Lancaster Music Mix Feb 2024

A playlist mainly featuring singers and bands with a connection to the Lancaster area over the last 15 years or so. There are two tracks from Hiroshima Twinkie's album Many Kinds of Mountains. Listen now on Mixcloud or from Monday on Ginger Feather FM at 1pm or 8pm. 

Martin Stephenson & The Daintees - Little Red Bottle 
The Low Countries - Wino
Hiroshima Twinkie - Jo and the Rock Monster
Melanie - Alexander Beetle 
John Rigby - Badge 
Moll Baxter - Red Lady 
KT Tunstall - Black Horse and the Cherry Tree 
Turnstone - Blue House
Kriss Foster - Dale Winton what have you done?
Fairport Convention - Rosie 
New Zealand Story - Hey Boy
Hiroshima Twinkie - Judgement Train 
Karan Casey - The Town of Athlone
Chas Ambler - Kangaroo
The Existence of Harvey Lord - Where The River Runs Slow
The Levellers - This Garden 

Off The Bluegrass Tracks 19 February 2024

This week's Ginger Feather FM radio show features tracks from the 1994 album 'Prairie Home Invasion' by Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon in tribute to Mojo who died recently. Listen now on Mixcloud or tune in on Ginger Feather FM at 1pm or 8pm from Monday. *The Lou Reed song Some Kinda Love was recorded by the Velvet Underground and not just by Lou as I said during the show. I should really check these things before I record the show!

Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon - Let's Go Burn Ole Nashville Down 
Hayseed Dixie - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 
Fierce Flowers - Mirador 
Indigo Girls - Watershed 
Tim O'Brien - Father of Night 
Annabelle Chvostek Ensemble - Some Kinda Love*
Birds of Chicago - Sans Souci 
Our Native Daughters - Better Git Yer Learnin' 
Rod Picott - Uncle John 
Kris Kristofferson - Me and Bobby McGee 
Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon - Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster 
Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon - Love Me I'm A Liberal 
Gillian Welch & Allison Krauss - I'll Fly Away 
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Trampled Rose 
Tumbling Bones - Just Because 

Off The Beaten Tracks 12 February 2024

This week's Off The Beaten Tracks radio show has songs relating to St Valentine's Day - needing someone, love, kissing, same sex attraction, something that isn't love, anticlimax and heartbreak which I think just about covers it all. 

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

Show of Hands - If I Needed Someone 
Chris Bradley - The Man I Love 
Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart 
Cara Dillon - Johnny, Lovely Johnny
Nuala Kennedy - Ye Lovers All 
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution - Pretty Ploughboy 
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Lady of the Island
Marierad & Anna - She Loves Me (When I Try)
The Deadly Winters - Kiss The Gunner's Daughter 
The Rails - Habit
Luke Jackson - This Ain't Love (But It'll Do) 
Virginia Kettle - Falling 
Krista Detor - Emma's Lullaby 
Kat Flint - Anticlimax
Billy Bragg - A Lover Sings
The Beatles - I've Just Seen A Face 

Off The Beaten Tracks 5 February 2024

This week's show includes two tracks from Melanie's album Live From Morecambe. Listen now on Mixcloud or from Monday at 1pm or 8pm on Ginger Feather FM.

Rab Noakes - Freight Train 
Dominie Hooper - Hastings 
Jesca Hoop - Murder of Birds 
Duncan McCrone - I Ain't Marchin' Anymore 
Melanie - Ruby Tuesday (Live) 
Melanie - Jammin' Alone (Live) 
Fabian Holland - Welcome To The Magic Show 
This Is The Kit - Doomed Or More Doomed  
Rachel Sermanni - Tiger 
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains 
John Lennon - Oh Yoko! 
The Proclaimers - Make My Heart Fly (Live) 
Mark Erelli & Karine Polwart - Mother of Mysteries 
Blowzabella - The Origin of the World 

Off The Beaten Tracks 29 January 2024

Playlist for Off The Beaten Tracks on Ginger Feather FM from the 29th Jan to the 4th Feb at 8pm or listen now on Mixcloud.

Richard Thompson - Cooksferry Queen 

Patsy Reid - Donside 

Kris Drever - Capernuam 

Jackie Oates - La Llorna 

John Colleta - A Friend For Your News 

Grace Petrie - Beeswing 

Dick Gaughan - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning 

Amy Thatcher - Resolution 

Bert Jansch - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Sandy Denny & The Strawbs - Sail Away To The Sea 

Peter Knight & John Spiers - The Long Walk Home 

Miranda Sykes - Sea Glass 

John Renbourn & Wizz Jones - Joint Control 

Coreen Scott - Songbird 

Off The Beaten Tracks 22 January 2024

Two tracks from the new album by The Rosie Hood Band A Seed of Gold. Listen now on Mixcloud or from Monday at 1pm or 8pm on Ginger Feather FM. 

Oysterband - When I'm Up I Can't Get Down 
The Rosie Hood Band - Marrow Seeds 
Paper Sparrows - Soul To The Fire 
The Bad Shepherds - Up The Junction 
Andy Cutting - Charlie Come Back 
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution - The Snow It Melts The Soonest 
Toni Bunnell - The Waterways of England 
IMAR - Waterhorse 
Ward Knutur Townes - Paper Plane 
The Pogues - When The Ship Comes In 
The Rosie Hood Band - Les Tricoteuses 
Session A9 - Dig A Little Well For Zoe 
The Carrivick Sisters - The Gorge 
Pentangle - Sally Go Round The Roses 
Ralph McTell - Still In Dreams 

Off The Beaten Tracks 15 January 2024

My first show of the year includes two tracks from the album Visions which Alex Hart released last year. It includes contributions by Seth Lakeman and Benji Kirkpatrick with a cover of the Neil Young song 'Old Man' which I've included in the playlist along with another song from his album Harvest.
Listen now on Mixcloud or on Ginger Feather FM from the 15th January.

This is the Kit play Kanteena in Lancaster on Sunday the 28th of January.

Alex Hart - Give Yourself (feat Seth Lakeman)
Seth Lakeman - Blood Red Sky
Show of Hands - Long Way Home 
fieldlily - Sunrise 
Allison de Groot & Tatianna Hargreaves - Hurricane Clarice/Brushy Fork of John’s Creek
Kim Edgar - Winter Song
Luke Jackson - Blinding 
Neil Young - Out On The Weekend 
Alex Hart - Old Man 
This Is The Kit - Careful Of Your Keepers 
The Sweet Lowdown - Event Horizon 
The Foghorn Stringband - Longing For A Home 
The Magpies - Now And Then 
Stephen Bruton - Somebody Else