...Bob Harris, Andy Kershaw, Bob Dylan, Paul Gambaccini...
Sounds Like
...Ray LaMontagne, Johnny Cash, Iron and Wine, Calexico, Martha Wainwright, M. Ward, Tom Waits, Ryan Adams, Animal Liberation Orchestra, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Calexico, Donavon Frankenreiter, Damien Jurado, Josh Rouse, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Midlake, The Band, Drive-By Truckers, The Jayhawks, Neil Young, Moussu T e Lei Jovents, Van Morrison, Damien Jurado...
Broadcast live from Edinburgh's world-famous Pleasance, Mystery Train is a 90-minute Radio Show featuring the Very Best in Blues, Soul, Americana and World Music. The programme will feature a variety of special guests as well as live acoustic sessions. Tune in every Sunday from 29 April, 6.00 - 7.30pm at www.freshair.org.uk
Little Steven - Affection
Joe Tex - Papa Was Too
Joe South - All My Hard Times
Pee Wee Crayton - I Found My Piece of Mind
Teddy Thompson - Shine So Bright
Aretha Franklin - Call Me
Vieux Farka Toure - Sangare
Van Morrison - Call Me Up In Dreamland
Jeff Buckley and Shudder to Think - I Want Someone Badly
Otis Redding - Pain in My Heart
Francis Cabrel - Depuis Toujours
I'm From Barcelona and Loney Dear - This Boy
Bob Dylan - Day of the Locusts
Gob Iron - East Virginia Blues
Bonnie Raitt - I Will Not Be Broken
Mory Kante - Mama
Betty Davis - Shoo-Be-Doop and Cop Him
M. Ward - Undertaker
Sixteen Horsepower - Flutter
Josh Rouse and Paz Suay - These Long Summer Days
Willie Nelson - Songbird
Ely Guerra - Mas Bonita
The Decemberists - The Perfect Crime No. 2
Shannon McNally and Neal Casal - Pale Moon
The Band - Acadian Driftwood
Cold Blood - No Way Home
Donny Hathaway - Je Vous Aime (I Love You)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Safeway Cart
The Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle - Ekta Deshlai Kathi Jwalao (Light a Match)
Richard Thompson - I Misunderstood
Scott Dunbar - Easy Rider
B.C. Camplight - Couldn't You Tell
Grandaddy - Where I'm Anymore
Minnie Riperton - Every Time He Comes Around
Grayson Capps - Get Back Up
O.V. Wright - Why Not Give Me A Chance
The Magnetic Fields - No One Will Ever Love You
Denise La Salle - Get Up Off My Mind
The Handsome Family - Far From Any Road
The Soul Clan (Solomon Burke, Don Covay, Ben E. King, Joe Tex, Arthur Conley) - Soul Meeting
Cowboy Junkies - Cutting Floor Blues
Howlin' Wolf - Goin' Down Slow
OK Go - Oh Lately It's So Quiet
Gotan Project and Calexico - Amor Porteno
Slaid Cleaves - Call It Sleep
Mavis Staples - This Little Light
J.B. Lenoir - Down In Mississippi
Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate - Ai Ga Bani
Thea Gilmore - Heads Will Roll
The John Butler Trio - Daniella
Ray LaMontagne - Hannah
Golden Smog - Jane
Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns and Money
Hayes Carll - Flowers and Liquor
Amadou and Mariam - Beaux Dimanches
Rufus Wainwright - Sans Souci
Jeff Beck Group - I Ain't Superstitious
Jon Redfern - Am I Fool
We're back!...here's the playlist for tonight's show, 29 April:
Drive-By Truckers - Outfit
Bright Eyes - Classic Cars
Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists!!
Cornell Campbell - Pretty Looks Isn't All
Wilson Pickett - A Man and a Half
Shooter Jennings - Electric Rodeo
Mississippi John Hurt - Baby, What's Wrong With You
Buddy Miles - Down By The River
Eddie Mack - Kind Loving Daddy
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - Easy Plateau
Richmond Fontaine - El Tiradito
Lucio Battisti - Dolce di Giorno
Hem - The Fire Thief
Tinariwen - Imidiwan Winakilin
Todd Snider - Looking for a Job
Wilco - Impossible Germany
Marvin Gaye - All The Way Around
John Legend - Another Again
Hi everyone, here's the playlist for this afternoon's show - the last of this broadcast - 18 March:
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born on the Bayou
Solomon Burke - Proud Mary
C.C Adcock - Loaded Gun
John Martyn - Johnny Too Bad
Kings of Leon - Ragoo
Little Richard - Thinkin' About My Mother
Seu Jorge - Fiore della citta'
Dave Matthews - Dodo
Eddie Floyd - The Best Years of My Life
Loretta Lynn and Jack White - This Old House
Curtis Mayfield - Mother's Son
Howie Beck - Serves You Right
Tindersticks - I Know That Love
Jimmy Reed - Caress Me Baby
Uncle Tupelo - Black Eye
Irma Thomas - Teasin' but Pleasin'
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - You Will Miss Me When I Burn
Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers Part 1
Jaco Pastorius and Sam & Dave - Come On, Come Over
Townes Van Zandt - Be Here To Love Me
Junior Kimborough - Most Things Haven't Worked Out
The Jayhawks - Save It For A Rainy Day
Rosanne Cash - Radio Operator
...well that's it for this broadcast, I hope you enjoyed the tunes and a very big thank you to everyone for getting in touch over the past weeks...hopefully we'll do it again very soon...
Here's the playlist for this afternoon's show, 11 March:
Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins - Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Moussu T E Lei Jovents - Per Soleta Companhia
Little Feat - Two Trains
Matt Pond PA - In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion - Gervais
Tom Waits - Long Way Home
Johnnie Taylor - Mr. Nobody is Somebody Now
Derek and the Dominos - Keep On Growing
Kathryn Williams - We Dug A Hole
Leroy Hutson - Love, Oh Love (Live)
Drive-By Truckers - My Sweet Annette
Jeff Beck Group - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Willy Mason - Save Myself
Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin'
Rachael Yamagata - Be Be Your Love
Francesco De Gregori - Giovane Esploratore Tobia
Brian Setzer - Don't Say You Love Me
Tony Joe White - They Caught The Devil and Put Him In Jail in Eudora, Arkansas
Khaled - Mani Hani
Chuck Prophet - Storm Across The Sea
Jesse Malin and Bruce Springsteen - Broken Radio
Here's the playlist for this afternoon's show, 4th March:
Bloodstone - Take These Chains
Amos Lee - Southern Girl
Amos Milburn - Let Me Go Home Whiskey
The Faces - Too Bad
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Someday, Some Morning, Sometime
Son Volt - The Picture
Rory Gallagher - I'm Not Awake Yet
Julie Doiron - You Look So Alive
Souad Massi - Tant Pis Pour Moi
James Carr - Gonna Send You Back To Georgia
Great Lake Swimmers - I Come From A Large Family
Loudon Wainwright III - Movies Are A Mother To Me
Rainer Ptacek - Lament of Love
Whiskeytown - Everything I Do
Willie Nelson - Songbird
Mitty Collier - I Had A Talk With My Man Last Night
The Derek Trucks Band - Crow Jane
Iron & Wine - Jesus The Mexican Boy
The Raconteurs - Together
Death Cab For Cutie - Rockin' Chair
William Elliott Whitmore - Dry
The Detroit Cobras - Can't Do Without You
The 5 Royales - Baby Don't Do It
Willie Henderson & The Soul Explosions - Oo Wee Baby I Love You
Thanks again for listening and for all the e-mails - see you next week!
Here we go with the playlist for this week's Mystery Train Film Special, 25 February:
Field Music - She Can Do What She Wants
The Isley Brothers - Tell Me It's Just A Rumor Baby
Josh Rouse - Comeback (Light Therapy)
Caitlin Cary and Thad Cockrell - Two Different Things
The Rolling Stones - Monkey Man
Georges Delerue - Theme de Camille
Nouvelle Vague - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Meiko Kaji - The Flower of Carnage
Scud Mountain Boys - In A Ditch
The Pernice Brothers - Red Desert
Karen Dalton - In The Evening (It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best)
John Zorn - The Sicilian Clan
Muddy Waters - All Aboard
Bob Dylan - Billy 4
Ray LaMontagne - Narrow Escape
Edwin Starr - 24 Hours (To Find My Baby)
Mikis Theodorakis - On The Streets
Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man
Randy Newman - Gone Dead Train
Sparklehorse - Don't Take My Sunshine Away
M. Ward - Chinese Translation
Toumani Diabate - Toumani
Mary Gauthier - I Drink
The Watson Twins - Southern Manners
Brinsley Schwarz - Hymn To Me
B. B. King - The Thrill Is Gone
Thanks for listening and for all the e-mails - see you next week!
Hi everyone, here's the playlist for this afternoon's show, 18 February:
Donavon Frankenreiter - Move By Yourself
Otis Redding - Direct Me
Ronnie Lane and Slim Chance - Anniversary
The Elected - The Bank and Trust
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Down By The Riverside
My Morning Jacket - It Makes No Difference
The Band - Daniel And The Sacred Harp
The Staple Singers - This World
The Be-Good Tanyas - When Doves Cry
The Byrds - Your Gentle Ways Of Loving Me
Rachid Taha - Hey Anta
Big Star - When My Baby's Beside Me
John Scofield & John Mayer - I Don't Need No Doctor
Ray Charles - Hard Times
R. L. Burnside - My Time Ain't Long
Neil Young - Two Friends
Damien Jurado - What Were The Chances
Trees - Nothing Special
Johnny Cash - Devil's Right Hand
Bettye LaVette - Heart of Gold
Richmond Fontaine - The Ballad of Dan Fanta
Thanks for listening and for all your e-mails - see you next week!
Hey everyone, here's the playlist for this afternoon's show, 11 February:
Tower of Power - What Is Hip
Martha Wainwright - Tower of Song
Jesse Malin - Don't Let Them Take You Down
Solomon Burke - That's How I Got To Memphis
Baby Boy Warren - Don't Think I'm Nosy
Animal Liberation Orchestra - Girl, I Wanna Lay You Down
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Cursed Sleep
Cat Power - Living Proof
Ann Peebles - Slipped, Tripped and Fell In Love
Wilco - I'm The Man Who Loves You
Golden Smog - Please Tell My Brother
B.B King - You're Still My Woman
Francis Cabrel - Cent Ans De Plus
Blind Faith - Sea of Joy
Hayes Carll - Naked Checkers
Iron & Wine and Calexico - Sixteen, Maybe Less
Tinariwen - Cler Achel
Joseph Arthur - Woman
Drive-By Truckers - Feb. 14
Hope you all enjoyed the show this afternoon - here's the playlist for Mystery Train, 28 January:
1. Elvis Presley - Mystery Train
2. Drive-By Truckers - Aftermath USA
3. Sam and Dave - I Thank You
4. Scott Matthews - Sweet Scented Figure
5. Eric Bibb - Saucer and Cup
6. Amadou and Mariam - Coulibaly
7. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Honey Child What Can I Do?
8. William Bell and Judy Clay -
My Baby Specializes
9. Sam Cooke - Little Red Rooster
10. Willie Hightower -
Back Road Into Town
11. Moussu T E Lei Jovents - A La Ciotat
12. Ray LaMontagne -
You Can Bring Me Flowers
13. George Harrison -
Behind That Locked Door
14. Howlin Rain -
Death Prayer in Heaven's Orchard
15. Jon Redfern - I'm Still Young
16. James McMurtry - Childish Things
17. Curtis Mayfield -
If I Were Only A Child Again
18. Jim White -
The Wound That Never Heals
19. Joe Bonamassa - Your Funeral My Trial
20. Midlake - Head Home
21. Odetta -
Baby, I'm In The Mood For You