After nearly a year of doing these features and then just erasing them i came up with the brilliant idea ! of putting them all on one page. Unfortunatly nearly a years work has been deleted, so starting from now i'll be adding previous features each month but with shortend down text or discriptions to save on space.........
JUNE 08 - 'MURDERERS HOME Pt2'
Continueing the blues theme from March, this months feature is a 4 track EP from the Nixa Jazz Series. Alan Lomax set up his recording microphones in the deep south of the United States, which was largely carved out of the wilderness by forced labour of Negro convicts from the 'prison farms' as the called it back then. These particular recordings come from the Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1947, and feature straight-from-life interviews and working songs of the prison inmates.
SOUNDFILE TO FOLLOW.
MAY 08 - 'Charles Bradley - The world (is going up in flames)'
There is a raw feeling on this record that cuts to the bone. Charles Bradley has lain his soul bare on this wax. THE WORLD (IS GOING UP IN FLAMES) features the Gospel Queens on backing vocals over an arrangement by the Menahan Street Band that is as deep and vertigo-inspiring as a glacier carved valley. As Charles bares down with his first wrenching moan, it is clear that this is not going to be a record made of empty gestures... CHECK IT OUT.
APRIL 08 - 'Demon Funk - You Can Run But You Can't Hide'
Back with a 45 this month, 'Demon Funk - You Can Run But You Can't Hide' on the D'Funk label. This is yet another killer 45 from the Baton Rouge area and it's starting to get spins on the Funk scene just lately, not too many copys around so i'm told, i'm a proud owner... CHECK IT OUT.
MARCH 08 - The Land Where The Blues Began
Alan Lomax traveled the South "from the Brazos bottoms of Texas to the tidewater country of Virginia" in search of the wellspring of American blues. Previously the author of Mister Jelly Roll, Lomax stalks the ghosts of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy and Charlie Patton, among many other blues pioneers.
PLAY THE FILM.
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