It was one of those early parties soon after coming to Glasgow. I was innocently nursing a beer when my pal came up to me and determined he would know my opinion. I saw a slight madness in his eyes and knew the argument would not be settled unless I agreed to the principle of the hypothesis. ‘Who is it Rick?…. Tell me,’ he gently pushed, ‘ Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry?’ It was pointless asking if we had to choose, he was way beyond that. ‘Oh, it’s Chuck, Swan..it’s definitely Chuck.’ He slid off my shoulder and fell back into a relaxed slump on the carpet. I’d passed the test.

35 years later I have often thought of that conversation and how, I feel slightly guilty at letting Buddy down. (Females please note, only blokes have time to worry about this kind of stuff) I chose Chuck then and for many of the same reasons I’d pick him now, though I pray we are beyond the binary when it comes to musical decision making. Back then I knew some basic things about Chuck Berry that I still think are pretty important. His name was in the brackets of some of the records I’d owned as a kid that meant the world to me, every band I knew or wanted to know covered at least one of his songs and he was, to me, a great singer songwriter. Retrospectively all of that and more could be said about Buddy Holly too but there was one other factor about Chuck…well, he was kinda dangerous.

Aged 18 and still in school, Chuck was sent to reformatory for armed robbery. There was no ‘Merle sees Johnny’ moment here however. On his release he settled down to work in an auto plant before his big break arrived nearly ten years later. He met Leonard Chess in May 1955  who signed him to his legendary label in Chicago starting an incredible 60 year career. Chuck’s first single and still one of his most loved songs, Maybellene was his own take on Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys‘ traditional song Ida Red. From George Jones through to Johnny Cash and Emmylou Harris Chuck’s songs have weaved their way through country music and rock ‘n’ roll. Nothing would have been possible had he not written the songs or played and sung the way he did. Last year he announced plans to make his first new album in 38 years which he would be making for Nashville’s own Dualtone Records. This is the cover of the album which has still to come out.

On Tuesday we’ll play Chuck and we’ll explain a little of his country connections. We’re delighted to say we are also going to include a new track from the (excellent) new Angaleena Presley album, some vinyl from Conor Oberst, a new song from Scotland’s own Eugene Twist and Edinburgh band, Mersault. Look out for more tracks from Hurray For The Riff Raff and we pay tribute to Dolly Parton’s Mr Everything, pedal steel player Don Warden who died last week.

It all starts at five past nine on BBC Radio Scotland FM this Tuesday. Join me if you can.

Right now I can’t really take it all in , but I’m going to try to give you a flick around 72 hours or so of this last C2C weekend….

For starters I can’t quite get the image of Brad Paisley singing the first verse of ‘This Is Country Music‘ on an acoustic guitar before he up ended it, then signed it to Stuart (aged 11, above) on the front row telling him…’C2C 2027..starring Stuart.’ We were all in tears. Then there is Cam not even reaching the last bars of Burning House before the 3000 people gave a standing ovation or would you rather I told you about the moment of disbelief as Darius Rucker tore in-aboot Blackstreet’s No Diggety? Perhaps I’ll gloss over Zac Brown Band’s bizarre cover of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody‘ and concentrate instead on their fine version of Van’s Into The Mystic. Then there were the consistently good things like the set Maren Morris performed and of course the weekend’s stand out moment for me, as expected, an astonishing tour de force of country music…Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives. Yes, I did ask if I could introduce them onstage and yes, I was thrilled they said, ‘Yes,’ but equally I was floored by their beautiful rendition of Marty Robbins’ El Paso and Marty’s incredible solo mandolin version of Orange Blossom Special.

I’ve left so much out, but if you missed any of it you can catch up on the same performers from their London Shows as recorded on Radio2 Country. Equally if you want to hear a little bit of what they are all thinking about you might want to join us this Tuesday when we play out an amazing series of conversations. Down in BBC Scotland’s foyer on Friday and Saturday afternoons we welcomed some of the stars of C2C to join an audience of regular listeners for some country conversations. Darius Rucker explained his musical journey from 90s darlings Hootie and The Blowfish to becoming a No 1 Country Singer. Marty Stuart told us so many great stories about his love of the west, Folsom Prison and the late great Johnny Cash and finally breakout star Maren Morris revealed how she’d never really planned on being the singer of her own songs. If you want to find out more detail you’ll need to tune in.

Tune in too for some interesting backstage chat to Zac Brown Band, Brad Paisley, Cam and Chris Young. Particularly interesting is country superstar Brad’s own doubts and fears about his next album and how he was convinced to make some changes. Brad was joined on stage by one of Country’s finest voices, Chris Young and it was great to be backstage with Chris on the weekend his latest single (a duet with Vince Gill called, Sober Saturday Night) went to #1 on the Country Airplay Chart.

Over the course of this week’s show you will hear some great reflections on where country music is right now and get a chance to hear the music our guests are making. It’s 72 hours distilled in to 120 packed minutes. Join me from five past nine this Tuesday on BBC Radio Scotland FM.

There are albums and there are Chuck Prophet albums. There are gigs and there are Chuck Prophet gigs and then there are the songs. On his new album, ‘Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins,’ (you know there won’t be a better album title than that this year) Chuck lands one of his finest within the first 10 minutes. ‘Open Up Your Heart’  is a simple paen to unrequited love, but to what, to whom? There is so much that Chuck holds dearly it might not be till you get to the end of side two that you discover the answer. Is it the rock heroes we’ve lost in 2016, the diminishing of his home city San Francisco or even the unexplained sudden deaths of boyhood heroes like the aforementioned Bobby Fuller?  Fuller was the man who wanted to be the next Buddy Holly and who died in mysterious circumstances outside his LA  apartment in 1966 just months after his version of ‘I Fought The Law’ became his first top ten hit.

In Chuck’s new record he introduces the grand concept of California Noir and brings it all home with an angry and moving tribute to a young man called Alex Nieto who was killed in the Bay Area in controversial circumstances by the San Francisco police. It’s a protest song worthy of Neil Young in full spate. The thing about Chuck, which you may well already know, is he’s a man more comfortable with affirmation than blank protest. Chuck reminds me of that great quote often paid in tribute to the French Impressionists, ‘The world is so full of such wonderful things, we should all be as happy as kings.’

This Tuesday on Another Country we will have Chuck Prophet and his wonderful Mission Express in session and conversation. It will be the third time Chuck has been back to see us and each time he plays in Scotland a growing assembly of admirers are at pains to tell anyone who will listen how great the gigs have been. Seeing Chuck and The M.E. live at King Tuts a few years ago was as good a live experience as I had in that year. It’s been a huge disappointment not to be within the city limits when the band have visited these last two times. My esteemed producer, Richard Murdoch, has virtually bought a Mission Express season ticket and I suspect that one of these days he’ll just plain disappear on the their tour-bus if I don’t watch out. I say no more – join us this Tuesday and be ready to be Chucked.

We’re also going to spin some excellent new records we’re excited about. Listen out for wonderful things from Alison Krauss, John Moreland, Sam Outlaw and a particular favourite of mine from Romantica. Listen out too for some previews of Country To Country stars who will be coming to Scotland this weekend. We’ll have music from Reba McEntire, Maren Morris and Chris Young. We’ll play some great new Rhiannon Giddens on vinyl and bring you some cool Carolina Chocolate Drops connections. All this in two hours I hear you say? Yes, I reply.  We’re on from five past nine this Tuesday evening on BBC Radio Scotland FM. Join me if you can.

Right now I’m going to paraphrase my old mucker, Showbiz Niz. While rightly upbraiding us for a lack of Louvin Bothers on the AC (at one point) he launched into a short history of popular music. ‘If there were no Louvins there would be no Everleys.  No Everleys  – no Beatles. No Beatles – no pop music!

He had a point. It also follows on from there. No Beatles – no Byrds or Buffalo Springfield. Both of those bands went on to begat The Flying Burrito Brothers, Poco and The Eagles and with that the birth of country rock…I know I’m simplifying…but this week’s AC guest needs to be put in the context. Timothy B Schmit was the man who replaced The Eagles’ Randy Meisner in Poco and about ten years later, the same man again in The Eagles. Quite a feat.

When I made my first solo album I worked with a brilliant drummer called Scott Crago who was then drumming with the reformed Eagles. Don Henley didn’t want to play drums all the time so Scott was the man. I remember asking what the current Eagles line up was. When he ran through the familiar names I must have looked puzzled when Timothy’s name was mentioned. Scotty burst into song and five words answered my query….’I Can’t Tell You Why.’ A big Eagles song written and sung by Mr. Schmit and as familiar a radio hit as any of their biggest songs.

On this week’s AC we have Timothy B Schmit in conversation and an exclusive solo session he recorded for us last month. He’ll be talking about his new solo album, ‘Leap of Faith,‘ his work with those Eagles and in particular his great friend the late Glenn Frey. You’ll also hear the story of one of the most remarkable session musicians from that seventies LA scene.

We’ve also got some great new music from Ags Connelly, Laura Marling and …from Iceland….Kaleo,

We will be bringing you some recordings from artists who’ll be visiting Scotland for Country to Country. We’ll also have news of how you can be in the audience when we host our close one-to-one conversations with some of the biggest names in country music on the C2C weekend. It’s going to be good and it all fits into a packed two hours of this week’s Another Country. We’re live on BBC Radio Scotland FM from five past nine this Tuesday evening. Join me if you can.

It’s probably as good a time as any to reflect a little. Last week was my youngest child’s mid-term so he and I set out on a short holiday. We left his mother at home as she was busy treading the boards by night and rehearsing during the day. Apart from the obvious benefits of a holiday it was a joy to me to have a room of my own, an iPod and my little travel speaker. (a gift from my good friend Gregor Philp)

In the late afternoon and evenings, when we’d returned from our day’s skiing I found myself alone with a book and some old playlist from the last few  years of the AC. I reacquainted myself with some old friends. There were some gems from Low, Bob Dylan’s last few studio albums, Nathaniel Ratliff, Buddy and Julie Miller, Tiny Ruins, Bonnie Prince Billy and Blue Rose Code…oh and so much more. I had a wee moment. In the middle of it all I reflected how little of this music I would know had it not been for my ears behind the desk on Another Country. So,for the record, (or the records) I feel very lucky.

Occasionally too I’m very grateful that I get sent some lovely vinyl…..tonight I want to share some of this gorgeous double album of Townes Van Zandt duets. Texas Rain has now been beautifully reissued by the good people at Charly records…a loving home if ever there was one.

I’m also glad that on my return there’s another pile of new records and some, as yet unplayed, artists who await their audience. Two hours or broadcast time may seem a long time to get through but do believe me when I say that every song we play fights for air time. No sooner have we settled on a playlist for the show than something comes along which we think, ‘Hold on – we need to include that one.’ There’s another one of these moments this week as we introduce the beautiful voice of Will Stratton for you.Originally a Californian, Will is now from New Jersey, but we will have a very special Californian section in the show which includes music from Sam Outlaw, Cam and Chuck Prophet.

Listen out  too for some fine new things for Hurray For The Riff Raff, Valerie June, Drake White and our good friend, Andrew Combs. There will be something rather splendid from my old home city of Dundee too in the shape of a duo called Union Chapel.

However we have always been ‘Another’ Country and we take pride in the fact that we have brought you music from America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Wales, Ireland, England, South Africa, Denmark and a few places I have probably forgotten about. This week we are delighted to be welcoming Joana Serrat from Catalonia. We have been enjoying her third album here on the AC and on her way through Scotland last month she stopped by to record a session and a conversation for us. Joana’s own music has taken her well beyond the boundaries of her native Spain and for her most recent record, ‘Cross The Verge’ she took herself to Montreal to work with producer Howard Bilderman who has worked with Arcade Fire and some other illustrious Canadians. But don’t bother with me trying to describe it. Check it out yourself this Tuesday on Another Country from five past nine on BBC Radio Scotland.

It’s only the second time the Americana UK awards have taken place. Last Thursday we gathered in an old church in Hackney to celebrate Americana music and it felt as if the music had come of age. Perhaps it was the diversity of the performers, perhaps it was the geographic spread of the winners or perhaps it was because we were joined, on the night, by two of the greatest musicians these small islands have ever produced that we felt Americana was being truly affirmed.

I’ve always been a little doubtful about tidy music genres but I accept that Americana is a useful term as there is so much country music these days which doesn’t feel very country at all. Equally there is much outside the Nashville mainstream which celebrates the roots of Hillbilly/folk and western music more eloquently and more intensely than anything from Music Row. That said, there is also much in Nashville to get excited about and we in AC land would be the first to draw attention to the great singers and songs in contemporary country.

This Tuesday on the AC we’ll bring you the full range. From the doyen of English folk, Richard Thompson to desert blue grass from Utah and all points in between.

Firstly we welcome three Utah musicians who take the name 3hattrio. Their album, Solitaire, caught our attention late last year. They use a bluegrass based sound to make a unique music informed, as much as anything, by the desert that surrounds them as it is by the instruments they play. If you’ve not heard 3hatrio I’ll avoid trying to describe them in favour of letting you hear them in the first hour of the programme. It’s another wild strand of Americana that might well have you wanting to find out more.

In the second part of the show we will bring you more guests that we’ve ever had on one programme before. From backstage at last week’s Americana UK awards we will have a full report and catch up on the winners. I’ll be talking to organisers Bob and Trudie Harris, musical director Ethan Johns, Andy Fairweather-Low, Beth Nielson Chapman, Richard Thompson, Lewis and Leigh, Yola Carter and Sam Outlaw. I’ve probably forgotten a few people already. There was a great atmosphere at last week’s awards as it had been a great musical evening. Richard Thompson closed the whole evening off which had included a royal endorsement from Sir Van Morrison…..he was smiling and telling jokes! For Richard Murdoch and myself it felt like we were the proud parents at a school prize giving. Three of Thursdays winners had their first airplay on Another Country and it was genuinely moving to see the music of Sam Outlaw, Margo Price and Lewis & Leigh recognised and rewarded.

You can hear the music and the conversation from this great night in the second hour of this week’s AC. If we get any time we’ll try to squeeze in some great new things too. Join me this Tuesday from five past nine on BBC Radio Scotland if you can.

This is going to be tough. Last week we hosted an evening in the CCA which we all consider to be one of the best nights in the AC calendar. What a fabulous evening it was too. Old friends, Tift Merritt and new old friends Lewis and Leigh and a first time visitor who we hope will become a regular visitor, Margo Price. You can still hear this show on the BBC Scotland website and have a look at the photographs from our night here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04qwzl9/p04qwzhw. It sounded as good as it looked too.

So it’s going to feel a little disingenuous to have the best night of the year followed immediately by another one….but that’s what we’re planning tonight. In Studio live from BBC’s Pacific Quay we welcome Joseph, Brent Cobb and the one and only Jim Lauderdale all playing live on Another Country. Joseph will bring familial harmonies. Hailing from Oregon, Natalie Closner will be joined by her younger twin sisters Meegan and Allison playing songs from their 2016 second album I’m Alone, No You’re Not. We have played Joseph on the show over the last few months and we’re delighted that we’ll be able to hear those voices ringing out in our own studio. We’ll get a chance to get a chat with the sisters too and we’ll hear how they met up with Mike Mogis (of Bright Eyes fame) and recorded in his studio down in Omaha, Nebraska.

There’s a family connection with Brent Cobb too. We first heard his music sitting in his cousin’s studio last year in Nashville. Dave Cobb, now custodian of Nashville’s RCA Studio A, gave us a sneak preview of Brent’s debut album which he’d produced fairly recently. Brent is from Georgia and he came to Nashville a few years back to start his career where he’s written some fine songs for other country artists already. Thanks to his father reminding Dave about his son’s music, Brent eventually found, in his own family, his ideal producer. We are already very aware of the title track of his album as it’s a song he wrote with our good friend Andrew Combs. ‘Shine on Rainy Day’ always seemed like an instant classic and Brent’s version reveals his own musical tastes which are perhaps more rootsy and raw than his friend Andrew’s. He is another artist who has contributed to that great project of Dave Cobb, ‘Southern Family.’ He’ll be playing songs from his debut album live this Tuesday night and he’s going to play a great country cover too.

If all of this is not too much we have a spectacular second hour planned too. For only the second time in the long life of the AC we welcome back Jim Lauderdale. Jim is a busy man and he doesn’t tour much this way, so we are delighted he’s going to join us to play some selections from his new album, ‘London Southern.’ Although Jim doesn’t tour the UK too regularly he did find time to record this album in London with Nick Lowe’s band…it sounds fantastic. If you don’t know Jim, his music or his many side projects  you are in for a treat. We’ll try to catch up with all the things he’s been up to but we hope it will lead you to finding out more yourself.

If I sound excited about this show it’s because I am. Do join me live this Tuesday on BBC Radio Scotland FM if you can.

It was red dirt track and our four by four was bouncing along nicely. From the rear-mirror swung the rosary beads and on the passenger side of the windscreen were the stickers of his favourite football team. The radio was playing some of his favourite songs. As the dust came up from the wheels and the truck made its way back to the main drive my friend, Stephen, pointed to our driver, Francis. ‘There are three things he loves, Ricky: The Catholic Church, his football team and……country music.’

Sounds like Tennessee or Texas? Wrong. It was Kazungula near Livingstone, Zambia just a few days ago. The driver was Francis the local organiser of the charity I was visiting. That whole story is for another time but, needless to say, Francis and I got locked into talking country for the next bumpy part of the journey. Later on in the week I’d come back after a long day visiting projects to see a fuzzy TV broadcasting the presidential inauguration from Washington DC. I wondered what my friend, Francis would make of the only name act that seemed to turn up for the event. Like may of the AC audience and production staff I can’t say I imagined Francis staying up beyond his bedtime to see a few songs by Toby Keith. It seems however Toby was one of the few to honour the new incumbent  on Pennsylvania Avenue. If The Donald wants to have an argument about numbers relating to this one then I think I can recap it fairly concisely:

Number of country acts you’d want to hear on any given night on the AC to play at inauguration: O.

Number of country acts not touching event with a barge pole: pick a number starting from 1000.

So this coming Tuesday you will hear a variety of artists, old and new, who were busy watching tv or shampooing their chickens last Thursday evening. You’ll hear some vintage Bob Wills on vinyl and something really great from Hank Williams. There will also be some new things from Brent Cobb, Holly Macve and Courtney Marie Andrews. Much of this is by way of celebrating the visit of many of the artists to Celtic Connections this month. Don’t forget that this week brings two AC’s as we will be bringing you our live show from the CCA in Glasgow as simulcast with BBC Radio 2 on Thursday evening. If you are not able to make the even you’ll be able to sit in the comfort of your own home or car and hear Margo Price, Lewis & Leigh and Tift Merritt perform songs live from the very heart of the festival.

I think Francis would have enjoyed all this much more than any inauguration ball, don’t you? When I asked him who his all time favourite artist was there was a simple answer: Don Williams. Sometimes you just have to opt for the right Don!

We’ll play a bit of that Gentle Giant this Tuesday on Another Country too.

Join me from five past nine on BBC Radio Scotland FM on Tuesday. On Thursday we’ll be live on BBC Radio 2 and Radio Scotland from 7.

It’s ten years since I first set foot in Music City. My first time there was a beautiful baptism by immersion of (in no particular order) the south, the songwriting world and country music. I’m a fan of the USA. I enjoy being there immensely and I love experiencing new cities and new states …but Nashville…oh I could never live in LA or New York but I think I could get on fine in Nashville.

My publisher had set me up on writing dates for the best part of nearly two weeks and it often felt like house viewing; within five minutes you know you’ll never move in. Similarly with the writing sessions – you take a look at your fellow writer and your heart lifts – or on one or two occasions on that first visit – it hits the floor. I met some amazing people and I mostly enjoyed the ride with all songwriters having a great ability to tell a story or two. It was on this trip or the one a few months later where I first encountered Darrell Brown.

Darrell lived in a beautiful house out in West Nashville and we spent a great day together (including an introduction to the southern concept of macaroni cheese as a side dish.) It was Darrell, perhaps more than anyone, that confirmed what I had knew already: a good song is a good song and it doesn’t really matter what genre it’s in. We never finished the song – probably because we enjoyed each other’s company a little too much and by the end of my visit he’d called a friend and got me on the guest list for a sold out show at The Ryman by Patty Griffin. I have a lot to thank him for. On my next visit to Nashville and to Darrell I walked past his car in the garage and couldn’t help notice an oversized keyboard filling most of the back seat. ‘Were you doing a gig, Darrell?’

‘Oh yes,’ he smiled back. Turned out he’d been playing a round at The Bluebird the previous evening. I pushed him a little harder for details. How had it been, did he get nervous doing these things with these other ace writers? Turns out he did but…he looked at me knowingly…..’I had a ringer. LeAnn Rimes.’ It turned out LeAnn had turned up and sung with him on the songs he’d written for and with her. Now that is a Bluebird Night we’d all have loved to have seen.

Cut to 9 years later and Darrell Brown is sipping coffee with me at Pacific Quay as we wait on our guest to complete her preparations. Darrell is now on the promotional trail with the same LeAnn   – still as songwriter collaborator, but now also as producer and manager. The last 9 years has been an interesting journey for both of us and we spend a little bit of time catching up.

It turns out that songwriting had brought such a strong bond between Darrell and LeAnn that he’d become the person she relied on to guide her career. So on this week’s Another Country we bring you the day I met Darrell again and he brought along his ‘ringer’.. the amazing double Grammy, CMA, AMC award winning Miss LeAnn Rimes. In a frank conversation about family, performing, her remarkable 20 year career and her relationship with my pal Darrell. Oh yes…and she’s singing exclusively for us too. Join us if you can this Tuesday on BBC Radio Scotland.

There’s a little village near Oxford where I once spent a happy few months. On Monday there I found myself nearby and, with an open day in front of me in which my only goal was to get home to Glasgow, I found myself driving away from the motorway following old signs on B roads till I turned into the village again. Village is a slight overstatement. The hamlet in question was Shipton On Cherwell which, as far as I can make out boasts a Church and a post box. The nearest pub is a few miles away…more on that anon.

I had driven past this little village once in the last twenty five years but I had never returned to the house where I’d stayed. It’s a beautiful country manor overlooking rolling hills and fields adjacent to that churchyard boasting a well stocked pond and, most significantly, a bespoke 24 track recording facility.

In an attempt to get as far away from our record label as we could manage we all decamped to this house in the early summer of 1992 where we continued on the tricky task of completing (what may well have become) our final record together. The mood was set early; on the first evening one of our crew found a nest of Starling chicks abandoned in the garden and Lorraine (my wife) decided it was our duty to adopt them. When she returned to Glasgow for anti-natal check ups a few days later she left me in charge of feeding and early flying lessons! They lived in the games room and it was my job to go in and feed them every morning with cat food……you can probably tell that the rural idyll was beginning to make a stronger impression than the music.

Of course I was never really going to be in a bad mood. I’d decided to drive my 27 year old car down and the very fact of it making the journey made all seem well with the world. The Manor studio had been the home of Richard Branson. Above the stairwell was a giant mural of Mike Oldfield whose album, Tubular Bells, had been recorded there and had made the young Mr Branson the fortune he was set to spend on interesting projects like the studio where we now were based. It was the summer of a heatwave and none of us really noticed how dilapidated the house was until the inevitable thunderstorm sent rain running through the leaky roof during one of these short summer nights.

There were so many magical times I could fill all this space with stories but as my car nudged along those country lanes yesterday it was one car journey that I remembered. Our band had become friendly with the locals in the pub in the next village. Transport was always an issue as the producer and myself were the only two folks with cars. One night we were all alerted to the sound of a polite parp parp outside the door of the studio as a 1920s vintage car (think Toad of Toad Hall here) pulled up carrying two of our number home from their watering hole. Sitting outside in the January drizzle remembering these sunlit evenings of younger selves and so many changes was a sobering moment. You can’t go home again…but for a minute there outside The Manor, where nothing seemed to have changed, I was back.

Memory of course is set to music. In time the music we made there no longer links me to the place but being there or near there reminded me to acknowledge…on a dull January day….the happiness that came with a particular time.

It’s impossible to create nostalgia but I hope, at the start of a new year, we may be playing you something which might form part of a longer memory. What was I doing in January 2017…and what was I listening to? I hope we might help youth answer that question a few years hence. If you want to make a start we can help supply a possible soundtrack.

This week I hope we’ll create some magical places for you as we bring you new recordings from Holly Macve, Courtney Marie Andrews, Aaron Lee Tasman and Rhiannon Giddens.

We’ll have some lovely old memories from Johnny Horton, Conway Twitty and, of course, Merle Haggard. We’ll talk little about Mac Wiseman and share something new and something old from him and we’ll pay our respects to a much overlooked Irish Americana troubadour, the late Bap Kennedy. So much and only two hours to get it all in. We’re live this Tuesday from five past nine on BBC Radio Scotland. Join me if you can.