G.I. Funk - if Tarrantino had directed Platoon this would be the soundtrack.Today's tracks are taken from a compilation called G.I. Funk I picked up on Camden Market in the summer. The c.d. purports to be a collection of Vietnam War era funk tunes, played for the entertainment of US Troops on R 'n' R leave from the war. The premise is that after a hard time evading Charlie your average African-American G.I. would take his dollars to a whore-house in Saigon, Tokyo or Manilla, where with his chose
Daniel Johnston - not dead. Daniel Johnston's official website is headed "Artist, singer, songwriter and pilgrim of indie music with 30 albums, hundreds of songs, and thousands of fans" - hardly "100,000,000 Millions Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong" is it?The Texan singer-songerwriter and "Folk Artist" has a troubled mental state and institutionalisation, which informs his work. Johnston it appears falls in love often - heavily and ill-fatedly. He suffers crisies of confidence and artistic belief. For
The Pinetoppers: Johnny Jenkins at the front, and Otis Redding in white.In 1971 Johnny Jenkins took Dr. John's voodoo cajun classic I Walk On Gilded Splinters and added some funk, dirty blues swamp guitar and seemingly the Polyphone Spree on backing vocals. The results are stunning. Also featured here are Cher's ex Duane Allman and what sounds like a million drummers.Samples from this track turned up in Beck's Loser and Oasis' Go Let It Out, and the track reached a greater prominence when it was
Welcome to "Please Send Me Evenings and Weekends" my new mp3 blog. What is an MP3 blog?An mp3 blog is just a way for music fans to share some of their favourite tunes with people who may not have heard them.Generally speaking people put up a track or two, for a short period, for people to have a listen to and decide whether they want to investigate the artist further. To see how this works check out the links on the right for people who have been doing this thing for a while. Where does the titl
