If you dig the Gary Wilson stuff I would be willing to upload his other 2 albums that I have for ya.

Can't wait to hear the Gary Wilson album

I am uploading his whole first album to the endysis.org/ian server, should be done in a an hour or two. My computer is being slow. Did you read up on him?

I am downloading a few tracks now

I can upload his "classic" album onto the server my mixes are on if you want. But yeah, check him up on wikipedia or something. I actually got to see him play last thursday.

Gary Wilson? I will investigate now

Thanks kind sir! I am gonna look into all of them. I just finished creating my ultimate external harddrive that holds every piece of music i have ever bought, burned, or stolen. Also recently i have become obsessed with a strange man named Gary Wilson. Are you familiar with him?

John Lee Hooker - More difficult because his best work was not always on albums 'The Real Folk Blues' on Chess is pretty good, 'Hooker N Heat' is the earliest and best of his white boy collaborations, but I would go for one of
the compilations on the Charley label that features really early stuff like 'Going Mad Blues'

BB King - This is the easiest. ' BB King Live At The Regal' is maybe the best electric blues album ever, recorded in the mid sixties just before he fif 'The Thrill Is Gone' He defines electric blues lead playing on this album and it is still an all time favorite.

The Pogues... Like a lot of bands, I think they were at their best before they recorded. I saw them when they were still called Pogue Mahone (Gaelic for 'kiss my arse') at the George Robey pub in North London. 'Rum..' is my favourite, but 'If I Should Fall From Grace With God' runs a close second, and is well worth it. Avoid the post Shane Magowan stuff.

Billy Bragg = The early stuff is the best, when it was just him and his tinny electric guitar. The first proper album, 'Brewing Up With Billy Bragg' is good, but the 7 track ep that preceded it, 'Life's A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy' is the best. It has 'new England' and the wonderfully titled 'The Milkman Of Human Kindness' on it. Later stuff seems diluted and not so angry to me.

Billy Bragg.. The early stuff is the best, when it was just him and a tinny electric guitar. 'Brewing Up With Billy Bragg', his first full album is pretty good. Better though is the seven track EP 'Life's A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy' that preceeded it. The later stuff is diluted in my opinion.

Ok, Billy Bragg. I personally think he went off the boil when he started playing with other musicians.The early electric guitar and vocal things are the best. I loved his first Ep, 'Life's A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy' which has 'New England' and 'The Milkman of Human eat' is great. The first album proper, 'Brewing Up' is the best full album I think. Anything after the mid 90s is diluted compared to the early stuff.

Hello, sir, I need some of your wisdom. I was wondering if you could recommend an album from each of the following:
Billy Bragg
The Pogues (besides Rum Sodomy, I have it already and love it)
BB King
John Lee Hooker

Thanks sir!

Shame about Cave. As for the Dennis Wilson album, I have always liked it and I will go for the deluxe version myself now I know it exists. I look forward to your mixes and this will be no exception. I have a "disappointment" mix almost ready to go

Haha. That was a great way to put the Hollywood experience! Yeah, I dont understand what the big hullabaloo is about that place, besides the Belushi thing.

Things in sledgy world are slow again. My job ended working on a few flicks and now Im unemployed again with a looming actor's strike and the beginning of student loan payments starting next month. Im gonna be posting a mix tonight/tomorrow as well as uploading it. Its kind of a lovey dovey "for a girl" mix. Hopefully it doesnt make anyone throw up. Make sure to let me know when your band is playing around here btw. Also, sadly, I have to skip the Nick Cave concert as I have a short-term gig that whole week that wont allow me to do much. Im bummed out. Oh well. I guess there is always next time. Word has it that the next Grinderman album is done already. I dont know if its exactly your thing, but I got the Deluxe Edition of Dennis Wilson's OCEAN PACIFIC BLUE and Im digging it big time. It reminds me of living in Big Sur.

Bonjour matelot! Yeah, I am good. I was in your neck of the jungle laqst week. A music biz friend of mine from England was i Hollywood to mix an album and I went to see him at The Ch. Marmont where he waqs staying in bungalow 2, the one Belushi died in. I expected to be impressed with the Marmont, but it all seemed a bit sad, a shadow of something that might not even have existed in the first place. The place seemed full of 9 year olds wearing complimentary bathrobes and smoking cigarettes like it was not the first time they ever had. I was impressed with the big security guy by the underground parking who looked like Alexander O'neal, and given his failure to revisit the charts in the last twenty years possibly could have been. Despite my being underwhelmed at Chateau Marmite, it was hard to go to my ECono Lodge room inbetween the transexual hooker and the family from Bombay there to see movie stars!

Anyway, whats happening in Sledgy world? I have internet connection problems at the moment so my visits have been brief, but kit should all be sorted out later in the week.

Hello sir,
How are you?

Look forward to the mixes. I am listening to wall to wall Nick Cave right now getting ready for the Hollywood Bowl but I have been working on 2 mixes, one about disappointment, the other a 2nd mix of murder songs. Have fun in Oregon. I am off to Ventura for a couple of days, but I have to be back here for a gig Saturday night.