Jackey Coyle’s 'Wordy-Gurdy' on Helen Jennings’ Roots of Rhythm, PBS 106.7 FM
9.30–10am Wednesday, 19 May
Two whole hours of ‘No. 9’!
For our PBS Radio Festival show, we decided to highlight shining tracks that lurk on a CD, often unnoticed after their flashy precursors, hidden towards the end.
We redressed those bitter twists of fate that sentence gems of songs to shine, unnoticed and unheralded, at the ‘dark end of the street’. This is the ‘Wordy-Gurdy’ segment of the two hours.
‘A little Italy rag’, Amazing Rhythm Aces, Too stuffed to jump (ABC Records)
‘How long blues’, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, A stranger here (Anti/Shock)
‘Down the road a-piece’, Chuck E Weiss, Old souls & wolf tickets (Ryko)
‘Oliver Galop’, Blind Tom played by Jack Davis, Oxford American Southern Music CD, 2005 (Oxford American)
‘The clock’, Johnny Ace with the Beale Streeters, Charlie Gillett’s The sound of the city: Memphis (EMI)
‘This is always’, King Pleasure, Moody’s mood for love (Blue Note)
‘Corner stone’, the Skatalites, Guns of Navarone: the best of the Skatalites (Trojan Records)
