Name: End of the Road Presents: Between the Music
Brand: Various Artists

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

EOTRR3LPX

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Colour

White

Colour details

White Vinyl

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Gatefold Sleeve

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-09-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

RTUK

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5053760086789

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Total Cap

2 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / white

Artist

Various Artists

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

End of the Road

Compilations of the Year 2022

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/collection/compilations-of-the-year-2022">Rough Trade Compilations of The Year: #17</a>

Each year, in the weeks that follow End of the Road, the festival’s founder, Simon Taffe, receives a flurry of emails. There are notes of thanks, of course, and the tying up of festival business, but in amongst them he will find numerous messages asking urgent questions such as: “What was that song playing two songs before Mac DeMarco came on?” It was in answer to these persistent queries that End of the Road decided to launch the first of what will be an ongoing compilation series: Between the Music.

“A compilation based on all the tracks that I play in between bands on all the different stages. It’s not really necessarily bands that play End of the Road, it’s more like my whole record collection.” 

Taffe has distinct memories of going to festivals that hadn’t given much thought to the music playing between performers; the repetition of it, the sudden jolt of it. When End of the Road first began, he was determined that his festival would not make the same oversight. Before the first ever End Of The Road, Simon sat up all night with a friend, burning songs to CDs, considering every stage and every track in detail. He has continued this approach ever since, always finishing his playlists at the eleventh hour, always spurred on by the thought of what song will you have as the first song opening the main stage. 

“I still get really excited to make a compilation, even though it’s a lot bloody harder these days because everyone’s heard everything on Spotify,” he says. “But I love sharing music with people and love introducing them to songs.” To listen to Between the Music is something akin to spending a short while in Taffe’s company, or perhaps a long weekend at his festival. There is the sheer exuberant love for music, the sense of discovery, the delight in the unexpected rhythmic turn. Above anything, there is the feeling that Between the Music is a compilation series that could just play on forever.

TRACKLISTING SIDE A A1. Lifes to Short - The Lafayette A2. Drip Drop - Dion A3. Observeatory Crest - Beefheart A4. Fallin Rain - Link Wray A5. I got a Name - Jim Croce A6. Hey I know You – Monzos A7. Anchin Kifu Ayinkash - Hailu Megia Dahlak Band A8. Im so Depressed - Abner Jay SIDE B B1. Have you been Good to Yourself - Johnie Frieson B2. Khala My Freind - Amanaz B3. Looking For A Home - Al Kooper and Shuggie Ottis B4. She Turns My Radio On - Jim Ford B5. Any Other Way - Jackie Shane B6. Any Day Now - Chuck Jackson SIDE C C1. Cripple Creek - Alexandra Skip Spence C2. Sweet Memories - Micky Newbury C3. Blue Vein - Lael Neale C4. Mothers Last words to her son -Washington Phillips C5. I stole the right to live - Michael Hurley C6. Cold Bitter Tears - Ted Hawkins C7. Child of God - Josphine Foster SIDE D D1. Lucky Strikes and Liquid Gold - Jeff Cowell D2. Clay Pigeons - Blaze Foley D3. You Got Me - Crow Johnson D4. Glücklich. Traurig. Seltsam - Die Wellttaumforscher D5. Jesus Give Me Water - The Soul Stirrers D6. Lazy Bones - Paul Robeson D7. Please Stay - The Cryin Shames