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Faith’s Meat Kiosk was officially released today, so Happy Release Day to us.

You can now buy Faith’s Meat Kiosk in iTunes, or stream it from Spotify, or find it in any number of other well-known digital retailers. You can also now listen to the whole LP over on our Bandcamp page where you can purchase a download, some seasoning, a CD, or various combinations of all or most of these.

Thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered music and / or chicken seasoning in the last month or so.  We’ve had messages from a lot of you to say that your packages arrived over the weekend, so we’re going to assume everyone got their goodies before the official release. If you pre-ordered a download only, or if you purchased something tangible, check your email inboxes for your download codes.

We hope you enjoy the record!

Love from,

Friends of the Stars

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You can order these for £12 (incl postage and packing) from our shop.

Here’s the third in our series of Spotify playlists. This one is a wee bit different to the others as it’s both longer (a whopping 50 tracks!) and themed, with each song linked either explicitly or loosely to the awesome business of Fried Chicken.

Enjoy!

CountryRockSoulFolkPrimer #3

I Like My Chicken Frying Size – Merle Travis
Skillet – Davy Graham
Goodnight Irene – Ry Cooder
Little Red Rooster – Sam Cooke
Southern Fried Chicken – Jimmy Work
Chicken Wire – The Pernice Brothers
Fried Chicken & Gasoline – Southern Culture On The Skids
Chicken Payback – The Bees
Dixie Chicken – Little Feat
Chicken Half – Sugarman Three
Bantam Cock – Jake Thackray
Chicken Shack Boogie – Amos Milburn
The Old Black Hen – Songs:Ohia
I Needs Aplenty of Grease In My Frying Pan – Mandy Lee
Electric Slim & The Factory Hen – T. Rex
Free Again – Teenage Fanclub
The Chicken - James Brown
Chicken Reel – Iron Mountain String Band
Little Red Hen – Malvina Reynolds
Cluck Old Hen – Taj Mahal
Southern Fried Chicken Pt 1 & 2 – Bill Thomas
Pretty Crowing Chicken - Martin Simpson
Chicken Heads – Bobby Rush
Frying Pan – Victoria Williams
Who Stole The Lock Off The Henhouse Door – The Wiyos
Chick-A-Boom – Joe Bataan
Frying Pan (Riffin’ The Scotch) – Kay Starr
The Frying Pan - John Prine
Back At The Chicken Shack – Jimmy Smith
Home Cookin’ – The Band
Skinned – Blind Melon
Plucked One – Rachel Goswell
Chicken – Maceo Parker
Pluckin’ – The Cruel Sea
I’d Rather Go Blind – Chicken Shack
Desiree McRae – True North
Chicken Thigh – Page Wilson
A Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ But A Bird – King Perry Quartet
Do The Funky Chicken – Rufus Thomas
Chicken Today And Feathers Tomorrow – Teddi King
A Chicken With It’s Head Cut Off – The Magnetic Fields
Poultry In The Parlour / Rolling The Ryegrass – Seamus Egan
Buy It From A Poultry Man – Cedar Creek Sheik
Hen March To The Middens – Dave Swarbrick
Country Fried Chicken – Bubbha Thomas & The Lightmen
Hen Of The Woods – The Cave Singers
Cock O’ The Walk – Andrew Bird
The Grey Cock – Jez Lowe
Hang It In The Henhouse – Shorty Ranger
Evidently Chickentown – John Cooper Clarke

You can listen to the playlist over on Spotify.

You can also add us as a friend and get updates of the series over on ShareMyPlaylists.

Here’s number 2…

CountryRockSoulFolk Primer #2

What Do You Want The Girl To Do - Lowell George
Country John – Allan Toussaint
Mississippi Delta - Bobbie Gentry
Tailspin – The Jayhawks
Different Drum - Stone Poneys
Harmony Constant - Michael Nesmith
No One’s Gonna Love You - Band Of Horses
Arcadian Driftwood – The Band
Florida – Lonnie Mack
Moon Song – Emmylou Harris

You can listen to the playlist over on Spotify.

You can also add us as a friend and get updates of the series over on ShareMyPlaylists.

Over on Radio To Go, Robin Valk’s excellent music business and culture blog, Craig joined Gareth from Misty’s Big Adventure in answering questions about what it’s like to be in the same Brummie band for over a decade and, more importantly, “It’s the 21st Century. Why on earth have you started a record label?”

You can read the full interview here.

Meanwhile on Born Music Online, Campbell and Craig fielded questions from Sheryl Willis about the decision to sell fried chicken seasoning rather than music, and why Friends of the Stars have only made 2 albums on 12 long years.

Full Q&A here.

Whilst we’re sharing links, a week or so back Neil Mason made us his Favourite New Band, which was nice.

Here’s what Neil had to say.

Happy reading.

The songs in this and future playlists will often come from the genres of Country, Folk, Soul and Rock, but they will mostly come from those lovely sub-genres where two or more of those genres interact.

Here’s number 1…

CountryRockSoulFolk Primer #1

Grand Ennui – Michael Nesmith & The First National Band
Spinnin’ On This Rock – Ramsey Midwood
Somewhere, Some Night – Laura Cantrell
Rotten Peaches – Elton John
Right In Time – Lucinda Williams
California Stars – Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mahgeetah – My Morning Jacket
Don’t Try & Change My Mind – Ronnie Lane
Withered & Died – Richard & Linda Thompson
Wheels – Grand Drive

You can listen to the playlist over on Spotify.

You can also add us as a friend and get updates of the series over on ShareMyPlaylists.

Hopefully Cam’s Keith Floyd impression and Junior Masterchef skills have got your taste buds a-tingling. If so, the first step on your road to awesome fried chicken is to order your seasoning from our shop. It’s £5 (inc P+P) and comes with a free download of our 2nd LP, “Faith’s Meat Kiosk”.

Happy eating!