OTBT Folk Mix 1st January 2024

A mix to start off the New Year with a number from Jo Gillot's new album Auk Elk Antler.
Listen now on Mixcloud or on Ginger Feather FM from New Year's Day at 1pm or 8pm.

Sam Sweeney - Want To Fly Want To Flee 
Steeleye Span - The Dark Morris Song 
Christy Moore - Missing You 
Breabach - Birds of Passage 
Jo Gillot - Wolf 
Bert Jansch - Gypsy Dave [ft D Swarbrick]
Katie Spencer - The Edge of the Land 
Carthy, Hardy, Farrell and Young - Sally Free and Easy 
Fairport Convention - Tam Lin (Live) 
Jez Lowe - You Can't Take It With You 
Damien O'Kane - January Man 
Emily Smith - Winter Song 
Drever, McCusker & Woomble - Rest on the Rocks 
GNOSS - Vore Tullye 

Check out Jo's music on her Bandcamp page

Off The Beaten Tracks 25 December 2023

My last show of 2023 with some personal favourites ranging from The Beatles in 1967 to Reverend Freakchild in 2020. Listen now on Mixcloud or from Monday on Ginger Feather FM.

Have yourselves a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!

Wings - Deliver Your Children (in memory of Denny Laine)
The Beatles - Fixing A Hole 
Supertramp - Even In The Quietest Moments 
Bruise - Don't Make Me Wait 
Hugh Cornwell - Ships That Pass in the Night 
The Stranglers - European Female [Acoustic] 
The Dylan Project - Subterranean Homesick Blues 
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What I Am 
Kate Bush - Rocket's Tail 
The Beatles - Across The Universe 
Virginia Kettle - Promise of a Sunrise 
The Proclaimers - Should Have Been Loved (Live) 
Nils Lofgren - No Mercy (Live) 
Reverend Freakchild - I Know You Rider 

Wings from the London Town album 1978  

OTBT Xmas Mix 2023

A selection of seasonal tunes including three numbers from Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden's new album Glad Christmas Comes. Listen now on Mixcloud.

Have Yourselves a Merry Festive Season!

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - In Dulce Jubilo 
Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden - Fairytale of New York 
Cat Stevens - Morning Has Broken 
James J Turner - This Christmas 
The Low Countries - Carry On Christmas 
Richard Thompson - Don't Sit On My Jimmy Shands 
Odette Michell - I Once Loved A Shepherd 
Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden - Beautiful Star 
Simon & Garfunkel - Seven O'Clock News / Silent Night 
Steeleye Span - Gaudete 
Peter Nardini - Hogmanay 
Rab Noakes - Goodbye Booze 
Hayseed Dixie - Holiday 
Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus 
Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis 
Ben Folds - Bizarre Xmas Incident 
Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden - I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas 
Manic Street Preachers - Last Christmas 
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - We Wish You A Merry Christmas 

Off The Beaten Tracks 11 December 2023

A couple of Pogues numbers in tribute to Shane McGowan and songs from albums released in 2023. Tune at at 1pm or 8pm on Ginger Feather FM or listen now on Mixcloud.

The Pogues - Sally MacLennane 
Merry Hell - Leave It In The Ground 
IMAR - Bangers 
GNOSS - The Drovers 
Nuala Kennedy - Marguerite 
The Low Countries - Road 
The Young 'Uns - Hand over Hand 
Ninebarrow - The Snows They Melt The Soonest 
Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening - Clogstravaganza 
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway feat. Old Crow Medicine Show - Big Backyard 
Larkin Poe - Georgia Off My Mind 
Meg Baird - Star Hill Song 
The Pogues - Dirty Old Town 
Dallahan - Marina 
Mikey Kenney - Rowland Hornpipe 

Recommended releases of 2023

As we approach the end of another year I've been having a look back at the albums released in 2023 which I have either been sent promo copies of or have bought myself. My thanks go to Jane Brace and Pat Tynan for sending me downloads and CDs and as I think I wrote a year ago, they along with Rock n Reel magazine have been my main sources of new material. This is really the lifeblood of my radio show as it keeps it interesting for me, hearing new music mainly from the UK & Ireland and across the pond in the USA and Canada. 

I haven't made it to that many gigs this year but highlights include the Towersey Festival, Hayseed Dixie at Kanteena here in Lancaster and Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening at the Victoria Hall in Settle. 

I have had a couple of late arrivals, Future Meets The Past by James J Turner and Auk Elk Antler by Jo Gillot. I haven't had a chance to listen to them yet but their music is always worth lending your ear to. 

Thanks as ever to Citizen K and Gordon for keeping Ginger Feather FM on air. I do enjoy putting these shows together and my thanks also go to my regular listeners on GF FM and Mixcloud.

All the best for the Festive Season and for 2024. 

CB, Lancaster
December 2023

So here's my Top 15 releases of 2023 in alphabetical order. 

Meg Baird - Furling 
Dallahan - Speak of the Devil 
Rhiannon Giddens - You're The One 
Gilmore & Roberts - Documenting Snapshots 
GNOSS - Stretching Skyward
Honey & The Bear - Away Beyond The Fret
IMAR - Awakening
Nuala Kennedy - Shorelines 
Mikey Kenney - Northwestern English Fiddle
The Low Countries - Betty's Boudoir Sessions Vol. II 
Megson - What Are We Trying To Say? 
Merry Hell - Let The Music Speak For Itself 
RURA - Dusk Moon 
Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening - Cloud Horizons 
The Young 'Uns - Tiny Notes 

Off The Beaten Tracks 4 December 2023

A mostly singer/songwriter playlist this week with two songs from John Kelly's album "Better Late Than Never". Listen now on Mixcloud or from Monday on Ginger Feather FM at 1pm or 8pm.

Roddy Frame - Small World
John Kelly - Battle of Whitehall
James J Turner - Same Old Story 
Thea Gilmore - All Along The Watchtower
Ralph McTell - Leah's Favourite 
Martha Wainwright - Comin' Tonight
Graham Nash - Cold Rain
Nick Drake - Poor Boy
Kim Edgar - Some Things Happen 
John Kelly - Nobody Sings About My Heroes
Martin Stephenson - Look Down Look Down 
Patsy Matheson - No Angel 
Kitty Macfarlane - Namer of Clouds
Teddy Thompson - I Should Get Up 
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Walt Whitman's Niece