Ray’s Jazz > Scream Studios –
Wednesday, April 8 & Monday, April 13, 2009 [20-0922]
London, uk. Croyden, uk.
I met Charles Shaar Murray, the great British music journalist and author of books on Jimi Hendrix and John Lee Hooker, when he interviewed me in late January for a story in the Sunday Times of London. In the course of our conversation Charles picked up Nick Smith’s guitar and starting playing and then singing some very tasty blues. I joined in with a couple of poems and we had a good thing going on, so in April we combined for some gigs as a duo (or trio with Buffalo Bill Smith on harmonica or Gary Lammin on second guitar) and then made a rehearsal at Scream Studios in Croyden with Charles’ rhythm section, Dee on bass and Jo-Jo on drums, fondly known as the Queens of Funk. This episode combines recordings from our performance at Ray’s Jazz in London on April 8 with Buffalo Bill and the rehearsal in Croyden on April 13.
Playlist #265
[00] RFA Tag > Unabonger: Opening Tokes
[01] Opening Music: John Sinclair & His London Blues Scholars: Hideaway > Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness
[02] John Sinclair & Charles Shaar Murray: Boogie Chillen > Doctor Blues
[03] John Sinclair & His London Blues Scholars: Crosscut Saw > Shake ‘Em on Down
[04] John Sinclair & Charles Shaar Murray: The Screamers > 21 Days in Jail
[05] John Sinclair & Charles Shaar Murray: Fattening Frogs For Snakes
[06] John Sinclair & His London Blues Scholars: Yes We Can Can > It’s All Good
[07] Baba Israel Outro > RFA Tag
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Recorded by Big D at Sound Studio, East Croyden on April 13 and by John Sinclair at Ray’s Jazz, London, April 9, 2009
Produced, edited & assembled by John Sinclair @ the Bohemian National
Home, Detroit, April 27, 2009
Special thanks to Jo-Jo, Big D, Buffalo Bill Smith, Charles Shaar Murray, Samantha, Dylan Harding, Hollywood, Scott Martin, Jaime, Sunny & Beyonce Sinclair, Eph’s Deli & the Bohemian National Home
© 2009 John Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.
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