40 Years of Schoolin'

Send us Fan Mail Forty tracks. Forty years. One song per year. Episode 5 of 40 Years of Schoolin’ moves from 1950 to 1989 through gospel testimonies, drum rudiments, home-recorded jug bands, French chanson, spiritual jazz, bluegrass harmonies, devotional electronics, private-press curiosities, dub pressure and late-night melancholy. Some of these records travelled widely. Others barely escaped the...

Send us Fan Mail Forty tracks. Forty years. One song per year. Episode 4 of 40 Years of Schoolin’ moves from 1950 to 1989 along less obvious routes — Cajun laments, Western swing, early avant-jazz, hi-fi futurism, teenage garage noise, folk pushed to breaking point, dub mutations, post-punk machinery and late-’80s DIY misbehaviour. These are not canonical histories or greatest-hits shortcuts. Some...

Send us Fan Mail Forty tracks. Forty years. One song per year, reshuffled again. Episode 3 moves from 1950 to 1989 by way of honky-tonk confessionals, jump-blues swagger, tape-loop miracles, devotional electronics, dub as architecture, and pop that accidentally invents the future. Some records were global hits, others barely escaped the room they were recorded in — but all of them say something ab...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 2 keeps the music bicycle moving — forty songs, one for each year, 1950 to 1989. This time it’s everything from Baltimore doo-wop to Ethiopian accordion soul, Cajun-surf hybrids to Scottish nutter pop.

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first episode of 40 Years of Schoolin’ , a journey through four decades of recorded sound — one song for every year from 1950 to 1989. This isn’t a history lesson; it’s a wandering path through the strange, brilliant corners of 20th-century music — the hits, the misses, and the forgotten experiments that shaped what came next. Each track tells a small story: from Bo...