Today we pay tribute to Blaze Foley & Gurf Morlix, as well as visits with Greg Brown and the Thompson family. For hour 2, it’s a Johnny Cash Birthday Bash, as The Man in Black would have turned 80 today, and that’s reason enough to celebrate his (ever)lasting musical legacy.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Greg Brown – 1952 Vincent Black Lightning – The Live One
Richard Thompson – Walking the Long Miles Home – Mock Tudor
Teddy Thompson – In My Arms – A Piece of what You Need
Greg Brown – Laughing River – If I Had Known (Essential Recordings, 1980-1996)
Eliza Gilkyson – Sleeper – Going Driftless: An Artists’ Tribute to Greg Brown
Eliza Gilkyson – Not Lonely – Land Of Milk And Honey

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Robert Earl Keen – 10, 000 Chinese Walk Into A Bar – The Rose Hotel
Lucinda Williams – Drunken Angel – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Blaze Foley – Big Cheeseburgers and Good French Fries – Cold, Cold World
Gurf Morlix – Baby Can I Crawl Back To You? – Blaze Foley’s 113th Wet Dream
Gurf Morlix – One More Second – Last Exit To Happyland
Romi Mayes – Mercy on Me – Achin In Yer Bones – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – Everything to Everybody – Receiver/Reflector – CDN – WPG

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Shawn Mullins – The Ghost of Johnny Cash – Light You Up
Fred Eaglesmith – Johnny Cash – 6 Volts – CDN
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny’s Blues: A Tribute to Johnny Cash – CDN
Rodney Crowell – I Walk The Line (Revisited) – The Houston Kid
Roseanne Cash – Tennessee Flat Top Box – The Essential
Roseanne Cash – September When It Comes – The Essential

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Porter Wagoner – Committed to Parkview – Wagonmaster
Johnny Cash – Ain’t No Grave – American VI: Ain’t No Grave
Johnny Cash – Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down – Live from Austin, TX
Michael Johnston & Reid Jamieson – I Still Miss Someone – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Harry Manx – Long Black Veil – Johnny’s Blues: A Tribute to Johnny Cash – CDN
Ry Cooder – Get Rhythm – Get Rhythm
Johnny Cash, Oscar the Grouch – Nasty Dan – Sesame Street: Songs from the Street, Vol. 3