Tag: Radio

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins sings Rosetta Tharpe and Big Joe Turner to the Clovers. It don’t get any better than this!

The vast majority of this weeks show is made up of my new acquistions. I’m likely to have never played out to a live audience. Exciting stuff for me. Hope you enjoy.

As I trawled through my archives here in Hep towers, I couldn’t help but notice, completely by accident, an unconcious theme for this show developing. Frogs, fish, streams, rivers and the deep blue sea. Yes dear listener this weeks show is now dedicated to all things Aquatic

Brothers and Sisters this here show is a selection of some of my favourite tunes. I’ve got too many to choose from to select a top 10 or top 20 but I’ve crammed as many as I can into this little ole show.

The theme this week is the British are coming! Or to be more precise The British are warming up in the dance halls up and down the land refining their own version of rock and roll and preparing to return to sender with the British invasion of America in the 60’s sending Rhythm n Blues back home by the likes of the stones and the Animals

I’m gonna shake the dust off ya old bones with some of the finest jitterbuggin’, juke-joint jump blues from the 1930s through to the rockin’ ’50s

We’re diggin’ deep into the Roots of Rhythm — Born in Gospel!

This week your curator of cool tracks features music, from The Andrew Sisters, Wynonie Harris, Doris Day of all people, and Do wop from The Cliques amongst others

Another crazy mixed up selection of tunes taken from the archives here in Hep Towers deep in the forests of Gwent in South Wales. You’ll be hearing another eclectic mix, including tracks from Harry the Hipster, Ruth Brown, Joe Turner and Frankie Vaughn

Featuring Tracks from Johnny Guitar Watson, Howlin Wolf, Nina Simone, Helen Humes, The Nightriders and many more.