Episode #1134

It’s Pledge-O-Rama time again, your opportunity to show your support and encouragement for everything that UMFM does for our community and all that it represents. One week a year we seek a little support in order to help the station survive in an uncertain world and to take on some special projects. We sure would love to hear from you! Tell the Band to Go Home listeners have been especially generous in the past so we’re hoping for another strong showing this year. On today’s show, we heard some rockin’ classics, some new music, and we welcomed some next-generation budding programmers, Austin, Joshua, and Mishka.

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Check out yesterday’s Planet Mainstage/John Prentice tribute w/Leonard Podolak, Keri Latimer, and Devin Latimer! https://tellthebandtogohome.com/2026/04/26/podcast-april-25-2026-pledge-o-rama-planet-mainstage-john-prentice-tribute-w-leonard-podolak-keri-latimer-devin-latimer/

Check out Westwood Weekly, starring Austin, Joshua, and Mishka! https://www.youtube.com/@WestwoodStudio210

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

Skydiggers – Radio Waves – Road Radio – CDN

Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Radio, Radio – This Year’s Model
The Replacements – Left of the Dial – Tim
The Hold Steady – Stuck Between Stations – Boys and Girls in America
Brian Macmillan – Turn The Radio Up – Shine – CDN

The Lowest of the Low – Rosy and Grey – Shakespeare My Butt… – CDN
The Weakerthans – Plea from a Cat Named Virtute – Reconstruction Site – CDN – WPG `\
The Paperbacks – Local Celebrities – An Episode of Sparrows – CDN – WPG
Nathan – Lampshade – Stranger – CDN – WPG

Kacey Musgraves – Middle of Nowhere – single
Leaf Rapids – Night Shift – Velvet Paintings – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Chaparral – A Bakersfield Half Dozen – CDN – WPG

Jacob Brodovsky – Colorado Low – Tell the Kids We Tried – CDN – WPG
Anthony da Costa – I Was Gonna Go There With You – The No Send Letter
Joey Frendo – Fool Hearted Woman – ACOUSTIC, Vol. 1
John R. Miller – Tollbooth – The Great Unknowing

Matt Epp – Let Me Back In – single – CDN – MB
Leeroy Stagger – Highlands Leaving (feat. Joel Plaskett & Kendel Carson) – Pilgrimage – CDN
Kyle McKearney – Wildflower – single – CDN
Sean Rowe – Burn Baby Burn – single

Fred Eaglesmith – Summerlea – Things Is Changin – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Drive-in Movie – Drive-in Movie – CDN

Young Fresh Fellows – I’m a Prison – Loft
Ratboys – Everywhere – Singin’ to an Empty Chair
Dennis Ellsworth – I Can’t Impress You – Hardcore Freewheelin’

Duck Shot Hunter – Lines – Duck Shot Hunter – CDN – WPG
Barney Bentall & The Legendary Hearts – U Shook Me All Night Long – Greatest Hits: 1986-1996 – CDN
Crooked Still – We Can Work It Out – Friends of Fall

Robbie Fulks – Billie Jean – Happy
Harper Blynn – Halo – single

A special Pledge-O-Rama tribute to our friend John Prentice, who hosted Planet Mainstage on Saturdays for over 20 years. I was joined by John’s wife Lynn McLean and special guests Leonard Podolak, Keri Latimer, who debuted a brand new song, and Devin Latimer, Artistic Director of the Trout Forest Music Festival

Planet Mainstage archives: https://umfm.com/programming/shows/planet-mainstage

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Trout Forest Music Festival: troutfest.com

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

John Lennon – Imagine – Imagine

John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Give Peace A Chance (Live) – Live Peace in Toronto 1969
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Log Driver’s Waltz – Odditties – CDN
Wade Hemsworth – The Blackfly Song – Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods – CDN

James Keelaghan – Hillcrest Mine – Then Again – CDN
Neil Young – Heart of Gold – Harvest – CDN
Neil Young – Rockin’ in the Free World (Live Acoustic) – Freedom – CDN
Pete Seeger – Where Have All the Flowers Gone? – If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle

Leonard Podolak – Lost Gander – live performance – CDN – WPG
Leonard Podolak – Things in Life – live performance – CDN – WPG

Oysterband – Bright Morning Star – Rise Above
Oysterband – Bury Me Standing – Meet You There
Mimi And Richard Fariña – Pack Up Your Sorrows – Memories

Keri Latimer – new song – live performance – CDN – WPG

Episode #1133

Lots of new music, upcoming shows, Record Store Day highlights, we send some love out to Emily Sailiers of Indigo Girls, and we remember Spirit of the West, 10 years after their final shows.

Join us next week on the show for UMFM’s Pledge-O-Rama!

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

Fred Eaglesmith – Someday Soon (feat. Tif Ginn) – Alive – CDN

Fred Eaglesmith – Cigarette Machine – Alive – CDN
Tyson Ray Borsboom – Trucker Speed – single – CDN – WPG
Elise LeBlanc – I Like You – The Fiddle and the Fire – CDN

Dylan LeBlanc – Cautionary Tale – Cautionary Tale (Revisited)
Ken Yates – My Love For You Is A Straight Line – Audiotree Live – CDN
Peter Case – Somebody Told The Truth – My Life To Live: Peter Case at McCabe’s
Gregory Alan Isakov & Sylvan Esso – Fade Into You – single
S.G. Goodman – Pepper – single
Kaitlin Butts – Sin Wagon – Yeehaw Sessions

Aaron Lee Tasjan – Instant Coffee Blues – Old No. 1 Revisited
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Lost & Alone – Get Over It, Underdog

Rodney Crowell – Are You One of Us? (feat. Guy Clark) – Then Again
Belles & Dolly Parton – Son of Jolene – single
Noah Derksen – Mercy on the Skyline (feat. Lori McKenna) – single – CDN – WPG
Abigail Lapell – So Long (feat. Pharis Romero) – Shadow Child – CDN
I’m With Her – The Obvious Child (Nashville) – Sing Me Alive

Anthony da Costa – Ireland – The No Send Letter
Bella White – Pink Living Room – single – CDN
Vincent Neil Emerson – Jet Plane – Blue Stars
Floyd Mercantile (Peter Mulvey & Jenna Nicholls) – Some People – single
Whitehorse – Bullet in the Chamber – All I Want Is All of It – CDN
Whitney Rose – Marquee – single – CDN
Thomas Csorba – You Think You Know Someone – Tender Country
Lynne Hanson – Invisible – single – CDN

Iris DeMent – Letter to Mom – The Way I Should
The Jayhawks – I’m Gonna Make You Love Me – 2 Meter Sessions
Dallas Good + Richard Reed Perry – Not in this World – Were the Watchtowers – CDN

Indigo Girls – Closer to Fine – Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls – Power Of Two – Swamp Ophelia
Indigo Girls – Run – Despite Our Differences

Spirit of The West – The Crawl – Tripping Up The Stairs – CDN
Spirit of The West – Political – Labour Day – CDN
Spirit of the West – D For Democracy – Go Figure – CDN
Spirit of the West – Sadness Grows – Faithlift – CDN
Spirit of the West – Canadian Skye – Weights & Measures – CDN
Spirit Of The West – Home For A Rest – Save This House – CDN

Episode #1132

New music, discoveries, classics, and we pay tribute to the great David Wiffen, who left us on April 5. Wiffen didn’t release a lot of music, but he wrote some timeless classics and possessed one of my very favourite voices of all time.

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

Ray Wylie Hubbard – Drivin’ Wheel – Delirium Tremolos

Texas Tornados – Who Were You Thinkin’ Of – Texas Tornados
George Strait – Amarillo By Morning – Strait From The Heart
Corb Lund – S Lazy H – Things That Can’t Be Undone – CDN
Hayes Carll & Corb Lund – Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old) – single

Lydia Cash – Careful – single
Garrison Starr – Hallelujah, Come Together – single
Allison Russell, Joy Oladokun & Julie Williams – No Springtime – single
Malin Pettersen – Grape on the Vine – single
Willow Avalon – Cardinal Sin (feat. Jason Isbell) – Pink Pocket Pistol
Rae Spoon – Country Music Breaks My Heart – Assigned Country Singer At Birth – CDN

Skinny Dyck – GWYH – plays GWYH/CLAWS IN ME – CDN
Benjamin Tod – End of My Rope (Alone) – Vengeance & Grace
Teddy Thompson – Baby It’s You – Never Be the Same

Douglas Greer – Back in My Skin Again – Baja Louisiana
Craig Finn – Shamrock – Always Been
David Newberry – The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth – As Far Away As You Can Go Without Coming Back – CDN
Ben de la Cour – Suicide of Town – … And The Crowd Went Mild: Live in London

The Jayhawks – Drivin’ Wheel – Live From The Women’s Club
Anne Murray – David’s Song (I Don’t Want to Drive You Away) – What About Me – CDN
Ian & Sylvia – More Often Than Not – Ian & Sylvia – CDN
Katie Moore – We Have Had Some Good Times – Montebello – CDN
Hiss Golden Messenger – Smoke Rings – Parallelogram

Lee Harvey Osmond – Lucifer’s Blues – A Quiet Evil – CDN
Blackie & the Rodeo Kings – Skybound Station – Kings of Love – CDN

David Wiffen – Four Strong Winds – At The Bunkhouse Coffeehouse (Live) – CDN
David Wiffen – Abilene – At The Bunkhouse Coffeehouse (Live) – CDN
David Wiffen – Don’t Think Twice (It’s Alright) – At The Bunkhouse Coffeehouse (Live) – CDN

David Wiffen – Mr. Wiffen – David Wiffen – CDN
David Wiffen – White Lines – Coast To Coast Fever – CDN
David Wiffen – Coast To Coast Fever – Coast To Coast Fever – CDN

David Wiffen – Fugitive – South Of Somewhere – CDN
David Wiffen – Ballad of Jacob Marlowe – Songs From the Lost & Found – CDN
David Wiffen – Crazy Me – Songs From the Lost & Found – CDN

David Wiffen – The Arlequin – Unreleased Stage & Studio Recordings 1974/93 – CDN
David Wiffen – Climb The Stairs – Unreleased Stage & Studio Recordings 1974/93 – CDN

Jesse Winchester – Biloxi – Jesse Winchester – CDN
Jesse Winchester – That’s What Makes You Strong (Live) – Live From Mountain Stage – CDN

Episode #1131

Concerts past & future, new music, a tribute to Chip Taylor who recently left us and a deep dive into the career of John Bottomley, gone for 15 years but never forgotten.

Boots & Saddle Show live recording: https://3common.com/event/boots-and-saddle-100th-episode-live-recording/69a1e5a1d3a30e3905120ac3

buy Blackberry! https://music.apple.com/ca/album/blackberry/25242240

more Bottomley magic: https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/john-bottomley/6616774

Once upon a time I started a podcast inspired by John Bottomley (and Paul MacLeod, and others.) I should probably pick that up again: flywithyourshadow.com

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

Sean Burns and Lost Country – Streets of Bakersfield (w/Andrew Neville) – Boots & Saddle and CKUW 95.9 fm Present A Night of Country Music – CDN – WPG

The Grapes Of Wrath – Peace Of Mind – Treehouse – CDN
Blue Rodeo – How Long – Diamond Mine – CDN

Brennan Wedl & Waxahatchee – Six O’Clock News – single
SUSTO, Susto Stringband & Morgan Wade – Hard Drugs – Susto Stringband Volume Two
Ruby Plume – Cherrypick (Acoustic) – single – CDN
Ian Noe – Jukebox Blues (For Blaze Foley) – single

Slow Leaves – Not Your Fault – The Ruins of Things Unfinished – CDN – WPG
Leeroy Stagger – Carry Me – Podsongs – CDN
Jim Lauderdale – I’ve Still Got You – Country Super Hits Volume 2
Tenille Townes – we could use a little more – single – CDN

Eilen Jewell – Deportee – single
Brennen Leigh – The Traveling Kind – single
Shannon McNally – Superpower – single

Chip Taylor – Wild Thing – live recording
Chip Taylor – Angel of the Morning – Gasoline
Sloan – I Can’t Let Go – One Chord to Another (Deluxe Reissue) – CDN

Kendel Carson – Oh Baby Lie Down – Alright Dynamite – CDN
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez – The Trouble With Humans – The Trouble With Humans
Chip Taylor & The New Ukrainians – F**K All the Perfect People – F**K All the Perfect People
Chip Taylor – Maritza or Somebody – single

Tulpa – The Cage – Mosaic Fish – CDN
John Bottomley – She Lay Down by the Water – Library of the Sun – CDN
John Bottomley – Sarah Whitehead(The Bank Nun) – Songs with the Ornamental Hermits – CDN
John Bottomley – Ring Like Gold ( T.bone Burnett Mix Outtake From Hermits Session – The Mountain Hammered, Vol. 2-unreleased songs, live songs, demos.1990-2009 – CDN
John Bottomley – People of the Rose (Outtake from the Blackberry Sessions) – The Mountain Hammered, Vol. 1-unreleased Songs, Live Songs,demos,1990-2009 – CDN
John Bottomley – Long Way To Go – Blackberry – CDN

John Bottomley – friendship – Raggle Taggle – CDN
John Bottomley – For Everyone – The Crown of Life – CDN
John Bottomley – Oh My Love – Star In the Singing Grove – CDN
John Bottomley – I Drifted By the Creek – Songpoet – CDN
John Bottomley – Reaching Out to You – The Healing Dream – CDN

The Dave Rave Group – Everyday’s a Holiday – Valentino’s Pirates – CDN
Mythos – Dreams of Jade – Eternity – CDN
Jellyfishbabies – Call It Democracy – Kick At The Darkness (Songs Of Bruce Cockburn) – CDN
Mark Browning – Dirge – Years Of Sadness – CDN
timmins&Blood – The Ballad of Jacob Peck (John Bottomley) – DOMINIONATED – CDN

John Bottomley – Klee Wyck – Blackberry – CDN