Podcast Episode Summary
Grinderswitch – Pickin’ The Blues
Really not been a lot of activity on this blog recently – many apologies for that. People have surely been very busy out there.
Now I know all you speed jocks out there could do with some mid-tempo, mid-seventies Southern rock, so here’s the old John Peel show theme tune. Over 5 years now since John left us… just so sad.
I knew from somewhere long ago that this was by Grinderswitch but I had no idea who or what the hell Grinderswitch was. It sounded like a sort of new wave/punk name for a band but in fact I was looking in completely the wrong place. Turns out they were from Georgia (the US state, not the country) and very much an early seventies straight-up southern rock outfit… kind of the Jimmy Carters of the US rock scene.
I got reacquainted with ‘Pickin’ The Blues’ when a compilation called “Straight Southern Rock” (Capricorn Records, 1976) turned up in a local charity shop along with several other 70s classics by the likes of Golden Earring. It’s the kind of record that should be listened to with a large glass of Maker’s Mark in hand, with several slabs of ice. Which is just fine…
That compilation had about 3 Grinderswitch tracks on it. I don’t think these guys have been re-released on CD in the UK (I don’t even think that much of their stuff was out on vinyl in the UK in the first place) but fortunately that inexhaustible repository of the weird, wonderful and deleted, emusic, has the entire back catalogue available for download. Enjoy.
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