Friday, 26 May 2023

Off The Beaten Tracks 29 May 2023

Here's the playlist for my next Ginger Feather FM radio show including a song by Nancy Kerr & James Fagan who are playing a gig in Silverdale near Lancaster on Friday the 9th June. Tickets from Red Poppy Music. 

And you might like to download The Low Countries new release Betty's Boudoir Sessions Vol. II from Bandcamp. 

Ewan MacColl - The Manchester Rambler 
Show of Hands & Track Dogs - Secret World (live) 
Gilmore & Roberts - Things You Left Behind 
Fara - Broom Power 
Nancy Kerr & James Fagan - The Waters of the Clyde (live)
Honey and the Bear - Springtime Girl 
The Low Countries - Love to Hate
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Ingrid Bergman
Billy Bragg - The Saturday Boy
Myriam Gendron - Poor Girl Blues 
Fabian Holland - Four Inch Screen 
Roving Crows - Bury Me Naked 
The Stands - Lay Lady Lay 
Ted Hawkins - Watch Your Step 

Listen to the show now on Mixcloud. 




Friday, 19 May 2023

Off The Beaten Tracks 22 May 2023

This week's Ginger Feather FM show has been uploaded to Mixcloud. It includes two tracks from the new compilation album by Merry Hell titled Let The Music Speak For Itself.

Sandy Denny - Solo 
Salt House - Under The Same Moon 
Merry Hell - Bury Me Naked 
The Magpie Arc - Wassail 
Peter Knight's Gigspanner - Dave Robert's French Waltz 
The Waterboys - Everybody Takes A Tumble 
RURA - Journeys Home 
Merry Hell - Let The Music Speak 
Show of Hands & Track Dogs - Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) 
Siobhan Miller - Tranent 
The Levellers - Our Future 
King Creosote - Jump At The Cats 
Oka Vanga - My Sweet Guitar 


Friday, 12 May 2023

OTBT mix 15 May 2023

A mix with two tracks from the new album by GNOSS titled 'Stretching Skyward' released on May the 12th. Listen now on Mixcloud or from Monday at 1pm or 8pm on Ginger Feather FM.

GNOSS - Stroma 
Karine Polwart - I'm Gonna Do It All 
Steeleye Span - Thornaby Woods 
Simon Mayor - Si Bheag Si Mhor
Fairport Convention - Shuffle and Go
Equation - Return To Me
Cara Dillon - She Moved Through The Fair 
Jamie Smith's MABON - Frank's Reels 
The Young' Uns - Trespassers 
GNOSS - Honey Wine 
Christy Moore - Yellow Triangle
Flook - The Crystal Year/Foxes' Rock
Megson - Road To Hell (Part 2)
Bert Jansch - Poison 
Dan Haywood - A Floral Dance 




Saturday, 6 May 2023

Off The Beaten Tracks 8 May 2023

In tribute to Gordon Lightfoot I have four tracks by him including two covers by Connie Kaldor and Ron Sexsmith which are from an album titled A Tribute To Gordon Lightfoot. Tune in from Monday on Ginger Feather FM at 1pm or 8pm or listen now on Mixcloud.

Gordon Lightfoot - High and Dry 
Gillian Welch - Annabelle 
Carly Dow - Comet 
Darwin Song Project - Kingdom Come 
Kris Kristofferson - Kiss The World Goodbye 
Connie Kaldor - If You Could Read My Mind 
Ron Sexsmith - Drifters 
The Foghorn String Band - Pretty Polly 
The Sweet Lowdown - Low Clouds in the Morning 
Steve Earle - I Ain't Ever Satisfied (live) 
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown 
Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway 
Johnny Cash - One 
The Handsome Family - My Beautiful Bride 
The Be Good Tanyas - Little Black Bear 
Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves - The Road That's Walked by Fools 



 

Friday, 28 April 2023

Off The Beaten Tracks 1 May 2023

A radio show for May Day and the week following it. Tune in from Monday at 1pm or 8pm on Ginger Feather FM or listen whenever you like on Mixcloud. 

Iona Lane plays at More Music in Morecambe on Saturday the 6th of May. 

The Levellers - One Way 
Grace Petrie - Farewell to Welfare 
The Proclaimers - Cap In Hand 
Richard Thompson - King Henry 
Billy Bragg - Waiting for the Great Leap Forward 
Steve Knightley - All Quiet on the Western Front 
Fil Campbell & Tom McFarland - Day's Gonna Come 
James J Turner - Watching You 
Kim Edgar - Absent Father 
First Aid Kit - King of the World 
Frank Turner - Haven't Been Doing So Well [Acoustic]
The Trials of Cato - As Green As You 
The Proclaimers - The World That Was 
Iona Lane - Headspace 
Peatbog Faeries - Wacko King Hako 




Monday, 24 April 2023

OTBT Lancaster Music Mix

A mix from 2019 this week on Ginger Feather FM as I was unable to record a show last week due to our house being rewired. Tune in every day at 1pm and 8pm. 

Iona Lane - Brown Eyes
The Low Countries - Sun Street
Moonlight Gazette - Dinaresade
Idiot Johnson - Good Things Never Last
Dog Daisies - Carehome
Dan Haywood - Suspicious Farms
The Broken-Hearted Few - I Don't Think I Love You
Jo Gillot - Traveling Raft
Paddy Garrigan & The Stroller Priests - Sea Monsters
Stuart Anthony & Larry Beckett - Exile and the Kingdom
Howard Haigh - Reflections
Mikey Kenney - The Path I Walk Upon
Nino's Blue Saloon - We're Leaving Tonight
David J Kelly - The High Road



Sunday, 16 April 2023

Off The Beaten Tracks 17 April 2023

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

IMAR - Bangers
Janice Burns & Jon Doran - False True Love 
Kaela Rowan - Lord Gregory 
John Renbourn & Wizz Jones - Getting There 
Damien O'Kane - The Close of an Irish Day 
Lady Maisery - Katy Cruel 
Megson - We Are Better Than This 
Bob Fox - From Me To You 
Barrule - Engage!
IMAR - The Tree of Life 
Skinner and T'witch - England's Spring 
Paddy Garrigan & The Stroller Priests - The Museum of Forgotten Songs
Turnstone - Islington 
Dog Daisies - Carehome