December 27, 2009

Most folks take it easy over the holidays and stay home instead of coming in to do a radio show they don’t get paid for. Bah! I’ll pick up the slack for those lazy jokers, as usual. 5 hours of great music to keep your holidays enjoyable. And to keep me company, my good pal KK dropped by to cohost. Some bluesy stuff, some old classics we haven’t heard in a while, a tribute to Townes, a little bit o’ rock, tribute to Vic Chesnutt, and much more.

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TTBTGH thinks that YOU are the best of 2009!

Merry Christmas, happy days off, enjoy your life, or whatever greeting you prefer!

I’ve been having a wonderful Christmas so far with my family, and I hope that you are doing the same with friends & family that you love (or at least that you can tolerate once a year, anyway).

A couple of quick notices:

1) Tell the Band to Go Home is Super-Sized for the holidays this Sunday (and next) when we run from 12-5 pm central time. I’ve got a few ideas for how to fill the time this week, but I’m always open to suggestion, so do let me know if you’ve got any to offer.

2) Steel Belted Radio is pre-empted tonight (obviously) and next Thursday, but we’ll be back in action in the new year!

3) The long-awaited Best of 2009 compilations are ready! Finally! Some of you have requested CD copies, and I’ll get those to you as soon as I can, but in the meantime we’ve got the digital download versions ready to load into iTunes or your .mp3 player or whatever you use. Of course, those files will be available on CD as well (soon), so if you want to wait for that, we’ll get back to you soon with details on how you can get yours.
If you haven’t requested a copy yet, get in touch! Better yet, fill out the survey (link below) and request a copy that way!

If you wish to download the compilations and information yourself, I will email you links to the .zip files. I’ve already sent those out to the folks who previously requested it or expressed interest so if you don’t have that link, I either forgot/messed up (entirely possible) or you haven’t dropped me a line lately. Let’s fix that, ok?

Whatever you celebrate, do it safely, and do it with love and great music. Hope to hear from you soon, but I’ll be in touch in the next little while…

All the best to you & yours,

Jeff

December 20, 2009

Carter drops by to co-host our last show before Christmas, and as usual he’s got some jokes & questions to keep us entertained. And of course, we’ve got some Christmas songs that don’t suck to sing our way into the holidays.

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TTBTGH: Still looking for your feedback

Hi Friends,

I’ve been so overwhelmed by the great, thoughtful feedback I’ve received from the folks who have responded to my listener survey I mentioned earlier in the week. I really value your comments and suggestions, and will do my best to make the show as interesting and relevant to you, but I need to know what you like and what you want. The responses are surprising, enlightening, and oh so interesting. I’d love it if a few more of you took a moment to fill it out. I promise to get Best of CDs out to survey respondents first (ok, as part of the very first wave, anyway), and with any luck, that will be very soon, so get your responses in. I’m also going to put together a few CDs to give away to a couple of lucky folks who fill out the survey, so leave contact info if you want in on either of those deals. The survey can be done anonymously and all questions are optional.

If you have a few moments, please visit the following site:
http://www.tellthebandtogohome.com/survey.htm

Any feedback (even negative) is VERY helpful and MUCH appreciated. The goal is to give you more of what YOU want, so here’s your chance to speak up.

Thanks, now back to work on those CDs…

TTBTGH wants to hear from YOU!

The staff at TTBTGH is hard at work putting together this year’s Best of compilation, and that, as well as the end of a year and looking forward to a new one, has us looking back and wondering how we can make things even more useful and interesting for you, the listener. Before we put it all together, we’d love to hear your thoughts. Of course, you’re welcome to email or call us any old time, but we (who the heck is we… who am I trying to impress? I’m a one-man operation.) have also designed an easy survey that you can fill out anonymously if you like, so that we know what you would like on the show and what you think of the compilations.

If you have a few moments, please visit the following site:
http://www.tellthebandtogohome.com/survey.htm

Any feedback (even negative) is VERY helpful and MUCH appreciated. The goal is to give you more of what YOU want, so here’s your chance to speak up.

Thanks, we’ll (uh, I mean, I’ll) get back to you soon when the compilation is ready.

December 13, 2009

Christmas time’s a comin’, and that means that we have to do our best to prove that not all holiday music stinks. It also means that we have to work on our “best of” lists for the year, so we ran down some contenders. And, just before the year ends, we had to squeeze in our (almost) annual visit from local singer/songwriter/super guy, JP Hoe to chat about his upcoming Hoe Hoe Hoe Holiday show. He also, yet again, has some dazzling new songs to play.

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December 6, 2009

Special guest co-host Elysha joins us today for some extra fun & festivities. We played some fetive songs, some requests, some of our favourites, and whatever else came to mind. We also had the official phone-in poll to settle the debate about “Canada Day/Toronto,” no matter what that other guy says.

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FAR #124/last

FAR #124
Jeff Robson
Tell the Band to Go Home
CJUM 101.5 UMFM
Winnipeg, Manitoba
www.tellthebandtogohome.com

Artist: Album (Label) *JR

1. Rose Cousins: The Send Off (Old Farm Pony) *JR
2. Ron Hawkins: 10 Kinds of Lonely (self)
3. Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle: Let’s Just Stay Here (Mint)
4. Joshua Cockerill: The Trick with your Heart I’m Learning to Do (self)
5. Jory Nash: New Blue Day (self)
6. Lucero: 1372 Overton Park (Universal Republic)