Pete McCarthy
McCarthy's Pub

Levon Helm with Stephen Davis
This Wheel's On Fire

Harpo Marx with Rowland Barber
Harpo Speaks!

John Goldrosen
Buddy Holly: His Life & Music
also published as The Buddy Holly Story

Peter Guralnick
Feel Like Going Home
Sweet Soul Music
Last Train To Memphis
Careless Love

          Nick Tosches
          Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story
          Sonny and The Devil
          Dino
                     William Gay
                     Provinces Of Night
                     The Long Home

Alfred Wertheimer
Elvis '56: In The Beginning

Timothy White
Catch A Fire, The Life of Bob Marley

Flann O'Brien
The Third Policeman
At Swim Two Birds

H E Bates
The Darling Buds of May, & all the other Larkins books

Elmore Leonard
Get Shorty
Out Of Sight
Be Cool
Cuba Libre
Maximum Bob
Gold Coast
Pagan Babies
Tishomingo Blues (Many thanks to Karen Monster)

David Greenberger
Duplex Planet

Colin Escott & Karen Florita
Hank Williams - Snapshots From The Lost Highway

 

Scrappy Jud Newcomb
Byzantine

        Chico Cesar
        Aos Vivos - his first album
        Chico Cesar - Brilliant! - you have to hear this fantastic artist

     Booker T & The MG's
     Green Onions
     Soul Dressing
     Stax Instrumentals (2002 release on Ace Records in the UK)

    Billy Preston
    The Most Exciting Organ Ever!
    Wildest Organ In Town!

  Little Walter
  Boss Blues Harmonica

 Naz Nomad and The Nightmares

Hank Williams
40 Greatest Hits

Thelonious Monk
Monk's Moods (later retitled The High Priest)

Muddy Waters
Live at Newport 1960

Otis Redding
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Faces
Five guys walk into a bar... (I couldn't resist it)

Gurf Morlix
Cut 'N Shoot - his best yet
Fishin' In The Muddy
The Toad of Titicaca
Diamonds to Dust - Now we're talkin!

Ray Charles
Look out for his Atlantic box set of recordings from 1952 -1959. I love the early
Atlantic sounds because of their earthiness and the later ABC Paramount stuff
for the soulfull smoothness, but basically anything he does is fine with me. He
played in Austin, Texas on 5/19/01 and IT WAS absolutely spine chilling.

Jackie Mittoo
2 CD Tribute

 

Most of these are older films I've seen many times. I never seem to get to the movies these days.....

The Killers, 1964
Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager
Angie Dickinson, Claude Akins
Seymour Cassel & Ronald Reagan.
Lee Marvin at his chillingly, cool best.

        Point Blank, 1967
        Lee Marvin with Angie Dickinson again!

Bullit, 1968
Steve McQueen
Directed by Peter Yates
Music by Lalo Schifrin

The Maltese Falcon, 1941
High Sierra, 1941
Casablanca, 1942
The Big Sleep, 1946
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1947
Key Largo, 1948
The African Queen, 1952
Humphrey Bogart

Cape Fear, 1962
Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck

Jailhouse Rock, 1957
Elvis Presley

Groundhog Day, 1993
Directed by Harold Ramis
Bill Murray, Annie McDowell, Chris Elliott

The Coconuts, 1929
Animal Crackers, 1930
Monkey Business, 1931
Horse Feathers, 1932
Duck Soup, 1933
A Night At The Opera, 1935
A Day At The Races, 1937
Room Service, 1938
At The Circus, 1939
The Big Store, 1941
The Marx Bros made 13 movies, and I love at least 10 of them!

Give Daddy The Knife, Cindy
An all time favourite

The Wild Bunch, 1969
Directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Stephen Speilberg, eat your heart out.

One Eyed Jacks, 1961
Marlon Brando, who also directed

This Happy Breed, 1944
Directed by Noel Coward
Robert Newton, Celia Johnson
Stanley Holloway & John Mills

A New Leaf, 1971
Walter Matthau and Elaine May, who also directed.

Get Shorty, 1995
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Gene Hackman, John Travola
Rene Russo & Danny DeVito

                                                Waking Ned Devine, 1998
                                                A great cast of characters, not least is my brother-in-law,
                                                Dermot Kerrigan, who plays the priest.

Shawshank Redemption
Morgan Freeman & Tim Robbins

Rushmore
Ooh La La!

The Fast Show (UK) Brilliant (US)
Paul Whitehouse is brilliant

Boston Legal


        Cracker
        Not the USA one, the Robbie Coltrane original

          Maximum Bob
          starring Beau Bridges

Vicar of Dibley

Austin City Limits
starring Lucinda Williams and Billy Bragg aired in 1999
Bonnie Raitt, early '80s
John Fogarty '05?
Patty Griffin and her great band - '04 Brilliant!

Father Ted