Holt Vinyl Vault

Postmaster Flash plots a route around the United States in a quest to visit the birth places of some of his favourite recording artists. While, Hitman is in the driver's seat, Flash fumbles with the maps...

With their visas about to expire, Flash and Hitman career across the States in search of musical legends. Starcrawler, George Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis... there's no telling who they might, quite literally,  run into!

Postmaster Flash discovers some amazing original versions of songs made famous by other people and tasks Hitman Hawkins to share his musings on this week's podcast. Paul Anka does it his Way, the Hollies' He Ain't Heavy is exposed as a lightweight, while it turns out that  Phillip Goodhand-Tait and Roger Daltrey  are Oceans apart...

Hitman Hawkins takes a trip back to 1970s  New York and spends 30 minutes in the company of the bands who put CBGBs on the map - Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith etc

In a nod to Nick Hornby's High Fidelity (particularly the film version featuring Jack Black), Hitman Hawkins pulls eight titles from the racks that any self-respecting music lover really should own. There's Dylan; there's Joni; there's Sly Stone; there's some others!

Sheila A Devotion selects some cracking TV theme tunes that (mostly) sound as good today as they did when they first aired - and with composers such as Mike Post and Quincy Jones, it's hardly surprising!

Hitman Hawkins heads to the Jazz Lounge armed with a bottle of Jack to deliver a late night session from greats including Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz, and Kenny Dorham...

Postmaster Flash - and Hitman Hawkins are inspired by John Grant's recent triumphant return to the live circuit to take inventory of the Vinyl Vaults Electro-pop offerings...

In honour of the late Charlie Watts, the Vinyl Vault spins a few favourites in memory of the latest Stone to cease Rolling. It's a nice mix of tunes that demonstrates the band's - and Charlie's - versatility...

Enjoy a Postmaster Flash-back as Vault boss Andrew recalls his teenaged excitement at breaking out the latest Led Zeppelin opus in Seventies Southend.