This week on Black Routes we’ll play more vintage rock ‘n’ roll from those beaut compilations on the Spanish El Toro label, Ray Harris and Friends : Mississippi Rockers and Rocket Morgan and Friends : Louisiana Rockers, as well as a selection or two from May’s featured release, A Great Day For the Race from the wonderful Melbourne band, Flap!
We’ll try to find space to debut more great new single-artist releases from various quarters. We’re so rapt in Curtis Salgado‘s Soul Shot debuted here last week that we’ll not only play more this week, but also see if we can hunt out some of Curtis’s back catalogue (no promises tho’).
Our birthday tributes this week will be to two late greats: Ian Dury, and Motown songwriter Norman Whitfield.
Sadly on Monday we learnt of the passing of one of our favourite relatively-young bluesmen, Michael Burks. Burks was a devotee of Albert King; he even played a Gibson Flying Vee guitar! In Burks’s memory we’ll play tracks from his three great releases on the Alligator label.
And of course there’s our usual roundup of bluesy happenings around Sydney.
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– Gil Onyett
