Off The Record

26/07/2024

Tomorrow on Off The Record: A tribute to John Mayall plus an interview with Charlie Musselwhite, touring here in September.

19/07/2024

Broadcasting remote this morning. Ruth Moody interview. Traveling: On The Path of Joni Mitchell book reading.

29/06/2024

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28/06/2024

Tomorrow on Off The Record we pay tribute to Kinky Friedman and replay the interview I did with him and Van D**e Parks in 2011 when I had to kick Kinky out of the studio!

27/06/2024

Vale Kinky!

Kinky Friedman, the singular songwriter, sharp satirist, prolific novelist, gubernatorial candidate, and cigar-chewing dog rescuer, has died. He was seventy-nine. “Kinky has left the building,” longtime friend Cleve Hattersley posted on social media. “We knew [...]

26/06/2024

https://www.uncut.co.uk/news/read-bob-dylans-set-list-for-the-outlaw-festival-146318/

Bob Dylan opened his run of shows as part of this year's Outlaw Festival (June 21) at the Ameris Bank Amphitheatre, in Alpharetta, Georgia

13/06/2024

60 years today since The Beatles arrived in Melbourne. On Saturday morning after 10.00am we talk to Andy Neill and Greg Armstrong about their book about the tour, When Was Fab. Meanwhile relive one of the Melbourne shows:

3rd Upload attemptThis is currently the most complete best quality upload of the Full 1964 Concert in Melbourne (and finally in correct order). Video has bee...

12/06/2024

Missed the Michael Connolley interview? You can listen to both parts here:

Australia’s Roots Music Bible

31/05/2024

Tomorrow on OTR - 0900 - 1200 Eastern time (102.7FM in Melbourne or www.rrr.or.au): Andy White on his new album, Vince Jones on forthcoming gigs, Part 1 with author Michael Connolley on jazz and his crime writing!

31/05/2024

Dashville Skyline Announces First Line-Up For 10th Anniversary:

Dashville Skyline celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2024, having showcased the best in Australian alternative country music over the past decade in the Hunter Valley. Dashville is honoured to reach the 10 year milestone and [...]

29/05/2024

Out On The Weekend 2024 Line-Up Announced:

Love Police has announced the line-up for the Out On The Weekend Festival, Melbourne’s favourite Americana, alt country, country and western lifestyle music festival, celebrating 10 years of good times at Seaworks, Williamstown on Saturday [...]

24/04/2024

You can listen to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Live at: wwoz.org

24/04/2024

This Saturday morning (27/04) on OTR: Jon Cleary from New Orleans (he is touring here in May), plus Geoff Proctor reporting in from JazzFest. Plus some surprises! That's 102.7FM or rrr.org.au

09/04/2024

https://radioinfo.com.au/news/ego-the-michael-gudinski-story-on-7-tonight/

What are your plans this evening? If you didn't get the chance to see Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story during its cinema run last year, which coincided with the Mushroom Group's 50th anniversary, or even if you did, the documentary is on free to air TV tonight.

23/03/2024

Here is the opportunity of a lifetime! There is ONE vacancy (male) on the Off The Record JazzFest Tour this year. You need to be in New Orleans by April 24 and depart on May 6. You will share a room with a seasoned traveller and get a WWOZ Brass Pass to all 8 days of JazzFest including the Rolling Stones day which is now completely sold out. Your costs will be airfare, 12 nights at the Hotel St Marie on Toulouse Street and the Brass Pass (and meals and spending money of course). Message me and I will give you the contact details of the person (who I can vouch for) who needs someone to share with.

18/03/2024

Steve Poltz, in Victoria this week, on OTR on Saturday, March 16:

Opelousas Live In The Studio, Don Walker and Steve Poltz - both in town for gigs next week.

18/03/2024

Don Walker on Off The Record:

Opelousas Live In The Studio, Don Walker and Steve Poltz - both in town for gigs next week.

14/03/2024

Tomorrow on OTR: A tribute to Karl Wallinger. Anne McCue reports in from the Trailblazing Women of Country Tour in the USA. Ben Harper. Plus, Opelousas live in the studio!

20/01/2024

Luka Bloom interview and Checkerboard Lounge live in the studio yesterday on OTR: https://www.rrr.org.au/shared/broadcast-episode/27914/5966000/9548000

18/01/2024

JazzFest Line-up 2024:

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Presented By Shell Ft. Dead & Company, Ed Sheeran, Lizzo, Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers & Many More!

13/01/2024

Playlist for OTR 13/01/24:

John Coltrane Stereo Blues – Dream Sydnicate – Medicine Show (1984)
Unravelling World – Nick Barker – Exoskeleton
Song For The Dreamers – Danny & Dusty (Dan Stuart/Steve Wynn) – The Lost Weekend (1985)
Name Names – Del Fuegos – Stand Up (1987)
China – Japanese Comix – EP (1980)
Wall of Death – R.E.M. – Beat The Retreat
Down In The Flood (B.Dylan) Sandy Denny with Richard Thompson (co-prod) – The North Star Grassman & Ravens (1971) (Sandy Denny 06.01.1947 – 21.04.1978)
Just One Look (SP, Atlantic)– Doris Troy (06.01.1937 – 16.0.2004)
Only A Fool Would Say That – Steely Dan – Can’t Buy A Thrill (1972) (Donald Fagan 10.01.1948)
Everything Stops For Tea – Long John Baldry – Everything Stops For Tea (Long John Baldry 12.01.1941 – 21.07.2005)
Wishing Well – Maggie Bell – Su***de Sal (Maggie Bell 12.01.1945)
Lowdown – Paul Kelly (13.01.1955) & The Dots – The Dots EP (1979)
Song From The Sixteenth Floor – Wanted Man (1994)

BOOK READING – JEFF TWEEDY – WORLD WITHIN A SONG
Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music
Smoke On The Water – Deep Purple – Machine Head (1972)

DAVID KEENAN INTERVIEW PART 1
An Irish Song – SP 2023
Andy Wilson – Crude 2022
Jokes Not Funny – Crude Boy 2023
There She Goes – The La’s - BBC In Session
Bark – What Then? 2021

DAVID KEENAN INTERVIEW PART 2
El Paso – SP/Crude Boy 2023

THE CELLAR OF SOUND THEME – TRIBUTE TO ALLEN TOUSSAINT (14.01.1938 – 10.11.2015)
Southern Nights – Allen Toussaint – Southern Nights (Glen Campbell hit)
Ruler of My Heart – Irma Thomas – SP
Fortune Teller – The Rolling Stones – SP
Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues) Frankie Miller – High Life

LISA O’NEILL INTERVIEW
The Globe – All Of This Is Chance
All Of This Is Chance (words Paul Kavanagh) – All Of This Is Chance
If I Was A Painter – All Of This Is Chance
All The Tired Horses (B.Dylan) – Peaky Blinders

The Revolution – Andy White – Good Luck I Hope You Make It
Space Oddity – Wilco – Live At Mountain Stage: Outlaws & Outliers
Have You Ever Seen The Rain – Israel Nash

GIG GUIDE – KEN McLEISH

12/01/2024

Tomorrow on OTR (102.7FM, rrr.org.au, 0900-1200): Brian is back and there will be interviews with Irish musicians Lisa O'Neill and David Keenan - both touring later this month.

08/01/2024

Jonathan Alley's Playlist for OTR on January 6, 2024:

Barrence Whifield, I'm gonna unleash the batman
Steve Gunn, Milly's Garden
Christopher, In Your Time
Nat Vazer, Rumours
David Axelrod w/ Richard Ashcroft, Holy are You
Andrew McMllan and the Rolling Mudguards, A Truck out of Town ((live)
Squrl, Little Sister
Feist, River Man (Nick Drake Cover)
Matt Malone, Judgement Day
Abyssinians, Declaration of Rights
Esther Phillips, From a Whisper to a Scream
The Pagans, Baba Yaga
Dennis Coffey, The Galaxy
Robbie Robertson and Bill Frisell w/Hal Wilner, Canon Pt 2 ( Meditation on Mingus)
Gaby Et Les Soul Men,C'est Le Meme Cadence
Snarski Lindy Circus Band, Mexico , I have never been there
The Stooges, (live New Orleans) I Need You
Strange Tenants ,Stir It Up (live at Aberdeen Hotel, 1981)
Adalita,I'm Stranded
Scientists, Swampland
The Har You Percussion Group, Welcome to the Party
Patti Smith, Til Victory
Cimarons, We are not the Same
Kristin Hersh, Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Pasties and a G String
Max Romeo, I Chase the Devill
Headhunters, God Made Me Funky
Mark Steiner and Sofy Perez, The Man in the Bar
Ofo the Black Company, Allah Wakbar
Tex Don and Charlie, Dead Dog Boogie (live)
Crime and the City Solution, River of God
King Tubby, King Tubby's Dub Song
Quantic , Juanita Bonita
David Bowie, No Plan
Fenn Wilson, Turn the Leaf
Amanda Brown, Lost in the Wilderness

08/01/2024

Jonathan Alley's Playlist for OTR on December 30, 2023:
Donald Byrd Bluebird (live at montreux 1974)
Wille and the Mighty Magnificients with Skip Sonny and the Pace Brothers Funky 8 Corners
Hot 8 Brass Band Annie Mae
Lucinda Wiliams Foolishness
Amanda Acevdeo and Mick Harvey The Decadence of Lust
Tom Thumb You're Gonna MIss Me
The Temptations Ball of Confusion
Ebo Taylor Victory
Cymande The Message
Replacements Left of the Dial (2023 remaster)
Moondog Moondog Nocturne Suite
Rhyece o' Neil The Lynchian Method
Patrick Emery Tribute w Adalita She Walks Among the Raindrops, Drones Slammin' on the Brakes
Beasts of Bourbon Ten Wheels for Jesus
Astrid Munday Beware of Strangers
Died Pretty Be Loved
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Be Known
Ausecema Beats Farafina
Creation Rebel Saluation Gardens
The Purplettes The Pressure is On
Althea and Donna Make a Truce
Gil Evans Crosstown Traffic
Delsinki This City
Freud and the Family Solution It Makes Me Sick
Anna Calvi Desire
Little Axe Down to the Valley
Cat Power Song to Bobby
Cat Power Ballad of a Thin man
Keith Richards Big Enough (live)
National Wake Speed Up
Zed Six with Frank Yamma Lonely Woman pts 1 and 2
Tammy Haider Leo
Ondatroniica Iron Man
David Bridie Float

30/12/2023

You can buy a pass to watch Old Crow Medicine Show live from the Ryman on Sunday afternoon and New Year's Day:

Buy tickets to Old Crow Medicine Show livestreams.

29/12/2023

Jonathan Alley takes you through this Saturday morning on Off The Record.

28/12/2023

Iggy Pop and Tom Waits:

The Grammy Award-winning musician Tom Waits co-hosts a special show with Iggy Pop.

22/12/2023

Saturday December 23 on Triple R (102.7FM 0900-1200): Wilco's Jeff Tweedy on the latest album Cousin and his new book. Teenage Irish blues player Muireann Bradley.

04/12/2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001st7l?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile&fbclid=IwAR2PQwfpRUMYdesHx4MgloXCBOr5Dl3qBFvjYnx4VXOdVP2iVfhJsJu9E08

The Grammy Award-winning musician Tom Waits co-hosts a special show with Iggy Pop.

25/11/2023

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