Pig River Records: Archive

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Sam Cooke - Bring It On Home To Me →

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The Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari 50th anniversary... →

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New website covering 50 years of music history!

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Pig River Radio player update

We have just added 100 new tracks to Pig River Radio. Here’s the full tracklisting Alton & Jimmy – No More Crying The Blues The Anglin Brothers – Money Cannot Buy Your Soul Barbara George – I Know (You Don’t Love Me) Barry Mann – Who Put The Bomp The Beach Boys – Surfin’ The Beatles – Till There Was You Ben E. King – Spanish Harlem Bessie Smith – Careless Love Billy Riley – Rock...

Apr 24th

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Howlin' Wolf - The Rockin' Chair Album (Record...

Howlin’ Wolf’s self titled second album, which has come to be known as ‘The Rockin’ Chair Album’, was originally released by Chess Records as a collection of 6 singles recorded between 1960 and 1962 and since then it has taken on a life of it’s own and become arguably Howlin’ Wolf’s best known and best loved album. This is curious considering that the album was not originally released as an album...

Feb 14th

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Washington Phillips - What Are They Doing In...

Washington Phillips was a Texan gospel singer who recorded the tracks that would go on to make up ‘What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?’ between 1927-1929, however it was not until 2005 that these tracks were brought together as an album and released by Mississippi Records as such. Since the release of this record Phillips has gone from relative obscurity to something of a deserved cult figure...

Feb 14th

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Sam Cooke - Sam Cooke LP (1957 Record Review)

If you had your hands on the wheel you’d realise the road is wrapping around the edges in front of us, but you like the way the wheel is turning itself. We’ve both agreed that ‘gay paris’ is sometimes relevant but that neither of us would ever say it. White leather interiors and aqua exteriors up on the cliffs above the ocean, it’s a convertible and that’s even okay, ‘Danny Boy’ is playing now...

Feb 14th

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Chuck Berry - Twist LP (Record Review)

Chuck Berry’s ‘Twist’ is a greatest hits/cash in on the twist phenomenon record – which sounds like a recipe for a slow death, but in this case that couldn’t be further from the truth. Instead we find the best offerings from an artist that helped shape an entire genre all on the one record and in an order that feels like a natural track list progression rather than falling into the common trap of...

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Nina Simone - At The Village Gate (Record Review)

Late in 1961 Nina Simone stepped onto the stage at the Village Gate in New York City and blew the roof off the place with one of the finest live shows ever captured on record. In many respects however it would be narrow to simply say that this was just a great performance delivered by an earth shatteringly brilliant talent, which it most certainly was, but it was also so much more important than...

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