Tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm : Scattering The Roots with Dan Ogus...two hours of the finest folk, roots, blues, etc...plenty of etc...

I've been sifting through my cavernous vaults to bring you some excellent music both new and vintage every Wednesday evening from 9pm 'til 11pm.

The next show goes out tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm (after Express FM Country), featuring the following artists :

All About Eve, The Albion Band, The Levellers, Bob Dylan, Bryan Ferry, Dyble Longdon, Chris Cornell, Steeleye Span, Martin Simpson, Hedy West, kd lang, Heather Nova, Kris Delmhorst, Karen Dalton, The Beatles, The Pogues, Fairport Convention...

Listen tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm on Portsmouth's Express FM, on DAB and online here :

https://www.expressfm.com/programmes/scattering-the-roots/

I didn't have the original, so can't really comment, I'm afraid.  And I agree about Camel, but I can hope (same as I would love to see James Taylor or Mark Knopfler there one day!).

wasnt it just! amazing!

Does anybody want a copy of 'Ashley Hutchings - Always Chasing Rainbows' by Brian Hinton & Geoff Wall, the second volume of his biography?

As most of you will know this was only released on CD-Rom, never in a print edition.

For reasons of abject incompetence I've got two copies.  I wanted to read the book the other month so I purchased another copy (and this is what I paid).  Now I've found the original.

Perfect condition.  £25 to include Tracked48 insured UK p&p.  Overseas at cost.

Augie Meyers, organist for the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, age 85.

She’s About A Mover is one of rock’s greatest early tunes, not least because of the insanely simple and elegant organ riff. The late Doug Sahm (Sir Douglas himself) and Augie were from just down the road in San Antonio, and they were entwined with Texas roots music for their entire careers. RIP

Oh no...that's sad. Another legend gone   RIP Joe.

On this week's Off The Beaten Tracks you can hear music from...

Fairport Convention, Firelight Trio, Constant Follower, Kayleigh Hall, Little Pebble, Frank Turner, The Staves, Gordon Lightfoot, Kathy Mattea, Malcolm Holcombe (with Jelly Roll Johnson), Jane Kramer, David Crosby, Hannah James & Toby Kuhn and Iona Lane

Tune in at 8pm on https://www.internet-radio.com/station/gingerfeatherfm/

How's the Silent Dance sound - different/better?  Not sure if we'll see Camel out there again, but it's a nice thought.

RIP Country Joe McDonald - his headline set on the Thursday night at Cropredy 2005 with his band (basically Country Joe & The Fish without Barry Melton) was a magical experience.

I made my usual raid on bandcamp on Friday, and purchased a few items including Fas by Breabach (preparing myself for them at Cropredy, as I haven't heard them before), Solstice's recent remaster of Silent Dance, their 1984 debut, fieldlily's debut EP Grow (another Cropredy connection - they are 2/3 of Wildwood Kin, who played some years ago) and another new release from Andy Latimer of Camel - The Road Home. He has been releasing a number of pieces on Bandcamp in the last months.  I'd love to see Camel at Cropredy one day...