Episode #1103

I’ve been spending some time visiting the hospital this week, so we’ve got some extra appreciation for excellent nurses, paramedics, and doctors, and we heard some songs in honour of them and the people they help, including some folks who are mighty important around here. We also looked forward to the 20th anniversary of a venue that’s mighty important around here and one of our oldest musical friends, and talked about yet another important friend and colleague who’s gearing up to make an eagerly awaited new record. We slipped in some new music and some old classics as well.

Please join me at the Park Theatre birthday party w/JP Hoe & friends: https://myparktheatre.com/tm-event/jp-hoe-and-friends/

And join me in supporting the new album from Sean Burns & Lost Country: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/new-album-by-sean-burns-lost-country#/

Support your music addiction and a great local enabler by visiting Argy’s: https://www.argy.ca/

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Artist – Song Title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – MB=Manitoba Artist – WPG=Winnipeg artist

Bob Schneider – Medicine – I’m Good Now

Bob Schneider – The Medical Career – single
Guy Clark – Doctor Good Doctor – Old Friends
Lee Harvey Osmond & Mary Gauthier – Dear Doctor – Paint It Black: An Alt Country Tribute To The Rolling Stones
Richard Shindell – Confession – Somewhere Near Paterson
Jim Bryson – Feel Much Better – The North Side Benches – CDN

JP Hoe – Are You Feeling Better Now – The Dear John Letters – CDN – WPG
JP Hoe And The Truly Richards – Rise – The Live Beta Project – CDN – WPG
JP Hoe And The Truly Richards – You’re Here And I’m Not – The Live Beta Project – CDN – WPG
JP Hoe – Nobody Ever Cried – Botanicals – CDN – WPG

Sean Burns – Destroy Me – Lost Country – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Big(ger) Freightliner – We Gotta Lotta Truckin’ To Do – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns & Lost Country – My Old Self – Music for Taverns, Bars, And Honky Tonks – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns and Lost Country – Daylight Savings (w/Skinny Dyck) – Boots & Saddle and CKUW 95.9 fm Present A Night of Country Music – CDN – WPG

The Young Novelists – Break the Whole Thing Down – These Dark Canyons – CDN
Begonia – Hotter Than the Sun – Fantasy Life – CDN – WPG
Katie Pruitt – Time Wasn’t Wasted (feat. Jess Nolan) – single
Lori McKenna – Tied To You (feat. Medium Build) – single
Julie Doiron – The Cryin’ Kind – single – CDN
Case Oats – Bitter Root Lake – Last Missouri Exit

Joshua Ray Walker – Telephone – single
The Paper Kites – Every Town – If You Go There I Hope You Find It
Great Lake Swimmers – Youth Not Wasted – Caught Light – CDN
Josh Ritter – Wild Ways – I Believe in You, My Honeydew
Joe Ray McDonald – Rodeo Son – single – CDN
Charles Wesley Godwin – Hardwood Floors – Live From The Steel City

Rattlesnake Milk – Midnight Train – Chicken Fried Snake

Danny Michel – Midnight Train – Valhalla – CDN
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Queen On the Midnight Train – Hard Love and Free Luck
Todd Snider – This Land Is Our Land – Songs For The Daily Planet
Jerry Jeff Walker – Sangria Wine – Viva Terlingua
Harry Chapin – Taxi – Heads & Tales

Brock Zeman – Picture of You – $100 Difference – CDN
Mayhemingways – Small Town Crush – Hunter St Blues – CDN
Melissa Payne – Don’t Say – Melissa Payne – CDN
Ben de la Cour – (Ain’t Going) Down That Road – Midnight in Havana
Shannon Lyon – Naive – Wandered – CDN

NQ Arbuckle – Huntsville Affair – XOK – CDN
Carolyn Mark – 2 Days Smug and Sober – Pros and Cons of Collaboration – CDN
Luke Doucet – Broken One – Broken (and Other Rogue States) – CDN

Episode #1102

Songs from the lounge, new music aplenty, and we head back to 1995 for more great songs that didn’t fit into last week’s 30th anniversary spectacular.

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Artist – Song Title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – MB=Manitoba Artist – WPG=Winnipeg artist

Sean Burns – Don’t Let the Highway Get You Lost – It Takes Luck To Get The Best Of Me – CDN – WPG

Sean Burns – Tumbleweed – Cold Beans & Broken Eggs – CDN – WPG
Van Morrison – And It Stoned Me – Moondance
Bob Dylan – Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

Brian Dunne – Play The Hits – Clams Casino
Marshall Crenshaw – Walkin’ Around – From The Hellhole
The Donzerly Lights – Travellin Song – Purgatouring – CDN
The Donzerly Lights – Red Handed – Purgatouring – CDN
Hey Rosetta! – Red Heart – Into Your Lungs (and around in your heart and on through your blood) – CDN

Jory Nash – Oh, Little One – The Light Still Shines On The Main – CDN
Lynn Jackson – Rooms Full Of Mirrors – Mirrors – CDN

Emmylou Harris – Thing About You – Spyboy (Deluxe)
Robbie Fulks – Workin’ No More Blues – Now Then
Bob Schneider – Brown – single
Dan Reeder – Up on the roof – single
Johnny Cash & Tennessee Three – One Piece at a Time – One Piece At A Time

Dylan Earl – Two Kinds of Loner – Level-Headed Even Smile
Jake Vaadeland – Great Joy & Happiness – single – CDN
Todd Snider – WHILE WE STILL HAVE A CHANCE – High, Lonesome, and then Some
John Moreland & Lockeland Strings – Visitor – Visitor
Pete Droge – You Called Me Kid – Fade Away Blue
The Brothers Comatose & Lindsay Lou – Home Again – single

Carla Geneve – Here, Look – Don’t Be Afraid
Pearl Charles & Tim Burgess – Gone So Long – single
Tift Merritt – Last Day I Knew What To Do – Time And Patience

Colin Linden – When the Carnival Ends – Through The Storm Through The Night – CDN
Junkhouse – Be Someone – Birthday Boy – CDN
Colin James – Freedom – Bad Habits – CDN
The Jeff Healey Band – Stuck In The Middle With You – Cover To Cover – CDN

James Keelaghan – Cold Missouri Waters – A Recent Future – CDN
Mike Scott – Bring ‘Em All In – Bring ‘Em All In – CDN
Joe Ely – All Just To Get To You – Letter To Laredo
Buddy Miller – My Love Will Follow You – Your Love And Other Lies
Jim Henry – Baby’s Coming Home – Jacksonville
Ani DiFranco – Cradle and All – Not A Pretty Girl

Blue Rodeo – Better off as We Are – Nowhere to Here – CDN
Crash Vegas – Pocahontas – Aurora – CDN
Jr. Gone Wild – The Guy Who Came In From The Cold – Simple Little Wish – CDN

Episode #1101

Skydiggers have been celebrating the 30th anniversary of their landmark album Road Radio, which is an all-time favourite for me. They compiled a playlist of some other great releases from 1995, but I quickly realized that a bunch of my favourites were missing from their list so I started making my own. I had no idea how many albums that I adore today came out 30 years ago. I came up with so many possible inclusions that I couldn’t possibly fit them into my 3 hour show, but I did my best and put together a pretty fun trip back in time to the year 1995!

If you want to see some of the releases that didn’t make the cut, you can check out my working playlist here: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVOtEZCL958_Y8MZrYf1IKMuMfmYu8Od_&si=vg_yTA1_5_TYeJTO. There are a bunch more that I couldn’t find online!

This is one of our standby series of episodes that are meant to be timeless, so we can pop them into the schedule again some time when I can’t be at the studio live, so enjoy this one now and again!

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Artist – Song Title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – MB=Manitoba Artist – WPG=Winnipeg artist

Skydiggers – Radio Waves – Road Radio – CDN

Kings Of The Moon – Procrastination – Kings Of The Moon – CDN – WPG
The New Meanies – 7620 36th Ave – The Blue Meanies – CDN – WPG
The Bonaduces – Judy Blume Weekend – Matching Socks, Missing Feet – CDN – WPG

Odds – Eat My Brain – Good Weird Feeling – CDN
Brother Cane – And Fools Shine On – Seeds
Matthew Sweet – Sick of Myself – 100 % Fun
Art Bergmann – Contract – What Fresh Hell is This? – CDN
Spirit of the West – Tell Me What I Think – Two Headed – CDN
The Pursuit of Happiness – Young And In Love – Where’s The Bone – CDN

John Bottomley – You Lose And You Gain – Blackberry – CDN
Chris Isaak – Somebody’s Crying – Forever Blue
Hemingway Corner – Watch Over You – Under The Big Sky – CDN
Robben Ford & The Blue Line – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood – Handful Of Blues

Guy Clark – The Cape – Dublin Blues
Steve Earle – Goodbye – Train A Comin’
Emmylou Harris – Deeper Well – Wrecking Ball
David Olney – Walk Downtown – High, Wide And Lonesome
James McMurtry – Levelland – Where’d You Hide The Body
Paul Kelly – Deeper Water – Deeper Water

Son Volt – Windfall – Trace
Wilco – Pick up the Change – A.M.
The Jayhawks – I’d Run Away – Tomorrow The Green Grass
5 Chinese Brothers – The Avalanche Song – Stone Soup
Waltons – End of the World – Cock’s Crow – CDN
Corb Lund – Expectation and the Blues – Modern Pain – CDN
The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir – Be My Witness – Shy Folk – CDN
She Stole My Beer – Romance Flats – Mule – CDN
Weeping Tile – Cold Snap – Cold Snap – CDN

The Blue Shadows – Don’t Expect A Reply – Lucky To Me – CDN
The Mavericks – All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down (feat. Flaco Jimenez) – Music For All Occasions
Kieran Kane – This Dirty Little Town (feat. Emmylou Harris & Lucinda Williams) – Dead Rekoning
Kim Richey – Those Words We Said – Kim Richey
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories – Do You Sleep? – Tails
Jimmy LaFave – I Walk Along With You – Buffalo Return to the Plains

Bob Snider – Talk To Me Babe – Caterwaul And Doggerel – CDN
Rheostatics – Seven – Music Inspired by the Group of 7 – CDN
Oliver Schoer – Beneath The Ice, They Heard Bells – Stuck On A Cold Steel Pole – CDN
Rugburns – Untitled – Taking the World By Donkey
Arrogant Worms – The Happy Happy Birthday Song – C’est Cheese – CDN

Steve Forbert – Lay Down Your Weary Tune Again – Mission Of The Crossroad Palms
Ron Sexsmith – There’s A Rhythm – Ron Sexsmith – CDN
John Hiatt – Cry Love – Walk On

Episode #1100

1100 episodes and still going strong, still playing great music that is underappreciated and underrepresented elsewhere. Sharing this great music never gets old, and it’s a blessing to still be doing it.

Today, some timely Toronto tunes, a bunch of beautiful new music, and we send some love and healing vibes to a true unsung hero of Canadian music, a real musicians’ musician, John MacArthur Ellis (https://macparkpro.com/). We heard two hours of great music that Johnny has either written, produced, and/or played on, and there was still a whole pile that didn’t make it to air!

John has been battling cancer and a variety of other ailments that have made life very difficult, but haven’t dimmed his optimism or love for life. If you want to know more or want to join so many others in helping his family during a time of great need, you can check out the details here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-john-get-through-his-bone-marrow-transplant

Even more music from today’s potential playlist: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVOtEZCL958_unpLQMvpHQDISBJaT2ULB&si=8IR6aw3SMgWoO3sn

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Artist – Song Title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – MB=Manitoba Artist – WPG=Winnipeg artist

Dave Alvin – Two Lucky Bums – Eleven Eleven

Ryan Adams – Wonderwall – Love Is Hell
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals – Oasis – Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Jim Bryson – Sleeping In Toronto – The North Side Benches – CDN
Blue Rodeo – Rose-Coloured Glasses – Outskirts – CDN

Ken Pomeroy – Bound to Rain – single
Pony Gold – Little Horse – single – CDN
Madi Diaz – Ambivalence – Fatal Optimist
Terra Lightfoot – Red (feat. Bill Priddle) – Home Front – CDN
Lissie – Everywhere – Promises

Joe Nolan – Half a Tear, Half a Grin – Luv in the New World – CDN
Joshua Ray Walker – Stuff – single
Lennie Gallant – Old Friends – Shelter from the Storms – CDN
Steve Earle & Reckless Kelly – Dead Or Gone To Dallas – single
The Replacements – Androgynous (Alternate Version) – Let It Be (Deluxe Edition)

John Wort Hannam – With The Grain (with John MacArthur Ellis) – live recording – CDN
Dustin Bentall – Old Lonely Roamer – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Old George’s – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Barney Bentall & Co. – Rachael’s Song – The Grand Cariboo Opry – CDN

Dustin Bentall – Crash Hard – Streets with no Lights – CDN
Dustin Bentall – Take The Money And Run – Six Shooter – CDN
Barney Bentall – A Man Is – Gift Horse – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Carol (feat. The Sinking Hearts) – Depression River – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Red Bandana – Everything Is Real – CDN

Ridley Bent – Cry – Buckles & Boots – CDN – WPG
Ridley Bent – Lonesome Town – Rabbit On My Wheel – CDN – WPG
Ridley Bent – Blood On The Stage – The Blood Trilogy – CDN – WPG

Cameron Latimer – Empty Saddle – Fallen Apart – CDN
Indio Saravanja – Nothing Can Be Done – The Caravan Sessions – CDN
John Antoniuk – Tammy Lynn – Always With You – CDN
Blake Berglund – Hangin’ By a Thread – Coyote – CDN
Matt Masters – Highways – All-Western Winners – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Feel Alright – sexanddrinking – CDN
Jeremy Fisher – High School – Let It Shine – CDN

Shiloh Lindsey – Whiskey & Rum – For My Smoke – CDN
Camille Miller – Into Closed Doors – Carnarvon Street – CDN
Jessie Farrell – Love Letter – Love Letter – CDN
Kat Danser – (Then You Know) What I’m Talkin’ Bout – Passin’-A-Time – CDN
Jen Lane – Movin’ On – This Life of Mine – CDN
Kayla Luky – Bottom of a Bottle – Back to Dirt – CDN – MB

The Buried Heart Project – Streets Where You Live – single – CDN

Episode #1099

Back in the studio after the amazing Trout Forest Music Festival, and although it’s feeling a little dreary and like summer fun is winding down, we’ve got stories to tell, new music aplenty, memories of a sadly departed unsung hero, and much more!

All this month, I’m participating in the Great Cycle Challenge!: https://greatcyclechallenge.ca/Riders/JeffRobson

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Artist – Song Title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – MB=Manitoba Artist – WPG=Winnipeg artist

Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Summertime’s Over – South – CDN

Colin Linden – Might As Well Enjoy The Rain – Southern Jumbo – CDN
Buddy & Julie Miller – Out In The Rain – Love Snuck Up
Steve Earle – Feel Alright – I Feel Alright
Lucinda Williams – Metal Firecracker – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Gurf Morlix – One More Second – Last Exit to Happyland

Derek & The Dominos – I Looked Away – Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos – Keep On Growing – Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos – Thorn Tree in the Garden – Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Bobby Whitlock – Back in My Life Again – The Bobby Whitlock Story: Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way

Gene MacLellan – Put Your Hand In The Hand – If It’s Alright With You – CDN
Gene MacLellan – Shilo Song – If It’s Alright With You – CDN

The Young Novelists – All of My Friends Are Leaving – These Dark Canyons – CDN
Mariel Buckley – Swim Practice – single – CDN
Caroline Spence – Heart Go Wild – Heart Go Wild
Malin Pettersen – Carolina – single
Caitlin Canty – Night Owl / Mourning Dove – Night Owl Envies the Mourning Dove

WILD HORSES – Sioux Falls – single
Josh Ritter – Noah’s Children – I Believe in You, My Honeydew
Katie Pruitt – Risk – single
Holly Carter – He’s a Man – Leave Your Mark
Altameda – Faint Of Heart – Crazy Blue – CDN

Bob Schneider – Highway to Hell – single
Ags Connolly – Drive – Covered: Pieces for the Head + Heart
Zoe Sky Jordan – Heaven (feat. Ezra Jordan) – single – CDN

Bevverly – Where I’m Found – single
Liam Titcomb – Love Don’t Let Me Down – Cicada – CDN
Jay Nash & Garrison Starr – Sweet Talking Liar – Live at Sun Studio
Garrison Starr – Be My Savior – The Forgotten Street

Paul Kelly – Rita Wrote A Letter – Seventy
Paul Kelly – How to Make Gravy – Words and Music
Paul Kelly – Sweet Guy (feat. Vika Bull) – The Merri Soul Sessions
Chris Brown & Kate Fenner – Oklahoma Tape Deck – Geronimo – CDN
Cory Chisel And The Wandering Sons – Curious Thing – Death Won’t Send A Letter

Slow Leaves – Life of a Better Man – Beauty Is so Common – CDN – WPG
Middle Of Nowhere – Hang on to Me – Middle Of Nowhere – CDN – WPG
David Myles – I Don’t Want To Know – On The Line – CDN
The Cash Brothers – Guitar Strings And Foolish Things – How Was Tomorrow – CDN