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Ruby Gill, Sybilla from The Maes and Benny Walker tell us what to expect from the upcoming Port Fairy Music Festival.

Playlist for Off The Record – 29 February 2020
  • Theme: Rockin' At Cosmo's/2120 South Michigan AvenueLee Allen & Rolling Stones
  • Method Acting/Cortez The Killer (A Friend of A Friend, 2009)David Rawlings Machine
  • Wichita Lineman (Single)Skylar Gudasz
  • Motherfucker (From: U Kin Be The Sun)Frazey Ford
  • You Can't Rule Me (From: Good Souls, Better Angels)Lucinda Williams
  • The Devil Put The Coal In The Ground (From: The Ghosts of West Virginia)Steve Earle & The Dukes
  • Eyes Open Wide (From: No Time For Love Songs)The Mastersons
  • Ring Them Bells (From: Waltz For Abilene)Cindy Cashdollar
  • BIRTHDAYS: Nina Simone/Elkie BrooksCELLAR OF SOUND
  • Just Like Tom Thumb's BluesNina Simone
  • Pearl's A SingerElkie Brooks
  • Angel (Jimi Hendrix) (From: Rock & Roll Gypsies)Vinegar Joe (featuring Elkie Brooks & Robert Palmer)
  • Bullfrog Blues (From: Live In Europe)Rory Gallagher (02.03.48 – 14.06.95)
  • Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me & My Monkey (From: fats Is Back, 1969)Fats Domino
  • ALLISON MOORER - BLOOD PART 4BOOK READING
  • The Rock & The HillAllison Moorer
  • INTERVIEW (LIVE IN THE STUDIO)RUBY GILL
  • Cinnamon (Live In The Studio)Ruby Gill
  • INTERVIEWRHIANNON GIDDENS
  • I'm On My Way (There Is Not Other)Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi
  • Mama's Crying' Long (From Songs of Our Native Daughters)Our Native Daughters
  • INTERVIEW (LIVE IN THE STUDIO)THE MAES
  • Treat You Better (From: The Maes)The Maes
  • INTERVIEW (LIVE IN STUDIO)AENGUS FINNEN - FOLK ALLIANCE
  • One Hand On The RadioAengus Finnen
  • INTERVIEW (LIVE IN THE STUDIO)BENNY WALKER
  • All You Gotta Do Is Call (Live In The Studio)Benny Walker
  • Coming Along (From: Pale Horse)Woodland Hunters
  • I Gotta WorryVan Walker
  • Mamas's Worried (From: Patty Griffin)Patty Griffin
  • Do It (From: The Hornstars)The Hornstars
  • KEN MCLEISHTHE GIG GUIDE
  • Water Water (From: Lacher Prise)Michael Doucet

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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