MPFREE EP & FRIDAY DADVENT: 8TH DECEMBER 2011

To tie in with the Davent thang Lauren's running across the blog, today's dad is not only today's Dadvent, but also the MPFree EP artwork. The photo is a cracker, and the story of the man is even better. More on that later....

Meanwhile, there's some more big names on the EP this week; Mark Lanagan, Caitlin Rose, School of Seven Bells - all for free! Lucky dogs.

Sticking with that trend, your final free download comes from Tim Wheeler & Emmy The Great's Christmas album. The track is called Christmas Day (I Wish I Was Surfing) and don't forget that Tim and Emmy are in session for Lauren on the 15th.

Right then, to the Dadvent/EP artwork photo. Today's comes from Corin Jeavons who writes: "This is my Dad Trevor in Isle Of White Festival 1970(ish?) mode! He was an Art teacher and Deputy Head, later a Head Teacher, but always very creative and a walking encyclopedia of popular music.

"He has always been a legend, not just to his own kids, but to all who know him! He's the coolest boogie-woogie pianist this side of the Atlantic, but could've been the coolest blues pianist in the states too, if only he'd not left his band in London, Savoy Browne, just weeks before they got a record contract and were shipped off to the states to become nearly as big as The Rolling Stones! The band rehearsals were keeping him away from home too much! He even went to school with Jagger and Richards, and his school jazz band were bigger locally than those Stones boys' (for a while)!

He used to be very jealous of the local lad David Jones, as at the tender age of 19, this Jones boy owned the trendy local Jazz club! Then he went on to change his name to Bowie! My Dad's work with kids continued after early retirement when he became a pioneer in the field of Child Art Therapy and Psychotherapy! One clever boogie-in' dude!"

Just epic. Check him out:

Your tracks are:

Alpines And Maya Jane Coles - Why

Caitlin Rose & Keegan DeWitt - You Never Come Home For Christmas

School Of Seven Bells - The Night

The Mark Lanegan Band - The Gravedigger's Song

Tim Wheeler & Emmy The Great - Christmas Day (I Wish I Was Surfing)

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