![]() We’re begun working on a new album and really hope to add the UK to the places we play regularly.” “I was hoping that the audience would get what it is that we do, and they did. “Being on that stage, there was such a sense of history,” Harris says. Last November the band played their UK debut, at The Troubadour in London, which brought a slew of rave reviews. “Ten of the twelve tracks have been out in America but a couple are brand new,” Harris clarifies, “and they were all re-recorded.” The Great Southern Hustle is actually a reworked collection of the best parts of the band’s previous two albums, Ringo Manor and ’76 (released in 2011 and ’16 respectively), and its irresistible lead-off single High Time For A Good Time dates back to the latter. And if a comparison exists between the two bands, then that’s what it is.” They didn’t care if people called them southern rock, they were rock. “Oh man, that’s terrible,” he says, grimacing. Thanks to podcasting, they get the opportunity to do just that.Harris is horrified to learn that one over-enthusiastic British critic hailed his band as “the new Lynyrd Skynyrd”. It’s hosted by two men called Doug and Kirk who could clearly talk about this sort of stuff for ever. We are the animals who mourn.”įinally, if you’re the kind of person for whom the words “Common misconceptions about iTunes” or “Ten ways to connect your computer to your stereo” have a strange fascination then you might like the podcast from The Next Track, which is all about “how people listen to music today”. ![]() “It’s almost the definition of being human. Mantel relates her ancestor’s task with her own interest in the past. The title came from her great-grandmother who could neither read nor write but was the person in her society charged with laying out the dead. The first of The Reith Lectures ( 13 June, 9pm, Radio 4) by Hilary Mantel is called The Day Is for Living and deals with the role that history plays in our lives. His characters include trolls, hipsters, Morgan Freeman, a dog smoking a pipe and the presenter of a books programme, done 1Xtra style. The Damien Slash Mixtape ( 14 June, 11pm, Radio 4) is the radio debut of Daniel Barker, who made his name doing character comedy on YouTube and in Julia Davis’s Camping. My mother, who could amuse herself for hours surveying her fellow humans and speculating about where they might be going, would have loved it. This week she’s in Iceland, where locals are happy to tell her that they’re going to buy cinnamon buns or visit an international roller derby event or meet the boyfriend they recently met through Tinder. Chuck, he contends, was “the first black hillbilly”.Ĭatherine Carr approaches people all over the world and then asks them the question from which her delightful programme Where Are You Going? ( 14 June, 1pm, BBC World Service) flows and takes its name. ![]() We also hear the voices of bluesmen Muddy Waters and Memphis Slim, who suggests cultural appropriation isn’t as neat and tidy as music historians like to pretend. He’s the first performer I’ve heard refer, as he does here, to the audience as “the clientele”. The programme that is broadcast as Chuck Berry: 40 Years On ( 11 June, 1pm, 6 Music) was first offered to Radio 1 back in the 70s, and rejected on the grounds that it didn’t fit their formula, being a sprawling exploration of Berry’s life and work wound around a wide-ranging conversation with the musician that goes as far as having a professor of literature analyse the lyrics of Promised Land.įor someone whose reputation was founded on his unerring selection of the mot juste in his lyrics, in conversation Chuck’s choice of words could be downright weird. Because he was also working in BBC Radio at the time, his interviews with rock stars such as Chuck Berry were recorded in broadcast quality. ![]() I n the mid-70s, Anthony Wall was rock correspondent for the Morning Star.
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