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Going North from Nashville, Monday 5th November 10-11pm – Yorkshire Mix revisited!

After all, Guy Fawkes came from this fair county!

Top of the programme, Bradford’s own……

1.Wilful Missing : I am Clay …………….next a couple more locals, take us from Shipley to Ilkley

2.Blue Roses : I am Leaving

3.Ben Otwell : Step Right Back ………… we’re going live in Leeds, but not with the Who!

4. John Martin: The Man In the Station

5. Neil Mc Sweeny: London Road…………..on to a couple more artists who can be found live on the Leeds circuit……

6.Michael Rossiter: Jack Went A- Sailing

7.A Free Soul Poetic : I Whistled Up the Devil ………. let’s go to the Yorkshire coast , courtesy of a folk dynasty…

8. Martin Carthy : Scarborough Fair

9. Eliza Carthy: Train Song……….more folk royalty, this time from Barnsley….

10.Kate Rusby: Green Fields……….then, Live at York Minster….

11. Laura Marling: I Was Just a Card…………back to Leeds…

 12. Fossil Collective: Let it Go

13. Patsy Matheson: Ulverston Gypsy ……… another Yorkshireman ends the show………

14. Des Horfall’s Kushty Rye: Random Acts of Kindness

Music with a Siblings theme on Going North from Nashville! Monday 22nd October, 10-11pm

First, Chuck Prophet looking for his brother………….

1. Chuck Prophet : Where the Hell is Henry.  Next a couple of brother & sister acts……….

2. Angus& Julia Stone : Mango Tree         

3. Cowboy Junkies: Brothers under the Bridge . Followed by a fake brother & sister act……..

4. White Stripes : Well it’s True that We Love One Another.

 Now, some good old fashioned country brothers………

5. Stanley Brothers : If I got Loose

6. Louvin Brothers : The Family Who Prays .

Not real brothers next, but a seminal alt country band from the 60’s……

7. Flying Burrito Brothers : My Uncle

We move on to a couple of songs about sisters…………..

8. Mary Gauthier: Your Sister Cried

9. Rebecca Worthley : Little Sister . Followed by two more classicl sister songs…..

10. Bob Dylan : Oh Sister 

11. Leonard  Cohen : Sisters of Mercy.

Next, a sister of a famous brother, now famous in her own right……….

12. Martha Wainwright : GPT.

 Back to the 60’s………………. 

13. The Byrds : Tribal Gathering from their Notorious Byrd Brothers album, followed by two more bands of brothers………

14. The Felice Brothers : Frankie’s Gun

14. The Barr Brothers: Deacon’s Son.

Finally, a classic brothers song from a band that once featured two brothers…………….

16. Dire Straits:Brothers in Arms

New Sounds on Going North from Nashville: Monday 8th October, 10-11pm

John & Sue play a selection of the best in Alt Country & Americana from recent months.

Patterson Hood: Fifteen Days(Leaving Time Again), from Heat Lightening Rumbles in the Distance………solo outing for Drive By Truckers main man

The Moonbeams: Where are you now Juanita. Yorkshire Dales based country, from their album, Sparrowhawk’s Eye

Calexico: Splitter, from new album Algeirs

Rebecca Worthley: A Thousand Lights. Not new but new to GNfN, from 2008’s Morning Comes to Those Who Wait

Fossil Collective: Guaratuba from Leeds based band’s debut Ep Let it Go

Luke Ritchie: Cover it Up. Another debut - from The Waters Edge album

Bob Dylan: Roll on John. First GNfN taster of  new album, Tempest

Race Horses: Nobody’s Son from Furniture

The Hayley Sisters: I’ll be Your San Antone Rose. Not new but local – from the Silsden sisters’ 2006 album, No Bounderies

Jack White: Love Interuption, from much acclaimed solo offering, Blunderbuss

Donovan Woods: No Time Has Passed from the Widow Maker

Chris Robinson Brotherhood: Someday Past the Sunset. Second 2012 album for Black Crows singer - The Magic Door

Join us for a Going North from Nashville focus on Duets, feat. My Darling Clemantine! Monday 24th September, 10-11pm

A programme of duets; some unlikeley contenders, some old favourites & an interview with Micheal Weston King who duets with his wife, Lou Dagleish, as My Darling Clemantine.

1. MacIntosh Ross: Gloria

2. Paul Rogers & Nils Lofgren: Abandoned Love

3.Ryan Adams & EmmylouHarris: Oh My Sweet Carolina

4.First Aid Kit@ Emmylou

5. Tom Waits & Keith Richards: Last Leaf

6. Ray Davies & Lucinda Williams: Long Way from Home

7. Johnny Cash & June Carter: Jackson

8. Clive Gegson & Jacqueline Sharp : Antidote

9. My Darling Clemantine : Going Back to Memphis

10. “       “                  “                 : Nothing Left to Say

11. “        “                 “                 : She’s Still My Weakness

12. “       “                 “                  : 10.000 Words

13. “        “                “                  : It’s All Too Much

Enjoy a mix of Yorkshire artists this Bank Holiday Monday on Going North from Nashville, 10-11pm!

A Yorkshire connection is our theme for this show & what a lot of talent we have for your enjoyment!

Top of the programme, Bradford’s own……

1.Wilful Missing : I am Clay …………….next a couple more locals, take us from Shipley to Ilkley

2.Blue Roses : I am Leaving

3.Ben Otwell : Step Right Back ………… we’re going live in Leeds, but not with the Who!

4. John Martin: The Man In the Station

5. Neil Mc Sweeny: London Road…………..on to a couple more artists who can be found live on the Leeds circuit……

6.Michael Rossiter: Jack Went A- Sailing

7.A Free Soul Poetic : I Whistled Up the Devil ………. let’s go to the Yorkshire coast , courtesy of a folk dynasty…

8. Martin Carthy : Scarborough Fair

9. Eliza Carthy: Train Song……….more folk royalty, this time from Barnsley….

10.Kate Rusby: Green Fields……….then, Live at York Minster….

11. Laura Marling: I Was Just a Card…………back to Leeds…

 12. Fossil Collective: Let it Go

13. Patsy Matheson: Ulverston Gypsy ……… another Yorkshireman ends the show………

14. Des Horfall’s Kushty Rye: Random Acts of Kindness

Going North from Nashville takes an Americana Road Trip, Monday 13th August, 10-11pm

1. Procul Harem: The Devil came from Kansas………….moving south east with

2. Gillian Welch: Tenessee ….&……

3. Steve Earle: Tenessee Blues………..then two classic tracks from the sunshine state……..

4. Mamas & Papas: California Dreamin

5. Joni Mitchell – California……………..back south east with a couple of blues men

6. Clapton & Cale: Head’s in Georgia…………then,spending too long in the south

7. Bob Dylan: Mississippi

8. Lissie ft Mt Desolation: Oh Mississippi …………..back to the mid states with

9. Sufjan Stevens: Concerning the UFO Sighting near Highland, Illinois……….slightly further north

10. The Low Anthem: To Ohio

11. The Black Keys: Ohio………..we travel with Josh to his home state….

12. Josh Ritter: Idaho………… we return to Kansas, not before dancing with Leonard in Tenessee……..

13. Leonard Cohen: Tenessee Waltz

14. Levi Weaver: Kansas, I Decline

Songs of the Same Name on Going North from Nashville, Monday 16th July, 10=11pm!

Going North from Nashville presents a programme of ‘same name’ songs.

We start with a couple of ‘Jolenes’,  but no sign of Dolly Parton………

1.Bob Dylan: Jolene – (Together Through Life) 

2. Ray Lamontagne: Jolene – (Trouble) 

A few more Dylan links later in the programme, but next, a Yorkshire lad who sounds remarkably like Ray La Montagne…………..

3. Ben Ottewell: Blackbird – (Shapes & Shadows)

4. Beatles: Blackbird – (White Album)

Another Ray La Montagne link, a bit of Trouble from…….

5. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Trouble – (Sunday at Devil Dirt) 

6. Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions: Trouble

From a spot of trouble to an Avalanche……..

7. Leonard Cohen: Avalanche – (Songs of Love & Hate)  

8. Foreign Slipper: Avalanche – (Farewell to the Old Ghosts)

Next, we’re going Coast to Coast with Elliot Smith………

9. Elloit Smith: Coast to Coast – (A Basement on a Hill)

10. Blue Roses: Coast – Blue Roses

For any listeners who have a birthday on the horizon ‘ happy birthday’ -twice!………

11. Sufjan Stevens: Happy Birthday 

12. The Innocence Mission: Happy Birthday

Back to Dylan for the next two tracks……..

13. She & Him: Don’t Look Back – (She & Him Volume 2)

14. Lloyd Cole: Don’t Look Back

 Don’t look back, but look forward to the next GNfN in 2 weeks’ time………..!

Old Ideas – a Leonard Cohen ‘special’ – Going North from Nashiville, Monday 2nd July, 10-11pm.

Tonight’s programme is a celebration of an iconic figure of 20thC music, who, in the 21stC, & in his seventies, has experienced an amazing return to form.

Alongside Bob Dylan, he’s been cited as an influence on just about everyone we’ve interviewed for GNfN .

In honour of the release of his 12th studio album, ‘Old Ideas’, tonight’s show is a Leonard Cohen ‘special’.

We’ll be dipping into the album, as well as referring back to some of his earlier work.

The man himself starts the show with a track from Old Ideas

1. Leonard Cohen: Darkness ………followed by a couple of covers of songs from his early albums………….

2. The Lemonheads: That’s No Way to Say Goodbye

 3. Marc Ribot & My Bright Diamond : Bird on a Wire………next, a dip back into Old Ideas…..

 4. Leonard Cohen: Going Home ……followed by another cover, with a bit of Cohenesque humour………

 5. Marianne Faithful :Tower of Song : …………back to the album……

 6.: Leonard Cohen: Show Me the Place …….next, a cover of one of the most covered songs of all time……………

 7. Susanna & the Magical Orchestra: Hallelujah …………now a contribution from son of Leonard…

 8. Adam Cohen:  Out of Bed …………followed by a couple of Cohen influenced artists….. 

9. Josh Ritter: Wings

 10. Laura Marling :Night After Night  …………back to Leonard for another sublime song from Old Ideas…………

 11. Leonard Cohen: Come Healing ……….next, another classic track covered…..

 12. Field Music: Suzanne  ………….finally, a feisty Leonard closes the show…..

 13. Leonard Cohen: Different Sides

A Scintillating (there’s a big word for a Monday night!) Programme of New Music on Going North from Nashville – Monday 18th June, 10-11pm

Lots of great new stuff on GNfN tonight:

Tom Waits: Chicago - from his latest album, Bad as Me……..this veteran is definatley back on form.

Simone Felice: You & I Belong -  rousing track from first, eponymously named, solo album - with a little bit of help from Mumford & Sons, as had………

The Moulettes: Sing Unto Me – one of many excellent songs from Bear’s Revenge…………..followed by two singles…..

Liz Green: Bad Medicine

Tiny Ruins: Little Notes……………then, another album track that hits the spot………

Husky: Tidal Wave from Forever So………..great debut album from this Ozzy band.

Gillian Welch: Scarlet Town from her last album, The Harrow & the Harvest

Bon Iver: Perth from his eponymous, 2nd album, beautiful sound!

Pete Seeger with the Rivertown Kids: Forever Young - great 90+ year old’s contibution to Dylan covers album, Chimes of Freedom ( guess he forgave him for Newport 1965!)

Wilful Missing: Caught Between Seasons from Molehills out of Mountains – lovely………..catch them live at a venue near you!

Rachel Sermanni: Eggshells

Paul Curreri: Poor Little Motorbike

Ryan Adams: Ashes & Fire – title track from his last album – a return to the understated beauty of his early solo work.

Beth Jeans Houghton & the Hooves of Destiny: Dodecahedron

Take a break from the Jubilee – listen to an hour of Murder Ballads with John & Sue! Going North from Nashville – Monday 4th June 10-11pm.

A GNfN  focus on the Murder Ballad in Americana music – a genre to be found in all forms of roots music & very much present in Americana.

We get off to a lively start with the Boss…………….

Bruce Springsteen & the Seeger Sessions Band, live in Dublin Pete Seeger’s tale of Jesse James  -sort of USA Robin Hood!

Two iconic songs from the pen of Bob Dylan…………….

The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll was performed by Cage the Elephant & can be found on ‘Chimes of Freedom’ a compilation of Dylan covers, released in honour of 50 years of the work of Amnesty International………..

The sinister Tweeter the Monkey Man, was a Dylan contribution to Travelling Willburys Vol 1

 Mr Lovealie from Blueflint’s 2011 album, Maudy Tree -  character you wouldn’t want to meet on a dark night…………

Minus 5 introduced is to the Lurking Barrister, someone you wouldn’t want represent you if you were on a murder charge! It’s from their  Killingsworth album ( appropriate title…..) , also released in 2009 & with input from Decemberist, John Moen…………

Decemberists with a terrible tale of infanticide, The Rake’s Song, from their 2009 album The Hazards of Love

Simone Felice’s’ Ballad of Sharon Tate’ – from his 2012, self- titled, debut solo album.

 Now a couple of women who have no regrets…………..

Gillian Welch’s story of the timely death of Caleb Meyer from Hell Among the Yearlings, released in 1998……….

Or,the Whale’s murderous tale of Terrible Pain, to be found on their , self- titled second album from 2011.

Josh Ritter’s take on mayhem & murder – Folk Bloodbath – from 2010’s  So Runs the World Away.

 The Handsome Family’s tale of multiple murder After we Shot the Grozzley, from their Last Days of Wonder album was followed by……

 The eerie The Bottom Feeders, to be found on When the Saints Go from Jim Clements & the Right to Die

 Ray La Montagne, with Narrow Escape from his aptly named album of 2004, Trouble

 We end back where we started, with a classic tale of the untimely end of a good hearted outlaw from another founding father of American folk.

Woody Guthrie’s song, Pretty Boy Floydd, as performed by the Byrds, on their seminal album of Americana – Sweetheart of the Rodeo