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Going North from Nashville’s Pick & Mix, featuring a good helping of new music! Monday 3rd June – 10-11pm

Phosphorescent : Song for Zula – a striking song from recent album Muchacho

Ethan Johns : Don’t Reach Too Far – found on his (Ryan Adam’s produced) album, If Not Now Then When

Ryan Adams : Kindness – lovely track from Ryan’s Ashes & Fire, produced by Ethan’s dad – Glyn

Keaton Henson : Sarah Minor – from beautifully understated acoustic offering, Dear

The Soft Hills : Mr Moonlight – found on Chromatisms

Beth Orton : Dawn Chorus – from acclaimed 2012 album, Sugaring Season

Beck : Go It Alone – on 2005’s Guero, featuring Jack White on bass

Jack White : Hip(Eponymous) Poor Boy –  from last year’s Blunderbuss

Marika Hackman: Cannibal – from her debut mini album That Iron Taste

Nick Cave : Push the Sky Away – title track from his awesome new album

The Flowers of Hell : Mr Tambourine Man – interesting version, featuring on their 2013 album Odes

Sam Sallon : A Long Way Down -  single from his debut One for the Road

Harper Simon : 99 – found on second offering from son of Paul, Division Street

A Canadian focus on Going North from Nashville – Monday 20th May, 10-11pm

Join John & Sue for a  great selection of music from Canadian artists, old & new………..(plus a Dylan track – well, Minnesota is quite near to Canada!)

Arcade Fire: Keep the Car Running

The Band: In a Station

Ronnie Hawkins: Who Do You Love

Sarah Harmer: Phoenix

Neil Young: Helpless

Wailin’ Jennys: Old Man

Leonard Cohen: Suzanne

Blood Meridian: Most Days

Great Lake Swimmers: Your Rocky Spine

Joni Mitchell: Case of You

Cowboy Junkies: Two Soldiers

Bob Dylan: Canadee-i-o 

Howie Beck: Don’t Be Afraid

Bruce Cockburn: Call me Rose

Going North fom Nashville Goes Antipodaen! Monday 25th March – 10-11pm

A selection of songs from artists hailing from Australia & New Zealand grace this week’s show.  Listen up for an hour of most excellent music …………..

Howlin’ Bells : Cities Burnining Down

Nick Cave:  Burnin’ Hell

Angus Stone: Clouds Above 

The Pond : Circle Round a Tree

Husky : Forever So

Lawrence Arabia: The Crew of the Commodore

Roger McGuin with Crowded House: Eight Miles High

Bellowhead: 10,000 Miles Away

Emily Barker: Splinters in My Fingers

Sarah Blasko : All I Want

Devastations : Take You Home

Tiny Ruins: Old as The Hills

Kris Morris: Little Light

Julia Stone : Justine

Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue: Where the Wild Roses Grow

Going North from Nashville celebrates 50 years of the Beatles! Monday 25th February,10-11pm.

Featuring a host of Beatle’s covers & Beatle related songs, Going North from Nashville celebrates the band, 50 years after they shot to international fame!

 1. Handsome Family & the Rivet Gang: Eleanor Rigby

2.Tony Sheridan & the Beatles: Sweet Georgia Brown

3.CW Stoneking: Maggie Mae

4.Lizzie Nunery: Company of Ghosts

5.Sonnenberg: Mersey Moon

6.Bob Dylan: Fourth Time Around

7.Thea Gilmour: I Want to Tell You

8.George Harrison: All Those Years Ago

9.Paul Mc Cartney: The Song We Were Singing

10.The Beatles: Octopus’s Garden

11.  A Girl Called Eddy : Julia

12. Sarabeth Tucek : Goodnight

13.Luke Powers: Cover Song ( for Sgt Pepper)

14.Bob Dylan: Roll On John

Going North from Nashville’s Annual Valentine’ Bash, Songs of Love & Hate – Monday 11th February, 10-11pm.

Whether or not you’ll be celebrating Valentine’s day this week, Jonh & Sue hare som e excellent music for you.

Chuck Prophet: Hot Talk

Theo Gilmour: I Want to tell You

Dylan Le Blanc : Emma Hartly

Bon Ivor: For Emma Forever  Ago

M Ward, Conner Oberst & Jim James :Girl from the North Country

Josh Ritter : The Curse

Jim Clements & the Right to Die : Coming Up Roses

Lucinda Williams :  Steal Your Love

Leonard Cohen : Dance Me to the End of Love

Robert Plant & the Band of Joy : Cindy, I’ll Marry You Someday

Neil Young : Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Sonnenberg : Another Mile

Blue Roses : Does Anyone Love Me Now?

The National : Conversation16

A Moulettes Special on Going North from Nashville, Monday 28th Jan, 10-11pm!

John goes ‘ solo’ for tonight’s in depth listen to the music of one of GNfN’s favourite bands of the past year. Featuring interview exerpts from band members & lots of lovely Moulettes music. One not to miss if you’re a fan - or a great opportunity to find out more about this up & coming band!

All tracks by Moulettes unless stated

  • Country joy*
  • Recipe for alchemy
  • Sing unto me*
  • Sing unto me (Wax 22 remix)
  • Bloodshed in the woodshed
  • Going a gathering
  • Uca’s dance*
  • Wilderness
  • What a way to spend a day
  • Sam Cooke – you send me
  • Liz Green – Bad medicine
  • Songbird*

From the album ‘Moulettes’, except * from the EP ‘The Bear’s Revenge’

Going North from Nashville’s Best of 2012! Monday 14th January, 10-11pm!

Before 2013 gets much older we take a look at our favourite releases from last year – a playlist not to miss! 

1. Sheerwater: Breaking the Yearlings from the album Animal Joy

2. The Moulettes: Sing Unto Me – first single from debut album The Bear’s Revenge

3. Simon Felice: You & I Belong from eponymous solo outing

4. Tom Waites: New Year’s Eve – as featured on 2011’s Bad As Me

5. Angus Stone: Bird on the Buffalo- Angus goes solo with his album Wooden Chair

6. Husky: History’s Door from Forever So

7.Wooden Sky: Take Me Out from the wonderfully titled Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon as Son.

8. Fossil Collective: Let it Go – title track from this Leeds band’s execellent debut EP

9. Fran Smith: Take These Bones – found on Fran’s eponymous EP

10. The Welcome Waggon: I Know that My Redeemer Lives from – Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices – another amazing album title!

11. Bob Dylan: Duquesne Whistle – single from Tempest, Bob’s 35th studio album!

12. Leonard Cohen: Banjo – from highly the acclaimed Old Ideas

13. My Darling Clematine: Going Back to Memphis- to be found on How Do You Plead

14. Jack White: Blunderbus – title track from his 2012 release.

Going North from Nashville presents ‘same name’ songs. Monday 3rd December 10-11pm

We start with a couple of ‘Jolenes’,  but no sign of Dolly Parton………

1.Bob Dylan: Jolene – (Together Through Life) 

2. Ray Lamontagne: Jolene – (Trouble) 

A few more Dylan links later in the programme, but next, a Yorkshire lad who sounds remarkably like Ray La Montagne…………..

3. Ben Ottewell: Blackbird – (Shapes & Shadows)

4. Beatles: Blackbird – (White Album)

Another Ray La Montagne link, a bit of Trouble from…….

5. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Trouble – (Sunday at Devil Dirt) 

6. Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions: Trouble

From a spot of trouble to an Avalanche……..

7. Leonard Cohen: Avalanche – (Songs of Love & Hate)  

8. Foreign Slipper: Avalanche – (Farewell to the Old Ghosts)

Next, we’re going Coast to Coast with Elliot Smith………

9. Elloit Smith: Coast to Coast – (A Basement on a Hill)

10. Blue Roses: Coast – Blue Roses

For any listeners who have a birthday on the horizon ‘ happy birthday’ -twice!………

11. Sufjan Stevens: Happy Birthday 

12. The Innocence Mission: Happy Birthday

Back to Dylan for the next two tracks……..

13. She & Him: Don’t Look Back – (She & Him Volume 2)

14. Lloyd Cole: Don’t Look Back

 Don’t look back, but look forward to the next GNfN in 2 weeks’ time………..!

A Going North fom Nashville pick n’ mix – the best of recently music – Monday 19th November – 10-11pm.

1.Lucinda Williams : Buttercup – Lucinda is currently touring her 2011 studio album, Blessed……….next, a of couple of singles from recently released albums…………..

2.The Wooden Sky: Take Me Out –  from Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun

3.The Late Call:Look at You Now – from Pale Morning Light

4.Benjamin Frances Leftwitch: Pictures – title track of his 2011 EP………..followed by two more artists with a Yorkshire connection………..

5.Fran Smith: We Will Have No More Marriages – from eponymous 2012 album

6.Mickie Lavender: Wild Flowers from When the Nightingale Calls (a shout to the Wednesday Open Mic at the Victoria Public House, Leeds!)

7. Bob Dylan:Long & Wasted Years – haunting track from new studio album, Tempest………. next, two more singles…………

8. Blue Flint: Take Your Shoes Off – from 2011’s Maudy Tree

9.Correatown: Shine Right Through – from Pleides……………….. now, the return of a GNfN favourite…………

10. Ryan Adams:Kindness – from 2011’s Ashes & Fire

11.Rachel Semanni:Waltz – from Under Mountains, released 2010

12.The Moulettes:Uca’s Dance – single from debut album The Bear’s Revenge……….followed by the welcome return of………….

113.Diana Derby: Buttercup  – from her new album – IV ………… neatly tying in with our first track!