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Old Fruit 15th August 2025
Donovan – Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness) This edition of Old Fruit is jumping back sixty years for half a dozen nuggets with maximum nineteen sixty five-ity! First up is Donovan, playing a song that sixty years later is also the opening track on the new Robert Plant and Saving Grace album. Plant has acknowledged… Read more
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Fresh Juice 11th August 2025
Dodie – Old Devil Moon This weeks Fresh Juice is like a visit to the Jazz Club with half a dozen new offerings from the cool world of vibes, improvisation and musical excellence. First up is a cover version by Dodie who might just feel like two worlds colliding with her current career trajectory. She… Read more
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August 2025 Playlist
Following Friday’s Old Fruit feature that used the TV re-broadcast of 1985’s Live Aid concert from England and the USA as a launchpad for those retro film clips, I have additional reflections on that famous day’s concert. As highlighted with my comments on Dire Straits, there was some inevitable wiser head re-evaluating of other big… Read more
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Old Fruit 1st August 2025
Dire Straits & Sting – Money For Nothing This weeks retro half dozen is inspired by my recent re-watching of the July 1985 Live Aid concert on the BBC, who re-broadcast over eight hours of a highlights package. It reminded me of how, after that show, for the following seven years or so the British… Read more
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Fresh Juice 28th July 2025
Anoushka Shankar – New Dawn The music of this sitar master has evolved into a thing of vibrant grace, she can simultaneously evoke Indian tradition with a looping hypnotism that references electronica and flashes of western melodics. This is a performance of the closing track on the second in a trilogy of mini-albums Anoushka has… Read more
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Old Fruit 25th July 2025
Jo Rose – I’m Yr Kamera For this weeks dive into some selections and recommendations from the past I thought I would go back and see what Fruit Tree Records were causing a stir exactly ten years ago this month. Jo Rose had come to my attention at the time, a crazily gifted singer-songwriter from… Read more
