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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · 3d

Episode 1 of 40 Years of Schoolin’ is up.
Forty songs from 1950–1989.
These are just a few from my shelves that made it in — Johnny Cash to Yeah Yeah Noh, Dexter Gordon to The Neville Brothers.
Forty years, one needle.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · 4d

Buy me a flute and a gun that shoots…

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you. 🤩

Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · 4d

Episode 1 is out now.

40 songs, one for every year from 1950 to 1989, hosted by myself.

From Mariano’s cool jazz in Boston to the Neville Brothers in New Orleans — four decades of recorded sound.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts or here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · 18d

A busy Friday soundtracked by….

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · 22d

This is something of a ‘trip’.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · 24d

Man “I Can Hear Music” is so, so good.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Sep 14

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Sep 14

At 50, Salvador starts experimenting with synths and drum machine, multi-track recorders and altered voice collages. He took up editing & mixing, and solitarily makes songs from his home in Paris.
So sonically it’s a cross between There’s A Riot, History de Melody Nelson & the Piinocchio soundtrack.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Sep 12

Taking the long way around with this one — it always satisfies.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Sep 12

Time for this.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Sep 11

Happy Birthday

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Sep 7

Inject “Only You Know” into my veins please.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Sep 7

#nowplaying

A street corner with infinite possibilities.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Aug 26

Put Get Up With It on and watch the room shift around you, furniture included.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Aug 20

Side venture.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Aug 10

My big pick up from LA.

A 1970s spy film scored by a Kansas City bebopper who’s been hanging around Cairo.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Aug 9

The last days never sounded so politely English.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Aug 9

Recorded on the same day as Thelonious Monk’s funeral. Free jazz that dances and stumbles.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Jul 28

New pickup. It sits in so many spaces, very addictive.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Jul 26

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Jul 26

#nowplaying in Mono and it’s bloody perfect actually.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Jul 25

An adjacent and artless joy, taken from the outer districts of sincerity.

Their “Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye” is truly that.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Jul 25

A Self-Penned Privy Council Folk-Rock Concept Thing. Simon strumming his 12-string in full Chancellor regalia. Double tracked crooning about Habeas Corpus and Cromwellian backstabbing.

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Ben Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · Jul 24

#nowplaying

500 copies pressed in 1980 and released in Australia by blind musician Ross McGregor. An Arp Odyssey down-tempo overload.

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