Playlist: Episode #1124, Feb. 15, 2026

Today we nominate the next face of the Canadian $1 bill, spin some new music, play both kinds of music, Twang and Trust in honour of CKUW FunDrive by visiting the intermingled careers of Steve Earle and Ray Kennedy, and finish off with some Can-Con bangers!

Last week to support CKUW Fundrive: https://fundrive.ckuw.ca/

Ol’ Pal Stu’s Twang Trust: http://www.twangtrust.ca/podcast.html

Festival du Voyageur, on now: https://heho.ca/en/

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

Willie P Bennett – Blue Valentine – Heartstrings – CDN

David Wilcox – Do The Bearcat – Out Of The Woods – CDN
David Wilcox – That Hypnotizin’ Boogie – Out Of The Woods – CDN
David Wilcox – Ecstasy – The Collected Works 1977-1993 – CDN

Katie Pruitt – Kindness Isn’t Common Sense – single
Sasha Alex Sloan – Cowboys Cry – Me Again
Meels – Out West – Across The Raccoon Strait
Linda Martell – Color Him Father – Color Me Country

Loudon Wainwright III – To Hell With Country Music – single
The Nude Party – Sweetheart of the Radio – Look Who’s Back
Josiah And The Bonnevilles – Hell Without the Flames – As Is
Boy Golden – Best of Our Possible Lives – Best of Our Possible Lives – CDN – WPG

Amos the Kid – What Did You Do – Enough as it Was – CDN – WPG
Jeremie Albino – Hard Time – Hard Time – CDN

Steve Earle – You’re Still Standin’ There – I Feel Alright
Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band – Texas Eagle – The Mountain
Lucinda Williams – Metal Firecracker – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Steve Earle & Justin Earle – Candy Man – Avalon Blues (A Tribute To The Music Of Mississippi John Hurt)
Allison Moorer – Marie – Sail Away: The Songs Of Randy Newman
6 String Drag – Cold Steel Brace – High Hat
Bill Lyerly & Steve Earle – Hangmen – Too Hurt To Cry
The V-Roys – Strange – All About Town
Garrison Starr – Serves Me Right – Songs From Take-Off To Landing

Jack Ingram – Airways Motel – Livin’ Or Dyin’
Todd Snider – Ballad of the Devil’s Backbone Tavern – Happy to Be Here
Billy Joe Shaver – American Me – Long in the Tooth
Shaver – I’ll Be Here – Electric Shaver
Malcolm Holcombe – Another One Gone – For the Mission Baby
Ron Sexsmith – This Song – Blue Boy – CDN

Ray Kennedy – What a Way to Go – What a Way to Go
Rodney Crowell – Brown & Root, Brown & Root (feat. Steve Earle) – Texas
Ana Egge – Motorcycle – Bad Blood – CDN
Allison Moorer – If It’s Just For Today – Getting Somewhere
Matt Andersen – My Old Friend The Blues – Second Time Around – CDN

Boy Golden – Suffer – Best of Our Possible Lives – CDN – WPG
FONTINE – Body Double – Good Buddy – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Walking In A Straight Line – Prairieography – CDN – WPG
Joe Nolan – Cherry Valance – Scrapper – CDN

Matt Mays & El Torpedo – On The Hood – Matt Mays & El Torpedo – CDN
Christina Martin – Somewhere with You – It’ll Be Alright – CDN
Rah Rah – Prairie Girl – The Poet’s Dead – CDN
Blue Northern – Sound on Sound – Sound on Sound – CDN

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