The Andy Kershaw Podcast

The Jaywalkers sound as though they come from Knob Lick, Kentucky. In fact this talented bluegrass trio comes from Frodsham, just off the M56. You’ll want to put their kitchen session through loudspeakers next time you have a barbecue. In fact, play the whole podcast, which zooms around from Memphis to Mali and from Jamaica to Hebden Bridge.

If the New Orleans demigod Professor Longhair had played guitar instead of piano and his voice had sounded like a cross between Lyle Lovett and Lowell George, he would have been a dead ringer for Greg Brice, my kitchen session guest in this podcast. This is the free-for-all version featuring the usual mix of Americana, Africana and all-round kicks in the earhole.

This is the free-for-all version featuring the most thronged kitchen yet. We’re thrilled to have Martin Stephenson and five other members of Newcastle's Jumpin' Hot Club Revue, led by Shipcote who founded it forty years ago. So many kinds of music you love, played live, with the famous Kershaw record collection to fill in the rest.

Prepare to be impressed by singer-guitarist Gus Glynn who gives us a stunning kitchen session. This is the free-for-all version, featuring everything from Little Milton to Sierra Leone ska.

Thanks for waiting! I’m back with a stunning show, featuring the Liverpudlian maestro of the weirdly-tuned guitar, James Rigby.  This is the free-for-all version, including my tribute to Garth Hudson, and some lovable sounds from Los Angeles to Lake Victoria by way of Louisiana.  

This is the free-for-all version, featuring Robyn Hitchcock in Kershaw’s kitchen, tributes to Rise Kagona and Kris Kristofferson… and a game of ‘one song to the tune of another.’

This is the free-for-all version, featuring Martin Carthy in Kershaw’s kitchen, plus lots of songs and a joke about Joni Mitchell.

This is the free-for-all version, featuring Oklahoma-born singer-songwriter Bob Collum, with Mags Layton (violin) and Martin Cutmore (bass), in Kershaw’s kitchen, plus lots of songs that aren’t by Taylor Swift.

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.

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.