Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Various
Barrelhouse Blues: Location And The Early Traditions Of The Blues
(Document)
Exceptional three disc anthology of the roots of the blues.
Few have done more to excavate the blues than Nottingham-born musicologist Paul Oliver. Having written 13 books on the subject since first being published in Jazz Journal in 1951, he has also compiled and annotated countless albums, the latest being this exemplary 68 track collection, the audio companion to his recently published tome of the same name. Barrelhouse Blues - named after the first known male blues recording made by Ed Andrews for Okeh in 1924, the first track included here - provides an essential overview of pre-War tunes, painting an spectral picture of black America between 1923 and 1940. Standards like Furry Lewis's John Henry sit alongside stomping jazz-tinged laments, country-infused tales of woe and field hollers, but this compilation is at its most valuable when it unearths long forgotten talents such as Blind Washington (aka Washington Phillips) whose Paul And Silas In Jail remains truly transcendental.
Phil Alexander
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 07/02/2011
Further Listening
Various - Storefront And Streetcorner Gospel 1927-1929 (Document, 2004)
Blind Willie McTell - The Classic Years 1927-1940 (JSP, 2003)
Various - Arhoolie American Masters Vol.1: 15 Down Home Country Blues Classics (Arhoolie, 1996)
Previous Disc of the day
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Earl Brutus - Larky
Last salvo of Ginsters Pasty-Warholism from Britpop ramraiders.
12:04 PM GMT 08/06/2011
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Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
6:00 AM GMT 03/06/2011
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Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
Dry computer club Futurists, upon hitting implausible chart paydirt.
6:00 AM GMT 17/05/2011
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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