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BritMix Playlist 273: 25 March 2014

Special "new music from old favorites" pledge drive edition. Thank you so much to everyone who has pledged to the station during this drive.


I Can't Explain - The Who
From the album: The Ultimate Collection
She Does It Right - Dr. Feelgood
From the album: BBC in Concert (25th March 1974)
I Keep It To Myself - Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey
From the album: Going Back Home

Trouble – Coldplay
From the album: Parachutes
Magic - Coldplay
From the album: Ghost Stories

LDN - Lily Allen
From the album: Alright, Still    
Our Time - Lily Allen
From the album: Sheezus

Country Comforts - Rod Stewart
From the album: Rarities
It's Over - Rod Stewart
From the album: Time

BritMix Playlist 272: 18 March 2014

Tonight, a special show marking St Patriock’s Day (which was yesterday) and featuring singers and bands from Northern Ireland.

Jimmy Jimmy - The Undertones
From the album: The Undertones
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
From the album: The Undertones
Cover Story Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams
From the album: Good Times, Bad Times
Cover Story Baby Please Don't Go – Them
From the album: In Reality
Mystic of the East - Van Morrison
From the album: Born to Sing: No Plan B
Alternative Uister - Stiff Little Fingers
From the album:  Infammable Material

The Wild Colonial Boy - The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem
From the album: Dylan’s Scene
When I Was a Bachelor - Len Graham    
From the album: Ye Lovers All
Mary and the Soldier - Paul Brady
From the album: The Liberty Tapes
Ready for the Storm – Déanta
From the album: Ready for the Storm

The Love Story (Pt. 1, 2, 3, & 4) - Skid Row
From the album: 34 Hours
Something For The Weekend - The Divine Comedy
From the album: Cassanova
Rock'n Roll Band - Eire Apparent
From the album: Sun Rise
Crazy In Love - Snow Patrol
From the album: Uo To Now

Find out more about the Wrckless Eric and Amy Rigby house concert on 29 March at WrecklessEric.com

BritMix Playlist 271: 11 March 2014

Tonight… the connections between Peter Frampton and Rod Stewart via The Small Faces, Corinne Bailey Rae covers Jimi Hendrix, there's three bands from the north east of England plus new music from Eddi Reader and from a young bunch of sixties psychedelic throwbacks -Temples.

Winter Song – Lindisfarne
From the album: The Best of Lindisfarne
Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
From the album: Roxy Music
Love is a Bourgeois Construct - Pet Shop Boys
From the album: Electric
Cover Story Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
From the album: Axis Bold As Love
Cover Story Little Wing - Corinne Bailey Rae
From the album: The Sea

Here Come The Nice - The Small Faces
From the album: Here Come The Nice
The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack - The Nice
From the album: The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack
Wrist Job - Humble Pie
From the album: As Safe As Yesterday Is
Bad 'n' Ruin - The Faces
From the album: Good Boys When They're Asleep

New Music Mesmerise – Temples
From the album: Sun Structures
New Music Paris - Louise And The Pins
Demo
Listen to more from Louise And The Pins on Soundcloud
New Music Voyager - Eddi Reader
From the album: Voyager
I'm Happy - Ivor Cutler Trio
From the album: Ludo

BritMix Playlist 270: 4 March 2014

Celebrating the winners of the 2014 BBC Folk Music Awards. There'a a full list of winners and finalists on the BBC Folk Awards website.

Save The Bees – Lau
From the album: Race the Loser
Two Ravens - Lisa Knapp
From the album: Hidden Seam
Willie of Winsbury - Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
From the album: Child Ballads

Love Is Life - Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar
From the album: The Queen's Lover    
Cha d'fhuair mi'n cadal - The Mischa Macpherson Trio
Free download from Bandcamp
The Nailmakers' Strike, Pt. 2 - Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin
From the album: Mynd
Stand to Your Guns - The Full English
From the album: The Full English

Good Man's Wife - Bella Hardy    
From the album: Battleplan
Little Birds - Carthy Hardy Farrell and Young
From the album: Laylam
Man of Newlyn Town - Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick
From the album: Both Ears and the Tail
Cold, Haily, Windy Night - Steeleye Span
From the album: Please To See The King

Order the double CD Folk Awards 2014

BritMix Playlist 269: 25 February 2014

Winter Is Blue - Vashti Bunyan
From the album: Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind
Cover Story Oops I Did It Again - Britney Spears
From the album: Oops I Did It Again
Cover Story Oops I Did It Again (Live) - Richard Thompson
From the album: 1000 Years of Popular Music
Theme from Sparta F.C. - The Fall
From the album: Country On the Click
You Got It - Private Dicks
From the album: Avon Calling 2
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths
From the album: The Sound of The Smiths

Wild & Undaunted - Lisa Knapp
From the album: Wild & Undaunted
Hunt The Hare Part I - Lisa Knapp    
From the album: Hunt The Hare - A Branch of May
Two Ravens - Lisa Knapp
From the album: Hidden Seam
Mr Tams - Linda Thompson
From the album: Won't Be Long Now
Amelia - John Tams
From the album: The Reckoning

New Music Ghost Ghost - The Nightingales
Single
New Music Ghost Longest Day of the Year Blues - Peggy Sue
From the album: Choir of Echoes
New Music Ghost Hendra - Ben Watt
From the album: Hendra

Ben Watt's dates in New York
Hatchet Job Of The Year - Morrissey's Autobiography

BritMix Playlist 268: 18 February 2014

Another chance to hear the Second Girl Power Special (with the old theme tune!) - while I nurse my flu. Normal service will be resumed next time.

Cosmic Love - Florence And The Machine
From the album: Lungs
You Know I'm No Good - Amy Winehouse
From the album:Back to Black
Rockabilly - Peggy Sue And The Pirates
From the album: Rockabilly
This Is The Right Time - Lisa Stansfield
From the album: Affection
Long White Dress - Tracey Thorn
From the album: Love and The Opposite
Next Big Thing - Amy MacDonald
From the album: A Curious Thing
Diving For Hearts - Corinne Bailey Rae
From the album: The Sea
Black Horse - KT Tunstall
From the TV show: Later, With Jools Holland
I Could Say - Lily Allen
From the album: It's Not Me, It's You
There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis - Kirsty MacColl
From the album: Galore
Devil's Spoke - Laura Marling
From the album: I Speak Because I Can
Dear Old Man Of Mine - Linda Thompson
From the album: Fashionably Late
A Smoky Room - Eliza Doolittle
From the album: Eliza Doolittle
Greenwood Laddie/Mrs. Capron's Reel/Tune - Eliza Carthy
From the album:The Definitive Collection

BritMix 267: 11 February 2014

Wintertime - Clive Gregson
From the album: Long Story Short
Turning Up The Heat - Any Trouble
From the album: Where Are All The Nice Girls?
Crawling from the Wreckage - Dave Edmunds
From the album: The Best of Dave Edmunds
Cover Story Georgia On My Mind - Hoagy Carmichael
From the album: Top Hits Of The 1930s
Cover Story New Music Georgia On My Mind - Dave Edmunds
From the album: Again
I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock'n'Roll) - Dave Edmunds & The Refreshments
From the album: A Pile Of Rock Live

Ferryman's Daughter – Donovan
From the album: Try For The Sun: The Journey Of Donovan (Radio Sampler)
Happiness Runs – Donovan
From the album: Barabajagal
Sunshine Superman - Donovan
From the album: Sunshine Superman
Skipover - Stan Tracey
From the album: Duets: Sonatinas / TNT (With Keith Tippett & John Surman)
Teenage Depression - Eddie & The Hot Rods
From the album: The Best of Eddie & the Hot Rods - The End of the Beginning

In My Life - June Tabor
From the album: Rubber Folk
New Music I'll Never Be The Same - Eddi Reader
From the album: Voyager
New Music The Courier - Seth Lakeman
From the album: Word of Mouth
New Music Black Submarine - Black Submarine
From the album: New Shores

Peggy Sue's gig in Brooklyn
Hear Peggy Sue's new album streaming on the New York Times website (scroll down)

Wreckless Eric and Amy Ribgy playing in New Jersey - Postponed as a result of the bad weather
Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby's house concert in Catskill, NY - Still a few tickets left

BritMix 266: 4 February 2014

Coldest Winter - Al Stewart & Dave Nachmanoff
From the album: Uncorked
Billy Bragg interviewed by Amy Goodman
Watch it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3B1LqPKFVI
The Internationale - Billy Bragg
From the EP: The Internationale
Waist Deep In The Big Muddy - Dick Gaughan
From the album: Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Volume 2
My Rainbow Race - Donovan
From the album: Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Volume 2
My Father's Mansions - Eliza Carthy & Billy Bragg
From the album: Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
Living In The Country - Martin Simpson
From the album: Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

I'm In Love With An Airman - Tessie O'Shea
From the album: Remember Then, Volume 6
As Long As He Needs Me - Georgia Brown
From the album: Oliver!
I'll Do Anything - Georgia Brown, Davy Jones
From the album: Oliver!
All My Loving -The Beatles
From The Ed Sullivan Show

Start a Riot – Jetta
Single
Remurdered – Mogwai
From the album: Rave Tapes

Martin Carthy’s appreciation of Pete Seeger

Next Sunday’s Beatles shows on CBS

BritMix 265: 28 January 2014

In the Bleak Midwinter - Bert Jansch
From the album: LA Turnaround
Wonderland - Big Country
From the album: The Crossing
Cover Story Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Charlie Mingus
From the album: Ah Um    
Cover Story Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Bert Jansch & John Renbourn
From the album: Bert & John
The Garden Of Love - Dave Walters
From the album: Innocence and Experience

Queenie Eye - Paul McCartney
From the album: New
Lux 2 - Brian Eno
From the album: Lux
God Is Dead? - Black Sabbath
From the album: 13
Little Red Rooster - The Rolling Stones
From the album: Live 1965: Music from Charlie Is My Darling

Once I Had a Sweetheart – Pentangle
From the album: Basket of Light
Your Love Is Forever - Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou    
Online single
New (old) music Robert Wyatt (feraturing Jimi Hendrix) - Slow Walking Talk
From the album: '68
New Music Everyday Robots - Damon Albarn
From the album: Everyday Robots

BritMix 264: 21 January 2014

Song For A Winter's Night - Gordon Lightfoot
Gord's Gold
Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden (And It's Wintertime) - The Dentists
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Cover Story Downtown Train - Tom Waits
Rain Dogs
Cover Story Downtown Train - Everything But The Girl
Acoustic Troubadours    
Cover Story Downtown Train - Rod Stewart
If We Fall In Love Tonight
Holy Thursday - Dave Walters
Innocence and Experience

One In A Million - Chris Wood
Lark Descending
Hollow Point - Chris Wood
Handmade Life
None The Wiser - Chris Wood
None The Wiser

Strangest Thing - Clare Maguire
Single
New Music Whenever You Want It - Claire Maguire
Single
New Music This Haze – Patterns
Single

Members of Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, Beach House plus Ian Matthews (founder of Fairport Convention and leader of Plainsong and Matthews Southern Comfort) play Gene Clark's No Other album. Details here: http://www.beachhousebaltimore.com/indexgene.html