It’s Rockin The Blooze Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! … part 8

It’s nearly here!

I’m getting all excited.

Within the parameters of being me, I’ve been surprisingly good this year. Still sober, only a handful of fist fights, beatdowns only dispensed after careful thought, only outed one Irishman against his will.

And, of course, I’ve been ludicrously generous with spreading Christmas cheer, here at GHMI. Something that continues today with erstwhile Sheryl Crow guitarist, now unreconstructed bloozeman, Todd Wolfe. Yes, Wolfe. A proper name for a bloozeman. And a name shared with that Great British Hero, General James Wolfe.

Now, I’m using hero in it’s old fashioned sense, when it meant to do something heroic, in this case kicking the French armys arse at Quebec, sending them off to pout, preen and prepare for collaboration, while giving the Canadians the greatest gift of all. Great British rule.

This is not to be confused with the modern day “hero”, which seems to entail cycling faster than other cyclists aka “a Hoy”. This was formerly known as doing your job properly.

Back to Todd Wolfe, praise be for his fine Christmas tune, and an excuse to run a picture of Sheryl Crow.

Listen to ‘Merry X-mas Baby’ here.

Come Christmas Day, I’ll be broadcasting Christmas joy to the world on GRTR between 8 and 10pm GMT, and broadcasting Christmas Blues to the world on Boxing Day.

Should be good.

Mungo! Mungo! Mungo!

Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Cliff Richard. What do they all have in common? Well, several things, actually, but the two main ones are knighthoods and shameful recording histories.

So, working on the principle that being old and useless gets you a knighthood, then why on Earth hasn’t there been a peerage, at the very least, for Lord Mungo of Jerry. Yes, Mungo Jerry. One of the finest seventies artistes, now sadly written off as a one hit wonder. Which he wasn’t. There were at least two.

Facts: Mungo Jerry started off life as a folk singer in the sixties trio, Mary, Mungo & Midge, a technicolour UK answer to Peter, Paul and Mary. However, having fallen on hard times, Mungo found himself sleeping rough and trying to sook the final drops of liquor out of a whisky bottle.

Luckily for him, an evil music mogul happened to have stopped on his way home from work, planning to set fire to a few tramps. Just for fun. But he found himself oddly transfixed by the music emanating from Mungos empty bottle. Scooping him into his limousine, he pleasured himself all the way back to the recording studio, where he locked Mungo away for months on end, conjuring hit after hit after hit.

Due to a rare form of alopecia, and lacking shaving equipment, when Mungo Jerry emerged into the light, his mutton chops had grown to remarkable levels, and with no time to spare before his first Top of The Pops appearance, a new craze was born. Even a primary school Mr H, lovingly cut out the “MungoChops” from his copy of Look-In, wearing them proudly.

Sadly for Mungo, the British music industry is a fickle mistress, and they soon traded him to Germany in exchange for Kevin Keegans recording contract, and he’s been marooned there ever since. However, we here at GHMI remember the majesty of Mungo Jerry, and today we bring you three choice slabs.

Snakebite
Hello Nadine
Alright Alright Alright

You can get a 40 track double Best Of CD for a fiver here.

Watch some prime Mungo below;

Damn right I got the BLOOZE

Having spent a very pleasant evening interviewing the legendary GUITAR SHORTY, I am now playing nuthin but the BLOOZE.

I may be a white boy of Viking ancestry, but my folks suffered too. They created ME! Boom and boom. And I’ve just as much right to play the blues as that Irish fella with the face like a welders bench. Gary Moore. Or the suburban boreathon. Eric Clapton. But seriously folks, there is nothing like the blues played to perfection. And Mr GUITAR SHORTY does that. 70 years young and he’ll still whip your ass.

And here he is with Mr Otis Grand on the aptly named “Blues Guitar Duels” playing ‘Kick Out’. Now are you ready to TESTIFY! I said are you ready to TESTIFY! Well I bring to you a TESTIMONIAL!

You can STEAL the mp3 HERE! Or go have a LISTEN here.

You can buy the album here. Or even better, go buy Mr GUITAR SHORTYs latest album here.