End of the Road Festival announce new compilation series Between the Music

The first volume of Between the Music is made up of tracks by the likes of Jackie Shane, The Soul Stirrers, Link Wray, The Lafayettes, Dion and more, and is the product of a tradition that End of the Road Festival founder Simon Taffe has been doing since the first edition of the festival - burning songs to CDs and making playlists of tracks to be played between each acts on each stage at the festival.

Taffe said that Between the Music is "A compilation based on all the tracks that I play in between bands on all the different stages. It’s not really necessarily bands that play End of the Road, it’s more like my whole record collection."

He added, "I still get really excited to make a compilation, even though it’s a lot bloody harder these days because everyone’s heard everything on Spotify, but I love sharing music with people and love introducing them to songs."

“What was that song playing two songs before Mac DeMarco came on?”

It was in answer to persistent queries like the one above that End of the Road decided to launch the first of what will be an ongoing compilation series: Between the Music.

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Tracklist:

1. The Lafayettes - Life's Too Short
2. Dion - DripDrop
3. Captain Beefheart - Observatory Crest
4. Link Wray - Fallin' Rain
5. The Monzas - Hey! I Know You
6. Abner Jay - I'm So Depressed
7. Johnnie Frierson - Have You Been Good To Yourself
8. Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band - Anchin Kfu Ayinkash
9. Amanaz - Khala My Friend
10. Al Kooper - Lookin For A Home
11. Jim Ford - She Turns My Radio On
12. Jackie Shane - Any Other Way
13. Chuck Jackson - Any Day Now
14. Alexander Skip Spence - Cripple Creek
15. Lael Neale - Blue Vein
16. Washington Phillips - Mother's Last Word To Her Son
17. Michael Hurley - I Stole The Right to Live
18. Ted Hawkins - Cold & Bitter Tears
19. Josephine Foster - Child of God
20. Jeff Cowell - Lucky Strikes and Liquid Gold
21. Blaze Foley - Clay Pigeons
22. Die Wellttaumforscher - Glücklich. Traurig. Seltsam.
23. The Soul Stirrers - Jesus Gave Me Water
24. Paul Robeson - Lazy Bones (1933)
25. The Cryin Shames - Please Stay