Choose a Podcast to Listen to From the List Below:
Looking for Something M’Dear? Try Me.
» Podcast
Episode 101- The Home Spun Sessions: The Remedy
We are joined for an exclusive session this week by up-and-coming Soul band, The Remedy as they launched their new EP ahead of a hectic festival schedule.
The Remedy provide a delicate balance of lyric, harmony and melody which form a great counterpoint to Chrissie’s soaring voice. By turns intimate and poignant, her songs of love, family and personal experience transfixed us.
plus:
- When James Brown impersonated Little Richard and nobody sussed it.
- How people forgot to learn the guitar for nearly a decade.
- Why the night is the best time for creativity.
- YouTube and SoundCloud have helped to create the ‘era of the underdog’.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:36:54 — 133.1MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=127%%Episode 101 Tracklist
- Marie ‘Queenie’ Lyons – See and Don’t See
- James Brown – Prisoner of Love
- The Jungle Brothers – Straight Out the Jungle
- The Remedy – Loving You
- The Remedy – Again
- Allen Stone – Unaware (live in his mother’s living room)
- Bonobo – Eyes Down
- The Remedy – The Lift
- The Remedy – Runner Man
- Nappy Brown – Hoonie Boonie
- The Mekons – Where Were You?
- The Remedy – Soulful Summer
- The Remedy – Where’s All the Soul?
- John Motha – Zulu Boy
- Dennis Edwards – Don’t Look Any Further
- Sly & Robbie – Boops (Here to Go)
This Show was recorded 2nd & 28th April
©2014 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 100 – The Home Spun Sessions: Prince Monolulu & the Royal Ponces
Prince Monolulu and the Royal Ponces join us this week for some hot Rhythm & Blues, Exotic Rumbas and Desperate Rock & Roll. It’s all Killer Diller – no Filler here. We get the low down on the old days of Soho’s roaring Night Life and get quite intoxicated in the process!
plus:- Down at the Black Gardenia: we rue the good old days of one of Soho’s greatest dive bars run by the inimitable Jake Vegas.
- Vintage music – WTF? Vintage is a bottle of wine blood.
- Tito Puente – Band leader extraordinaire, showman and hep cat of the mambo and cha cha.
- Storytelling in Music. Songs that run like poems.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:33:34 — 128.5MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=126%%Episode 100 Tracklist
- Magic Sam – Easy Baby
- Jay Swan – You Don’t Love Me
- Ronnie Isle & the Yo-Yo’s – Hassie
- Ronnie Isle – Wicked
- Prince Monolulu – Bliss
- Prince Monolulu – Hurry Home to Me
- Sister Nancy – Bam Bam
- Arbee Stidham – Meet Me Half Way
- Prince Monolulu – Exclamation!
- Prince Monolulu – The Night After the Night Before
- Prince Monolulu – Midnight Black
- Freddie Hall – This Crooked World
- Tito Puente – Tatalibaba
- Marie Bryant – Tomato
- Leo Quica – Caliente
- Frank ‘Dual Trumpet’ Motley – Wanda Landa Landa
- Bob Lenarde – Cherokee Dance
- Prince Monolulu – Down at The Black Gardenia
- Prince Monolulu – Flash of Inspiration
- Prince Monolulu – I’m Shakin’
- Gene Vincent – Jezebel
This Show was recorded 7th April 2014
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 98 – Voodoo Juju Obsession
From the heady rites of Santeria to the glitzy posturing of Catholicism, we love ritual, especially if it has a sexual edge. Whether it be blood sacrifice, ecstatic visions, frenzied dancing, or simply cross-dressing Xango in Christian vestments, we check out weird and wonderful musical ritual and rite.
plus:- Drinking vodka with Mr K – Matthew prefers Rum!
- There are some things you just don’t tamper with – That great psychedelic masterpiece, “The Wizard of Oz” should be sacrosanct!
- When Steven Hawkins clashed with the Vatican.
- All about the time Simon got lucky and saw two pink moons on the motorway!
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:27:29 — 120.1MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=124%%Episode 98 Tracklist
- John Bean – Mr. K
- James Chance and the Contortions – Roving Eye
- Wolfgang Press – Kansas
- Andre Williams – House of Bamboo
- Carmen Miranda – O Que É Que a Bahiana Tem
- Celina Y Reutillo – Rezo y Canto Pa’ Mi Ache
- Wall of Voodoo – Mexican Radio
- Dave Pike Set – Raga Jeeva Swara
- A Certain Ratio – Lucinda
- Masta Ace – Movin’ On
- Marion Brown – Once Upon a Time (A Children’s Tale)
- Ti Roro – Haitian Drums
- Th’ Faith Healers – A Word of Advice
- The Adverts – One Chord Wonders
- Roger & the Gypsies – Pass the Hatchet
- Horace Silver – Señor Blues
- Lee Perry – Wishes of the Wicked
- Miriam Makeba – Umqokozo
- Kip Tyler & His Flips – Jungle Hop
- Nico Gomez – Caballo Negro
This Show was recorded March 4th 2013
©2014 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 96 – The Home Spun Sessions: Capitol K
Electro-Cumbia psychonaut, Capitol K explores the edges of Latin American pop music to create a new zeitgeist in transatlantic psychedelia. We trip out to his far-out sounds and dig the crates with him to find all manner of weird, trashy hybrids gone ‘wrong’, but Oh! SO Right.
- plus:
- The history of Cumbia from Columbia to Venezuela, Peru, Mexico and beyond. It’s a musical form that’s been stretched squeezed and hybridised for 50 years now but still going strong.
- When bands take on the sounds of their urban environment how does it affect their sound?
- Cool unreleased projects: When muso’s are given studio time for their own projects you often get something rather special.
- The eccentrically English sounds of On-U Sound System from Adrian Sherwood’s fab dub remixes of Punk to the tripped out tunes of Tricky and Massive Attack.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:34:17 — 129.5MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=122%%Episode 96 Tracklist
- D.R.A. La Danza de los Mirlos
- Grupo G – La Inconforme
- Feltuk a Sumetyat – Bengerta
- Paja Brava – Tarkas y Zamponas
- Junius Malveaux & Ernest Lafitte – Bye Bye Bonsoir mes Parents
- Los Labios – Bailando en Otra Parte
- Family Fodder – Dazomo
- Capitol K – Live Session
- Bosquez & Temperley ft Kumbha Kethu – Chancha via Circuito
- Sunshine Reggae – White Horse
- Loose Meat – Human Motivation (Dan Carey dub)
- Judy Nylon – The Dice
- Rita Indiana y los Mysterios – El Blue del Ping Pong (demo)
- Michael Waterson – John Barleycorn Must Die
- Los Jaivas – Mira Ninita
This Show was recorded 10th February 2014
©2014 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 95 – The Home Spun Sessions: Seraphim Kelly
Talented Northern Irish Singer Songwriter Seraphim Kelly tells stories of homelessness and life on the streets. We were really glad to catch him playing live and giving us the low-down on working for a homeless charity. Make sure you donate to his kickstarter campaign to get this young man’s debut album made and his heartfelt songs heard.
plus:
- Dress with extreme Prejudice: Why Blues singer Big Bill Broonzy had to dress like a country bumpkin to make it with White audiences when in truth he was a sophisticated, sharp dresser in everyday life.
- The town that loved Bob Marley.
- Kickstarter campaigns: a great way to fund an LP but will the model have any longevity, and why shouldn’t record labels be doing this?
- Seasick Steve demonstrates how to silence the crowd.
and much, much more!
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:42 — 124.6MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=121%%Episode 95 Tracklist
- Marlene Shaw – Wade in the Water
- Big Bill Broonzy – Horny Frog
- Seasick Steve – Started Out With Nothing
- Tim Hardin – If I Were a Carpenter
- Kenny Graham’s Afro Cubists – Bongo Chant
- Seraphim Kelly – Towards the Skyline
- Seraphim Kelly – Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
- Seraphim Kelly – Rough Sleeper
- Seraphim Kelly – The Happy Hobo
- Davy Graham – Moanin’
- Pete Seeger – Which Side Are You On?
- Eddy Vedder – Can’t Keep
- George Formby – Mother What Will I Do Now?
- Seraphim Kelly – My Resurrection
- Seraphim Kelly – Lost
- White Buffalo – Oh Darling What Have I Done?
- Mala – Hatchet
- Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt – Sunny Side of the Street
This Show was recorded 3rd March 2014
©2014 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 94 – The Home Spun Sessions: Shama Rahman
Sitar Diva, Shama Rahman joins us for the Home Spun Sessions this week. Shama explores jazz idioms and combines them with hints of Eastern mysticism and storytelling forms to great effect on her brand new album Fable:Time.
- plus:
- How Zappa kicked Dr. John out of his band for doing drugs!
- Great Musical Dynasties: Nature or nurture? Is it in the blood or simply a result of being brought up with a fine musical heritage.
- From Ravi Shankar and the Beatles to Talvin Singh and Badmarsh & Shri, the Classical Raga has been stretched into new forms and timings as it collides headlong with Western forms to create new sensibilities.
- Promoters that do artist development? For Real? Check out the fine work of London Jazz Promoters Serious Music.
- And finally… we reveal why all the best Donuts have a hole at the centre!
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:31:50 — 126.1MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=120%%Episode 94 Tracklist
- Ananda Shankar – Streets of Calcutta
- Shama Rahman – Reflections
- Shama Rahman – Time
- Shama Rahman – Bolte Paro Ki (Can you tell me why?)
- Shama Rahman – Time (Hit by a Rock remix)
- Roy Budd – Hallucinations
- Frank Zappa – Eat that Question
- J. Dilla feat. Ghostface & Doom – Sniper Elite
- The Knife – A Tooth for the Eye
- Sven Kacirek – Aresnal Aluny Village
- Johnny Smith – Nicola Avenue Breakdown
- Owen Grey – Sinners Weep & Mourn
- Busters All Stars – Mules Mules Mules Mules
- Bob Dylan – Ballad of Hollis Brown
- Carl Perkins – Her Love Rubbed Off
This Show was recorded 3rd February 2014
©2014 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 93 – Me Tarzan, you Jane
The boys don loin cloths for the evening as they dream of distant shores populated with nubile Amazonian vixens dolled up in leopard print.
- Pen-less composers: Dave Brubeck, Lucky Millinder, Captain Beefheart couldn’t write music but boy could they throw down a tune.
- Star Trekkin’ across the loonyverse – when Spock and Kirk made LPs.
- Spike Milligan, the performing man. An English treasure, who suffered from depression, but wrote the book on English comedy.
- How Marc Bolan helped create the Mod Scene.
- XL-ent! A label that has championed the sounds of the British underground.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:37:42 — 134.2MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=119%%Episode 93 Tracklist
- Lucky Millinder – Bongo Boogie
- Brother to Brother – Chance with You
- Chocolate Watch Band – Let’s Talk about Girls
- Dean Jones – Women (Ska-Da-La-De-Da)
- Bobby Williams – Tarzan
- Karl Denver – Uska Dara
- Jad Fair & Kramer – California
- Lightning Bolt – 2 Morro Morro Land
- Thin Lizzy – Johnny the Fox
- Fridge – Eyelids
- 12 O’Clock / Sunz of Man /Blue Raspberry – Strange Eyes
- Marsha Hunt – Oh No! Not the Beast Day
- Coldcut – More Beats & Pieces (Daddy Rips it Up)
- Sam Ulano – Drum’s Fairy Tale
- East of Eden – Gum Arabic
- White Stripes – Wasting My Time
- Liliput – Die Matrosen
- Mahalia Jackson – My Story
- Howling Wolf – Forty Four
- The Dodgers – You Make me Happy
- Noel Rosa – Palpito Infeliz
- Lloyd Miller – Gole Gandom
- Don Cunningham Group – Taboo
This Show was recorded 21st Jan 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 91 – All Aboard the Excello Special to Baton Rouge, Louisiana
We check out the awesome record collection of veteran Blues guitarist Jim Carlisle. He tells us how he got into collecting the Excello record label back in the early 60’s in Belfast and plays us some of the best Rock & Roll, Blues and Rockabilly we’ve heard in some considerable time!
plus:
- Forget your Troubles: Knocking about with the Mad Lads and Roy Orbison as a kid growing up in Belfast, Rock & Roll was better than fighting.
- How to become a drugs counselor for Elton John.
- Ordering a blues record for half a week’s wages, then waiting for 6 weeks or 2 months for it to arrive, you really, really listen when it finally shows up!
- Bad Credit – the Stoke Newington recession Blues. Now there’s a contradiction, but all the same…
- Cheap R&R: Conway Twitty & Jerry Lee Lewis for a shilling (that’s 10p to you kiddo).
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:36:48 — 177.2MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=117%%Episode 91 Tracklist
- Cyrus Gabrysch & the Zizaniques – River of Fire
- Jerry McCain – Bad Credit (Excello Records)
- Jimmy Anderson – I’m a King Bee (Excello Records)
- Charles Sheffield – The Kangaroo (Excello Records)
- Slim Harpo – I Need Money (Excello Records)
- Arthur Gunter – Baby (Let’s Play House) (Excello Records)
- Gladiolas – Run Run Little Joe (Excello Records)
- Lightnin’ Slim – Hoodoo Blues (Excello Records)
- Them – Baby Please Don’t Go
- Classie Balou – Hey Pardner! (Excello Records)
- Long John Hunter – Ride With Me Baby
- Louis Brooks – Chicken Shuffle (Excello Records)
- Arthur Gunter – Little Blue Jeans Woman(Excello Records)
- Jack Toombs – If You Want Me, Catch Me (Excello Records)
- Lazy Lester – Late Late in the Evening (Excello Records)
- Lesa Cormier & Sundown Playboys – Saturday Night Special
- Nolan Cormier – Hee Haw Breakdown
- Johnny Jano – Some Other Time
- Lynn Taitt & Babba Brooks – Seven Guns Alive
- Jim Carlisle – 5 x 10
This Show was recorded 7th October 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 89 – The Afro Palace
Hot African night, the Afro Palace join us to promote their gig at the New Empowering Church this Friday featuring Yaaba Funk & Ebo Taylor (visiting from Ghana) and play us some super funky Afro beats for your delectation.
plus:
- Curried Beats: the tasty Lata Mangeshkar comes with Sauce!
- When an eccentric English gentleman tries out new ideas: The uncategorizeable work of Fred Frith featuring Bill Laswell.
- Solid gold members only: How Errol Flynn sent a cast of his cock to his lover. Let’s hope for their sake he was well endowed!
- When Iggy Pop met Tom Waits for “Coffee and Cigarettes”; Make sure you check out the brilliant Jim Jarmusch film.
- Creating your own scene: How bands like the Happy Mondays took influences like ESG to create their own Madchester scene.
- We got a hunch you’ll need to brace yourselves. John Brings the noise!
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:32:09 — 168.7MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=115%%Episode 89 Tracklist
- Mongo Santamaria – Yambu
- Modernaires Dance Band – Abrantsie Pa
- Fred Frith – Same Old Me
- Lata Mangeshkar – 1956, 1957,1958
- Tom Waits – Whistling Past the Graveyard
- Emerald Sapphire & Gold – Erase You
- Happy Mondays – Tart Tart
- Mighty Sparrow – Congo Man
- Ebo Taylor – Heaven
- The Hunches – Murdering Train Track Blues
- Cyril Davies – Country Line Special
- Shut Up and Dance – Reclaim the Streets
- Comus – Diana
- African Brothers Band International – Eye A Na Me Mu
- Roy Budd – The Thief
- Yaaba Funk – Nyash E Go Bite You
- Qpambuq International Band of Ghana – My Darling
This Show was recorded 14th October 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 88 – The Home Spun Sessions: L’Orchestre du Montplaisant
Fusing Cumbia and Secousse rhythms with hints of Arabia, the fantastic L’Orchestre du Montplaisant visit the Home Spun Show this week for our live sessions. These inspirational players create a melting pot of sultry and exotic sounds which inspire reveries of distant shores and faraway adventures.
plus:
- 40 years ago, down the local dancehalls, Stoke Newington Town Hall, The Blue Ribbon and The Flamingo people were wigging out to Ska.
- Why West African bands named themselves after the local train service?
- Africa speaks, America answers: When Guy Warren met Charlie Parker.
- We check out some of the diversity of African music from Rai in Algeria to Sécousse in Congo and from Ethiopian Funk to Sega and Maloya from Mauritius and Réunion.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:44:22 — 191.1MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=114%%Episode 88 Tracklist
- The Sonics – I Been Shot Down
- Baba Brooks – Teenage Ska
- L’Orchestre Tout Mopia – Mokili Mayi Ya Buatu
- Guy Warren – Monkeys & Butterflies
- L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – Le Prince de Babylone
- L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – La Danza de Los Mirlos
- L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – Greeneries
- L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – Ayna Miftar Galbik
- L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – Etando Ya Mabina
- Imperial Tiger Orchestra – Lale Lale
- Joe Harriott & John Mayer Double Quintet – Acka Raga
- L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – Io Ti Amo
- L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – Amandine
- L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – Masanga Ya Mbila
- L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – Samanta Tarantella
- Cheb Khaled & Chaba Zahouania – Ya Louyalid (Oh My Child)
- Salim Hilali – Monira
- Roger Lejuste – Col Coller
- Hugh Tracey – Detyetye Kusheka
This Show was recorded 30th September 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 87 – Ahead of Their Times?
Can an artist truly be ahead of their time? We explore a few artists considered to have been ahead of their time from Captain Beefheart to Blondie from the Modern Lovers to Digital Underground, Roland Kirk and beyond.
plus:
- How the Stone Roses took a leaf out of Cymande’s book.
- When Damian Albarn was denied the stage at the Barbican’s Mali festival.
- The shy but precocious talent of Robert Johnson and the special recordings he made.
- How John’s parents used to feed the local animals junk food.
- Why Captain Beefheart gave up music for painting.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:32:27 — 169.3MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=113%%Episode 87 Tracklist
- Prince Buster – Dance Cleopatra Dance
- The Meters – People Say
- The Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso
- Mack Banks – Bee Bopping Daddy
- Robert Johnson – Preaching Blues
- Le Super Biton National de Sagou- Nyeleni
- Electric Manchakou – N’tselfik
- Scotty Moore Trio – Have Guitar Will Travel
- Love Machine – The Shadows of Vibrate
- Pierre Cavalli – Un Soir Chez Norris
- Digital Underground – Doowutchyalike
- Furious Pig – I don’t Like Your Face
- Black Velvet – Earthquake’s Coming
- Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Ice Cream For Crow
- Roland Kirk – Ain’t No Sunshine
- Paterson – Freedom Now
- Cymande – Bra
- Stone Roses – Fools Gold
- Chakachas – Ma Ma Dou
- Chakachas -Jungle Fever
This Show was recorded 4th February 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 85 – The Home Spun Sessions: Tarq Bowen
Up and coming Psych-Blues singer and slide guitarist extraordinaire, Tarq Bowen graces the Home Spun Sessions this week for a heavy-weight wig-out. Bowen is tearing up the contemporary British Blues scene with his killer guitar licks and highly original lyrics.
Plus:
- When Westerners interpret the quarter note scales of Eastern music, often it’s a success, sometimes a failure, but always well worth the attempt.
- How important are words to you? Some artists can’t write lyrics for toffee!
- Whisky all the way! Getting messy with the brothers Trice.
- Hearing sounds in you head: How Brian Jones & John Coltrane were able to envisage what something would sound like on a different instrument.
- The recorded version of a track should never be the final version. Keep reinventing that tune or it will become a yoke around your neck.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:28:43 — 162.4MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=108%%Episode 83 Tracklist
- The Shardells – Black Crack
- Shankar Jaikishan – Raga Kalavati
- Shellac – In a Minute
- John Mayer & Joe Harriott – Mishra Blues
- Tarq Bowen – I’m Alright
- Tarq Bowen – Cold Town Bound
- Tarq Bowen – Man Like Me
- Feyzullah Çinar – Taralar Beni
- Mississippi Fred McDowell – I Ain’t Gonna Be Bad No More
- Tarq Bowen – Rise With the Sun
- Tarq Bowen – Mama Sold the Vinyl
- Tarq Bowen – After We Make Them
- Seguidillas Gitanos – El Pili
This Show was recorded 2nd September 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 83 – The Home Spun Sessions: Mak Murtíc Ensemble
It’s Jazz, Jim but not as we know it!
We are very proud to start our Autumn season of Home Spun Sessions with a stunning suite of music by young Jazz virtuoso, Mak Murtíc. His brilliant suite, “A Place Glowing a Brilliant Red” is an evocative investigation of the possibility of Mankind’s colonization of Mars, played by a 15-piece Big Band. It explores, with clarity and poise, the possible triumphs and tribulations of science and human interaction which might be encountered as a new society is created.
Unusually, we gave over the whole show to this vision in russet, vermilion and crimson, with the suite presented in full, followed by an extensive interview with Mak which covers subjects as diverse as:
- Can technology overcome the difficulties faced by a planet with dwindling resources and a re-doubling of population every 42 years?
- What happens when Stone-Age cultures collide with Technocracies? Re-conciling psycho-geography with the homogeneity of a dominant culture.
- Creative Commons vs. Genetic theft for medical profit. How DNA mapping can be fascistic but can also tell the story of human migration.
- East meets West: How Debussy was influenced by the Gamelan.
and much much more!
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:11:02 — 239.9MB)
Slides of the Performance
%%wppa%%
%%album=109%%Episode 83 Tracklist
- Budd Johnson – Playing My Hunch
- Mak Murtíc Ensemble – A Place Glowing a Brilliant Red (Parts 1-12)
- Debussy – Estampes 1: Pagodes
This Show was recorded 16th July 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 82 – The Home Spun Sessions: The Cracked
The sound of the summer is finally here as The Cracked join us for the Home Spun Sessions! Ian Tepper’s band bring us the blissful sound of Balearic Summer experienced via flamenco guitar and hot African basslines. Tune in Turn On and Drop Out!
- What a Performance: Ry Cooder on one of our most loved soundtracks.
- She Rocola: Too Pure for Punk, the Minxus!
- Simon says Tortoise are just too lethargic.
- How the UK clubs mixed up dance music with the Cure or hip hop or Street Soul back in the mid 80’s to bring the Balearic sound to Britain.
- Hardcore Uproar R.I.P.
- Mustachioed Moog Stash: Miami’s latin funk pioneers, El Bigote.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:35:49 — 175.5MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=107%%Episode 82 Tracklist
- Joe Liggins – Going Back to New Orleans
- Ry Cooder – Get Away
- Minxus – Silk Purse
- The Cracked – Imaginary Friend
- The Cracked – Slow Down
- The Cracked – Without You
- Tortoise – TNT
- Tullio De Piscopo – Primavera
- El Bigote – Los Feligreses
- Wagadugu – Easy Dancing
- The Cracked – Bang Bang
- The Cracked – Everything
- The Cracked – Spanish Tune
- The Minutemen – God Bows to Math
- John Cooper Clarke – I Don’t Wanna Be Nice
- Roland Alphonso – Skaravan
- Isley Brothers – Who’s That Lady
This Show was recorded July17th 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 81 – ‘Hot Hands’ Solo
Our guest, DJ Mark Solo brings some true Northern grit to the show and some Chicago finesse to the house. We get the lowdown on why Daft Punk must try harder and why the Japanese have such sharp elbows!
plus:
- We celebrate the long career and great influence of the hugely innovative Herbie Hancock. Sampled to death but still alive and kicking it!
- Skaravan: How artists such as Roland Alphonso and Prince Buster looked to the east to find their Magic Star.
- The first televised inter-racial kiss: the united nations of Star Trek.
- Hanging off the rafters with Dave Mancuso and War.
- Playing musical chairs with the 49 Americans, a band who have given us a new way to play the National Lottery.
- Check out L’Orchestre du Montplaisant who are coming to play for us on the 2nd July.
- Trevor Horn, Hackney born: Apples Pears and Buggles with a crack producer.
- John gets all teary eyed over his Hawkwind album.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:28:46 — 162.5MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=106%%Episode 81 Tracklist
- Doug E Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew – The Show
- The Kills – Cheap and Cheerful
- Mina – Petite
- War – In the Ghetto
- Roland Alphonso – Cleopatra
- Bobby Boyle – Ricky the Record Hound
- Orchestre Du Montplaisant – Las Cumbres
- Herbie Hancock – I Thought It Was You
- Hawkwind – Master of the Universe
- Talking Heads – Seen and Not Seen
- Leo Zero – Magnificent Dub
- 49 Americans – Heritage
- X-Ray – Let’s Go
This Show was recorded 09th June 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 80 – The Home Spun Sessions: Cory Seznec & Friends
Sometimes on your travels through music you find people who are on the same wavelength as you are and who inspire you with what they do. Cory Seznec is such a fine fellow. He takes Appalachian music (you know the good ol’ boy kinda thing) and mixes it with an African sensibility in a way that defies expectation. With the help of Senegalese percussionist Amadou Diagne, and fiddler Marius Pibarot, he shows that not everything in music has been done to death. Hugely enjoyable, their set captivated the Home Spun crowd!
plus:
- The Queens of Bollywood, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle were sisters who defined the sound of Indian music in such a way that they have become some of the best-selling Artists of all time. Heard of them? Why not? Because the Western music industry doesn’t see fit, perhaps?
- The Hemphill music dynasty: A Grandfather who recorded the Devil’s own music with a bunch of hand-crafted instruments for Alan Lomax and a Granddaughter who takes the Blues beyond.
- Another great naughty ‘Cook’ Calypso recorded in Trinidad in the 50’s.
- We are hardcore: Riding the Motherfucking Blues with Snatch & the Poontangs. Just remember, The Jesus & Mary Chain heard it here first.
- Check out the excellent blog Global Groove for great ‘off the radar’ African music downloads.
- Country Death Song – The Violent Femmes inspired a new genre in music.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:20 — 165.4MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=105%%Episode 80 Tracklist
- Lee “Shot” Williams – Welcome to the Club
- Herman – To the Fields
- Cream – NSU
- La Sonora Dinamita – Uli Li-E
- Cory Seznec – The Whippoorwill Comes
- Cory Seznec – East St. Louis
- Cory Seznec – Misty Eyed Mama
- Cory Seznec – Long Red Road
- Cory Seznec – East Virginia Blues
- Rahul Dev Burman & Asha Bhosle – Mera Naam Hai Shabnah
- Method Man & Redman – Let’s Do It
- Snatch & the Poontangs – Two Time Slim
- Cory Seznec -Chop it Up
- Cory Seznec – I Wish I Was in Outer Space
- Cory Seznec – Tell Me Little Woman
- Cory Seznec – Sugar Hill
- Chang-Kai Sheik – Naughty Boy
- Ronnie Dawson – Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
- Sid Hemphill – Devil’s Dream
- DNA – You & You
- Violent Femmes – Country Death Song
This Show was recorded7th May &3rd June 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 79 – The Home Spun Sessions: Florence Joelle
This week we are delighted to feature the distinct singing style of French Chanteuse, Florence Joelle on the Home Spun Sessions. Her songs are at times socially conscious, at times warmly personal. Her style blends the Parisian Gypsy Jazz of her childhood with influences ranging from Rock & Roll via North African Rai to Jimmy Scott and beyond. Check out her brilliant album, Stealing Flowers!
plus:
- Why live recordings often come out better than studio recordings. Many of the old Blue Note jazz albums were recorded late at night after a live set.
- The indifference of people to casual violence in the inner city.
- With a tight backing band combined with a lackadaisical London voice, Ian Dury and the Blockheads were a seminal band with an unique sound.
- The influence of mass migration on music: how the emigration of Gypsies escaping fascism influenced the sound of American post-war Jazz.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:31:27 — 167.4MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=104%%Episode 79 Tracklist
- Clarence Garlow – Bon Ton Roula
- The Royal Premiers – Make Love to Me
- Howling Wolf – All Night Boogie
- La Alianza Profana – Don Marcial
- Florence Joelle – 29 Bus Blues
- Florence Joelle – Caravan
- Florence Joelle – How Many Chickens
- Florence Joelle – Dat’s Love
- Mulatu Astatke – Mulatu
- Vilab – Fires
- Florence Joelle – Coucou
- Florence Joelle – Darkest Before Dawn
- Florence Joelle – How High the Moon
- Florence Joelle – Fever
- Wilmoth Houdini – Black But Sweet
- Missa Luba – Dibwe Diambula Kabanda
This Show was recorded 21st & 27th May 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 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:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=103%%Episode 78 Tracklist
- Perhaps Contraption – Cousin Grandma
- The Beat – Twisting and Crawling
- 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
- Combustible Edison – Utopia
- Cornelius – Fly
- 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
- The Pioneers – Battle of the Giants
- The Bar Kays – Holy Ghost
This Show was recorded 16th April and 20th May 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 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.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:33:15 — 170.7MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=102%%Episode 77 Tracklist
- 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
- 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
- Kriedler – Traffic Way
This Show was recorded 7th & 13th May 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 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:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:28:56 — 162.8MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=101%%Episode 76 Tracklist
- Cozy Cole – Charleston
- Kleenex – U
- Stereolab – Super Falling Star
- 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
- 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
- Go Cart Motzart – Hip Op
- Augusto Martelli – Beryl’s Tune
This Show was recorded 2nd and 28th April 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 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
%%wppa%% %%album=95%%
Episode 70 Tracklist
- Mahalia Jackson – Walkin’ to Jerusalem
- Sally Stanley – I’ll Have to Let You Go
- TNT Band – The Meditation
- Tom Waits – Hang on St. Christopher
- Fender Benders – XKE
- Blind Boys of Alabama – Aint Nobody’s Fault but Mine
- Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – Pigfoot Blues
- Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – Sweet Cold Harbour
- Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – Love Me or Leave Me
- Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – Devil’s Touch
- L’Orchestre du Montplaisant – Le Prince de Babylone
- Groundhogs – Bogroll Blues
- Peanuts Wilson – Cast Iron Arm
- 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 Dregs
- Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – No Words We Need
- Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – The Wrong Side
- OST Saraswatichandra – Sau Saal Pahele
- 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
%%wppa%%
%%album=94%%Episode 69 Tracklist
- The Gaturs – Gatur Bait
- 23 Skiddoo – A Y
- Au Pairs – We’re So Cool
- Ma’Grass – Complications
- Betty Davis – Your Mama Wants You Back
- 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 – Get Yourself Together
- Ma’Grass – We Are No Fools
- 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
This Show was recorded 19th Feb 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 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
%%wppa%%
%%album=91%%Episode 66 Tracklist
- Juan Pablo Torres- Rompe Coccorico
- The Blues Explosion – Afro
- Kool and the Gang – Spirit of the Boogie
- J D McPherson – North Side Gal
- Errol Linton & Friends – F-Jam
- Errol Linton & Friends – Step Back
- Errol Linton & Friends – Bug in a Matchbox
- Errol Linton & Friends – Hoodoo Man
- Errol Linton & Friends – Wine Whiskey & Women
- Phylis Dylon – Make Me Yours
- Henry Flynt and the Insurrections – Missionary Stew
- The Aay Jays – Lal Qalandar Lal
- Errol Linton & Friends – Cast Iron Arm
- Errol Linton & Friends – Please Don’t Leave Me
- Errol Linton & Friends – Boogie Disease
- Errol Linton & Friends – Evil Woman
- Errol Linton & Friends – Play House
- Lazy Habits – Lazy
- Jimmy Rushin – Hi O Sylvester
- Ronnie Smith – Losing You
- The Mighty Sparrow – Congo Man
This Show was recorded 22nd January 2013
©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 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
%%wppa%%
%%album=90%%Episode 65 Tracklist
- The Chips – Rubber Biscuit
- The Wedding Present – Kennedy
- X-Ray Spex – The Day The World Turned Day-glo
- Alastair James – What Have I Done?
- Alastair James – Thinking of You Still
- Alastair James -Is Anybody Home?
- Alastair James – Summertime’s for Real
- Alastair James – I Only Want to Be at Home
- U.S. Warren – The Drop
- Capitol K – God Ohm
- Chakachas – Yo Soy Cubano
- Alastair James – You Give me Such Happiness
- Alastair James – Stay Strong
- Alastair James – Scarborough Bay
- Alastair James – I Wanna Fly to the Moon
- Bow Wow Wow – C30 C60 C90 Go
- King Sunny Ade – Samba/E Falabe Lewe
- Can – Mushroom
This Show was recorded 11th December 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 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
%%wppa%%
%%album=89%%Episode 64 Tracklist
- Mad Man Jones – Snake Charmer
- Mongo Santamaria – Bricamo
- 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
- 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
- Little Willie John – Leave My Kitten Alone
- Sandra Grimes – Hallelujah Rock n Roll
- John Davis – Up Jumped The Devil
- The Vibrettes – Humpty Dump
- La Playa Africana – Ay Enno Machi Yakana
- High Llamas – Apricot
- Nathaniel Merriweather – To Catch a Thief
- Miles Davis – Sanctuary
This Show was recorded December 10th 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedDid You enjoy that? If so, here’s our most recent Podcasts:
[catlist=14]
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)
Photos of the Band:
%%wppa%%
%%album=86%%Slides of the Vinyl:
%%wppa%%
%%album=87%%Episode 63 Tracklist
- The Versatones – Bila
- Jiving Juniors – Lollipop Girl
- The Animals – Inside Looking Out
- Kevin Coyne – Some Dark Day
- Orchestra Elastique – My Dog was on the Canapé Yesterday (Live)
- Omar Khorshid – Rakset El Fadaa
- Anahoretii – Padurile Fosneau
- 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
- Orchestra Elastique – Home Spun Sessions (Live)
This Show was recorded 20th November 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 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
%%wppa%%
%%album=85%%Episode 62 Tracklist
- Cumbia Siglo XX – Rhythm Naga-Peddale
- Red Snapper – Get Some Sleep Tiger
- Don Ellis – Theme from the French Connection
- 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 Dun
- Scanner – Heidi
- UK Apache & Shy FX – Original Nuttah
- David Holmes feat. John Spencer – Bad Thing
- Jimmie Haskell And His Orchestra – Blast Off
- JB Lenoir – Don’t Touch My Head
- 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
- The Musical Linn Twins – Rockin out the Bloues
- FC Kahuna – Hayling
- Soul Centre – Funky Sterling (edit)
This Show was recorded 26th November 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 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
(If this doesn’t show up please refresh the window – soz)
%%wppa%%%%album=84%%
Episode 61 Tracklist
- The Buzzcocks – Boredom
- Dickie Treadway and the Salados – 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 – Trouble Up The Road
- Tom Waits – 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six
- PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
- Jonathan Richmond and the Modern Lovers – Egyptian Reggae
- Nancy Sesay and the Melodaires – C’est Fab
- Ananda Shankar – Streets of Calcutta
- Gang of Four – I Love a Man In Uniform
- Lafayette Afro Rock Band – Darkest Light
- Archie Shepp – Attica Blues
This Show was recorded 19th November 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 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
%%wppa%%
%%album=83%%Episode 60 Tracklist
- Big Al Downing – Georgia Slop
- Haryou Percussion Orchestra – Welcome to the Party
- The Fall – I Am Damo Suzuki
- Darrel Rhodes – 4 o’clock Baby
- The Untouchables – My Babe
- The Untouchables – Help Me
- The Untouchables -I’ve got a Mind
- The Untouchables – 2:19
- Kraftwerk – Boing Boom Tchak
- Ice Cube – Check Yourself
- African Headcharge – Off The Beaten Track
- The Untouchables – Hound Dog
- The Untouchables – Chicago
- The Untouchables -Baby Please Don’t Go
- The Untouchables – Rock Me
- The Untouchables – Two Old Maids
- Family Tree – Family Tree
- El Michels Affair – CREAM
- Motorhead – No Class
- Young Holt Unlimited – Light My Fire
- Erma Franklyn – Light My Fire
This Show was recorded 12th November 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 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
%%wppa%%
%%album=81%%Episode 58 Tracklist
- 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
- Wara – Conga (Intro)
- Wara – Somewhere Land
- Wara – 7 A.M.
- Milton Banana – Procissão
- Lani Kai – Batik
- Cheap Suit Serenaders – Fine Artiste Blues
- John Fahey – Dance of the Inhabitants of the Invisible City of Bladensburg
- Wara – Caprichoso
- Wara – Run
- Wara – Leave to Remain
- Wara – Conga
- Captain Beefheart – China Pig
- Sonic Youth – Death Valley 69
- Beach Boys – Till I Die
This Show was recorded 16th October 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 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
%%wppa%%
%%album=77%%Episode 54 Tracklist
- Mickey Lee Lane – Tutti Fruitti
- The Maytals – I’ll Never Grow Old
- Pierre Henry – Jericho Jerk
- The Mighty Panther – I Kissed Her Hand
- Jardares Por Fuera – Camarero
- Jardares Por Fuera – Tomando Caña
- Jardares Por Fuera – La Cancion Mas…
- Carlos Morgan – Shake Your Body
- Tanya Winley – Vicious Rap
- Pigface – Alles Ist Mine
- Return of The Living Acid – Move Dammit
- Clifton Chenier – Black Snake Moan
- Jardares Por Fuera – El Salpicao
- Jardares Por Fuera – Ya No Te Quiero
- Jardares Por Fuera – Encore
- Nick Drake – Cello Song
- Sabres of Paradise – Duke of Earlsfield
- Steve Taylor and Allen Ginsberg – Dear M
This Show was recorded 18th September 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 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
%%wppa%%
%%album=76%%Episode 53 Tracklist
- Buzzcocks – I Don’t Mind
- Prince Buster – Madness
- Lounge Lizards – Incident on South Street
- A Little Night Music – Spoonful
- A Little Night Music feat. Katy Jungmann – Watermelon Man
- A Little Night Music feat. Katy Jungmann – Caravan
- A Little Night Music – A Tango ’til They’re Sore
- Dr Ross – Numbers Blues
- Pere Ubu – Misery Goats
- Manfred Hubler and Siegfried Schwab – Droge CK9
- Don Sargent – Voodoo Kiss
- Kay Starr – Voodoo Man
- A Little Night Music feat. Trombone Poetry – This Trombone
- A Little Night Music feat. Trombone Poetry – Everything Happens for a Reason
- A Little Night Music feat. Katy Jungmann – Randomville
- A Little Night Music feat. Katy Jungmann & Trombone Poetry – Chameleon
- Traffic – Dealer
- Lightnin’ Hopkins – Baby Please Don’t Go
- Billie Holiday – I’ll Get By
- Bert Jansch and John Renborn – Stepping Stones
This Show was recorded 10th September 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 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
%%wppa%%
%%album=75%%Episode 52 Tracklist
- Ronny Kae – Swinging Drums
- Johnny Kidd and the Pirates – Please Don’t Touch
- Davie Allan and the Arrows – Devils Angels
- White Stripes – Jimmy the Exploder
- The Adverts – Gary Gilmore’s Eyes
- Nora Dean – Barbwire
- King Tubby – Yeah Man Version
- Red Pryscock – Handclapping
- Sun Ra – Pink Elephants on Parade
- The Fall – Mr Pharmacist
- Chuck Daniels – Saturday Night on the Moon
- Faust – Party 5
- Roy Ayers – People in the World
- Eddie B – Time to Rock the House
- The Groundhogs – Bog Roll Blues
- Doris – Never Come Closer
- Magic Sam – All Your Love
- The Breeders – Cannonball
- De La Soul – Jenny
- Bobbi Humphrey – Harlem River Drive
- Don Carson – Yes Master
- The Whips – Yes Master
- Cresa Watson – Dead
This Show was recorded 23rd July 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 51 – Choose Chinese Carefully
Matthew likes Noodles, but John and Simon like Egg Foo Young, a far superior dish… Chop Sticks Away, Chaps!
plus:- The first Treasure Isle excursion was a gem! A mixture of early ska and calypso from Jamaica. What a fab label.
- Professor Can heard the Velvet Underground and created Kraut Rock.
- The excellent Documenta Art Show in Kassel.
- The ‘counter-cultural’ Vladimir Putin: He locks you up if he doesn’t like what you say.
- Carry on Up the Jungle with the Euro beat sound of Resonance.
- We like the dog and bone but not the boy and bone!
- The Joy of Sex – a hand drawn manual for the modern teenager.
- We love KRS-1’s mom, a Jamaican whose son brought the dancehall sound to New York. A Hot Rockin’ Momma if ever there was one!
- A warp in time and space – how the Warp records sound reflects the grey northern city of Sheffield.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:33:04 — 170.4MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=74%%Episode 51 Tracklist
- Myron Lee & The Caddies – Homicide
- Count Lasher – Hooligan
- Captain Beefheart – I’m Going To Boogalize Ya Baby
- Can – Outside the Door
- Riot – God Bless Conchita
- Johnny Hammond – Shifting Gears
- Resonance – Safari Love
- Sleep – Dragonaut
- Boogie Down Productions – The Racist
- Roland Alfonso – 007 Shanti Town
- Ron Geesin – Twist and Knit For Two Guitars
- Animal Collective – Winter’s Love
- Alfredito – Egg Foo Young Mambo
- Martin Denny – Stone God
- Hubert Robinson – Old Woman Boogie
- Mississippi John Hurt – Sliding Delta
- Human League – Things Dreams Are Made Of
- Tricky Disco – Fly Spray
- Lucky Millinder – Chew Tobacco Rag
- James Moody – Tin Tin Deo
- Booker T and the MGS – Boot-Legg
- Lowell Fulsom – Pico
- Psychic TV – Paris
This Show was recorded 20th August 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 49 – The Home Spun Show Presents: The Dirty Gentlemen
Special Guests the Dirty Gentlemen hot foot it back, dirt-and-all, from playing at Secret Garden Party to come and do a set especially for you, M’Dear. We really loved this one as these guys sure know how to play. Time to get low down and saucy with four times the horn!
plus:
- How Bo Diddley got his name. The Unitar and Ghana’s Diddley Bow.
- The Fabulous new blues releases of Evangelist Records, Lewis Durham (Kitty Daisy & Lewis) and Joe Walters’ new label.
- Matthew gets a haul of records from his brother Nick and passes them off as his own – Oh the shame of it!
- Harry Belafonte: respected as a campaigner for Black Rights.
- Some of the best early Hip Hop and Electro was on the Warlock family of labels.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:34:31 — 173.1MB)
Slides of the Band
%%wppa%%
%%album=71%%Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=70%%Episode 49 Tracklist
- Rene Hall Orchestra – Twitchy
- Pokey Lafarge – Fan It
- Group Doueh – Min Binat Omum
- Danny Cobb – My Isabella
- Butthole Surfers – Human Canonball
- Dirty Gentlemen – Hot Little Mamma
- Dirty Gentlemen – Lil’ Liza Jane
- Dirty Gentlemen – Lonely Lonely Nights
- Dirty Gentlemen – I Don’t Want Nobody Else But You
- Miriam Makeba – Kilimanjaro
- The Colts – Lips Red as Wine
- Ambrose and his Orchestra – Limehouse Blues
- Denton and Cook – Quiller Theme
- Jungle Brothers – Because I Got it Like That
- Dirty Gentlemen – Gangster of Love
- Dirty Gentlemen – Come With Me to the Casbah
- Dirty Gentlemen – Jambalaya
- Dirty Gentlemen – I Go Crazy
- Dirty Gentlemen – Bloodshot Eyes
- Chuito and the Latin Uniques – Dixie Peach
- Dudley Moore – The Look of Love
This Show was recorded 24th July 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedEpisode 47 – The Home Spun Show Presents: The Jolly Good Bollywood Band
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:23 — 165.5MB)
We give you fabulous Indian Rock & Roll and Swing from the Golden Era of Bollywood soundtracks. All this and more with a fabulous set from The Jolly Good Bollywood Band.
plus:
- Living off the fat of the land with artistic avaitor, Joseph Beuys.
- Toots on Bird.
- Adrian Sherwood puts it On-U. A prototype Massive Attack?
- How the Chakachas brought the Cuban sound to Europe.
- Iggy Pop joins Death in Vegas for an axe murder.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:23 — 165.5MB)
Slides of the Band
%%wppa%%
%%album=68%%Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%slide=67%%Episode 46 Tracklist
- Shankar Jaikishan – Bombshell Baby
- The Maytals – Just got to Be
- Judy Nylon and the Crucial – The Dice
- Les Chakachas – Abaniquito
- Funkadelic – Knee Deep
- Death in Vegas – Aisha
- Jolly Good Bollywood Band
- Jolly Good Bollywood Band
- Jolly Good Bollywood Band
- Jolly Good Bollywood Band
- The Delegates – Pygmy
- Alemayehu Eshete and Hirut Beqele – Temeles
- Yves Hyatt – Path to Ascension
- Jolly Good Bollywood Band
- Jolly Good Bollywood Band
- Jolly Good Bollywood Band
- Papa Lightfoot – Mean Ole Train
This Show was recorded 3rd July 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedDid You enjoy that? If so, here’s our most recent Podcasts:
[catlist=14]
Episode 45 – The Home Spun Show Presents: The Bohemianauts
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:29:01 — 163.0MB)
From Gypsy Jazz to Vaudeville via Dr Who and David Ike, The Bohemianauts have given us a very special show this week. Time travel with us back to 30’s Berlin with the highly original Tom Baker and dance the Fandango or the Tango. If not, Perhaps Polka? Maybe Mazurka?
plus:
- Why Don’t Commandos wear underpants? Matthew reveals all!
- Avoid being left with 400 fish paste sandwiches – How to get the party started late at night!
- Matthew get’s time all mixed up and it takes the Good Doctor, Tom Baker to stitch everything back together (and save 9?)
- Airto Moreira and Flora Purim, the grand couple of Bossa Nova.
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=64%%Episode 45 Tracklist
- Ernie George Quartet – The Natives are Restless Tonight
- The Commandos – June’s Blues
- Edgar Broughton Band – Dropout / Apache
- The Four Instants – Bogattini
- Konk – Konk Party
- Xavier Cugat – Park Avenue Mambo
- Bohemianauts – Thief of Dances
- Bohemianauts – Blame It On the Moon
- Bohemianauts – The Desolation Tango
- Bohemianauts – David Ike – What if You’re Right?
- BBC Radiophonic Workshop – Dr Who Theme
- Broadcast – Minim
- Ilaiyaraaja – Gudivada Gummatam
- Airto – The Happy People
- The Mariners – Zindy Lou
- Bohemianauts – Something Has Changed
- Bohemianauts – I Wish I Was Special
- Bohemianauts – Everybody Do the Cthulhu
- Bohemianauts – Those Were the Days / I Will Survive
- Yma Sumac – Choladas
- Eartha Kitt – I Want to be Evil
This Show was recorded 19th June 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedDid You enjoy that? If so, here’s our most recent Podcasts:
[catlist=14]
Episode 44 – Why Michael Jackson Turned White
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:14 — 165.2MB)
We reveal the real reason Michael Jackson changed his colour!
plus:
- Kylie’s baddest friend, Nick Cave visits the devil for afternoon tea.
- Conversion Excursion: Becoming one of the chosen 344,000 with the heaven-bound Pere Ubu. It’s true, as Jehovah is my Witness!
- Get Knotted! Kinky rope work with Bob Kayli.
- Porno Soundtracks are a great chance for musicians to flex their muscle. The focus is elsewhere! Obviously.
- The svelte sounds of Brigitte Bardot. Men rub their thighs with glee!
- The Bay-Area Funk phenomenon: Gettin’ Down with Eugene Blacknell and samplemeister DJ Shadow.
- Experiencing the dizzying rock & roll heights of the Vertigo label.
- New field recordings. Sven Kacirik’s produces Kenyan tribal sounds.
- All the craziest kids love R. Stevie Moore.
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=63%%Episode 44 Tracklist
- Quincy Jones – Sure is Groovy!
- Canned Heat – On the Road Again
- Juicy Lucy – Who Do You Love?
- Eugene Blacknell – Jump Back
- Pere Ubu – Non-alignment Pact
- Reuben Wilson – Got to Get Your Own
- Four Tet – Twenty Three
- Them – Baby Please Don’t Go
- The Turtles – I’m Chief Kamanawanalea
- Salt N’ Pepa – Push It
- L’Initiation OST – Psychedelic Dance Party
- Linton Kwesi Johnson – Five Nights of Bleeding
- Sven Kacirek – Arsenal Aluny Village
- Bob Kayli – Tie Me Tight
- Hank Jacobs – Monkey Hips and Rice
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Up Jumped the Devil
- R. Stevie Moore – Carmen is Coming
- Curtis Mayfield – Little Child Running Wild
- 808 State – Pacific State
- Brigitte Bardot – L’Appariel A Sous
- Birds of Paradise – Bossa Blue Port
- Joe Henderson – Fire
This Show was recorded 18th June 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedDid You enjoy that? If so, here’s our most recent Podcasts:
[catlist=14]
Episode 43 – Pimp’s Progress
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:32:19 — 169.0MB)
Pilgrim, you need a pink cadillac to match your puce palatial pied-a-terre and candy-floss suit if your are gonna go to the Hustler’s Convention. Living it larger than life itself with the greatest pimps of all time: Lightnin’ Rod, Melle Mel, Papa Large, Huggy Bear, Snoop Dogg, Bull Moose Jackson and Charlie Mingus.
- Jungle Fever – catch it – it makes your gene pool stronger!
- French Scat with Etron Fou le Loublan, not the average vocal hoopla!
- Podcast interruptus – Seth the dog goes barking mad.
- We take you on a merry dance to Bombay: Hamming it up Indian style: The camp orchestrations and high drama of Bollywood.
- How the Kennedy Assasination also killed the ‘flower power’ zeitgeist of the 60’s. The impossible line of fire that murdered a whole era. The subsequent cover-ups and the way it has influenced music.
- The fantastic and distinctive cultural output of Mali. Check out the fabulous Afro funk guitar of Moussa Doumbia.
- The late-era, B-movie period of Les Baxter, a man who kept composing even when he didn’t have to.
- Meteorites older than the earth – Rock On!
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=62%%Episode 43 Tracklist
- Jimmy Lloyd – Got a Rocket in my Pocket
- Count Five – Psychotic Reaction
- Laibach – Sympathy for the Devil
- Steinski and the Mass Media – The Motorcade Sped On
- Moussa Doumbia – Djoliba
- R. D. Burnam – Phantom Music
- Les Baxter – Hells Belles
- Huggy Bear – Blow Dry
- Au Pairs – Intact
- Grand Prees – Jungle Fever
- Sheba – Jungle Fever
- Ultramagnetic Mc’s – Papa Large
- Cinematic Orchestra – Kalima
- Boogaloo and his Galant Crew – Cops and Robbers
- Lightning Rod – The Break Was So Load it Silenced the Crowd
- The Gun Club – Black Train
- Etron Fou Le Loublan – Batelages
- Bull Moose Jackson – Cherokee Boogie
- Fred Wesley – Blow Your Head
- Grand Master Melle Mel and the Furious Five – Beat Street
- Abaco Dream – Life and Death in G&A
- Lalo Schifrin – Secret Code
- Ronnie Foster – Mystic Brew
This Show was recorded 21st May 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedDid You enjoy that? If so, here’s our most recent Podcasts:
[catlist=14]
Episode 40 – The Fevered Mind
Cats were born to give chicks fever, so we thought we’d raise the temperature a few degrees with a few hot-headed sizzlers .
plus:
- Poor flower, Matthew gets out his big black twelve inch, but he’s still a musical pansy, so John reckons!
- John proves he’s ‘ardcore, fighting and drinking his way across America with the Electric Eels!
- The glitch beats of Lucas Santtana, taking the Bossa Nova sound forward (at last).
- On the train with Goth vs Witness – another fight waiting to happen.
- John slags off the Chemical Brothers in person at a restaurant.
- Patrick Adams, underground producer of spaced out disco.
- Charles Mingus sets out his manifesto for life through Jazz.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:31:17 — 167.2MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=59%%Episode 40 Tracklist
-
Al Jones – Mad Mad World
-
Johnny Kidd and the Pirates – Big Blon Baby
-
Lucas Santtana – Super Violão Mashup
-
Young Marble Giants – Radio Silence
-
Bauhaus – Bela Legosi’s Dead
-
Clue J and his Blues Blasters – Slinky
-
Cambridge Stones – Mar Cruel
-
Laundry Room Squelchers – Fever
-
La Lupe – Fever
-
Little Willie John – Fever
-
Joe Tex – Pneumonia
-
Led Zeppelin – When the Levee Breaks
-
Sonny Boy Williamson – Bring it on Home
-
Seguidillas Gitanos – El Pili
-
The Electric Eels – Agitated
-
Chemical Brothers – Where do I Begin
-
Patrick Adams – Spaced Out
-
Riuichi Sakamoto – Warhead
-
The Selector – 3 Minute Hero
-
Bran – Y Gwylwyr
-
Charlie Mingus – Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am
-
Nancy Wilson – All I Need to Get By
This Show was recorded 16th April 2012
©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights ReservedDid You enjoy that? If so, here’s our most recent Podcasts:
[catlist=14]
Episode 37 – Finger Lickin’ Carrot Cake Kink!
On lonely nights in the North Sea we reveal what naughty engineers get up to on the oil rigs. Frigging on the Rig with Mr Carrot Cake!
plus:
- Stravinsky’s ‘The Rites of Spring’: The birth of Modernism?
- Alan Lomax, itinerant field recorder of early blues.
- Paedo-Rock with the Glitter Band, John’s first 7-inch single.
- Politics and music. Robert Wyatt, MC5, and the American White Panther movement.
- The insightful writing of Noam Chomsky, a man whose writing has changed the world by elucidating world power structures.
- Preston Epps: these are the bingo-bongo rockin’ surf breaks.
- Loony Tunes at the Chicken Farm. Crazy Hasil Adkins‘ One Man Band
- The debt early Hip-Hop owes to Jamaican DJs and Mic Controlers.
And Much Much More…
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:32:36 — 169.6MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=56%%Episode 37 Tracklist
- The Spencer Jackson Family – Walk Up Moses
- Fred McDowell – I Walked Tall
- Link Ray and His Raymen – Moon Men
- Gary Glitter – Rock n Roll Part 2
- Tom Tom Club – Wordy Rappinghood
- Robert Wyatt – East Timor
- MC5 – Ramblin’ Rose
- Preston Epps – Say Yeah
- Preston Epps – Bongo Rock
- Moonshake – Right To Play
- Cyril Davies & his Rhythm & Blues All Stars – Country Line Special
- 13th Floor Elevators – Levitation
- Warm Excursions – Hang Up
- Hasil Adkins – Chicken Twist
- The Zutons – Pressure Point
- Don Cherry – Brown Rice
- Beastie Boys – Get It Together
- Seeds Of The Earth – Planting Seeds
- Malcolm McLaren – Double Dutch
This Show was recorded 2nd April 2012
Did You enjoy that? If so, here’s our most recent Podcasts:
[catlist=14]
Episode 36 – The Revolution WILL be Televised
It’s clear now that the revolution will indeed be televised. The point is, will you be sitting on your posterior watching or out there helping things revolve?
plus:
- The legendary raps of Kool Keith: From Ultramagnetic to Dr Octagon and on to the porn-hop of the original Mr Kink.
- The handicrafts in records: stitched sleeves are fab.
- Great musical dynasties: The Shankars, from Ravi to Ananda Shankar and on to Norah Jones.
- Becoming a hermit and going to live in a hovel for a year.
- Smiley Culture: a Master of Ceremonies who died well before his time.
- Zydeco: Louisiana swamp music with fiddle, banjo, washboard and rather large beards.
- The outstanding Theremin player Clara Rockmore.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:29:50 — 164.5MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=55%%Episode 36 Tracklist
- Carol Kaye – Burning Spear
- Baby Gonzalez – Amalia’s Bembe
- DJ Vadim (Sarah Jones) – Your Revolution
- Smiley Culture – Police Officer
- Devo – Shrivel Up
- The Standells – Dirty Water
- J B and His Hawks – Combination Boogie
- M. I. A. – Bamboo Banga
- Suicide – Cheree
- Danser’s Inferno – Sombre Guitar
- Rema Rema – Rema Rema
- Ultramagnetic MCs – Chorus Line
- Church of Anthrax – Protege
- Ananda Shankar – The Lonely Rider
- The Purpose – Dustcracks, Bugs and Roaches
- Manu Dibango – Soul Makosa
- Freddie Notes and His Rudies – Down on the Farm
- Mantronix – Bassline
- Clara Rockmore – The Swan
- The Specials – Ghost Town
This Show was recorded 26th March 2012
Did You enjoy that? If so, here’s our most recent Podcasts:
[catlist=14]
Episode 33 – The Home Spun Show Presents: Gertie & Her Gaiety
The first of our new series of live gigs bringing you the best of the underground London music scene recorded specially for your listening pleasure. This week we present the stand out sounds of Gertie & Her Gaiety. It’s Gypsy Jazz harking back to the 20’s and 30’s but with a sprinking of modernity. Unmissable.
plus:
- Good ol’ Acid House with A Guy Called Gerald.
- The merits and otherwise of exceedingly large bow ties.
- A boat party, African style with Orchestre Regional Mopti.
- How to survive (but only just) an Aphex Twin mosh pit.
- The strutting sounds of Paul Revere & the Raiders.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:29:53 — 164.6MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=53%%Episode 33 Tracklist
- Jimmy Boyd – Crazy Mixed up Blues
- George Semper – Get Out of My Life Woman
- Orchestre Regional Mopti – Boro
- Zambian Copper Miners – Konta Iya Iya Konta
- Gertie and her Gaiety – Why Don’t You Do Right
- Gertie & Her Gaiety – I Need Some Sugar
- Gertie & Her Gaiety – It’s the Girl
- Duke of Iron – Man Smart, Woman Smarter
- Lene Lovich – Lucky Number
- Bikini Kill – This is Not a Test
- A Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray
- Aphex Twin – Alberto Balsam
- Paul Revere and the Raiders – Steppin Out
- Gertie & Her Gaiety – Stop The Sun
- Gertie & Her Gaiety – I Hate Myself
- Gertie & Her Gaiety – You Bring Out The Savage in Me
- The Scholars – Kan- Gu-Wa
- Jackie Mittoo – Juice Box
- Polynesian Percussion – Marcelle a Vahine
This Show was recorded 12th March 2012
Episode 31 – Sing for your Supper
Life on the street. Tell a joke or do a rap for money. I’ll give you the cash, sure, but why are we generally so unkind to the homeless?
plus:
- Too many painted skulls: Mexican Day of the Dead is overexposed. ¿Que poca madre? Why not just lift culture and copy it to death.
- The hairs’ breadth between genius and madness.
- Noodles versus pasta. The payback of hard to listen to jazz.
- Yorkshire Caviar: A delicacy to be found in your local Richmond pub. But what on earth is it? Anyone for Cod Roe?
- How do you translate a song and still keep it’s poetic nature? Let’s ask Scott Walker. His brother Johnny hasn’t a clue to be sure.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:23 — 11.7MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=50%%Episode 31 Tracklist
- Micky and Sylvia – No Good Lover
- John Fred & The Playboys – Boogie Children
- Boston Crabs – Down in Mexico
- Larry Byrant – Tequila & Mexican Beer
- Agnes Bernelle – Chocolate Eclair
- Scott Walker – Jackie
- La Fabolosa Orchesta de La Plata – Sholom Alecheim Mambo
- Horace Silver – Song For My Father
- Mina – P.etit.e
- Jah Screechie – Walk and Skank
- Jimmy Castor Bunch – Troglodytes
- Dave Gardner – Mad Witch
- The Stranglers – No More Heroes
- The Girls – Methodist Church
- Buddy Hollie – Peggy Sue
- The Dodgers – You Make me Happy
- Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
- Sugar Bear – Don’t Scandalize Mine
- King Kennytone – NwayoTwist
- Wildman Fischer – Merry Go Round
- The Delegates – Pygmy
- The Little Boy Blues – I can only Give You Everything
- Kathi McDonald – Freak Lover
This Show was recorded 13th February 2012
Episode 29 – Do Monkey’s Dream of Mysteriana?
A quixotic dream? A tale of faraway lands, of magic carpet rides, genies and harem girls? Of steamy voodoo ceremonies, jungle rhythms and forbidden flesh? The allure of ‘Paradiso Tropical’?
Setting course between Cancer and Capricorn through unknown territories in the dark bosom of the Tropics, we catch a seductive Sirocco to Araby, then blow South of the Border on our quest for mythic shores.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:03:21 — 116.0MB)
Episode 28 – The Fuzz is Out to Get You
Roscoe, ‘Sterling Roswell’ visits the show to let us know about some of his recent work. Rosco used to drum with mega Fuzz band, The Spacemen 3.
plus:
- If you are gonna do a cover version make it different or don’t bother.
- The rekindled career of Wanda Jackson’s. Her hugely original ‘Funnel of Love’ was later covered by Panther Burns & by the Cramps.
- Charity Shop gear – Is everyone out to scam the charity, selling things on for a profit? Or should it be a matter of helping poor people at home as well as abroad.
- Coventry City Centre on a saturday night in the late 70’s a frightening place indeed. An era born of violence, perhaps these are better times.
- The ‘Bo Diddley’ Rhythm and it’s influence on later bands. It’s origins in the South American La Clave rhythms.
- Remastering and Re-Equalising old tunes – screwed up and ruined?
- Making your own instruments: Movements in music have often been driven forward by new technology and instruments.
Listen to the Podcast Here
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:31:22 — 125.5MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=48%%Episode 28 Tracklist
- No Caminho do Bem – Tim Maia
- Big Boss Man – Jimmy Smith
- Give Peace Another Chance – Sterling Roswell
- The Nail Will Burn – Loop
- Sinner Not a Saint – Trini Lopez
- Funnel of Love – Wanda Jackson
- Get Me A Job – Ann Alford
- Temporary Secretary – Paul McCartney
- We Love Guys Named Luke – Mu
- Enjoy Yourself – Calypso Troubadours with Lloyd Prince Thomas
- I Want Candy – Bow Wow Wow
- Say Man – Bo Diddley
- Orinda Moraga – John Fahey
- Love, The Rhythm of the World – John Dansers
- Lonesome Road – Dean Elliot & His Big Band
- Dr Bergen Evans helps you to Read Write & Speak
- Final Weapon – Lee Perry
- I Was Born to Cry – Dion & His Belmonts
- Paint it Black – Chris Farlowe
This Show was recorded 15th August 2011
Episode 27 – Abandon Ship!
We take you on a sea cruise – without disaster. What we really want to know Mon Capitaine is: Where was the cabin boy in all of this?
plus:
- Tuneless music made for Africa: Let’s line those involved in Live Aid up against the wall…
- Put the Rock & Roll in with the Rock & Roll, put the R&B in with the R&B, Who is Charlie Parker Anyway? He’s a Jazzy Sensation of course.
- Simon falls asleep in the middle of a show – Sweet dreams are made of this: Go-Go dancers go-going South of the Border. ¡Ay Caramba!
- Paul McCartney visits Brian Wilson for a game of vegetable snooker.
- 23 Skidoo, Cabaret Voltaire and the Industrial movement in the North of England. An inspiration for Warp Records?
- Rock & Roll Indians? Asha Bhosle , R.D. Burman and Mohd. Rafi.
- …and finally – how not to tell a joke.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:25:08 — 155.9MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=47%%Episode 27 Tracklist
- Russ Meyer – Faster Pussycat Kill Kill
- Quincy Jones – Heat of the Night
- Felix and His Guitar – Puerto Rican Riot
- Gene Vincent – Woman Love
- Asha Bhosle – Samphalo SamphaloApna Dil
- Beach Boys – Vegetables
- Africa Bambaataa and the Jazzy 5 – Jazzy Sensation
- 23 Skidoo – Last Words
- Plaid – Even
- Little Axe – The Wolf that House Built
- Cumbia Moderna de Soledad – Crees Que Yo Soy Sexy
- Frankie Ford – Sea Cruise
- Lee Dorsey – Confusion
- Wynona Carr – Touch and Go
- Amampondo – Bajubira Malaika
- Silver Apples of the Moon – Red River Laika
- Residents – Kaw Liga
- Gay Bykers on Acid – S.P.A.C.E. (Joy Toy Remix)
- Smiths – How Soon is Now
- Chrome – T.V. as Eyes
- Pharcyde – For Better of For Worse
- Marie Bryant – Chi Chi Boom
- Moondog – Theme and Variations
This Show was recorded 18th January 2012
Episode 24 – The Equatorial Explorer
Special Guest Miles Cleret of Soundway records spins some way-out Tropical favourites from his recent trips around Africa and South America.
plus:
- The boys discuss shelving techniques – Who said we were spods? Shelving is a very serious business.
- Leadbelly, held on a murder charge, taken out of prison early to release his tunes.
- Little Roy’s excellent Nirvana covers album produced by Brighton’s Prince Fatty.
- How major labels such as Phillips and Decca had studio operations in 25+ countries during the 60’s and 70’s. Unfortunately, this would never happen today.
- Miles gives us a crash course in licencing records in the internet age.
- Bowie & Jagger’s ‘Dancing in the Streets’: the Video – Imagine the makeup required to cover those crags!
- A rocket on an Lp cover from the 50’s means trouble!
- Semba music: frenetic dance-floor bombshells from Angola!
- How much of a grip did the roots music of Africa have on African funk, are they just traditional folk songs made modern, or a whole new African idiom?
- Why do some tunes become standards – what is it that makes a tune like ‘Ain’t no Sunshine’ famously transcend the rest to become great?
- How songs that were initially recorded maybe just to make a few bucks become a part of our lives and are invested with additional meaning and baggage.
- The brilliantly eccentric British label Deram’s fab output.
- Check our events section for Soundway Records’ Album Launch party next Saturday 25th November
Episode 24 Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:46:26 — 146.2MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=43%%Episode 24 Tracklist
- The Delco’s – Arabia
- Booma Rockers – Soul Food
- Soul Agents – Gospel Train
- Fred Frith – Dancing in the Streets
- Jackie Wilson – I’m Coming on Back to You
- Jimmy Mawi – I Wan’t Get Up
- Soft Machine – Why Are we Sleeping
- Al Castellanos – Tango of Romance
- Ferrante and Teicher – Brazil
- Taranto’s y Sus Exitos – Opus Pi
- Leadbelly – Where did you Sleep last Night
- Crazy Teens – Crazy Date
- Greetje Kauffeld – Day by Day
- Carlos Lamartine – Basooka
- Joao do Vale – Jose Candido – Cacara
- La Negra Grande de Columbia – Selvas Colobianas
- George Clinton – Dog Talk
- Essential Logic – Wake Up
- Terry and the Chain Reaction – Keep Your Cool
- Trompeteros – Astronautos a Mercurio
- Davie Allen and the Arrows – Blue’s Trip
- Cat Stevens – Was Dog a Doughnut
- Chim Kothari – Indian Bat
- East of Eden – Jig a Jig
This Show was recorded November14th 2011
Episode 22 – The Bastard Son of Rhythm & Blues
How did R&B get it so very wrong when it has such auspicious parents? Maybe we should put the poor dog down… plus:
- The Jamaica – Canadia connection. Canada gave bass heavy support to many of the Jamaican artists by bringing them over to record and release, gig dates etc.
- The Canadian Disco scene, the Montreal Jazz Festival and Canada as an unexpectedly musical nation.
- How music twists and turns: Britney Spears’s producer samples some crazy Indian tune for a pop hit then it goes back into the underground with Quiche Lorène who produce a jump up ska version of Toxic or is it after all a version of ‘Tere Mere Beech Men’. Who get’s the copyright money for this? That’s what I wanna know. Unlikely it’s some ageing bollywood producer.
- Let’s all go on the road with Gogol Bordello: Slough, Reading, Weston Super Mare, here we come… The new poly-national Merry Pranksters?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:28:49 — 122.0MB)
Slides of the Vinyl %%wppa%% %%album=41%%
Episode 22 Tracklist
- Luthjen’s – Big Mamou
- Errol Lynton’s Blues Vibe – Too Many Cooks
- Wayne McGhee & the Sounds of Joy – Cool It
- Add N to X – Total all out Water
- Amon Tobin – Journey Man
- The Temptations – I Wish it Would Rain
- Ek Duuje Ke Liye – Tere Mere Beech Men
- Quiche Lorene – Toxic
- Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry on Their Own
- I- Monster – Who is She
- Gogol Bordello – Super Tarranta
- Space Liner – Link
- Tipicismo – Gaita y Tambores
- The Saints – This Perfect Day
- Mary J Blige – No More Drama
- Junior Brown – My Wife Thinks your Dead
- Jody Reynolds – Endless Sleep
- Bob Andy – I’ve got to go Back Home
- Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidanada
- Sun Ra – Plutonian Nights
- EKO – Kilimanjaro My Home
- Elvis Presley – One Boy Two Little Girls
This Show was recorded August 1st 2011
Did You enjoy that? If so, here’s our most recent Podcasts:
[catlist=14]
Episode 20 – Brave New World
The impulse to create a new Zeitgeist in post war New York. From Warhol to Woody Allen to Charlie Parker, this was focused in Greenwich Village, a hugely influential melting pot for music and art during the 50’s and 60’s.
plus:
- Brilliant gigs which happened at the Village Gate, imagine walking into a gig there and seeing Bird or Mongo or Miles. Mongo Santamaria tells the story of the greatest Conga players of all time.
- Check out 6 of the Best…Stoner Bogaloos to hear what the next generation of New Yoricans were bugging out to in Spanish Harlem.
- The international music collaborations of David Lynch.
- Eugene McDaniels: a great songwriter famous for “Compared to What” and co-writer of Roberta Flack’s “Feel Like Making Love” died in August 2011.
- Nina Simone’s troubled career. Her atheism. Her personal struggle with depression and drink. Her beautiful songs which resulted from this struggle.
- The prolific output of Mark E Smith.
- Creating your own Karaoke machine.
- John Barry and the beginnings of the studio sound. Using studio techniques to carry a song, developing a sound in the studio rather than in the rehearsal room.
- Bargains to be had at your local record emporium. Lou Rawls’ “Season of the Witch” for £2!
And Here’s the Music:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:49:17 — 150.1MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=40%%Episode 20 Tracklist
- Roland Alphonso – El Pussy Cat
- Sally Stanley – I’ll Have to Let You Go
- The United States of America – Garden of Earthly Delights
- Mongo Santamaria – Afro Blue
- Afreaka – Disolusioned Man
- Cornelius – Star Fruits, Surf Rider
- Eugene Mc Daniels – Cherry Stones
- Nina Simone – Come by Here
- Julie Cruise – The Nightingale
- The Fall – A New Face in Hell
- John Lee Hooker – She Shot Me Right Down
- Gallon Drunk – The Last Gasp
- Tricky – Aftermath
- Miles Davis – Black Satin
- Shocking Blue – Venus
- The Stranglers – Get a Grip
- Serge Gainsbourg – Cargo Culte
- John Barry Seven – The Human Jungle
- Gene Chandler – I Fooled you This Time
- Fats Domino – Ain’t that a shame
This Show was recorded 18th July 2011
Episode 18 – Car Booty
Why car boot sales are the best thing since sliced bread…
- Get collectable tunes for nowt.
- Expect the unexpected – prepare for surprises.
- Taking a chance on a tune cos it’s only 20p.
- Car Boots reflect the music of the people from that area.
- Car boots and flea markets abroad.
- Reader’s Digest breaks! The 10 record box set with one tune – but what a tune…
- Judging albums on content rather than on what’s fashionable at the time.
- The joy of getting home and playing your fab booty, bragging to your mates about the prices you paid and knowing that they can’t just go down to the shop and get another copy.
- and finally…the brick-a-brack! oh! the brick-a-brack! Furnish your whole house with things you never realised you needed until now.
- Happy hunting and crate digging.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:25:48 — 117.8MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=38%%Episode 18 Tracklist
- The Wedding Present – Davni Chasy
- Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
- Captain Beefheart – Blabber and Smoke
- Arthur Lyman – Taboo
- Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo Rock
- Public Enemy – Rebel Without a Pause
- Lennox Brown – Lennox Mood
- Mohammed Rafi – Nafrat Ki Duniya Ko
- Readers Digest Studio Band – Quiller
- BBC Sound Effects – Death and Horror
- Songs from Playschool – Bang on a Drum
- Cher – Sunny
- Marvin Gaye & Tammi Tyrell – You’re all I Need
- The Ragga Twins – Hooligan 69 (Remix)
- Snakefinger – The Man in the Dark Sedan
- Mungo Jerry – Summertime
- Ottilie Patterson – T’Aint No Sin
- Scott Walker – Next
- Les Chakachas – Tou Bou Dou
- Can – Halleluwaj
This Show was recorded 26th August 2011
Episode 17 – Walk Home Baby!
Teenage tricks to get a sly kiss. Parliament knew how! The Treniers knew how! We reveal the age old secret of how to get a snog on your first date.
plus:
- The search for African roots in the US jazz scene.
- “Black Jazz”- American Jazz artists would take exception to the phrase.
- Junior Brown, Speedy West, Raymond Scott and the musicians behind Loony Tunes and cartoon music.
- Treat ’em Mean- Keep ’em Keen!
- Breakfast of Champions. Read Kurt Vonnegut’s Books!
- Melvin Van Peebles, Sweet Sweetback and the beginning of Blaxploitation Movies. 6 of the Best…Blaxploitation Movie Soundtracks
- Earth Wind and Fire: We don’t mind the earth or the fire, but someone just let one rip…seriously EW&F are all round good guys says Dave’s Brother.
- Dance music production: The weird places that loops are sourced from – obscure or shit records. Sample as audio artefact. Cut and paste versus studio orchestration and the musicians behind the loop.
- Musical Royalty: Elizabeth I and Henry VIII.
- Henry VIII a bloke who could throw a great shindig. But don’t eat his chop or you’ll be for it me lad!
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:39:31 — 136.7MB)
Photos of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=35%%Episode 17 Tracklist
- Junior Brown – I Hung it Up
- White Stripes – Stop Breaking Down
- Oneness of JuJu – African Rhythms
- Nashville Teens – Wydicombe Fair
- Dave’s Mystery Guest
- Nat King Cole – Naughty Angelina
- Charles Brown – Please Believe Me
- Dave’s Mystery Guest
- Parliament – My Automobile
- The Treniers – Get Out of the Car
- Jim O’Rourke – Something Big
- Henry Cow – Bittern Storm over Ulm
- Earth Wind and Fire – Sweetback Getting It Uptight and Preaching it So Hard the Bourgeuis Reggin Angels in Heaven Turn Around
- David Holmes – Insight to Riot
- Gershon Kingsley – Hey Hey
- Dick Dale and his Del-Tones – Misirlou Twist
- Family Fodder – Savoir Faire
- Suicide – Sweet Heart
- U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
- DJ Shadow – Lost and Found
- The Rutles – Cheese and Onions
This Show was recorded 6th June 2011
Episode 16 – Las Vegas Grind
The humdrum grind of living in a city that never sleeps. What to do in Las Vegas if you don’t wanna gamble…
plus:
- Special Guest Yvan Serrano, DJ Healer Selector and Guitarist from The Dustaphonics as well as Raison D’Etre head honcho. Yvan has worked with many artists on the Surf, Soul, Rock and Roll and Rockabilly Scenes.
- Is it really possible to pick your all time top tunes? If you had to pick 100 records to represent the musical endeavour of humanity what would they be?
- Some music is meant for indoors, some for outdoors, some for day some for night. Why do some tunes suit a particular time and place?
- The Burlespue Musical scale: Do Re Me Me Me Me Me…(Ad Infinitum).
- Yvan politely declines an offer to become a pornstar.
- Mexican Rockabilly: Young kids creating a new underground scene.
- Lou Rawls, that rare breed that is engaged both musically and politically.
- Why does the music industry sign actors and fame academy graduates instead of real musicians.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:17 — 124.0MB)
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=36%%Episode 16 Tracklist
- Digital Underground – The Return of the Crazy One
- Yoko Ono – Walking on Thin Ice
- Monty Morris – Higher Than the Highest Mountain
- Cud – Only a Prawn in Whitby
- The Polaras – Cricket
- Al Castellanos – Talking Rythyms
- Stock, Hausen and Walkman – Open Up/Schweitzer
- Animal Collective – For Reverend Green
- Dustaphonics – Party Girl
- Dustaphonics – Burlesque Queen
- Gene Vincent – Race with the Devil
- The Lebron Brothers – Summertime Blues
- The Flamingos – Besame Mucho
- Joe Reisman and His Orchestra – Brasilia
- The Mighty Panther – Shame and Scandal in the Family
- Genius GZA – Investigative Reports
- Big Youth – Keep Your Dread
- The Damned – Neat Neat Neat
- The Cure – Killing an Arab
- Chicks on Speed – Sliding Down Your Rib Cage
- Nolan Corimier – Hee Haw Breakdown
- El General – Pu Tun Tun
- Sesso Matto – Le Sexe Fou
- Mike Theodore – Moon Track
- Big Mooses – Puppy Howl Blues
- Brion Bennett – Ergon
- Lou Rawls – Dead End Street
- Nat Adderley – Calling Out Loud
This Show was recorded 4th July 2011
Episode 15 – To the Victor, The Spoils.
Cutting Competitions: the greats of music playing against each other for supremacy during the 50’s. Battling in hip hop. The Jamaican soundclash. Where does this tradition come from?
plus:
- Teaching students how to make corned beef hash
- Great labels from Jamaica, Coxsone, Studio One, Ray & Nephews.
- How can you have an American version of ‘Taxman’ when they have the IRS? The Taxman wears a Bowler Hat, Sir!
- You can become a Southerner but you can never become a Scouser, a Geordie or a Yorkshireman. Is it possible to be an ‘honorary’?
- ‘Arri Up of the Slits: A German Aristocrat who tries too hard to be ‘Punk’.
- Folkways field recordings of tribal peoples made during the 60’s are the only surviving record of tribes that have been dissipated and no longer exist.
- The Drummers of Burundi and how they influenced Adam Ant. The Drummers of Burundi were later murdered during the genocide in Rwanda.
- The influence of new instruments on musical style. How technology often drives music forward into new territory.
- the relationship between poetry and music, William Blake and David Axelrod.
Listen to the Podcast Here:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:39:13 — 136.2MB)
Photos of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%%%album=32%%
Episode 15 Tracklist
- Roland Alphonso – Downbeat Special
- Juniour Parker – Taxman
- The Slits – I Heard it Through the Grapevine
- James Brown – Dancing Little Thing
- Abaco Dream – Cat Woman
- Amon Tobin – Get Your Snack On
- John Fahey – Thus Krishna on the Battlefield
- Choprn Timbla Orchestra – Recording from Ethnic Folkways Library
- El Rego et ses Commandos – Feeling You Got
- James Brown – Prisioner of Love
- Lou Reed – I Want to Be Black
- Royal Trux – Dirty Headlines
- Art Tatum – Danny Boy
- The Bostones – Mope Itty Mope
- K. Pythacunthapuserectus – Voodoo Ju Ju Obsession
- The Clovers – Blue Velvet
- Magic Sam – Dirty Work is Going On
- David Axelrod – Urzen
- Speedy J – Minimal
This Show was recorded 16th May 2011
Episode 5 – Of Dogs and Gods
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:28:33 — 121.6MB)
The naming of Dogs and Gods
plus:
- The genius of Les Paul, sound on sound recording, echo, and the invention of the solid bodied guitar.
- Moog and how to pronounce it. John’s synthesizer sickness. Great synthesizer tracks.
- Dave touches Buddy Guys Arm (no really) – it was his pickin’ arm.
- From Dizzy Gillespie to Jimmy Hendrix, how the jazz scene and the black music scene more generally worked. Older musicians give a break to the younger generation, who learn their skills touring then break out on their own.
- Dave catches Jungle Fever… with noticeable results.
- How the US sees Mexico – Speedy Gonzales. Mexican revolutionary cartoons.
Slides of the Vinyl
%%wppa%%
%%album=11%%Episode 5 Tracklisting
- Captain Beefheart – Sure ‘Nuff ‘N Yes, I Do
- Little Jo & the Latinaires – Mambo No. 8
- Walias Band – Musica Silt
- Bobby Roberts – Big Sandy
- Brand Nubian – Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down
- Lou Donaldson – It’s My Thing
- Scott Walker – Butterfly
- Les Paul – Smoke Rings
- Missy Elliott vs AC DC
- Larry Young’s Fuel – Turn Out the Lights
- Burning Spear – This Race
- King Tubby – Marcus Garvey
- Buddy Guy & Jr. Wells – First Time I Met the Blues (live in Chicago)
- Gabor Szabo – More Sorcery
- Joao Donato – Cala Boca Menino (Shut Your Mouth Boy)
- Wynona Carr- Ding Dong Daddy (take 4)
- Marvin Rainwater – My Baby Done Gone
- Ozark Mountain Daredevils – E.E. Lawson
- Count 5 – Psychotic Reaction
Episode Recorded 1st November 2010