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Mark Butcher in Session

Best known for a successful career in first class cricket, Mark Butcher is now concentrating on music, encouraged by his friend Eric Clapton. He plays live for Bob in the studio.

Best known for a highly successful career in first class cricket, Mark Butcher is now concentrating on music, encouraged by his friend Eric Clapton. He has spent the last few years recording, playing live and taking up opportunities as diverse as duetting on national TV with Sarah Brightman, to trading licks with Albert Lee and Bill Wyman at the Royal Albert Hall.

He plays live for Bob after 1am and discusses his new album 'Songs from the Sunhouse'.

3 hours

Last on

Sun 10 Apr 2011 00:00

Music Played

  • Freddie King

    Going Down

    • Getting Ready.
    • SEQUEL.
  • Kathleen Edwards

    Back To Me

    • Back To Me.
    • ZOE.
  • Marshall Crenshaw

    Starless Summer Sky

    • Miracle Of Science.
    • RAZOR & TIE.
  • Todd Rundgren

    I saw the Light

    • Something/Anything.
    • Essential.
  • Cherry Ghost

    Kissing Strangers

    • Kissing Steangers radio edit.
    • Heavenly.
  • Elbow

    Open Arms

    • Open Arms.
    • Fiction.
  • Marvin Gaye

    What's Going On

    • Anthology.
    • Tamla Motown.
  • Susan Enan

    Moonlight

    • Plainsong.
    • FEAST MUSIC GROUP.
  • Lucy Wainwright

    Open Season

    • Lucy.
    • Strike Back Records.
  • Manfred Mann - Pretty Flamingo

  • The Decemberists

    Don't Carry It All

    • The King Is Dead.
    • Rough Trade.
  • Israel Nash

    Fool's Gold

    • Barn Doors Concrete Floors.
    • Continental Song City.
  • David Crosby

    Laughing

    • If I Could Only Remember My Name.
    • ATLANTIC.
  • Black Joe Lewis

    Since I Met You Baby

    • Scandalous.
    • Wrasse Records.
  • Roy Harper

    When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease

    • Hq.
    • SCIENCE FRICTION.
  • Richard Thompson

    Drifting Through The Days

    • Indystry.
    • Parlophone.
  • Mark Butcher

    Love Finds A Way

  • Mark Butcher

    You're Never Gone

  • Derek and the Dominos

    I Looked Away

    • Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other.
    • Polydor.
  • Bonnie Raitt

    I Will Not Be Broken

    • Souls Alike.
    • CAPITOL.
  • Mark Butcher

    Leave If You Want To

  • Lil' Band o' Gold

    Spoonbread

    • The Promised Land A Swamp Pop Journey.
    • Room.
  • The Band

    The Weight

    • The Collection.
    • EMI.
  • The Storys

    Bob Harris Jingle

    • Single.
    • NA.
  • Raspberries

    Overnight Sensation

    • The Very Best Of The Raspberries.
    • ZAP.
  • Tift Merritt

    Broken

    • Another Country.
    • FANTASY.
  • Big Star

    Thirteen

    • No.1 Record.
    • BIG BEAT.
  • Jimmie Spheeris

    I Am The Mercury

    • Isle Of View.
    • RAIN.
  • Ann Peebles

    You Keep Me Hangin' On

    • St Louis Woman/Memphis Soul.
    • HI.
  • Mississippi Charles Bevel

    Overhead

    • Meet Mississippi Charles Bevel.
    • A&M.
  • Dennis Wilson

    You And I

    • Pacific Ocean Blue.
    • EPIC LEGACY.
  • The Left Banke

    Pretty Ballerina

    • There's Gonna Be A Storm.
    • MERCURY.
  • The Waterboys

    A Man Is In Love

    • Room To Roam.
    • ENSIGN.
  • Kate Rusby

    Falling

    • Underneath The Stars.
    • PURE.
  • The Jayhawks

    Stumbling Through The Dark

    • Rainy Day Music.
    • AMERICAN/LOST HIGHWAY.
  • Drive‐By Truckers

    Birthday Boy

    • The Big To Do.
    • ATO Records.

Broadcast

  • Sun 10 Apr 2011 00:00

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