Richard Thompson - Don't Sit on my Jimmy Shands The Low Countries - Carry On Christmas Hayseed Dixie - Have a Drink On Me Juey - Gin The Long Lost Band - Twelfth Knight (King of December) Michelle Shocked - Psalm James J Turner - This Christmas Manic Street Preachers - Last Christmas Kenny Young & The Eggplants - There's Something Funny In The Water The Bad Shepherds - God Save The Queen \ Mountain Road KT Tunstall - Minature Disasters The Albion Christmas Band - Winter Song Kevin Henderson - Christmas Day I'da Mornin Richard & Linda Thompson - We Sing Hallelujah
Duncan McCrone - Waiting Here For You Lorraine McCauley and the Borderlands - Belong Patsy Matheson - Hundred Guitars Jaywalkers - Our Sarah Heather Bristow - Ghost of a Memory Show of Hands - Coming Home Karine Polwart - Salter's Road Maeve MacKinnon - The Father's Song Marc Nellis - You Must Know This By Now Ottersgear - Eye of Eyes Jamie Smith's Mabon - Huzzah Ribbon Road - Closing Down Sale Peter Nardini - Hogmanay Kate Rusby - Elfin Knight
Here are my 20 recommended albums of 2012 in date of release order. You can hear tracks from about a dozen of these albums on the next show which will be broadcast on Monday the 17th of December. My thanks go to all the promoters and artists who have sent me albums and mp3s over the last 12 months and a special mention goes out to to everyone who was involved with Diversity FM and to Neil King for inviting me to join Acoustic Spectrum.
Top 20 of 2012
Patsy Matheson - Stories of Angels and Guitars Cam Penner - Gypsy Summer Kim Edgar - The Ornate Lie The Imagined Village - Bending The Dark Duncan McCrone - Colourblind Peter Nardini - Hug Ribbon Road - Roadside Dreams Jaywalkers - Early For A Thursday Marc Nellis - House to House Cellar to Cellar Karine Polwart - Traces Macmaster/Hay - Hook Nick Keir - The Edge of Night Lau - Race The Loser Jamie Smith's Mabon - Windblown Maeve MacKinnon - Once Upon An Olive Branch Lorraine McCauley & the Borderlands - Light in the Darkest Corners Session A9 - Session A9 Show of Hands - Wake The Union Heather Bristow - Ragged Souls Ottersgear - The Quest for Rest
Best Album : Peter Nardini - Hug Best Song : Karine Polwart - 'Salters Road' from her album Traces Best Gig : Steve Knightley, Lancaster University, 9th February
Hope you enjoyed the wintery songs on last night's show... The Imagined Village - Winter Singing James J Turner - This Christmas Catherine MacLellan - Snowbird Mary Hampton - Concerning A Frozen Sparrow John Rigby - Walking Winter Skylines The Bailey Sisters - Snows of Winter The James Brothers - Rain and Snow Kathleen MacInnes - Snow on Drumochter Breabach - Scotland's Winter Kate Rusby - Little Jack Frost Sarah MacDougall - Permafrost Simon and Garfunkel - Hazy Shade of Winter Up In The Air - Thomas McElvouge's / The Barra Boys / Dark Days
The Albion Christmas Band - Winter Song Seth Lakeman - Lady of the Sea Megson - Time to Get Up Nick Keir - Middle-Aged Men Richard Thompson - Old Thames Side The Waifs - When I Die The Low Countries - Putty Wooden Horse - Yonder Calling Cam Penner - Driftwood The Long Lost Band - Twelfth Knight (King of December) Lau - Stewarts Cara Dillon - Bold Jamie
My plans for the rest of the year are as follows: Monday the 10th will be songs with a winter
theme, the 17th will be a "Best of 2012" and on the 24th I'll be playing some Xmas songs and other
stuff. I'll then be taking a break so there won't be a show on the 31st.
