Having a way with words keeps the wolf from freelance journalist Tim Wyatt’s door, but now the self-confessed “fairly tarnished” man is going back to his musical roots and is bringing out an album.

After 40 years of being apart, he is back with a long-lost musician friend he met in London in the Seventies with who he produced one of the first independently released records on the British music scene.

Called I Am, I Think, it’s now a record collector’s cult classic with a price tag of at least £150 says former Telegraph & Argus journalist Tim, who made a six-foot replica of the record and wheeled it round the streets of London to get it noticed first-time round.

“It’s got to be said the stunt never did much for sales but because we only released a few at a time, they’re like gold dust now and collectors will part with anything from £150 to £200 for a copy,” he said.

A listing in the Vinyl Bible evolved into a feature in a collectors magazine and an interview with Tim and the other half of the duo, Kris Gray, who had married and moved on, and was tracked down to Germany.

“A couple of days after the article appeared, the phone went and it was Kris. I flew out to see him and we decided we should record again. He’s good with tunes, I’m good with lyrics,” says Tim.

Now the pair, who were born within a month of each other at the tail end of the post-war baby boom, have collaborated on a new album, Naming The Darkness, recorded in a studio in Germany in February.

The album is due out in September and the duo, Gray and Wyatt, will embark on a small tour, seven or eight gigs planned so far, around Germany to promote it.

As a teaser, they are releasing a single, Deutsche Girls, which is already getting a lot of radio play on the Continent and interest here in the UK.

“It’s all observational stuff about our lives and the world in general from fairly tarnished middle-aged men. It’s not doom laden but it’s realistic in a humorous kind of way,” says Tim, of Bingley.

“It’s journalism in music, looking at the world through a different prism and making comments.”

Tim has a guest slot at Calverley Folk Day tomorrow at the New Inn at 6pm and will be performing some tracks from his forthcoming album, including Middle-Aged Swine, Metaphysical Blues and When My Karma Ran Over Your Dogma.

To keep up to date with Gray and Wyatt find them on Facebook or go to grayandwyatt.com.

Other bands and artists lined up for Calverley Folk Day at the New Inn from 1pm include Reel Jiggy, Rum Doodle, Muppett, Saltaire bard and Otley walking festival minstrel Eddie Lawlor, Heather Woodhead, Punjabi folk band Anjaana and headliners the Jon Palmer Acoustic Band.

Sessions and singarounds are also happening at the New Inn between the guest slots, all day at the Thornhill pub and at the Conservative Club from 4pm.

To find out more call 07913 977665, twitter @calverleyfolk, or e-mail calverleyfolkday@gmail.com.