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seven minutes, or whatever it is, I'm going to play it on my radio show. I can

promise you that.

TBS: Oh, thank you. Thank you. I

do like Kelly Joe Phelps and Chris

Whitney and all these guys, and I
wanted that sort of meditative

drone-like flow to it. Like

Mississippi John Hurt, that sort of

free flow. That's what I've been

heading towards, in my music, in

my head. reflects African guys .

BiTS: Absolutely fabulous. Tell

me something about another song
then.

TBS: Well, so the first song on the

album is quite interesting because

it's based on an old gospel song,

but I've researched it, and I can't

find any thing on it. ‘Ain’t Got No Home’, I know that Woody Guthrie did a

song called that with the same sort of vocal line. I read up on where he got

it from. He said he’d heard gospel songs round the work camp, union work

camp campfires. So then I took the vibe and then wrote my own song around

it, really. So it's original, but with leanings towards an old gospel somewhere
in time that's passed through, orally whatever. It's really cool.

BiTS: I'm thinking as you're talking about the overdubs. Did you have much

difficulty in doing the overdubs?

TBS: Well, luckily, Paul Jones, he's done all my albums and what I did, I gave

the tracks to the guys, and they just came, and I didn't know what they were

going to play on them because I always like to give them their own freedom.

So they just came and put what they had on it, and we just fitted it in, and

luckily Paul's very skilful in the old studio. He embedded it as they were

there on the original track. I love the last track, track five, ‘Crazy’. It's a bit