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Archived Posts from Abarrelofnails
Unknown Artist - Track 1
AbarrelofnailsFollow “The over-dubbed version of the Jamaican original (see ABON 0153). On which, in order to reach a broader audience of British and…” on Feb 14th, 2011 →
Wailers - Concrete Jungle
AbarrelofnailsFollow “By 1972 The Wailers had been releasing singles in Jamaica for almost ten years (see ABON 0043). Some of these…” on Feb 14th, 2011 →
Horace Andy - Ain't No Sunshine
AbarrelofnailsFollow “As a comparison piece to Dr Alimantado’s ‘Best Dressed Chicken In Town’ (see ABON 0152), here is Horace Andy’s ’Ain’t No…” on Feb 11th, 2011 →
Dr. Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken in Town
AbarrelofnailsFollow “Dr Alimantado released a string of gloriously over-the-top singles in Jamaica in the early 70s. As with U-Roy and other…” on Feb 11th, 2011 →
Bugsy Malone - Ordinary Fool
AbarrelofnailsFollow “I’m not a big fan of musicals. Or songs from musicals. Most seem too bland to hold more than a…” on Feb 9th, 2011 →
Kansas Joe/Memphis Minnie - I Never Told a Lie
AbarrelofnailsFollow “Â If Geeshie Wiley (see ABON 0149) was the most talented female Early Blues singer/guitarist then Memphis Minnie was the most…” on Feb 7th, 2011 →
Geechie Wiley - Last Kind Words Blues
AbarrelofnailsFollow “Despite being the most distinctive, talented and haunting of the early female Blues singer/guitarists, very little is known about Geeshie…” on Feb 4th, 2011 →
The Flying Lizards - Sex Machine
AbarrelofnailsFollow “The art of the cover version as stripped down reconstruction. In which stiff upper lip English public school takes on…” on Feb 2nd, 2011 →
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog
AbarrelofnailsFollow “When Willie Mae Thornton left home to tour the Southern States of the USA as a singer in the Hot Harlem…” on Jan 31st, 2011 →
Richard & Linda Thompson - Has He Got a Friend for Me
AbarrelofnailsFollow “Richard Thompson was born in London in 1949. But his father was Scottish and, as a teenager growing up in…” on Jan 26th, 2011 →
Flora McNeill - The Sister's Lament
AbarrelofnailsFollow “The island of Barra lies off the North West coast of Scotland in the Outer Hebrides and has been a…” on Jan 24th, 2011 →
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange Things Happening Every Day
AbarrelofnailsFollow “It would make perfect sense – and be absolutely logical – if the key influences on Rock’n'Rollers Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee…” on Jan 21st, 2011 →
Brian Eno - The True Wheel
AbarrelofnailsFollow “Brian Eno has a reputation for being a very clever man who thinks far more about his music than most…” on Jan 19th, 2011 →
A Certain Ratio - Knife Slits Water
AbarrelofnailsFollow “Released 1982. Available on the compilation CD, ‘Early: A Definitive Anthology Of ACR Recordings 1978 – 1985′:Â Amazon” on Jan 14th, 2011 →
Bill Haley And His Comets - Shake, Rattle And Roll
AbarrelofnailsFollow “Bill Haley’s alternative version, ‘pure’ Rock’n'Roll, version of Big Joe Turner’s proto-Rock’n'Roll hit. Recorded two months after Big Joe’s and…” on Jan 10th, 2011 →
Big Joe Turner - Shake, Rattle & Roll
AbarrelofnailsFollow “When we last met Big Joe Turner he was a Blues Shouter trying his hand at Boogie Woogie, supported by…” on Jan 10th, 2011 →
Various Artists - Roll 'Em Pete
AbarrelofnailsFollow “In the days before microphones, singing in front of a band was a job for a powerful voice – a voice powerful enough to…” on Jan 7th, 2011 →
Ida Cox - 'Fore Day Creep
AbarrelofnailsFollow “In December 1938 one of the most significant concerts in the history of popular music took place. It was the…” on Jan 5th, 2011 →
Public Image Ltd - Banging the Door
AbarrelofnailsFollow “Public Image Limited Part 3. When guitarist, Keith Levene (I think) said that ‘Flowers Of Romance’ was “probably the least commercial…” on Jan 3rd, 2011 →
Public Image Ltd - Poptones
AbarrelofnailsFollow “If Public Image Limited’s first album (see ABON 0134) helped kick start the Post Punk phenomenon, then their second album,…” on Dec 31st, 2010 →