a sort of history isn't there with country music and revenge songs strong women and revenge dogs thinking for instance of Loretta Lynn's feast city which I will play on the program I guarantee it in forthcoming weeks and of course more recently Carrie Underwood and Before He Cheats which has the most wonderful 50 which shows her destroy her boyfriends so that if you have to see that do good I look at those Lee modest Alex Lester with you across the West Midlands it's all regular date on a Saturday night through until 1 o'clock on a Sunday morning and it's great to be here to get out. I'm obviously gets you just sitting at home thinking of some of the songs that I could play you and also looking through emails and texts and what have you from you say excuse me how about playing such and such and order request right now shall we Mary on the scales Now Marianne as we listening to right my babblings for many a long year she has well resolve and resilience certainly Marian is always delighted to hear from you and she wants this particular truck which actually I'll be a husk by the time it finishes. And I'll tell you the story this was played by this artist at my wedding to carry the dog lady. Already Edwina Hayes and feels like. You know. We're 11 minutes to the program on a Saturday night the 2nd one with me Alex Lester here on the b.b.c. Across the West Middle School ready Edwina Hasan of ocean feels like I want a little bit of back story to that and that's a question Mary on the scales who's a big fan of that particular verse in the song and as I might you know as I am because it's a Randy Newman song and it's actually featured in the film My Sister's Keeper actually Edwina he's singing it and when I 1st met the dog lady that's Mrs Lester one of the things with frightfully modern couple you understand we compared sort of i Pods if you like and I love that song anyway I knew was around in human song and I had the Bonnie Raitt version but she had the Edwina which I thought was you know is different and wonderful and I knew it well you know how he's played her music on my program to 4 and so are you sort of contacted and said You think it's possible you could do so refute favor. Can you come to our bidding and play that and you said of course. They had to stop the proceedings because every level. Workouts orogeny And I think well I think you're Coleman Hawkins. More. Of a. Woman . Who when. You're. In for. More pussy one. Tool. Or 4. Point 1. 01. More. Food for. Thought. How wonderful is that Coleman Hawkins and Someone to Watch Over Me That's all I'm concerned it's that this has any barriers to the sort of music we play as far as I'm concerned doesn't matter what style it is doesn't want. Brand new brand new songs which you won't have heard before on the program on a Saturday nights together here on the b.b.c. Across the West Midlands I would also love to hear from you for your requests for future programs as well and also old stuff to me if it's music it's worth a listen so I hope you enjoy that Coleman Hawkins track on a play a new song fairly shortly about 2 or 3 of them to pepper throughout the program on all 3 together. Madly. To welcome he did Official bit of comparative festival in Windsor south last summer though it's officially like a lot of festivals it was it would be. Right and off we were in the sort of in the bar while the acts were playing and the water was probably laughing around our ankles which is a shame there is a great lineup we like author Brown on there as well the whole way and who I know being requested other something other than and machine you've requested so we'll get to that in which this week or maybe next week but we will certainly keep the requests coming and I'll tell you how to do that a little bit later on and there was a Doors tribute act when they turned up in their van the right man's are at the keyboard player figured out I meant hello there with the doors Well I can tell you supposed to be dead because of course who right Mandrake is no longer with us d. But yes I suppose he was also German. Lives. The drummer insisted that you. Probably enjoy those little Barry little Barry the band called Little Barry and sings called product with the product on it we've been out about a week now and it's from their forthcoming album Death Express and there were a box set been but. It's cocktail party chatter is that what show what shows have you seen on the t.v. Where you see Breaking Bad that was big we box we binged on that box set on the spin off series better called Soul we can't work out what's happened as far as the the 3rd series I think we've watched the 1st 2 you know it's all chicks the way the get the D.V.D.'s or whatever but little Barry actually did that wasn't it with that little Barry actually did the theme tune to better call salt or just drop that one in as well as new music we're playing your requests as we'll get back to those fairly shortly if you like to hear a particular track on the program would it was delightful as a response we've had already a lot of people actually said lists in as well which means we can go back to those from time to time as well it be lovely if you actually tell us a bit more about why you want to hear a particular track and I'll give you the addresses and stuff like that to get in touch in just a few moments here on the program the b.b.c. Across us middle of the Alice Lester and there are some artists who you just hear you melt Mary Black being one of them. Mary Black and know from 2 years on the program says the Knights across the West Midlands of the b.b.c. With me Alex Lester and if you want to get a request on the program we work at least a week ahead if we've got quite a lot from the stocks but do please please don't shirk just said to me in as soon as you can if you will the way to get in touch you can email me Alex dot Lester. If you know you'll think Lester as it Lester Piggott or Adrian Lester the actual course if you're more than Lester at b.b.c. Dot co dot. That's my email address you could know also. At Alex the dog told the name being the legacy of 30 years working dogs and also my Facebook page Alex Lester the best of all the Daily Show do get in touch with that just tell me your songs you would like to hear some reasons why and maybe a bit about yourself as well also you could be nosy as well as wanting to hear from you because you know the program will develop as the weeks go by if you like the blues oh good. a spirit Amanita coming to Roger Daltry and Wilco John and that's going back home before then we heard Buddy Guy in too many ways here on the b.b.c. For the West it was a Saturday night the Alex Lester and big fan of both us were actually there who will coach Johnson of course long and varied solo career after leaving Dr Feelgood and all Buddy Guy of course is a legend in fact his club in Chicago is called Buddy Guy's legends the dark lady Mrs Lester now he went there once a couple years ago and he wasn't in but they have a lot of merchandise on sale so if you got lots and lots of dollars you could buy Buddy Guy signature guitars and they're the real deal actually they have massively expensive Fender guitars. With they had they did have an artist on who was absolutely terrible so he left after about an hour I had the good fortune to interview Bilko Johnson a few months ago and a wonderful wonderful man and he is he just sort of he has his life is life will have the way he looks at life he's with just astonishment because you may or may not know the backstory that will go Johnson about 3 or 4 years ago I was diagnosed with terminal cancer and we saw Mr 1st of all he came out on stage and in the throes of the illness effectively and said It's great to be fat you won't believe how pleased I am to be here and after a while he discovered he said if I lost much longer people will think I'm a fraud and faking it and he had. A sort of 2nd opinion that somebody at the festa we were at was a surgeon who specialized in cancers and had another look at to say well actually I think we can sort you out and he had an enormous operation and luckily he pulled through and back which is actually modest if you do get a chance to see him do I'm mesmerized performer he's well as I say astonishing he views the world through astonished eyes as well so we have one of your requests I think it's vital that we do Warren sumos sage wake. We're going to have to come back to this name more and you do realize this well out here Glen Campbell Gentle On My Mind. I am. Campbell Jim from Armand especially for Warren sumo Cedric as I hold that thought Warren Seward Sedgwick John Campbell was just a genius and there is actually luckily ample evidence of that genius in so many recordings he made over the years had also him as an actor you remember he was a true grit and also so many television shows including his own in fact there is again I can waste hours an hour there's a thing of the joy this is supposed to be work but you know it's not I can waste hours and hours and hours in his bedroom just listening to music and also sitting there and Googling artists and doing the whole You Tube thing and there is it's been well shared on social media certainly Glen Campbell is a t.v. Show he's with lots of country music luminaries and it's just this clip twice so I'm looking at it he's got all sorts of people there this Wilson on there's Chad Atkins old there Crystal Gayle's on there people like that and he just does that song and. Take the guitar set off a through. Jaw droppers because it is so brilliant I don't know about you but to music just raises enormous emotions in me and I hope it does with you as well Alex Lester with you on a Saturday night 3 hours together all the way between $10.00 and $1.00 including your request will have another one for you in just a few moments on the program the 1st Human League and sound of the crowd. I. Was. Living. Was. Greg . You would leave them sound of the bread. B.b.c. Across the West Midlands 2nd week a new show Saturday nights into Sunday morning 10 through the 13 hours I had picked me I exist and your requests as well earlier we heard then Campbell in general in my mind requested by Warren sumo said to me that I would have a fascination with nicknames so I wonder unless of course it is your 2nd name anyway mine is Norman Warren sumo Sedgwick is it Warren is it something to do with your your shape or perhaps you know some people have hobbies like fishing and football of the Glock that maybe you are a sumo wrestler in your spare time I'm just interested that's always nice to know it's nice to know who is listening and what they like to do and what you're doing at this time of the evening was interested to know I certainly am a god actually divide out about war and sumo Sedgewick I have now and a vision of $280.00 stowed men in nappies fighting each other if you're about to go to bed. Well 1st you can catch up on my pleasure don't miss any of the program and I'm sorry if you have not met. Goodbye kids playing all types of music all varieties all hand-picked on a Saturday night into Sunday morning without exist on b.b.c. B.b.c. In the West Midlands and I don't want you very often I hope this programme it actually helps introducing you to music that you haven't heard before or tracks by artists you knew about but hadn't heard that particular track as well as you know the odd off the wall ones that maybe maybe not sure about that but it's worth listening to or I might go and discover other stuff by that which I might like. This some artist you come too late in life or we're late in life and one such are some of Davis Jr I was aware of Sammy Davis Jr you know all that Rat Pack stuff in the films he made of things news television shows and stuff and mentally the Candy Man I didn't really care for most of it that's a bit of an e.o. 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You're in that cell with him on your last mob asemi Davis Jr and his version of Mr Joe dime Gentles us it's a story in a song about the wonderful it is to hope you enjoyed that there's a way we always try and play as one of Ratu music as possible on the program we do that with your help too with your requests and one of the things also is that if you are 3 house on a Saturday night you might think oh I've got to get up early to go off somewhere to morrow morning whatever I'm got time to listen to the whole program or you might be driving through the West Midlands listening to us here on the b.b.c. I got all right on going north or are going down south a way to catch the whole program as I park up in a lay by which will more than welcome to do of course we're here every Saturday night as I've expressed it and you between 10 and one on Sunday morning well if you miss any of the program for any reason whatever it is well 1st rule of broadcasting if you have a request played on the program you'll be in the loo it will miss it so therefore that's what the i Player is for you can download just look online for the program on a Saturday night b.b.c. Midlands and West Midlands and. You can download it and listen to it at your leisure.