Jumpin’ With Stagger Lee #22

Feels like ages since I did one of these – summer is hectic I guess – but hopefully this will make up for it.

There’s all manner of soul stompers, roots rockers, country shitkickers and rockabilly riots, with new(ish) tracks from The Cactus Blossoms, The Strange Blue Dreams and Jon Langford’s new Four Lost Souls project, alongside sounds from Egypt and Ethiopia and Italy and Jamaica. There’s a Frightnrs track again, because I won’t stop till you ALL embrace them.

Here’s what’s included:

1. The Gories – Thunderbird Esq
2. The Mekons – The Curse
3. Billy Ball & The Upsetters – Popcorn ’69
4. The Upsetters – Popcorn
5. The Swinging Medallions – Here It Comes Again
6. Jerry Lee Lewis – Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On (Live)
7. The Phantom – Love Me
8. Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps – Race With The Devil
9. Jimmy Witherspoon – Hey Mrs Jones
10. Ronnie Love – Chills & Fever
11. The James Hunter Six – (Baby) Hold On
12. Earl Grant – Hide Nor Hair
13. The Off Beats – Have Love Will Travel
14. Don Fardon – I’m Alive
15. Mulatu Astatke – Yegele Tezeta
16. Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band – Ramadan In Space Time
17. The Como Mamas – 99 And  A Half Won’t Do
18. Papa Celestin – Old Time Religion
19. Jon Langford & Four Lost Souls – Natchez Trace
20. The Cactus Blossoms – Mississippi
21. The Strange Blue Dreams – Ballad Of The Sun & Moon
22. Althea – Down Town Thing
23. The Frightnrs – Till Then
24. The Slackers – Minha Menina
25. Eddie Ray – Wait A Minute
26. Eloise – You Shoulda Treated Me Right
27. Edoardo Vianello – Guarda Come Dondolo
28. Mina – Un Anno D’Amore
29. The Trojans – Lumpi
30. The Top Cats – Tear The Place Down
31. Bobbie Gentry – Seasons Come, Seasons Go
32. Roy Orbison – Blue Bayou
33. Bill Withers – Grandma’s Hands (live)
34. Candi Staton – When Hearts Grow Cold
35. Texas Gladden – Cold Mountains
36. Jelly Roll Morton – Alabama Bound
37. Joan Shelley – Go Wild
38. Big Star – Thirteen
39. The Broken Family Band – Wherever You Go

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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November Hype

Jumpin’ Into Autumn

How’s your summer working out? I’ve just got back from 10 days in the Pyrenees and managed to only buy two records – a Jimmy Witherspoon EP and a Jacques Dutronc compilation; the rest of my money went on rum and cheese, pretty much…

Anyway, there’s a few things coming up you might want to know about. both my own nights and some random slots here and there. Here’s the list…

September 1st – Billy Bootleggers (10pm-2am, FREE)

September 9th – The Tea Pad Sunshine Medicine Show 2017 with Rob Heron & The Tea Pad, House Of The Black Gardenia and Howlin’ Rick & The Rocketeers @ The Cumberland Arms (2-7pm, FREE)

then onto an after party at…

September 9th – Dat Bar (9pm – 2am, FREE)

October 6th – Soul Finger #6 @ The Cumberland Arms, 8pm – 1am, £3 – I think)

November 25th – Jumpin’ With Stagger Lee @ Ernest (9pm-2am FREE)
more details to follow but I can confirm that after July’s debacle, Alex Johnson will be special guest again. Heaven help us!

December 31st – WATCH THIS SPACE!

January 20th – Riddim @ Ernest (9pm – 2am, FREE)
A second instalment of the very occasional reggae night, with Rob Heron and possibly a special guest from THAT LONDON!

February 24th – Jumpin’ With Stagger Lee @ Ernest (9pm – 2am, FREE)
Again, more details to follow but we should have Rob Heron back for this one…

here’s that Jimmy Witherspoon tune I bought…

 

Thanks For Jumpin’

Well that was splendid, wasn’t it?

I’ve been running clubs long enough now to know that any night in the middle of the summer when there’s loads of other events on is bound to start slowly, but I must admit I was a bit anxious early on. But – oh my days! – it got busy. Thanks so much for coming if you did, it was probably the maddest Jumpin’ yet and me and my special guest selector Alex Johnson were pretty overwhelmed* by it all.

I’ve NO idea what I played – maybe Alex can remember his set. I know that at the end we were playing back-to-back and trying to mess each other up a bit, but in reality it just meant we reached for the most dancefloor-friendly tunes we had. I was gutted we didn’t finish with The Monster Mash (yes, I did have it with me) but Alex’s (Reach Out) I’ll Be There seemed like a pretty banging final tune.

I’d like to thank Alex for being a perfect guest; Rosie and Kathryn and the Ernest crew for letting us do it and coping admirably; Polly and Toni and Kirsten for being staunch; everyone who came. All that stuff. And tramadol and Patron Xo Café for getting me through it.

Till next time…

 

 

(* drunk)

POSTER

How To Get Ahead In Advertising

We’ve got a nice big ad in the forthcoming issue of NARC. Magazine for both the Jumpin’ On The Terrace gig (July 9th) and Jumpin’ With Stagger Lee at Ernest on July 22nd. We’ve decided to make Jumpin’ On The Terrace a fairly loose affair with guests including Rob Heron, Alex Johnson, Ethan McDermott, Billy Lyre and more popping along to play a few tunes, while Alex is also going to be the guest selecter at Ernest.

 

White Lightnin’

Billy Bootleggers is a brand new Toon centre bar – hard by Grainger Street Market underneath Bar 28 on Nelson Street – based on a vintage American dive bar.  It looks great in there, the booze is high quality and judging by recent appearances, so are the bands.

And I’m going to be playing some records down there from time to time, starting with a double whammy this bank holiday weekend (Friday 26th and Saturday 27th) from about 11pm when the bands finish till about 2am when we all get thrown out.

Come down, entry is free and it’ll be good times

Going Full Bateman

Jumpin’ 21

Hey folks. Had a burst of excellent new releases come my way lately and figured that was a good excuse for a new Jumpin’ mix – number 21!

There’s tracks from new or imminent albums by Hurray For The Riff Raff, The Deslondes (two tracks because it’s that good), Bonnie Prince Billy, Pokey LaFarge, Rhiannon Giddens, Sir Jac’s Bantamacs, Chain & The Gang and The Unthanks, as well as something from the new Dengue Fever reissues.

And the usual mix of soul, country, blues, garage and more.

1. Barry Adamson – The Big Bamboozle
2. Eldridge Holmes – Popcorn Children
3. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – S.O.B.
4. The Jackson 5 – Little Bitty Pretty One
5. Mose Allison – Parchman Farm
6. Hunx & His Punx – You Don’t Like Rock’N’Roll
7. Chain & The Gang – Free Will
8. The Deslondes – Hurricane Shakedown
9. Eli Paperboy Reed – Bad Girl
10. Pokey LaFarge – Riot In The Street
11. Dengue Fever – Tip My Canoe
12. Omar Kay – Turkish Coffee
13. Junior Murvin – Cool Out Son
14. Big Youth – All Nations Bow
15. Harry J Allstars – Liquidator
16. The Staple Singers – I’ll Take You There
17. The Como Mamas – Count Your Blessings
18. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross – Moanin’
19. James Carr – Who’s Been Warming My Oven
20. The Five Stairsteps – Playgirl’s Love
21. Eddie Carlton – It Will Be Done
22. Margie Joseph – I Can’t Move No Mountain
23. Hurray For The Riff Raff – The Navigator
24. Kokomo Arnold – Milk Cow Blues
25. Lefty Frizzell – Shine, Shave, Shower (It’s Saturday)
26. Sir Jac’s Bantamacs – One Cup Of Coffee
27. The Dirt Daubers – Trucks, Tractors & Trains
28. Tony Joe White – Polk Salad Annie
29. The Deslondes – She Better Be Lonely
30. Bonnie Prince Billy – Leonard
31. Micah P Hinson – Beneath The Rose
32. Rhiannon Giddens – The Angels Laid Him Away
33. Blind Willie McTell – The Dyin’ Crapshooter’s Blues
34. Jerry Jeff Walker – Desperados Waiting For The Train
35. Guy Clark – Dublin Blues
36. Cian Nugent – Lucy
37. The Unthanks – What Can A Song Do To You?

(NB – I did try labelling the tracks in the mix but it crashed, sorry!)

Kicking Off The Summer On The Good Foot..

Thanks to everyone who came down to Ernest on Saturday and made the 3rd Jumpin With Stagger Lee all sorts of fun, and thanks to Rob Heron for hotfooting it over from the coast to guest.

The next Jumpin’ at Ernest will be on July 22nd, but we’ll be on the terrace at the Cumberland Arms on July 9th from 2-7pm – hopefully see you there!