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Listen to Off The Record – 12 July 202503:00:0012 July 2025

Legendary Texas songwriter James McMurtry on his new album The Black Dog & The Wandering Boy. Richard Clapton on upcoming gigs.

Playlist for Off The Record – 12 July 2025
  • Dirty Deeds Done Cheap (Guilty Pleasures)Kurt Elling (With Charlie Hunter)
  • Sanford N'Anybody (Different Strokes For Different Folks)Charlie Hunter, Ella Feingold
  • War Ain't GoodGregory Porter (with Roxie Reese)
  • What The World Needs Now Is Love (Valentine)Bill Frisell
  • A Stranger (I Know I'm Funny, ha, ha) (2021) Playing at The Forum tonight and tomorrow.Faye Webster (with Mei ahara)
  • Godspeed (SP)Mavis Staples (Born July 10, 1939)
  • Death Letter (New Moon Daughter, 30th Anniversary)Cassandra Wilson
  • Pray For Peace (Still Shakin')North Mississippi Allstars
  • Texas Flood (Texas Flood, 1983)Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • Blues Chase The Blues Away (Ain't Done With The Blues)Buddy Guy
  • I'm On The Wonder (A Tribute To The King of Zydeco)Jon Cleary & Curly Taylor
  • Big Money (SP)Jon Batiste
  • Adore Me (SP)Emily Wurramara
  • Kanana (SPBumpy
  • Myall Creek (Buluunarbi and The Old North Star)Roger Knox
  • Cool Hand Lukin (SP)Paul Kelly
  • You Can't Please Everybody All Of The Time (SP)Quality Used Cars
  • O Guitar (Only A Painted Sky Anyway)Jonathan Richman
  • Christine McVie, Julie Miller, Wilco JohnsonCELLAR OF SOUND
  • Friend (Songbird)Christine McVie (12 July 1943 - 30 Nov 2022)
  • A Kiss On The Lips (Blue Pony)Julie Miller (July 12, 1946)
  • RoxetteDr Feelgood (Wilko Johnson, 12 July 1947 – 21 November 2022)
  • ON: THE BLACK DOG & THE WANDERING BOYJAMES MCMURTRY INTERVIEW PART 1
  • Sons of The Second SonsJames McMurtry
  • The Black Dog & The Wandering BoyJames McMurtry
  • Broken Freedom Song (K.Kristofferson)James McMurtry
  • Right On Time (Right On Time)Stephen Bruton
  • Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down (SP)Margo Price
  • I'm Gonna Get Over It Someday (Ledger-Burnett) (LP: Logan Ledger,. 2020)Logan Ledger
  • RE. GIGS: AUG 1 - THE PALMS, AUG 2 - BARWON HEADSRICHARD CLAPTON INTERVIEW
  • Deep Water (LP: Goodbye Tiger, 1977)Richard Clapton

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

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