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The Skunnered are four guys from Glasgow playing their own unique blend of easy rocking country and Scots folk song, with a dollop of Glasgow street song in there for good measure and all sung in their native accent. There's a wry humour at work in the very construction of that sound which shows through in their songs. There's a homeliness, too, which comes over in the straightforward, distinctly un-polished production; these guys are more than happy to be singing for their own folk - I don't think there's a world domination plan brewing here - and the songs are full of location-specific references that would resonate best with hometown audiences.
The best of these songs will more than likely establish themselves in local tradition, most especially the title song which takes a stroll around the city centre on the morning after the night before and is full of gruff affection for the city and its citizens:
"Good morning, Glasgow toon as you wake up from last evening
Frae your dancing and your dining and your dreams
Did you spend your wage and more? Did you sleep alone or score?
Is Glasgow miles better for its schemes?".
Bassist Chas Cunningham does most of the writing and his songs are driven along with a firm pulse from Andy Lindsay on percussion and from whoever takes the melody line, whether it's Paul Shepherd on guitar or chief vocalist Andrew MacMillan on mandolin. It has to be said that the singing generally is not the strongest - plenty good enough for a gig in the pub but the recording studio is a bit unforgiving. However, this is quite definitively a band to see live; at their most folk-y they're cheerfully rousing and you'd have to be pretty churlish not to be won over by their breezy good humour.
John Davy
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Matt Urmy and Mary Gauthier recording Sweet Lonesome at Quonset Hut Studios
Its Medicine Show Wednesday every second wednesday of the month join Rob Ellen on UK Country Radio.com, 8pm, repeated 4pm on the following Thursday.
This Medicine show was first broadcast on UkCountryRadio.com in Jan 2011 and features a concert features Matt Urmy as his album Sweet Lonesome has this month entered the Euro Americana Chart at 3. Sweet Lonesome was the first album to be recorded at the recently refurbished legendary Owen Bradley's Quonset Hut Studios, the first Nashville Studio where The Nashville Sound was fostered. I'll be looking back at some of those great recording from the perspective of one of Nashvilles rising stars Matt Urmy.
The Medicine Show Broadcasts the Second Wednesday Of The Month on UKCountryRadio.com and every Wednesday on www.nevisradio.co.uk Broadcasting Health and Happiness From The Highlands Of Scotland www.themedicineshow.eu .
Frequencies and channel numbers
FM: 102.3 MHz. - RDS name: Nevis_FM (Skye & Mallaig)
FM: 102.4 MHz. - RDS name: Nevis_FM (Loch Leven)
FM: 96.6 MHz. - RDS name: Nevis_FM (Fort William)
FM: 97.0 MHz. - RDS name: Nevis_FM (Glencoe)
The Medicine Show Presents Benny Gallagher @ Acoustic Strathpeffer Coffee Shop Session,
Coffee Shop Cromarty Buildings Strathpeffer Ross-shire. Scotland IV14 9dg 01997 421500. (By Dingwall) March 6th ticket £15 On sale here and from the venue only 30 available, so "Don't Be Late Don't Hesitate".
"In an intimate evening of songs and stories about his days as a Staff Writer with The Beatles Publishing Co. Apple, Legendary Singer-Songwriter Benny Gallagher will perform all of the hits he penned for McGuinness Flint and Gallagher & Lyle - songs that have since been recorded by:
Art Garfunkel, Bryan Ferry, Colin Blunstone, Donavon Frankenreiter, Don Williams, Elkie Brooks, Fairport Convention, Garth Brooks (Concert in Central Park), Judith Durham, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Mary Hopkin, Phil Everly, Ricky Nelson, Ringo Starr, Rita Coolidge, Status Quo, Simon and Garfunkel (Concert in Central Park), The Fureys, and Lemon Jelly to name but a few..... along with some great new songs from his latest Album ‘At The Edge of the Wave’
For 40 years and more, Benny Gallagher has been writing, composing, arranging and performing timeless classics. Small wonder then that, with Graham Lyle, he was one of the first songwriters to be signed by Apple Publishing. Success as an artist quickly followed when the legendary McGuinness Flint stormed the charts with When I'm Dead And Gone and Malt and Barley Blues.
Then came seven more albums and world tours with the majestic Gallagher & Lyle - by which time Benny’s reputation was cemented as one of the UK’s foremost songwriters of his generation. 
Benny Gallagher in conversation with Rob Ellen Acoustic Strathpeffer
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The Medicine Show every second Wednesday of every month is featured on UK Country Radio.com this months show featured No Comebacks in conversation and a Celtic Connections preview, www.ukcountryradio.com to listen to live feed 8pm Jan 13th (repeated 4pm next Thursdays) www.themedicineshow.eu for feeds to Nevis Radio Medicine Show every Wednesday 10pm (GMT) and more info on all Medicine Shows.
Here is the play list for UKCountryradio.com show (In conjunction with The AF Collective Radio
Intro Hungry Hash House Ramblers - Cherokee Shuffle
Arty Hill and The Long Gone Daddies - I'm a Long Gone Daddy - Montgomery on my Mind
Hanks Williams - Faded Love and Winter Roses - The Hanks Williams Story
Daddy - Wash and Fold - For a Second Time
Professor Longhair - Tripitinas 1945 - Tripitina
No Comebacks - Interview
No Comebacks (with PJ Proby) - Corrina Corrina - Back In The Saddle Again
Bob Wills and his Texas Play Boys - San Antonio Rose
Eric Brace and Last Train Home - My Baby Just Cares For Me - Six Songs
Phil Lee - Neon Tombstone - East Nashville - Vol 3 More Songs From The Other side
AJ Roach - Cold As Christmas - Dogwood Winter
Robby Hecht - Chemicals - Late Last Night
Gandalf Murphy and The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams - Radio -A Good Thief Tips His Hat
Furnace Mountain -Winters Nights - Fields Of Fescue
Here is the podcast enjoy
Rob Ellen
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