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Scott Fagan

Marc Riley is joined by singer-songwriter Scott Fagan, who plays his debut 6 Music session.

Scott Fagan joins Marc Riley for his debut session on 6 music, a moment he's only been working up to for 48 years.

Originally released on ATCO in November 1968, singer-songwriter Scott Fagan's bewitching debut album, South Atlantic Blues, is an epic song cycle about Fagan's hard-scrabble life in the Virgin Islands. He was raised and lived there until he was 19 when he returned to his birthplace, New York City.

That Scott Fagan never became a major star is mystifying. That even cult success eluded him is all the more surprising. But he's not going to get away from Marc that easy.

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Wed 12 Oct 201619:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Television Personalities

    Part Time Punks

    • Universal.

  • Boys Forever

    Poisonous

    • Amour Foo.

  • Osees

    You Will Find It Here

  • Parquet Courts

    Light Up Gold /Outside (6 Music session for Marc Riley 101016)

  • Scott Fagan

    South Atlantic Blues

  • Lou Reed

    Caroline Says I

    • Berlin.
    • BMG Entertainment.

  • TOY

    I'm Still Believing

    • Heavenly.

  • Omni

    Plane

    • Deluxe.
    • Trouble In Mind.

  • Scott Fagan

    Tenement Halls

  • Scott Fagan

    Crystal Ball

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Dynamite!

    • Life.
    • Sony.
    • 001.

  • The Blind Shake

    Reasonable World

    • Celebrate Your Worth.
    • Goner.

  • XTC

    When You’re Near Me I Have Difficulty (Radio 1, David Jensen Session, 31 May 1979)

  • The Dean Ween Group

    Exercise Man

    • The Deaner album.
    • Schnitzel Records.

  • Scott Fagan

    Please Be Well

  • Half Man Half Biscuit

    Secret Gig

    • Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral.
    • Probe Plus.
    • 009.

  • Ultrasound

    Asylum

    • Real Britannia.
    • CAC.

  • Queen

    Doing Alright (John Peel session 05/02/1973)

  • The Jesus and Mary Chain

    Never Understand (John Peel session 23.10.1984)

  • The Damned

    Neat, Neat, Neat

    • BIG BEAT.

Broadcast

  • Wed 12 Oct 201619:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music

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