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!
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