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It's almost time for another episode of Come by the Hills! I'm Sara Hillis and I'm here to tell you that I've got three hours of fabulous Folk and Celtic music for you coming up in just a few short hours! The show won't be live today due to a rather busy weekend, but I've got a couple of great songs by Nancy Griffith, another teaser from the second volume of the Joni Mitchell Archives which will be released at the end of October, and even some new Me Music! So join me. Won't you?

After you've enjoyed Come By The Hills with Sara Hillis, tomorrow afternoon from 02:00 to 05:00, don't touch that dial, device, PC, Mac or smart speaker and join me in The Early Years where and when you'll hear the best music from Rock and Roll's Golden Age (its first quarter century) with an occasional nod to other decades and genres.
Another countdown begins this week 10 years after the last one, this one from 1971. I'll start at #100 and get to #80. But before that, I'll play one more baseball song that I wish I'd remembered for the show two weeks ago.

It’s Jonathan Mosen back with another edition of Small World, the kids’ programme for the whole family.

From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 5pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Rosemary's Baby from 1968 and The Innocents from 1961.
Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 American psychological horror film written and directed by Roman Polanski, and starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Angela Dorian, Clay Tanner, and, in his feature film debut, Charles Grodin.

This week Damo is taking a break, and fun guy Graeme from Deep Dive is jumping into the chair.

It has been rainy and stormy in Tweed Heads where I live this week so the breakfast will focus on the weather, playing songs about the weather from different genres. We'll take the weather with you, experience stormy weather, mandolin wind, Sunday sunshine and sunshine on Leith.

Join me, Graeme not Damo, at 4 PM Eastern Friday which is 6 AM Saturday morning in Eastern Australia. Or replayed at 3 AM Eastern Sunday, which is 5 PM in Eastern Australia.

The Juke In The Back” focuses on the “soul that came before rock n’ roll,” the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.

This week on Deep Dive we enjoy the excellent voice and great songwriting skills of Neil Diamond. We meet Cracklin' Rosie, here a song sung blue, and play me.

Tune in at 4 PM Eastern Monday, 6 AM in Eastern Australia. Or at 6 AM Eastern Wednesday, 8 PM in Eastern Australia. We are coming into that weird time-changing part of the year, so watch your times in the next few weeks. I'll try to keep up but I have been known to get it wrong. Just say Play Mushroom FM to your SmartThing and you will be there.

The Juke In The Back” focuses on the “soul that came before rock n’ roll,” the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.
Dinah Washington was more than just the “Queen of The Jukeboxes,” “Queen Of The Blues” and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on her.
Dinah was the real deal. As one of the best selling artists of the 20th Century, Dinah was no pop sensation or flash in the pan. She was a consummate artist, who developed a playful, yet serious style of phrasing all her own.

It’s Jonathan Mosen back with another edition of Small World, the kids’ programme for the whole family. This week, depending on where you live in this small world of ours, there is one very important thing you might need to know. In New Zealand, and possibly some other countries in this part of the world, the clocks are springing forward. That means that for those whose clocks are going ahead by an hour, the show will start one hour later than before.

Hello! Sara Hillis here, and I'm beyond excited about this week's episode of Come by the Hills, Mushroom FM's Folk and Celtic music show! Against the odds of Covid-related delays and any number of other shipping problems, my copy of Loreena McKennitt's thirtieth-anniversary commemorative boxed set of The Visit, the Definitive Edition arrived at my door on the day of its release! So, as a result, the show I had planned to mark this occasion for the first or second week of October is now less than twenty-four hours away!