S1E34: 2SER Blues - James Morrison and band provide some original tunes

Between midnight and 2am on the 13 March 1986 Greg Poppleton made a one hour live recording in the old studio 2 for The Phantom Dancer (though it wasn’t called The Phantom Dancer then). In the band was James Morrison playing double bass, his brother John on drums, Ian Date on guitar and Andrew Speight on sax. The quartet played an hour of standards and improvised two original blues on the spot - Have A Banana Blues and the 2SER Blues. The sound recordist was Helen Bucknall, using only the room (which acoustically was excellent) and the desk mics to create with these musicians a recording that went straight to ancient quarter inch tape without any further editing. Then dubbed to a second quarter inch tape for the announcement inserts, then to cassette (tapes needed to be re-used) and then I dropped it onto CD in 2015. A 7 minute snippet of the“2SER Blues” has been edited by Greg Poppleton and used here with permission. John wrote of the piece, "I can say with no hesitation that you are free to use any (and all) audio and photos etc for the exhibition. Indeed we would be honoured if 2SER saw fit to include our work. Please also extend our congratulations to everyone on the team at the station on reaching this incredible milestone."

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