October Song - Incredible String Band

Here's a gentle way to ease you into the new week, with a track that none other than Sir Bob of Dylanshire rated when it came out almost 60 years ago. 

Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow - Felt

Listened to this track again for the first time in ages on a 'free' Mojo magazine CD compilation entitled There is A Light That Never Goes Out. You see it in the odd charity shop from time to time and it's well worth picking up. 

Here's another indie classic from the same comp...the mighty Nightingales' Crafty Fag! 

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

Heard this on 6Music yesterday and it tickled my fancy in a Decemberists kind of way. The CD seems to be fetching good money online so I'll have to hunt for it in the wild and wacky charity shops, in amongst the thousands of Susan Boyle CDs. Blimey that woman sold a lot of CDs. I like to build life size models of her using her CDs but for some reason the staff aren't so keen. Spoilsports. 

Archie Shepp - The Girl From Ipanema

Picked up this album along with a bunch of other jazz CDs over the weekend and was quite taken by this ever so slightly wonky but brilliant take on The Girl From Ipanema. Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. You'll probably think I'm utterly bonkers, but that's jazz for you. 

Walk on the Wild Side - The Peddlers

One of the CD's I picked up last weekend's introduced me to this lot, The Peddlers, purveyors of top notch Hammond driven jazz funk. Trust me, this is worth a few minutes of your time. 

Woza Friday - Johnny Clegg & Juluka

Translating as 'come Friday' this weekend celebrating track from Johnny Clegg & Juluka predates Paul Simon's genre blending Graceland album by a full four years, but the Lancashire born Clegg had been playing with Zulu musicians in his adopted homeland of South Africa since 1969! And you can imagine how well that went down with the authorities...

Sadly Clegg went to that great gig in the sky back in 2019, so why not pop on this track and have a tipple or two after work while you still can eh? As the old Irish saying goes, 'we're here for a good time, not a long time'. 

Rock n' Roll - Gruppo Sportivo

Picked up a Gruppo Sportivo compilation on my recent trip to Bristol and it's a top notch collection of quirky tongue in cheek new waveyness, with little nods to Squeeze, Elvis Costello and the B52s. Here's another gem...