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Featuring an interview with Austin, Texas guitarist Jackie Venson.

Playlist for Off The Record – 11 January 2020
  • Theme (Rockin' At Cosmo's/2120 South Michigan Avenue)Lee Allen/Rolling Stones
  • Listen to The Lion (from it's too late To Stop Now Vol. 2)Van Morrison
  • Into The Mystic (Morrison) (from Into The Mystic)Lavelle White
  • Real Real Gone (from Vanthology)Bettye Lavette
  • I've Been Loving Too Long (from Reckless Heart)Joanne Shaw Taylor
  • Long As I Can See The Light (J.Fogerty) (from Taking The World By Storm)Warren Storm
  • I Don't Wanna Know (from The Promised Land)Lil' Band O' Gold
  • Prisoner's Song (from Taking The World By Storm)Warren Storm
  • Run Joe (from Fiyo On The Bayou)Neville Brothers
  • Heavy As Lead (from The Capitalist Blues)Leyla McCalla
  • Black Myself (from Songs of Our Native Daughters with Leyla McCalla, Rhiannon Giddens, Amethyst Kiah etc)Our Native Daughters
  • Hangover Blues (from Amethyst Kiah & Her Chest of Glass)Amethyst Kiah
  • Ani Difranco: NO WALLS & A RECURRING DREAM PART 3BOOK READING
  • What If No One Is Watching (from Imperfectly, 1992)Ani DiFranco
  • Harry Was A Bad Bugger (from Live At The Caravan, June 27, 2012)Don Walker
  • WAGONS BUSHFIRE RELIEF GIG: NIGHT CAT - FEBRUARY 13HENRY WAGONS INTERVIEW
  • Drive All Night (Live for Off The Record)Wagons
  • INTERVIEW PART 1JACKIE VENSON
  • Transition 4 (from Joy)Jackie Venson
  • Keep On (from Joy)Jackie Venson
  • Always Free (from Live At Strange Brew)Jackie Venson
  • Rollin' & Tumblin' (from Joy, 2019)Jackie Venson
  • Waterfals (TLC) (from Ventriloquism)Meshell Ndgeocello
  • Stop This World (from If You're Going To The City)Chryssie Hynde
  • Everybody's Cryin' Mercy (from The Blues & Me)Georgie Fame
  • Your Mind Is On Vacation (from Lessons In Living)Mose Allison
  • INTERVIEW PART 2JACKIE VENSON
  • Transition 5 (from Joy)Jackie Venson
  • Don't Lie To Me (from Joy)Jackie Venson
  • Transition 2 (from Joy)Jackie Venson
  • Transition 5 (from Joy, 2019)Jackie Venson
  • Joy (from Joy)Jackie Venson
  • Boston (from Silver Bell)Patty Griffin
  • Crawl (LP: Gypsy)Eilen Jewel

About this program

'More old-fashioned than ever before.' John Cooper Clarke 2007

'The older I get, the better I was!' Van Dyke Parks

A music program featuring a weekly special with news, interviews, reviews and regular local and overseas correspondents including Billy Pinnell.

Off The Record won the InPress Writers' Poll for Best Radio Program in Melbourne for 2011 and 2005 and was runner-up for 2006 and 2008!! Off The Record also won the PPCA Award for Excellence In Music Programming at the 2005 National Conference of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia for a Ry Cooder interview special about his album Chavez Ravine. The program was also a finalist in the category in 2012. A weekly one hour version of the program is broadcast on the satellite network of the CBAA to more than 45 stations across Australia.

Brian is the Founding & Editor of Rhythms Magazine (which he founded in 1992). You can visit the magazine at rhythms.com.au and read about what Brian is up to outside Triple R.

EMAIL BRIAN: brianwise@aol.com

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