Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so…

For October November I talked about two Lockdown-Assembled compilations. First up I talked about the new posthumous Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings compilation of their cover versions and played my favourite Sharon Jones cover – her version of Janet Jackson’s What Have You Done For Me Lately?

And then to Yo La Tengo’s new covers EP, Sleepless Night and I played their cover of Bob Dylan’s It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry.

Click here to hear the songs and the chat

As always you can read my print/online review of the Sharon Jones album here. And you can check out what i wrote about the Yo La Tengo right here

For previous RNZ reviews by me click here