An unusual amount of records by people called Bill in tonight’s programme. Not least three tracks of primal guitar strangling from the peerless Bill Orcutt whose new LP “A History of Everyone” tackles The Great American Songbook in the way that Roy Keane tackled Alfie Haland plus a dub selection from Pete Chapman who the eagle eyed will have observed isn’t called Bill.

Betse Ellis – “The Complainer” (LP – “High Moon Order”) (Free Dirt)
S3RL feat. Johnny – “Da De Da” (Download) (Emfa)
The String-A-Longs – “Wheels” (7″) (London American)
Bill Orcutt – “When You Wish Upon A Star” (LP – “A History of Everyone”) (Editions Mego)
Bill Callahan – “Ride My Arrow” (LP – “Dream River”) (Drag City)
Shed – “Fluid 67″ (12”) (50 Weapons)
Carlton Livingston and Blend Mishkin meet The Burger Project – “Born Troublemaker” (7″) (Cast A Blast)
Pop 1280 – “Coma Baby” (LP – “Imps of Perversion”) (Sacred Bones)
Bill Orcutt – “White Christmas” (LP – “A History of Everyone”) (Editions Mego)
Bonnie Prince Billy – “Make It Not An Evil Mark” (LP – “Bonnie Prince Billy”) (Astro Black)
Wild Billy Chyldish and CTMF – “Our Moonlit Heath” (LP – “All Our Forts Are With You”) (Damaged Goods)
Singers and Players – “Follower” (LP – “Revenge of the Underdog”) (On-U-Sound)
Tingle In The Netherlands – “Namklim” (EP – “Mirror Writing”) (Nerve Echo)
Sector Zero – “Guitar Attack” (7″) (Goner)
Agent Sasco – “Gone A Lead” (Download) (Markus)
Bill Orcutt – “Onward Christian Soldiers” (LP – “A History of Everyone”) (Editions Mego)
Nphonix – “Getting Run Down” (EP – “Getting Run Down”) (Shifting Peaks)