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.

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As 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. 

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Last 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