Oxfam Friday - Barn Owl, Charlie Parr and The Duritti Column

Doing a Friday morning shift at the shop, which was a welcome tonic after another week of college work, I was upstairs and played a few freebee's I had lying around Chez Lemon.

Although the best was the old blues album, with the usual haunting track by Robert Johnson, the most interesting was Strange Brew, with tracks by Barn Owl (The Long Shadow) and Charlie Parr. I couldn't find a decent video of the track I listened to (Jesus is a Hobo) on Youtube, but I found this instead which is pretty good.

I also listened to The Durutti Column, a Manchester post-punk band that never got the same recognition as New Order or The Smiths. This has got Johnny Marr in there somewhere: