Coltrane on the brain

Ascension – John Coltrane. Free Jazz, with McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and Freddie Hubbard.

Filed under: Jazz

Lord Kitchener: Your Country Needs You!

If political correctness is your bag, read no further, but if you like the frisson of a spicy tale told in a hushed whisper, my darling, read on. Lord Kitchener made his name singing saucy and downright ribald calypsoes. His lyrics tell down-home stories of sexual derring-do, the stories of a naughty, but hugely loveable scallywag, and his wicked ‘Carry On’ exploits.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Music Blog

The Viking of 6th Avenue

In the late 1940s the blind, Louis Thomas Hardin (Moondog), rejected the conventions of society and made his life on the streets of New York.

Filed under: Other Worldly

6 of the best - Angry young men

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Music Blog

Decorated Skin - A World Survey of Body Art by Karl Gröning

Check out this amazing book covering body adornment from all over the world. These decorations have meaning and cultural context. Tattoos from the modern primitive movement don’t compare with these for authenticity, complexity or truth.

Filed under: Music Blog

Devil's Rumble

Step forward my main man, Davie Allan, the axe toting Clint Eastwood of down and dirty fuzz guitar. Link Ray showed the way, here you go lads and lasses, the guitar sounds well cool when it fuzzes and distorts. Taking on board all that Uncle Link could teach him Davie set forth to bring his own ways to bare upon this much loved instrument.

Filed under: Rock 'n' Roll

Sex at Your Parents' House

Badly shaped and fresh faced, art school antics afoot, the Night Train Express with me in tow for a wild night, Loud by Half Japanese was coming out of cheap speakers, masking tape and wire strung, the turntable that played too fast.

Filed under: Music Blog, Other Worldly, Rock 'n' Roll

Controlling Hearts and Get Together Drops?

If you got love trouble, you got a bad woman you can’t control, I got just the thing for you, something called Controlling Hearts and get together drops.
If you work too hard and you need a little rest try my Easel eyes rub, and put some of my balls fix gel in your breakfast.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Blues, Jazz, Music Blog

Acid Drenched Garden of Earthly Delights

Lead by Joseph Byrd, The United States of America were an experimental, psychedelic rock band, mixing avant garde composition with a radical take on progressive music making.

Filed under: Electronic, Rock 'n' Roll

The Loop Digga

Yellow dog head with elongated pig snout. Is this Quasimoto, the Bad Character?
Quasimoto, The Lord Quas, he has a high pitched helium voice, a squeaky rapper, he’s the Loop Digga, his influence come from odd corners, Russ Meyer, the phat beats of David Axelrod and the intergalactic grooves of Jazz freak Sun Ra, the Astro Black numibian with a message for the world

Filed under: Music Blog, Sample-Based

Shut Up! I Hate You. It's Monk Time

With everything there’s always a starting point. Abrasive non-conformists and proto punks running wild in Hamburg, The Monks are that point. The beat group that would be the anti-Beatles, the first Krautrockers and they’re were all American GIs. It’s the 60′s, it’s Germany and it’s The Monks.

Filed under: Rock 'n' Roll

Street Fighting Man: 50 Years of Youth Protest.

Filed under: Eye Candy, Music Blog, Photos, Rock 'n' Roll

Wish You Were Here...

When you perform or make music it’s dependent on mood, emotion, context.

Filed under: Manifesto, Music Blog

MP3's - Eat Your Heart Out

Thinking back to when I first started buying records as a kid, one of the things that helped me decide what to buy that week was the graphics and sleeve designs. I thought I’d collect together a bunch of my favourite generic company sleeves for this post.

Filed under: Eye Candy, Music Blog, Record Art

Sex, death and naughty postcards

From the starting point of COUM Transmissions, a performance art group centred around Genesis P Orridge and the stripper Cosey Fanni Tutti, a notorious history and reputation for confrontation, experimentation and invention was born…

Filed under: Electronic, Music Blog, Other Worldly

Bootlegging, Brawling and Banjos.

Dock Boggs is considered a seminal figure in Country Blues and from the few artifacts we have from his early years its clear to hear why.

Filed under: Blues

Son house - death letters and cat shaving

I got a letter this mornin how do you reckon it read?
It said Hurry, hurry, yeah, your love is dead.

Filed under: Blues

6 of the Best... Wild Indians

For 50 years or more, music from the Indian subcontinent has taken Western influences on board and mirrored them back at us but with a unique twist which is quirkily Indian. Here you will find Bollywood and sitar takes on funk, surf guitar, swing and garage! I’ve tried to include some of the greats of Indian music from composers RD Burman and Kishore Kumar through musicians Ananda Shankar and Shankar Jaikishan to the fantastic vocal talents of Asha Bothle. I’ve finished off with Ravi Harris reversing the trend as a Westerner playing Eastern music. Tune in, Turn on, Wig out.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Music Blog

Fela Kuti's Empty Boasts

Anytime you come across a loud mouthed braggart, He is full of praises for his own power, And what does such talk amount to? Empty Boasts.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Music Blog

Flamenco in Paris during the 1930's: Salim Halali and the Arabic-Andalucian sound

The ‘Chanson Marocaine’ was a Moorish-influenced mix of rumbas, tangos and tziganes. These were Spanish and North African sounds which must have spoken to the desire for the exotic amongst Parisians of the time. 

Filed under: Music Blog, Other Worldly

6 of the Best... Steel City Rockers

Before they gained their international reputation for outré electronica, Warp records were a killer proto-rave label with outstanding Sheffield bleep tunes by the likes of the (then unknown) Aphex Twin, Tricky Disco, Nightmares on Wax, Sweet Excorcist and Coco Steel and Lovebomb.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Music Blog

Inner City Blues and the Gangstarr Boogie in 90's New York

For me, Guru & DJ Premier are essentially telling the same story as Robert Johnson or John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters or Howling Wolf. They are using intelligence and wit to rise above their adversity and to lead others away from the same predicament. The Blues at it’s finest.

Filed under: Blues, Music Blog, Sample-Based

They used to call me Tricky Kid, I lived the life they wish they did

Tricky (in my mind) is a true one off; no other would (or could) imitate the ideas behind his music. In the ten albums to his name to date, there lies a maze of potent material well worth exploration.

Filed under: Music Blog

Mongo Santamaria and the Afro-Cuban Diaspora

When Mongo Santamaria ‘bangs’ the drum, other people listen. He is one of the greatest percussionists ever recorded and to hear his music is a fine privilege indeed.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Jazz, Music Blog

Tequila & Mexican Beers

For a Few Dollars More, I’ll take you down into darkest Mexico where the chica’s eyes flash like daggers, but you just might get your throat cut, Gringo. Mexico; the US’s bad little hermano, where the cactus pricks you like a sharp conscience and where the touch of a woman is a sweet “Aloe Vera”. The legendary land of ‘La Cucaracha’ and of Pancho Villa, of Santa Anna and the Alamo. Let’s go get drunk down in Baja, boys and let’s see if the little men in pantalones brancas don’t come back and bite you on the ass! Que Pasa Hombre?

Filed under: Music Blog

6 of the Best... Rude Rockers

Living in the 21st Century it’s easy to think that we have a monopoly on behaviour of a certain type, that we invented transgressive sexuality and that the frisson one gets when taboo subjects are raised is an entirely new emotion. These records are here to prove that this is not the case.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Rock 'n' Roll

Bold as Brass

What’s the best instrument?

Some people will immediately disagree with me, perhaps they’ll say it’s the guitar, maybe drums, but I’ll always opt for brass. Always. When you hear a killer jazz track with a great horn line that’s the instrument that does the deed, kills it. Stone dead I might add.

Filed under: Manifesto, Music Blog

6 of the Best... Popcorn Tunes

Popcorn is a form of music retrospectively applied to pop music with a rockabilly or rhythm and blues feel. It tells the story of love lost, and other dark tales. It is often linked with Belgium, where some of the tunes come from although many of the tunes were also no-hitters made in the United States. Many of the tunes reinterpret the rhythm and feel of the track ‘Fever’ by Little Willie John.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Music Blog

Masked - Anonymity is Ours

All about the oddball musicians who perform in masks!

Filed under: Music Blog, Other Worldly

Sampling Culture and the Ownership of Ideas

We surely need to reinvent a way of acknowledge the brilliance of great thinkers without trying to own their ideas in whatever form. If we don’t, we’ll end up in a world where everything, but everything, is owned.

Filed under: Manifesto, Music Blog, Sample-Based

The Monkey Does Harmonies

Many people like monkeys, they think they’re kinda nice I guess. I’ve only had bad experiences myself, a really stupid monkey with dirty finger nails stole me from my parents when we were on safari in the congo.

Filed under: Electronic, Rock 'n' Roll, Sample-Based

Storms, trains, hi-fidelity and infidelity

Thunder and passion, stormy seduction, naughtiness, passing trains and ships in the night, the Hi-fi sensation of the sixties was undoubtedly The Mystic Moods Orchestra.

Filed under: Music Blog, Other Worldly

The Steel Strings of John Fahey

Born in 1939 with a thirst for Delta Blues and Roots music John Fahey aka Blind Joe Death emerges picking on a steel string acoustic guitar as if life itself depended on it.

Filed under: Blues

Having the balls to be Hugo Ball.

Who is this strange figure that stands before me, nonsense words pouring from his mouth? The year is 1916, the photo captures a performance by Hugo Ball at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The new century is just getting up a head of steam, WW1 underway, the worlds of art theatre and music are all finding new ways to express belief in the future promise or ways to protest at the injustices of the modern world.

Filed under: Music Blog, Uncategorizeable

Ding-a-Ling Ding-Dong, Mr Bartholomew!

The songs of Dave Bartholomew swiftly become dear to the heart of anyone who hears them. Seek him out. You might even catch him live if you are very, very, lucky!

Filed under: Blues, Jazz, Music Blog

Raymond Scott - Jazz and Lab Coats

As a bandleader during the 30’s and 40’s Raymond Scott was well respected as a great tunesmith and musician, his melodies later found their way into the Loony Tunes cartoons of the 1950’s, helping along many a Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny cartoon.

Filed under: Electronic, Music Blog

Nice album sampler mix of Cumbia tracks by Los Chinches

Check out this great modern Cumbia band!

I’ve heard these guys play and they rock it out Colombian style y’get me?

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Music Blog

Docking at the Music Port

From Bristol to Barcelona to Bahia, from Casablanca to Charleston to Cartageña, from Lagos to Liverpool, Marseille to Mumbai, and New York to New Orleans, we tell the musical story of port towns…

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Blues, Jazz, Manifesto, Music Blog, Other Worldly

The Girl with the Golden Stockings

‘This is ground control to Sun Ra, we are receiving you loud and clear’ … It’s 1958-ish and the big hand is pointing to ‘out there’.

Filed under: Jazz

6 of the Best... Blaxploitation Movie Soundtracks

The Blaxploitation Movies of the 1970′s were the first films to give black folks positive role models and to make Black people the star of the movie. They told the stories of the street, of pimp’s, hustlers and hookers and are the true origin of the phrase ‘ghetto fabulous’. They have some of the funkiest soundtracks ever created.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Music Blog

The Big Bamboo

By the late 40′s and early 50′s calypso was being sold hard to the adventurous Yankee tourist daring enough to visit the British colony of Trinidad and Tobago.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Music Blog

Big Foot Stole My Car

Dallas born, classically trained musician Mark Griffin, becomes the rapper MC 900ft Jesus, an experimental Hip Hop artist with an abundant wit and a natural flair for story telling.

Filed under: Sample-Based

Silver Apples of the Moon

Silver Apples were an American psychedelic electronic music duo from New York, composed of Simeon, on a primitive synthesizer of his own devising (also named The Simeon), and drummer Danny Taylor.

Filed under: Electronic, Music Blog

6 of the Best... Organ Grinders

I thought it would be fun to check out some of the greats of funky hammond jazz. I’ve selected a bunch of my favourites and you are in for a treat here. From Jimmy Smith to Brother Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff to Lonnie Smith, Ronnie Foster (who played with Grant Green on Sookie Sookie) to Charles Earland (who played with Lou Donaldson), these are amongst the hottest organ players of the 60s. Boy could they stroke those keys!

Filed under: Music Blog

6 of the Best... Early Blues Tracks

In the 20′s and 30′s itinerant musicians would travel around with their guitar developing a sound that came from gospel, african, and slave roots. These intermingled to form the blues. A storytelling mode, the blues often told tragic tales of woe in a simple twelve bar format. New guitar playing techniques were invented to describe musically these tales of the downtrodden.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Blues, Music Blog

Moonshine, Blue Grass and Ozark Mountain Sunshine

I dunno about you but I can’t think of much better to listen to on a lazy Sunday afternoon than some bad-ass Kentucky blue-grass with banjo and baritone voice à la redneck. Good ol’ boys singing about one night stands, and clear blue windswept skies. It leaves you feeling pretty bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, much like the octagenarian lady embossed on a plate on the album’s front cover.

Filed under: Blues, Music Blog

Morgan's Miniature Masterpiece

A very special long player hit the racks in 1980 called Miniatures, an album of tiny masterpieces created to last 1 minute. Miniatures enlisted the talents of a broad range of artists, ranging from the contemporary avant garde elite, improvisers, poets, punks and raconteurs, all rising to the challenge of the minute time slot in their own unique style.

Filed under: Electronic, Jazz, Music Blog, Other Worldly, Uncategorizeable

6 of the Best... Ragga Tracks

The best early ragga came out of the dancehall scene in late 80′s and early 90′s Jamaica. It features MC’s ‘chatting’ lyrics in Jamaican patois over electronic beats and basslines. Often, the same rhythm track would be used over and again with different lyricists toasting or rhyming in a competition for the best match of rhythm and MC. The Jamaican DJ’s would play a number of these variations on the same currently popular ‘riddim’ and the people would decide… Here are a few of the winners.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Music Blog

Shake a Tail Feather

Twisting styles in his vocal delivery, a true rockabilly originator and a country singer who would cover and own all the songs that he put his mark on. Like a lot of the rockabilly I first enjoyed, I came to know Charlie Feathers music through my passion for The Cramps warped take on rocking sleaze, garage boogie and b-movie meltdown.

Filed under: Rock 'n' Roll

Roky Erickson

Earth was built only for you – earth is a toy – here’s a toy for you – perfection for a perfect you – don’t slander me, my my my – don’t slander you.

Filed under: Music Blog, Rock 'n' Roll

Tutus Too Much for Psyche Rock

Written in 1967 as a collaboration with fellow composer Michel Colombier for a Maurice Béjart ballet project, the Messe Pour le Temps Présent is no doubt Pierre Henry’s most widely known work. Pierre Henry started experimenting with sound when he was 15 and has devoted his life to avant garde composition and music concrete.

Filed under: Electronic

Witchdoctors, Wooden Robots and Cannibalistic Stew

I grew up in a childhood Xanadu. Now, living in the concrete jungle of London, the camp imaginings of Exotica play heavy on my heartstrings. I love this weird ‘totally tropical’ music with its’ imagined tribal utopia full of nubile Amazons (as opposed to Amazonians) clad in leather loin cloths. Tarzan and Jane dancing in a frenzy to ritualistic tribal beats.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Music Blog, Other Worldly

6 of the Best... Stoner Boogaloos

As the 60′s drew to a close, the kids in Spanish Harlem were tripping on a new sound. With a growing self assurance a younger generation of Cuban, Puerto Rican and South American immigrants began to tell a new story in their Boogaloos. This is the altogether more gritty and dark tale of a life hustling on the streets of New York. Labels such as Speed and Cotique brought these yarns of blunts and broads to a small but appreciative audience as a new psychedelic latin sound was created.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Music Blog

Wild Garage and Desperate Rock & Roll: The Sound of Mad Mike

Hailing from Pittsburgh, Mad Mike was an ‘iconoclastic’ DJ who built his reputation on playing music from the underbelly of rock & roll. During the 60′s, he sought out the unknown in music and brought it to the mainstream through his Radio show Mad Mike developed a world-wide reputation amongst lovers of rock & roll by playing wild garage tunes from bands such as the Sonics on his show, often giving them exposure for the first time.

Filed under: Music Blog, Rock 'n' Roll

I'm Still #1

BDP’s LP “By All Means Necessary” will go down in history as one of the all time rap albums and KRS-1 will remain in the top ten rappers of all time.

Filed under: Music Blog, Sample-Based

6 of the Best... Disco Breaks

Underground disco with emphasis on the breakbeats in these tracks. Some of these tunes have been sampled by contemporary producers, others have not, but all are banging dancefloor numbers from the crates of yours truly.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Electronic

The Fabulous Fifties Graphics of TICO Records

Sandoval’s graphics are hugely evocative of their time, part of the post war boom that happened in graphics and advertising in America and especially New York.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Eye Candy, Music Blog, Record Art

More Sorcery

Gabor Szabo has got to be one of the finest Jazz guitarist of all time. His finger-licking picking is of the highest calibre and references both western Jazz traditions and Eastern paradigms.

Filed under: Jazz, Music Blog, Other Worldly

Riddim Driven

In the early 80′s, slightly behind the UK and US, digital keyboards and especially drum machines hit Jamaica. As is so often the case, these new instruments spawned a new sound.

Filed under: Electronic

Flights of the Imagination

It’s funny what you can find right under your nose sometimes. I live around the corner from a little DIY venue called Stoke Newington International Airport, and some friends invited me to a gig there last night: L’Orchestre du Montplaisant.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Music Blog, Other Worldly

Gimme that Commodity Meat

Straw hat and bandana, bad boy chewing on a chicken bone, thumping on the bass drum with one booted foot and thrashing manic on his beat-up guitar, this is how Hasil Adkins performs and learnt to play the songs he heard on the radio as a kid.

Filed under: Blues, Music Blog, Rock 'n' Roll

Gung-ho grit on the Sausage Machine

Taking Krautrock and giving it a good squeeze ‘n’ shake, Th’ Faith Healers in full flight were a force of their own.

Filed under: Electronic, Rock 'n' Roll, Uncategorizeable

Hit the Road Jack

A cautionary tale of naughtiness, philandering and the consequences of being caught with the wrong man’s wife!

Filed under: Blues, Music Blog, Rock 'n' Roll, Uncategorizeable

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• Episode 78 The Home Spun Sessions: The Wagon Tales

  

  Outstanding Country Bluegrass Band The Wagon Tales whoop up the Home Spun Sessions Kentucky style. Fresh from releasing their thigh slappingly fab debut album, “Introducing the Wagon Tales“ These good ol’ boys are going places. Yee-Haw diddly de Haw!

  plus:

  • The best record cutter in the industry was George ‘Porky’ Peckham. Porky Prime Cuts featured notes for the fans scratched into the records – Ace!
  • A great toaster: Yellowman, the original albino ragga muffin sound bwoy.
  • The growth and growth of the folk movement in Britain. How bands like Daughter are stretching the folk music envelope to breaking point.
  • Combustible Edison designed their own cocktails they were THAT loungey!
  • Ethiopian Rumba with an old master: Mahmoud Ahmed was one of the grandfathers of the Ethio-Jazz scene way back in the early 70′s.
  • Sister Ignatius, the diminutive  nun with a ministry of music in Ska.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Slides of the Vinyl

  

  Perhaps Contraption - Cousin Grandma

  

  Perhaps Contraption - Cousin Grandma

  

  The Beat - Twisting and Crawling

  

  Mo-Dettes - White Mice

  

  Mo-Dettes - White Mice

  

  Mo-Dettes - White Mice

  

  Yellowman - Zungou Zu Zung

  

  Wagon Tales - Mountain Dew

  

  Wagon Tales - The Deep River Blues

  

  Wagon Tales - Nelly Kate

  

  Wagon Tales - Nine Pound Hammer

  

  Wagon Tales - The Big Sciota

  

  Wagon Tales - The Walker

  

  Pete Terrace - I'm Gonna Make It

  

  Pete Terrace - I'm Gonna Make It

  

  Combustible Edison - Utopia

  

  Cornelius - Fly

  

  Mahmoud Ahmed - Anchin Kalekuen

  

  Mahmoud Ahmed - Anchin Kalekuen

  

  Wagon Tales - 99 Years (and One More Day)

  

  Wagon Tales - Rabbit in the Log

  

  Wagon Tales - Cocaine Habit Blues

  

  Wagon Tales - I wish that I could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate

  

  Honkey Finger - Witch Doctor

  

  Honkey Finger - Witch Doctor

  

  The Pioneers - Battle of the Giants

  

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  Episode 78 Tracklist

  1. Perhaps Contraption – Cousin Grandma
  2. The Beat – Twisting and Crawling
  3. Mo-Dettes – White Mice
  4. Yellowman – Zungou Zu Zung
  5. Wagon Tales – Mountain Dew
  6. Wagon Tales – The Deep River Blues
  7. Wagon Tales – Nelly Kate
  8. Wagon Tales – Nine Pound Hammer
  9. Wagon Tales – The Big Sciota
  10. Wagon Tales – The Walker
  11. Pete Terrace – I’m Gonna Make It
  12. Combustible Edison – Utopia
  13. Cornelius – Fly
  14. Mahmoud Ahmed – Anchin Kalekuen
  15. Wagon Tales – 99 Years (and One More Day)
  16. Wagon Tales – Rabbit in the Log
  17. Wagon Tales – Cocaine Habit Blues
  18. Wagon Tales – I wish that I could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
  19. Honkey Finger – Witch Doctor
  20. The Pioneers – Battle of the Giants
  21. The Bar Kays – Holy Ghost

  This Show was recorded 16th April and 20th May 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 77 – The Home Spun Sessions: Folie Ordinaire

  

  Like shooting stars aimed straight for the heart of darkness, Folie Ordinaire take the swagger of Rock and the strut of Disco and turn them on their head. With Punk spikiness and Post-Acid electronics, they create a rhythmically pulsating live sound that defies categorization. They’ll be members of a futuristic leather-clad glitterati before you know it! Rock & Roll at it’s finest! Check out Folie Ordinaire’s unmissable live parties this summer.

  plus:

  • One of the unsung heroes of Mambo, Al Castellanos was one of the first Cuban musicians to arrive in New York.
  • The yearning towards a rediscovery and reinterpretation of African roots in the late 60′s Chicago Jazz Scene.
  • KRS-1 takes out the US autocracy in one with a direct hit from the ghetto.
  • From Black Nylons to Black Panthers, the arcing career of  The Charmer.
  • US anti-Communist Witch hunts of the 1950′s were a travesty of justice.
  • The troubled soul of Nina Simone: An Atheist who read Gospel music  against itself to create a whole new thrust in the Jazz idiom.

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  Slides of the Vinyl

  

  Ann Sexton - You've Been Gone Too Long

  

  Medium Medium - Hungry Angry

  

  C.O.D. - In The Bottle

  

  Folie Ordinaire – Outcasted

  

  Folie Ordinaire – Rational

  

  Al Castellanos - Tango of Romance

  

  Art Ensemble of Chicago - Theme de Yoyo

  

  Art Ensemble of Chicago - Theme de Yoyo

  

  Art Ensemble of Chicago - Theme de Yoyo

  

  Folie Ordinaire – Fire & Water

  

  Folie Ordinaire – See Saw

  

  Folie Ordinaire – Che Folie

  

  Boogie Down Productions - Illegal Business

  

  The Charmer - Don't Touch My Nylons

  

  Nina Simone - Backlash Blues

  

  Nina Simone - Backlash Blues

  

  Nina Simone - Backlash Blues

  

  Kriedler - Traffic Way

  

  Kriedler - Traffic Way

  Episode 77 Tracklist

  1. Ann Sexton – You’ve Been Gone Too Long
  2. Medium Medium – Hungry Angry
  3. C.O.D. – In The Bottle
  4. Folie Ordinaire – Outcasted
  5. Folie Ordinaire – Rational
  6. Al Castellanos – Tango of Romance
  7. Art Ensemble of Chicago – Theme de Yoyo
  8. Folie Ordinaire – Fire & Water
  9. Folie Ordinaire – See Saw
  10. Folie Ordinaire – Che Folie
  11. Boogie Down Productions – Illegal Business
  12. The Charmer – Don’t Touch My Nylons
  13. Nina Simone – Backlash Blues
  14. Kriedler – Traffic Way

  This Show was recorded 7th & 13th May 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 76 – The Home Spun Sessions: Park & Ride

  

  Quirky Colchester duo Park & Ride create quite a buzz when they bring their whimsical, eccentrically English take on French Chanson, Surf Guitar, Pop Classics, B-Movies and Breathy, Stylophonic Sex to the Home Spun Sessions.

  plus:

  • So you thought Punk was a male dominated style? The girls rocked it big time with Siouxsie Sioux, Kleenex, The Slits, X-Ray Specs, The Raincoats.
  • William Shatner: The Star man who always got the girl, especially if she was a green-skinned Orion Slave Girl.
  • The Conga vs The Cossack: John get’s drunk and attempts a bit of Russian Dancing to prove it’s better (or at least less simplistic) but then everyone realizes he’s cheating by sitting on a stool. Outrageous!
  • Russkie-Alien visitations and Post-Apocalyptic bombers. How the cold war influenced Ed Wood Jr. to create a B-movie masterpiece: ‘Plan 9…’
  • What’s a Boyyo to Do? Simon’s Parents only listened to the Beatles.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Slides of the Vinyl

  

  Cozy Cole - Charleston

  

  Kleenex - U

  

  Stereolab - Super Falling Star

  

  Eddie Floyd - Good Love, Bad Love

  

  Eddie Floyd - Good Love, Bad Love

  

  Billy Bumble & the Stingers - Nut Rocker

  

  William Shatner - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

  

  Park & Ride - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

  

  Park & Ride - Sexy Monsters From Outer Space

  

  Park & Ride - Ball Sack Dance

  

  Los Corraleros de Majagual - Pim Pam Pom

  

  Gabor Szabo - The Beat Goes On

  

  Gabor Szabo - The Beat Goes On

  

  Ahab & the Wailers - Nebb Tune

  

  Ahab & the Wailers - Nebb Tune

  

  Ahab & the Wailers - Nebb Tune

  

  Ahab & the Wailers - Nebb Tune

  

  Ahab & the Wailers - Nebb Tune

  

  State of Mind - Move

  

  Park & Ride - All Over the Shop

  

  Park & Ride - Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus

  

  Park & Ride - Flight of the Bumble Bee

  

  Park & Ride -The Chick Habit

  

  France Gall - Poupée de Cire

  

  France Gall - Poupée de Cire

  

  Go Cart Motzart - Hip Op

  

  Go Cart Motzart - Hip Op

  

  Augusto Martelli - Beryl's Tune

  Episode 76 Tracklist

  1. Cozy Cole – Charleston
  2. Kleenex – U
  3. Stereolab – Super Falling Star
  4. Eddie Floyd – Good Love, Bad Love
  5. Billy Bumble & the Stingers – Nut Rocker
  6. William Shatner – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
  7. Park & Ride – The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
  8. Park & Ride – Sexy Monsters From Outer Space
  9. Park & Ride – Ball Sack Dance
  10. Los Corraleros de Majagual – Pim Pam Pom
  11. Gabor Szabo – The Beat Goes On
  12. Ahab & the Wailers – Nebb Tune
  13. State of Mind – Move
  14. Park & Ride – All Over the Shop
  15. Park & Ride – Je T’Aime Moi Non Plus
  16. Park & Ride – Flight of the Bumble Bee
  17. Park & Ride -The Chick Habit
  18. France Gall – Poupée de Cire
  19. Go Cart Motzart – Hip Op
  20. Augusto Martelli – Beryl’s Tune

  This Show was recorded 2nd and 28th April 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 75 – the Kopyright Liberation Front

  

  “What the FUCK is going on?” They asked of the music industry, back in 1987, when Whitney Houston joined them for Mission Impossible. They donned capes and made a pilgrimage to Dura, but by 1994 they were in the money. Their costly Art statements made blood boil on a million quid bonfire. Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty wrote The Manual on how to have a hit record and then proceeded to ‘Kick out the JAMS’ again and again.

  plus:

  • We got the Foghorn! Interracial sex, Colombian style with the Afrosound.
  • We dig those Black girls, Oh! so much more than White girls.
  • Why get married when you can Shack Up with Banbarra?
  • The Harder they Come: lost on the white cliffs of Dover and Kingston with Jimmy Cliff.
  • Can one band create a movement? We say no! The Sex Pistols didn’t create Punk (it was the Damned, of course) and Elvis didn’t invent Rock & Roll (neither did Ike Turner, however).
  • Don’t you speak my language? Why Slim Gaillard became the lexicographer of Beat Poetry.
  • Angelically glum: The divine dirges of Nick Drake.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:31:37 — 167.7MB)

  Slides of the Vinyl

  

  J.V.C. Force - Strong Island

  

  Johnny Cash - Own Personal Jesus

  

  The Afrosound - Fiebre en la Jungla

  

  Slim Gaillard & His Middle Europeans - Yiproc Heresy

  

  The Jams - Whitney Joins the Jams

  

  Benny Goodman -Jam Session

  

  Benny Goodman -Jam Session

  

  Benny Goodman -Jam Session

  

  Benny Goodman -Jam Session

  

  Joyce - Banana

  

  Joyce - Banana

  

  Anti Pop Consortium - Laundry

  

  Violent Femmes - Black Girls

  

  Violent Femmes - Black Girls

  

  John Spencer Blues Explosion - Pant Leg

  

  John Spencer Blues Explosion - Pant Leg

  

  Michael Gibbs - Family Toy

  

  Michael Gibbs - Family Toy

  

  Banbarra - Shack Up

  

  Banbarra - Shack Up

  

  The Fire Engines - Candy Skin

  

  Jackie Brenston & His Delta Kings - Rocket 88

  

  Jackie Brenston & His Delta Kings - Rocket 88

  

  Nick Drake - At the Chime of the City

  

  Nick Drake - At the Chime of the City

  

  Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers to Cross

  

  Lord Invader - Bassa Down

  

  Lord Invader - Bassa Down

  

  Lord Invader - Bassa Down

  

  Lord Invader - Bassa Down

  Episode 75 Tracklist

  1. J.V.C. Force – Strong Island
  2. Johnny Cash – Own Personal Jesus
  3. Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
  4. The Monks – Boys are Boys
  5. The Afrosound –  Fiebre en la Jungla
  6. Slim Gaillard & His Middle Europeans – Yiproc Heresy
  7. The Jams - Whitney Joins the Jams
  8. Benny Goodman -Jam Session
  9. Joyce – Banana
  10. Anti Pop Consortium – Laundry
  11. Violent Femmes – Black Girls
  12. John Spencer Blues Explosion – Pant Leg
  13. Michael Gibbs – Family Toy
  14. Banbarra – Shack Up
  15. The Fire Engines – Candy Skin
  16. Jackie Brenston & His Delta Kings – Rocket 88
  17. Nick Drake – At the Chime of the City
  18. Jimmy Cliff – Many Rivers to Cross
  19. Lord Invader – Bassa Down

  This Show was recorded 22nd April 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 74 – Don’t Cramp My Style

  

  Did you ever get the feeling that some of us were born bad? With a naughty or even wicked tendency that if unchecked leads to disaster, glorious disaster. Skid Row baby! The Cramps gave us a master class from the dark side of Americana by re-imagining the desperate tunes from the underbelly of 50′s Rock & Roll.

  plus:

  • A countin’ with Dicky Treadway & the Salados – they got your number.
  • Black Christ of the Andes: Mary Lou Williams’ preaches the Gospel according to Jazz in a dark mass that cuts to the quick.
  • The Dadaist tropical sounds of Tom Ze brought back from the wilderness by David Byrne in 1992.
  • How James Brown earned his dancing shoes and learned the steps.
  • Snap, Crackle and Hip Hop with Positive K.
  • The sparks that fly when a Moroccan muse takes a yuppie for his wife.
  • A sight for sore eyes? Matt dances around the studio in his Mankini!

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:27:40 — 160.5MB)

  Slides of the Vinyl

  

  Dicky Treadway and the Salados - One To Ten

  

  Sneakers - Bald Headed Woman

  

  Jack Scott - The Way I Walk

  

  Bill Sanford and his Orchestra - Drumboogie

  

  Joe Meek and The Blue Men - Orbit Around The World

  

  Joe Meek and The Blue Men - Orbit Around The World

  

  LCD Soundsystem - Disco Infiltrator

  

  Mary Lou Williams - Praise The Lord

  

  Mary Lou Williams - Praise The Lord

  

  Zine Mlih - Sublime Beauty

  

  Zine Mlih - Sublime Beauty

  

  Yellow Magic Orchestra - Citizens of Science

  

  The Mindexpanders - Love Syndrome

  

  Tricky Disco - Flyspray

  

  Max Upsetters - Smile Out a Style

  

  Max Upsetters - Smile Out a Style

  

  Tom Ze - Ogodo Ano 2000

  

  Positive K - The Night Shift

  

  Lee Moses - Time and Place

  

  Pigbag - Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag

  

  James Brown - Papa's Got a Brand New Bag

  

  R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Donnie

  

  Lord Melody - Carnival Proclamation

  

  Lord Melody - Carnival Proclamation

  

  Dorothy Ashby - Wax and Wane

  Episode 74 Tracklist

  1. Dicky Treadway and the Salados – One To Ten
  2. Sneakers – Bald Headed Woman
  3. Jack Scott – The Way I Walk
  4. Bill Sanford and his Orchestra – Drumboogie
  5. Joe Meek and The Blue Men – Orbit Around The World
  6. LCD Soundsystem – Disco Infiltrator
  7. Mary Lou Williams – Praise The Lord
  8. Zine Mlih – Sublime Beauty
  9. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Citizens of Science
  10. The Mindexpanders – Love Syndrome
  11. Tricky Disco – Flyspray
  12. Tom Ze – Ogodo Ano 2000
  13. Positive K – The Night Shift
  14. Lee Moses – Time and Place
  15. Pigbag – Papas Got a Brand New Pigbag
  16. James Brown – Papas Got a Brand New Bag
  17. Max Upsetters – Smile Out a Style
  18. R.L. Burnside – Long Haired Donnie
  19. Lord Melody – Carnival Proclamation
  20. Dorothy Ashby – Wax and Wane

  This Show was recorded 8th April 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 73 – Pop vs. Rock

  

  We are joined this week by Oz funk rocker, Dion Palumbo whose new 10-piece band, Palumbo & the Funk are reinvigorating the London funk scene.

  plus:

  • Snorting Fire with Johnny Cash & the Sons of the Pioneers.
  • The mighty organ: how the Doors and the Stranglers tricked us into thinking they were Rock bands
  • Melt Yourself Down: A global super-group is born to fix your life.
  • If Mark E. Smith buys you a pint it’s curtains mate!
  • The gloriously wistful, meandering R&B sound of Florence Joelle.
  • John rightly blasts the Eurovision Song Contest for being utterly naff & an insult to great pop music. An area in which Britain has nothing to prove.
  • More than an East End tradition: the sounds and visions of Billy Childish.
  • How many bands can you name that are named after a kind of chicken?

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:29:54 — 164.6MB)

  Slides of the Vinyl

  

  Bill Haley - Chick Safari

  

  Robert 'Nighthawk' Johnson - Climbing High Mountains

  

  Melt Yourself Down - Fix My Life

  

  Palumbo and The Funk - So Sudden

  

  United States of America - Garden of Earthly Delights

  

  United States of America - Garden of Earthly Delights

  

  Florence Joelle - ESP

  

  Travis Wammack - Karate Time

  

  Lincoln Chase - I Love Your Many Ways

  

  Palumbo & the Funk - Dawn is Rising

  

  Palumbo & the Funk - Love Attack

  

  13th Floor Elevators - Levitation

  

  J B Lenoir - Mamma Talk To Your Daughter

  

  Buff Medways - My Troubled Mind

  

  Buff Medways - My Troubled Mind

  

  Edwyn Collins - Seventies Night

  

  Diablito - The Jungle

  

  Electric Manchakou - She Said

  

  Sons Of The Pioneers - Ghost Riders In The Sky

  Episode 73 Tracklist

  1. Bill Haley – Chick Safari
  2. Robert ‘Nighthawk’ Johnson – Climbing High Mountains
  3. Melt Yourself Down – Fix My Life
  4. Palumbo and The Funk – So Sudden
  5. United States of America – Garden of Earthly Delights
  6. Florence Joelle – ESP
  7. Travis Wammack – Karate Time
  8. Lincoln Chase – I Love Your Many Ways
  9. The Doors – Break on Through
  10. Palumbo & the Funk – Dawn is Rising
  11. Palumbo & the Funk – Love Attack
  12. 13th Floor Elevators – Levitation
  13. J B Lenoir – Mamma Talk To Your Daughter
  14. Buff Medways – My Troubled Mind
  15. Wizard – So Cool Circle
  16. Edwyn Collins – Seventies Night
  17. Wizard – Flying Dream
  18. Diablito – The Jungle
  19. Electric Manchakou – She Said
  20. Sons Of The Pioneers – Ghost Riders In The Sky

  This Show was recorded 01 April 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 72 – The Thinly Veiled Innuendo

  

  Get three boys together and the tone always lowers somehow. But it was the good ol’ boys of Rock & Roll that really brought the Copulating Blues to the tender ears of teenage America. A mention of ‘fucking’ in early Rockabilly earned a stiff reprimand and rather large fine from the Record Industry of America (RIAA). As usual the ‘peanuts’ escaped punishment even if ‘Her Love Rubbed Off!’ on Carl Perkins

  plus:

  • How Gene Vincent lost a bet to Eddie Cochran on who could get past the censors of the RIAA with a classic bit of lewd lyric mumbling…
  • Salsa Dura – getting wood with Willie Colon.
  • Something to get your claws into: A few tunes on the feline theme.
  • Carl Perkins - loved by the Beatles, but disappointed with his own success, not as cute as Elvis, but he did have the original pair of ‘Blue Suede Shoes’.
  • How Bob Marley’s first hit was a slow boiler for Coxone Dodd.
  • Voodoo Breaks – the proto-disco sound of Edwin Starr.
  • Lalo Schifrin – Argentinian Composer of the gangster breaks.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:54 — 166.5MB)

  Slides of the Vinyl

  

  Edwin Starr - I Just Wanna Do My Thing

  

  Chaos Inc - Daktari Ooh Ah2

  

  The Wailers - Simmer Down

  

  Lee Hazelwood - Morning Dew

  

  Lee Hazelwood - Morning Dew

  

  Willie Colon - The Hustler

  

  Willie Colon - The Hustler

  

  The Son of PM - James Bond Theme

  

  Lalo Schifrin - Secret Code

  

  Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics

  

  John Otway - Misty Mountain

  

  John Otway - Misty Mountain

  

  John Otway - Misty Mountain

  

  John Otway - Misty Mountain

  

  Sonora Panamera - Sell The Pussy

  

  Sonora Panamera - Sell The Pussy

  

  John Cale - Heartbreak Hotel

  

  E-Culture - Tribal Confusion

  

  Miles Davis - Pharaoh's Dance

  Episode 72 Tracklist

  1. Edwin Starr – I Just Wanna Do My Thing
  2. Chaos Inc – Daktari Ooh Ah
  3. Carl Perkins – Her  Love Rubbed Off
  4. The Wailers – Simmer Down
  5. Jack McDuff – Hot Barbeque
  6. Lee Hazelwood – Morning Dew
  7. Willie Colon – The Hustler
  8. The Son of PM – James Bond Theme
  9. Lalo Schifrin – Secret Code
  10. Frank Walden – The Cat
  11. Blackalicious – Alphabet Aerobics
  12. John Otway – Misty Mountain
  13. Light Crust Dough Boys – Pussy Pussy Pussy
  14. Sonora Panamera – Sell The Pussy
  15. John Cale – Heartbreak Hotel
  16. E-Culture – Tribal Confusion
  17. Miles Davis – Pharaoh’s Dance

  This Show was recorded 22nd October 2012
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 71 – Drunken Jungle Skank

  

  In which our good friend Crap Matt rocks up half cut and insists on some heavy, heavy Jungle rinse-out from back in the day. Proper? Proper! The Home Spun Show is always happy to oblige the inebriated with a shoulder to lean on and some soothing tunes for the ear.

  plus:

  • The heavy cuts of DJ Zinc and the True Playaz.
  • We visit the heart of English soul with Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll but listen to a song about snake charming in the end.
  • From Mansion House in the country to his own Island in the British Virgin Islands (Not a bad joke). How to become an Arsehole in a few easy steps.
  • Little Walter – the father of distortion?
  • Street Music Projects in 1930′s New York.
  • The early Ska sound of the Jiving Juniors.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:35 — 165.9MB)

  Slides of the Vinyl

  

  Toots and the Maytals - 54-46

  

  Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll - Indian Rope Man

  

  Funkadelic - You and Your folks

  

  Gudrun Gut - Move Me

  

  Gudrun Gut - Move Me

  

  Floyd Dixon - Hey Bar Tender

  

  Leadbelly - Blind Lemon Memorial Record

  

  Leadbelly - Blind Lemon Memorial Record

  

  Little Walter - Sad Hours

  

  Los Stop - Pata Pata

  

  Los Stop - Pata Pata

  

  Misa Luba - Dibwe Diambula Kabanda

  

  Misa Luba - Dibwe Diambula Kabanda

  

  Street and Gangland Rhythms - Six Boys in Trouble

  

  Rebel MC - Junglist

  

  Meters - Just Kissed My Baby

  

  The Stranglers - No More Heroes

  

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  Magazine - Shot by Both Sides

  

  Jesse Rae - Life's a Killer Dog

  

  DJ Food - Mella

  

  Ken Galloway - Bayou Lou

  

  Ken Galloway - Bayou Lou

  

  Ken Galloway - Bayou Lou

  

  Ken Galloway - Bayou Lou

  

  Jiving Juniors - Lollipop Girl

  

  Slapp Happy - The Drum

  

  Pierre Buchelet - O'et Sir Stephen

  

  

  Episode 71 Tracklist

  1. Toots and the Maytals – 54-46
  2. Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll – Indian Rope Man
  3. Funkadelic – You and Your folks
  4. Gudrun Gut – Move Me
  5. Floyd Dixon – Hey Bar Tender
  6. Leadbelly – Blind Lemon Memorial Record
  7. Little Walter – Sad Hours
  8. Los Stop – Pata Pata
  9. Misa Luba – Dibwe Diambula Kabanda
  10. Street and Gangland Rhythms – Six Boys in Trouble
  11. Rebel MC – Junglist
  12. Meters – Just Kissed My Baby
  13. The Stranglers – No More Heroes
  14. Magazine – Shot by Both Sides
  15. Jesse Rae – Life’s a Killer Dog
  16. DJ Food – Mella
  17. Ken Galloway – Bayou Lou
  18. Jiving Juniors – Lollipop Girl
  19. Slapp Happy  - The Drum
  20. Pierre Buchelet – O’et Sir Stephen

  This Show was recorded November 05 2012
  ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 70 – The Home Spun Sessions: Ma Polaine’s Great Decline

  

  Ma Polaine’s Great Decline visit The Home Spun Show this week for a brilliant session encompassing whiskey steeped Gypsy Reels, 1940′s Chanson, Country Death Songs and deep, down-home Delta Blues belters. We love their genre defying dark visions and warm tales of love lost and found.

  plus:

  • The hugely influential lyrics, rhythms and dark stripped down sound of Tom Waits late albums.
  • When studio experimentation becomes a part of the composition process you often get great results.
  • Which came first the 303 or Acid House? Huh chick?
  • We check out the Arabic and High-Life influenced Cumbia sounds of L’Orchestre Du Montplaisant’s great new album.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:36:54 — 177.4MB)

  Slides of the Vinyl

  

  Mahalia Jackson - Walkin' to Jerusalem

  

  Sally Stanley - I'll Have to Let You Go

  

  TNT Band - The Meditation

  

  Fender Benders - XKE

  

  Ma Polaine's Great Decline - Pigfoot Blues

  

  Ma Polaine's Great Decline - Devil's Touch

  

  Ma Polaine's Great Decline - Sweet Cold Harbour

  

  Ma Polaine's Great Decline - Love Me or Leave Me

  

  L'Orchestre du Montplaisant - Le Prince de Babylone

  

  Groundhogs - Bogroll Blues

  

  Peanuts Wilson - Cast Iron Arm

  

  Mongo Santamaria - Climax

  

  Mongo Santamaria - Climax

  

  Ma Polaine's Great Decline - Simpler Kind of World

  

  Ma Polaine's Great Decline - The Poison Sits

  

  Ma Polaine's Great Decline - The Poison Sits

  

  Ma Polaine's Great Decline - The Dregs

  

  Ma Polaine's Great Decline - No Words We Need

  

  Ma Polaine's Great Decline - The Wrong Side

  

  OST Saraswatichandra - Sau Saal Pahele

  

  OST Saraswatichandra - Sau Saal Pahele

  

  Desmond Dekkar - Music like Dirt

  

  Ma Polaine's Great Decline - The Wrong Side

  Episode 70 Tracklist

  1. Mahalia Jackson – Walkin’ to Jerusalem
  2. Sally Stanley – I’ll Have to Let You Go
  3. TNT Band – The Meditation
  4. Tom Waits – Hang on St. Christopher
  5. Fender Benders – XKE
  6. Blind Boys of  Alabama – Aint Nobody’s Fault but Mine
  7. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline –  Pigfoot Blues
  8. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – Sweet Cold Harbour
  9. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – Love Me or Leave Me
  10. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline –  Devil’s Touch
  11. L’Orchestre du Montplaisant – Le Prince de Babylone
  12. Groundhogs – Bogroll Blues
  13. Peanuts Wilson – Cast Iron Arm
  14. Mongo Santamaria – Climax
  15. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – Simpler Kind of World
  16. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – The Poison Sits
  17. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – The Dregs
  18. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – No Words We Need
  19. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline - The Wrong Side
  20. OST Saraswatichandra – Sau Saal Pahele
  21. Desmond Dekkar – Music like Dirt

  This Show was recorded 5th March 2013

  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 69 – The Home Spun Sessions: Ma’Grass

  

  International Funkateers, Ma’Grass join us this week for the Home Spun Session. Matteo Grassi and his band give us a sneak peak of their brand new album, Fingers in the Socket, 2 years in the making. Their music harks back to the golden era of funk in it’s sound: tight Sly & the Family Stone style beats couple with consciously low slung lyrics from Ella Flierl. Heavy!

  • The tribal Tibetan vibes of 23 Skiddoo.
  • The sexy troublemaker who led Miles Davis down the garden path. Betty Davis, 20 years Davis’ junior proved herself his equal and gave a raunchy new vitality to his work as well as making great albums in her own right.
  • The story of Ray Charles’ “Hit the Road Jack”, a seedy tale of too much philandering. You read it here first.
  • The Chiterling Circuit:  Black only tour venues spawned by segregation.
  • “The Hardest Working Man in Show business” docked his musicians’ wages if they played too hard. Practice what you preach James!
  • Download the Ma’Grass album for free but please make a contribution ‘cos piracy is killing music, me hearties. This podcast has paid it’s dues BTW!

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:34:46 — 173.5MB)

  Slides of the Vinyl

  

  The Gaturs - Gatur Bait

  

  Au Pairs - We're So Cool

  

  23 Skiddoo - A Y

  

  Ma'Grass - Complications

  

  Ma'Grass - Complications

  

  Ma'Grass - Complications

  

  The Gun Club - Ghost On The Highway

  

  The Pop Group - She's Beyond Good And Evil

  

  Pat Field - Fich' le Camp Jacques

  

  Ma'Grass - Keep It Groovy

  

  Ma'Grass - Keep It Groovy

  

  Ma'Grass - Keep It Groovy

  

  Ma'Grass - Get Yourself Together

  

  Ma'Grass - Get Yourself Together

  

  Ma'Grass - Get Yourself Together

  

  Ma'Grass - We Are No Fools

  

  Ma'Grass - We Are No Fools

  

  Ma'Grass - We Are No Fools

  

  Ma'Grass - Can't Stop Moving

  

  Ma'Grass - Can't Stop Moving

  

  Ma'Grass - Can't Stop Moving

  

  Ma'Grass - Can't Stop Moving

  

  Ma'Grass - Can't Stop Moving

  

  Ma'Grass - Can't Stop Moving

  

  Ma'Grass - Can't Stop Moving

  

  Luis Varona - Porto Diablo

  

  Mombasa - Al Rahman

  

  Ray Scott & The Scottsmen - Right Now

  

  Jay Hodge Ork - Goatsville

  

  Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky

  Episode 69 Tracklist

  1. The Gaturs – Gatur Bait
  2. 23 Skiddoo – A Y
  3. Au Pairs – We’re So Cool
  4. Ma’Grass – Complications
  5. Betty Davis – Your Mama Wants You Back
  6. The Gun Club – Ghost On The Highway
  7. The Pop Group – She’s Beyond Good And Evil
  8. Pat Field – Fich’ le Camp Jacques
  9. Ma’Grass – Keep It Groovy
  10. Ma’Grass - Get Yourself Together
  11. Ma’Grass – We Are No Fools
  12. Ma’Grass – Can’t Stop Moving
  13. Luis Varona – Porto Diablo
  14. Mombasa – Al Rahman
  15. Ray Scott & The Scottsmen – Right Now
  16. Jay Hodge Ork – Goatsville
  17. Norman Greenbaum – Spirit In The Sky

  This Show was recorded 19th Feb 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 68 – All aboard the Afrobeat Express: It’s the High-Life for Me

  

  All Aboard the musical locomotive! This week we play hosts to special guests Richmond Kessie from the awesome African Afro-psych dancing band Yaaba Funk, DJ Volta African DJ extra-ordinnaire and Oli Hurez taking us on a trip to the French Caribe via Ghana, Senegal and Angola.

  plus:

  • High Life – proper smart – no messing about! Playing to the British Colonial masters – no trainers allowed!
  • What’s the best insect to come back as if you are reincarnated? The Bedbug of course. You can spend all night biting young ladies’ bumpers!
  • The Senegalese are the foremost Cuban music players in Africa. From Youssou N’Dour to the Super Eagles these boys do it best. Or do they? The Ghanaians have a thing or two to say about that!
  • When the Mafia ran Cuba, was there much exposure to R & B there?
  • The storytelling ritual in Afrobeat: Fela and the origins of the 12″ single.
  • Researching the French Caribbean musical forms.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:36:13 — 176.2MB)

  Slides of the Vinyl

  

  Count Zebra - Bedbug

  

  Etoille de Dakar - Esta China

  

  Etoille de Dakar - Esta China

  

  Alhaji K. Frimpong - Kyen Kyen Bi Ade Mawu

  

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  Lito Barrientos - Dale

  

  Crazy Crickets - She's Coming Home

  

  Jessie Mae Hemphill - She Wolf

  

  Fairness - À Presenta La

  

  Robert Wyatt - Strangers in the Night

  

  Robert Wyatt - Strangers in the Night

  

  Cumbia Moderna de Soledad - Shacalao

  

  Elvis Yeboah' - Medofo Yi Aw Ampa?

  

  Roland Alphonso - Magic Star

  

  Serge Christophe - On Bel Ti Chaff

  

  Orchestra G.O Malebo - Nasengi Demission

  

  Orchestra G.O Malebo - Nasengi Demission

  

  Ramblers Danceband - Scholarship

  

  Mapletoft Poule Orchestra - Nobody's Business

  

  Konkoma - Lie Lie

  Episode 68 Tracklist

  1. Count Zebra – Bedbug
  2. Etoille de Dakar - Esta China
  3. Alhaji K. Frimpong – Kyen Kyen Bi Ade Mawu
  4. Lito Barrientos – Dale
  5. Crazy Crickets – She’s Coming Home
  6. Jessie Mae Hemphill – She Wolf
  7. Fairness – À Presenta La
  8. Robert Wyatt – Strangers in the Night
  9. Cumbia Moderna de Soledad – Shacalao
  10. Elvis Yeboah’ – Medofo Yi Aw Ampa?
  11. Serge Christophe – On Bel Ti Chaff
  12. Roland Alphonso – Magic Star
  13. Orchestra G.O Malebo – Nasengi Demission
  14. Ramblers Danceband – Scholarship
  15. Mapletoft Poule Orchestra – Nobody’s Business
  16. Konkoma – Lie Lie

  This Show was recorded 18th February 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 67 – The Home Spun Sessions: T.J. Johnson

  

  The man with the big voice,T.J. Johnson is our special guest on the Home Spun Sessions this week. T.J. is a fabulous Jazz crooner and pianist with an inimitable style. He crosses from country standards to bebop and beyond and delivers without fail. Outstanding!

  plus:

  • Three songs on the theme of Simoleans, Scrilla, Spondulicks, Swag to you!
  • How money mainly grows on family trees…
  • Big Dada’s Toastie Taylor – the voice of a skunk smoker.
  • The trials and tribulations of working on the jazz scene in the UK during the early 90′s.
  • The Afro-Calypso of one of the few great female Calypso stars, Maya Angelou.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:34:28 — 173.0MB)

  Slides of the Vinyl

  

  Lightnin' Hopkins - My Babe

  

  Granville Williams Orchestra - The Third Man

  

  Lee Dorsey - Ride Your Pony

  

  The Barons - Money Don't Grow on Trees

  

  TJ Johnson - My Castle's Rockin'

  

  TJ Johnson - My Castle's Rockin'

  

  TJ Johnson - The Nightlife

  

  TJ Johnson - The Nightlife

  

  TJ Johnson - I'll Fly Away

  

  TJ Johnson - I'll Fly Away

  

  TJ Johnson - World on a String

  

  TJ Johnson - World on a String

  

  New Flesh - Communicate

  

  Titus Turner - People Sure Act Funny

  

  Poor Boys - I'm Gonna Spend My Money

  

  Chaino - Gua-Gua

  

  TJ Johnson - Lester Leaps In

  

  TJ Johnson - Lester Leaps In

  

  TJ Johnson - I'll be Your Baby Tonight

  

  TJ Johnson - I'll be Your Baby Tonight

  

  TJ Johnson - Georgia on My Mind

  

  TJ Johnson - Georgia on My Mind

  

  TJ Johnson - On the Road Again

  

  TJ Johnson - On the Road Again

  

  TJ Johnson - Running Wild

  

  TJ Johnson - Running Wild

  

  Group Inerane - Awal September

  

  Maya Angelou - Polymon Bongo

  

  Coldcut - Border

  Episode 67 Tracklist

  1. Lightnin’ Hopkins – My Babe
  2. Granville Williams Orchestra – The Third Man
  3. Lee Dorsey – Ride Your Pony
  4. The Barons – Money Don’t Grow on Trees
  5. TJ Johnson – My Castle’s Rockin’
  6. TJ Johnson – The Nightlife
  7. TJ Johnson – I’ll Fly Away
  8. TJ Johnson – World on a String
  9. New Flesh – Communicate
  10. Titus Turner – People Sure Act Funny
  11. Poor Boys – I’m Gonna Spend My Money
  12. Chaino – Gua-Gua
  13. TJ Johnson – Lester Leaps In
  14. TJ Johnson – I’ll be Your Baby Tonight
  15. TJ Johnson – Georgia on My Mind
  16. TJ Johnson – On the Road Again
  17. TJ Johnson – Running Wild
  18. Group Inerane – Awal September
  19. Maya Angelou - Polymon Bongo
  20. Coldcut – Border

  This Show was recorded Tuesday 5th February 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 66 – The Home Spun Sessions: Errol Linton & Friends

  

  WE think Errol Linton is one of the best  harmonica players in the UK and we’re not wrong. He’s won UK Best Harp player 3 times!

  Well, this week  he graces the Home Spun Sessions for a knees up with a bunch of mates, and he brought along a fabulous band to boot. You’ll rarely hear a better Rhythm & Blues sound.

  plus:

  • How good is the recent album by Chicago Blueser J.D. McPherson? His band really swung when he played at the Electric Ballroom last month.
  • Henry Flint The man who stepped in for John Cale of the Velvet Underground but fell out with Lou Reed.
  • Are cowboys cool or is it only girls and gays that look great in a Stetson.
  • Missionary women! beware The Mighty Sparrow cuts his teeth on white meat.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:32:33 — 169.5MB)

  Slides of the Vinyl

  

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  Juan Pablo Torres- Rompe Coccorico

  

  The Blues Explosion - Afro

  

  The Blues Explosion - Afro

  

  Kool and the Gang - Spirit of the Boogie

  

  Kool and the Gang - Spirit of the Boogie

  

  Kool and the Gang - Spirit of the Boogie

  

  Errol Linton & Friends

  

  Errol Linton & Friends

  

  Errol Linton & Friends - Jean Pierre on Bass

  

  Errol Linton & Friends

  

  Errol Linton & Friends - Errol on Blues Harp

  

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  Errol Linton & Friends - Jono on Drums

  

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  Errol Linton & Friends - Dave on Guitar

  

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  Henry Flynt and the Insurrections - Missionary Stew

  

  The Aay Jays - Lal Qalandar Lal

  

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  Jimmy Rushin - Hi O Sylvester

  

  The Mighty Sparrow - Congo Man

  

  The Blues Explosion - Afro

  Episode 66 Tracklist

  1. Juan Pablo Torres- Rompe Coccorico
  2. The Blues Explosion – Afro
  3. Kool and the Gang – Spirit of the Boogie
  4. J D McPherson – North Side Gal
  5. Errol Linton & Friends – F-Jam
  6. Errol Linton & Friends – Step Back
  7. Errol Linton & Friends – Bug in a Matchbox
  8. Errol Linton & Friends – Hoodoo Man
  9. Errol Linton & Friends – Wine Whiskey & Women
  10. Phylis Dylon – Make Me Yours
  11. Henry Flynt and the Insurrections – Missionary Stew
  12. The Aay Jays – Lal Qalandar Lal
  13. Errol Linton & Friends – Cast Iron Arm
  14. Errol Linton & Friends – Please Don’t Leave Me
  15. Errol Linton & Friends – Boogie Disease
  16. Errol Linton & Friends – Evil Woman
  17. Errol Linton & Friends – Play House
  18. Lazy Habits – Lazy
  19. Jimmy Rushin – Hi O Sylvester
  20. Ronnie Smith – Losing You
  21. The Mighty Sparrow – Congo Man

  This Show was recorded 22nd January 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 65 – The Home Spun Sessions: Alastair James

  

  Brillliant young singer songwriter Alastair James brings his new band to the Home Spun Sessions. Alastair’s songs are reminiscent of Paul Simon at his best, and this cat is only 20 years old so expect great things! You heard it here first.
  

  plus:

  • Original Girl power with X-ray specs and the Raincoats.
  • How Machiavellian Malcolm Mclaren left Adam Ant out in the cold.
  • U.S.Warren: Unique in his field. Gardening with the green fingered.
  • Rocking the psych guitar with Capitol K.
  • How sad it is that the record industry no longer has the balls for career development?
  • 50 years of the cassette tape . John and Simon reminisce.
  • Why Sting’s solo career lacks something in the tail.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:33:02 — 170.3MB)

  Slides of the Vinyl

  

  The Chips - Rubber Biscuit

  

  The Wedding Present - Kennedy

  

  X-Ray Spex - The Day The World Turned Day-glo

  

  U.S. Warren - The Drop

  

  Capitol K - God Ohm

  

  Chakachas - Yo Soy Cubano

  

  Chakachas - Yo Soy Cubano

  

  Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go

  

  King Sunny Ade - Samba/E Falabe Lewe

  Episode 65 Tracklist

  1. The Chips – Rubber Biscuit
  2. The Wedding Present – Kennedy
  3. X-Ray Spex – The Day The World Turned Day-glo
  4. Alastair James – What Have I Done?
  5. Alastair James – Thinking of You Still
  6. Alastair James -Is Anybody Home?
  7. Alastair James - Summertime’s for Real
  8. Alastair James - I Only Want to Be at Home
  9. U.S. Warren – The Drop
  10. Capitol K – God Ohm
  11. Chakachas – Yo Soy Cubano
  12. Alastair James – You Give me Such Happiness
  13. Alastair James – Stay Strong
  14. Alastair James – Scarborough Bay
  15. Alastair James – I Wanna Fly to the Moon
  16. Bow Wow Wow – C30 C60 C90 Go
  17. King Sunny Ade – Samba/E Falabe Lewe
  18. Can – Mushroom

  This Show was recorded 11th December 2012
  ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 64- The Weird Sex Issue

  

  This issue of our podcast ended up being strewn with innuendo, stories of peculiar practices, the Battle of the Sexes, Man-Woman, Porno-Beat, and general flirtation with the dark side of the human psyche.

  • Snake!! The twisted Mambo of Mad Man Jones
  • Skin on Skin with Mongo Santamaria
  • Rita get’s it on with Peaches You gotta “Lovertits”
  • Margaret Atwood’s distopic visions of future sexuality.
  • Naughty places for a girl to wash her hands.
  • Leave that Kitten alone! says Little Willie John.
  • Lovage’s Music to make love to your old lady.
  • And finally… make sure you check out 6 0f the best Rude Rockers for some great saucy Jump Blues

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:40 — 166.0MB)

  Slides of the Vinyl

  

  Mad Man Jones - Snake Charmer

  

  Mongo Santamaria - Bricamo

  

  Mongo Santamaria - Bricamo

  

  Mongo Santamaria - Bricamo

  

  Mongo Santamaria - Bricamo

  

  Peaches - Lovertits

  

  Peaches - Lovertits

  

  Rita - Erotica

  

  Memphis Jug Band - Gator Wobble

  

  Alvarius B - The Demon 360

  

  Ray Agee - The Devils Angels

  

  The Velvelettes - Needle in a Haystack

  

  The Three Johns - Zowie

  

  The Three Johns - Zowie

  

  Climaco Sarmiento - La Gaita Marciana

  

  Climaco Sarmiento - La Gaita Marciana

  

  PIL - Careering

  

  Duke of Iron - Man Smart Woman Smarter

  

  Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

  

  Rose Marie McCoy - Dippin In My Business

  

  Rose Marie McCoy - Dippin In My Business

  

  Rose Marie McCoy - Dippin In My Business

  

  Rose Marie McCoy - Dippin In My Business

  

  Rose Marie McCoy - Dippin In My Business

  

  Little Willie John - Leave My Kitten Alone

  

  Sandra Grimes - Hallelujah Rock n Roll

  

  John Davis - Up Jumped The Devil

  

  Ay Enno Machi Yakana - La Playa Africana

  

  Ay Enno Machi Yakana - La Playa Africana

  

  High Llamas - Apricot

  

  Nathaniel Merriweather - To Catch a Thief

  Episode 64 Tracklist

  1. Mad Man Jones – Snake Charmer
  2. Mongo Santamaria – Bricamo
  3. Peaches – Lovertits
  4. Rita – Erotica
  5. Memphis Jug Band – Gator Wobble
  6. Alvarius B – The Demon 360
  7. Ray Agee – The Devils Angels
  8. The Velvelettes – Needle in a Haystack
  9. The Three Johns – Zowie
  10. Climaco Sarmiento – La Gaita Marciana
  11. PIL – Careering
  12. Duke of Iron – Man Smart, Woman Smarter
  13. Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
  14. Rose Marie McCoy – Dippin In My Business
  15. Little Willie John – Leave My Kitten Alone
  16. Sandra Grimes – Hallelujah Rock n Roll
  17. John Davis – Up Jumped The Devil
  18. The Vibrettes – Humpty Dump
  19. La Playa Africana – Ay Enno Machi Yakana
  20. High Llamas – Apricot
  21. Nathaniel Merriweather – To Catch a Thief
  22. Miles Davis – Sanctuary

  This Show was recorded December 10th 2012
  ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

  Did You enjoy that? If so, here’s our most recent Podcasts:

  • Episode 78 The Home Spun Sessions: The Wagon Tales
  • Episode 77 - The Home Spun Sessions: Folie Ordinaire
  • Episode 76 - The Home Spun Sessions: Park & Ride
  • Episode 75 - the Kopyright Liberation Front
  • Episode 74 - Don't Cramp My Style
  • Episode 73 - Pop vs. Rock
  • Episode 72 - The Thinly Veiled Innuendo
  • Episode 71 - Drunken Jungle Skank
  • Episode 70 - The Home Spun Sessions: Ma Polaine's Great Decline
  • Episode 69 - The Home Spun Sessions: Ma'Grass
  • Episode 68 - All aboard the Afrobeat Express: It's the High-Life for Me
  • Episode 67 - The Home Spun Sessions: T.J. Johnson
  • Episode 66 - The Home Spun Sessions: Errol Linton & Friends
  • Episode 65 - The Home Spun Sessions: Alastair James
  • Episode 64- The Weird Sex Issue
  • Episode 63 - Home Spun Sessions: Orchestra Elastique
  • Episode 62 - The Atrocity Exhibition
  • Episode 61 - Bhangaz & Beatles
  • Episode 60 - The Home Spun Sessions: The Untouchables
  • Episode 59 The Home Spun Sessions: The Bikini Beach Band
  • Episode 58 - The Home Spun Sessions: Wara
  • Episode 57 - Tortoise and Hair
  • Episode 56 - The Message in the Music
  • Episode 55 - The Crazy spider-eating Moon Dog
  • Episode 54 - The Home Spun Sessions: Jardares Por Fuera

  • Episode 63 – Home Spun Sessions: Orchestra Elastique

    

    We have an extended, special this week with the astonishing live freeform soundscapes of Orchestra Elastique. Their music is a place of encounter, a musical catalyst, a Vorticist experiment and a new musical paradigm. Check Orchestra Elastique’s future gigs.

    plus:

    • How Geordie band, The Animals brought Jimi Hendrix over to busk on the streets of Newcastle, His first gig in the UK?
    • The early Blue Beat sound of Duke Reid.
    • Hoffman the Dr of Theremin. You’d play it in your lab coat wouldn’t you?
    • How musicians interact in free-form pieces: It’s all about listening and mutual respect, but make sure to make a surprise instrument!
    • Catch a desert wave! The Arab-Surf, Moog-Beats of Omar Khorshid.
    • The power of music to transport comes from the ritualistic celecbration. Music can lift the human spirit to a shamanistic trance-like state.

    Listen to the Podcast Here:

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:51:27 — 204.1MB)

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    Slides of the Vinyl:

    

    The Versatones - Bila

    

    Jiving Juniors - Lollipop Girl

    

    The Animals - Inside Looking Out

    

    Kevin Coyne - Some Dark Day

    

    Omar Khorshid - Rakset El Fadaa

    

    Anahoretii - Padurile Fosneau

    

    Dr Samuel J Hoffman - This Room Is My Castle Of Quiet

    

    Dr Samuel J Hoffman - This Room Is My Castle Of Quiet

    

    Marvin Philips - Salty Dog

    

    Thee Oh Sees - Block Of Ice

    

    R Stevie Moore - Pop Music

    

    R Stevie Moore - Pop Music

    Episode 63 Tracklist

    1. The Versatones – Bila
    2. Jiving Juniors – Lollipop Girl
    3. The Animals – Inside Looking Out
    4. Kevin Coyne – Some Dark Day
    5. Orchestra Elastique – My Dog was on the Canapé Yesterday (Live)
    6. Omar Khorshid – Rakset El Fadaa
    7. Anahoretii – Padurile Fosneau
    8. Dr Samuel J Hoffman – This Room Is My Castle Of Quiet
    9. Marvin Philips – Salty Dog
    10. Thee Oh Sees – Block Of Ice
    11. R Stevie Moore – Pop Music
    12. Orchestra Elastique – Home Spun Sessions (Live)

    This Show was recorded 20th November 2012
    ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

  • Episode 62 – The Atrocity Exhibition

    

    People are anaesthetised by the news. It becomes a soap opera of horror, which we watch compulsively, and without empathy. How Anarcho-punk outfits such as Flux of Pink Indians tried to redress the balance.
    plus:

    • The early 80′s Digital Dancehall sound of Cutty Ranks, the original Raggamuffin Soundbwoy.
    • Why the kids shouldn’t start taking Ayahuasca.
    • The KLF’s Manual “How to have a Number One the Easy Way” still applies.
    • A Modern Mersey Beat: the banging sounds of the Boom Boom Booms.
    • John Airs his knickers – top drawer stuff!
    • Mayo Thompson’s itinerant music career: from West to East, he’s moved up and up, working with Robert Rauschenberg, producing for Rough Trade and played with Connie Plank & Dieter Moebius in Germany.
    • And Finally… why the Home Spun Show vastly dislikes Noel Edmonds.

    Listen to the Podcast Here:

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:32:18 — 169.0MB)

    Slides of the Vinyl

    

    Cumbia Siglo XX - Rhythm Naga-Peddale

    

    Red Snapper - Get Some Sleep Tiger

    

    Don Ellis - Theme from the French Connection

    

    Red Crayola - Discipline

    

    Red Crayola - Discipline

    

    The Boom Boom Booms - Trouble and Strife

    

    Ike & Tina Turner - The Game of Love

    

    Cutty Ranks - Retreat (Soundbwoy)

    

    Cutty Ranks - A Who Seh Me Done

    

    Scanner - Heidi

    

    UK Apache & Shy FX - Original Nuttah

    

    David Holmes feat. John Spencer - Bad Thing

    

    Jimmie Haskell And His Orchestra – Blast Off

    

    The Honey Drippers - Impeach the President

    

    Prince Far-I and The Arabs – Plant Up

    

    Roots Manuva - Soul Decay

    

    3 Go 3 - Boing

    

    Flux of Pink Indians – Tube Disaster

    

    Flux of Pink Indians – Tube Disaster

    

    The Musical Linn Twins - Rockin out the Bloues

    

    FC Kahuna - Hayling

    

    Soul Centre - Funky Sterling

    Episode 62 Tracklist

    1. Cumbia Siglo XX – Rhythm Naga-Peddale
    2. Red Snapper – Get Some Sleep Tiger
    3. Don Ellis – Theme from the French Connection
    4. Red Crayola – Discipline
    5. The Boom Boom Booms – Trouble and Strife
    6. Ike & Tina Turner – The Game of Love
    7. Cutty Ranks – Retreat (Soundbwoy)
    8. Cutty Ranks – A Who Seh Me Dun
    9. Scanner – Heidi
    10. UK Apache & Shy FX – Original Nuttah
    11. David Holmes feat. John Spencer – Bad Thing
    12. Jimmie Haskell And His Orchestra – Blast Off
    13. JB Lenoir – Don’t Touch My Head
    14. The Honey Drippers – Impeach the President
    15. Prince Far-I and The Arabs – Plant Up
    16. Roots Manuva – Soul Decay
    17. 3 Go 3 – Boing
    18. Flux of Pink Indians – Tube Disaster
    19. The Musical Linn Twins – Rockin out the Bloues
    20. FC Kahuna – Hayling
    21. Soul Centre – Funky Sterling (edit)

    This Show was recorded 26th November 2012
    ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

  • Episode 61 – Bhangaz & Beatles

    

    We rate the Shankar musical dynasty. From Ravi, who taught the Beatles what they know about Indian music, to Ananda, who’s exploits opened up the psychedelic sitar sound, to the Anglo-Indian sounds of Bishi Bhattacharya. Mesmerizing Indian Bhangaz one and all.
    plus:

    • Howard deVoto’s celluloid sexual exploits: shooting off the full Magazine.
    • The sly saxophone in garage with the Salados – take note!
    • Caught in the headlights, collecting roadkill with the men from Uncle.
    • How to forget that you’re working on the chain gang.
    • The early blues recordings of Alan Lomax.
    • Matthew goes goating up the hill and misses the Moonshot!

    Listen to the Podcast Here:

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:31:54 — 168.3MB)

    Slides of the Vinyl

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    The Buzzcocks - Boredom

    

    The Buzzcocks - Boredom

    

    Dickie Treadway and the Salanos - One to Ten

    

    The Groundhogs - Split Part 2

    

    Unkle - Rabbit in your Headlights

    

    Slim Harpo - Shake Your Hips

    

    Group Doueh - Ragsa Juguar

    

    Ed Lewis and Group - I Be So Glad When The Sun Goes Down

    

    Kenny Dope - Thoughts and Visions

    

    Quickspace - Walk Me Home

    

    Sounds Orchestral - Moonshot

    

    Jackie Brenston and His Delta Kings - Rocket 88

    

    Jackie Brenston and His Delta Kings - Rocket 88

    

    Jackie Brenston - Trouble Up The Road

    

    Tom Waits - 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six

    

    PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love

    

    PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love

    

    Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae

    

    Nancy Sesay and the Melodaires - C'est Fab

    

    Ananda Shanka - Streets of Calcutta

    

    Ananda Shanka - Streets of Calcutta

    

    Ananda Shanka - Streets of Calcutta

    

    Ananda Shanka - Streets of Calcutta

    

    Gang of Four - I Love a Man In Uniform

    

    Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Darkest Light

    

    Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Darkest Light

    

    Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Darkest Light

    

    Archie Shepp - Attica Blues

    

    Archie Shepp - Attica Blues

    Episode 61 Tracklist

    1. The Buzzcocks – Boredom
    2. Dickie Treadway and the Salados – One to Ten
    3. The Groundhogs – Split Part 2
    4. Unkle – Rabbit in your Headlights
    5. Slim Harpo – Shake Your Hips
    6. Group Doueh – Ragsa Juguar
    7. Ed Lewis and Group – I Be So Glad When The Sun Goes Down
    8. Kenny Dope – Thoughts and Visions
    9. Quickspace – Walk Me Home
    10. Sounds Orchestral – Moonshot
    11. Jackie Brenston and His Delta Kings – Rocket 88
    12. Jackie Brenston – Trouble Up The Road
    13. Tom Waits – 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six
    14. PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
    15. Jonathan Richmond and the Modern Lovers – Egyptian Reggae
    16. Nancy Sesay and the Melodaires – C’est Fab
    17. Ananda Shankar – Streets of Calcutta
    18. Gang of Four – I Love a Man In Uniform
    19. Lafayette Afro Rock Band – Darkest Light
    20. Archie Shepp – Attica Blues

    This Show was recorded 19th November 2012
    ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

  • Episode 60 – The Home Spun Sessions: The Untouchables

    

    The rather brilliant Untouchables bring their special brand of  harmonica Blues to the Home Spun Sessions. Little Walter eat your heart out – they’ve got enough harps to shake a stick at!
    plus:

    • The boys quaff Mötorhead’s Shiraz, but wonder why wine? It just ain’t Rock & Roll… Why not Mötorhead Whiskey? Lemmy would be the toast of Hard Rock Cafe Society!
    • Sing for your Supper: the psychedelic ‘karaoke’ rantings of  Can legend Damo Suzuki.
    • Flash, the Grand Master who took over from James Brown as the hardest working man in Show-Business.
    • How Run DMC used to bless all the people at their gigs personally  as they left the building.
    • How the Wu-Tang Clan rejuvenated hip hop by bringing Eastern Mysticism into the genre and telling serious Black history with a unique voice.
    • Young Holt Unlimited: One of the best studio bands of the 70′s.

    Listen to the Podcast Here:

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:29:11 — 163.3MB)

    Slides of the Vinyl

    

    Big Al Downing - Georgia Slop

    

    Haryou Percussion Orchestra - Welcome to the Party

    

    Haryou Percussion Orchestra - Welcome to the Party

    

    The Fall - I Am Damo Suzuki

    

    Darrel Rhodes - 4 o'clock Baby

    

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    Ice Cube - Check Yourself

    

    African Headcharge - Off The Beaten Track

    

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    Family Tree - Family Tree

    

    El Michels Affair - CREAM

    

    Motorhead - No Class

    

    Young Holt Unlimited - Light My Fire

    

    Motorhead - No Glass!

    

    Erma Franklyn - Light My Fire

    

    Erma Franklyn - Light My Fire

    Episode 60 Tracklist

    1. Big Al Downing – Georgia Slop
    2. Haryou Percussion Orchestra – Welcome to the Party
    3. The Fall – I Am Damo Suzuki
    4. Darrel Rhodes – 4 o’clock Baby
    5. The Untouchables – My Babe
    6. The Untouchables – Help Me
    7. The Untouchables -I’ve got a Mind
    8. The Untouchables – 2:19
    9. Kraftwerk – Boing Boom Tchak
    10. Ice Cube – Check Yourself
    11. African Headcharge – Off The Beaten Track
    12. The Untouchables – Hound Dog
    13. The Untouchables – Chicago
    14. The Untouchables -Baby Please Don’t Go
    15. The Untouchables – Rock Me
    16. The Untouchables – Two Old Maids
    17. Family Tree – Family Tree
    18. El Michels Affair – CREAM
    19. Motorhead – No Class
    20. Young Holt Unlimited – Light My Fire
    21. Erma Franklyn – Light My Fire

    This Show was recorded 12th November 2012
    ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

  • Episode 59 The Home Spun Sessions: The Bikini Beach Band

    

    The fabulously flambuoyant Bikini Beach Band rock their surf noir sound for the Home Spun Sessions. This was a crazy gig recorded at the Red Hot Grind Show in Shoreditch.
    plus:

    • Japanese Gentlemen stand up please! Tightening up and funking out with The Yellow Magic Orchestra.
    • Head Saucier, Googie Rene rocks the sleazy beatnik beats. We learn the difference between a titty-shaker and a grind. One not to forget!
    • The classic flatshare: Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith. More punk than Johnny Rotten!
    • One micro-cosmic year: Youth Culture: Blink and you miss it.

    Listen to the Podcast Here:

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:28:46 — 162.6MB)

    Slides of the Vinyl

    

    Hop Wilson and his Blue Steel Guitar - Rocking in the Cocoanut Top

    

    Googie Rene - Sidetracked

    

    Whitey Gallagher - Gotta Roam

    

    Whitey Gallagher - Gotta Roam

    

    Chuck Reo and the Originals - C'est La Vie

    

    Yellow Magic Orchestra - Tighten Up

    

    Yellow Magic Orchestra - Tighten Up

    

    Ornette Coleman - Virgin Beauty

    

    Ornette Coleman - Virgin Beauty

    

    Dave and Ansil Collins - Double Barrel

    

    Bikini Beach Band - Ghost Riders

    

    Bikini Beach Band - Sex on Fire

    

    Bikini Beach Band - Tequila

    

    Bikini Beach Band - Hawaii 5-0

    

    Patti Smith - Privilege (Set Me Free)

    

    Fabian Andre - Rumor Tropical

    

    Fabian Andre - Rumor Tropical

    

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    Musique Kongo

    

    Bikini Beach Band - Blue Monday

    

    Bikini Beach Band - LA Creepa

    

    Bikini Beach Band - Wipeout

    

    Bikini Beach Band - Misirlou

    

    Wire - Mr Suit

    

    The Monks - Love Come Tumblin' Down

    Episode 59 Tracklist

    1. Hop Wilson and his Blue Steel Guitar – Rocking in the Cocoanut Top
    2. Googie Rene – Sidetracked
    3. Whitey Gallagher – Gotta Roam
    4. Chuck Reo and the Originals – C’est La Vie
    5. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Tighten Up
    6. Ornette Coleman – Virgin Beauty
    7. Dave and Ansil Collins – Double Barrel
    8. Bikini Beach Band – Ghost Riders
    9. Bikini Beach Band – Sex on Fire
    10. Bikini Beach Band – Tequila
    11. Bikini Beach Band – Hawaii 5-0
    12. Patti Smith – Privilege (Set Me Free)
    13. Etta James – At Last
    14. Fabian Andre – Rumor Tropical
    15. Musique Kongo
    16. Bikini Beach Band – Blue Monday
    17. Bikini Beach Band - LA Creepa
    18. Bikini Beach Band - Wipeout
    19. Bikini Beach Band - Misirlou
    20. Wire – Mr Suit
    21. The Monks – Love Come Tumblin’ Down
    22. Slick – Space Bass

    This Show was recorded 15th October 2012
    ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

  • Episode 58 – The Home Spun Sessions: Wara

    

    Wara bring their fab take on Cuban music to the Home Spun Show. Salsa meets Reggae, Afro-Jazz meets Rap in the underground sounds of London’s new pan-world immigrant communities.
    plus:

    • How the CIA exported Abstract Expressionism around the world during the 60′s to promote ‘freedom’ & the American Way.
    • How the Jamaicans took foghorns from American warships and turned them into bass speakers, inventing sound system culture.
    • Tom Collis extols the virtues of the VW Combi ‘bread loaf ‘camper van. So long as the damned thing doesn’t over-cook and catch fire!
    • It’s Banjo bashing time with Robert Crumb & the Cheap Suit Serenaders.
    • We say No, No, No to Yes.

    Listen to the Podcast Here:

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:31:12 — 167.0MB)

    Slides of the Vinyl

    

    Los Boppers - Ali Baba

    

    Jackie Mitoo - Keep on Dance U

    

    Nice Face - Minor Altercation

    

    Original Flavor - Can I get Open

    

    The Gardenias - I'm Laughing at You

    

    The Syndicates - Howling For My Baby

    

    Milton Banana - Procissão

    

    Milton Banana - Procissão

    

    Lani Kai - Batik

    

    Cheap Suit Serenaders - Fine Artiste Blues

    

    John Fahey - Dance of the Inhabitants of the Invisible City of Bladensburg

    

    Captain Beefheart - China Pig

    

    Captain Beefheart - China Pig

    

    Captain Beefheart - China Pig

    

    Sonic Youth - Death Valley 69

    

    Beach Boys - Till I Die

    Episode 58 Tracklist

    1. Los Boppers – Ali Baba
    2. Jackie Mitoo – Keep on Dance U
    3. Nice Face – Minor Altercation
    4. Original Flavor – Can I get Open
    5. The Gardenias – I’m Laughing at You
    6. The Syndicates – Howling For My Baby
    7. Wara – Conga (Intro)
    8. Wara – Somewhere Land
    9. Wara – 7 A.M.
    10. Milton Banana – Procissão
    11. Lani Kai – Batik
    12. Cheap Suit Serenaders – Fine Artiste Blues
    13. John Fahey – Dance of the Inhabitants of the Invisible City of Bladensburg
    14. Wara – Caprichoso
    15. Wara – Run
    16. Wara – Leave to Remain
    17. Wara – Conga
    18. Captain Beefheart – China Pig
    19. Sonic Youth – Death Valley 69
    20. Beach Boys  - Till I Die

    This Show was recorded 16th October 2012
    ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

  • Episode 57 – Tortoise and Hair

    

    Matthew generally prefers the slower tunes but also has a few musicals in his collection!
    plus:

    • The freakishness of Dennis Potter’s Frank in ‘Blue Velvet’ and how it has changed our view of Orbison’s ‘In Dreams’. How Potter got the job…
    • Saccharine just won’t do: The various kinds of sugar in Rock & Roll.
    • Collage in art is a form that has not yet been completely used up.
    • Kurt Schwitters’ room in the Lake District.
    • The expansive production values of older tracks enticed hip hop producers into sampling.
    • How the mathematics of the MP3 algorithm favours the bass and the treble and loses the dynamics and overtones to be found in the midrange.

    …and much more!

    Listen to the Podcast Here:

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:28:58 — 162.9MB)

    Slides of the Vinyl

    

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    Percy Mayfield - Louisiana

    

    Bo Diddley - Road Runner

    

    Bo Diddley - Road Runner

    

    Young Holt Unlimited - Soulful Samba

    

    Stock, Hausen and Walkman - Sleep

    

    Stock, Hausen and Walkman - Sleep

    

    Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come

    

    General Strike - My Other Body

    

    Eddie Kendrix - Girl you need a Change of Life

    

    Half Japanese - Thick and Thin

    

    Half Japanese - Thick and Thin

    

    Half Japanese - Thick and Thin

    

    Kenny Barry - Hypnotized

    

    The Pioneers - Kick The Bucket

    

    Kwakuiti - Nootka - Wolf Song

    

    Hector Rivera - Asia Minor

    

    Hector Rivera - Asia Minor

    

    Holger Czukay - Photo Song

    

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    Coldcut - Tortoise remix

    

    Serge Gainsbourg - 69 Annee Erotique

    

    Pete Rock and C L Smooth - Creator

    

    Johnny Cash - Belshazzar

    

    Johnny Cash - Belshazzar

    

    Johnny Cash - Belshazzar

    

    Jack Nitsche - Coming to Town

    

    Jack Nitsche - Coming to Town

    

    Jack Nitsche - Coming to Town

    

    Jack Nitsche - Coming to Town

    

    Roy Orbison - In Dreams

    

    Roy Orbison - In Dreams

    

    Roy Orbison - In Dreams

    

    Lord Kitchener - Wife and Mother

    Episode 57 Tracklist

    1. Percy Mayfield – Louisiana
    2. Cannonball Aldderley – Walk Tall
    3. Bo Diddley – Road Runner
    4. Young Holt Unlimited – Soulful Samba
    5. Stock, Hausen and Walkman – Sleep
    6. Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
    7. General Strike – My Other Body
    8. Eddie Kendrix – Girl you need a Change of Life
    9. Half Japanese – Thick and Thin
    10. Kenny Barry – Hypnotized
    11. The Pioneers – Kick The Bucket
    12. Kwakuiti – Nootka – Wolf Song
    13. Hector Rivera – Asia Minor
    14. Holger Czukay – Photo Song
    15. Kraftwerk – Showroom Dummies
    16. Coldcut – Tortoise remix
    17. Serge Gainsbourg  - 69 Annee Erotique
    18. Pete Rock and C L Smooth – Creator
    19. Johnny Cash – Belshazzar
    20. Jack Nitsche – Coming to Town
    21. Roy Orbison – In Dreams
    22. Lord Kitchener – Wife and Mother

    This Show was recorded 8th October 2012
    ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

  • Episode 56 – The Message in the Music

    

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:28:08 — 161.4MB)

    In the 80′s, Christian fundamentalists in the US heard voices in Rock music which when you played particular records backwards became intelligible and told you demonic messages. We reveal how to play a record backwards so you can hear these backwards messages in the music.

    • Bono Sucks: We say his self-importance isn’t justified.
    • The world of movie soundtracks is a glorious world to explore!
    • When you reissue records you should either do exact repros or create your own new logos and branding.
    • Drunk on the Lord.  Gospel with the Rev. F.W. McGee.
    • The Latin bass virtuoso Cachao was king of the Cuban music scene.
    • How the Shangri-las turned the pictures from love story comic books  into pop gold.

    Slides of the Vinyl

    

    Richard Caiton - Liston to the Drums

    

    J J Johnson - Across 110th Street

    

    Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Angel of Promise

    

    Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Angel of Promise

    

    Joe Hill Louis - Gotta Let You Go

    

    Rev F W McGee - He is the Savior for Me

    

    The Upsetters - Move Me

    

    Joe Cain - Pa-Pa Bajo

    

    Joe Cain - Pa-Pa Bajo

    

    Virgin Prunes - Baby Turns Blue

    

    Davy DMX - One For The Treble

    

    Asha Puthli - Space Talk

    

    Eno Moebius Roedelius - Tzima N'arki

    

    How to play a record backwards

    

    How to play a record backwards

    

    Psychosis - Tornado

    

    The Shangri-Las - Give Him a Great Big Kiss

    

    Can - Man Named Joe

    

    Buffalo Jams - Liquid Jungle

    

    Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey

    Episode 56 Tracklist

    1. Richard Caiton – Liston to the Drums
    2. J J Johnson – Across 110th Street
    3. Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra – Angel of Promise
    4. Joe Hill Louis – Gotta Let You Go
    5. Rev. F. W. McGee – He is the Savior for Me
    6. The Upsetters – Move Me
    7. Joe Cain – Pa-Pa Bajo
    8. Virgin Prunes – Baby Turns Blue
    9. Davy DMX – One For The Treble
    10. Asha Puthli – Space Talk
    11. Eno Moebius Roedelius – Tzima N’arki
    12. Psychosis – Tornado
    13. Gary Burton – Vibra Finger
    14. The Shangri-Las – Give Him a Great Big Kiss
    15. Can – Man Named Joe
    16. Billy Hamlin – If you ain’t got no Bread (You might as well Stay in bed)
    17. Buffalo Jams – Liquid Jungle
    18. Baba Brooks – 7 Guns Alive
    19. Beastie Boys – Brass Monkey
    20. Daedelus – Just Brarfly
    21. Nina Simone – I Put a Spell on You

    This Show was recorded October 1st 2012
    ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

  • Episode 55 – The Crazy spider-eating Moon Dog

    

    Now eating giant live spiders is not my idea of a good time but Seth the dog has no problem with it. Yum, Yum, for some, but me? Not in a month of Black Sabbaths!

    plus:

    • The three kings of Mambo: Rainbow, Fiesta and Mardi Gras, the first New York Mambo labels.
    • The Seeds: Matthew likes the borlotti’s whilst John preferes mung.
    • How Sid Barrett monged out on too much acid and lost the plot.
    • The Violent Femmes, kings of the art school scene during the 80′s.
    • Reggae Royalty: DJ Derek, the West Country Selecta.
    • Jimmy Smith the funky fingered man casts a spell with his loins.
    • The Spice Girls did nothing for women’s rights with girl power. More likely they set feminism back by a decade. Bet they never knew what asafoetida was either…

    Listen to the Podcast Here:

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:32:26 — 169.3MB)

    Slides of the Vinyl

    

    Walter Lane Trio - Drumambo

    

    Pink Floyd - Bike

    

    MC 900 ft Jesus - The City Sleeps

    

    Matmos - Jealous Order of Candied Knights

    

    Swell Maps - Let's Buy a Bridge

    

    Swell Maps - Let's Buy a Bridge

    

    Cluster - Avanti

    

    The Commandos - Penyesalan

    

    Son House - Grinning in your Face

    

    Willie Bobo - Wild Rice

    

    Crane - Calpol

    

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    Letta - Kukuchi

    

    Plastic Ono Band - Woman Power

    Episode 55 Tracklist

    1. Walter Lane Trio – Drumambo
    2. The Seeds – Pushing Too Hard
    3. The Commandos – Penyesalan
    4. Violent Femmes – Gone Daddy Gone
    5. Pink Floyd – Bike
    6. Treniers – Moondog
    7. MC 900 ft Jesus – The City Sleeps
    8. Matmos – Jealous Order of Candied Knights
    9. Conroy Smith – Dangerous
    10. Swell Maps – Let’s Buy a Bridge
    11. Richard Hell & the Voidoids – The Blank Generation
    12. Liquid Liquid – Dig We Must
    13. Cluster – Avanti
    14. Jimmy Smith – Got My Mojo Working
    15. Eddie Burns – Hard Hearted Women
    16. Son House – Grinning in your Face
    17. Willie Bobo – Wild Rice
    18. Crane – Calpol
    19. Amon Tobin – Kitty Cat
    20. Letta – Kukuchi
    21. Plastic Ono Band – Woman Power

    This Show was recorded 3rd September 2012
    ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

  • Episode 54 – The Home Spun Sessions: Jardares Por Fuera

    

    We are very proud to present the inimitable Jardares Por Fuera, who bring their superb Gypsy Flamenco sounds along to the Home Spun Sessions for a Dancefloor mash-up!

    plus:

    • 4 Magnums in a row on the train? So What! The undisputed king of Tutti Frutti is still Little Richard!
    • The Musique Concrète of Pierre Henry: a harsh inpenetrable sound?
    • John threatens to bring his container lorry full of prog rock along to the show…de Sade or just Sad? A torturous evening nonetheless!
    • Badly Stuffed Animals, taxidermy that’s gone so, so wrong.
    • The Canadian Reggae Scene: many reggae artists were able to make Lps in Canada when there was little support for them in the US during the 70′s and 80′s.
    • The sad demise of a man way ahead of his time: The beautiful warmth of Nick Drake’s music didn’t sell at the time, but is hugely influential now.

    Listen to the Podcast Here:

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:31:14 — 167.0MB)

    Slides of the Vinyl

    

    Mickey Lee Lane - Tutti Fruitti

    

    The Maytals - I'll Never Grow Old

    

    Pierre Henry - Jericho Jerk

    

    The Mighty Panther - I Kissed Her Hand

    

    Carlos Morgan - Shake Your Body

    

    Pigface - Alles Ist Mine

    

    Return of The Living Acid - Move Dammit

    

    Clifton Chenier - Black Snake Moan

    

    Nick Drake - Cello Song

    

    Nick Drake - Cello Song

    

    Steve Taylor and Allen Ginsberg - Dear M

    

    Steve Taylor and Allen Ginsberg - Dear M

    Episode 54 Tracklist

    1. Mickey Lee Lane – Tutti Fruitti
    2. The Maytals – I’ll Never Grow Old
    3. Pierre Henry – Jericho Jerk
    4. The Mighty Panther – I Kissed Her Hand
    5. Jardares Por Fuera - Camarero
    6. Jardares Por Fuera - Tomando Caña
    7. Jardares Por Fuera - La Cancion Mas…
    8. Carlos Morgan – Shake Your Body
    9. Tanya Winley – Vicious Rap
    10. Pigface  - Alles Ist Mine
    11. Return of The Living Acid – Move Dammit
    12. Clifton Chenier – Black Snake Moan
    13. Jardares Por Fuera - El Salpicao
    14. Jardares Por Fuera - Ya No Te Quiero
    15. Jardares Por Fuera - Encore
    16. Nick Drake – Cello Song
    17. Sabres of Paradise – Duke of Earlsfield
    18. Steve Taylor and Allen Ginsberg – Dear M

    This Show was recorded 18th September 2012
    ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

  • Episode 53 – The Home Spun Sessions: A Little Night Music with Katy Jungmann and Trombone Poetry

    

    Cyrus Gabrysch and James Byron’s brilliant A Little Night Music are joined byTrombone Poetry and Katy Jungmann for a jazz-country-blues  poetry special.
    plus:

    • An enduring debt: The Buzzcocks paid for the studio to record the The Fall’s first album but were never paid back!
    • John Lurie from the Lounge Lizards worked on scores for Jim Jarmusch’s films.
    • You can get in a lot of trouble nicking your mates’ tunes – nah mate music is meant to share – that’s how you learn about new tunes! (not file sharing – Ed)
    • Vampyros Lesbos: A film that shows a bit of ankle! Why aren’t all nightclub promoters Vampirellas?
    • Simon’s Popcorn Voodoo Double Feature!

    Listen to the Podcast Here:

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:31:59 — 168.4MB)

    Slides of the Vinyl

    

    Buzzcocks - I Don't Mind

    

    Prince Buster - Madness

    

    Lounge Lizards - Incident on South Street

    

    Dr Ross - Numbers Blues

    

    Pere Ubu - Misery Goats

    

    Manfred Hubler and Siegfried Schwab - Droge CK9

    

    Don Sargent - Voodoo Kiss

    

    Kay Starr - Voodoo Man

    

    Traffic - Dealer

    

    Lighnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go

    

    Billie Holiday - I'll Get By

    

    Bert Jansch and John Renborn - Stepping Stones

    Episode 53 Tracklist

    1. Buzzcocks – I Don’t Mind
    2. Prince Buster – Madness
    3. Lounge Lizards – Incident on South Street
    4. A Little Night Music – Spoonful
    5. A Little Night Music feat. Katy Jungmann – Watermelon Man
    6. A Little Night Music feat. Katy Jungmann – Caravan
    7. A Little Night Music – A Tango ’til They’re Sore
    8. Dr Ross – Numbers Blues
    9. Pere Ubu – Misery Goats
    10. Manfred Hubler and Siegfried Schwab – Droge CK9
    11. Don Sargent – Voodoo Kiss
    12. Kay Starr – Voodoo Man
    13. A Little Night Music feat. Trombone Poetry  - This Trombone
    14. A Little Night Music feat. Trombone Poetry  - Everything Happens for a Reason
    15. A Little Night Music feat. Katy Jungmann – Randomville
    16. A Little Night Music feat. Katy Jungmann & Trombone Poetry – Chameleon
    17. Traffic – Dealer
    18. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Baby Please Don’t Go
    19. Billie Holiday – I’ll Get By
    20. Bert Jansch and John Renborn – Stepping Stones

    This Show was recorded 10th September 2012
    ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

  • Episode 52 – Pink Elephants on Parade

    

    Sun Ra whistles up a herd of elephants with his brass arrangements. Watch out or Jumbo & Co will run roughshod over you.

    • Juvenile John get’s chased around Stonehenge by the Hell’s Angels.
    • Looking through the eyes of a criminal. Gary Gilmore’s body parts reanimated!
    • Getting sharp bits of metal stuck in one’s knickers. Bloody Nora!
    • We love the raw energy of early electro: It’s time to Rock the House!
    • Red Pryscock’s fab sax playing for the Mercury label.
    • Are some instruments past it these days? The Sax? The Geetar? What about the instruments that aren’t fully explored yet.

    Listen to the Podcast Here:

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:28:18 — 161.7MB)

    Slides of the Vinyl

    

    

    The Breeders - Cannonball

    

    Johnny Kidd and the Pirates - Please Don't Touch

    

    Cresa Watson - Dead