World Circuit Records has made its reputation by producing some of the finest albums of the past three decades. The label’s prestigious roster includes the Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club and associated solo artists (including Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Omara Portuondo and Orlando ‘Cachaíto’ López), Malian blues pioneer and Grammy-winner Ali Farka Touré, Malian divas and social activists Oumou Sangaré and Fatoumata Diawara, master kora player Toumani Diabaté, the illustrious Orchestra Baobab, musical iconoclast Cheikh Lô, and Fela Kuti’s legendary drummer and co-creator of Afrobeat Tony Allen. 
 
With reissues and brand new releases coming soon, World Circuit continues to bring diverse, genre-defying music to a wider audience.

Bristol, VA band with a score to settle and lightning in our veins

Hey all! We're Fairfolk and we just released our first EP: Being, Becoming. We have posted a couple tracks on here for you to check out and if you like what you hear, head over to our bandcamp for a FREE DOWNLOAD of the whole EP. You're welcome to donate as well if you'd like to support us! 

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Joe Thomas is a songwriter, musician, producer. His music, published by the independent label White Cat Music, is featured in countless projects, including mainstream tv series in the US and all over the world. He has a passion for ukueles. In this channel, you will find some of his ukulele songs.

Ben Rouse is a musician mainly playing solo ukulele of originals and covers.
Wide range of musical styles from rock/pop/classical/folk in a new groove ukulele style. for bookings and info email me
BenRouseUkulele@yahoo.co.uk

An Indie musician from the land of coconuts!!! 🌴🌴🎸🎵

The Return of Mad Jack 

A couple of winters ago I got a call from a friend in the Bay Area, asking me if I wouldn’t mind checking in on a dear, elderly friend of his who had just moved into his rental house up here in my home town of Mount Shasta. 
I called by the house - expecting to offer a hand shoveling the snow from the drive or drop off a sample of my medicinal herb which I was told this friend was fond of - and as fate would have it, it turns out that this elderly bloke who had just moved to the mountains was none other than Bob Johnston, the legendary record producer behind such names as Simon & Garfunkel, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Mike Scott/Waterboys, and of course, Bob Dylan. 

Bob asked me what I did for a living, and I told him “I’m an herbsman“, but that I play guitar and sing.  He looked at me with his penetrating stare, and said, “I know you’re good.”  
“You can tell that just by looking at me, huh?” I replied. 
“Yep, and I know you don’t sound like anybody else.” 

A few days later I took my guitar round and played him ‘This is America’. 
Bob‘s enthusiasm was emphatic: “That’s a fucking great song, kid.”
I told him I was about to make a record and asked him cheekily if he’d give me his ten cents as an executive producer of sorts, to which he replied, “Better still, I’ll produce it for you!”
No arguing with that. 

And so, here in a remote Northern California mountain town, a friendship was born.  A friendship of music, musings, mentorship and a more than occasional flash of madness.  (Bob himself was known as ‘Crazy Bob Johnston’ back in Nashville when he ran Columbia/Epic Records.) 

The concept for the name of The Return of Mad Jack sprang forth from one of our lazy afternoon chats as we sipped at Tennessee Honey Jack Daniels and smoked some fine herb, and the conversation drew us to talk about my great-great-grandfather, John Stephens Andrews, known in the family as ‘Mad Jack’, who - as the story goes - traveled from England to America on steamship after being invited by Buffalo Bill Cody to join his famed Wild West Show.  This struck a chord with Bob who exclaimed, ‘That’s it, that’s YOU!”  
Bob was not the only one to make such a connection; on my last visit to my grandmother in hospital on her deathbed in Britain she mistakenly took me for her long lost grandfather, Jack.  Mad Jack. 

“Jack, Jack, is that you?  How’s the farm?  Where have you been?” 

So here is The Return of Mad Jack (and Crazy Bob). 
It’s been a long time coming.

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