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Playlist for Off The Record – 1 February 2025
  • Billy (Dylan) (Live & Obscure)Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
  • White Rabbit (Live & Obscure)Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
  • Go Your Way My Love (Bert Jansch) (Unreleased)Jack Tonks & Shane O'Mara
  • The Second High (The Second High)Liz Sringer
  • Same PageClio Renner
  • Save Me (Single)The War & Treaty
  • Wildflower & BarleyHozier, Allison Russell
  • Ain't It Strange (Single)Old Crow Medicine Show
  • Getting Older (Dark Country)Gary Louris
  • Same Old Song (Single)The Lumineers
  • Bright Lights (The Sound of Muscle Shoals)Mike Farris
  • Hitting' On Nothin' (Single)Janiva Magness & Jesse Dayton
  • MARIANNE FAITHFULL R.I.P (29.12.1946-30.12.2025)THE CELLAR OF SOUND
  • Is This What I Get For Loving You Baby? (Single)Marianne Faithfull
  • So We'll Got No More A Roving (She Walks In Beauty)Marianne Faithfull (with Warren Ellis)
  • The Ballad of Lucy Jordan (Broken English, 1979)Marianne Faithfull
  • RE. YOU DON'T NEED A WEATHERMAN (BOB DYLAN FOR BEGINNNERS) (MELBOURNE BOOKS)CHRIS O'CONNOR INTERVIEW
  • Buckets Of Rain (Dylan)Sam Price & The True Believers
  • RE. THE SILVERSOUND SUNDAYS IN FEBRUARY RESIDENCY AT THE UNION HOTELSHANE O'MARA INTERVIEW
  • Hurray Gurdy Man (Single)The Silversound (with Lisa Miller)
  • Fat Old Sun (Pink Floyd)The Silversound
  • (Punch Brothers/Hawktail/GILLIAN WELCH & David Rawlings)PAUL KOWERT INTERVIEW
  • The End (Abbey Road)The Beatles

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 ‘roots’ music program with feature interviews, in studio performances and live recordings and regular broadcasts from festivals at home and overseas.

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

NEW ORLEANS TOUR - APRIL/MAY:

Each April/May there is an Off The Record trip to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. What could be better than travelling to the world's best music festival and enjoying music with like-minded people? The 2019 tour to Jazz Fest is BOOKED OUT. If you wish to go on the 2020 tour please email your interest: brianwise@aol.com

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