Episode 13: Live Performances

For the final show in the current series we bring together interviews and exclusive live performances from live shows, bootlegs and studio sessions. Featuring music from Ian McFeron, Pete Yorn and Chuck Prophet. Plus Ana Silvera discusses her forthcoming show at the Roundhouse in February with the Estonian Television Girls Choir. The programme also contains live music from her previous song cycle ‘Oracles’.

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Episode 12: Butch Walker

This week Butch Walker discusses his latest album with The Black Widows. The interview was recorded during Butch’s solo tour of the UK earlier this year, Butch discusses how the band formed and capturing live performances on a studio album.

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The next show will be a live broadcast on Friday 16th December 10pm on London’s Resonance 104.4 FM. Listen online at resonancefm.com/listen.

Episode 11: Pretty World (Sam Baker)

This week’s show pays special tribute to the music of Sam Baker who recently completed his Pretty World trilogy. As journalist Dan Forte describes:

In 1986, at age 32, Baker was travelling in Peru when, as he says, “I got in the middle of somebody else’s war.” A terrorist bomb (the Sendero Luminoso or “Shining Path” Maoist group) blew up the train he and some friends were riding on. Several passengers died, including a German boy and his parents, who were sitting next to Baker. Though he nearly bled to death, Sam survived but suffered a constellation of injuries and after-effects—shrapnel in his leg, renal failure, brain damage, even gangrene.

Right now, the loudest thing I hear is the ringing in my head,” he says of the
Tinnitus, which will never go away. The other obvious reminder of the blast is
his left hand, the fingers of which are permanently scrunched and twisted.
Fortunately, he has enough dexterity to grip a pick—after re-learning to play
guitar left-handed (fretting with the less-injured right hand)—so that he can sing
and play some of the most vivid, compelling, truly original songs of any artist
working today. (http://www.sambakermusic.com/info.html)

The programme contains music taken from the Pretty World Trilogy and interview material recorded backstage at his London gig earlier this year.

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The next show will be a live broadcast on Friday 9th December 10pm on London’s Resonance 104.4 FM. Listen online at resonancefm.com/listen.

Episode 10: Ghosts

This week’s show has a ghostly flavour.

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1. The Low Anthem – Ghost Woman Blues
2. Amelia White – Skeleton Key
3. Cam Penner – Ghost Car
4. Hurray For The Riff Raff – Is That You?
5. She Makes War – Ghost and Shadows
6. Amelia White – Rider Ghost
7. The Low Anthem – To The Ghosts Who Write History Books

The next show will be a live broadcast on Friday 2nd December 10pm on London’s Resonance 104.4 FM. Listen online at resonancefm.com/listen.

Episode 9: What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

This week’s show looks at what becomes of the broken hearted.

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1. Daniel Romano - Time Forgot To Change My Heart
2. James Vincent McMorrow - Breaking Hearts
3. Lindi Ortega – Dying of Another Broken Heart
4. Fountains of Wayne – Someone’s Gonna Break Your Heart
5. Fiona Bevan – A Broken Heart Can Heal
6. Dawes – Coming Back to a Man
7. Barenaked Ladies – Break Your Heart

The next show will be a live broadcast on Friday 25th November at 10pm on London’s Resonance 104.4 FM. Listen online at resonancefm.com/listen.

Episode 8: Down In New Orleans

This week’s show is themed around New Orleans. Featuring interviews with Hurray For The Riff Raff, Po Girl and Jeff Klein of My Jerusalem.

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1. North Mississippi Allstars - New Orleans Walkin’ Dead
2. Po Girl - Follow Your Bliss
3. Po Girl – When We Are Love
4. Hurray For The Riff Raff – Junebug Waltz
5. My Jerusalem – Shake The Devil
6. Louis Prima – Basin Street Blues/When It’s Sleepy Down South

The next show will be a live broadcast on Friday 18th November at 10pm on London’s Resonance 104.4 FM. Listen online at resonancefm.com/listen.

Episode 7: Bring Me Sunshine

As the clocks go back and the nights become longer this week’s playlist tries to add a bit of sunshine. Featuring interviews with The O’s and Jesse Malin.

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1. Emily Baker - Follow The Sun
2. JT Nero – Oh! Sunny Day
3. Grant Lee Phillips – Sun Shines On Jupiter
4. The O’s - Sunshine
5. Jesse Malin – St Mark’s Sunset
6. Ed Harcourt – Killed by the Morning Sun

The next show will be a live broadcast on Friday 11th November at 10pm on London’s Resonance 104.4 FM. Listen online at resonancefm.com/listen.

Episode 6: Water, Water Everywhere

This week’s playlist consists of songs about water. Featuring an interview with songwriter Anna Coogan about her latest album ‘The Wasted Ocean’.

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1. Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues
2. The Decemberists - Down by the Water
3. Josh Bray - River Song
4. Anna Coogan - Streamers
5. Anna Coogan - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
6. James Vincent McMorrow - If I Had A Boat

The next show will be a live broadcast on Friday 4th November at 10pm on London’s Resonance 104.4 FM. Listen online at resonancefm.com/listen.

Episode 5: Cover Songs

This week’s playlist consists of cover songs. Featuring chat from acclaimed songwriter Danny Schmidt and Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars.

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1. Hanni El Khatib - Heartbreak Hotel
2. Lucinda Belle Orchestra - Dodo Blues
3. Carrie Rodriguez - If I Needed You
4. Danny Schmidt - Buckets of Rain
5. NMA - Stuck Inside a Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
6. Neville Skelly - Eleanor Rigby

The next show will be a live broadcast on Friday 28th October at 10pm on London’s Resonance 104.4 FM. Listen online at resonancefm.com/listen

Episode 4: Voices

This week’s show is themed on the human voice. Songwriter Ana Silvera provides an exclusive interview for Resonance FM and discusses her upcoming project at The Roundhouse with the Estonian Television Girls Choir. The new Son of Dave single ‘Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues’ gets a spin plus the man himself talks about performing live.

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1. Jim Bianco - Talented
2. She Makes War - Delete
3. Ana Silvera - Interview
4. Ana Silvera - Catherine Wheels
5. Son of Dave - Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues
6. Jim Bianco - Sing

The next show will be a live broadcast on Friday 21st October at 10pm on London’s Resonance 104.4 FM. Listen online at resonancefm.com/listen