MixTape #040

(Daryl Easlea)

My guest mixer this week is Daryl Easlea

Daryl is a music writer whose work has appeared in Mojo, Record Collector, Q, The Guardian and The Independent, and has published several books on subjects as diverse as Chic, Slade, Madonna, Peter Gabriel, Cher and Sparks.

In addition, if you have a few reissue or box set CDs in your collection, it’s fairly likely that at least one of them includes some sleeve notes written by him.

(YouTube playlist at the bottom of the page)

Hit the ground running

1. Jorge Ben Jor - Ponta De Lanca Africano (Umababaruma)

Something old

2. Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady

Interview with Session Bassist Chuck Rainey

Something new

3. Memory of Speke - Wife Once

Memory of Speke find “Freedom” in the balance between anarchy and evolution

London’s Memory of Speke Release Debut Single ‘Wife Once’

Something borrowed

4. The Fall - Lost In Music