Thanks to #ABCAustralia's #TheMusicShow for introducing me to #JimmyLittle's cover of #TheChurch's Under the Milky Way and to the rest of his 1999 Messenger album! 🙏 #music
Link to ABC Australia article about the Messenger album: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-08/jimmy-little-messenger-album-1999-covers-nick-cave-crowded-house/104053706

Jimmy Little's Messenger gave new life to some of Australia's greatest songs
With his brilliant versions of Crowded House, Paul Kelly, Nick Cave classics, Australian music legend Jimmy Little found a new audience on his 1999 album.
ABC NewsAs Molly Meldrum might say, Do yourself a favour and listen to last weekend's episode of #TheMusicShow on ABC Radio National with host Andrew Ford going Deep Inside the Blues with Margo Cooper! 🎸 #music #blues #theblues
Link to episode on ABC Australia website: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/musicshow/deep-inside-the-blues-margo-cooper-cedric-burnside-buddy-guy/103835832

Deep Inside the Blues - ABC listen
The Music Show goes Deep Inside the Blues with photographer and writer Margo Cooper, who’s assembled a beautiful book of photographs and interviews with blues musicians from Chicago to the Mississippi Delta. She joins Andy on The Music Show to outline a sprawling, searching and ultimately living tradition, plus interviews with Blues legends from the Music Show archive.
Deep Inside the Blues is published by University Press of Mississippi.
Archive interviews heard in the show:
Cedric Burnside, 2016 and 2019
Billy Boy Arnold, 2006
Buddy Guy, 1996
Music heard in the show:
Title: Mannish Boy
Artist: Muddy Waters
Album: Hard Again
Label: Blue Sky Records
Title: Messin’ with the Kid
Artist: Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
Album: Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play The Blues
Label: Rhino Records
Title: Hard Times
Artist: Cedric Burnside & Trenton Ayers
Live in The Music Show studio
Title: Damn Right I’ve Got the Blues
Artist: Buddy Guy
Album: Damn Right I’ve Got the Blues
Label: Silvertone
Title: Shake the Boogie
Artist: Sonny Boy Williamson (I)
Album: Million Years of Blues Vol. 4
Label: Quadromania
Title: Born With It
Artist: Cedric Burnside Project
Album: I Be Trying
Label: Single Lock Records
Title: The Blues Is Alive and Well
Artist: Buddy Guy
Album: The Blues Is Alive and Well
Label: Silvertone Records
Title: Bo Diddley
Artist: Bo Diddley
Album: single release
Label: Checker Records
Title: Whiskey, Beer and Reefa
Artist: Billy Boy Arnold
Live on The Music Show from Wangaratta Jazz Festival
Title: We Made It
Artist: Cedric Burnside
Album: Benton County Relic
Label: Single Lock
The Music Show is made on Gadigal and Gundungurra Country.
Technical production by Isabella Tropiano.
ABC listenLast weekend's #TheMusicShow on #ABCRN introduced me to a #CountryMusic tribute album to the #RollingStones, #StonedColdCountry. Well worth listening to this episode (which also features the #BrodskyQuartet at 50) and streaming the album. 👏
Link to the episode on the #ABCAustralia website:
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/musicshow/brodsky-quartet-nashville-rolling-stones/102178272
Little wonder #ABC #RadioNational's #TheMusicShow with #AndrewFord was one of my top 5 listened-to #podcasts of 2022 when every week I'm introduced to new (to me!) #music. Like "Terry Riley: In C" from last weekend's When Music Mattered episode. 🎶
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/musicshow/when-music-mattered-james-wierzbicki/14113664

When Music Mattered - ABC Radio National
Author James Wierzbicki on America in the 1960s, a decade defined by social and musical upheaval
ABC Radio National