Afternoon folks!

This week, we've got some great Chicago blues from a compilation album that features mandolinist Johnny Young, guitarist Johnny Shines and harmonica player Big Walter Horton. Following that there's some late 60's blues from Aretha Franklin. Moving on to the blues-rock category, there's a John Mayall double album on which he's joined by Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor and Harvey Mandel. Then there's The Pretty Things self-titled first 1965 album and a Lee Michaels album. After that is a Japanese bootleg of a Bob Marley concert in London (originally broadcast on the BBC) and we finish up with a studio album from Dr. John.

Enjoy and have a great weekend!

There’s a documentary on TVNZ, When Bob Came, which explores the cultural and political impact Bob Marley’s 1979 visit to New Zealand had on this country, and still lives strongly. It’s free if you log in to TVNZ, but I totally understand that most won’t be inclined to. But for those enduring Bob Marley fans it will be a treat.

From episode 4 ...

Interviewer - "Do you have to smoke to be a Rasta?"

This is the age of patent medicines. A discussion is difficult down here.
--James Joyce, Ulysses