Have yourself a very Merry Boxing Day with the first of our year-end, best-of shows. We look at some notable releases and events from the past year. And, since Christmas is a time of excess, we stretch out a bit and go for a good 3 ½ hours!

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

2:00pm – 2:30pm

The Rocky Fortune – Merry Boxing Day – single – CDN
The Supersuckers – Call It Christmas – Redeye 2008 Holiday Sampler
Mojo Nixon – Christmas, Christmas – Christmas, Christmas
The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale of New York – The Very Best of the Pogues
Hoots & Hellmouth – A Song For Solstice – The Key’s 12 Days Of Christmas
Lyle Lovett – Simple Song – recorded live @ The West End Cultural Centre, Oct. 23, 1997
Twilight Hotel – Viva la Vinyl – Highway Prayer – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Rheostatics – King of the Past – Whale Music – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – So Long Bernie – Shakespeare My Butt – CDN
The Blue Shadows – A Paper ‘n a Promise – On the Floor of Heaven Deluxe Edition – CDN
Blaze Foley – You’ll Get Yours Aplenty – The Dawg Years (1975-1978)
Blaze Foley – Clay Pigeons – Sittin’ by the Road

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Ryan Bingham – The Weary Kind – Crazy Heart Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Holly Williams – Mama – Here with Me
Dave McCann and the Firehearts – Unfamiliar Ground – Dixiebluebird – CDN
Will Kimbrough – Godsend – (EP)
The Fabulous Ginn Sisters – Hey Doll – You Can’t Take a Bad Girl Home
Noisettes – Never Forget You – Wild Young Hearts

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Beauties – Hearts Are Down – The Beauties – CDN
The Beauties – Without You – The Beauties – CDN
Justin Rutledge – Jack of Diamonds – The Early Widows – CDN
Justin Townes Earle – Harlem River Blues – Harlem River Blues
Luke Doucet and The White Falcon – Thinking People – Steel City Trawler – CDN
Peter Katz w/Melissa McClelland – Let Me Go – First of the Last to Know – CDN
Matthew Barber – I Think You’re Gonna Feel My Love – True Believer – CDN

4:00 – 4:30 pm

Jackie Greene – Medicine – Till the Light Comes
Josh Ritter – Change of Time – So Runs the World Away
Jeremy Messersmith – Repo Man – The Reluctant Graveyard
Band of Horses – Factory – Infinite Arms
Patty Griffin w/Buddy Miller – Never Grow Old – Downtown Church

4:30 – 5:00 pm

Jay Nash & Garrison Starr – Sweet Talking Liar – Live at Sun Studio
Madison Violet – Crying – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
John Wort Hannam – Requiem for a Small Town – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Christina Martin – Subject to Change – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Officer Down – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Drive-By Truckers – The Wig He Made Her Wear – The Big To-Do

5:00 – 5:30 pm

Fred Eaglesmith – Shallow – Cha Cha Cha – CDN
Paolo Nutini with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band – Between the Devil & The Deep Blue Sea – Preservation
David Francey – When I’m Not Thinking About You – Fixing this Place to Suit Myself – CDN
Scott Nolan – Swing Low – single – CDN – WPG
Jakob Dylan – Everybody’s Hurting – Women + Country
Kim Richey – Leaving 49 – Wreck Your Wheels
Sarah Harmer – The City – Oh Little Fire – CDN
Sunparlour Players – Battle of ’77 – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Sunparlour Players – Be the One – Hymns for the Happy – CDN