Hard Times Come Again No More   UK-American folk music session. Leads with some amazing tracks by folk-rock legends The Oysterband and songs from the Bob Pegg 's  The Last Wolf . Again we borrow heavily from various  Aly Bain Transatlantic Session  recordings. Cover pic shot right here in Mahasarakham, Thailand.   Listen to Hard Times Come Again No More by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at     Bob Pegg 's The Last Wolf  (1996) is an acoustic album that covers a number of topics and styles, including the rather odd  Man from Luddenden Dene , a traditional Calderdale ditty (I know Luddenden well as I used to walk the dog while waiting for my MOTs up there haha). He teams up with the late Chris Coe for a 'hard times' local lament. Richard & Linda Thompson cover by Allison Krauss . Superb band version of Both Sides of the Tweed by Dick Gaughan . Multi-instrumentalist Paul Brady  (formerly of  The Johnsons ) stuns on...

  Pongsit Khampii - Rami (Palestinian Child) พงษ์สิทธิ์คำภีร์ - ด.ช. รามี่ Classic song by a Thai songs for life master who's always been a champion of the poor and the oppressed.  I was delighted to see him perform this song here in Mahasarakham last year. ปูคำภีร์มาร้องเพลงนี้ที่ #สารคาม ปีก่อน เสียงเขายังดีๆอยู่ 🔥🔥🔥  

Sad Wastelands Of The Free Protest Fuelled Folky Punk Rock Session  led by the likes of The Oysterband, Show Of Hands, Frank Turner, Iris Dement, Steve Earle and Crass. Tunes from across the years. The essense of the struggle never changes it has just shifted up a few gears recently in this new post-humane and science-phobic era. Spotlight on veteran US folk/punk rock artist Chuck Ragan with tracks from his brilliant 2007 LP Feast Or Famine.  Listen to Sad Wastelands Of The Free by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at    THE TEMPTING, GLITTERING MIRAGE THAT CAPITALISTS IMPOSE ON REALITY MASKS THE UGLY FACT THAT POVERTY, INJUSTICE AND MISUSE OF POWER ARE INTEGRAL, ESSENTIAL COGS IN THE MACHINERY OF MASS EXTORTION. They are building multi-billion £ football stadiums everywhere at a time when the use of charitable food banks, homelessness & poverty are on the rise. They take money from the poorest to pay for their international warmongering & interfering w...

Over The Hills And Far Away A somewhat eclectic landscape of folk, americana and country with a few rocky outcrops along the way... Four songs by vocalist Judy Dunlop from her excellent Sway With Me LP with Ashley Hutchings from 2009, a celebration of the majesty and stoic beauty of trees that brings environmental degradation into focus. Dunlop has a rich, strong voice remenicent of Sandy Denny at her best. Also featuring songs from the incredible Iris Dement and Gillian Welch alongside David Rawlings . West country folk supergroup Show Of Hands are strongly represented while Neil Young , Free , Jethro Tull , Led Zeppelin and Elvis Costello blend in some slightly different vibes...    Listen to Over The Hills And Far Away by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at    Continuous mix 90 mins download from the streaming link above Thanks for passing through!   

The Whispering Pines     Listen to The Whispering Pines by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at A relaxing selection of ballads, laments and jigs that again highlights shared musical traditions in American and British folk music with magnificent updates of some very old songs. Tributes to the great Bert Jansch from Show Of Hands , Robert Plant and Allison Krauss run side by side with Jansch originals from the 70s & 80s, including 2 great collaborations with Rod Clements from 1988. Clements also features on the song Beachcomber with the classic Geordie folk rock band Jack The Lad . Several Bob Dylan salutes including cuts by Norah Jones , Mumford & Sons , Steve Earle and the late, great Kris Kristofferson . Dylan himself chips in with 2 takes on the American folk songbook recorded in the 80s & 90s. Rocking roots music from Levon Helm and also 2 live interpretations of Band classics together with Rick Danko from 1983. These songs resonate especially now...

One for the road... Musical collage featuring artists from across from the British Isles & North America with several collabs between musicians from both regions and a spotlight on Aly Bain's amazing Transatlantic Sessions from 1995 wich starred such luminaries as Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Dick Gaughan and John Martyn. Mix partly inspired by Rainbow Tribe vibes and golden memories of the national Rainbow Gathering in Montana 2000. Organic creative acoustic music.   Continuous mix 3hrs Download through the internet archives stream above  

  Michael Heart  We Will Not Go Down (Gaza Tonight) A song of defiance Save Palestine Now

  Mustafa  Gaza is Calling We have mere weeks left to halt the destruction of a people Take action now!

  A Seafarer's Life: Music and Song A Collection of folk tunes & songs about the sea and the lives of everyday people during the eras of exploration & colonialism. From the humble life of Jack Tar aboardship on the high seas and on foreign shores to the loved ones that he left behind back at home, from slaveships & privateers to haulers, whalers, traders, frigates & gunboats and then, finally, the long-awaited return to a friendly shore & home port...   Popular historic, traditional seaman's songs, jigs, reels & melodies sail astern with more contemporary compositions. Show Of Hands feature on 4 tracks, painting a story of epic proportions with Tall Ships . Fiddler/singer Barry Dransfield is a specialist in the field and features heavily with several classics as do Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick . Regular June Tabor co-collaborators Mark Emerson , Andy Cutting & Tim Harries carry the swing with great interpretations of Jamaica & Enlist...

Music For Stoners Taking a trip back in time with some classic psychedelic rock - space rock - progressive - and original stoner rock. So dig out that stash and get tokin'..... Its still very much 4:20 here in Thailand while the herbs is still legit, at least for now. Happy daze!   Listen to For Stoners - Pink Floyd Hawkwind Grateful Dead... by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at Tracklist Quintessence - Infinitum  Bob Weir - Playing In The Band The Doors - Riders On The Storm Pink Floyd - Breathe In The Air Neil Young - Cortez The Killer Emerson Lake & Palmer - Take A Pebble Hawkwind - Space Is Deep Here & Now - Seventies Youth Man - Kerosene Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here John Mayall - Vacation/Medicine Man Caravan - Nine Feet Underground Steppenwolf - The Pusher Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Down By The River Grateful Dead - Catfish John King Crimson - Epitaph Hawkwind - Spiral Galaxy 28948/The Demented King Pink Floyd - The Gret Gig In The Sky CSNY -...

  Rosemary Moore & The Poor Ploughboy Folk songs and storytelling... June Tabor, Jim Moray, Eliza Carthy and the great Joan Baez lead this collection of laments and ballads   Listen to Rosemary Moore & The Poor Ploughboy by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at Continuous mix 2hrs33 Thanks for visiting the roving revellers Download via the hearthis link above

Tribute to the late great Chris Cornell Solo works alongside killer tunes with Audioslave & Soundgarden as well as rocking music by close contemporaries from the grunge scene & beyond...  Listen to Soundgarden Audioslave Chris Cornell & Co by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at   Soundgarden have been a firm favorite since 1st hearing Badmotorfinger in 1992. I'd picked up a Sri Lankan bootleg tape copy & was blown away by it on my walkman as I chilled having a few smokes in my hotel room. Stunning stereo effects! Chris Cornell's deep & often disturbing lyrics - with their images of a distressed, tortured world/soul - have a notable air of authenticity & honesty which is reinforced by his outstanding voice & vocal delivery & backed up by Kim Tayil's excellently minimalistic guitar style, the perfect vehicle for these songs. Supergroup Audioslave helped lift him to another level again. The man's music will stand the test of time...

One for & from the road Blues, country and folk selections. North American music predominates here though the British Isles are well represented also. Nothing beats the sensation of embarking on an open-ended road trip, that good ole' RESTLESS HUNGRY FEELING   Listen to A Restless Hungry Feeling - Country & Folk by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at Track list pic from Mt. Chelan, the head of the Buttermilk Trail West Fork. I had the pleasure of doing wilderness trail maintenance and camp living along this lonesome & awesome valley trail June-September 2000. Cover pic highway through Bitterroot Nation Forest, Montana. Continuous mix 2.5hrs Download via the above streaming link THANKS FOR PASSIN' THROUGH...  

  It's time to ring some changes or else hit the road...   Stomping folk rock selection from across the years that strays into progressive territory here & there with Curved Air & The Deviants. Jeff Mangum's Neutral Milk Hotel push the boundaries with their reverb-heavy take on traditional sounds. Showcasing some good old Geordie music with Kathryn Tickell, Lindisfarne & Jack The Lad. Features some amazing death ballads  later on. Listen to Time To Ring Some Changes by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at Continuous mix 2.5hrs Download via the streaming link thanks for passing through    

  Classic laid back country & folk music from the leftside. Special spotlight on John Prine & the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. A couple of oldies from my hometown area - Tyneside - by the great Isla Cameron. The northeast of England has always enjoyed a rich musical tradition. Listen to Both Sides Now - Country & Folk by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at     Continuous mix 2.5hrs Download through the above streaming link Thanks for dropping by      

A Transatlantic Records sampler. Traditional & experimental folk, folk rock & blues from Ireland, Scotland, England and the US from the 1960's & 70's.   Listen to Transatlantic Folk by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at   All-star lineup of groups like Pentangle, The Johnstons, Gryphon & Mr Fox together with well-known solo artists such as Bert Jansch, Ralph McTell and John Renbourn. Transatlantic records were an indispensible outlet for less commercially-minded, more traditional sounding folk musicians throughout the period, leaving an enormous back catalogue to document, and as a great testement to, that time...   Continuous mix 3hrs Download through the above streaming link Thanks for visiting

    Exceptional Northumbrian smallpipes-harmonica combination from two of the great champions of traditional music forms; Kathryn Tickell and Rory McLeod. Taken from the 1987 Compilation LP Square Roots on the Folk Roots label. Traditional arranged by Kathryn Tickell with lyrics by Rory McLeod. I fell in love with this tune on the very first listen! Such fine harmony in this unusual pairing of two instruments from generally disparate traditions. Warm, melodic & atmospheric vocal from Rory.    

  When protest is now longer allowed, what then?   Selection of protest music 1950s-present. The current crackdown on certain modes of dissident action in the West, particularly environmental protest, signals a new era of totalitarianism & suppression of expression. A whole series of legislation, beginning in the 80s, have eroded & removed many of the rights that were formerly taken for granted while the cursed tranfer of power known as privatisation has leeched society and bled regular people dry. That heads of governments are seen to overtly collude with commercial titans & media moguls only reinforces the prevailing mood of helpess futility & inevitability, a feeling reinforced by economic neccessity and, crucially, the law. Criminal injustice at every level & on all fronts.   Listen to High Up There In Gilded Boardrooms by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at Traditions of musical resistance that have roots stretching back into antiquity...

  Ripping, roaring folk-rock selection from the golden age 60s-70s folk revival & beyond... Listen to Songs From The Woods by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at   Tyne Valley, Nothumberland Continuous mix 2.5hrs Download via the streaming link above Thanks for visiting