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Brian talks to Ani DiFranco about her autobiography and forthcoming Australian tour.

Playlist for Off The Record – 1 February 2020
  • Theme:Rockin' At Cosmo'sLee Allen
  • In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (D.Betts) from At Fillmore EastAllman Brothers Band
  • PART 1 - COVERSELTON JOHN TRIBUTE
  • Country Comfort (from Storyteller, 1972)Brook Benton
  • Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (from Holding Back The Years, 1984)Jimmy Scott
  • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Single)Yola
  • Border Song (Holy Moses) (from Young Gifted & Black, 1972)Aretha Franklin
  • CHOICE OF BRENDAN MCDONALD)CELLAR OF SOUND
  • Great Leap Forwards (from Workers Playtime)Billy Bragg
  • Stops and Starts (from (Sold, 1996)Died Pretty
  • FROM NO WALLS AND A RECURRING DREAMAni DiFranco BOOK READING: EPISODE 6
  • Superhero (from Dilate, 1996)Ani DiFranco
  • Here I Am (from forthcoming album, Shelby Lynne)Shelby Lynne
  • Sooner or Later (from forthcoming album out in April)Eliza Gilkyson
  • Azad (from U Kin Be The Sun)Frazey Ford
  • Stone Me (Single)Margo Price
  • PART 1ANI DI FRANCO INTERVIEW
  • Deferred Gratification (from Binary, 2018)Ani DiFranco
  • Emancipated Minor (from Red Letter Day, 2008)Ani DiFranco
  • Which Side Are You On? (from Which Side Are You On?, 2012)Ani DiFranco
  • Hustling' (Single) Appearing at Meeniyan Town Hall, April 16War & Treaty
  • PART 2ELTON JOHN TRIBUTE
  • Interview with Elton JohnRowan Atkinson
  • Rocket ManWilliam Shatner
  • Bad Side Of The Moon (from Another Dimension, 1971, with Al Kooper on keyboards)Bo Diddley
  • INTERVIEW PART 2ANI DIFRANCO
  • Woe Be Gone (from Allergic To Water, 2014)Ani Difranco
  • Freight Train (from Preservation)Ani Difranco with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band
  • Binary (from Binary, 2018)Ani DiFranco
  • Against My Will (from Slow Dawn)Mark Seymour & The Undertow
  • Slow Ride Argument (The Unraveling)Drive By Truckers
  • My Baby Likes To Boogaloo (from That's What I Heard)Robert Cray
  • Trombone (from Love Starvation EP and Walkabout with Los Straightjackets)Nick Lowe
  • PRESENTED BY KEN MCLEISHGIG GUIDE

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.

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