In which Ginger Baldy loses his beans, learns the Bacon Fat and loses out to a Red Cadillac.

1. Rock Granny Roll - Hank Ballard

2. Slow Twistin’ - Chubby Checker & Dee Dee Sharp

3. Bacon Fat - Andre Williams

4. Diddybop - The Valaquans

5. Cops & Robbers - Bo Diddley

6. Leader Of The Pack - The Shangri-Las (This month’s death song)

7. Song To The Siren - Tim Buckley

8. Carry On You Fishermen - Harbottle & Jonas

9. Alabama Blues - Elmore Nixon with Henry Hayes & His 4 Kings

10. Alabama Blues - J. B. Lenoir

11. Women And Cadillacs - Doc Starkes & The Nite Riders

12. Red Cadillac And A Black Moustache - Warren Smith

13. I Should’ve Spoke Up - The James Hunter Six

14. Yeh Yeh - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames (This month’s earworm)

15. Naked If I Want To - (The band who blew it big time. All will be revealed in episode 50)

Theme song: Small Town Talk - Bobby Charles (1972)

HE SAID, “DIG DADDY, THIS IS A NATURAL FACT

IT’S A-SWEEPING THE SOUTH, THAT THING, THE BACON FAT”

YOU GO,

DIDDLEY, DIDDLEY, DIDDLEY, DIDDLEY, DIDDLEY, DIDDLEY, DIDDLEY, DIDDLEY, BOP, BOP - BOP, BOP

AND THEN YOU GO

DIDDLEY, DIDDLEY, DIDDLEY, DIDDLEY, DIDDLEY, DIDDLEY, DIDDLEY, DIDDLEY, BOP, BOP - BOP, BOP

Bacon Fat - Andre Williams 1956

For Tim Buckley’s performance of Song To The Siren on the last ever Monkees’ show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaa22Ulitds

"The legendary Harbottle and Jonas... incredible" – Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music.

Check out the Wild Goose launch gigs - they may be near you! Find the amazing Harbottle and Jonas at:

https://www.harbottleandjonas.com/

Any body listening to Small town Talk in the USA, check out James Hunter, Britains finest Soul singer. He’s touring the States all year. For those in the UK, find those four gigs in the first half of July:

https://www.jameshuntermusic.com/

Not just the best reissue record label, but the very best record company in the world:

https://www.acerecords.co.uk/

After warming your ears here at Small Town Talk, get yourself over to our sister show, Johnny Corsair’s podcast, Bright Lights Big City. He’s giving away the brand new Ace release, Candi Staton’s Fame album. Choose either Vinyl or CD!

https://johnnycorsair9.podbean.com/

And to get further information and musings on this podcast or my music collection, email me at smalltowntalkrecords@gmail.com

Episode 49 Illustration: Ginger Baldy gets bacon fat all over this month’s playlist.