Happy Birthday Ann Peebles!

Watch Ann Peebles perform on the Midnight Special with Teenie Hodges, brothers Leroy & Charles and yes, Willie Mitchell! 

Visit an online archive of Peel Sessions with youtube links!

Dave Strickson has created a fab online archive of over 1,000 Peel Sessions – check it out right here. Son House from 1970 below.

90s Nostalgia: Bastro

Here's David Grubbs and pals playing a few tunes off Bastro's Sing The Troubled Beast on the John Peel show on July 1, 1990.   

Listen to Captain Beefheart on BBC's Top Gear in 1968

Here's Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band playing two sessions on John Peel's "Top Gear" show in January and May 1968. 

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

January 24, 1968

London, Maida Vale. Studio 4

1. Yellow Brick Road

2. Abba Zaba

3. Sure 'Nuff & Yes I Do

4. Electricity

May 6th, 1968

London, 201 Piccadilly, Studio 1

5. Beatle Bones 'N Smokin' Stones

6. Safe As Milk

7. Kandy Korn

8. Trust Us

Before They Were Famous: Human League's Peel Session from '78

Check out the early version of "Being Boiled" from Human League's Peel Session in August, 1978 following the 45 release in June. 

Watch the Rock Family Trees episode on Prog Rock

Check out Pete Frame's 88-minute Prog Rock episode narrated by John Peel which originally aired on the BBC back in 1998.   

Happy Birthday John Peel!

Remembering influential BBC radio personality John Peel with a list of the 142 singles found in his record box.   Artwork: Olaf Jens

Here's a list of the 142 seven-inch singles found in John Peel's record box of his most-prized tunes which included five singles by Memphis rockabilly great Charlie Feathers, three by Phoenix soul duo Eddie & Ernie and only one by The Beatles.  Listen to a sampling of tracks following the list. 

1. Al Casey – Surfin’ Hootenanny + Easy Pickin (PIE) 1963 – Jivin Around

2. Al Ferrier – I’m Not Drinking More + Don’t Play Blue Eyes’ (MASTER TRAK) 1980

3. Alan Price Set – I Put a Spell on You (DECCA) 1966 – Alan Price Set

4. Andy Capp – Popatop + Reco – The Lion Speaks (TREASURE ISLAND) 1969

5. Anemic Boyfriends – Guys Are Not Proud + Bad Girls in Love (RED SWEATER) 1980

6. Ann Peebles – I Can’t Stand The Rain + I’ve Been There Before (LONDON) 

7. Anti-Social – Traffic Lights + Teacher, Teacher (DYNAMITE) 1977

8. Arthur K Adams – Wildwood Flower + It’s a Wild, Wild, Wild, Wild Wildwood Flower (JETSTAR)

9. Big Stick – Drag Racing + Hell on Earth (RECESS) 1985 

10. Bill Oddie – Harry Krishna + On Ilkla Moor Baht’at (DANDELION) 1970

11. Boards of Canada – Aquarius + Chinook (SKAM) 

12. Bobby Lee Trammell – If You Ever Get It Once + Don’t You Know I Love You (ALLEY)

13. Cat Power – Headlights + Darling Said Sir (THE MAKING OF AMERICANS) 

14. Charlie Feathers – Deep Elm Blues + Nobody’s Darlin’ (HOLIDAY INN) 

15. Charlie Feathers – Nobody’s Woman + When You Decide (KING) 2x copies 

17. Charlie Feathers – Today and Tomorrow + Wild Wild Party (MEMPHIS) 1961

18. Charlie Feathers – Tongue-Tied Jill + Get With It (METEOR) 

19. Charlie Feathers – When You Come Around + Too Much Alike (KING) 

Happy Birthday Nick Drake

Remembering Nick Drake on his day with a live version of River Man recorded for the John Peel show.

The Immortal Lee County Killers' 2003 Peel Session

Hear Chet Weise howl his fave Pussy Galore, Doors and Johnny Shines tunes at Maida Vale Studios.

Happy Birthday Captain Beefheart!

Check out the informative Captain Beefheart documentary voiced by John Peel below. 

Remembering John Peel on his day

John Peel's Record Box, Part 1



Part 2



Part 3



Part 4