The Andy Kershaw Podcast

This is the free-for-all version, featuring Rik Lord, the most talented guitarist ever to be discovered busking outside a Todmorden supermarket, plus a crafted collection of magnificent music for you to fall in love with.

This is the free-for-all version, featuring a kitchen session with Leeds rockers The Burner Band. We’ve got boogie, country, Africana, Americana, folk, soul and gospel. Warning: this podcast is addictive.

This is the free-for-all version, featuring folk music royalty Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden, playing songs from their new album of wassailing wonderments and telling stories. Plus lots of tracks I hope you’ve never heard before but will love for ever more.

This is the free-for-all version, featuring my brand-new kitchen session with Martin Stephenson (plus one Daintee) and some of the greatest cover-versions you’ll ever hear. The Rolling Stones sing the Temptations, while the Persuasions sing the Impressions. You are invited to marvel at the segues.

This is the free-for-all version, featuring part one of my tribute to my friend Brendan Croker, who died last month. I’m sharing a session I recorded in 1998 with Brendan and his fellow Notting Hillbilly Steve Phillips.

This is the free-for-all, sixty-minute version in which I dig out a rare Richard Thompson recording that will blow your socks off, and ask whether anyone ever played Springsteen better than Bruce (I have a candidate for your consideration). Lots more to entice and delight, but just wait until you hear…

This is the free-for-all, sixty-minute version. Among other jewels, you’ll hear part of my 1990 session recording with The Jolly Boys from Port Antonio, Jamaica – and I’m hoping you’ll want more. Founded in 1945, this mento combo may be the longest-lasting little band in the world - only the line-up has changed! Go to www.andykershaw.co.uk, chip in a few quid and become a p

Come with us from the Dark End of the Street to the Bright Side of the Road, by way of Kenya and Kentucky, the Congo and the Caribbean. This show features some of the crown jewels of the Kershaw vinyl collection that’s just out of storage and now stashed on brand-new shelves (thank you crowd-funders). And there are obituary tributes to Tshala Muana and Gordon Lightfoot. Visit htt

One of the most exciting projects of the past year has been a song-celebration of notable North-east women. I’m thrilled to give you a kitchen session featuring Annie Ball with Katie Tertell, Bronwen Davies-Jones and Bronwen’s dad Gareth. With admirable economy ‘Howay The Lasses’ is the name of the group, the album and one of their songs. Visit https://andykershaw.co.uk for

Featuring a session I recorded in New Orleans in April 1988 with the truck-driving North Carolina country bluesman Moses Roscoe. There are tributes to Jeff Beck and Dave Crosby. And thanks to you I’ve got new shelves for all my vinyl, so I’m digging into it again.