"Podcast: The Ancient One - Edition 136"

The new show by The Ancient One is now available as a podcast. This is Show No 136, "Swedish Tall Tales" which is a fusion of two types of show, a Country show (all Swedish artists) and a Tall Tales Show (all long tracks). Seven epics in the 3 hour show. Majestic.

Playlist

1 Greenslade - Spirit Of The Dance (Excerpt used as Intro taken from the Recollections CD) 2 Karmakanic - God, The Universe and Everything Else No-One Cares About Pt 1+2 (Dot 2016) 3 Anekdoten - Sad Rain (Vemod 1993) 4 Simon Says - Minds Of Mortal Men (Siren Songs 2011) 5 Kaipa - Mindrevolutions (Mindrevolutions 2005) 6 Anglagard - Snardom (Viljans Oga 2012) 7 Moon Safari - Other Half Of The Sky (Blomljud 2008) 8 The Flower Kings -Stardust We Are (Stardust We Are 1997) 9 Greenslade - Joie De Vivre (Excerpt used as Intro taken from the Recollections CD)

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Jim Lawson

Jim Lawson

Born back in the mists of time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth…well, the year that Sir Edmund Hilary climbed Mt Everest, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and when Watson and Crick unravelled the structure of DNA, The Ancient One truly lives up to his name. After spending 33 years in teaching, the last 25 as Head of Biology, I successfully applied for early retirement (2008) and moved lock and stock (I didn’t possess any barrels at the time) to the beautiful Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland, to join my partner, The Landlady. (now known as Mrs Ancient One) As a retired person, I looked around the various voluntary openings that existed and one led me to the local radio station, Cuillin FM. I thought I might be able to help out sorting cds or something. Within a couple of weeks I was asked if I wanted to present a program and trained up as soon as I said “Yes”. Launched onto the airwaves was the show “Strangely Strange but Oddly Normal” and I was able to foist some of my shedload of music onto an unsuspecting public. From mainstream rock/folkrock the contents slowly evolved to full blown progressive rock with leanings towards the symphonic melodic areas. The title of the show also changed to “Strangely Strange and The Ancient One”, which initially confused listeners as they expected 2 presenters, and thus the show title was shortened to simply “The Ancient One”. The show has appeared onCuillin FM,North Highland Radio, Pipeline Radio International and. More Music Radio The Ancient One show on Progzilla Radio is a 3hr show going out fortnightly, (every Tuesday night at 21:00 UK) highlighting the best in progressive music, so expect lots of modern progressive music, but with the odd excursion back in time to the classic works of the late 60’s/early 70’s, all showing a more symphonic nature. Every 2nd Saturday at midday UK, there is the chance to hear an Ancient One Archive Show from 7 years ago, and every 5th Sunday between the hours of midnight and 02:00 UK, The Ancient One presents 101 Dimensions a show featuring ambient, electronica, krautrock and more with no mic work.