Off The Beaten Tracks 12 May 2025

On my latest show there are two tracks which feature Wizz Jones who passed away at the end of last month. Also songs from new releases by Samantha Whates & MG Boulter, Iona Lane, Marlon Williams and Lancaster band Hiroshima Twinkie.

Listen now on Mixcloud or at 8pm every evening on Ginger Feather FM. 

First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar 

Hiroshima Twinkie - Going To Hell in a Handcart 

John Renbourn & Wizz Jones - Fresh as a Sweet Sunday Morning 

Alice Jones - The Cruel Mother 

Stevie Palmer - Rise Up Singing 

Samantha Whates & MG Boulter - Lily-Rose

Marlon Williams - Kuru Pounamo

Damien O'Kane & Ron Block - Brown Eyes 

Davy Graham - Seven Gypsies 

Iona Lane - Silent 

Ralph McTell & Wizz Jones - When You're Gone 

Simon Mayor & Hilary James - When Summer Comes Again 

Paddy Garrigan & The Stroller Priests - Me and the Universe Blues 

Carolina Chocolate Drops - Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine

Rhiannon Giddens - You Put the Sugar in My Bowl 

The Foghorn Stringband - Chicken Reel 

OTBT mix 5th May

A mix with a theme of parts of the body, so songs with things like head and heart in the title. As I had so many songs to choose from I thought I would add some bonus tracks for Mixcloud listeners. So the playlist is as follows. Listen at 8pm on Ginger Feather FM from Monday.

Jez Lowe - Hands Feet
Darwin Song Project - Heavy in my Hand
Richard Thompson - Blackleg Miner
The Young 'Uns - Hand Over Hand
Runrig - Hearts of Olden Glory (live)
Peatbog Faeries - Shifting Peat & Feet
Roger Wilson - Where My Feet Are Going I Don't Know
June Tabor - Lay This Body Down
Linda Thompson - As Fast As My Feet
Shawn Colvin & Loudon Wainwright III - A Heart Needs A Home
Flossie Malavialle - Slipping Through My Fingers
Gilmore & Roberts - The Stealing Arm (Live)
Judy Dyble - Head Full of Stars
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman - The Maid with the Bonny Brown Hair
Lindisfarne - Turn A Deaf Ear
Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors - Rowdy Heart, Broken Wing 

Bonus Tracks (Mixcloud only)

This is the Kit - Scabby Head and Legs
Honey & The Bear - Head In The Stars
The Deadly Winters - Hand to Heart
Martin Stephenson - Wholly Humble Heart 

https://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/otbt-mix-5-may-2025/

Off The Beaten Tracks 28 April 2025

New radio show with two tracks from the Gigspanner Big Band album titled Turnstone. They are currently on tour as are The Young 'Uns and Steeleye Span with the latter playing at Kendal on May the 1st. 

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

Steeleye Span (featuring Francis Rossi) - Hard Times of Old England 

Gigspanner Big Band - The Rolling of the Stones 

SykesMartin - Lovely on the Water 

Spiers & Boden - Reynardine 

Richard Thompson - A Love You Can't Survive (live) 

Nuala Kennedy - Death and the Lady 

The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc - The Devil's Polska 

Seth Lakeman - The White Hare 

Gigspanner Big Band - Hind Horn

The McCalmans - Nowhere Else To Go 

The Young 'Uns - Dark Water 

Eddi Reader - Hummingbird 

Off The Beaten Tracks 21 April 2025

Two songs by James J Turner on my latest show including his new single Beltane Fires. Listen now on Mixcloud or from Monday on Ginger Feather FM. 

James J Turner - Beltane Fires
Fairground Attraction - Perfect
Fay Hield- Night Journey
John Renbourn - White House Blues
Steve Knightley - Forever Young
Charlotte Carrivick - I'm Glad That's Not My Dog
Ringo Starr - Sunshine Life For Me (Sail Away Raymond)
Pete Townshend and Raphael Rudd - Let My Love Open The Door
I'm With Her - Espresso
The Low Countries - We Weathered The Storm
The Jellyman's Daughter - I Hope
David Ferrard - The War Carries On (Turn Turn Turn)
Tim O'Brien - Everything Is Broken
M.G. Boulter - His Name Is Gene
James J Turner - How Could We Be Wrong
Larkin Poe - Kick The Blues
Errol Linton - Bo Diddit 

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