Acclaimed Mexican-American rock musician Alejandro Escovedo is in Australia for the first time, and we are lucky to have him in the studio amidst his shows including an appearance at the Port Fairy Folk Festival.

Playlist for Off The Record – 9 March 2019
  • Intro ThemeLee Allen/Rolling Stones
  • Old Friends (From Guy, a tribute to Guy Clark)Steve Earle & The Dukes
  • God Bless America (from Tales of America)JS Ondara
  • Hollywood Line (from On The Line)Jenny Lewis
  • The Boys from Tralee (from Patty Griffin)Patty Griffin
  • I Sold My Heart To The junkman (from Memory Motel, Mojo Magazine April 2019)Patti Labelle & The Bluebelles
  • Burn Me Up (Single)Eli 'Paperboy' Reed
  • Pressure Drop (from Memory Motel)The Maytals
  • SignsTedeschi Trucks Band
  • Like A Songbird That Has Fallen with Amy Helm (From Solstice)Luther Dickinson & Sisters of The Strawberry Moon
  • Hallelujah, I'm A Dreamer (D.Egan) (from Solstice)Luther Dickinson & Sisters of the Strawberry Moon
  • Got Damn Blues (from American Love Song)Ryan Bingham
  • California State Line (from Psychedelic Country Soul)Long Ryders
  • This Is My Voice (from This Is My Voice)Chocolate Watchband
  • Desperado (from Easy Way)Cactus Blossoms
  • IN THE STUDIOALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO INTERVIEW
  • Something Blue (Live in the studio)Alejandro Escovedo
  • ON BOBBIE GENTRY'S THE DELTA SWEETEGRASSHOPPER INTERVIEW PART 1
  • (from The Delta Sweete)Bobbie Gentry

About this program

'More old-fashioned than ever before.' John Cooper Clarke 2007

'The older I get, the better I was!' Van Dyke Parks

A ‘roots’ music program with feature interviews, in studio performances and live recordings and regular broadcasts from festivals at home and overseas.

Off The Record won the InPress Writers' Poll for Best Radio Program in Melbourne for 2011 and 2005 and was runner-up for 2006 and 2008!! Off The Record also won the PPCA Award for Excellence In Music Programming at the 2005 National Conference of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia for a Ry Cooder interview special about his album Chavez Ravine. The program was also a finalist in the category in 2012. A weekly one hour version of the program is broadcast on the satellite network of the CBAA to more than 45 stations across Australia.

Brian is the Founding & Editor of Rhythms Magazine (which he founded in 1992). You can visit the magazine at rhythms.com.au and read about what Brian is up to outside Triple R.

EMAIL BRIAN: brianwise@aol.com

NEW ORLEANS TOUR - APRIL/MAY:

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