More tunes than time…

Blowin 8-10pm, Sunday 3 January 2010
Repeated around 1 am on Tuesday

BCB 106.6 FM in West Yorkshire, and www.bcbradio.co.uk everywhere else..

Playlist below…

Petals

More at www.rob-walsh.net

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R.I.P James Gurley 1939-2009

‘Big Brother and the Holding Company’s guitarist James Gurley, seen by his peers as one of the groundbreaking developers of what came to be called “psychedelic rock”, died of a heart attack Dec 20 in Palm Desert, two days shy of his 70th birthday.’

‘Along with co-lead Sam Andrew, Gurley was responsible for laying down the musical foundation underlying Janis Joplin’s unique vocal stylings in her original band. Country Joe & The Fish lead guitarist Barry Melton called Gurley “the Yuri Gagarin of rock & roll – the first man in space.” Melton added: “there was only a handful of us that created our mini-genre of psychedelic guitar, and James was the avatar who blazed the path for the rest of us.”‘

Big Brother and the Holding Company recording Summertime for their Columbia album Cheap Thrills.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTFF-BaT0MM
Big Brother and the Holding Company at The Hollywood Palace performing Summertime & I Need A Man To Love.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8npK1q6LY9Q

I can remember living in a basement flat in Earl’s Court, with a borrowed record player and a copy of Cheap Thrills.  The player was so small that the LP overlapped the edges, and to hear those mindwrecking guitars on ‘I Need A Man To Love’ clearly, I had to lie on the floor with my ear under the edge of the rotating album to get as close as possible to the speaker.

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Ras Berry advises Ian King Band at Korks Wine Bar, Otley, on Friday 12 February…

www.thebeesknees.com/?p=396#more-396

www.thebeesknees.com/?cat=21

www.myspace.com/iankingofengland

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The International Times is online

‘Eroticism, cynicism, escapism, dynamism, patriotism’… or something like that…

www.internationaltimes.it/

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Blowin

3 January 2010

• Toots & The Maytals – She’s My Scorcher – The Essential Collection 2xCD – Metro
• Tamikrest – Outamacheck – Adagh CD – Glitterhouse
• The JBs – Hot Pants Road – James Brown’s Funky People CD – People/Polydor
• Bonnie Prince Billy – Hard Life – Master & Everyone CD – Domino
• Public Enemy – Party For Your Right To Fight – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back CD – Mercury
• Augustus Pablo – Stop Them Jah – King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown CD – Shanachie
• National Jazz Band – Sisi Vijana Wema – Musiki Wa Dansi – Legendary Tanzanian Jazz Bands From The 60s And 70s – thanks to Freedom Blues
• Fairport Convention – Who Knows Where The Time Goes – Unhalfbricking CD – Island
• Fairport Convention – Meet On The Ledge – What We Did On Our Holidays CD – Island
• Meters – Hey Pocky A-Way – Rejuvenation CD – Reprise
• Tamikrest – Aicha – Adagh CD – Glitterhouse
• Sister Clara Hudmon – Stand By Me – Harry Smith’s Anthology Of American Folk Music Vol 4 2xCD – Revenant
• Big Brother & The Holding Company – I Need A Man To Love – Cheap Thrills CD – CBS – RIP James Gurley
• Augustus Pablo – Braces Tower Dub – King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown CD – Shanachie
• Steely Dan – Babylon Sisters – Gaucho CD – MCA
• Afro 70 Band – Week End – Musiki Wa Dansi – Legendary Tanzanian Jazz Bands From The 60s And 70s – thanks to Freedom Blues
• Lloyd Charmers – Death A Come – Skinhead Revolt CD – Trojan
• Dr John – (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away – Desitively Bonnaroo CD – Atlantic
• Scientist – Jah Wrote Me A Letter (From Zion) – Dub From The Ghetto
• Hank Williams – Why Don’t You Love Me – 40 Greatest 2xCD – Polydor
• Errol ‘Flabba’ Holt – Satta Dub – Roots Radics Dub LP – Tads
• D Train – You’re The One For Me – Epic 12”
• U Roy – Dynamic Fashion Way – Keith Hudson & Friends: Studio Kinda Cloudy CD – Trojan
• Led Zeppelin – In My Time Of Dying – Physical Graffiti 2xCD – Atlantic
• Oliver Lake/Ntu – Africa – Freedom Rhythm & Sound: Revolutionary Jazz And The Civil Rights Movement 1963/1982 2xCD – Soul Jazz
• Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Beauty’s Only Skin Deep – Tamla Motown
• Nightmares On Wax – Les Nuits – Carboot Soul CD – Warp

More playlists at www.rob-walsh.co.uk

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Keep On Blowin

Rob

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