Tag: Bo Diddley
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Mashed Up At The Sock Hop Vol 2
Oh hello…I am alive, as you can see from the latest podcast, but not many things bring me out of blog lurkdom, but a new volume of the Sock Hop Rock n’ Roll mashup compilation from iWillBattle will do it! As before, we have rock, and/or roll mashups of a pre-1960’s flavour, with an album…
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RIP Fats Domino
A class act from New Orleans, he was the soul of rock n’ roll. *salutes to the Captain* We owe him, along with Chuck Berry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Bo Diddly, everything. One of the Four Horsepersons of Rock n Roll 😉 And he stuck by it, he didn’t try and update the sound –…
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Adriano Celentano & Manu Chao
A thread about novelty songs brought me to Freezing Cold in 89 Twoso, Mike Reid’s closest he ever came to a Krautrock hiphop avant-garde new-wave disco knees up. It’s still a record I’d DJ if someone went ‘but all novelty records or songs by DJs are naff aren’t they?’ because it rocks hard. But I…
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Seasick Steve
I actually saw the Jools Holland Hootenanny where he first played, can’t remember where but I was definitely ‘WTF was that’ in a good way…that was 2006, now he’s a festival regular and has his 4th album out this year…wow. Heard him today talking on the radio to Auntie LaLa and his accent is swoonsome…all…
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RC 166: Say You What?
Sun? What sun? Summer you say? What’s that? Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to Berlin I go ( 41Mb, 53mins) Sigur Ros – Gobbledigook Weezer – Pork And Beans Celebrity Murder Party – Sabotage_The_reaper World Famous Audio Hacker – Never Win Against The Wall Bo Diddley – You Can’t Judge a Book by the…