 Thursday evening, it's Jimmy Stafford witcher between now and 10 p.m. On Highland radio And I'm delighted to welcome my very special guest co-presenter Billy Robinson Billy Good evening to you. Good evening Jimmy. You're very welcome to Highland radio And I asked you a few months ago Would you come up and do this because just for those of you who tuned in and wondering well? What's it all about? Well once every month I have a special guest co-presenter in studio with me who and I tell them you have to go off and pick eight or nine Irish music tracks from any decade any era any sort of music it can be trad rock folk or hip or whatever Once it's an Irish act and Billy Well, we kept kept chasing you and eventually we got a date and Billy has an array You probably see in the camera if you're watching on Highland a number of CDs on the desk in front of Billy But we're talking Billy for those of people who tuned in and I call you the legendary Billy Robinson Who is Billy Robinson? I was a fellow was born of born on farm down in Burt's really and Then I got a dress of music at an early age and played in show bands and Went from that and then Played with the rule of rust Which sort of well-known Ireland that were sort of different from a show band and then with Different bands then I had quartet that were well known Ireland for and then Then they give that up and I start doing sound because hard xx manager had been worked for Asgard at big agency in London and John Hyatt needed a modern engineer one time So I'd never done matters my life before but I went out and done it and then through that company Rosebud in California end up doing a lot more Was music always in the family you've grown up Well, my father played accordion when he's young and then they couldn't he had an accident with a gone Actually an accident and he couldn't pull the accordion in and out and so he that put it into the accordion Somebody hand him a shotgun that he'd load to man and to shoot grows or something and He put his foot in the clutch the tractor and hit the hammer and went up three shoulder and he's My when I was two or three remembers playing on the floor. I can still remember him fall through the door But he He recovered anyway, but he couldn't pull the accordion in and out, you know any more. So what do you do them? Oh, it's only two or three or four maybe and then but he always played a we He loved country music and he had loads of old beautiful country albums and like good country music and he had a used to play the organ with the one hand and He's a music lover and you know and then that that obviously passed on to yourself Must I'm pursuing me personally have played first and then I started to play as well And is it to to you in the family to just to visit and to We'll talk about Percy and yourself later on because we have a load of time to talk But I think tonight is all about the music and I said to you picking you said would it be okay If I played music from the albums I've recorded in the groushack Which is the name of your recording studio in remelton. I said of course and Billy says I have like 40 50 60 Well, well some of the albums were only some of the albums out like that chain hard But it was a live thing that I mixed it in the groushacker. It wasn't even called a group shot somewhere That I had a house the steeples and I want to work to be Mary black I often mixed her albums and she would put stories from the steeples or one of the albums That's what because I mixed the album and pick up people to play and and a room in my house the steeples And then I got another house and it's not really a studio It's more of a shed but people they're a good vibe in there and people like coming and I'm playing I do live Texts with everybody playing live most of the time We'll talk more about the studio later on and people I'm gonna talk about Mary black and Declan sinnet and so many other people as well But let's we play a bit of music because your first track tonight, and I know you had to dig deep and think and No, I really love I'd done some work with John Prine and a really the one of the last songs he had written was Before he died He couldn't have after he did that anyway, but he A brandon clon record it and I can't even it's called I remember everything and I think brandon with a beautiful voice beautiful singer And so myself and pat Crowley and make me carney got together and record. I think Lawrence might be on them I'm not sure and Recorded this and it's a couple of years ago. It's during the lockdown But I always think it's a beautiful version of this song So the first song from billy Robinson on this evening show on highland radio is from brandon queen and it's called I remember everything. I remember everything brandon queen