Show 137
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The only reason we makes plans here at the Down Under Hour is so we have something to change. We'd planned a show for this week but it seemed to make more sense to start at the end and work back to the beginning.
I Know Where To Go To Feel Good - Vika and Linda, the Bull sisters, from their debut album, a 1994 release. After several years as in-demand backup singers, the sisters emerge as bona-fide band leaders.
On Our Way Now - the Dynamic Hepnotics with a 1986 single. This version is on a compilation titled Hepnobest, a 2016 release.
Night People - the Agents, they had an EP in 1980 titled Suburbs Of The Heart but this version was off a compilation album,
Burning It Up: Australian Reggae 1979 to 1986. It was put out by Austudy Records, an Australian government initiative. It included eight songs originally issued on seven-inch vinyl and was supposed to "represent some of the earliest examples of reggae sounds in Australian recorded music".
Sounds Of Then (This is Australia) - Ganggajang, from their self-titled first album, released in 1985.
Strange Love - Bleak Squad, the title track of this September 2025 release by a new group of experienced players: Mick Harvey, one of Nick Cave's long-term playmates; Mick Turner, guitarist from Dirty Three and a dozen other groups; Adalita, who has fronted the band Magic Dirt for many years; and session drummer/producer Marty Brown.
God's a Different Sword - Folk Bitch Trio, from their first album, Now Would Be A Good Time, a July 2025 release.
How Much Is Enough - Tim Rogers and his band You Am I, from their 1995 album Hi Fi Way.
Blues rulz
How Come People Act Like That - Kerri Simpson, from her 2007 album Sun Gonna Shine. Lately we've been loving her work with the band Opelousas.
Along About Midnight - Andy Baylor and his band, variously called the Cajun Combo or Andy Baylor's Rainbow Band, from the album One Night In Fitzroy, recorded in a pub, the Rainbow Hotel, on October 10, 1999. The album landed in January 2024. Guitar Slim cut his version of the song in 1956.
Rule The World - Geoff Achison and the Soul Diggers, from 2005, the song was on their album Little Big Men.
A dive into the Cruel Sea
Three from Tex Perkins and the Cruel Sea
Anybody But You - 1995, from the album Three Legged Dog.
Blame It On the Moon - 1993, the band's best-known album, The Honeymoon is Over.
This Is Not the Way Home - the title track of their 1991 album.
Away Away - Weddings, Parties, Anything, from their 1987 album Scorn of the Women.
Aussie Frank Moylan is the man responsible for our hello and goodbye and in between musical bits.
