Wednesday 23 December 2020

Final Show of 2020

An hour of rock and indie music including 3 tracks from the Whole Lotta Roadies album* that is raising money for out-of-work Scottish road crews. Check it out at https://wholelottaroadies.bandcamp.com/releases

Listen to the show on Mixcloud 

Big Country - Wonderland 
The Levellers - 15 Years
The Proclaimers - Over and Done With*
The Boomtown Rats - She Said No
Dresden Dolls - Backstabber
KT Tunstall - The Black Horse and the Cherry Tree*
Love & Rockets - Bound for Hell
Hugh Cornwell - No More Heroes
Belle & Sebastian - I'm A Cuckoo*
Cosmic Rough Riders - Baby You're So Free
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me
The Mission - Like a Hurricane
Patti Smith - Soul Kitchen
The Stranglers - Cruel Garden

Off The Beaten Tracks
On Ginger Feather FM 
Every day at 11am, 4pm and 8pm

Friday 18 December 2020

Best New Releases of 2020

My favourite album of the year is the cover versions Kate Rusby recorded with her partner Damien O'Kane. Hand Me Down is a varied collection with some songs new to me and others being old favourites that I can sing along to. Good medicine for these troubled times.

Runner-up would be Fabian Holland's atmospheric album Under the Red Island Bakery which he recorded in Germany and is a suitable soundtrack to these emotionally-challenging months that we have all endured thanks to Covid-19.

Discovery of the Year is Katie Spencer. Someone on the Talkawhile message board requested a song of hers during the first lockdown and she is one of the best young singer/songwriter guitarists I've come across in the last few years. Recently she was filmed supporting Michael Chapman at a venue in York, the concert subsequently being broadcast online.

There is, of course, no Top 10 list of gigs for 2020, my last live music experience having been She Shanties supported by Paddy Garrigan & The Stroller Priests in Morecambe back in February. But there have been enjoyable online gigs ranging from the memorable sight of Chris Wood sat playing his guitar in an upturned wheelbarrow in a shed in his back garden to the impressive surroundings of Sezincote Estate in The Cotswolds where Show of Hands, along with Johnny Kalsi, were filmed back in September.

So here is my Top 10 New Releases of 2020.

Deep Cabaret - Matchless
Kris Drever - Where The World Is Thin
Kim Edgar - Held 
Fairport Convention - Shuffle and Go 
Chris Flegg - Twenty's Plenty
Fabian Holland - Under the Red Island Bakery
Sarah Jarosz - World on the Ground
The Levellers - Peace
Kate Rusby - Hand Me Down
Katie Spencer - Live at Acoustic Roots

Colin Bertram

Christmas Show 2020

Some songs and instrumental pieces to get you in the mood for the Festive Season. Listen on Ginger Feather FM from Monday or from now on Mixcloud.

The Carrivick Sisters - Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Peat and Diesel - Fairytale of Stornoway
Emily Smith - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
The Albion Christmas Band - Winter Song
Maura Kennedy - Beneath The Mistletoe
Richard & Linda Thompson - We Sing Hallelujah
Dar Williams - The Christians & The Pagans
Joni Mitchell - River
Ben Folds - Bizarre Xmas Incident
Emily Smith - Santa Will Find You
Big Country - Peace In Our Time (live)
George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (demo)
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - In Dolce Jubilo
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Silent Night
Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Solvola - Christmas Carousing \ I Won't Be A Fisherman
Celia Briar - Colville Bay* 
John Shuttleworth - The Christmas Orphan


From the Microphonavirus fundraiser albums available to download from Bandcamp.

Friday 11 December 2020

Off The Beaten Tracks 11 December

A look back at albums released in 2020 along with a few Xmas tracks thrown in. And a fitting farewell to Barbara Windsor with a Carry On song by The Low Countries. Listen on Mixcloud

James J Turner - This Christmas
Augustus Stephens - It's Christmas Time Me Boys
Mossy Christian - Dan Leno
Fairport Convention - A Thousand Bars 
Deep Cabaret - Real Reality
Howard Haigh - Country Fair
Kim Edgar - 1,2,3,4,5
Katie Spencer - Drinking The Same Water (live)
John Smith - Willy Moore (live)
Fabian Holland - I Must Live All Alone
Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis 
The Levellers - Ghosts in the Water
The Low Countries - Carry on Christmas
Manic Street Preachers - Last Xmas (live)

Off The Beaten Tracks
On Ginger Feather FM 
Every day at 11am, 4pm and 8pm

Friday 4 December 2020

Off The Beaten Tracks 4 December

This week's show includes tracks from some albums released in 2020* plus a new single from Katherine Priddy which you can download from her Bandcamp page.

Kate Rusby - Love of the Common People*
Ross Ainslie - Wounded Forest*
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - River Man
Gillian Frame & Findlay Napier w/ Mike Vass - Van Diemen's Land*
The Copper Family - Babes in the Woods
Katherine Priddy - Still Winter, Still Waiting
Kris Drever - Westlin' Winds*
Pentangle - Sally Go Round The Roses
Odette Michell - Dance Me Through The Night
VAMM - Better Days
Patsy Reid - The River Princes
Jez Lowe - Bother At The Hoppins
Rakoczy - Dead Horse*
Chris Flegg - Not One of Buddy's Habits*

Off The Beaten Tracks
On Ginger Feather FM 
Every day at 11am, 4pm and 8pm

Saturday 21 November 2020

Bullying in Tory Britain

One of the worst aspects of the Priti Patel debacle is the effect it must be having on all the staff who have been at the receiving end of her alleged bullying. To have been given a glimmer of hope that she would be forced to resign and to then see those hopes dashed, by a Prime Minister who initially ignores and then dismisses the report which says she broke the ministerial code, must be shocking and upsetting.

Bullying is something that affects many people in all walks of life. Twitter is alive with people sharing difficult memories from their school days and sadly those who bully other children do not always grow out of that behaviour. My own experiences of bullying in the workplace include being asked why there had been so many complaints about my work, this being within a couple of days of returning from a 3-month period of sick leave following a mental breakdown. That was in the public sector – I left that job shortly after that interrogation - but I have experienced equally aggressive behaviour from a manager in a private sector company.

Hardly a week seems to go by without a story in the news about people being physically, sexually or emotionally bullied whether it is in politics, sport, the entertainment world or wherever. And sadly, much of this sort of behaviour has worsened during the pandemic lockdowns with instances of domestic abuse being on the rise.

So to have a Prime Minister effectively condoning bullying is deeply depressing and extremely worrying for us as a society and for the individuals who have had, and continue to have, their lives wrecked by bullies. And to now see all these Tory MPs lining up to sing Ms Patel's praises makes one wonder how many are speaking freely and how many have been bullied into posting these messages.

Welcome to Brexit Britain 2020. 


Friday 20 November 2020

Off The Beaten Tracks 20 November 2020

This week's show mostly features tracks from the 60s and 70s. Listen on Mixcloud

The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
Joni Mitchell - I Don't Know Where I Stand
The Mamas and The Papas - I Saw Her Again Last Night 
Tim Buckley - No Man Can Find The War
Nick Drake - Things Behind The Sun
Tom Waits - Downtown Train
James Taylor - You Can Close Your Eyes
Richie Haven - Freedom
Janis Joplin - Half Moon
Fairport Convention - A Sailor's Life
Simon & Garfunkel - America
ZZ Top - Brown Sugar

Off The Beaten Tracks
On Ginger Feather FM 
Every day at 9am, 4pm and 8pm

Friday 13 November 2020

Off The Beaten Tracks 13 November 2020

A North American line-up on next week's Ginger Feather FM radio show. Tune in from Monday 16th at 9am, 4pm or 8pm or listen now on Mixcloud

Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Indigo Girls - Strange Fire (live)
The Mammals - Radio Signal
Slaid Cleaves - Texas Love Song (feat. Terri Hendrix)
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine
Suzy Thompson - In The Pines (live)
Danny Schmidt - Cries of Shadows
The Be Good Tanyas - When Doves Cry
Heather Bristow - Raggedy Man
I'm With Her - Crescent City
Shinyribs - If You Don't Know Me By Now
Tokyo Rosenthal - Thank You, You're Beautiful
Tim O'Brien - Tombstone Blues
The Sweet Lowdown - Reuben's Train
The Mammals - You Can Come To My House

Off The Beaten Tracks
On Ginger Feather FM 
Every day at 9am, 4pm and 8pm

Friday 6 November 2020

Lockdown mix November 2020

Some songs for the current lockdown in England with 3 tracks from the CSN demos album. Listen now on Mixcloud.

The Beatles - Fixing A Hole
Madam Tsunami - Hold Me Close
Beans on Toast - Here At Homerton Hospital
Bella Hardy - Time Wanders On
David Crosby - Almost Cut My Hair
Stephen Stills - The Doctor Will See You Now
Graham Nash - Be Yourself
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Round and Round (It Won't Be Long)
King Creosote - So Forlorn
Captain of the Lost Waves - Happy in Bed
William The Conqueror - In My Dreams
Kris Drever - Hunker Down \ That Old Blitz Spirit
Shawn Colvin & Loudon Wainwright III - A Heart Needs A Home
Pippa Reid-Foster - Deirdrie in Dreams

On Ginger Feather FM from Monday 9 Nov at 4pm and 8pm 

Friday 30 October 2020

Off The Beaten Tracks 30 October 2020

A couple of tracks from Howard Haigh's new album Tree Dance plus some other old and new-ish songs from the Lancaster & Morecambe music scene. 

Richard Thompson - Tempted
Jess Thomas - Northern Rain
Howard Haigh - Tree Dance
Turnstone - 4 Moons
Jenny Sturgeon - Frost and Snow
Karine Polwart - Harder to Walk These Days Than Run
Kate Rusby - Days
The Young 'Uns - Bob Cooney's Miracle
Chris Flegg - Chasing Cuckoos
Beth de Lange - Bicycle Ride
Kriss Foster - Me My Zombie and I
The Long Lost Band & Larry Beckett - On The Hook
Howard Haigh - Highland Fling
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

Friday 23 October 2020

Off The Beaten Tracks 23 October 2020

Ginger Feather FM folk music radio show playlist for w/c 26 October. 
Available to listen to now on Mixcloud.

Martin Simpson - Trouble Brought Me Here
Nancy Kerr & James Fagan - I Am The Fox (live)
Carthy, Hardy, Farrell & Young - Chickens in the Garden
Christy Moore - God Woman
Chris & Kellie While - Van Dieman's Land
Billy Bragg - St Swithin's Day
The Rails - Send Her To Holloway
Megson - The Last Man in the Factory
Drever McCusker Woomble - Into The Blue
Bella Hardy - Guan Guan
John Smith - To Have So Many (live)
Martin Simpson - Neo
Dougie McLean - Rattlin' Roarin' Willie
The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc - The Hen Hunt

Off The Beaten Tracks
On Ginger Feather FM 
Every day at 11am, 4pm and 8pm

Saturday 17 October 2020

Off The Beaten Tracks 17 October 2020

Ginger Feather FM radio show for w/c 19 October 2020 with two songs from Gilmore & Roberts' Up From The Deep album which was released 10 years ago. Plus covers of Neil Young songs by Annie Lennox and Natalie Merchant. Listen now on Mixcloud.

Seth Lakeman - Garden of Grace
Jackson C Frank - Blues Run The Game
Katie Spencer - Spencer The Rover
Ben Farmer with Howard Haigh - 14-8-3
Jamie Smith's Mabon - Fiddler's Despair
Kris Drever - I'll Always Leave The Light On
Flying Pickets - Only You
Grace Petrie - Beeswing
Gilmore & Roberts - Fleetwood Fair
Annie Lennox - Don't Let It Bring You Down
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Pocahontas
Natalie Merchant - After The Goldrush
Crooked Still - Little Sadie
Carson McKee - Simple Twist of Fate
Gilmore & Roberts - The Badger Set

Tune in to Ginger Feather FM at 

Friday 16 October 2020

1980s Top 20

Radio Two recently had an Eighties day with all programmes featuring eighties music. They had a vote for the greatest album of the decade and U2's Joshua Tree won. On Talkawhile people have been posting their top 20s and here's mine. I saw all of these in concert apart from Love and Rockets. That includes the Blues Brothers Band though sadly without Jake and Elwood. 

Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
Big Country - Steeltown
Blues n Trouble - Blues n Trouble
Eric Clapton - Another Ticket
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Mainstream
Love and Rockets - Express
Martin Stephenson & The Daintees - Boat To Bolivia
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Motorhead - Another Perfect Day
Repo Man - soundtrack
Sky - 3
Ted Hawkins - Watch Your Step
The Blues Brothers - soundtrack
The Damned - Phantasmagoria
The Icicle Works - The Small Price of a Bicycle
The Stranglers - Feline
U2 - War
ZZ Top - Eliminator

As with these things you remember other albums after you've posted it. If it was a Top 30 I'd have probably added albums by Michelle Shocked, Throwing Muses, George Harrison, John Mellencamp, The Mission, Queen, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads, Dead Kennedys and Roy Harper & Jimmy Page.


Thursday 15 October 2020

Queen concert Edinburgh 1982

Another extract from the Drum Solos, Bottles and Bands book which I self-published back in 2012. I was browsing through some Wiki pages on Queen's tours back in the 80s, in particular the Hot Space tour I saw them on. I remember towards the end of the show Freddie introducing someone who came on at the side of the stage but due to the appalling sound quality of the venue I had no idea who this guy was. Turns out they had a 5th touring member of the band playing keyboards off-stage. I had read previously that this was Spike Edney but I've now discovered Spike didn't start playing with Queen until 1984. So the guy who appeared from behind that curtain at the Royal Highland Showground was former Mott The Hoople member Morgan Fisher. 



In June 1982 Queen played two nights at Ingliston on the outskirts of Edinburgh. By now I'd passed my driving test so was able to borrow my mum's car for the night and my mate Phil Caton came up from Lancashire for the gig. After browsing the merchandise stand we eagerly awaited the start of the music. First on was the American band Heart. I knew the name but that was about all. I don't remember much about them. They probably made a good enough noise but for me they were just a warm-up for the main act. 

By now I owned a few Queen albums including the new, if rather patchy, Hot Space so I reckoned I would know pretty much everything they were likely to play. And this was indeed the case but with some songs it took me a while to figure out what it was they were playing. This was because the venue at Ingliston was the Royal Highland Agricultural Exhibition Hall which was designed to display farm machinery rather than stage rock concerts. So the acoustic were, in a word, awful. Part of the way through Queen's set I realised that the sound was bouncing off the back wall which didn't help. It was certainly loud enough. Queen were never shy at turning the amps up but in the circumstances it might have been better to have turned them down a bit. I imagine it was something of a nightmare for their sound crew.   

But it wasn't all gloom and doom. This being one of the first rock concerts I'd ever been to I was determined to enjoy it, poor sound quality or not. Perhaps because of the synth-heavy nature of some of the songs on Hot Space they only played three numbers from that album including the brilliant 'Under Pressure'. The set started with two numbers from the Flash Gordon soundtrack, the second song 'The Hero' was the one song I wouldn't have recognised as I didn't have a copy of that album. It's always a bit disconcerting when you think you will know all the songs and you hear something unfamiliar and, of course, the terrible acoustics wouldn't have helped. One hiccup on stage happened during 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love'. Brian May joined Freddie Mercury on acoustic guitar for the first part of the song and then swapped back to his electric guitar. He walked up to the front of the stage, started playing, but nothing came out. Presumably the problem was with the guitar as he hurriedly swapped to another one and all was well. It just shows it can happen to the best of them. One other song that has stuck in my mind was 'Get Down Make Love'. Phil was going through a religious phase and disapproved of such lyrics. He didn't recognise the song when it started and asked me what they were playing. When I told him, he sat down on the floor until it was over. 

That was my one and only Queen concert. A few years later some friends tried to persuade me to go down to London to see Queen at Wembley but I declined, hoping that they would come back north of the border. Alas, it was not to be and those dates at Ingliston were the last concerts (with Freddie) Queen played in Scotland. With Freddie's declining health and subsequent death from an AIDS-related illness we lost one of rock music's great front men, a fine songwriter and he was no slouch on the piano either. The day he died, 24 November 1991, I was in Edinburgh seeing The Cult at The Playhouse and I read the news in The Scotsman newspaper the following morning. It's fair to say I was very upset by this terrible news and I struggled to get through the rest of the day. On the Friday evening I was alone in the house I rented with a friend in St Andrews and after a whisky or two I shed some tears while listening to A Night At The Opera. Farewell Freddie and thanks for the music.

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Friday 9 October 2020

Off The Beaten Tracks 9 October 2020

 Playlist for Ginger Feather FM radio show w/c 12 October and on Mixcloud.

George Harrison - Any Road
Davy Graham - Homeward Bound
Ottersgear - Where Ottersgear Lies
Rowan Ross - Low Level Love
Cara Dillon - Both Sides of the Tweed
Drop The Box - Not The Love
The Colourfield - Thinking of You
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Caroline
Coreen Scott - Briar and the Rose
Steve Knightley - Downbound Train \ Country Life
Honey and the Bear - One More Pour
Pentangle - Light Flight
Edgelarks - Oyster

Off The Beaten Tracks
On Ginger Feather FM 
Every day at 11am, 4pm and 8pm

Saturday 3 October 2020

Radio Show Playlist 4 October 2020

 A playlist of mostly North American bands and singers this week. Tune in on Ginger Feather FM from Monday the 5th or listen now on Mixcloud

Hayseed Dixie - Rockin' In The Free World
The Mountain Firework Company - Spare Change
Hot Vultures - The Black Dog Blues
Alison Krauss & Robert Plant - Trampled Rose
Tom Waits - Step Right Up
Annabelle Chvostek Ensemble - Fox Tail
Ben Reel - Up There In The Sky
Carly Dow - Cut and Run
Gillian Welch & Alison Krauss - I'll Fly Away
Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors - Here We Go
Locust Honey String Band - He Ain't No Good
Hot Vultures - Chattanooga Papa
Ashleigh Flynn - Dirty Hands and Dirty Feet
Jerry Lee Lewis - You're Right, I'm Left, She's Gone
Hayseed Dixie - Duelling Banjos

Off The Beaten Tracks
On Ginger Feather FM 
Every day at 11am, 4pm and 8pm

Friday 25 September 2020

Off The Beaten Tracks 27 September 2020

From Monday 28th Sept my show will be going out in the evenings one hour earlier at 8pm on Ginger Feather FM. Here's this week's playlist...

Grace Petrie - Tom Paine's Bones
John Smith - Hares on the Mountain
Turin Brakes - Emergency 72
Luke Jackson - This Ain't Love (But It'll Do)
KT Tunstall - Girl and the Ghost
The McCalmans - The Chief's Return From War
Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar - Warwick Road
Jenny Sturgeon - Linton
Odette Michell - Great Old Northern Road
Grace Petrie - Pride
Richard & Linda Thompson - It'll Be Me (live)
Emily Smith - Sweet Lover of Mine
Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston - Only One Way
Tumblin' Bones - Just Because

Previous shows available to listen to at https://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/


Sunday 20 September 2020

Radio show playlist 20 September

Playlist for my Ginger Feather FM radio show for the w/c 21 Sept with tracks from some albums released this year including The Levellers and Kate Rusby. Also available on Mixcloud
 
The Levellers - Food Roof Family
Rakoczy - Skewbald
Joshua Burnell - Le Fay
George Harrison - Dark Horse (demo)
Jon Palmer Acoustic Band - Music Town
Kate Rusby - Friday I'm In Love
Nic Jones - The Little Pot Stove
Nuala Kennedy - His Bonnet So Blue
The House Band - Here's The Tender Coming
The House Band - Major Harrison's Fedora
Broom Bezzums - Way Over Yonder in a Minor Key
Rura - The Smasher
The Levellers - Our Future

Off The Beaten Tracks
On Ginger Feather FM 
Every day at 11am, 4pm and 9pm

Friday 11 September 2020

OTBT Mix 11 September

Another mix for the coming week on Ginger Feather FM as I'm recovering from a cold. I've included tracks by some artists I haven't featured on the show in a while including a couple by Bill Malkin and The Band Wagon. I came across them a number of years back while staying at a BnB just outside Aberystwyth. The guy running the place was the keyboard player in the band and on hearing that I was doing a show on local radio he disappeared off and came back with a cd for me. Harvest is one of three cds they sent me over the next few years. 

There are also tracks from recent releases by Fabian Holland and Fierce Flowers. If you can't wait until Monday to hear the mix, it is on Mixcloud.

Playlist

Chris While & Julie Matthews - On My Way
Bryony Holden - I Wish I Was A Fool For You
Faustus - Blow The Windy Morning
Flook - Beehive (The Beehive + Poon Hill + Vladimir's Steamboat)
Clype - Now My Home
Fabian Holland - Another Monday
Bill Malkin and The Band Wagon - The Blue Bell Shuffle
Bill Malkin and The Band Wagon - Expecting To Fly
John Smith - Gently Johnny
Le Vent Du Nord - Pauvre Enfant
Fierce Flowers - Belle Paresse
Jenn & Laura-Beth - Wings on my Heels
Session A9 - One For The Road
Ross Ainslie - To The Woods Suite


Friday 28 August 2020

Radio show playlist 29 August

Mostly a selection of covers this week with two from Kate Rusby's new release Hand Me Down.

Kate Rusby - Manic Monday
Bert Jansch - Black Water Side
The Imagined Village - Scarborough Fair
Karine Polwart - Swim Until You Can't See Land
The Bad Shepherds - Up The Junction
Christy Moore - America, You Are Not The World
Rosanne Cash - September When It Comes
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Kate Rusby - Shake It Off
Seasick Steve - Whiskey Ballad
Dresden Dolls - My Alcoholic Friends
Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors - The Wine We Drink
Los Lobos - Down Where The Drunkards Roll
Richard Thompson - The Boys of Mutton Street



Wednesday 26 August 2020

Book & cd review : Tom Kitching - Seasons of Change

Towards the end of of Tom's 'busking round England' book he describes how one night he made his way across country in the dark back to the National Centre for Folk Arts where he was staying. With his eyes slowly adapting to the darkness he comes across a horse standing at a gate. This is followed by him seeing a shooting star and he reminds the reader how the dark, away from city lights, is not something to be feared but to be savoured. Moments later he sees a second horse and I had to stop reading and laughed out loud as Tom relates how it, "let off soft equine farts from time to time."

A sense of humour is probably a useful tool to have when busking around disparate parts of his home land, from the seaside communities largely populated by retired business folk wary of strangers, to the multi-cultural conurbations of the Midlands. While Tom did play the occasional gig on his travels and was sometimes put up by friends and fellow folkies, there were times he was genuinely busking to earn enough money to feed himself and pay for a roof over his head. Members of the public were often more generous in the less affluent places and people frequently wanted to stop and chat - one memorable conversation being with another fiddle player who had been a classical musician until his failing eyesight meant he could no longer read music. But he had discovered the joys of sitting in on folk sessions and this had opened up a whole new world of music to him. 

There are frequent references to pubs visited, with highly competitive games being played in one of them, and encouraging signs that young people are setting up their own independent businesses be they bars or coffee shops. This gives one hope for the future in that many young people seem to be rejecting the depressing sameness of the high street dominated by the big names.

In one of the interludes in the book he describes how on rare occasions the music would almost transport him to another place. It's as if all the planets are aligned and for a brief moment there is something truly esoteric and wonderful happening. He describes one such occasion when he was lost in his playing. When he opened his eyes there were a couple of passers-by who were also caught up in the moment and could tell that something special had just happened. 

If you are a musician, as I am, or a regular concert goer (when such things were possible), you may well have witnessed this sort of almost magical event. You come away feeling uplifted and forget all the negative stuff that so often dominates our everyday lives.

The cd which Tom has released is a fine collection of tunes on which he is ably assisted by Scandinavian latmandola player Marit Falt. If it had been meant as an accompaniment to the book then I would have expected it to be mostly solo fiddle pieces but it does give you a feel for Tom's playing style. He is, by his own admission, a large chap (beer, pies and pizza feature heavily in his book) and he has at times quite a percussive way of playing his instrument.

While the cd is likely to appeal mainly to folk music fans, the book can be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in the state of England in the present day from the wilds of West Cumbria to the metropolis that is Old London Town. 

For more info check out his website - tomkitching.co.uk 



Saturday 22 August 2020

Radio show playlist 22 August

On this coming week's show on Ginger Feather FM you can hear tracks by this lot. Also available to listen to on Mixcloud.

John Martyn - Spencer The Rover
John Martyn - Singing In The Rain
The Mountain Firework Company - How Long
Patsy Matheson - The Hollies
Tom Kitching - Old Molly Oxford
Odette Michell (w/ Phil Beer) - Rolling Shores of England
Sandy Denny - Whispering Grass
The Mountain Firework Company - If Only
The Levellers - Burning Hate Like Fire 
Show of Hands - Stop Copying Me
Lady Maisery - Let No Man Steal Your Thyme
Karine Polwart - We're All Leaving
Indigo Girls - Go
The Tillers - Rivers of Jordan
Ben Hemming - Me and the Leper

Off The Beaten Tracks
Every day at 11am, 4pm and 9 o'clock in the evening

Saturday 15 August 2020

Radio show playlist 15 August

To coincide with what would have been Fairport's Cropredy Festival weekend I've selected a few tracks by them plus an acoustic re-working of the Richard and Linda Thompson song Wall of Death from RT's Acoustic Classics album. The final track is from Swarbtricks, a cd of fiddle tunes written by Dave Swarbrick and performed by Duncan Wood.

Fairport Convention - Walk Awhile
Battlefield Band - That's How Strong My Love Is \ The Water Is Wide
Sarah McQuaid - Solid Air
Gillian Frame & Findlay Napier with Mike Vass - Barbara Allan
Fairport Convention - Doctor of Physick (live)
Fierce Flowers - Scene de Danse
Gilmore & Roberts - Average Joe
Richard Thompson - Wall of Death
Edward Abbiati - Judgement Day #2
Conrad Vingoe - Hungry
The Midden - Wild Mountain Thyme
Fairport Convention - Meet on the Ledge (live)
Duncan Wood - Farewell to Edinburgh

https://www.internet-radio.com/station/gingerfeatherfm/

https://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/off-the-beaten-tracks-15-august-2020/


Saturday 8 August 2020

Radio show playlist 8 August

This week's playlist for Off The Beaten Tracks on Ginger Feather FM. Check out the Facebook group for details of the schedule.

John Renbourn & Wizz Jones - Strolling Down The Highway
John Kearney & Lucy Farrell - Hares on the Mountain
Ewan Robertson - One for the Ditch
Ewan MacPherson - Mad Mr MacPherson & Seamus The Camel
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman - The Whitby Maid
Kathryn Tickell - One for Julian
Calum Stewart & Lauren MacColl - Crow Road Croft
Calum MacLeod - Perpetual Dancing
Jenna - Endless Summer
Jenn & Laura-Beth - Wings on my Heels
Steve Knightley - The Boys of Summer
Steve Hussey & Jake Eddy - The Miller Girl

Listen online on the internet-radio website or on Mixcloud 


Saturday 1 August 2020

Radio Show playlist 1 August

This show will be broadcast on Ginger Feather FM the week commencing the 3rd August 2020. You can also listen to it on Mixcloud. It includes a three track tribute to Peter Green at the end of the show. I saw Peter with his band touring with John Mayall in the early 2000s but their friendship went back to the 60s when John gave Peter some studio time to record the first Fleetwood Mac songs. 

Nick Drake - Pink Moon
I'm With Her - Game To Lose
Neil Young - Comes A Time
Smith & McClennan - The Sweetest Girl
The Rails - William Taylor
Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
Jenny Lascelles - Summer Song
Ross & Ali - Ruby
The Young 'Uns - These Hands
Rock Salt & Nails - I'm Looking Through You
Peter Nardini - Hug
Nick Keir - Take My Time
Neil Young - Lotta Love
Fleetwood Mac - Man of the World
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - Ramblin' On My Mind


Monday 27 July 2020

OTBT mix 26 July

A mix of UK and USA artists with the only thing in common being that all the tracks are over 5 minutes long.

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite Judy Blue Eyes
Angie Palmer - Raising Hurricanes
Tom Kitching - Slow Jigs
Tom Waits - Had Me A Girl
Reg Meuross - I Am The House
Cara Dillon - P Stand for Paddy
Kate Bush - The Big Sky (MeTeorogical Mix)
Martin Stephenson - Slaughterman
Gigspanner Big Band - Death and the Lady

https://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/otbt-mix-26-july/

Sunday 26 July 2020

Coping with Abusive Emails

As you may know from previous posts, at times I struggle with my mental health. I have one sibling, an older sister, who at times has been fairly sympathetic but mostly has been short-tempered with me especially when my illness has made it difficult for me to cope with and support our ageing parents' various health issues.

My sister rarely phones me. Email is her preferred communication tool. This makes it easier for her to criticise and belittle me when she feels I am failing in my role (as she sees it) as one of our mother's carers. After a particularly fraught series of incidents earlier this year, my sister went as far as informing me that I was, "no longer fit to be part of mum's care team". That speaks volumes about our relationship - she treats me like I'm a junior employee rather than a family member.

The effect of her emails on me over the years has on occasion seen me reduced to tears and has worsened my anxiety. I have tried drowning my sorrows (never a good idea) and at times it has made me nervous about even looking at my inbox. She does a good line in guilt-tripping too.

But I turned a corner last year with a new therapist who gave me strategies for dealing with these messages. Last night I came up with a new one - treat the email as a submission from a student who has failed to grasp the nature of the question set them. As their tutor, I have to try to encourage them to rewrite it in a more caring and compassionate manner. For obvious reasons I am not going to post my sister's email but you can use your imagination about its content based on my comments below.

Assignment: Write an email to a sibling informing them that one of their parents has developed worrying dental issues during lockdown. Within the last 24 hours the sibling has informed you that they are going for a coronavirus test. This, on top of their ongoing mental health issues, has left them feeling vulnerable and worried.

Feedback to student S’s answer:
You have failed to express any sympathy for your sibling's medical situation. Neither have you taken into account the travel restrictions which have made it difficult, if not impossible, for them to travel to see your mother, let alone accompany her to a dentist appointment.
Starting your email with the line, "This is what happens when you don't take mum to the dentist," is at best unhelpful and will instantly put the recipient on the defensive. And ending it with, "Mum deserves better than this," (meaning your perceived lack of care your sibling shows for said parent) is also an unnecessary comment which shows a complete lack of empathy.

Please try again using this as a guide to help you form a more constructive and supportive message.

1. Start by sympathising about your sibling’s health scare.
2. Remind them of the background to the parent’s dental issues.
3. Update them on the current situation – ref dental surgeries having been closed.
4. Discuss the next steps for parent’s treatment.
5. Ask if they will be able to help once their health has improved.
6. Wish them well and say you will keep them updated.

I hope this is of help to anyone in a similar situation to me and if you are in Lancashire and want more info on dealing with unwanted emails check out the Lancashire Constabulary website.

Thursday 16 July 2020

Judy Dyble tribute show

This week's show is my tribute to the singer and founder member of Fairport Convention who died on the 12th of July following a long illness. Although I never met her I, along with I'm sure many others, will have felt they knew her through her involvement with the Fairport message board Talkawhile. 

She sent me a couple of lovely messages when I first started presenting my folk music radio show on Diversity FM in 2008. Ironically one of her last postings on Talkawhile was about the death of Stranglers' keyboard player Dave Greenfield, both of them passing at the age of 71. 

You can listen to the show on Mixcloud

Judy Dyble - Neverknowing
Fairport Convention - Chelsea Morning
Giles, Giles & Fripp - Under The Sky
Trader Horne - Down and Out Blues
Judy Dyble - Better Side of Me
Fairport Convention - Both Sides Now (live)
Stephen Stills & Judy Collins - Girl From The North Country
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard
Richard Thompson - I Ain't Marching Anymore
Fairport Convention - Time Will Show The Wiser (live)
Fairport Convention - One Sure Thing (live)
Judy Dyble - Head Full of Stars
Judy Dyble - Letters
Judy Dyble - Talking With Strangers

Saturday 11 July 2020

Radio show playlist 10 July

Here's the playlist for my show which will be broadcast on Ginger Feather FM every day at 4pm and 9pm for the w/c 13th July. Alternatively you can listen to it on Mixcloud

The show includes tracks from new releases by Richard Thompson, The John Palmer Acoustic Band and Fabian Holland.

John Renbourn - Blues Runs The Game
Honey and the Bear - The Ferry
Dick Gaughan - Now Westlin Winds
Chloe Foy - Borrow From Tomorrow
Fabian Holland - Flour Bed
Jon Palmer Acoustic Band - Bridges not Walls
Damian Helliwell - Fear of Askaval
Richard Thompson - If I Could Live My Life Again
Fairport Convention - Tale in Hard Time
Davy Graham - She Moved Through The Fair
Steeleye Span - Dark Eyed Sailor
Lorraine McCauley and the Borderlands - Big Love
Jon Palmer Acoustic Band - Great North Road

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Friday 3 July 2020

OTBT Blues Show 3 July

I've been revisiting some of my old blues albums along with a couple of recent Robert Cray Band purchases so thought I'd put together a blues show. The first half is mainly acoustic with covers of songs by the likes of Blind Boy Fuller and Robert Johnson and then some electric playing from the likes of Buddy Guy and Fleetwood Mac. 

If you're a fan of early 20th century blues, check out Max's Blues Club Online on Facebook though it is a private group so you'll need to apply to join. But fear not, they are a friendly bunch and you can hear live music every Sunday from 5pm.

The show - https://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/otbt-blues-show-3-july-2020/ and the playlist - 

John Renbourn & Wizz Jones - Hey Hey
Ralph McTell & Wizz Jones - You're Gonna Quit Me Baby
Michael Roach - San Francisco Bay Blues
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Climbing On Top Of The Hill
Big Bill Broonzy - Glory Of Love
Keb Mo - Kindhearted Woman Blues
Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson - Sister Sister
Michael Chapman - Waiting For A Train
Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train Comin' (acoustic)
Little Whitt & Big Bo - Walking Blues
Janis Joplin - Little Girl Blue
Blind Boys of Alabama - Motherless Child
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Checkin' On My Baby
Eric Bibb - Six O'Clock Blues
The Robert Cray Band - Consequences 
Fleetwood Mac - Jigsaw Puzzle Blues

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Friday 26 June 2020

Off The Beaten Tracks mix 22 June

Due to some technical issues I decided it would be easier to do a mix this week rather than a radio show. So you don't get any of my between-song chat but do get an extra song, namely the Rhiannon Giddens one. 

Listen at https://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/otbt-mix-26-june/

Neil Young - Tell Me Why
Stephen Fearing - Break Our Mother's Heart
Sarah Jarosz - Johnny
Sam Amidon - Rocky Island
The Delmore Brothers - I Let The Freight Train Carry Me On
George Harrison - Behind That Locked Door
I'm With Her - Ryland (Under The Apple Tree)
The Jellyman's Daughter - I Hope
Tom Waits - Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You
Birds of Chicago - Come Morning
Our Native Daughters - You're Not Alone
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Trampled Rose
Sarah Jarosz - Empty Square
Rhiannon Giddens - Come Love Come
Neil Young - Out On The Weekend

Friday 19 June 2020

Radio show playlist 19 June

In the mood this week for some acoustic rock and indie music as well as one or two folk artists. On Ginger Feather FM this week ending 21st June there is a Lancaster music mix going out at 11 every morning and my Off The Beaten Tracks show is on at 5pm and 9pm. 

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Here's my latest show playlist which you can also listen to on Mixcloud

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Psycho Killer
Karine Polwart - I'm Gonna Do It All
Martin Stephenson & The Daintees - You Really Had A Heart
Mariearad & Anna - She Loves Me (When I Try)
Jake Shimabukuro - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Paddy Garrigan & The Stroller Priests - Me and the Universe Blues
The Proclaimers - I'm On My Way
Del Amitri - Move Away Jimmy Blue
Paul McCartney - Another Day
America - Muskrat Love
Amanda Palmer - No Surprises
Queen - Leaving Home Ain't Easy
Pete Townshend - Drowned
Jane's Addiction - Jane Says

Thursday 11 June 2020

Radio show playlist 12 June

Two songs by Led Zeppelin from their third album which was released 50 years ago and more recent tracks by Will Pound, Trail West, Carly Dow and the Gigspanner Big Band.

https://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/off-the-beaten-tracks-12-june-2020/

The Waterboys - The Raggle Taggle Gypsy
Roving Crows - New York Love Song
Oysterband - By Northern Light
Will Pound - Clinch Mountain Back Step
Trail West - John Henry
Carly Dow - Like Coyotes
Curtis Eller - Sugar For The Horses
Kris Kristofferson - Help Me Make It Through The Night
Steeleye Span - New York Girls (w/ Peter Sellers)
Gigspanner Big Band - Hard Times of Old England (live)
Kate Rusby - Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Led Zeppelin - That's The Way
Led Zeppelin - Bron-Y-Aur Stomp

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Thursday 4 June 2020

Radio show playlist 5 June


https://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/off-the-beaten-tracks-5-june-2020/

Fairport Convention - Cider Rain
Sandie Shaw - Scarborough Fair
The Imagined Village - Space Girl
KT Tunstall - White Bird
King Creosote - So Forlorn
Honey and the Bear - Springtime Girl
Findlay Napier - A Walk Across The Rooftops
Katherine Priddy - Wolf
Broken Boat - Basement Days
The Jellyman's Daughter - American Tune
Katie Spencer - Shannon Road
Kim Edgar - Hands Held
Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm
Richard Thompson - A Brother Slips Away
Kyrie Slind - Sandra's Melody

Wednesday 27 May 2020

Jazz mix for John Cumming

I've put together a mix featuring at least one artist I know John worked with, namely Robert Glasper, the rest being some of my own favourite jazz artists and a new discovery - Malcolm Strachan, trumpeter with the Haggis Horns.

Unlike John, I am not very knowledgeable about these people - I just like the music - so I have done a mix rather than a radio show. The most recent track is by Malcolm Strachan from his new release, About Time.


Horace Silver - Cryin' and Sighin'
Cannonball Adderley - Still Talkin' To Ya
Kenny Burrell - Scotch Blues
Dave Milligan - One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
Scottish Guitar Quartet - After Hours
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - A Little Busy
Abdullah Ibrahim - Just A Song
Robert Glasper - Stella By Starlight
Thelonius Monk - Misterioso
Malcolm Strachan - Aline
Colin Steele Quintet - Goodnight John Boy

Thursday 21 May 2020

John Cumming 1948-2020

It is somewhat unreal to read a comment on Twitter from the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins about a member of your extended family, admittedly one who has just had his obituary printed in the Guardian newspaper. My mum's cousin John was, by all accounts, a giant in the world of jazz - a highly respected and much loved promoter and founder of the London Jazz Festival. There will be numerous tributes written about him by far better writers than me but I thought I'd write my own memories of the man who was simply cousin John.

John was about 16 years older than me, and like me had gone to school at the Edinburgh Academy. I saw little of him while growing up, unlike his parents who were like grandparents to my sister and I as three of our grandparents had died long before we came into the world. I have very fond memories of his father Robert who was a lovely man with a contagious laugh. But when John was spoken of by my parents there was something rather disapproving in their tone relating to the fact that John had left university and was working at the Traverse theatre. As is so often the case with young people who decide to try and earn a living in the Arts, such a move does often not go down well with their parents' generation. There are usually comments along the lines of, why doesn't he get a proper job and just do this theatre stuff as a hobby? 

Thankfully for the jazz world John ignored such comments and stuck with his love of theatre, subsequently moving down south to Bracknell and then on to London. On the day of his wedding to Ginnie I recall her coming up to me at the reception, which was held at their house in the country, and asking me who I was. From her delighted reaction I guessed that we had met sometime previously but I had changed somewhat since that time. The photos I have of John from those days are limited to their wedding and his mother's surprise 80th birthday party at a hotel somewhere in Wiltshire, this being where his parents moved to after his father had retired from the Health Service. 

I did on occasion stay with them at their house in north London which was always enjoyable though I recall one slightly fraught incident when John accidentally hit his young daughter Kate with a door which he was opening. The poor girl burst into tears and John had that exasperated look on his face that said, "I can't do anything right here." I remember looking in awe at all the cds he had piled up on a table though John was somewhat dismissive of them as he remarked that he would never be able to find the time to listen to them all. Little did I know that I would experience the same thing when I became involved in local radio. Promoters would at times swamp me with new releases that I would struggle to keep on top of but it was a nice problem to have.

John was generous when it came to offering free tickets to family members and on one occasion we met him at the Usher Hall on the Edinburgh date of a Wynton Marsalis tour. I went to the concert with my father who was mainly a fan of the Big Band Era and wasn't sure about many of the younger musicians who John worked with but he enjoyed the Marsalis gig as did I. And when John discovered that I was a fan of Richard Thompson he put me on the guest list for a couple of his gigs. 

It would have been nice to have talked with John more about jazz, especially our shared love of Blue Note Records, but as my wife observed, the times we saw him either at home or at family occasions he was in home mode and more interested in hearing our news or talking about our shared love of cats. But in the last email I received from him, while he was in hospital, he did comment on the fact that I'd recently downloaded a Dave Milligan album of solo piano pieces. He simply said, "Dave Milligan good.... very good."

I'm going to miss you cousin John as will Mr Rollins and countless others in the music world and beyond.

Friday 15 May 2020

Radio show playlist 15 May

This show features a number of artists who took part in the CCC Festival organised by Ciaran Algar on the weekend of the 9th/10th May. Ciaran had been doing what I think were daily collaborations with other folk musicians in the weeks leading up to the festival and posting them on his Facebook page. 

Jenn Butterworth did a solo set but I've included a couple of tracks from the album she recorded with Laura-Beth Salter as Jenn mainly works with other people rather than as a solo artist. You should be able to find all the sets from the festival on Ciaran's YouTube page. Philip Henry and Hannah Martin are part of the Gigspanner Big Band but they played a set under their own band name of Edgelarks.

You can listen to the show on Mixcloud

I included part of Strange Little Girl at the end of the show in tribute to Dave Greenfield who died of Covid-19 recently. 

Jenn & Laura-Beth - Apple at the Crossroads + Elzwick's Farewell
Lukas Drinkwater - Blue Ridge Mountains
Gilmore & Roberts - She Doesn't Like Silence
James J Turner - Kalahari Rain
Katie Spencer - Hello Sun
Findlay Napier - Codliver Oil and the Orange Juice
Gigspanner Big Band - Last Broadcast
Luke Jackson - Eliza Holt
Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar - All Fall Down
Martin Stephenson - Blind Man's Blues
Jenn & Laura-Beth - Come To Jesus
Graham MacKenzie - Night At Glencoe Mills
The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl

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Friday 1 May 2020

Radio show playlist 1 May

An all American / Canadian line-up on this week's show including two tracks from Cam Penner's excellent album Gypsy Summer. It was hearing a track from this album that put me in touch with his promoter, Geraint Jones, who then introduced me to numerous artists from North America who I would probably never have heard of including Tumbling Bones, Annabelle Chvostek and many, many more. Check out his website - G Promo PR

Cam Penner - Driftwood

Gillian Welch - Dark Turn of Mind
Norah Jones - Cold Cold Heart
Carly Dow - Not a Songbird
Kris Kristofferson - In The News
Annabelle Chvostek Ensemble - Some Kinda Love
The Resonant Rogues - Waiting For The Rain
Curtis Eller - Sweatshop Fire
Tumbling Bones - Just Because
Red Molly - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Locust Honey String Band - Time Goes So Slow
Steve Earle - Long Lonesome Highway Blues
Rosanne Cash - Tennessee Flat Top Box
Cam Penner - My Lover and I

https://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/off-the-beaten-tracks-1-may-2020/


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Friday 24 April 2020

Radio show playlist 24 April

This week's show includes two songs from a Low Countries gig at the Golden Lion in Lancaster, newly recorded songs by Idiot Johnson and Betty Manson plus a few numbers recorded back in the day at the Gregson Open Mic*. 
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The Low Countries - A Friend Worth the Name
Show of Hands - If I Needed Someone
June Tabor - Strange Affair
Idiot Johnson - Low Country
Betty Manson - Hole in my Heart
Joanne Levey - Grey Funnel Line*
Kish McGuire - Sally Free and Easy*
Wes Martin & Jo Gillot - Hazy Jane I*
The Low Countries - Morecambe*
Paul Rhodez - Space Oddity*
Paddy Garrigan & The Stroller Priests - Now I Want More
Bob Dylan - If Not For You
The Low Countries - Summer Doesn't Know Me
Nick Drake - Pink Moon

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Friday 17 April 2020

Radio show playlist 17 April

This week's show has two tracks from the 2019 album 'Weather Beaten' by Katie Spencer. Check her out on Bandcamp 

Information about the Freedom Of Mind Community Choir which Kim Edgar is involved with can be found here

The Bad Shepherds - Teenage Kicks / Whiskey In The Jar
Alice Jones - Woody Knows Nothing
Katie Spencer - Drinking The Same Water
Northern Flyway - We Are The Morning
Spiers & Boden - Rochdale Coconut Dance
Siobhan Miller - While The Whole World Sleeps
Eddi Reader - Wild Mountainside
Seth Lakeman - Bold Knight
Mikey Kenney - Up Hardman Street
Katie Spencer - The Best Thing About Leaving
Kim Edgar - Anchor in the Sky
Chris Bradley - To Your Darkness
Van Morrison - Moondance
Lava - Afternoon In The Shade
Howard Haigh - Reflections

Listen to this week's show on Mixcloud

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Sunday 12 April 2020

Radio show playlist 12 April

After searching for songs on my computer with Easter, Sunday, Chocolate, Egg, Church, Cross and so on in the title I came up with this playlist. 
Hope you enjoy it. You can listen to the show on Mixcloud.

Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus
Dolly Parton - Shine
The High Bar Gang - Angel Band
The Cox Family - I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)
Anna Laube - Chocolate Chip Banana Cupcakes
Richard Thompson - Calvary Cross
Martin Stephenson & The Daintees - The Old Church
The Rails - Grace of God
Peter Knight & John Spiers - Easter Thursday \ Three Case Knives
John Renbourn & Wizz Jones - Fresh as a Sweet Sunday Morning
Kate Rusby - Pace Egging Song
Barluath - Light of Hope
Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening - Old Stones \ Holy Island Jig

Tuesday 7 April 2020

Radio show playlist 7 April

I've included a few selections by musicians from the Lancaster and Morecambe area in this show which you can listen to on Mixcloud 

Teddy Thompson - I Should Get Up
The Broken-Hearted Few - Hidden From The Sun
The Lost Lad - Winter
Nick Drake - Man In a Shed
Heidi Talbot - Music Tree
Idiot Johnson- Bedhead Sally
Kriss Foster - She Fell Between the Station and the Train
Moll Baxter - Tonight I'm Fighting
Jesca Hoop - Tulip (undressed)
First Aid Kit - Blue
Tim O'Brien - Father of Night
Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee
Rita Hosking - Sing
The Mamas and The Papas - Dream A Little Dream of Me
The Byrds - Goin' Back

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