Category Archives: Going North From Nashville

Matters relating to Going North From Nashville, presented by Sue Smith and John Hebden, broadcast 10pm on alternate Mondays.

Listen to the Word on Going North from Nashville! Monday 28th March 10-11pm

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

New & Nearly New on Going North from Nashville: Monday 14th March 10-11pm

Fourteen great tracks from albums released this year, or at the turn of last. Our varied selection is as follows:

  1. Arcade Fire: Ready to Start
  2. Iron & Wine: Walking Far From Home
  3. The Low Anthem: Matter of Time
  4. Villagers: Becoming A Jackal
  5. The Smoke Fairies: Strange Moon Rising
  6. The Broken Family Band: Give & Take
  7. Six Organs of Admittance:  Hold but Let Go
  8. The Decembrists: Down by the Water
  9. Geva Alon: The Wind Whispers
  10. Brandi Carslile: Late Morning Lullaby
  11. Teddy Thompson: One of These Days
  12. Band of Joy: Satan, your Kingdom must Come Down
  13. Ray Lamontagne: God Willin’ the Creek Don’t Rise
  14. Jessica Lee Mayfield: Our Hearts are Wrong

‘Sounds Like’ Going North from Nashville! Monday 28th February 10-11pm

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…..

Songs of Love & Hate’ on Going North from Nashville – a sideways glance at a Valentine’s theme. 10-11pm Monday 14th February.

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:  Emma Hartley

Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

Followed by one for an Echoe – M. Ward, Conor Oberst & Jim James:  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:  Dance Me to the End of Love

A marriage proposal from Robert Plant & the Band of Joy:  Cindy, I’ll Marry You Someday

And some wise words from Neil Young: Only Love Can Break Your Heart

An optimistic love song – Sonnenberg :  Another Mile

Local lass, Blue Roses asks: Does Anyone love Me Now?

And a dark love song from The National : Conversation 16

A Country Covers Show on Going North from Nashville, Monday 31st January 10-11pm

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………..!

Celebrate the best of Alt 2010 with Going North from Nashville! Monday 17th January 10-11pm

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!

The BCB Sessions on Going North from Nashville: Monday 3rd January, 10-11pm

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 -  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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Going North from Nashville’s Christmas Greetings : Monday 20th December 10-11pm

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?) !

Going North from Nashville presents ‘Sounds Like…..’ Monday 22nd November 10-11pm

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…….?

Going North from Nashville ‘Sings County’ Monday 8th November 10-11pm

Playing tracks with an alt country flavour from artists not always associated with the genre:

Bob Dylan – Country Pie
Beck – Farewell Ride
Coldplay – Til Kingdom Come
Ray Davies – The Getaway (Lonesome Train)
JJ Cale &Eric Clapton – Dead End Road
The White Stripes – Effect & Cause
Leonard Cohen – Tennessee Waltz
Prucol Harum – The Devil Came from Kansas
Van Morrison – Tura Lura Lural
Brain Houston – Hard Man
June Tabour – Casey’s Last Ride Tr 4
Joan Baez – Caleb Myer
Clive Gregson – Joan of Arkensaw
The Rolling Stones – Country Honk