November 11, 2007

Episode #235

Too many themes to fit into two hours, we super-sized the show today and took over for Bluegrass Guy who took the holiday off, pushing the show to three hours, and I still ran out of time!

First up, it would be inappropriate not to recognize Remembrance Day by playing some songs about soldiers & war, but more importantly, we played some songs about peace.

Coming up next weekend some Winnipeg all-stars pay tribute to an under-appreciated Canadian songwriter/musician legend, David Essig. Essig will be in town to play alongside The D. Rangers, Romi Mayes, and more as they launch the homegrown Essig tribute record, Beverley Street on Saturday. So, a brief lesson in all things Essig with some songs he’s played on, produced, and written.

November 12 is Neil Young’s birthday, and our friends at the High & Lonesome Club have been celebrating in style with a weekend of amazing Neil Young music in Neilfest, and we relived some of it with our own set of Neil classics and covers.

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Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Tales of War & Peace:
Charlie Sohmer & Willie P Bennett – Black Against the Wall – www.charliesohmer.com – CDN
David Francey – Flowers of Saskatchewan – Far End of Summer – CDN
Josh Ritter – Girl in the War – The Animal Years
Bruce Springsteen and the Sessions Band – Bring ’em Home – Live in Dublin
Shooting John – War – Happiness +/-
The Damnwells – WW XII (World War 12) – demo recording

2:30pm – 3:00pm

Tannis Slimmon – Peaceful Sleep – Music for Peace – CDN
Eliza Gilkyson – Peace Call – Land of Milk and Honey
Nick Lowe – What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding? – At My Age bonus track
Tom Waits – Road to Peace – Orphans
Wilco – War on War – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Son Volt – Endless War – Selections from 6 String Belief
Johnny Cash – Veteran’s Day – Wounded Heart of America (Tom Russell Songs)

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Celebrating David Essig:
Romi Mayes, David Essig, and The D. Rangers – Broken Promises – Beverley Street – CDN – WPG
Stan Rogers – Music in your Eyes – From Coffee House to Concert Hall – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Pens and Paper – Blackie and the Rodeo King – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Some Day It Will All Be Gone – Fred J. Eaglesmith – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – The Boy that Just Went Wrong – The Boy that Just Went Wrong – CDN
David Essig – Beverley Street – Beverley Street – CDN

3:30pm – 4:00pm

The Duhks – Four Blue Walls – The Duhks – CDN – WPG
The Duhks – Mountain’s O’ Things – Migrations – CDN – WPG
Sunparlour Players – Robbers Lullaby – Hymns for the Happy – CDN

Neilfest:
Weeping Tile – Don’t Let It Bring You Down – Eepee – CDN
Alana Levandoski – Don’t Be Denied – Borrowed Tunes II – CDN

4:00pm – 4:30pm

Rheostatics / Bourbon Tabernacle Choir – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – Borrowed Tunes – CDN
Skydiggers – Mr. Soul – Borrowed Tunes – CDN
Neil Young – No More – Freedom – CDN
The Perpetrators – Are You Ready for the Country – The Gas and the Clutch – CDN – WPG
Neil Young – The Wayward Wind – Old Ways – CDN

4:30pm – 5:00pm

Kathleen Edwards – Unknown Legend – live recording – CDN
Neil Young – Dreamin’ Man – Harvest Moon – CDN
Will & the Bushmen – Neil Young – Gawk
Danny Schmidt – Neil Young – Parables and Primes

Happy Birthday
Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men – Fourth of July – Out in California


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