FOLKAL POINT programme 713 – broadcast on Quality Radio 107.5 FM & DAB radio at 12 midnight, Sunday SEPTEMBER 14, 2025
(*denotes American artistes).
Colin MacDonald’s eclectic selection from Raidió Coharra for discerning listeners to community stations.
Email: folkalpoint2020@gmail.com or on Facebook/Colin MacDonald
PLAY LIST
SLOW DOWN – Brandon Poletti (Australia)
PUT THE RING ON EVERY DAY – Grace Morrison*
DIAMONDS – Richard Page*
HUG MORE NECKS – Carla Gover*
AT THE BAR SAN CALISTO – Mark Radcliffe & David Boardman (Albion)
BEAR WITH ME – Holly Carter (Albion)
AMERICAN ROSE – Digney Fignus*
WHAT HAVE THEY DONE? –
HEY JOE – The Jerry Douglas Band* and an upbeat bluegrass version of the Billy Moses Roberts song from 1960 which in January 1967 gave the Jimi Hendrix Experience the first of its nine UK hits. Seattle-born Johnny Allen Hendrix began his musical career at an early age picking out tunes on a found ukulele with a single string
THE WIND CRIES MARY – Rory (Aurora) Block* and Joanna Connor* with the Hendrix composition penned after a row with his English girlfriend, DJ – later author – Kathy Etchingham whom he met at a London club on the day he first arrived in Britain. It was a top 10 UK hit in May 1967
IT AIN’T OVER – Love on Drugs featuring Thomas Pontén (Konungariket Sverige)
TENNESSEE – Elizabeth and Jameson (Albion/Cymru)
MY MOURNFUL BRIDE – The Riflebirds of Portland*
ALL TOGETHER – BG (Brian) McDaid (Scotia)
PETRONELLA & LA SANSONETTE (plus a fragment of LEMONVILLE JIG) – instrumental – Brown Boots Boogie Band (Albion)
FOLKAL POINT, now more than midway through its 52nd year, is broadcast on a Sunday midnight outing when Quality Radio airs the programme across Paisley and Renfrewshire on 107.5 FM and on DAB radio across Glasgow city plus smart-speaker “Alexa, Play Quality Radio UK”.
Listen anytime at: https://qualityradio.uk/listen-again
