The Listening Club – 16th October 2022

Ahoy there, listening chums! @kleptones (along with @nessiest) is away in Paris this weekend, so I (@JimMcCauley, natch) have found a window in my ludicrously packed schedule to do the thing. Getting it out of the way nice and early so that I can research and start writing an article for tomorrow, before heading off to one rehearsal (The Railway Children, Rondo Theatre, Bath, 24-26 November) then maybe catching the last hour of another (Beauty and the Beast, Rondo Theatre, Bath, 12-15 January). All of which means I won't be joining you this evening, but frankly that's how it's mostly going to be for the next three months.

*scrolls back through TweetDeck #listeningclub column* So apparently last week @ohmyliver was on duty and treated everyone to The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend, which, it would appear, went down very well with the assembled as well as triggering memories of drinking Thunderbird. So thanks to Oli for the pick, and for eventually hitting @zbendr with the frisbaton. Look, here he is now!

"Don't wallow, luxuriate!

This record came to me recently at a changing/pivoting time of my life. Was I down? Relieved? Unburdened? Seeing clearly?

Yes.

The record goes and ebbs and flows and pushes and pulls at your feelings, but it never toys with your emotions. It's all at once familiar and unusually unique: it's like a few things but unlike most things.

Give it a chance and see if it puts a little dent in you…?

The FLAC is only CD-resolution, as I couldn't source a high-resolution/high-sample rate version. But it sounds noice in headphones and phat stax alike."

All righty, then. Ben's provided a FLAC download here, but if that's a bit much for you, I've done an MP3 version that you can grab here. Alternatively, stream below.

I won't see you at 8PM (BST), but enjoy! (And don't break anything.)