Mike Engles recorded radio sessions at the BBC for almost 40 years. He’s picked his top 10 favourite sessions and, amaziningly James Summerfield’s old Band ‘Buick 6′, later ‘The Toques) made it into the list!
The band were: Anna Russell, Campbell Docherty, Phil Robinson, and Craig Hamilton (all now Friends of the Stars). We had help from Jez Ince, Simon J Alpin (Willard Grant Conspiricy) and Julian Wilson (Grand Drive) , and the session was recorded on 18/08/2002.
Engles said; “This was one of the last Peel sessions I recorded. It was a good way to ‘go out’ as I really enjoyed the session. They did four songs, all of them quite different. They had drums, bass, acoustic steel guitar, keyboards and a string section. It certainly was not the usual drums bass guitar thrash. They did a country style version of the Black Crowes song Jealous Again. I like the Black Crowes. Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed is an arrangement of an old Blues Gospel song, again not a bad thing to my mind”.
Follow this link for more….. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcmusic/2009/11/my_top_10_maida_vale_sessions.html
