sidewinder

Yes, that’s right. Didn’t Danny Ray Thompson run the shop too? Echoes of ‘Stella Street’.

I wonder if that corner grocery store is still there selling intergalactic confectionery and (most likely long since discontinued) selections of Saturn and Thoth LPs?

The ‘3 Bs’ - Barber, Ball and Bilk.

RIP. An important, influential early figure on the UK scene and also very open to influences (he recorded with Harriott). Due to tour as late as 2019 until that was cancelled by a fall, with his ‘Big Chris Barber Band’. Duo gig with Tony Crombie?

Very good concert and 2CD set !

Did they throw in some baby powder with that?

Just booked both of mine. The first one in a couple of days time.

Very sad - I chatted to him briefly once as a young guy. At the time it was looking as if he might be coming up to Canada to take up a college teaching job which didn’t happen in the end. Caught him a few times with Don Byron - RIP.

Time to retire !

Interesting. I recall the Scott bio mentioning that Majorca stint in the 60s with Graves.

Pretty good. I have the Rendell/Carr on preorder too, the Russell is on the cards.

Incredible that the music survived - the BBC sessions were ‘assumed lost’ until they turned up in the Hiseman archive. And in such good fidelity too.

A real find from the Hiseman archive and another excellent release from this label.

I had one of those sweeper things on my old deck in the 1970s - can’t say it was much use.