It’s May Day and the eve of our big election, and being timely as we are, we have to commemorate those. We’ve also got some great new music and some upcoming shows to preview, as well as a tribute to the glory of the Drive-By Truckers.
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It’s always embarrassing when a radio guy gets laryngitis, but I just had to come in anyway, because it’s time to chat with our old pal Geoff Berner, who returns to town this week. Luckily, Berner is one of those great guests that I can count on to do most of the work. We’ve also got some new music and some of T-Bar’s picks.
It’s Mom’s Day, and they don’t come any more important than moms, so we’ve got a whack of songs in their honour, including some special dedications for some of our favourite mom listeners. We’ve also got some more upcoming shows to preview, and we announce the next big show at Sunset Saloon!
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00pm – 2:30pm
Robbie Fulks – I Wanna Be Mama’d – Revenge!
Ridley Bent – Mama – Buckles & Boots – CDN
Hank III – Drinkin’ Over Momma – Rebel Within
Jon Doe With Dave Alvin & Veronica Jane – Mama Don’t – This Is Americana Volume 2
Chuck Prophet – What Can a Mother Do -¡Let Freedom Ring!
Romi Mayes and The Temporarily Employed – Mama ain’t no Fool – The Living Room Sessions – CDN – WPG
Justin Townes Earle – Mama’s Eyes – Midnight at the Movies
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Holly Williams – Mama – Here with Me (for Jaine)
Lyle Lovett – If I Had a Boat – Pontiac (for Lucy)
Ryan Adams – Oh My Sweet Carolina – Heartbreaker (for Allie)
NQ Arbuckle – Sun’s Hanging Low – The Last Supper In A Cheap Town – CDN (for Melissa)
Fred Eaglesmith – Water in the Fuel – Lipstick Lies & Gasoline – CDN (for Erin)
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Romi Mayes – Just Like the Rest – Achin’ in yer Bones – CDN – WPG (for Marion)
Del Barber – Songwriter’s Lament – Love Songs for the Last 20 – CDN – WPG
Brock Zeman – Picture of You – $100 Difference – CDN (for Shelly)
Blue Rodeo – Rose-Coloured Glasses – Outskirts – CDN (for Nancy)
Bruce Springsteen – Pay Me My Money Down – We Shall Overcome; The Seeger Sessions; American Land Edition (for Kathy)
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Chris Carmichael – Danger – Chris Carmichael – CDN – WPG
Kate Maki – Over – Confusion Unlimited – CDN
Kate Maki – Old Guitar – The Sun Will Find Us – CDN
Kate Maki – Shine on my Mind – Moonshine – CDN
Leslie Alexander – Crazy Train – Nobody’s Baby – CDN
Jenny Allen – Face the Music – Blanket – CDN
Sumner Brothers – Both Back – Sumner Brothers – CDN
It’s May Day and the eve of our big election, and being timely as we are, we have to commemorate those. We’ve also got some great new music and some upcoming shows to preview, as well as a tribute to the glory of the Drive-By Truckers.
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00pm – 2:30pm
Elliott BROOD – Northern Air – CDN
Matthew Ryan – Watch your Step – May Day
Matthew Ryan – Chrome – May Day
Harry Manx – Only Then Will Your House Be Blessed – Wise and Otherwise – CDN
Patty Griffin – Making Pies – 1000 Kisses
Lucinda Williams – Blessed (Kitchen Tapes version) – Blessed
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Eva Cassidy – Wayfaring Stranger – Simply Eva
Eliza Gilkyson – Roses at the End of Time – Roses at the End of Time
Carrie Elkin – The Things that We’re Afraid of – Call It my Garden
Samantha Crain – We Are the Same – You (Understood)
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Whoop and Holler – A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There is no C)
The Beauties – Without You – The Beauties – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Drive-By Truckers – Tornadoes – The Dirty South
Drive-By Truckers – Space City – A Blessing and a Curse
Drive-By Truckers – Easy on Yourself – A Blessing and a Curse
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Alabama Pines – Here We Rest
Blaze Foley – Election Day – Cold, Cold World
Todd Snider – Conservative Christian, Right-Wing Republican, Straight, White, America – Live: The Storyteller
Martyn Joseph – Liberal Backslider – Don’t Talk About Love Vol. 2
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Martyn Joseph – Call It Democracy – Run to Cover
Spirit of the West – D For Democracy (Scour The House) – Spirituality: 1983-2008 – The Consummate Compendium (Book 1) – CDN
Rheostatics – These Days Are Good For the Canadian Conservative Youth Party Alliance – Night of the Shooting Stars – CDN
Carolyn Mark w/Amy Honey – Rocket Piano Man – Just Married: An Album Of Duets – CDN
Brandi Carlile – Sixty Years On – Brandi Carlile
Old Man Luedecke – Lass Vicious – My Hands are on Fire and other Love Songs
It’s Easter Sunday, and time to celebrate food, family, and Jesus, and we’ve got all of our bases covered on today’s show with some timely tunes. Carter’s along for the ride, which always makes things a little more fun. We’ve also got some new (and new again) music, as well as some great upcoming shows to preview!
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00pm – 2:30pm
Tom Waits – Chocolate Jesus – Mule Variations
John Prine – Jesus the Missing Years – Missing Years
Rheostatics – Jesus Was once a Teenager Too – Introducing Happiness – CDN
Jim White – If Jesus Drove A Motor Home – Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See
Clem Snide – Jews for Jesus Blues – End of Love
2;30 – 3:00
Jeremy Fisher – Lemon Meringue Pie – Let It Shine – CDN
Craig Cardiff – Making Pies – Mothers & Daughters – CDN
Old Man Luedecke – Joy of Cooking – Hinterland – CDN
Middle Brother – Middle Brother – Middle Brother
Deer Tick – Houston, TX – Born on Flag Day
Del Barber – Believe Me, Believe Me – Live at the Old Town School of Folk Music Chicago 2011 – CDN – WPG
Greg Brown – Freak Flag – Freak Flag
Dave Alvin – Harlan County Line – single
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Mike Plume Band – Dimaggio – Fools for the Radio (2010) – CDN
Mike Plume Band – Tennessee – Fools for the Radio (2010) – CDN
Steve Earle – God Is God – I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Romi Mayes – Ball and Chain – Lucky Tonight – CDN – WPG
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Scott Nolan – Swing Low – single – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – Bad Liver/Broken Heart – Receiver/Reflector – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan Band – Rosie – No Bourbon and Bad Radio – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – This Time – Postcards – CDN – WPG
Fish & Bird – Effigy – Every Whisper Is A Shout Across The Void – CDN
Geoff Berner – I Kind of Hate Songs with Ambiguous Lyrics – Victory Party – CDN
JP Riemans & The Bar Flies – Indian Girl – Redneck Lullaby – CDN
Dan Mangan – Robots – Nice, Nice, Very Nice – CDN
Winnipeg is full of great musicians (as many towns are, I suppose), but there’s something interesting about our music scene – everyone gets along so damn well. There’s no competition in this town, we all seem to be one big happy family. The clearest evidence I have is that there are a bunch of great musicians who seem to play with just about everybody, all the time. I don’t know how they do it, but I seem to see them in many different incarnations, and they’re amazing, no matter what they’re doing. These aren’t necessarily the “best” players in town (although they’re all amazing), they just seem to be the most in-demand (and for good reason).
In the spirit of recognizing some great players who, it seems, nobody can live without, I present to you my Winnipeg Music All-Star Team:
Joanna Miller – drums & vocals
Gilles Fournier – bass
Damon Mitchell – guitar & vocals
Chris Carmichael – guitar
Bill Western – Pedal Steel
Jaxon Haldane – banjo & vocals
Joanne Rodriguez? Andrina Turenne? – lead vocals
John Scoles – bullhorn
or something like that. Who did I miss? Who would make your all-star team (whether you’re from Winnipeg or elsewhere). Leave a comment!
For quite some time now, UMFM has been undergoing some much-needed renovations. It was time to get rid of the old gear from 1972 and leap into the modern age. Our studios got a much needed makeover, and we’ve added some nifty new features.
Now, we’d love to show you the results! Starting Sunday, June 5, 2011, UMFM is hosting its first Open House event, where you are invited to come down and take a tour of the place where all of the magic happens. You’ll get to meet your favourite show hosts and see how we put the shows together.
And, since it kicks off on a Sunday, Tell the Band to Go Home will get things going in grand style. We can’t give away all of our secrets yet (mostly because they haven’t been confirmed), but we’re working on having some great prizes, super snacks, and talented special guests!
We couldn’t do it without you! Plan to come on down and say hi and take it all in. You can even bring in your own requests, dedications, or whatever you think the show is missing. You’re more than welcome to play a song, say hi to your mom, or just tell me how great I am on-air. I’m serious about most of that.
Drop me an email at tellthebandtogohome at gmail dot com if you want to discuss it further, or, just mark it on your calendar and get on down to the UMFM open house, starting June 5!
It’s been a long time since we’ve swung open the doors at the Sunset Saloon, but we were waiting for just the right act and just the right occasion to get back in the house concert hosting game. I’m super excited that it seems we’ve found a whole lot of both.
Tell the Band to Go Home and Steel Belted Radio are very excited to present:
Chris Carmichael (http://myspace.com/chrischoppercarmichael)
Live at Sunset Saloon
Saturday, June 18, 2011, 8pm ish
$15ish (whatever you think is fair is fine)
Over the past couple of years, we at the Sunset Saloon have been lucky enough to have some great friends from across Canada swing through these parts, who just happened to have nowhere to play, so they were kind enough to set up in my living room and entertain friends and neighbours alike. We never really set out to “book” house concerts, they just kind of happened. But, for one reason or another, it hasn’t worked out for quite a while. So, rather than try to convince someone to come from elsewhere to serenade us, we started to look a little closer to home. Seems so obvious, doesn’t it? After all, Winnipeg has an amazing music scene chock full of great talent. And, even though Del Barber still refuses to play my house (we love him anyway), we’ve landed ourselves a pretty stellar talent for our big pre-Fathers’ Day spectacular.
You might not know Chris Carmichael’s name, and you likely don’t know his amazing solo work as well as you should, but you’ve certainly heard his work with his famous friends. He’s appeared on 23 or so albums by now! Our music scene is rich with talent, but if there’s one true MVP that nobody can live without, it’s gotta be Chopper Carmichael. As one of the city’s most in-demand musicians, he’s played his powerful electric guitar and bashed the drums behind just about everyone in town. Working quietly in the shadows, he built a reputation as one of this city’s (if not the country’s) most talented sidemen. But it wasn’t until 2009 that he finally stepped out of the shadows and released his own self-titled CD. Let me tell you friends, it was worth the wait.
Carmichael is clearly raised on classic blues and a heaping helping of Neil Young (he leads the “house band” at Times Change(d)’s annual Neilfest celebration), but he’s developed a wonderfully original style of his own. True to his reputation, there’s nothing flashy or flamboyant about his disc, it’s just one of the most solidly entertaining and amazing roots-rock CDs to come out of this town. It’s a wonderful disc, and one that should have made him a star in his own right.
But Chris is a family man, a quiet guy, and an unassuming character who is perfectly happy with whatever opportunity he has to play. He hasn’t taken the leap to tour and put himself out there as a solo artist, so it’s kind of a rare treat to get to see and hear him in solo mode, doing his own wonderful songs, as well as the many, many amazing covers that he can pull out any time.
This, friends, promises to be a stellar evening of entertainment. As if that weren’t reason enough, June 19th is Father’s Day, and what better way to celebrate than with a great dad who happens to make great music.
As usual, admission is kind of up to you. We suggest $15, but you’ll clearly see that he deserves $20. If $10 sounds about right for you, well, we can live with that. Just come, eat, drink, enjoy, and be prepared to be amazed. We’re family friendly, pet-free, and we welcome all comers.
As usual, we’ll have a solid spread of snacks and beverages to enjoy, but feel free to bring whatever you might like to enjoy for yourself or share. And, once again, Jaine has promised a special one-night-only homemade ice cream flavour in honour of our guest! The reviews for the ice cream have been as great as they have been for the amazing talent we’ve had performing, so whether you’re a music or ice cream aficianado, this is the place to be!
We always appreciate it if you book your seat in advance (it greatly reduces the “will anyone show up?” anxiety), so drop me a line and let me know if you can come or if you have any questions.
I really look forward to seeing you again on June 18! Please email me (tellthebandtogohome at gmail dot com) if you want to come or if you’ve got questions or just to say hi!
Artist: Album (Label) *JR
AoM: Middle Brother: Middle Brother (Partisan) *JR
2. Romi Mayes: Lucky Tonight (self)
3. Fish & Bird: Every Whisper Is a Shout across the Void (Fiddle Head)
4. Eva Cassidy: Simply Eva (Blix Street)
5. Carlos del Junco & The Blues Mongrels: Mongrel Mash (Big Reed)
6. Bobby Long: A Winter Tale (ATO)