Soul
Nashville Babylon 2 November 2020
On this week's show Mark has new music from Jim White, Otis Gibbs and Miles Calder, previews French For Rabbits' NZ tour, plays a live track from Sonny Terry and Brown McGhee and a birthday tune for… Audio
Nashville Babylon 26 October 2020
This week's Nashville Babylon is a solid Soul and R'n'B special featuring the likes of Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Candi Staton and Curtis Mayfield. Audio
Nashville Babylon 19 October 2020
On this week's show Mark has the Meters covering the Beatles and Rory Gallagher covering the Stones. There's also Philly-Soul courtesy of the Delfonics, a duet between Kurt Vile and John Prine plus… Audio
Nashville Babylon 12 October 2020
On this week's show Mark has music from Bill Callahan, Justin Townes Earle, Toots & The Maytals and Faye Webster. There's also a new track from New Zealand's Stretch plus classics courtesy of Rory… Audio
Nashville Babylon 5 October 2020
On this week's Nashville Babylon Mark has new music from Hayes Carll and John Wesley Harding, a birthday tune for Jackson Browne, a classic courtesy of the Allman Brothers, a track from Bert Jansch's… Audio
My Current Song: Deva Mahal - 'Stand In'
Wellington-based singer Deva Mahal recently released her stunning single 'Stand In', a track deeply rooted in her upbringing between Hawaii and New Zealand. She joins the show to discuss penning the… Video, Audio
Nashville Babylon 28 September, 2020
On this week's show Mark has a birthday tunes for Jerry Lee Lewis and Victor Jara, new music from Milly Tabak, Gillian Welch, Chris Smither and Grant Lee Phillips plus two excellent Dylan covers taken… Audio
Nashville Babylon 21 September, 2020
On this week's Nashville Babylon Mark celebrates the birthday of Leonard Cohen with an hour long special devoted to his music. As well as a number of Cohen classics there'll also be versions of his… Audio
Nashville Babylon 14 September, 2020
This week's Nashville Babylon has blues courtesy of Smiley Lewis and New Zealand's Heart Attack Alley, Steve Earle covering Townes Van Zandt plus tracks from Vic Chesnutt, Isaac Hayes and Vetiver. Audio
Nashville Babylon 7 September, 2020
On this week's Nashville Babylon Tom Rush covers Joni Mitchell and Holly Golightly's getting high for Jesus. There's also music from the Felice Brothers, Courtney Marie Andrews, a new track from… Audio
Nashville Babylon 31 August, 2020
On this week's Nashville Babylon Mark plays a selection of his favourite Van Morrison tracks to commemorate the legendary performer's 75th birthday. There'll also be songs to mark the recent passing… Audio
Nashville Babylon 24 August, 2020
On this week's show Mark has music from Judee Sill, Randy Newman, blues from Jimmy Reed and country courtesy of Lefty Frizzell. There's also a birthday tune for Elvis Costello and a track from the… Audio
Nashville Babylon 10 August, 2020
On this week's show Mark has music from Jimi Hendrix, Hurray For The Riff Raff and Sylvie Simmons, a track from Dion's latest release plus songs from Old Flowers - the critically acclaimed new album… Audio
Nashville Babylon 3 August, 2020
On this week's show Mark has new music courtesy of Jo Meares, blues from Lil' Armstrong and Joe Turner plus classics from Neil Young, Uncle Tupelo, Elvis and Mark Mulcahy. Audio
Nashville Babylon 27 July, 2020
On this week's show Mark has new music from Bill Frisell, birthday tunes for Bobbie Gentry, southern soul courtesy of Eddie Hinton plus classic blues from Junior Kimbrough. Audio
Nashville Babylon 29 June 2020
On this week's show Mark has new music from Bob Dylan and Dan Penn, classic soul courtesy of the Staple Singers, a French / Canadian cover of Leonard Cohen's Suzanne plus a haunting instrumental from… Audio
Nashville Babylon 22 June 2020
On this week's show Mark plays birthday tunes for Kris Kristofferon, June Carter Cash and Nick Drake plus blues courtesy of Mojo Watson, Kiwi country from the Warratahs and a classic Americana cut… Audio
Nashville Babylon 15 June 2020
On this week's show Mark has music from Nadia Reid and Billie Holiday, birthday tunes for Harry Nilsson and Waylon Jennings, classic soul courtesy of Marvyn Gaye and Nat King Cole plus solid doo-wop… Audio
Nashville Babylon 8 June 2020
On this week's show Mark has a birthday track for Sturgill Simpson, classic soul courtesy of James Brown and Sam Cooke, new music from Mandolin Orange plus a tune from Kiwi combo Delaney Davidson and… Audio
Nashville Babylon 1 June 2020
On this week's Nashville Babylon Mark has a brace of live tracks courtesy of Professor Longhair and Aretha Franklin, a birthday tune for Charlie Watts plus new music from My Darling Clementine. Audio