Miss Chatelaine

Katie winds up another year of great music by playing tracks from some of the outstanding albums and EPs released in 2023, including Melody Moko’s Suburban Dream, Angie McMahon’s Light, Dark, Light Again, Carla Geneve’s Hertz, Ben Reel’s Come a Long Way, Emma Bosworth & The Meeting Seasons’ Placement and Woodes’ Hibernation. Here is the playlist:

Free – Ocie Elliott

Suburban Dream – Melody Moko

Shake It Up (Acoustic) – Mitch Grainger

Black Eye – Angie McMahon

Feel – Carla Geneve

From the Day I Was Born – Ben Reel

Spooko – Emma Bosworth & The Meeting Seasons

By the Boab Tree – Miiesha

Heavenly – Woodes

Above: Woodes’ Hibernation EP cover photo by Rex Kane-Hart

Katie celebrates New Year’s Eve by playing songs by artists based in Los Angeles, Montreal, Belfast, Auckland, Narrm/Melbourne, and Boorloo/Perth, on themes of marriage, true beauty, self-love, the beginning of a relationship, and more. Here is the playlist:

Haunted – Laufey

My Secret Place – Brian Kennedy ft. Eddi Reader

What a Shame – Mezz Coleman

I Hope You Knew – Paige

Early Train – Sunset Stranger

Farewell Tree – Corn Nut Creek

Remnants – Tanaya Harper

Learning to Like You – Ainslie Wills

Rise in Beauty – Jeremy Dutcher

My Whole Life – Dylan Pinkerton

Above: Brian Kennedy’s A Love Letter to Joni Volume 2 album cover design by Brian Kennedy and Stuart Gray

It’s Christmas Eve, and Katie is playing TV soundtrack music, Americana music, music by queer artists, deeply personal music about self-discovery and love and death, and a couple of new seasonally appropriate songs for anyone who is homesick or lonely this Christmas. Here is the playlist:

Tjukurpa – Electric Fields

Gone Girl Gone – Bahamas

All That’s Left Is Love – Nat Vazer

Homesick Christmas – Karen Law

Long2th – Ryan Downey

Thank You – Mia Dyson

Tomorrow – Harrison Storm

In My Absence – Miki Ratsula

Try – Kaylah Thomas

Lonely Christmas – Shelley Segal ft. Zion Anthony

Above: Kaylah Thomas’s Tiny World EP cover photo by Bonn Creative

It’s Christmas Eve, and Katie has the best music for this time of year! Gia Ransome is coming down, Riley Pearce is slowing down, Kristin Berardi has more than she needs, Sunny Luwe is giving us nightmare fuel, Stu Larsen is running out of time, and Thelma Plum isn’t talking about it but wishes more people would. Here is the playlist:

Coming Down – Gia Ransome

Slow This Down – Riley Pearce

Little Bluebird (Live) – Anna Weatherup

More Than We Need – Kristin Berardi & Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance

Fault Lines – Magdalia

If You Come Home for Christmas – Riley Catherall

We Don’t Talk About It – Thelma Plum

On Friday I Drove Into the Lake – Sunny Luwe

Running Out of Time – Stu Larsen

Shadow – Juanita Tippins

Above: Gia Ransome’s Winter EP cover photo by Stephen Bennett

Katie plays more beautiful new and recent releases and a few more seasonally appropriate tunes. Among them, friends of the show Emily Barker and Jaime Jackett have great new songs out, and US band Wheatus have done a Christmas version of their classic hit ‘Teenage Dirtbag’. Here is the playlist:

Slow Running – Hazlett

Don’t Call Me Pretty – rue tiay

Every Day’s Another Dance – Floyd Thursby

Wild to Be Sharing This Moment – Emily Barker

Feels Like July – Joel Havea Trio

Church – Dane Tutty ft. Jen Buxton

Extinction – Jaime Jackett ft. Lyrical instinct

The Undertow (Live) – Amy Vee

Christmas Dirtbag – Wheatus

Merry Xmas (to the Losers) – David Garnham & the Reasons to Live ft. The Choir of Man

Above: Emily Barker’s ‘Wild to Be Sharing This Moment’ single cover art by Headjam Creative Agency

Katie plays a bunch of truly beautiful recent releases and a couple of seasonally appropriate songs. The artists are from Sydney, Melbourne, Candelo (NSW), the NSW Central Coast, Queensland, the USA and Denmark, and themes in the music include nature, childhood trauma, resilience, and love. Here is the playlist:

Miss Chatelaine (St Tropez Mix) – k.d. lang

Other Side of the World – Katie Wighton

When It Rains in Broken Hill – The Orbweavers

The Storyline Ends Here – The Night Parrots

Only Fools – Rosie Darling

Unthinkable – Nelson Mathews

Do You Even Know – Robyn Martin

Adeste Fideles – Gareth Koch

Mourning Time – Ida Wenøe

Lifted – Tom Neilson

Consider It a Gift – Georgia Mooney

Above: Robyn Martin’s Milk & Honey album cover art by Belinda Rosenbaum

Katie’s guests in the second hour today are bluegrass/Americana duo Corn Nut Creek, aka Tanya Bradley and Dani Vita. We find out how they met and started making music together and what went into making their excellent debut album, Hearts in Bloom. There’s also a discussion of the music that comes from the Appalachian Mountains in eastern USA, and the differences and overlap between folk, country, bluegrass and roots music. Tanya and Dani play a couple of their songs live, too! Here is the playlist:

Ragged Friend – Mia Dyson

Your Friend’s a Lesbian – Jo Caseley

Moment of You – Corn Nut Creek

Home on Earth (live in the studio) – Corn Nut Creek

The Basket – Lucy Wise

Running Up That Hill – Corn Nut Creek

Once Again (live in the studio) – Corn Nut Creek

Beautiful Day – Wrabel

Shaking as It Turns – Lula Wiles

Mother’s Song – Corn Nut Creek

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Photo of Corn Nut Creek and Katie (above) by Betty Sujecki

The first hour of today’s show has strong West Australian energy, with three songs from Boorloo/Perth-based artists. There’s also a track from friend-of-the-show Romanie’s excellent new album, a newie from English singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich, a stunner from Portland, Oregon’s M. Ward with Swedish sister duo First Aid Kit, and more. Here is the playlist:

Seasonal  – Elianie

Come On By – Ocie Elliott

The World Is Ending and We Know It – Romanie

Break in the Weather – Benjamin Francis Leftwich

Valentine’s – Laura Lucas

Too Young to Die – M. Ward ft. First Aid Kit

Growing Pains – Carla Geneve

Crush – Anna Schneider

Bottom of the Lake – Pete Campbell

Somewhere Highway – Lontano

Above: Carla Geneve’s Hertz album cover art by Cameron Potts

Katie plays a delicious new song by two of today’s brightest young music stars; fascinating tracks by Australian artists from Melbourne, Sydney, the NSW Central Coast and Brisbane; three memorable songs by Indigenous musicians; and a banger by a hot US alt-country star. Here is the playlist:

A Night to Remember – beabadoobee & Laufey

The Conversation Pit – Hotel ft. Gabriella Cohen

Already Falling in Love – Seetali ft. Harriet Braat

Sweeter – Julian Taylor Band

Pomawsuwinuwok Wonakiyawolotuwok – Jeremy Dutcher

Elder – Radical Son

Poison and the Debt – Nieko

Eggs on Toast – Emma Bosworth & The Meeting Seasons

Almost on the Inside – Sarah Belkner

You Supposed to Be Somewhere – Steve Balbi

Fox Hunt – Sierra Ferrell

Above: Hotel’s Call of the Void album cover art by Andrew Tudehope (aka Hotel)

Katie plays more from her long backlog of recently released music. The songs include a tribute to that one great teacher you had, an ode to falling in love again, a tune about moving beyond a seemingly impossible hurdle, a love song for friendship, one about finding someone to help navigate your way through life, and more. Here is the playlist:

Fish Bird Baby Boy – Georgia Gets By

All Those Years Ago – Allan Caswell

Weight of the World – Sunset Stranger

Eyes on Me – Ainslie Wills

My Boys – Nathan Cavaleri

Saturn Returning – Angie McMahon

Waves – Daniel Trakell

Warm Water – Naomi Keyte

Fallen Star – Chris Cavill

Above: Sunset Stranger’s Double Dream album cover design and collage by Stephen Stanisic (aka Sunset Stranger)