Friends,

After a break of a couple of years Adastra in the UK are formally booking solo acoustic troubadour solos for me again. Indeed, I am gonna be pursuing this worldwide while we work on the next Coal Porters album (with John Wood, the legendary engineer of Beth Orton, Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd et al).

Check out http://www.adastra-music.co.uk if you have time!

Arguably the most influential and long-lasting release of Sid Griffin’s career Native Sons is now re-released with the entire 10-5-6- EP added as well as three tracks fromt the abandoned 5 By 5 sessions at A&M Studios, the Long Ryders’ first three demos and the B-side Close To The Light, a completely different mix to the LP version. This is the LP which kickstarted Americana and put the “alt” into Alt-Country!

Final Wild Son/ Still Get By/ Ivory Tower/ Run Dusty Run/ (Sweet) Mental Revenge/ Fair Game/ Tell It To The Judge On Sunday/ Wreck Of The 809/ Too Close To The Light/ Never Got To Meet Her/ I Had A Dream/ Join My Gang (first of sixfrom tracks 10-5-60 EP)/ You Don’t Know What’s Right, You Don’t Know What’s Wrong/ 10-5-60/ Born To Believe In You/ The Trip/ And She Rides/ Time Keeps Travelling (first of three tracks from abandoned “5 by 5″ sessions) / I Can’t Hide/ Masters Of War/ Still Get By ( first of three tracks Radio Tokyo sessions, 1983) / 10-5-60/ And She Rides/ Too Close To The Light (b-side mix, UK only)

You can buy it here on sidgriffin.com via the links below or in the Sid Griffin Store with a host of other Prima Records releases.

“One of history’s unjustly neglected groups, the Long Ryders sprang from LA’s Paisley Underground scene and quickly moved from neo-psychedelia to a tough form of country rock. This Waylong Jennings cover from their debut full-length, Native Sons, is (newly reissued) alt-country before alt-country existed.”
Michael Hann, The Guardian

Buy it now:

£10 including P&P (UK customers)

£11 including P&P (Rest of world)

You can also buy Native Sons via amazon.co.uk or amazon.com and you can now also download Long Ryders releases on iTunes.

The tracklisting is as follows:
1) NPR intro
2) Let’s Say Goodbye (Like We Said Hello)
3) No More Chains
4) interview with Sid and Neil
5) Pike County Breakdown
6) Flying South
7) interview segment
8) A Light From The Mountains
9) They’re Burnin’ Down The House
10) DJ reads out recording specs (!)
11) Roadkill Breakdown
12) interview with John Breese, banjo
13) Closing Time Genius
14) Sail Away, Ladies!
15) interview with Sid
16) Final Wild Son
17) How Mountain Girls Can Love
18) Midnight Moonlight
19) interview with Carly Frey
20) New Cut Road
21) radio outro

The circus was documented in the film Renaldo and Clara, the live album Hard Rain, and a TV concert special of the same name, while in between the two legs of the tour Dylan released the classic Desire album. It is this period of heightened creativity and personal drama that Dylan-authority, author, and musician Sid Griffin examines in Shelter from the Storm.

Interviewing many of the tour’s participants including musicians Roger McGuinn, T-Bone Burnett, Kinky Friedman, Arlo Guthrie, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and tour manager Louie Kemp, Griffin mixes meticulous musical analysis into a gripping narrative in this definitive account the Rolling Thunder years.

Shelter From The Storm is in bookstores in the USA and Europe Now!

Order now from amazon.co.uk or amazon.com

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Still only £6 including p&p for UK, £7 for rest of the world.

Front and Back print on a Gildan Ultra Cotton Shirt. Sizes still availible: Small and XL.

Now sold out.

Kelham Island Brewery – The Coal Porters Porter

If you’ve enjoyed a pint of ‘The Coal Porters’ from Kelham Island Brewery then why not reward yourself with one of the official Coal Porters T-shirts;

Introductory Offer! £6 including p&p for UK, £7 for rest of the world.

Front and Back print on a Gildan Ultra Cotton Shirt. Sizes availible: Small, Medium, Large and XL.

Click here to buy one today.

In other recent Yorkshire news here is a review of The Coal Porters recent show at the Pocklington Arts Centre.