Xmas / End of Year Mix

https://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/off-the-beaten-tracks-xmas-and-holiday-mix/

Emily Smith - Little Road to Bethlehem
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Good King Wenceslas
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - 500 Miles
Denny Laine - Blackbird
Jake Shimabukuro - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Peter, Paul and Mary - Puff The Magic Dragon
Manic Street Preachers - Last Christmas
Manic Street Preachers - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Indigo Girls - Mrs Robinson
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Jingle Bells
Big Country - Peace in our Time 
Gigspanner - Sitting on Top of the World
Sonny Terry - Skip to my Lou
Blind Boys of Alabama - Amazing Grace
Fleetwood Mac - Man of the World
Ted Hawkins - Peace and Happiness
James J Turner - This Christmas
Jethro Tull - Christmas Song
Emily Smith - Merry Christmas to all and Goodnight

Ginger Feather show 15 December

A look back at albums released in 2019. No Ginger Feather broadcast this Sunday but you can hear the show on Mixcloud

Howard Haigh - Darktown
Claire Hastings - Jack The Sailor
Megson - I Drew my Ship into the Harbour
Lau - I Don't Want To Die Here
Mikey Kenney - The Golden Castle / The Broken Pledge
Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening - Hushabye Birdie / Hexham Lasses
Ralph McTell - Close Shave
Rihannon Giddens & Francesco Turrissi - Gonna Write Me A Letter
Trio Dhoore - Haven
Blanche Rowan & Mike Gulston - Spirit of the Trees
Songs of Our Native Daughters - Blood and Bones
The Steve Howe Trio - The Changing Same
Dog Daisies - Eagletism

Ginger Feather show 8 December

As we approach the General Election our tech guru \ producer guy Citizen K suggested I put together a show of protest songs and include a few tracks by local musicians so here is the resulting playlist. Hope you can tune in this Sunday at 6pm.

The Bad Shepherds - London Calling\Manchester Calling\The Monaghan Jug
Mhairi Lockett - Get The Tories Out
Rory McLeod - Wrong Side of the Wall
Angie Palmer - Premonition Blues
Dick Gaughan - No Gods and Precious Few Heroes
The Unthanks - The Testimony of Patience Kershaw
Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies - The Judas Bus
Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston - Do Not Surrender
Billy Bragg - All You Fascists Bound To Lose
Hugh Cornwell - Stuck in Daily Mail Land
Roving Crows - Refugee
Duncan McCrone - I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
The Low Countries - We're All on the Verge of Something
Idiot Johnson - Northern Rain

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Recommended Albums of 2019

My annual look back at the year has shown that I have bought relatively few folk albums in 2019. I have been enjoying the freedom of being away from a radio station where I was regularly sent cds and free downloads so that I can now dip back into the many albums I've been sent over the last ten or so years as well as play the occasional new track. 

I have also been buying and listening to more jazz on both cd and vinyl which I guess is part of a trend among music lovers who are tired of just streaming music or paying for digital downloads and want to have an actually disc in their hands. I must admit most of my purchases have been old releases from the 50s and 60s but I have bought new releases by The Steve Howe Trio - The New Frontier and Abdullah Ibrahim - The Balance. 

As my radio shows are still mainly covering folk and acoustic music here it is, in vaguely alphabetical order, my...

Recommended Albums of 2019 

Claire Hastings - Those Who Roam
Howard Haigh - State of Play 
Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening - Hollowbone
Lau - Midnight and Closedown
Megson - Contradicshun 
Mikey Kenney - The Reverie Road 
Ralph McTell - Hill of Beans
Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi - There is No Other
Rory McLeod - Gusto!
Trio Dhoore - August

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