Wild Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers - Step Out!

Album: Step Out!
Size: 85,8 MB
Time: 36:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2024
Styles: Blues/R&B/Rock mix
Art: Front

1. Step Out (2:31)
2. Fine And Mellow (3:52)
3. I Can Tell (3:27)
4. Beneath The Midnight Trees (3:00)
5. Rollin' And Tumblin' (2:35)
6. The Same Tree (4:09)
7. Upside Mine (2:36)
8. I Love My Woman (3:34)
9. I Just Want To Make Love To You (2:34)
10. King Bee (3:02)
11. Meet Me In The Bottom (3:05)
12. I've Got Everything Indeed (2:28)

Wild Billy Childish has been recording and performing since the 1977 punk explosion. The Pop Rivets, Thee Milkshakes, The Headcoats and The Buff Medways being just a few outfits that Billy has run into the ground. But all that is just a hobby gone out of control - his day job is being an internationally exhibited artist, writer and vermin poet.

Specialising in Chicago style Blues, The Chatham Singers have released five albums since 2005, via Hangman Records and Damaged Goods, and over a dozen 7” singles, some rarer than others, some worse than others. Here we have a full long player, which includes some of the songs from records only available as limited 45's, free at their sell-out shows. some of them recorded by The Hangman Field Recording Unit, and others at Bludy Jim's Ranscombe shack.

Personnel: Billy Childish (vocals, guitar); Juju (bass, vocals); Wolf Howard (drums, percussion); Jim Riley (harmonica).

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Wild Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers - Heaven's Journey

Size: 209 MB
Time: 48:50
File: Flac
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. The Man With the Gallows Eyes (2:58)
2. I Believe (3:26)
3. Heaven's Journey (2:25)
4. God's Rain (2:18)
5. I Cheated My Own Hart (2:19)
6. Burning and Drowning (3:16)
7. The Western Plains (2:19)
8. Ballad of a Lost Man (3:33)
9. A-Z of Your Heart (3:45)
10. The Billy Childish (1:07)
11. Huddie Poem (1:18)
12. The Man Who Thought He Would Never Be A Father (1:39)
13. It's the Poet's Job (0:31)
14. Ants, Moths & Picasso (0:53)
15. Tattoo (0:48)
16. The Last of My Childhood (1:26)
17. I Am An Angry Man (2:05)
18. The Wounded Poet (1:20)
19. I Am The Uncorrected (0:34)
20. Where Eccentrics Fear To Tread (0:45)
21. I Am Bathed In Forgiveness (0:38)
22. I Am Here To Build Jerrosolm (2:50)
23. I Am The Strange Hero Of Hunger (3:01)
24. Death Letter Blues (3:24)

Although playing and recording blues for over a quarter of a century, this is the first LP Mister Childish has made in this genre in for several years. As well as featuring great tunes, Heavens Journey also serves as a showcase for many new poems that have been recorded by this legendary painter, writer and musician. On this outing Billy is accompanied by his wife Julie on backing vocals and bass guitar. Julie is American by birth and her father’s family are free Blacks and Winyah Indians from North Carolina. On drums we have Billy’s friend Wolf, who has collaborated with Billy for the past 15 years, most notably with his ‘dustbin mod’ group The Buff Medways. Sitting in on Harp is ‘Bludy’ Jim, an old friend since the punk days. Heavens Journey’ is a great introduction to The Blues and poetry of Billy Childish and shows his versatility and unique position in writing and music: An anachronism who is forever influencing the world of contemporary art and music. As ever, these recordings are sophisticated, homemade and primitive, which Billy explains is ‘the only way to connect with the heart. Heaven’s Journey certainly achieves that in spades.

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Wild Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers - Kings Of The Medway Delta

Year: 2020
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:10
Size: 84,5 MB
Styles: Electric blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Front

1. The Good Times Are Killing Me (2:46)
2. Got Love If You Want It (3:04)
3. Main Line (4:03)
4. When I Was A Cowboy (Out On The Western Plains) (2:34)
5. All My Feelings Denied (2:53)
6. Ranscombe Farm Boogie (3:05)
7. Wiley Coyote (4:08)
8. The Double Axe (2:46)
9. Why Did I Destroy Our Love (2:25)
10. My Love For You (2:24)
11. What's Wrong With Me (2:39)
12. You Wonder Why I'm Hurting (3:18)

The first Damaged Goods release of 2020 is a brand new album featuring Wild Billy and his regular cohorts Nurse Julie and Wolf Howard. It's the third album they've released as The Chatham Singers and features twelve tracks of gritty Chess Studio style blues with Billy on great vocal and lyrical form throughout.

Personnel: Billy Childish (vocals, guitar); Nurse Julie (vocals, bass); Wolf Howard (drums); Jim Riley (harmonica).

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