It’s Local Government Election Day. Who noticed that former 2RDJ Presenter (WeeKenDance) Edward Mandla is running for Lord Mayor of the City Of Sydney? Good luck Edward!
Voting is also in progress for the 2012 ARIA Awards, closing Monday. Of most interest to us is the list of 26 entrants in the Blues and Roots category. In Artist order, here it is …
- Spellbound / Ray Beadle (Ava; 2012 [2011])
- Crooked Little Thoughts [3-CD+book] / The Black Sorrows (Head; 2012)
- Stranger Than Fiction / Glenn Cardier (indie; 2012)
- Break Your Own Heart / Jack Carty (GigPiglet/Inertia; 2012)
- Detail Of Distance / Kim Churchill (Indica; 2012)
- Moment / Mia Dyson (Black Door/MGM; 2012)
- Grind / Mark Easton (Plastic Donut; [2012])
- Sound Painter / Dallas Frasca (Spank Betty; 2012)
- Behind the Stars / Paul Greene & The Other Colours (Whirl/ABC/Universal; 2012)
- Trouble’s Door / Ash Grunwald (Delta Groove; 2012)
- Milling the Wind / Tim Hart (Island/Universal; 2012)
- Shonky / Christa Hughes & The Honky Tonk Shonks (ABC/Universal; 2011)
- Thank You For Giving Me the Blues / Shaun Kirk (indie; 2011)
- To the Horses / Lanie Lane (Ivy League; 2012)
- Carried In Mind / Jeff Lang (ABC Roots/Universal; 2011)
- Love Come Save Me / Mat McHugh (Die!Boredom/MGM; 2012)
- Jefferson Blues / PJ O’Brien (indie/Only Blues Music; [2012])
- At Last / Ruby Boots (Walking Horse; 2011)
- Spirit Bird / Xavier Rudd (Salt-X/Universal; 2012)
- Leave It All Behind / Saskwatch (Northside; 2012)
- Two Days In Hanoi / Kim Sinh | Dom Turner (indie/Fuse; 2011) n.b. entered in ARIA’s list as “Dom Turner & Kim Sinh”
- Release / Steve Smyth (Permanent/Shock; 2012)
- Broken Brights / Angus Stone (Desert Harvest/EMI; 2012)
- Mama Thinks We’re Crazy Too / Dom Turner & Ian Collard (indie; [2012])
- Find Someone / Danny Widdicombe (ABC/Universal; 2011)
- Gravel & Wine / Gin Wigmore (Island/Universal; 2012)
We’ve got our mitts on CDs and a couple of downloads for all these bar Saskwatch’s, and will play at least one track from each on today’s program, and try to squeeze in a couple more from the Black Sorrows triple and one from Jeff Lang’s bonus disc.
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– Gil Onyett