PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit 166 – Jail Guitar Doors

Strange Fruit is a unique two-hour radio show exploring the world of underground, strange and generally neglected music. All shows are themed and all shows set out to give the most hardened of sound-hounds some new delight to sample. The show is also unique in providing homework for undergraduate students on North West Kent College’s Foundation Degree in Professional Writing (who dig up many of the odd facts featured in the links between tracks). The show is broadcast on Miskin Radio every Sunday from 10-00-midnight. Every other week the show is now presented by Jeremy Smith and as the two promotional pictures that he sent consisted as one of him covered in mud and the other of him covered in guinea pigs he is obviously mad as a bagful of cheese, which means he will fit in here just fine!

He writes: I’ve been a huge music fan ever since my parents bought me a transistor radio and I would listen to the sixties pirate music stations at nights under the covers. This love of live music has stayed with me to this day and I still love standing in a small club like the Borderline in London with some mates and watching a band with a pint in my hand. With the Strange Fruit radio show, I want to continue the trend of doing themed shows and playing the music I love.

Strange Fruit 166 – Jail Guitar Doors

 

Crime and Punishment Part 2: Songs of Retribution or Jailbirds' Laments 

 

Featured Album:  Hot Tuna: The Chance New Jersey, 30th June 1990

 

Tracks: 

1  The Only Ones: Prisoners

2  Yo La Tengo: Stockholm Syndrome

3  The Kinks: Holloway Jail

4  The Clash: Jail Guitar Doors

5  Jackie Leven: Men in Prison

6  Hot Tuna: Fulsom Prison Blues

7  Johnny Cash: I Got Stripes

8  Johnny Cash: Cocaine Blues

9  Johnny Cash: 25 Minutes to Go

10  Punishment of Luxury: Funghi

11  The Blues Brothers: Jailhouse Rock

12  Leadbelly: The Gallis Pole

13  The Stone Roses: She Bangs the Drum

14  Bessie Smith: Send me to the Electric Chair

15  The Stranglers: Don't Bring Harry

16  Devo: Whip It

17  Wayne Kramer: Ramblin' Rose

18  Merle Haggard: Mama Tried

19  The Long Ryders: Prisoners of Rock'n'Roll

20  Chickasaw Mudd Puppies: Prison

21  Hot Tuna: Embryonic Journey

22  Hot Tuna: Parchmen Farm

23  The Dum Dum Girls: Jail La La

24  Love: My Little Red Book

25  The Allman Brothers Band: Whippin' Post

26  The Byrds: Sing Me Back Home