Jazzateers live at the Spaghetti Factory, Glasgow (circa 1981).
Image courtesy of & ©Douglas MacIntyre
As I'm back at work I'm going to have a lot less time to post at SoYS. Managed to update a few older posts and photos but still have a fair amount to do. In the meantime there's some good news from Cherry Red with the release of the
Jazzateers : Don't Let Your Son Grow Up To Be A Cowboy. An album that features most of their unreleased recordings from 1981-1982.
This release includes the long-thought-lost sessions for Postcard Records, combining nearly two albums and overseen by Postcard supremo and Jazzateers’ manager Alan Horne. One of the tracks, Wasted, was scheduled to be the final Postcard single (81-14) and was produced by Orange Juice’s Edwyn Collins. Unfortunately, like a few other scheduled releases; Wasted was shelved when the label fell apart.
Don't Let Your Son Grow Up To Be A Cowboy is a must have recording for any Postcard Records fan.
A big thanks to Jazzateer, Douglas MacIntyre for providing me with a copy of the above photograph to illustrate this post.
Alison Gourlay (vocals)
Ian Burgoyne (guitar)
Keith Band (bass)
Colin Auld (drums)
"Several tracks were recorded for singles and for a debut album, all unreleased as yet. Some tracks were produced by Edwyn Collins, including a version of Donna Summers' "Wasted" which was scheduled to be a single." (Wikipedia)
Don't Let Your Son Grow Up To Be A Cowboy is available now from Cherry Red
