on November 3rd, through Bubblewrap CollecTve. Rhodri shares some of his thoughts and processes… Over the years I’ve come to realise that I much prefer playing for other arTsts, and collaboraTng with people, more than wriTng and releasing my own music with all the ffaff and headspace it takes up. But here we are. The name of the record comes from a line in TV show Fargo, where police officer Molly tries to cheer up the police Chief. It stuck with me and seemed all too fidng a Ttle for the songs as a whole. Musically I wanted to make an album with all the sounds and feel I really love from arTsts like George Harrison, Wilco, Neil Young etc with piano and acousTc guitar, interupted by spikey electric guitars or mad fuzz solos with a solid slight funk to the rhythm secTon – my akempt to sound like a David Axelrod record. I got a pedal steel guitar around 3 years ago so there’s a veriety of bokleneck slide, lapsteel, and pedal steel guitar on the record. And then on the flip side, have moments of calm and sparsity, with room to woozily meander around.