Summer Special #2 – Ralph McTell

Welcome to the second of four Summer Special Editions of Behind the Scenes when we get to enjoy longer chats with some very special guests…

 

If you were listening to Behind the Scenes at the start of December last year you might have heard a conversation with folk and blues legend Ralph McTell. He played the Isle of Wight Festival on the same bill as Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez and Leonard Cohen. His latest album is named after a line from the film Casablanca and features a tribute to the famous photograph on the album cover for Bob Dylan’s classic Freewheelin’. His hit song Streets of London has been recorded by 212 different artists – and as homage to that his 2024 Australian tour is called Streets of Oz but what you didn’t hear is that we talked about a lot more than we could fit on that show, so here’s the complete conversation along with a selection of his songs from a career spanning more than fifty years.

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