Global Village Trucking Company

Emerging alongside numerous peers from London’s early-1970s alternative-music underground, the Global Village Trucking Company achieved nationwide attention in 1973. Although membership shifted often, the benefit album Greasy Truckers Live At Dingwalls Dance Hall captured Jon Owen on guitar and vocals, Jimmy Lascelles on keyboards, Mike Medora on harmonica, guitar and vocals, John McKenzie on bass, and Simon Stewart on drums. Three years afterward the lineup expanded to include Peter Kitley on guitar, Jim Cuomo on saxophone, Jeremy Lacalles on percussion, and vocalists Caromay Dixon and Monica Garelts for the self-titled release Global Village Trucking Company. Issued by Caroline, the Virgin Records offshoot, the record captured the collective’s spontaneous approach to performance yet failed to register commercially. With the arrival of punk the group receded from public view.