The Kershaw Sessions is an album by Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians

Robyn Hitchcock

Robyn Rowan Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano and bass guitar....

, comprising nineteen titles recorded live between 1985 and 1991. The album was released in 1994.

The 'Kershaw' of the title refers to UK radio DJ Andy Kershaw

Andy Kershaw

Andy Kershaw is a British broadcaster, known for his interest in world music.His shows feature a mix of country, blues, reggae, folk music, spoken word performance from the likes of Ivor Cutler, and other music from around the world.- Early Life :Kershaw and his sister, fellow broadcaster Liz...

, although not all of the sessions were recorded for his show. Two, "Brenda's Iron Sledge" and the ever-popular "Heaven", were in fact pulled from the group's much earlier live album Gotta Let This Hen Out.

The tracks are all Hitchcock originals which had been recorded and released previously, bar "Open the Door, Homer", covered from Bob Dylan's The Basement Tapes

The Basement Tapes

The Basement Tapes is a 1975 studio album by Bob Dylan and The Band. The songs featuring Dylan's vocals were recorded in 1967, eight years before the album's release, at houses in and around Woodstock, New York, where Dylan and the Band lived...

and a jokey reading of "The Banana Boat Song". This is the only Hitchcock album on which either may be heard.

Sleeve notes are by group members Andy Metcalf and Morris Windsor.

Track listing

1. "Brenda's Iron Sledge" (3:45)
2. "Veins of the Queen" (3:35)
3. "Lady Waters and the Hooded One" (5:46)
4. "So You Think You're in Love" (2:33)
5. "Bass" (2:45)
6. "Sleeping with Your Devil Mask" (3:17)
7. "Open the Door, Homer" (3:05)
8. "52 Stations" (3:47)
9. "Birds in Perspex" (3:35)
10. "If You Were a Priest" (2:50)
11. "Acid Bird" (4:20)
12. "Arms of Love" (3:48)
13. "Superman" (3:35)
14. "Tropical Flesh Mandala" (2:55)
15. "Oceanside" (3:37)
16. "Madonna of the Wasps" (3:25)
17. "The Banana Boat Song" (1:40)
18. "Listening to the Higsons" (2:35)
19. "Heaven" (3:52)