WEDNESDAY 26th April

Mike Harding chats to Jim Moray about the release of his new self-titled album. Jim's previous album, Sweet England, won him the 2004 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Album as well as the Horizon Award that year. Plus Mike's usual great selection of the best in folk, roots and acoustic music including news of artists currently on tour and the latest album releases.   
 

Title tune:
Title: Catharsis
Artist: Natalie McMaster
Album: No Boundaries
Label: Greentrax CDTrax 142

Track played during Top Ten:
Title: Planxty Davis
Artist: Nic Jones
Album: Penguin Eggs
Label: Topic TSCD411

Title: Mr Gifford's Maggot (Charles Bridge/Herbert Smith's)
Artist: Stomp
Album: I Claim My Five Pounds
Label: Osmosys CD034

Title: Man of God
Artist: Eliza Gilkyson
Album: Paradise Hotel
Label: Red House Records RHR CD 187

Title: Roots
Artist: Show of Hands
Album: Witness
Label: Hands on Music HMCD23

Title: Gwenni Aeth I Ffair Pwllheli
Artist: Gwenan Gibbard
Album: y gwenith gwynnaf
Label: Sain SCD2504

Title: Barbara Allen
Artist: Jim Moray
Album: Jim Moray
Label: Niblick Is A Giraffe NIBL005

Title: Gilderoy
Artist: Jim Moray
Album: Jim Moray
Label: Niblick Is A Giraffe NIBL005

Title: Fair And Tender Lovers
Artist: Jim Moray
Album: Jim Moray
Label: Niblick Is A Giraffe NIBL005

Title: Mr President (Have Pity On The Working Man)
Artist: Sam Bush
Album: Sail Away - The Songs of Randy Newman
Label: Sugar Hill SUG-CD-4015

This week's Top Ten No 1
Source: Jam, Falmouth
Title: Mangersta Beach
Artist: Aiden O'Rourke
Album: Sirius
Label: Vertical Records VERTCD072

Title: No Half Measures - The Song of the Drinking Man's Wife
Artist: Niamh Parsons with Graham Dunne
Album: The Old Simplicity
Label: Green Linnet GLCD 1232

Title: My Tears Came Rolling Down
Artist: Geoff Muldaur
Album: Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
Label: Tradition TAM025