Iain Anderson Show

22/11/2025

Now for this week's Mystery Song Lyric...

Degree of Difficulty: 3.3
Clue: Paying the cost

“With a purple heart and a monkey on his back”

Can you name the song?

22/11/2025

For our Featured Songwriter this week we celebrate the much missed, Dave Loggins. A songwriter whose legacy lives not only in his own recordings, but equally in songs interpreted by many other artists, including Juice Newton, Kenny Rogers and Don Williams.

22/11/2025

The Featured Archive Album this week is 'Room To Roam' by The Waterboys. Released in 1990, 'Room To Roam' is the fifth studio album by Celtic folk-rockers, The Waterboys. Recently turning 35 years old, the album continued to build on the foundations laid by 'Fisherman’s Blues', although not as commercially successful.

22/11/2025

Join The Captain this Sunday and Monday where our Featured Album will be 'Grace Untold' the brand-new release by the Irish singer-songwriter, Heidi Talbot. 'Grace Untold' which Heidi Talbot's first self-produced album, is a celebration of women’s voices and stories, weaving together figures like Grace O’Malley, Anna Parnell, Brigid, and Iseult Gonne, alongside songs inspired by Heidi’s own grandmother and daughter.

18/11/2025

This week's second sailing of The Hesperus. Catch up via BBC Sounds, if you can.

Play A Train Song - Todd Snider
On Sitric Road - Ye Vagabonds
Up and Down - Joshua Burnside
Wherever I Go - Dave Arcari
Rocks And Gravel (Solid Road) - Bob Dylan
Roro - Staran
Return Of The Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
Rocket - The Slambovian Circus of Dreams
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
Union Street - Seán R McLaughlin & The Wind-Up Crows
These Are Days - 10,000 Maniacs
Jealousy - Natalie Merchant
Salut Rejean - Le Vent du Nord
Love Song - Lesley Duncan
Before The Deluge - Jackson Browne
Still Friends - Dave Arcari
The Body Keeps The Score - Paul Kelly
The Wee Hours - Josie Duncan
Trouble Me - 10,000 Maniacs
Just Can't Last - Natalie Merchant
Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen
Jesus Was A Cross Maker - Jessie Kilguss
That's How I Knew This Story Would Break My Heart - Aimee Mann
Worn Out and Overused - Rosie H Sullivan
If - Joe McMahon

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

17/11/2025

This was last night's Sunday sailing for anyone who may have missed it!

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
The World's Gone Wrong - Lucinda Williams
Transatlantic Reverie - Annie Keating
Close To The Edge - Dave Arcari
Forever To The End (Revisited) - John Smith with Dan Mangan
Longest Night - Torridon
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out - Bruce Springsteen
The Alchemists - Norman Paterson
Photograph - R.E.M. feat. Natalie Merchant
Kind & Generous - Natalie Merchant
The Rare Oul' Times - The Dubliners
Tara - Finn Collinson
King Midas In Reverse - The Hollies
MacPherson's Lament - Dave Arcari
Stay With Me Till Dawn - Judie Tzuke
The Twin Bridges Suite - Mowgli And The Donuts
The Man Who Married Music - Stephen Fearing
Motherland -Joan Baez
Carnival - Natalie Merchant
She's The One - Bruce Sprigsteen
Trees - Lewis McLaughlin
Home Is - Glen Peters
From Greenland - Barbara Dickson

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

15/11/2025

And what would the week be without a new Mystery Song Lyric!

Degree of Difficulty: 2.2
Clue: Mother Nature

“Let the music keep our spirits high”

Can you name the song?

15/11/2025

This week for our Featured Songwriter we focus our attention on a US singer-songwriter known for her poetic lyrics, distinctive voice, and commitment to social and environmental causes: the wonderful Natalie Merchant.

15/11/2025

This week's Featured Archive Album is 'Born To Run' by Bruce Springsteen. Released 50 years ago this year, 'Born To Run' is Bruce Springsteen’s breakout album, featuring cinematic storytelling and heartland rock that captured the dreams and desperation of working-class America. With anthems like ‘Thunder Road’ and ‘Jungleland,’ The album propelled Springsteen to worldwide fame and remains one of the most celebrated albums in rock history.

15/11/2025

Here this Sunday and Monday with our new Featured Album, 'Still Friends' by Dave Arcari. 'Still Friends' is the new acoustic album from the Scottish blues singer-songwriter, Dave Arcari, released this month. The album blends raw emotion with stripped-back instrumentation, showcasing Arcari’s signature style, rooted in grit and storytelling.

11/11/2025

Last night's Monday sailing of the Iain Anderson Show...

On A Monday In London - Amy Speace
Ordinary Angel - Hue And Cry
Wall Of Death - Dean Owens
Great Lakes (Revisited) - John Smith
Must Be Dreaming - Robin Adams
Gaol 's Gàire - Mànran
Tipping It Up To Nancy - Tide Lines
St. Brendan's Voyage - Christy Moore
Healing Light - Sulidae
Dylan Thomas - Better Oblivion Community Center
Scott Street - Phoebe Bridgers
El Condor Pasa - Gheorghe Zamfir
Rex Bob Lowenstein - Mark Germino
People Have the Power - Patti Smith
Town To Town (Revisited) - John Smith
Hold On To The Light - Jack Johnson & Hermanos Gutiérrez
Canadian Railroad Trilogy - Gordon Lightfoot
Moon Song - Arlo Parks
Cool About It - boygenius
Reel in the Flickering Light - Christy Moore
The Thing About Inspiration - Jaggy Edges
A Good Time - John Prine
Storms - Fleetwood Mac

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End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

10/11/2025

Silver and Salt: Images and Memories of the Scots Herring Women

An exhibition about the Scots Herring Girls is being launched at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, John Knox House on the High Street Edinburgh on this Saturday the 15th at 3pm. The exhibition includes film clips of these amazing women who interviewed back in the early 2000s. There will also be songs from Christine Kydd and Patsy Seddon.

The exhibition itself will run for a week - and includes portraits of 12 women, a farlane with 300 herring, other bits and pieces from the Fisheries Museum and a film accompaniment.