Brian interviews prolific Australian songwriter Don Walker about his recently released book, Songs.

Playlist for Off The Record – 6 July 2019
  • Rockin' At Cosmo's/2120 South Michigan AvenueLee Allen/Rolling Stones
  • The Jungle Line (from The Hissing of Summer Lawns)Joni Mitchell
  • TRIBUTE TO THE GHOSTTHE CELLAR OF SOUND
  • from May 5, 1992Stephen Walker Interview With David Byrne
  • Thank You For Lettin' Me Be Myself AgainSly & The Family Stone
  • Mercy Mercy (Don Covay) (from Hyde Park, July 5, 1969)Rolling Stones
  • Yer Blues (from Rock 'n' Roll Circus)Rolling Stones etc
  • Time Waits For No One (Jagger-Richards) (from Inside Out)Bernard Fowler
  • A Song for Adam (from Jackson Browne, 192)Jackson Browne
  • Quicksilver Girl (Steve Miller) (from Kicks)Rickie Lee Jones
  • Just Wastin' Time (from forthcoming album)Los Ragas
  • Shinin; (from Down To The River)Allman Betts Band
  • Meet Me In The Hallway (from Opelousified)Opelousas
  • For Your Love (from Motel)Pony Face
  • What I Know NowGeorgia State Line with Patrick Wilson
  • TURN OFF THE NEWS (BUILD A GARDEN)LUKAS NELSON INTERVIEW PART 2
  • Civilized Hell (from Turn off The News/Build A Garden)Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real
  • Simple LifeLukas Nelson & Promise of The Real
  • Out In LALukas Nelson & Promise of The Real
  • You Make My Heart Beat Too FastBuddy & Julie Miller
  • Stronger [from We Get By]Mavis Staples
  • Whispering VoiceAsh Grunwald and Kasey Chambers
  • Broken Hearted MelodyTammi Savoy with the Chris Casello Show
  • Jamaican Farewell [from A Strange Fantastic dream]Ariel
  • Over Alameda [from The Saint of Lost Causes]Justin Townes Earle
  • ON THE BOOK OF LYRICS 'SONGS' [Black Inc.]DON WALKER INTERVIEW PART 1
  • Young Girls [from Live At The Caravan]Don Walker [with Glen Hannah in band]
  • goodbye (astrid, goodbye)cold chisel
  • Home and Broken Hearted [from Live At The Wireless, 1977]Cold Chisel
  • Emotional Weather Report [from Nighthawks at The Diner, 1976]Tom Waits

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.

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