Fall is definitly in the air here and in celebration I put together a nice laid back show of great music this week. Our Ciaran Tourish special is on the way too but it is just a matter of scheduling the intervew. Ciaran is a busy man but he and I are working on making it happen. So this week enjoy the show and the good music and I hope wherever you are, you are getting the weather you enjoy.

On the show this week

 1. Alison Brown - I'm naked and I'm going to Glasgow - from the CD Stolen Moments    
     http://www.alisonbrown.net/

 2.  Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Killing the Blues - from the CD Raising Sand
     http://alisonkrauss.com/site.php

 
3.  Shane MacGowan - You're the One - bonus track on the CD The Snake - also from the  movie Circle of Friends
     http://shanemacgowan.com/

 4. Mr Midnight - Momo - from the CD Stumble

 5. Tony Rice - Jerusalem Ridge - from Church Street Blues
     http://tonyrice.com/

 6. Tommy Peoples - Jocelyn's Waltz - from The Quiet Glen
     http://homepage.eircom.net/~logo/tommy.htm

 
 7.  Richard Green - Danny Boy - from Duets
   

 8.  Dolores Keane - My Love is in America - Bringing it all back Home
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Keane

 9.  Peter Rowan - Midnight Moonlight  - from Peter Rowan

      http://peterrowan.com/

10.  Salsa Celtica - Cumbia Celtica - from El Agua De La Vida
      http://salsaceltica.com/

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Lots of great music on this weeks show. Don'tforget you can vote on your favourite song in the poll on the right hand column. Enjoy the show and please feel free to leave comments or email me with requests.

1. Jerry Reed - Amos Moses from the CD Guitar Man

2. John Doyle - The Gooseberry Bush/The Sailor's Return

3. Alisdair Fraser and Natalia Haas - Calliope Meets Frank - from the CD Fire and Grace

4. Alejandro Escoveda - Always a Friend - Real Animal

5. Dermot Byrne - Tico Tico

6. John Hartford - Gentle on my Mind

7. Guy Clark - Dancin Days - from the CD The Dark

8. Levon Helm - Feelin' Good - from the CD Dirt Farmer

9. Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet - It Aint East 

10 Buddy and Julie Miller - When it comes to You

11. Liz Doherty - Daisy Bell/Le 4 Juin/Popcorn Behaviour - from the CD Last Orders

This week on Across The Pond I talk to my old friend Darrell Scott, one of the best singer songwriters in Nashville today. He is the man behind huge hits for major acts like Sarah Evans, Travis Tritt, The Dixie Chicks and more. His new album Modern Hymns is out now and is a collection of cover versions from some of the finest writers in American music history. I called Darrell at his house in Nashville where he was taking a well earned break from a very busy life.

All the songs on the show today are from Darrell and you can find into about all his work at his website 

http://darrellscott.com

Welcome to Across The Pond Episode 2.

Thia week I manage to wax a little lyrical about Fall coming to Georgia and how beautiful it is here and I mention the great Eustace Conway (pictured) who lives in a TeePee in the woods of North Carolina.  The book The Last American Man was written about him and is probably being turned into a film in the next few years although there is liittle info available on the status of that so far. 

There is so much news from Sugar Hill Records this week that I have combined it in one post. Sugar Hill is one of the most important music labels in existences today and has one of the most eclectic rosters of artists in the music world.

Doc Watson: Best of the Sugar Hill Years

This is the first of two new titles in Sugar Hill's Americana Master Series which were released on July 8, 2008. Doc is one of my heroes, and it was a special privilege for me to assist with the production of this compilation! 

The Americana Music Association is proud to announce that eminent Austin City Limits producer Terry Lickona will receive the Jack Emerson Lifetime Achievement Award for an Executive at the organization’s 7^th Annual Honors and Awards ceremony, slated for September 18 at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

It is impossible to overstate the profound cultural effects of Terry Lickona's dedication, passion and vision. A native of Poughkeepsie, New York, Lickona made the move to Austin, Texas, in 1974. Originally an employee of Austin's public radio station KUT, he migrated to PBS and assumed the helm of the still nascent Austin City Limits in 1978.