Iain Anderson Show

30/09/2025

Last night's Monday mix if you missed it or just want to listen again!

Million Dollar Bash - Fairport Convention
No Pasarán! - The Bluebells
Draw The Line - Brògeal
Sweetheart - The Swaps
Broken Lens (Live) - Liz Jones & Broken Windows
Beaujolais - BoDeans
Different Kind Of Gone - Mary Gauthier
To Love Is To Bury - Cowboy Junkies
Three Chords And The Truth - The Poozies
Irish Heartbeat - Van Morrison & The Chieftains
Cutting Corners - Van Morrison
Puirt-Chruinn - TEUD: The Hebridean Fiddle Project
Oor Hamlet - Adam McNaughtan
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - BJ Thomas
Wolf - The Swaps
Over Here - The General Store
If I Should Find Myself - Cua
The Lovers Of St Kilda - Wave Of The Flood
Sweet Thing - The Waterboys
Linden Arden Stole The Highlights - Van Morrison
Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis) - Cowboy Junkies
I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen - Heidi Talbot
Clò nan Gillean - Kim Carnie feat. Jerry Douglas
Where I'll Find You - Joan Shelley

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

29/09/2025

This was last night's Sunday show aboard The Hesperus for anyone who missed it...

Like The Piper - Amble
Horizon - Salt House
Parachutes - Merlyn Driver
Spain - The Swaps
For When You Can't Sleep - Joan Shelley
Shot Myself In The Leg - Leon Majcen
Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
Seven Spanish - Ray Charles & Willie Nelson
Crazy Love - Rita Coolidge
Moondance - Van Morrison
How Shall I Love Thee - Rose Polenzani
The Silver Voyage - Skipinnish & Malcolm Jones
Farewell Angelina - Joan Baez
All Night - The Magpies
Fast Train - The Swaps
Tail End O' The Year - Cheery Odin
A Kiss From Wishaw Cross - Terry Neason
Into The Mystic - Gretchen Wilson
Domino - Van Morrison
His Friends Are More Than Fond Of Robin - Carly Simon
Misguided Angel - Cowboy Junkies
Marchtown - Emma Po***ck
Queen Among The Heather - Finn Anderson Beth Malcolm Siobhan Miller & Kim Carnie
It's A Beautiful Day Today - Robert Plant feat. Suzi Dian

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

27/09/2025

Another Mystery Song Lyric for this week...
Degree of Difficulty: 2.8
Clue: Whatever the weather

“So I just did me some talking to the sun”

Can you name the song?

27/09/2025

For this week's Featured Songwriter, we note that (Sir) George Ivan Morrison turned 80 last month. In celebration, we revisit a selection of the songs that made Van Morrison one of the most popular and influential songwriters of his generation

27/09/2025

Our Featured Archive Album this week is 'The Trinity Session' by Cowboy Junkies. On November 27th, 1987, Cowboy Junkies recorded the album live in one day at Toronto’s Church of the Holy Trinity. Released the following year, it features a blend of original compositions and covers spanning country, folk, and rock, unified by Margo Timmins’ distinctive, sultry vocal style.

27/09/2025

Back as usual this Sunday and Monday evening and this week's Featured Album is 'Fast Train' by The Swaps. Leamington Spa blues-folk band, The Swaps return with 'Fast Train', their debut studio album as acoustic an trio—Beth Brooks, James Knight, and Adam Phillips. The album entered the UK folk chart last month at number 22.

23/09/2025

This was last night's Monday sailing, for anyone who couldn't make it aboard!

Need Never Get Old - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Nightsweats
My Life - Kirsten Adamson
A Lamb - Bronwynne Brent
The Orchard - Joan Shelley
Rolling Stone Refugee - The Mammals
Angie - The Rolling Stones
Carry Me - John Paul Mason
The Mermaid - Calum MacPhail
Always The Last To Know - Del Amitri
Yon Golden Dawn - Ban-laoch feat. Claire Hastings
What Would I Do - Norah Jones
Ain't That Love - Ray Charles
Catriona's - RURA
Magic Moments - Perry Como
Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
New Anthem - Joan Shelley
Coney Island (Live) - Annie Keating
So Much Better - Dean Johnson
Broken Hymns - New Follower
Don't You Know - Dusty Springfield
Do I Ever Cross Your Mind - Ray Charles & Bonnie Raitt
Just Like A Man - Del Amitri
She's A Fool - Haden & Pepper
Mist - Heidi Talbot
The Ship Song - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

22/09/2025

Anchors aweigh last night for the The Captain's return. Catch up with BBC Sounds if you can.

Same Thing Happened To Me - John Prine
Ode To Laurie - Michael McGovern
Hotel Home - Sam Barbour
Everybody - Joan Shelley
Niagra Falls - Metagama: Ensemble
Time - Tom Houston
Be My Downfall - Del Amitri
Rocks And Gravel (Solid Road) - Bob Dylan
Hallelujah I Love Her So - The Animals
Mary Ann - Ray Charles
The Glasgow That I Used To Know - Adam McNaughtan
The Wee Hours - Josie Duncan
Zorba The Greek: Zorba's Dance - Mikis Theodorakis
Jesus Was A Cross Maker - Judee Sill
On The Gold And Silver - Joan Shelley
Camberwell - Hannah White
The Long Road - The General Store
Leave My Woman Alone - The Everly Brothers
I Got A Woman - Ray Charles
White Rabbit - Sorrel Nation
Canaries In A Coal Mine - Thelma & James
Surface Of The Moon - Del Amitri
In My Corner - Lucy Kitchen
Home - Liv Dawn
Smeòrach - Sian
Kapou Iparkhi Agapimou - Georges Moustaki

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

20/09/2025

The Captain returns from shore leave this week with another Mystery Song Lyric!

Degree of Difficulty: 2.9
Clue: What’s in a name…?

“She is like a cat in the dark,
and then she is the darkness”

Can you name the song?

20/09/2025

Our Featured Songwriter this week is Ray Charles. One of the most iconic names in music, whose authentic ability to move between genres made him one of the most versatile and influential artists in modern music history.

20/09/2025

This week the Featured Archive Album is 'Change Everything by Del Amitri. 'Change Everything' was the band's third studio release in 1992. It became Del Amitri's most commercially successful album, reaching number 2 on the UK album chart and earning the group a place among Q Magazine’s top 50 albums of that year. Featuring the popular hit singles, ‘Always The Last To Know’ and ‘Just Like A Man’.

20/09/2025

The Captain is back this Sunday and Monday evening with the Featured Album 'Real Warmth' by Joan Shelley. Released last week on No Quarter Records, 'Real Warmth' is the 6th studio album from the Kentucky-born singer-songwriter. The album delves into the tender complexities of parenthood, emotional openness, and lasting love, as Shelley reflects on the profound experience of raising her daughter.