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Curious about jazz and blues but don't know where to begin? Join aficionado Tony Bishop, legendary jazz and blues singer and harmonica player on the London circuit, who will give you a whirlwind expert briefing to hold down your end of the coffee machine conversation with the annoying boffin from accounts.

Tony glides effortlessly through a short history of the genres as they emerged from their sleazy New Orleans origins early in the last century; the creation of Bluenote and Chess records; the great rupture in jazz around about 1959; some more modern developments; and then finally his picks of porky prime cuts to start us on our journeys.

Tony's choices were:

Blues
Death letter, Son Hous
Drop down mama, Sleepy John Estes
29 ways, Willie Dixon
Juke, Little Walter
Hellhound on my trail, Robert Johnson
Jazz
Kind of blue, Miles Davis
Time out, Dave Brubeck
My favourite things, John Coltrane
Watermelon man, Herbie Hancock
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook
View with a room, Julian Lage

Here's a Spotify playlist of Tony's "First XI".

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pVruox3Yo0xr7HCbWW6PR?si=50bdcfffa6d043d4

To get the download on why these bubbled to the top, tune into the episode. Thanks, Tony!
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What did The Kinks ever do for us?

The Beatles invented pop music as we know it and The Stones were the bad boys. But, like a middle child in the family struggling to fill a role, where does that leave The Kinks?

Arguably with the richest legacy of all. Go with us on the journey and start to discover  that The Kinks might have an equal stake in inventing pop music as we know it alongside The Beatles and they probably destroyed more hotel rooms than The Stones as well. 

From heavy metal to punk to power pop, they were the godfathers of many musical genres we take for granted today.

So, please do join your host Ian Forth to discuss the legacy of The Kinks.
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Comments under Youtube videos of songs from the 70s and 80s have a grim consistency. "Back when music was music" is the gist.

But I can remember older people saying the same about those songs when they first came out. Why do many - not all - of us - come to be so distrustful of new music? Neophobes, if you like.

Join Ian Forth on Vinyl Maelstrom for this week's provocative discussion.
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Walk down any high street in the world and you'll see someone wearing that t-shirt. The one with the wavy lines. Yet many people wearing it may never have listened to the album whose cover hosts the artwork.

Cool design, but why does it resonate? And if you wear the t-shirt, should you bother listening to an album that's almost half a century old?

Join Ian Forth for a discussion on the enduring legacy of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures.
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50 years ago the NME ran a Best Albums Of All Time poll. There were 3 female artists on it and zero female-only bands.

Glance through any poll from the last few years and it's essentially a 50:50 male:female split.

So, what exactly happened? Join Ian Forth on this week's podcast to trace the evolution of women's role in modern music - and discover that everything is not quite as diverse as it may initially seem.
Be expertly briefed each week on a wide variety of intriguing musical topics.

If you want to be expertly briefed next time you're chatting away round the famous water cooler, Vinyl Maelstrom is here to help. 

Why not join Ian Forth, host of the internationally successful podcast Sombrero Fallout, and his guests to listen in on a wide variety of intriguing musical topics. 


Be expertly briefed each week on a wide variety of intriguing musical topics.