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Baker's Dozen

"I Don't Like Cool Stuff": The Bakers Dozen Of Billy Childish
Phil Hebblethwaite , April 21st, 2014 04:24

Easter Monday is Billy Holiday! Wild Billy Childish of the Medway Towns tells Phil Hebblethwaite about his 13 favourite records; or tells him about 13 records at least...

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Leadbelly - 'Grey Goose'

I knew roughly who Lead Belly was through Lonnie Donegan, who my father had some old 78s of. I was about three or four. But I didn't really start listening to him until I got an album off my pal Sexton Ming in about 1981. I used to listen to Lead Belly, who is folk-based, and blues people like John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters when I was painting in the 1980s, after I was chucked out of art school.