TRACTOR – SHUBUNKIN OVER ROCHDALE COLLEGE BANK

Description

Recorded as an instrumental by Tractor in Rochdale in 1971 and originally released on LP in 1972 “Shubunkin” has now been sampled by LA band Broken Bells (Danger Mouse/ Brian Burton and James Mercer, the lead vocalist and guitarist for the indie rock band The Shins) as the basis of their track “To Anyone a Ghost”. Julian Cope writes about the Tractor track “Shubunkin” : …“Then, one night in mid 1972, John Peel played a track that was more mysterious than almost anything I had ever heard.