Off The Beaten Tracks mix 5th October

This week's mix includes a Lau cover of a Beatles song and Eric Clapton singing a John Martyn number. Also some classical guitar playing by Kasia Smolarek from her 2026 album titled Home Sessions. 

Tune in now on Mixcloud or from Monday on Ginger Feather FM

Lau - Dear Prudence
Li Ban - PV O'Donnell Set
Lindisfarne - Scarecrow Song
John Renbourn & Wizz Jones - Strolling Down The Highway
Miranda Sykes & Jim Causley - Onward Christian Soldiers
Hannah James & Toby Kuhn - The Ragged Woman
Eric Clapton - May You Never
Ewan McPherson - The High Surge of the Sea / Caravan Up North
Eddi Reader - John Anderson My Jo
Dick Gaughan - Sail On
Kasia Smolarek - Simone Iannarelli : L’ultimo caffè insieme
Banter - The Last Rose of Summer
Cardboard Fox - Right Swiper
The Magpie Arc - I Ain't Going Nowhere
Skinner & T'witch - It's Alright Now
Chas Ambler - Day Comes 

Ginger Feather FM music mix Sept 2026

Listen now on Mixcloud. Or from Monday on Ginger Feather FM - see link below the pic.

King Creosote - Not One Bit Ashamed
Mishaped Pearls - Cornish Girl
Petunia & The Vipers - The Cattle Call
The Tiger Lillies - Don't See The Sun
The Young 'Uns - Cable Street
Cara - Better Days
Aisling Irwin - One Day All of This Will End
Sara Parkman - Salikons rosor
Jez Lowe - The Pitmen Poets
Jo Philby - The Maid on the Shore
Karine Polwart - Swim Until You Can't See Land
Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita - 1677
Edward Foster - The Release 

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OTBT USA & UK mix 21 Sept 2026

A mix of music from both sides of the Atlantic with tracks from recent releases by I'm With Her, The Rebel Eves and Danni Nicholls. 

Listen now on Mixcloud or from Monday on Ginger Feather FM 

Kris Kristofferson - Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
The Rebel Eves - Long Gone Don Juan
Tim O'Brien - He Walked On
Indigo Girls - Least Complicated (live)
Danni Nicholls - Hide
Flying Burrito Brothers - Dark End of the Street
I'm With Her - Game to Lose (live)
Benji Kirkpatrick - May This Be Love
Ben Nicholls w/ Martin Simpson - Flash Company
Corrina Hewat - Greenwood Jig / Fèis Rois Jig
Dr Faustus - Spanish Ladies
June Tabor - Now I'm Easy
Linda Thompson - Give Me a Sad Song
Capercaillie - The Quimper Waltz 

Off The Beaten Tracks 14 September 2026

Playlist for Ginger Feather FM radio show for the w/c 14th of September. Listen now on Mixcloud. 

Steeleye Span - All Around My Hat
Siobhan Miller - May Morning Dew
Steve Knightley - All Quiet On The Western Front
Sharon Shannon - Blackbird
The Pogues - A Pair of Brown Eyes
The McCalmans - Song of the Plough
Beans on Toast - The Glastonbury Oak
Lucas Drinkwater - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Meg Baird - Cross Bay
Plu - Ddim Ar Gael
Mike Oldfield - Mike Oldfield's Single (Theme from Tubular Bells)
Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow
Coreen Scott - Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Fairport Convention - Portfolio 

Dolly Parton tribute mix

A few tracks from the legend that was Dolly Parton who touched so many people's lives through her music and her Imagination Library that distributed books to countless children around the world. I've included tracks from the younger generation of American musicians and singers like Molly Tuttle and Sarah Jarosz along with Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves who are very much keeping the bluegrass tradition alive in the 2020s. Hope you enjoy these selections. 

Tune in from Monday at 1pm or 8pm on Ginger Feather FM or listen now on Mixcloud.

Dolly Parton - Seven Bridges Road
Birds of Chicago - Cannonball
Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves - Nancy Blevins
Al Scorch & The Country Soul Ensemble - Miss Rosie
Emmylou Harris - (You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie
Jerry Lee Lewis - I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone
Dolly Parton - Joleen
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - Goodbye Girl
Pokey LaFarge - It's Not Over
Tumbling Bones - Just Because
Rosanne Cash w/ Johnny Cash - September When It Comes
Dolly Parton - Love Is Like A Butterfly
The Tillers - The Road Neverending
The Mammals - East Side West Side
The High Bar Gang - Heaven's Light Is Shining
Sarah Jarosz - House of Mercy
Dolly Parton - Little Sparrow
Locust Honey String Band - Her Ways 

Off The Beaten Tracks 31 August 2026

I'd already got this show recorded before I heard of Dolly Parton's passing so will play a song or two on the next show. I'm not much of a country music fan but she released three bluegrass-influenced records in the early 2000s, the second of which - Little Sparrow - has some great songs on it with guests such as Alison Krauss and Jerry Douglas. 

But my latest show mainly has music from this side of the pond with two tracks from Findlay Napier's latest album Outsider. Listen now on Mixcloud or from Monday on Ginger Feather FM.

Billy Bragg & Wilco - Walt Whitman's Niece
Patsy Matheson - No Angel
Findlay Napier - Outsider
Reg Meuross - I Am The House
Alice Allen & Patsy Reid - Lady Isabella Wemyss’ Strathspey/Miss Ross’ Strathspey/Elgin/Easter Elchies
Equation - Cross The River
Damien O'Kane - All Among The Barley
Kris Drever - Every Time
GNOSS - Vore Tullye
Darwin Song Project feat Jez Lowe - Jemmy Button
Iona Lane - Curlew
Belshazzar's Feast - Sussex Cotillion & Italian Concerto (Live)
Moll Baxter - 4 o'clock
Findlay Napier - Hey There Stranger 

Frank Beard tribute mix

I was saddened to hear of the passing of ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard. I got to see them twice in concert, the first time being at the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington back in 1985 when they were still riding high on the success of their album Eliminator. More recently I saw them at the Manchester Apollo in 2013. Their music, especially albums such as Tres Hombres, El Loco and Deguello, have never been far from my turntable though those last two I originally bought on a 2 on 1 tape released in 1983 presumably to cash in on Eliminator.

Anyway, I've loved their music all of my adult life and it's sad that Billy is now the last remaining member of their classic and much-loved line-up. 

This mix features three of their songs along with some other favourites of mine from the world of blues, boogie and a bit of gospel thrown in too. 

Tune in on Mixcloud or on Ginger Feather FM from Monday at 1pm or 8pm. 

ZZ Top - Dust My Broom
Dom Martin - Daylight I Will Find
Little Whitt & Big Bo - Mean Old World
Eric Bibb - Lovin' In My Baby's Eyes
Jackie Venson - Rollin' On
Blind Boys of Alabama - Amazing Grace
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Gone But Not Forgotten
ZZ Top - Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell
Robert Cray - The Forecast (Calls for Pain)
Hat Fitz & Cara - Sister Sister
Seasick Steve - Back in the Doghouse
Eric Clapton - Hold Me Lord
Captain Beefheart - Gimme That Harp Boy
ZZ Top - I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide