The New Cue #289 June 2: Baxter Dury, Juan Wauters, Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stone Age, Éric Cantona, Noel Gallagher, Wreckless Eric, Wren Hinds, Mad Professor

Including the worst-titled record of 2023...

Good morning,

It’s Friday! It doesn’t feel like Friday does it? Is that because I’m writing this on a Thursday or because it actually doesn’t feel like a Friday? Hard to tell, will have to mull it over and get back to you. Welcome to our weekly Recommender edition, including 2 x An Album To Blow Your Mind courtesy of Ed O’Brien and Edgar Jones, a final word from Johnny Marr, lots of Recommender picks in between and definitely worth paying £5 a month to receive every Friday into your inbox. Click Subscribe Now if you’re only on the free list and want to get involved, it comes with a free personality upgrade. Here’s today’s playlist:

Enjoy the edition,

Ted, Niall and Chris

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An Album To Blow Your Mind #1

Hard-to-find ‘60s soul, as chosen by Edgar Jones, Scouse singer-songwriting legend and Northern Soul nut. 

Both regular readers will know that we’re big fans of Edgar Jones at The New Cue. Since emerging from Liverpool as a bushy-tailed but gravel-throated singing bassist with garage sensations The Stairs, Jones has been on a mind-expanding journey through psychedelia, R&B, jazz, beat-pop, blues, soul and beyond. More about him can be read here. Today, he picks a long-lost soul album by 50s/60s a New York vocal group that starred Jerome ‘Little Anthony’ Gourdine and influenced his own recent LP, Reflections Of A Soul Dimension.

Anthony And The Imperials
Payin’ Our Dues (1966)

“A Little Anthony LP from ‘66 when he and producer/writer/arranger Teddy Randazo were at the height of their powers. It’s such a strong LP because  Randazo recorded a lot of the tracks as singles with other artists, and four were singles for Lil Ant.

Trouble with this choice is that it’s not very present on online streaming services. I couldn't even find it on YouTube in the past but luckily someone has posted it in the past year. He did the sides separately so I've made it into a small playlist link below. The second track on side one, The Joker, is my fave.”