Playlist 22.02.10

I was explaining to a friend the other night about the alchemy that makes up a satisfying radio show. On a good night, a sequence of tunes will suggest itself, complementing each other, synching and contrasting when it suits. There's such a thing as a natural first

hour tune or something that's ideal for the final lap to midnight, when the runnings are often woozy, even a little transcendent.

As it happened, Monday's show was proof of this. The new Burning Codes tune is like trumpets and deep joy in the mainline. Robert Plant seems to take up the thread and The Drums are similarly on it. Meantime the second hour is the chance to get more expansive, certainly with the Soweto swell of Meloton Sisters - vintage emotion from South Africa.

Evening radio is some kind of permission to release six minutes of Ruth Theodore, playing haunted blues like John Fahey. And finally, the chance to sign off with Holly Miranda, the Miss Haversham of billowing, goth-trance.

Playlist 22.02.10

David Bowie - Modern Love (EMI)

Danny And The Champions Of The World - Wandle Swan (Loose)

Ash - War With Me (Atomic Heart)

Lawrence Arabia - Apple Pie Bed (Bella Union)

Jimi Hendrix - Bleeding Heart (Sony)

Holly Miranda - Forest Green Oh Forest Green (XL)

Burning Codes - Can You Hear The Sound (white)

Robert Plant - Another Tribe (Sanctuary)

The Drums - Best Friend (Moshi Moshi)

Wilma Lee And Stoney Cooper - This Crazy Crazy World (Righteous)

Gram Parsons - Oh Las Vegas (Reprise)

Harper Simon - Shooting Star (Tulsi)

Womack And Womack - Celebrate The World (Spectrum)

Julie Feeney - One More Tune (Mittens)

Louis Eliot And The Embers - Runaway Night (IRL)

Carl Perkins - Riverboat Annie (T Bird)

Jesse Dee - Alright (Munich)

Fionn Regan - Protection Racket (Heavenly)

Meloton Sisters With Amaqola Band - Sivenoe (Strut)

John Shelley And The Creatures - Fools (JSC)

Ruth Theodore - Sisyphean Rock And Roll (River Rat)

Hawksley Workman - The Ground We Stand On (Six Shooter)

Aretha Franklin - Ain't No Way (Rhino)

Yeasayer - Madder Red (Secretly Canadian)

Holly Miranda - Sweet Dreams (XL)