Howlin’ Wolf
“This Is Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies” Sam Phillips Howlin’ Wolf, now there’s a handle you are always going to check out. Before I knew of the blues, I knew of Howlin’ Wolf. In the back seat, the […]
This Machine Kills Fascists
Dust Bowl Ballads – Woody Guthrie (1940) “Harsh voiced and nasal, his guitar hanging like a tire iron on a rusty rim, there is nothing sweet about Woody, and there is nothing sweet about the songs he sings. But there […]
Lee Scratch Perry – Super Ape
Master of the Upsetter “I like to give something special to people: that’s why I tour. I go because the people believe in God, and there is no other God coming but me. I’m not working because of the money; […]
Rocket 88 – Jackie Brenston & The Delta Cats
Is this what the Birth of Rock & Roll looked like? The best damn jump combo in Mississippi, The Kings of Rhythm had sent the fine folks of Greenville, Mississippi home sweating and early too. The owner of the small […]
Walking The Floor Over You – Ernest Tubb
Wolfman Ernie’s Break Through Single “I want my music to be simple enough, so that the boy on the farm out there can learn it and practice it and try to play it, ” Ernest Tubb in conversation with Peter […]
Start Your Day Like Marcus Aurelius
And avoid these 3 awful things I was having sleepless nights, when the jackals circled me, tore and ripped at me through the long, dark hours. When dawn came, I pulled the blankets over my head and lay petrified beneath […]
Dar Es Salaam Calling
Jay Mitta’s Tatizo Peza To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying ‘This is who I am’ — Joey Ramone My first ever gig was Stiff Little Fingers at the […]
Dispatches From The Electronic African Revolution — Part 2
Otim Alpha & Leo Palayeng’s Gulu City Anthems Electro acholi is a modern reinterpretation of traditional acholi music from the Luo region of Northern Uganda. Unlike most music styles, electro acholi did not evolve slowly, rather as a matter of […]
Dispatches from the Electronic African Revolution
Two Damn Hot EP’s From Nihiloxcia Each time I play stuff from Ugandan sensation, Nihiloxcia, I dig them more and more. I’ve seen the future of independent record labels and it is Nyege Nyege Tapes and the much desired album debut from Nihiloxcia […]
This One Trick, Tricks Death
I learnt it in my job as a personal historian who has conducted hundreds of interviews with people over 80 I was looking for a woman who lived a few miles from a tiny village in the west of Ireland, […]