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Guy Garvey chats with singer-songwriter Sam Burton about his new album Fairweather Friend.

Plus, a visit from Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, the Beckapedia pays tribute to Big Joe Williams, and we have some of your excellent Song For Guy recommendations.

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Music Played

  • Fontaines D.C.

    Tongue

    • XL Recordings.

  • Professor Wouassa & Malcolm Catto

    Bande de Kokos (Malcolm Catto Mix)

    • Strut.

  • Tame Impala

    Elephant

    • Modular.

  • Elton John

    Chameleon

    • Mercury Records Limited.

  • Green Pitch

    Ace of Hearts

    • Funzalo Records.

  • Minnie Riperton

    Les Fleurs

    • Distinctive.

  • Luke Temple

    The Birds Of Late December

    • Secretly Canadian.

  • Nadine Shah

    Greatest Dancer

    • EMI North.

  • Big Joe Williams

    Please Don't Go

    • JSP Records.

  • My Morning Jacket

    Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am (feat. Merrill Garbus & Brittany Howard)

    • Knitting Factory Records.

  • Mose Allison

    Back Country Suite: Blues (aka "Young Man's Blues")

    • Rhino Records.

  • Sam Burton

    I'm A Stranger

    • Captured Tracks.

  • Carl Perkins

    The Trip

    • Columbia.

  • Sam Burton

    Fairweather Friend

    • Captured Tracks.

  • Grant Green

    Ain't It Funky Now

    • Blue Note.

  • Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

    Bluebird Of Delhi (Mynah)

    • RCA Victor.

  • Shovel Dance Collective

    Jer The Rigger

    • Glitterbeat.

  • Muddy Waters

    Mannish Boy

    • CHARLY.

  • Sally Stenning

    Reviews, Or Sermons

  • Al Green

    Simply Beautiful

    • Hi.

  • Wayne Hill

    Left Bank Two

    • De Wolfe.

  • Aldous Harding

    Venus In The Zinnia (feat. H. Hawkline)

    • 4AD.

  • Cocteau Twins

    Wolf In The Breast

    • Beggars Banquet.

  • saib.

    Mushroom Samba

    • Jakarta Records.

  • Bill Withers

    Harlem

    • CBS.

  • The National

    Green Gloves

    • Beggars Banquet.

  • Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

    Breathless

    • Mute.

  • Bon Iver

    Re: Stacks

    • White Wail Records.

  • The Velvet Underground

    Venus In Furs

    • VERVE.

  • John Martyn

    All For The Love Of You

    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).

  • Peter Mattei & S:t Jacobs kammarkör

    Requiem Op. 9 In Paradisum

  • Radiohead

    Subterranean Homesick Alien

    • Parlophone.

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Thank You For Talkin' To Me, Africa

    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.

Broadcasts

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