The Headpress Tarantella! youtube playlist. Folk music of the Italian south (and one or two numbers from outside of it). Listen and then buy the book Mezzogiorno. Life. Death. Southern Italy by David Kerekes here»

“Beneath Contempt is an amazingly well written and researched biography of a man so loathsome that even I am appalled.”JOHN WATERS

AL GOLDSTEIN is Beneath Contempt and happy to be there

"Charles Shaar Murray's The Hellhound Sample is a very enjoyable story of the life and times of how the blues emerged and filtered across to Blighty in the early sixties... He then brings it into the present and mixes it all up with humorous insight into the workings of the present black R&B/Rap music scene in the US. A must-read..."
PHIL  MANZANERA, Roxy Music guitarist