Every Saturday night Sandy Harsch covers the country music horizon with her own blend of sounds, from Dolly Parton to Lyle Lovett.

Saturday, 11.10pm on RTÉ Radio 1

To listen to the Omagh Bluegrass Music Festival from 3rd of September click here.

Programme Archive

Programme 12: Saturday 19th May 2012

Ebo Walker - Dillards
Doug's Tune - Dillards
Get Ready - Tilford Sellers
Stop Cheating on Me - Kellie Pickler
Daring Corey - Buddy Greene
How Many Women? - Lydia Loveless
Holding on to Nothing - Marty Stuart
Little Mountain Church House - Val Storey
Adios Maria - Cactus Blossoms
The Darkness - Rose Cousins
Sweet Baby James - Grascals
Only You - Moot Davis
White Boy Lost in the Blues - Lyle Lovett

Programme 11: Saturday 12th May 2012

Choices - George Jones
Where's Tammy Wynette? - Kelly Pickler
Atlanta's Burning Down - Waylon Jennings
Dreaming My Dreams With You - Waylon Jennings
I Just Wanted to See You So Bad - Lucinda Williams
Flowers - Billy Yates
Sweet Talk and Good Lies - Heather Myles
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Willie Nelson
Long Road - Eilen Jewell
I Don't Love Much, Do I? - Guy Clark & Emmylou Harris
Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Gerry O'Connor
Standing Knee Deep in a River (And Dying of Thirst) - Kathy Mattea
Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight - Rodney Crowell

Programme 10: Saturday 5th May 2012

Tear the Woodpile Down - Marty Stuart
Stoplight Kisses - Cactus Blossoms
Eliza Blue - Hat Fitz & Cara
You'll Soon Be Here - Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
Four Winds - Israel Nash Gripka
Angels and Acrobats - Amanda Shires
I Coulda Been a King - Rod Picott
I'd Like to Take This Chance - Rachel Harrington & the Knock Outs
El Pescador Natador - Los Lobos
El Prente Rota - Flaco Jimenez
Here You Come Rainin' on Me - Matraca Berg
Friends in Gloryland - Patty Loveless
Gospel Boogie (A Wonderful Time Up There) - Johnny Cash
String Enough to Bend - Tanya Tucker
Wild Bill Jones - Doc Watson
Firebug - JD McPherson
Hollywood Boogie - Marty Stuart

Programme 9: Saturday 28th April 2012

The People Up in Texas - Waylon Jennings
Oh, How I Miss You Tonight - Adolph Hofner & his Texans
Life is a Song - Terri Hendrix
I'll Take Texas - Clint Black
Running Scared - Roy Orbison
East texas Pines - Sunny Sweeny
West texas Town - George Strait
Today, I Started Loving You Again - George Jones
King of Broken Hearts - Lee Ann Womack
Dent in my Heart - Rosie Flores
One Way Gal - Lyle Lovett
I Can't Be Bothered - Miranda Lambert
Hottest Thing in Town - Billy Joe Shaver
Help Me Make it Through the Night - Kris Kristofferson
Keep Them Dogs From Barking - Amanda Shires
American Tune - Willie Nelson

Programme 8: Saturday 21st April 2012

Ophelia - Levon Helm
The Man Behind the Drums - RObert Earl Keen
Leave Me Alone - Levon & the Hawks
Up on Cripple Creek - The Band
Evangeline - The Band
Don't Do It - The Band
Blue Moon of Kentucky - Levon Helm
Stuff You Gotta Watch - The Band
False Hearted Lover Blues - Levon Helm
Move Along Train - Levon Helm
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
Wide River to Cross - Levon Helm

Programme 7: Saturday 14th April 2012

I'm a Honky Tonk Girl - Loretta LYnn
You're Looking at Country - Loretta Lynn
You Ain't Woman Wnough (To Take My Man) - Loretta Lynn
In My Tennessee Mountain Home - Dolly Parton
Another Lonely Song - Tammy Wynette
Silver Threads and Golden Needles - Honky Tonk Angels
Tell Me Why - Gail Davies
Long Tall Sally Rose - Emmy Lou Harris
Whiskey If You Were a Woman - Highway 101
Here You Come Rainin' on Me - Matraca Berg
Give Me Some Wheels - Suzy Boggus
Ford Econoline - Nanci Griffith
Seven Year Ache - Rosanne Cash
The Hunters Wife - Pistol Annies
Staing Is Worse Than Leaving - Sunny Sweeney
That's Where I'm Going - Eilen Jewell
Unlock That Honky Tonk - Kelly Pickler

Programme 6: Saturday 7th April 2012

Get on Board - The Isaacs
Life's Railway to Heaven - Brad Paisley
Bright Morning Stars - Wailin' Jennys
Hear Jerusalem Moan - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
You Don't Have to Go Home - Alecia Nugent
Where the Soul of Man Never Dies - Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice
Hammer & Nails - Dale Ann Bradley
I Saw the Light - Blind Boys of Alabama with Hank WIlliams Jr
Rest in the Arms of Angels - Tammy Rogers
Run On - Elvis Presley
Workin' on a Building - Patty Loveless
Soldier of the Lord - Lyle Lovett
We Shall Rise - Emmylou Harris
Rank Stranger - Ralph Stanley
John the Revelator - Lee Roy Parnell

Programme 5: Saturday 31st March 2012

It's Mighty Dark to Travel - Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
Bluegrass Breakdown - Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
I'll Go Steppin' Too - Flatt & Scruggs
Yonder Stands Little Maggie - Flatt & Scruggs
Gotta Travel On - Flatt & Scruggs
Ballad of Jed Clampett - Flatt & Scruggs
Pick Along - Flatt & Scruggs with Doc Watson
Take Me in your Lifeboat - Flatt & Scruggs
Travelling Prayer - Earl Scruggs Revue
I Still Miss Someone - Earl Scruggs Revue with Johnny Cash
Borrowed Love - Earl Scruggs & Friends
All Your Life - The Band Perry
If I Had a Boat - Lyle Lovett
Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Earl Scruggs & Friends

Programme 4: Saturday 24th March 2012

The Whiskey Ain't Workin - Travis Tritt & Marty Stuart
There Stands the Glass - Webb Pierce
Two More Bottles of Wine - Emmylou Harris
6 Pack to Go - Hank Thompson
Bartender's Blues - Trisha Yearwood & George Jones
Yil I Can Make it On My Own - Tammy Wynette
You and Me and Time - George Jones & Georgette Jones
Set 'em Up Joe - Jamey Johnson
High Shelf Booze - Eilen Jewell
Drinkin' and Dialin' - Darius Rucker
Drinkin' Wine Spodie O'Dee - Jerry Lee Lewis
Revenooer Man - Alan Jackson
I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink - Merle Haggard

Programme 3: Saturday 17th March 2012

Get Gone - Aces Wild
Low Down Girl Like Me - I Draw Slow
Oh Brother - Lost Brothers
Pretty Little Girl - Cheiftains & Carolina Chocolate Drops
Radio On - Charlie McGettigan
Take me Down - Ciara Sidine
Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia - Mundy
San Antonio Rose - Sandy Kelly
Raleigh & Spencer - Rough Deal String Band
Trouble in the Fields - Maura O'Connell
Walk on Water - Niall Toner Band
Rainy Days & Stormy Nights - Ray Lynam
Ain't No Use - Norianna Kennedy
Bosco Stomp - Two Time Polka
Raise Your Head - Track Dogs
Let the Mystery Be - Brendan Quinn

Programme 2: Saturday 10th March 2012

Lovesick Blues - Patsy Cline
This Old House - Willie Nelson
I'll Go Stepping Too - Emmy Lou Harris
Here Comes the Rain - The Mavericks
Early Morning Rain - Raul Malo
I Said I Love You - Raul Malo
When I Think About Cheating - Gretchen Wilson
(You Were) Always on my Mind - Elvis Presley
You Don't Kno Who I Am - Patty Loveless
A Room with a View - Gretchen Peters
Hello Cruel World - Gretchen Peters
One More 'Fore I Die - Del McCoury Band with Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Programme 1: Saturday 3rd March 2012

Live It Up - Chris Isaak
The Songwriters - Bill Anderson
Too Much Month (At the End of the Money) - Billy Hill
Better Man - Clint Black
You Can't Take My Joy - The Isaacs
Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind - Jim Thompson & CCD
Ladies Love Outlaws - Waylon Jennings
Waymore's Blues - Waylon Jennings
Grapes on the Vine - Waylon Jennings
No More Rain - Lynn Hanson
Brown's Ferry Boogie - Zeke Clements
Forget Me Not - The Civil Wars
Gril from Coal Creek Canyon - Terry Penney
Leaving Tennessee - Mike Seeger & Tim O'Brien

About Sandy Harsch

Born and raised in America, Sandy first came across country music at weekend square dances at the local volunteer Fire Station. During summers in Wyoming she had a saturation course in the 3 Hanks (Williams, Snow and Thompson) which led to a lifelong fascination with all things country.
Sandy moved to Ireland in the 1960s and worked as a photo-journalist. Her start in Irish radio was as a contributor to Pat Kenny's excellent 2FM programme, "The Outside Track."

Sandy also worked for, "Hot Press," as photographer / reviewer / interviewer for several years. After presenting a variety of country and American music shows on several different stations Sandy started presenting, "Country Time," (with its blend of country, cowboy songs, rockabilly, Americana, Cajun, honky-tonk and bluegrass) on RTE Radio One.

Email tapes@rte.ie to find out how to obtain a CD copy of the programme. Copies supplied are subject to transfer fees, terms and conditions. Please note that copyright restrictions may apply.