 shortly don't worry and we'll kick off the show because we're busy show this evening anyway and in front of us and live on Facebook is a regular guest here on Monday night sessions is Jackson Rocks Martina and Paul Bennett you're very welcome thank you very much Jimmy it's good to be here on your two mics and you you were you were gigging this weekend we'll talk about more about that later on down in the Glen bar and back after COVID and back with a big bang as well but let's get all that let's kick off with a song first we're going to do a song by John Prine that's called Mexican home Martina Bennett that was beautiful thank you very much so back in the road it's nice to be nice to be back and we're Glen bar last we were in the Glen bar last Saturday night that was a good night lovely night great night I think I've done till about one-ish yes it wasn't one-ish it wasn't past one it wasn't an early night put it like that yeah because things have been stopping quite early now and most bars some of them are closing half 11 12 it's never an early night down there and this weekend there was great crowds around this weekend there was you know even from I had to go down to Downings and Saturday and the mobile homes were all full again so everybody was making a great long weekend all of it and so tell us a bit because maybe somebody who hasn't seen check out their Facebook page but somebody who may have not seen you live before because you do the Facebook lives as well you've continued yeah we did one there very recently yeah because we thought there's been there was so many people across the world who watched us on that Facebook live and actually kept in touch with us there's a lovely lady from Florida Florida and America and she's kept in touch with us personally since and you know she said that it really made her day and really give her a big lift you know just watching us you know a bit of a boost so I realize that they did have a bit of an impact so and what are you going to continue that going forward or what yeah we've done the odd one for um a group called the question donkey yeah is that who you're talking about the lockdown doghouse lockdown open mic kind of Facebook page yeah um this guy Joe had started that that's right and during covid and he's still he keeps us going every Sunday right he has something on from every half hour from half five till half seven so every now and again he asks us through we slot and you just jump in and do you want there for him but we don't get a lot of comments there because not a lot of people know us in Scotland of course certain parts of Scotland they might do so it brings back you know from where it all started where did the whole Jackson rocks I played in a band did a lot of John Prince stuff and I've played in several bands over the years nobody particularly famous but anyway but they were called legal smile and they are still going in different places and then I met Martina and then the band started to split up and and in the background we were kind of just doing a bit of jam in the house for fun and busking I didn't play any instrument at that stage and I picked up the biggest one even and Paul was playing hurt I think it was we were trying to get him to learn that for the band and he was doing it in a keyboard and I was sent to him he says he needs something to emphasise it and I says but you play bass in the band why can't you do it in bass yeah and then I said sure show me notes in the bass and I'll do it for you see if I'd worked with a guitar and it all started from there had you played guitar before Martina I hadn't I hadn't played any instrument I played a little bit of chordian and a marching band when I was a child and that was about that but always loved music and always wanted to play yeah so you were just self taught yeah well we all are and how long ago how many years have we taught going back there would be about 16 years no it's about 16 now it's about 16 now yeah and then we started learning a couple of John Prine songs together and we'd have done them kind of as a party piece and here and there we were at a friend's wedding and this guy came over we were just entertaining people during the breaks and stuff like that weren't the wedding band or anything like that and this guy came over and he said uh my brother-in-law uh ran this hotel and they weren't doing any arms and they were doing any arms and he said would you come and play on Sunday night I said which Sunday night he says this Sunday night and I says oh I don't know about that and Martina kicked me onto the table and said of course we could see the gig see the gig see the gig he says I would count you up on my own I wouldn't do it he never would play on his own so I says I'll do it with you so we ended up doing uh about a year uh every month there but he was like you couldn't play the bass for a whole night you couldn't keep it up for a whole night I says watch me and you did and I did and I was at that stage you see I was kind of able to follow that's why I'm always in the left of them because I can follow what they're doing because I learned how to play by the shape of his fingers so I applied that to what I needed to do on the bass right so that's how I learned and then I saw that's why I have to watch him so um that's how it all kicked off and then I think I did one song I kind of got the notes wrong here and there and he says to me you're doing the wrong thing we've a very good friend of ours and I said from Dunneagol I went I knew keep it going keep it smiling keep smiling we've a great friend of ours uh from Dunneagol called Johnny Gallacher who's only in the boxy hi boxy and Johnny uh we were doing an after wedding party for a friend of ours and uh Johnny said do you mind if I come along and I could maybe strum a few tunes and I'm looking at him saying are you sure and he said just for the crack he said I can only stay an hour so so he stayed for the rest of the year but I left Martina to go out and I was smoking at the time he didn't just walk off leave me he actually announced Martina's going to play a couple of tunes with Johnny and I go no I said Johnny I can't I having a clue what you're doing that guitar because you know what he's like in the guitar yeah amazing and no absolutely amazing I said having a clue what you're doing and I said I'll do the odd bum note and he goes and I'm very good they call that jazz play some jazz woman isn't he I said just tell me the three notes you're doing so he told me the three notes and he took me places in the bass I didn't know I could go it was unbelievable brilliant brilliant yeah he's he's a legend and it's great he is have you seen him perform with the band oh yeah it's something special yeah it isn't come here before we go for an ad break and we'll come back another song we might talk about what the the bass you're having what do you what's the name on that Martina it's an electric upright bass or a stick bass if you're watching on facebook you can see Martina standing on the left with the electric upright and we talk about that but you're you're listening to Monday night sessions Paul asked what was the first song you played tonight to me very good that was elephants from Charles James and the rise and that was the winner of our song contest the last week and Charles James which is James and Catherine up in Green Castle I've gone forward to the national final now and they'll represent the northwest and Donny Gaul in the final of 26 independent radio stations and you've joined Monday night sessions Jackson Roxton studio we're going for a quick ad break and we'll be back what are we going to play next are you going to do that well we'll risk it will we risk it yes okay risk it yeah it's a show if Paul was if Paul was he would he promised everyone he said you don't take risks on this show but we'll risk it we'll go for an ad break let's come back very shortly the best of music 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she's a great songwriter herself and great performer and she was so heartbroken the night that john prine passed away that she actually wrote that on the night what did you what did you call it it's called fishing with you fishing with you yeah fishing with you carcy blanton carcy blanton she writes amazing stuff and where is she from she well she's american we know that she's american i think she could be from you but i don't know do not quote me on that tell us about uh you know because i've seen you in the glen bar about who must be i can't remember was it after or whatever yeah before we were here last year remember we opened up and you come back and you play for about how many two or three hours or well we usually start about nine and it could be twelve it could be one yeah but you're set you must have a big set list uh we have a little bit yeah a little bit six well i have to read everything because i don't really i've got an age yeah that's why i have to carry all these books around and so you come up and say have you got someone so yeah a lot of people you can you can still people come up and say tell us ask us for a song that we don't have yeah you know there's so many songs out there there's millions yeah you can ask for a lot of songs that you know you know a ten piece but rock bands have done it they're gonna come up when i ask yeah uh well we'll have a we'll work out it and say we've not been known to do the odd rocks on acoustically living on a prayer so martini some people can see in facebook but if they can't describe your instrument and it you're standing here and it's it's taller than yourself it's a way of describing and as you can see paul gets his sit all night and i have to stand all night yeah you can get tiresome sometimes but this is called a stick bass it's the same as a double bass this is a double bass but you don't have to carry all that wood around it's a bit sensitive on easily so it's called a stick bass or or electric bass it's beautiful looking instrument isn't it it's really uh i love the sound of it and is that the same have you had that since the very start when you know i had i started off on paul's fender which was a bit heavy and then i kept saying to paul the frets are my way i need a fretless bass he says he couldn't play a fretless bass that was how to get her to play so we would do to donnie orison's machara he had a great music shop and i noticed a stag fretless bass on the wall and i said plug that in for me and to me it was just like doing the same thing that's like the frets so then i decided i would like an upright bass so again it entered annies and they have this one sitting in the shop yeah well you can we'd put up pictures on the facebook on mononite sessions as well so what's the plan the next few where where can people people here you see this weekend we are in oma in uh in mails uh we're in mccanns in oma mails mccanns and then we're in freels in swatter yes and then we're off for a couple of i mean normally we would do two yeah but if you only get one you know when you do without plan for three and a half years you're glad to do anything but you're enjoying it doesn't it's not that you want to be out three or four nights a week no for like one night a week we're happy but you are available for gigs we are available for gigs that's a big so we do we do a lot of after wedding parties it's a lovely private party there in swatter actually a birthday if it's a birthday it was a great night and we've done a few after wedding parties and baptism bar mitzvah whatever it is house parties yeah lovely party up the road here from here oh yeah and kerry keel and kerry keel yeah and there's a hotel or it's a restaurant just on the left as you go up there just as you're going in to kerry keel and it was beautiful yeah it's good and you know you talked about house parties there but i'm with the house party in may with tanya mccole playing oh it's sold out you know tanya and it's but they're they're starting to come before i was at another one before and it was with antony mcquillan yes amazing night but this was so about 25 it's the thing they do in the european continent and it works really well and it seems to be it's coming back in here a bit which is lovely to see that you bring 25 or 30 people everybody pays a few euro and you agree a price and all that money goes to the artist and uh it's it's i'd love to see more of that yeah definitely who used to do it a couple years and years ago kevin montgomery i don't remember kevin used to come over down every year and his father wrote heartbeat with buddy holly his dad's played with buddy holly before anybody else did wow and kevin just worked the whole time and uh he uh he used to do house parties he says that's how i make my living doing house parties and don and joomory would do them quite often as well yeah from america that's right sessions in the house well listen martina and paul thanks a million for coming up to us this evening yeah and check j-a-c-k-s-o-n-r-o-x that's it it's your facebook check it out because you will find a really interest in uh two characters is a good way it's not a good way to describe me i think this is why we're talking and not playing music and you still have the the van as well which is lovely yeah even though it's a slightly smaller one that's right the last time it was a bigger van yeah it was a real one we're missing that yeah so you were because you i think it was like after glen bar i think the van was still in the car park that's right everybody knew you were around when you were seeing the van yeah but check them out and you're in oman swatra this weekend if you're if you're around there and they were back in glen in the 29th of april so if you're done and then i think the week after a couple of weeks after that we're down in claire island and west port and but i'm sure you post that on your facebook yeah but post it on facebook brilliant brilliant well look what will you play us one more for the world play a chiptiller song will you yes this is written by a guy called chiptiller who i'm sure you guys know who that is and chip comes over well he used to come over every year and uh he wrote uh wild thing yeah he wrote wild thing in the angel of the morning oh lovely uh he stopped writing for quite a few years he's a brother of john voight the the actor and uh which makes him an uncle of an angel yeah he used to work in a songwriting factory in new york wasn't it new york yes for loads of songwriters used to go in and just do some big songs yeah well this is jackson rocks on highland radio monday night sessions on a monday evening uh check them out on their facebook and they're gonna leave us with this special song yes this is called there's a hole in the midnight he did this with uh this is on an album that he did with uh harry redriguez yes that's right it's an lovely little prayer oh once a new girl she was pretty like you put her hands in my pocket and took her in the field here's a hole in midnight where paradise is slipping away you a young satyr and daddy's farm he got what he wanted next day he asks the slipping away future smugglers share this side of armor stars brilliant stuff thanks paul and thanks martin and thanks for uh thank you for your being us it's always a pleasure to know as paul would obviously the door is always open and when you create quality music save back to uh maher afelt doesn't it it isn't David yeah it's a wet whole night out there so save journey back and keep in touch with us and check them out on their facebook they'd be down in glenn barrow they'd be down in norris barron kim mcrennan and wherever and they're in milford do we get there in august and yeah so thanks a million thanks for coming that's jackson rocks on mononite sessions at just a quarter two and nine and gonna kick off this uh next bit with this is oshiny with his song called arcade