Friday 15 March 2024

Off The Beaten Tracks 18 March 2024

My featured album on this week's show is the new release by The Low Countries - "The Failing of the Strains - Live 2008". The line-up of the band back then included Wes Martin who very sadly took his own life on the 22nd March 2018. So I've also included a song by him along with a track from the Bert Jansch album "Avocet" which was one of his favourite records. The show ends with a song by World Party in tribute to their main man Karl Wallinger.

Listen on Mixcloud or on Ginger Feather FM from Monday the 18th.

Pentangle - Light Flight 
Damien O'Kane & Ron Block - Phoebe's \ The Banjo Strikes Back 
Faustus - Lancashire Factory Girl 
Jo Gillot - Antlers 
The Low Countries - Learning In The Ways of Love 
The Low Countries - Prepare to Weep 
Kate Rusby - Underneath The Stars 
James Yorkston - Blue Bleezin Blind Drunk 
Wes Martin - Our World Lies Below 
Tom Waits - Ice Cream Man 
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman - Fear Not The Mountain 
Bert Jansch - Osprey 
The Low Countries - God's Got His Plans 
World Party - Always 

 


Friday 8 March 2024

OTBT Food and Drink mix 11 March 2024

After hearing the sad news of the death of Hairy Biker Dave Myers I thought I would put together a mix of songs with a food and drink theme ranging across folk, blues and Americana. 

Listen on Mixcloud now and on Ginger Feather FM from Monday.

Fairport Convention - Country Pie (live)
The Mary Wallopers - Cod Liver Oil and The Orange Juice 
GNOSS - Honey Wine 
Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors - The Wine We Drink 
Bella Hardy - The Drunken Butcher of Tideswell
Rosie Hood - Baker's Oven 
Tom Kitching - In-Store Bakery 
The Stray Birds - Wildflower Honey 
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Cornbread, Peas & Black Molasses
Sonny Terry - Custard Pie Blues 
Richard Thompson - Too Late To Come Fishing 
Ivan Drever - The Fisherman 
John Renbourn - My Sweet Potato 
David J Kelly - Hemingway's Lemonade 
Rab Noakes - The Guernsey Kitchen Porter
Peatbog Faeries - A Taste of Rum 

Saturday 2 March 2024

Off The Beaten Tracks 4 March 2024

This week's show features UK folk rock band Strawbs with two tracks from the 70s and one from their latest album The Magic Of It All released last year. 

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

Blackbeard's Tea Party - Roll and Go 
Strawbs - Part of the Union 
Jaywalkers - FATG 
Honey & The Bear - The Mighty Oak 
John Smith - Gently Johnny 
This is the Kit - Scabby Head and Legs 
Bargainatt -  Au Cafe du Canal 
Ross Ainslie - Let The Wild Ones Roam 
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage -  Unquiet Grave 
Strawbs - In Among The Roses 
McGoldrick, McCusker & Doyle - Trip to Pakistan & Edinburgh Rock
The ALT - Flower of Northumberland 
Paper Sparrows - Keep Hiding Away From The Light
Strawbs - All Along The Bay 
Davy Graham - Goin' Down Slow 


Saturday 24 February 2024

Lancaster Music Mix Feb 2024

A playlist mainly featuring singers and bands with a connection to the Lancaster area over the last 15 years or so. There are two tracks from Hiroshima Twinkie's album Many Kinds of Mountains. Listen now on Mixcloud or from Monday on Ginger Feather FM at 1pm or 8pm. 

Martin Stephenson & The Daintees - Little Red Bottle 
The Low Countries - Wino
Hiroshima Twinkie - Jo and the Rock Monster
Melanie - Alexander Beetle 
John Rigby - Badge 
Moll Baxter - Red Lady 
KT Tunstall - Black Horse and the Cherry Tree 
Turnstone - Blue House
Kriss Foster - Dale Winton what have you done?
Fairport Convention - Rosie 
New Zealand Story - Hey Boy
Hiroshima Twinkie - Judgement Train 
Karan Casey - The Town of Athlone
Chas Ambler - Kangaroo
The Existence of Harvey Lord - Where The River Runs Slow
The Levellers - This Garden 




Saturday 17 February 2024

Off The Bluegrass Tracks 19 February 2024

This week's Ginger Feather FM radio show features tracks from the 1994 album 'Prairie Home Invasion' by Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon in tribute to Mojo who died recently. Listen now on Mixcloud or tune in on Ginger Feather FM at 1pm or 8pm from Monday. *The Lou Reed song Some Kinda Love was recorded by the Velvet Underground and not just by Lou as I said during the show. I should really check these things before I record the show!

Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon - Let's Go Burn Ole Nashville Down 
Hayseed Dixie - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 
Fierce Flowers - Mirador 
Indigo Girls - Watershed 
Tim O'Brien - Father of Night 
Annabelle Chvostek Ensemble - Some Kinda Love*
Birds of Chicago - Sans Souci 
Our Native Daughters - Better Git Yer Learnin' 
Rod Picott - Uncle John 
Kris Kristofferson - Me and Bobby McGee 
Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon - Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster 
Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon - Love Me I'm A Liberal 
Gillian Welch & Allison Krauss - I'll Fly Away 
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Trampled Rose 
Tumbling Bones - Just Because 



Friday 9 February 2024

Off The Beaten Tracks 12 February 2024

This week's Off The Beaten Tracks radio show has songs relating to St Valentine's Day - needing someone, love, kissing, same sex attraction, something that isn't love, anticlimax and heartbreak which I think just about covers it all. 

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

Show of Hands - If I Needed Someone 
Chris Bradley - The Man I Love 
Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart 
Cara Dillon - Johnny, Lovely Johnny
Nuala Kennedy - Ye Lovers All 
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution - Pretty Ploughboy 
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Lady of the Island
Marierad & Anna - She Loves Me (When I Try)
The Deadly Winters - Kiss The Gunner's Daughter 
The Rails - Habit
Luke Jackson - This Ain't Love (But It'll Do) 
Virginia Kettle - Falling 
Krista Detor - Emma's Lullaby 
Kat Flint - Anticlimax
Billy Bragg - A Lover Sings
The Beatles - I've Just Seen A Face 






Friday 2 February 2024

Off The Beaten Tracks 5 February 2024

This week's show includes two tracks from Melanie's album Live From Morecambe. Listen now on Mixcloud or from Monday at 1pm or 8pm on Ginger Feather FM.

Rab Noakes - Freight Train 
Dominie Hooper - Hastings 
Jesca Hoop - Murder of Birds 
Duncan McCrone - I Ain't Marchin' Anymore 
Melanie - Ruby Tuesday (Live) 
Melanie - Jammin' Alone (Live) 
Fabian Holland - Welcome To The Magic Show 
This Is The Kit - Doomed Or More Doomed  
Rachel Sermanni - Tiger 
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains 
John Lennon - Oh Yoko! 
The Proclaimers - Make My Heart Fly (Live) 
Mark Erelli & Karine Polwart - Mother of Mysteries 
Blowzabella - The Origin of the World