Daylight - Toni Price

Another of last weekend's CDs (a signed one too), this time some classy country blues from the 'Juke Joint Madonna', Toni Price. She's a new name to me but it seems as though she was happy playing a weekly residency in her adopted home town of Austin Texas rather than touring, which might explain why she's not better known over here. Sadly she passed away last year at 63 years old. 

Leash - Sky Ferreira

 Instant synth pop classic (with shades of The Knife and Depeche Mode) from Sky Ferreira. 

Harlem River Drive - Eddie Palmieri

Another great weekend of CD hunting landed a compilation of Blue Note tracks featuring this classic cut. As I was buying it a fellow customer in the charity shop, a very earnest young lady, acknowledged how cool CDs were but warned me that they only have a life of 20 years so I should make other copies. I didn't have the heart to tell her that the very CD I was buying was already 25 years old and that some of my collection's now 40 years old. 

There seems to be this myth around CDs that they'll rot away and, whilst I've seen a few examples of what's known as 'disc rot' in the wild (less than five times I'm guessing...and I've probably looked at more than 10,000 CDs over the years), this is usually down to poor handling, storage and manufacture. Trust me, if CDs were going to become unusable it would have happened by now. Look after them, just as you would vinyl and they'll outlive all of us. Here endeth the lesson.  

Nothing Strange Is Going On - The Matt Philip Hale Band

Epic new single from The Matt Philip Hale Band's just landed! One day the rest of the world will catch up with this dude and his back catalogue...the musical equivalent of the Staffordshire Hoard. 

Sofistifunk - Return To Forever

I don't often buy things online but the chances of finding a Return To Forever album in the wild is pretty slim, so I buckled and picked up a two CD anthology on eBay before Christmas. And who doesn't need a slice of Sofistifunk in their lives eh? 

The Bigger The Front - Misty's Big Adventure

Happy New Year and all that jazz. Hope you had a cool yule too. Let's kick off 2025 with yet another classic from the still very much missed Misty's Big Adventure.  

Merry Chris-mix 2024

As is traditional I've trawled Mr You Tube and found yet another cracking Christmas mix for you to play as you roast yer nuts by the fire. This one's courtesy of Miguel Beteta-Woodward and, at the time of writing, it has a mere 24 views so give it a spin and show him some festive lurrrrrrrrrrve. 

Right, that's it. I'm off on my annual digital detox. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!