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The Hairpin Turn

21.03.26

Aired on Saturday 21st March 2026, 11:00PM

The Hairpin Turn is an eclectic mix of the finest music across a variety of years, genres, styles, moods and fragrances. Keep your dancing shoes handy for the fast stuff, a box of tissues ready for the sentimental stuff, and a fresh pot of ginger and lemon tea for the singalong stuff. There's bound to be a song you know. Maybe there's a song you'll fall in love with at first listen.Each performance of The Hairpin Turn is in two movements:La DansetteA mini-party. Music at a fixed BPM for dancing, singing, carousing, marching upon castles, etc.; however the witching hour pleases you.Deeper into MusicMusic following a theme. Past subjects of the week: contrafacts, psychogeography, Billy Strayhorn, Tom Waits.If you have comments, questions or playlist suggestions, please email Mathew at thehairpinturn@eastsidefm.org

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Tracklist

  1. 1:00

    Dr. John

    What Comes Around (Goes Around)

  2. 5:10

    The Avalanches

    Close to You

  3. 8:47

    Labelle

    Lady Marmalade

  4. 12:54

    I'm Talking

    Holy Word (Filthy Lucre remix)

  5. 19:47

    Prince

    Controversy

  6. 26:11

    The Real Tuesday Weld

    Bathtime in Clerkenwell

  7. 30:44

    Robert Johnson

    Stones in My Passway

  8. 34:37

    Mose Allison

    It Didn't Turn Out That Way

  9. 37:11

    The Go-Betweens

    The Wrong Road

  10. 42:03

    Howlin' Wolf

    I Asked for Water

  11. 46:50

    The Beta Band

    Life

  12. 51:32

    Paul Kelly And The Coloured Girls

    To Her Door

  13. 56:06

    Curtis Mayfield

    Keep on Keeping on

  14. 1:01:00

    Bobby Byrd

    Try It Again

  15. 1:04:48

    Jimmy Clfff

    The Harder They Come

  16. 1:10:38

    Skunkhour

    Kick In The Door

  17. 1:13:46

    Clarence Smith

    I'll Just Keep on Trying

  18. 1:16:57

    King Curtis

    A Change Is Gonna Come

  19. 1:21:36

    Billy Preston

    All Things (Must) Pass

  20. 1:26:32

    Stevie Wonder

    Higher Ground

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