Join John & Sue for a selection of the best of new music on the Americana scene.
A fine selection of tunes gleaned from Word magazine compilations, generously donated to the Going North from Nashville collection!
Dave Rawlings Machine: To be Young (Is to be Sad)
Aimee Mann: 31 Today
Kill it Kid: Heaven Never Seemed so Close
Ben Kweller: Fight
Chatham Country Line: Chip of a Star
Great Lake Swimmers: Pulling on a Line
Sun Kill Moon: Moorestown
The Voluntary Butler Scheme: Tabasco Sole
Mavis Staples: Eyes on the Prize
Hey Negrita: One Mississippi
Drever, Mc Cusker &Woomble: Into the Blue
Le Reno Amps: If You Want a Lover
The Smoke Fairies: Frozen Heart
Carlene Carter: Why be Blue
Fourteen great tracks from albums released this year, or at the turn of last. Our varied selection is as follows:
Another chance to hear our Sounds Like programme, first broadcast last November
1. Josh Ritter – The Lark – sounding like Paul Simon !
2. Echoes of Simon & Garfunkel from: Aaron Roche – Jane
3 . A resemblence between Nick Drake – Time Has Told Me - and our next artists
4. Midlake – Fortune
5. Regina Spectre – Human of the Year – sounding like
6. Joni Mitchell – Last Time I Saw Richard
7. In the spirit of the Rolling Stones: Jon Dee Graham & the Fighting Cocks – God’s Gonna Give You what You Need
8. Maybe also in the spirit of Seasick Steve: St Louis Slim
Which is the real Micah P Hinson……..?
9. Sons of Adrian & Noel – This Wreck is not a Boat
10. Micah P Hinson- The Hero Will Never Hang/Stuck on the Job
Two women artists who bear a passing resemblance musically:
11. Peggy Sue & the Pirates – Lovergone
12. Foreign Slipper – Don’t Go
A couple of tracks with a remarkable similarity from artists hailing from opposite sides of the Atlantic:
13. Bon Iver – Flume
14. Neil Halstead – Oh Mighty Engine
15. Pernice Brothers – Something for You – echoes of Tom Petty…..
To kick us off, some Hot Talk from Chuck Prophet
Then a tongue tied love song from Theo Gilmour: I Want to Tell You ( courtesy of Geroge Harrison)
Two love songs for Emmas – Dylan Le Blanc:Â Emma Hartley
Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
Followed by one for an Echoe – M. Ward, Conor Oberst & Jim James: Â Girl From the North Country
A couple of twisted songs of love – Josh Ritter : The Curse
Jim Clements & the Right to Die: Coming up Roses
Then Lucinda Williams, who wants to Steal Your Love
A song from the love & hate man himself – Leonard Cohen:Â Dance Me to the End of Love
A marriage proposal from Robert Plant & the Band of Joy:  Cindy, I’ll Marry You Someday
An optimistic love song – Sonnenberg : Â Another Mile
And a dark love song from The National : Conversation 16
Janis Joplin gets us off to a rocking start with Bobby Mc Gee
followed by Mark Eitzel’s take on another Kristofferson song: Help Me Make it Through the Night
Sandy Denny covers Dylan’s Tomorrow is a Long Time
then Dylan covers The Boxer
Simon & Garfunkel’s version of Anji is followed by (spot the links?)
Davy Graham with Don’t Let Your Deal go Down
Phosphorescent covers Willie Nelson’s The Party’s Over
Ryan Adams does Always on My Mind ( also covered by Wille )
Joan Baez sings Ryan’s In My Time of Need
FLARE give us a weird version of Last Train to Clarksville ( better than the Monkeys!)
Rosie Thomas’s beautiful version of The One I Love (REM)
Micah P Hinson covers his hero, John Denver, with This Old Guitar
U2/ Johnny Cash: The Wanderer
Gregson Collister sing Jackson Browne’s For a Dancer
and Patti Smith plays us out with her unique take on Gloria!
It’s quite a show………..!
It was hard to choose, but these artists made it to the top 15 ! Runners up will no doubt feature on forthcoming shows………..
1. Mumford & Sons: Awake My Soul – say no more!
And from the same stable…………………
2. Johnny Flynn: Kentucky Pill
3 .Bob Dylan: The Times They are a Changing -Witmark Demos version – Bob on piano
Two artists new to GNfN in 2010 & to watch out for in 2011:
4. Dylan Le Blanc: Low
5 .Dan Korn: Dustbowl
6. Kathryn Williams: 50 White Lines – Hypnotic single form her 2010 album, The Quickening
A couple of tracks from iconic Bella Union artists……….
7. Midlake: Winter Dies
8. The Acorn: Restoration
9. The Storys: California – sadly, no more from this lovely Welsh band
10. Phosphorescent: The Mermaid Parade – beautiful!
11. Micah P Hinson: The Striking before the Storm – he can do no wrong!
Two tracks from British collaborators:
12. Boo Hewerdine: Geography
13. Kris Drever: Sweet Honey in the Rock
14. Mary Gauthier : Another Day Borrowed – from her haunting 2010 album, Foundling
15. Wilful Missing: Alone with America – we look forward to the album!
A dip into the BCB sessions, + other music which has come our way via BCB. With thanks to Albert & Laura!
Gaslight Anthem – Heaven Sitting Down
The Duke & the King – The Morning I Get to Hell – BCB sessions
Mary Chapin Carpenter -The Age of Miracles
Stephanie Dosen – Only Getting Better – BCB sessions
Micah P Hinson – Beneath the Rose – BCB sessions
Corrine West & Kelly Joe Phelps – River’s Fool
King Creosote – Coast on By - BCB sessions
Dan Korn – Dustbowl
Willard Grant Conspiracy’s Rober Fisher – Drunkards’ Prayer – BCB Sessions
Chief – Irish Song
Laurence Arabia – Apple Pie Bed – BCB sessions
Mountain Man – The Whale Song – BCB sessions
Kate Rusby -Â Poor Old Horse
The Rolling Creek Dippers – In My Hour of Need
Hear three of these sessions, those by Mountain Man, The Duke & The King and Lawrence Arabia, in full here:
Mountain Man BCB session by DJ Albert Freeman
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Tune in to the best in Alt Country & Americana for Christmas – a selection of music with a Christmas theme you won’t hear in the supermarket!
Clive Gregson – Comfort & Joy
Gramercy Arms Maskot – This Christmas
Steve Earle – Christmas in Washington
Kate Rusby – Hark, Hark, What News (John’s favourite!)
Phil Keagey – Village Bells
Joni Mitchell – River
Low – Blue Christmas
Bob Dylan – The Christmas Blues
Lou Reed – Christmas in Febraury
Maria Mc Kee – Late December ( or is this John’s favourite?)
The Hold Steady – Sequestered in Memphis
Kris Drever – Shinind Star
Levi Weaver – Kansas I Decline ( Stars)
Winter – Wild Child No. 2
Josh Rouse – Winter in the Hamptons
Merry Christmas to all our listener(s?) !
1.Josh Ritter – The Lark – sounding like Paul Simon !
2.Echoes of Simon & Garfunkel from: Aaron Roche – Jane
3.Nick Drake – Time Has Told Me
4.Midlake – Fortune -some Nick Drake influences here?
5.Regina Spectre – Human of the Year – sounding like:
6.Joni Mitchell – Last Time I Saw Richard
7.In the spirit of the Rolling Stones: Jon Dee Graham & the Fighting Cocks – God’s Gonna Give You what You Need
8.Maybe also in the spirit of Seasick Steve – St Louis Slim
9.Which is the real Micah P Hinson……..?
10. Sons of Adrian & Noel – This Wreck is not a Boat
11.Micah P Hinson- The Hero Will Never Hang/Stuck on the Job
 Two women artists who bear a passing resemblance musically:
12.Peggy Sue & the Pirates – Lovergone
13.Foreign Slipper – Don’t Go
 A couple of tracks with a remarkable similarity from artists hailing from opposite sides of the Atlantic:
14.Bon Iver – Flume
15. Neil Halstead – Oh Mighty Engine
16.Pernice Brothers – Something for You – echoes of Tom Petty…….?