Off The Beaten Tracks 7 April 2025

Next week's Ginger Feather FM radio show playlist. Listen now on Mixcloud. 

The Gigspanner Big Band is on tour from April the 11th with dates in the NW at Kendal, Bury and Liverpool. See https://www.gigspanner.com/live for all the details.

Show of Hands - Arrogance, Ignorance & Greed
Spiers & Boden - Butter and Cheese and All
Sandy Denny - Ecoute Ecoute
Nic Jones - The Little Pot Stove
Miranda Sykes - I Need You 
Kris Drever - If Wishes Were Horses
John Smith - Joanna _ Tupelo Honey (live)
Spiers & Boden - Fallow Ground
MacMaster Hay - Stay With You
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage - Boots of Spanish Leather
Gigspanner Big Band - Betsy Williams
Gilmore & Roberts - Skip and Jump
Breabach - The Striking Clock 

OTBT mix 31 March 2025

A mix for the coming week with two tracks by Scottish folk group The McCalmans. These songs are from a Nick Keir compilation I picked up recently from Greentrax Records. 

Listen now on Mixcloud or from Monday on Ginger feather FM   

Richard Thompson - Tear Stained Letter
The McCalmans - Applecross Bay
Archie Churchill-Moss - Odi & Nancy
Banter - Seneca Square / Soldiers Joy
Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko - Ninna Nanna
Norma Waterson, Martin Carthy & Chris Parkinson - Black Muddy River
Dick Gaughan - Stand Up For Judas
Roving Crows - Fire Sky
The McCalmans - Ainster Harbour
Kami Thompson & James Walbourne - I Long For Lonely
The Rheingans Sisters - The Photograph
Fotheringay - Knights of the Road
Katheryn Tickell & The Darkening - Just Stop and Eat The Roses
Mikey Kenney - Montagna Di Menta

Off The Beaten Tracks 24 March 2025

This week's show starts with a track from Steve Knightley's new album "Positively Folk Street" which includes six covers of songs by both Bob Dylan and Martin Carthy. 

Listen to the show on Mixcloud or from Monday on Ginger Feather FM 

Steve Knightley - Girl From The North Country
Uiscedwr - Prescription Junkie
Tidelines - Any Heart in a Storm
Jez Lowe - Snow to Nova Scotia
Steeleye Span - Shipbuilding
Tom Kitching - Old Molly Oxford
The Imagined Village - The Handweaver And The Factory Maid
Ross Ainslie - Fly Higher
Karine Polwart - Salters Road
Katherine Priddy - Walnut Shell
Kris Kristofferson - Chase The Feeling
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway w/ Gillian Welch - Side Saddle
Tumbling Bones - How They're Rolling
The Staves - I Don't Say It, But I Feel It
Joni Mitchell - Little Green 

Off The Beaten Tracks 17 March 2025

There are two tracks on this week's show from the new album by Reg Meuross titled "Fire & Dust: A Woody Guthrie Story" which was released on the 14th of March. The album was produced by Pete Townshend who plays on a couple of tracks along with the likes of Phil Beer, Geraint Watkins and Beth Porter. 

Reg is on tour in March and April before playing at various festivals over the summer. See https://www.regmeuross.com/events/ for more info. 

This show is available to listen to now on Mixcloud or on Ginger Feather FM from Monday at 1pm and 8pm. 

Grace Petrie - Farewell To Welfare
Reg Meuross - A Folk Song's A Song
Nick Keir - Crooked Smile
Bonny Light Horseman - Blackwaterside
Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver - I Must Away Love
Show of Hands - Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
Honey & The Bear - Buried In Ivy
GNOSS - Audrey's
Katie Spencer - Sweet and Gentle
Crosby & Nash - Lay Me Down
Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors - Can't Take It With You
Yasmin Williams (feat. Aoife O'Donovan) - Dawning
Reg Meuross - The Gypsy Singer 

OTBT Folk Mix 10 March 2025

A mix which will go out on Ginger Feather FM at 1pm and 8pm from Monday the 10th. Also available to listen to on Mixcloud. 

Bellowhead - London Town
Plumhall - The Space Between
Toni Bunnell - The Waterways of England
Breabach - Scotland's Winter
Dick Gaughan - Now Westlin Winds
Fairport Convention - South Dakota to Manchester
Steve Knightley - The Bristol Slaver
Linda Thompson featuring The Unthanks - Three Shakey Ships
Kate Rusby - Three Little Birds
McGoldrick, McCusker & Doyle - Trip to Pakistan / Edinburgh Rock
The McCalmans - The Weaving Song
Roger Wilson - Fair and Tender Lovers
Lassi Logren - Benevolence
Bellowhead - Death and the Lady 

Off The Beaten Tracks 3 March 2025

In tribute to drummer Rick Buckler I've included a cover of a song by The Jam which The Bad Shepherds recorded on their album Yan, Tyan, Tethera, Metheral. 

Listen to the show now on Mixcloud or tune in to Ginger Feather FM at 1pm or 8pm from Monday.

Billy Bragg & Wilco - Walt Whitman's Niece
Thea Gilmore - Don't Stop Singing
Reg Meuross - Fit For Work (Illegal Hands)
Heal & Harrow - Da Dim
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage - Lark in the Morning
Alice Allen and Patsy Reid - Miss Stewart’s Jig / of Bombay / Miss Watt’s Jig / Mether Cluny
Banter - Below Below
George Harrison - Mama You've Been On My Mind
Bob Dylan - House of the Rising Sun
Ralph McTell - Anji & Lullaby of Birdland (live)
The Bad Shepherds - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
And Did Those Feet - Dream of a Dream
Luke Jackson - Ruler of Nothing
The Proclaimers - Sean
Mariearad and Anna - She Loves Me (When I Try) 

Off The Beaten Tracks mix 24 Feb 2025

Four Bob Dylan songs including two from the The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3- Rare & Unreleased, 1961-1991 a copy of which I picked up recently. Also a track from the new Reg Meuross album Fire & Dust - A Woody Guthrie Story which is being released on March the 14th. It includes contributions from Phil Beer and Pete Townshend who also produced the album. See regmeuross.com/fire-and-dust for more info.

Listen now on Mixcloud or from Monday at 1pm or 8pm on Ginger Feather FM.

Steve Knightley - A Song For Wickham
Jackie Oates - When I Was A Fair Maid
Martyn Joseph - Getting Older
Christy Moore - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
The Dylan Project - You Angel You
Bob Dylan - Rambling, Gambling Willie
Reg Meuross - So Long It's Been Good to Know Ya
Sam Sweeney - Westering
Fotheringay - Banks of the Nile [Alternative Take]
Bert Jansch - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
SykesMartin - Dark Eyed Sailor
The Trials of Cato - Paper Planes
Bob Dylan - Moonshiner
Fara - The Road Home