Playlist: Episode #640 Sunday, May 1, 2016

Good things come in 3s, and unintentionally, we’ve got a bunch of 3 song tributes today, including a timely album title, a couple of birthdays, a recent death, and a late great. We’ve also got a pile of great new music as well as a sure-to-be-fun show to preview!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

It’s May Day!
Matthew Ryan – Guilty – May Day
Matthew Ryan – Watch Your Step – May Day
Matthew Ryan – The Dead Girl – May Day

Happy birthday Jim (April 30):
Jim Bryson – The Depression Dance – Somewhere We Will Find our Place – CDN
Jim Bryson – Impaler – The Occasionals – CDN
Jim Bryson – Feel Much Better – The North Side Benches – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Happy Birthday Shannon (April 29):
Shannon Lyon – Naive – Wandered – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Pleasing You Pleases Me – Broken Things – CDN
Shannon Lyon – The Dirty Old South – The Lights Behind – CDN

New music:
Quinton Blair – Following Him Around – Cash Crop – CDN – MB
Del Barber – Mon Chandail de Hockey – The Lights Go Out – CDN – WPG
Little Green Cars – Easier Day – Ephemera
The Jayhawks – Quiet Corners & Empty Spaces – Paging Mr. Proust
Amanda Rheaume – Get to the Part – Holding Patterns – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

David Wiffen – Mr. Wiffen – David Wiffen – CDN

R.I.P. Lonnie Mack:
Lonnie Mack – Why – The Wham of that Memphis Man!
Lonnie Mack – Wham! – The Wham of that Memphis Man!
Lonnie Mack – Oreo Cookie Blues – Strike like Lighning

Ry Cooder – Crow Black Chicken – Boomer’s Story

Rediscovering John Martyn:
John Martyn – Cocain – 7″ single

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Don’t Want to Know – Kings of Love – CDN
John Martyn – London Conversation – 7″ single

In Winnipeg May 5:
Dirtfight – Break Me from my Home – Pocket Sand – CDN

More badass boozegrass:
Al Scorch – Everybody Out – Circle ’round the Signs
D. Rangers – Tryin’ to Start out Clean – Barbaric Cultural Practices – CDN – WPG

Willie P Bennett – Come on Train – Hobo’s Taunt – CDN
The Delevantes – Pocket full of Diamonds – Long about that Time
Chris Stapleton – Traveller – Traveller


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