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Andy Fairweather Low is the Invisible Bluesman.

His career has to an extent been defined by early pop successes, but every single one of Andy Fairweather Low’s performances has been shaped by his blues, gospel and soul influences.

It is ironic that although he first burst onto the scene in Britain in 1967 with a UK top twenty hit record of "Gin House Blues" which was inspired by Bessie Smith’s 1928 classic rec...

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In this episode, Malcolm Mills sits down with Loudon Wainwright III in the runup to his new live album, "LOUDON LIVE IN LONDON," concurrent with his Transatlantic Sessions tour dates in the UK beginning 31st January.

This is our digital cave painting about how the album came about, in which Loudon, "the real third man," talks about the songs culled for this reccording from his live show at...

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Like many emerging artists, Hannah White has self-released several albums. But since "Car Crash" won the coveted Song of the Year Award at the Americana UK Awards earlier this year, things have gone up a gear.

Her newest album, SWEET REVOLUTION, is out November 3rd, Worldwide, in digital, CD and LP formats.

Malcolm Mills sits down with Hannah, on the heels of her Norway appearances in this ...

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Here’s Malcolm Mills with another podcast from The Last Music Company. This one is a stumble down memory lane to London in the early 1970s.  It’s the story of those pub-rock pilgrims Chilli Willi and the Red-Hot Peppers and how they emerged from the remains of Mighty Baby after the first Glastonbury Fayre in 1971.

Fifty years after the actual event, we start with a telephone interview Malcolm did with John Co...

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Perhaps the first thing one notices when listening to the Hot Club of Cowtown is its lack of irony, self-consciousness and forced hipness in embracing a style of music that so easily lends itself to such things…Stylistically, the band steps out from the shadow of its influences to become more than a faithful retro band that likes to raise its tempo every now and then. It’s writing more of its own songs and varying its...

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Perhaps the first thing one notices when listening to the Hot Club of Cowtown is its lack of irony, self-consciousness and forced hipness in embracing a style of music that so easily lends itself to such things…Stylistically, the band steps out from the shadow of its influences to become more than a faithful retro band that likes to raise its tempo every now and then. It’s writing more of its own songs and varying its...

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In this fifty minute podcast, Watkins details how he, Robin McKidd and Gary Rickard formed the basis of the band that stormed the London pub scene of the 80s once they were joined by Arthur Kitchener and Kieran O’Connor.

He tells of how Arthur funded the recording of the first album from a Thatcher hand-out and relates stories around the recording of the other four albums.

Along with his recollection...

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In this third and last installment of our Tony Kofi interview for the Last Music Podcast series, reknown singer and television host China Moses continues her conversation with Tony and Alex Webb about the making of "Another Kind of Soul," a new portrait of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, released April 24 on the Last Music Company label.

The album can be sampled and ordered here.

This podcast...

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In this three-part Last Music Podcast series, reknown singer and television host China Moses sits down with Tony Kofi and Alex Webb to talk about the making of "Another Kind of Soul," a new portrait of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, released April 24 on the Last Music Company label.

The album can be sampled and ordered here.

This podcast is brought to you by The Last Music Company, an old sc...

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In this three-part Last Music Podcast series, reknown singer and televison host China Moses sits down with Tony Kofi and Alex Webb to talk about the making of "Another Kind of Soul," a new portrait of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, released April 24 on the Last Music Company label.

The album can be sampled and ordered here.

This podcast is brought to you by The Last Music Comp...

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Join us as we revisit this fine interview from 2011 with Trombonist/bandleader Chris Barber, who has just announced his permanent retirement from full-time music after leading his internationally popular band since 1954.

Born in Welwyn, Hertfordshire in 1930, Barber became an avid collector of jazz and blues records before buying his first trombone at age 18 and forming a semi-professional band in 1949 when ...