Playlist 07.06.10

Righteous Records put out releases that are mostly satisfying and deep. They compile old murder ballads and new gospel songs. They resurrect the pain and clamour of the honky tonks and sometimes voyage into barmy jazz degrees. The packaging and the attitude recall the verve of those old Harry Smith collections and I'd say that might be intentional.

In the middle of this project it is a chap called Dave Henderson. I first contacted him about Hit magazine in 1985 and we shuffled about the media haunts of Mornington Crescent for much of that decade. Dave was one of the first to see a durable community in indie music. Now he compiles cover mount CDs for Mojo magazine and as I understand it, Dave's radio shows for Mojo made the case for this new label.

'Radiogram: 24 Songs That Inspired The Teenage Gram Parsons' is a perfectly simple riff. It's an attempt to recreate the music that drifted across the airwaves of Waycross, Georgia back in the '50s. Gram came from a prosperous but very dysfunctional family, and seemed to find solace in these simple tunes about love, abandonment and deliverance. The songs would serve him well in The International Submarine Band, The Byrds and in his compelling solo records. And therefore without much fanfare, a whole creative awakening is provided.

In turn, Gram would bring life to tired old rock music, putting a direct line into Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones, 'Sticky Fingers' and 'Exile On Main Street'. Here's where it all comes from.

STUART BAILIE

BBC Radio Ulster, 92-95 FM

Online: www.bbc.co.uk/radioulster

Mondays, ten - midnight

Playlist 07.06.10

Aztec Camera - Somewhere In My Heart (Warner)

Band Of Horses - NW Apartment (Columbia)

Colenso Parade - Find Your Mother (white)

Johnny Flynn - Agnes (Transgressive)

Harry Nilsson - One (RCA)

Harry Nilsson - 1941 (RCA)

Harry Nilsson - Cuddly Toy (RCA)

Harry Nilsson - Coconut (RCA)

Grosvenor - Dan (Lo)

The Coral - 1000 Years (Deltasonic)

Love - Orange Skies (Elektra)

More Than Conquerors - A Crooked Old World (white)

Patti Smith - Because The Night (live) (BBC)

John Hartford - Gentle On My Mind (Rounder)

Duke Special - River Chanty (Reel To Reel)

Olof Arnalds - Innudir Skinni (One little Indian)

Band Of Horses - Factory (live)

Leon Payne - Crazy Arms (Righteous)

Glen Hansard - High Hope (Elevation)

Tibby Edwards - But I Do (Righteous)

Gayngs - No Sweat (Jagaguar)

Gentry Morris - Sweet Anne Marie (white)

Villages - Ship Of Promises (Domino)

John Hartford - In Tall Buildings (Rounder)

Grasscut - The Tin Man (Ninja Tune)

Jagga Jazzist - One Armed Bandiot (Ninja Tune)