It’s time to stop and look back at some of the musical highlights from a year that was kind of terrible in a lot of other ways. Fortunately, there was a lot of great music to help soothe the pain. I picked out as many highlights as I could fit into 3 hours but still have plenty left over for next week!
I’d love to know what resonated with you this year! Please leave a comment, visit the contact page, or find me on social media and let me know what you liked & didn’t like this year!
This is one of our standby series of pre-recorded 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
Jim Bryson – Shadowed – Combinations 2+1 – CDN
Dennis Ellsworth – I Can’t Impress You – Hardcore Freewheelin’ – CDN
Suzie Ungerleider – Juniper – Among the Evergreens – CDN
Kate Maki – At Every Sunset – Impossible Knot – CDN
Maddisun – Big Star – The Pages – CDN
Skydiggers – Snow Blind – Dreams & Second Chances – CDN
Ken Yates – Cataclysmic End – Total Cinema – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – Say Goodbye, Tell No One – Billionaire – CDN
Jason Isbell – Gravelweed – Foxes in the Snow
Amanda Shires – Strange Dreams – Nobody’s Girl
Carter Felker – Losing Hand – Loser – CDN
Brennen Leigh – Don’t You Ever Give Up On Love – Don’t You Ever Give Up On Love
Joe Nolan – Half a Tear, Half a Grin – Luv in the New World – CDN
Terra Lightfoot – Already There In My Mind – Home Front – CDN
Ken Pomeroy – Flannel Cowboy – Cruel Joke
FONTINE – Good Buddy – Good Buddy – CDN – WPG
Jess Rae – Golden Days – No Straight Lines – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – Hoping for Angels (feat. Patrick O’Connell poetry) – Man on a Wheel – CDN – WPG
D. Rangers – Red Bandana Blues – Sketch – CDN – WPG
Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane – Franklin – Double Takes – CDN – WPG
Doug McLean – Connoisseur of the Void – A Mass Vacancy – CDN – WPG
Florry – First it was a movie, then it was a book – Sounds Like…
Wednesday – Elderberry Wine – Bleeds
Lowest of the Low – The Seven Sorrows – Over Years and Overnight – CDN
The Donzerly Lights – Red Handed – Purgatouring – CDN
Craig Finn – People Of Substance – Always Been
Petey USA – The Milkman – The Yips (A Case Of)
Sam Fender – People Watching – People Watching
The Young Novelists – Break the Whole Thing Down – These Dark Canyons – CDN
Caroline Spence – Effortless – Heart Go Wild
Chaparelle – Bad Loving – Western Pleasure
WILD HORSES – Sioux Falls – single
Marfa – Daisy – single
Flock of Dimes – Long After Midnight – The Life You Save
Madi Diaz – Heavy Metal – Fatal Optimist
Presley Haile – Second Time – single
Pony Gold – Impossible Dream – High Road Reverie – CDN
Mariel Buckley – Vending Machines – Strange Trip Ahead – CDN
Garrett T. Capps – Happy Birthday – Life Is Strange
HORSEBATH – Hard to Love – Another Farewell – CDN
Anderson East – I’d Do Anything – Worthy
Jory Nash – Everybody Knows by Now – The Light Still Shines on the Main – CDN
Rheostatics – The Inland Sea (feat. Kevin Hearn) – The Great Lakes Suite – CDN
Western Slang – You’re On A Roll – Western Slang – CDN
The Violet Archers – Life and Then – The Duo Sessions – CDN
Stephen Fearing – The Empathist – The Empathist – CDN