Zombiehamster Mixtape #12
Even though it’s not the weekend yet, I thought I’d help tackle the mid-week bues with, erm, some blues (and other great stuff too!).
This Mix kind of just happened, but where else would you get to hear Jack Kerouac sing? (He may have had a wee drinkie or two before getting up out of the chair for this one)
Alongside Samuel L Jackson and Robert Crumb? You’ll only find those sort of ill advised and slightly neurotic song choices here! There’s an amazing song about Jaques Cousteau by ‘Young Jacques‘, some amazing blues from RL Burnside (featured on this week’s cover), Blind John Davis and Jimmy Witherspoon. Leadbelly is on there of course, did you know that it was William Burroughs who introduced the music of Leadbelly to Kurt Cobain? Well, now you do.
One of my favourite all time songs is on here as well, Eddie Harris’ ‘I Don’t Want Nobody’ Harris went from standard 60-’s Jazz to become one of the most pioneering artists of the 1970′s, in this cut he is singing into an electric saxophone, leaving us with a sound something akin to Sigur Ros, except 25 years previous, before breaking into some sublime bass / trumpet combos.
Sam Cooke is in there because he’s amazing, there’s a bit of Bluegrass and a few surprises.
Tracklisting is as follows:
1: ‘Aint We Got Fun’ Jack Kerouac (On The Road)
2: ‘Chain gang’ Sam Cooke (Portrait Of A Legend)
3: ‘Jacques Cousteau’ Young Jacques
4: ‘Space Guitar’ Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson (Space Guitar)
5: ‘Pick Along’ Flatt & Scruggs with Doc Watson (Strictly Instrumental)
6: ‘Get A Load Of This’ Robert Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders
7: ‘Fine & Mellow’ Bilie Holliday (Encyclopedia of Jazz)
8: ‘The Howling Wolf’ Lightnin’ Hopkins (Bluesville Recordings Vol 4)
9: ‘I’ll Fly Away’ The Barrier Brothers
10: ‘Send Me To The ‘Lectric Chair’ Bessie Smith
11: ‘Wandering Gal Blues’ Jimmy Witherspoon (Same Old Blues)
12: ‘Everyday I Have The Blues’ Blind John Davis (My Own Boogie)
13: ‘I Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down’ RL Burnside
14: ‘Stack-O-Lee’ Samuel L Jackson (Black Snake Moan)
15: ‘I Dont Want Nobody’ Eddie Harris (I Need Some Money)
16: ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night’ Leadbelly
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