Off The Beaten Tracks 22 July 2024

This week's Ginger Feather FM radio show coincides with my 60th birthday (on Wednesday) so I've included tracks by some of my favourite bands and singers. There are three Beatles covers, one Manic Street Preachers cover and two songs from Honey and the Bear's latest album Away Beyond The Fret. Listen now on Mixcloud. 

Seth Lakeman - Kitty Jay
The Rails - Breakneck Speed
Honey and the Bear - Dear Grandmother
Fairport Convention - Rosie
Show of Hands - If I Needed Someone
Denny Laine - Blackbird
Cornershop - Norwegian Wood
James J Turner - Kalahari Rain
Linda Thompson - Dear Mary
Kim Edgar - Anchor in the Sky
Honey and the Bear - The Mighty Oak
The Anchoress - This Is Yesterday
Kris Drever - Patrick Spence
Jamie Smith's MABON - Yes We Sing Now
Megson - We Are Better Than This
King Creosote - The Vice-Like Gist Of It 

Off The Beaten Tracks mix 15 July 2024

Some Bob Dylan on this week's mix on Ginger Feather FM. Listen now on Mixcloud.

Bob Dylan - All I Really Want To Do 
Cara Dillon - Bright Morning Star 
Ben Nicholls w/ Patsy Reid - Tibby Fowler 
Kate Rusby - Who Knows Where The Times Goes 
Christy Moore - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll 
Zak Hobbs - Root So Bitter 
Karine Polwart - Swim Until You Can't See Land 
Bob Dylan - Motorpsycho Nightmare 
Phil Ochs - Links on a Chain 
Ninebarrow - You Who Wander 
Tom Kitching - Polska for a Lost Rubber Duck 
Nancy Kerr & James Fagan - Queen of Waters 
Strawbs - I'll Carry On Beside You 
The Byrds - My Back Pages 
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues

Off The Beaten Tracks mix 08 July 2024

A mix this week on Ginger Feather FM. Tune in at 1pm or 8pm daily from Monday or listen now on Mixcloud.

Session A9 - The Magic Roundabout 
Richard & Linda Thompson - When I Get To The Border 
Ben Nicholls w/ John Smith - Down Where The Drunkards Roll 
The Mountain Firework Company - If Only 
Keb' Mo' - She Just Wants To Dance 
Grainne Duffy - Sweet Liberation 
Pierre Bensusan - Feel It So 
Sarah Jarosz - Interlude 2 
Sarah Jarosz - Across The Canyon (reprise) 
Allison De Groot & Tatianna Hargreaves - The Banks of the Miramichi 
Philip Henry & Hannah Martin - Sportsman's Hornpipe / The Banks of the Nile 
Banter - Rolling Down The Ryburn 
Jez Lowe - The Pitmen Poets 
Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forward 
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (12" Mix) 

Off The Beaten Tracks 01 July 2024

A folk music line-up in this week's show featuring two songs from Linda Thompson's new album Proxy Music and two from the Darwin Song Project from 2009. Listen now on Mixcloud. 

Fairport Convention - Rising For The Moon 
Linda Thompson feat. Kami Thompson - The Solitary Traveller 
Faustus - While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping 
Darwin Song Project - Heavy in my Hand 
Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan - Craigie Hill 
The Willows - Johnny Robson 
Cara Dillon - Daughter 
Jo Philby - Maid on the Shore 
Steve Knightley - Tall Ship Story 
Linda Thompson feat. The Unthanks - Three Shaky Ships 
Tom Kitching - Grimstock / Greensleeves Morris
Ribbon Road - Closing Down Sale 
Darwin Song Project - Clock of the World 

Off The Beaten Tracks 24 June 2024

Playlist for Ginger Feather FM radio show to be broadcast the w/c 24th June. Listen now on Mixcloud.

Jackie Venson - One Step Forward 
Our Native Daughters - Black Myself 
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - Dooley's Farm 
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown 
The Jayhawks - Eyes of Sarah Jane 
Dolly Parton - Tracks of my Tears 
Neil Young + Promise of the Real - From Hank to Hendrix 
Neil Young + Promise of the Real - Are You Ready for the Country 
Be Good Tanyas - House of the Rising Sun 
Steve Earle - Leroy's Dustbowl Blues 
Aoife O'Donovan - Porch Light 
Cam Penner - My Lover and I
June Carter Cash - Ring of Fire 
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Climbing on Top of the Hill
Johnny Winter - Bad Girl Blues 

Off The Beaten Tracks mix 17 June 2024

There's a bit more variety on this coming week's Ginger Feather FM show having recently downloaded the new album by Lancaster band The Lovely Eggs. Theirs is not the kind of music I'd normally play on the show but it's good to shake things up a bit from time to time.

I've often felt that a show called Off The Beaten Tracks shouldn't stick too closely to one or two genres of music but having too much variety can put listeners off who tune in expecting to hear mainly folk and Americana. Having said that, I have included most of the following in my shows in the past.

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

Nick Drake - Time Has Told Me 
Kitty MacFarlane - Namer of Clouds 
Edgar Winter feat. Keb' Mo' - Lone Star Blues 
Rhiannon Giddens - Way Over Yonder 
Yasmin Williams - Adrift (ft. Taryn Wood)
Mishaped Pearls - Tamesis 
Jethro Tull - Bouree (live) 
Indigo Girls - Get Out The Map 
Paddy Garrigan & The Stroller Priests - Sea Monsters 
Kathyrn Priddy & George Boomsma - Ready To Go 
The Lovely Eggs - I Am Gaia 
The Byrds - Triad 
Kris Kristofferson - Kiss The World Goodbye 
Hayseed Dixie - Don't Fear The Reaper 
Nick Drake - Day Is Done 

200 not out!

I heard yesterday that I have passed the 200 radio shows mark on Ginger Feather FM so I thought I would look back at my playlists from 2023 and see who the most played artists were last year.

Top with 9 plays was Eliza Carthy with The Young 'Uns on 8, Fairport Convention and Kathryn Tickell on 7, Billy Bragg and Merry Hell on 6 and Megson, The Levellers and Richard Thompson on 5 plays each. 

Four was a popular number with each of these getting that number of plays: The Low Countries, Cara Dillon, Martin Stephenson, Bert Jansch, Kris Drever, Steeleye Span, Gilmore & Roberts, Bob Fox, Neil Young, Rhiannon Giddens, Ragged Union. 

Next week will be a mix with quite a variety of artists including The Lovely Eggs, The Byrds, Edgar Winter, Yasmin Williams and Kathryn Priddy.