All you really need for a good song

3 Chords & the truth is about simple, moving songs: all you really need for a good song is 3 chords and the truth.

Can the songwriters provide a truth worth telling?

We're back July 2009 for Sunday lunchtimes with choice picks from artists like:

Adoration on the Gospel Train, Angus & Julia Stone,
Ani DiFranco, Andy Baylor, Anika Moa, Ash Grunwald, Bertie Blackman
Bette Midler, Bic Runga, Blue King Brown
Blind Boys of Alabama, Bob Dylan
Bruce Springsteen, Bright Eyes, Cassandra Wilson
Clare Bowditch, Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crowded House, Downhills Home, Ella Fitzgerald, Emmylou Harris
Eric Clapton, Etta James, George
Gillian Welch, Goldfrapp, Guy Blackman, Holly Throsby
Howlin' Wolf, Husky, Iron & Wine, Jack Johnson
James Reyne, Janis Ian, Jeff Buckley
Jeff Lang, John Butler Trio, John Lee Hooker, Jr.
John Mayer, Johnny Cash, Josh Pyke, k.d. lang
Karine Polwart, KT Tunstall, Laura Jean, Laura Marling
Leadbelly, Lee Kernaghan, Leonard Cohen, Liam Finn
Lior, Lisa Miller, Lisa Mitchell, Little Red, Lizz Wright,
Lucinda Williams, Mandy Moore, Mavis Staples,
Melinda Schneider, Mia Dyson
Missy Higgins, Muddy Waters, Neil Young
Neko Case, Nick Drake, Nina Simone
Old Man River, Patty Griffin, Rachel Unthank And The Winterset
Ray LaMontagne, Rebecca Barnard, Renée Geyer
Robert Cray Band, Robert Johnson
Ron Sexsmith, Ryan Adams, Rufus Wainwright, Ruthie Foster
Ryan Adams, Sal Kimber, Sara Storer
Sarah Blasko, Sia, Susan Tedeschi, Stevie Ray Vaughan,
Taj Mahal, Teddy Thompson, The Audreys
The Beautiful Girls, The Shins, The Waifs
Tom Waits, Toshi Reagen, Tracy Chapman, Vika and Linda
Xavier Rudd, Z.Z. Hill

Perfect manners

Sunday 31st, our theme is perfect manners. While we're normally kicking gay stereotypes in to touch, this week we're going to be nice well-mannered boys, minding our ps and qs.

Simple songs about doing the right thing, that you can hear the words to.

And I will be back to control Andy's urge to support hairspray-wielding country singers with more money and illegitimate relatives than brain cells.

It's our last show for a while, sorry! So tune in!

Alex

Heaven & Hell

The theme for the first hour on 24 Aug is Heaven & Hell - expect Blues, Country, Folk & Gospel with evil and godly tinges. Compulsory listening if you have the mind of a Catholic nun but the libido of a horny goat on viagra.

It will be an Alex-free show. He's in for therapy.

Andy

Accents

Coming up, check out our show on Accents, the very many accents proliferating in music nowadays, battering Received Pronunciation into submission and leaving it for dead on the street.


Join us 1-3pm on Joy 94.9

Hellooooo

Hello peeps!

Welcome to the Three Chords and the Truth blog.

It will no doubt be just as off-the-wall, kinky, unusual, irreverent and unscripted as Three Chords elsewhere. Probably just as unresearch and undoubtedly very daggy.

Hang in there.