A Highlife LP on the Decca label from West Africa recorded in 1969. The sleeve notes say- "It is over a decade now since Decca starte...

I've had this in my collection for many years but can't remember where I bought it for 35p - probably a junk shop in Limehouse. One...

Acually not sure if this is the very last Honky Tonk or bits of the penultimate show and half of the final show as they are on two tapes - o...

Jazzy flute player from Portugal I found at a car boot yesterday. Released on the Parlophone label back in 1977. Wikipedia via Babelfish say...

More old radio shows from the archive - one from 1977 with Rico Rodriguez playing some of his influences including Don Drummond and Gene Amm...

"The Olympics were one of the great L.A.-based acts who managed to score regional hits on the West Coast by balancing upbeat and often ...

A charity shop find I think from a couple of years ago. I dont know why it's taken me this long to add Karl Denver to this blog. He had ...

Another upload from the Charlie Gillett archive. Long before Bob Dylan did his Theme Time Radio Hour, Charlie was doing themed shows on the...

Another 45 sent to me by Charlie Gillett back in the late 80's or early 90's. Cant find out much about the Zimbabwe Stars on the int...

Charlie Gillett was very generous with his spare records over the years and I would get LP's or singles in the post occasionally . Once ...

A more recent radio show from Charlie here with guest Nick Hornby who's book High Fidelity was riding high in the book charts. Interest...

My old mate Jim in Basingstoke sent this tape to me recently of a concert he attended back in 1998 at the Woolwich Tramshed in London. It...

Another segment of Honky Tonk radio show from back in the mid 70's when Charlie talked to Art Neville about his musical career prior to ...

A record I found some years ago in a remaindered record shop in East London. "The Dark City Sisters were a group of session singers who...

"The Spotnicks was formed in Göteborg, Sweden, in 1957, by guitarist and undisputed bandleader Bo Winberg. The other members were guit...

Two more Honky Tonk shows courtesy of John Mister who kindly sent me the remains of his HT Archive on some very cheap cassettes so please ex...

I can't believe I haven't uploaded the Five Smith Brothers before now. Very little can be gleaned from the internet about them , onl...

Charlie Gillett on the left on this photo from the Oval Records website back in the 70's when this Honky Tonk radio show was broadcast, ...

I love this Philips International label LP recorded in 1961 at the Metropolitan Theatre , Edgeware Road in London which features a few of th...

Another Honky Tonk radio show with Charlie talking to Errol Dixon for the first half back in 1978. Errol started out making Ska records in J...