Billy Jenkins: I Am a Man from Lewisham | CD review

(VOTP)Some suggest that Billy Jenkins's default position – attaching a raucous Chicago electric-blues, R&B and gospel-style to lyrics about Ford Transits, jam sandwiches and life On (Catford) Broadway – is a gag at risk of running its course. But the south Londoner's eruptions of punk-improv guitar-playing, knack of assembling gloriously incompatible ingredients, and his underlying ire about the urban downside always cut through. I Am a Man from Lewisham is the surreal, chaotic a...

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