Well, it was six seasons in a day. Listen. From the bluesman-goes-country of Watermelon Slim to a tearaway josh with fellow Clarksdalian Super Chikan to tender ditties from Georgian Robert Burke Warren and NSWelshman Darren Jack. (Oh and here's a cool link to Watermelon Slim at the Green Parrot.)
In the June show we listened to Emmylou Harris’s ‘My name is Emmett Till’. The Backsliders reprise that terrible US event last century when a black boy was brutally murdered and his white killers acquitted of wrongdoing. (And it’s not like we don’t have blood on our hands here.) I asked Dom Turner what inspired him to write it. ‘Just so we never forget,’ he said.
Songs ‘Cowboys are as common as sin’, Watermelon Slim, Ringers (Northern Blues) ‘Moonshine’, Watermelon Slim & Super Chikan, Okiesippi Blues (Northern Blues) ‘Don’t worry’, Darren Jack, Better place (indie)
‘Emmett Till’ and ‘Failed preacher’, Starvation box, the Backsliders (Fuse)
‘Jacksong’, Robert Burke Warren, …to this day (Jackpot Music)
Gigs reviewed Dom Turner & Ian Collard, CD launch, Saturday 17 September, Union Hotel Brunswick Coming up the Lowbrow Medal Shindig, Monday 26 September, 7–11.30pm at Handsome Steve’s House of Refreshment, Abbotsford Convent; Celebrating the Station Hotel, Saturday 22 October, 2pm, Station Hotel, Prahran
Listen to the show.
Next show 19 October live interview with Yvonne Norman in Louisiana, songwriter extraordinaire to the likes of Wilson Pickett, Dobie Gray and Bobbie Gentry in the years when songwriters went to studios and hung out there, honing their creations.
