Episodes

  • ANDY KERSHAW PODCAST 29 – SHORT (FREE) VERSION
    Apr 12 2024

    This is the free-for-all version, featuring Rik Lord, the most talented guitarist ever to be discovered busking outside a Todmorden supermarket, plus a crafted collection of magnificent music for you to fall in love with.

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    55 mins
  • ANDY KERSHAW PODCAST 28 – SHORT (FREE) VERSION
    Feb 25 2024

    This is the free-for-all version, featuring a kitchen session with Leeds rockers The Burner Band. We’ve got boogie, country, Africana, Americana, folk, soul and gospel. Warning: this podcast is addictive.

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Andy Kershaw Podcast 27 – short (free) version
    Dec 22 2023

    This is the free-for-all version, featuring folk music royalty Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden, playing songs from their new album of wassailing wonderments and telling stories. Plus lots of tracks I hope you’ve never heard before but will love for ever more.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • ANDY KERSHAW PODCAST 26 FREE VERSION
    Dec 5 2023

    This is the free-for-all version, featuring my brand-new kitchen session with Martin Stephenson (plus one Daintee) and some of the greatest cover-versions you’ll ever hear. The Rolling Stones sing the Temptations, while the Persuasions sing the Impressions. You are invited to marvel at the segues.

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    59 mins
  • ANDY KERSHAW PODCAST 25 - FREE VERSION
    Oct 5 2023

    This is the free-for-all version, featuring part one of my tribute to my friend Brendan Croker, who died last month. I’m sharing a session I recorded in 1998 with Brendan and his fellow Notting Hillbilly Steve Phillips.

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    58 mins
  • ANDY KERSHAW PODCAST 24 - PART ONE
    Aug 14 2023

    This is the free-for-all, sixty-minute version in which I dig out a rare Richard Thompson recording that will blow your socks off, and ask whether anyone ever played Springsteen better than Bruce (I have a candidate for your consideration). Lots more to entice and delight, but just wait until you hear…

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • ANDY KERSHAW PLAYS SOME BLOODY GREAT RECORDS - PODCAST 23
    Jul 16 2023

    This is the free-for-all, sixty-minute version. Among other jewels, you’ll hear part of my 1990 session recording with The Jolly Boys from Port Antonio, Jamaica – and I’m hoping you’ll want more. Founded in 1945, this mento combo may be the longest-lasting little band in the world - only the line-up has changed!  Go to www.andykershaw.co.uk, chip in a few quid and become a patron to hear the full two hour version of this podcast.

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    1 hr
  • ANDY KERSHAW PLAYS SOME BLOODY GREAT RECORDS - PODCAST 22
    May 10 2023

    Come with us from the Dark End of the Street to the Bright Side of the Road, by way of Kenya and Kentucky, the Congo and the Caribbean. This show features some of the crown jewels of the Kershaw vinyl collection that’s just out of storage and now stashed on brand-new shelves (thank you crowd-funders). And there are obituary tributes to Tshala Muana and Gordon Lightfoot.  Visit https://andykershaw.co.uk  for play-lists and to get in touch, make a donation or become a sponsor.

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    1 hr and 58 mins