We started off with some great new music, including some fabulous female artists before taking a trip into the country. We dug ourselves out, dusted off, and had a good old dance party to round things out.
Artist – Title – Album
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Mike Plume – Five Crow Silver – Red and White Blues – CDN
Lindsay Ferguson – Two Minds – Chameleon – CDN
Lindsay Ferguson – Apologies – Chameleon – CDN
Brindl – Love It Up – Love It Up
Good Lovelies – Slow Road – Burn the Plan – CDN
Kaia Kater – When Sorrows Encompass Me Round – Sorrow Bound – CDN
Mandolin Orange – Little Worlds – Such Jubilee
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Sam Outlaw – Country Love Song – Angelino
Sam Outlaw – Ghost Town – Angelino
Dwight Yoakam – In Another World – Second Hand Heart
Radney Foster – Lie About Loving Me – Everything I Should Have Said
Turnpike Troubadours – Whole Damn Town – Diamonds And Gasoline
The Steeldrivers – Here She Goes – The Muscle Shoals Recordings
Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free – Something More Than Free
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Whitney Rose – Chivalry Is Dead – Whitney Rose – CDN
Whitney Rose – Be My Baby feat. Raul Malo – Heartbreaker of the Year – CDN
Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Brand New Song – Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices
Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Flowers in the Dell – Let ‘r Buck
Mike Lynch – Who’s Gonna Save Country Music – Real to Reel – CDN
The Mavericks – Stories We Could Tell – Mono
3:30 – 4:00 pm
The Everly Brothers – Rip It Up – “They’re Off And Rolling” Says Archie
Webb Wilder – Human Cannonball – Tough It Out! Live Companion CD
Michel Pagliaro – What the Hell I Got – What the Hell I’ve Got – CDN
Lydia Loveless – Steve Earle – Indestructible Machine
Jon Dee Graham – Laredo ( Small Dark Something ) – Hooray For The Moon
Matthew Ryan – Guilty – May Day
The Warped 45s – Live Bait – Matador Sunset – CDN
Tonight, we play a whole show of songs in the key of Mike (Plume, that is!) Our pal Mike is celebrating his birthday today, and he’s also headed to Winnipeg in June, so we’ve got lots to celebrate. Mike has been not only our namesake, but an amazing inspiration and a great friend of this show the entire time. Our theme song also provides a great roadmap for the type of music that we love to hear. In the song, Mike name checks some of our favourites, so tonight we listen to different versions of the song where he drops different names, and we play ’em all! A show chock full of songs that you don’t hear on your normal radio; good thing we’ve never pretended to be normal! Check out www.mikeplume.com for lots of great content, and join us for a roots rockin’ party June 24 at Times Change(d)!
Mike Plume Band – Steel Belted Radio – Steel Belted Radio EP
John Hiatt – Slow Turning – Slow Turning
Lyle Lovett – She’s Hot to Go – Pontiac
Bob Snider – On a Night Like This – Stealin’ Home
Todd Snider – Is This Thing Working? – Peace Queer
Ron Sexsmith – Wishing Wells – Retriever
Fred Eaglesmith – Freight Train – Drive-in Movie
Mike Plume – Steel Belted Radio – recorded live on UMFM
Luke Doucet – Long Haul Driver – Blood’s Too Rich
Danny Michel – Midnight Train – Valhalla
Tim Hus – Western Star – Western Star
Corb Lund – Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer – Counterfeit Blues
Cry Cry Cry – Speaking With The Angel – Cry Cry Cry
Mary Gauthier – Your Sister Cried – Mercy Now
Mike Plume Band – Steel Belted Radio – Live @ The West End Cultural Centre 12/21/2001
Robert Earl Keen – Shades Of Gray – Picnic
Kim Richey – Not A Love Like This – Chinese Boxes
Mike Plume – Ride – Rock & Roll Recordings Volume 1
Mike Plume Band – Walkin’ By – Fools for the Radio
Mike Plume Band – Wind At My Back – Song & Dance, Man
David Wilcox – Breakfast at the Circus – Breakfast at the Circus – CDN
David Wilcox – Miss You When You Go – The Natural Edge – CDN
David Wilcox – Ecstasy – The Collected Works 1977-1993 – CDN
David Wilcox – Between the Lines – Breakfast at the Circus – CDN
David Wilcox – Red Eye – live recording
The Pine Hill Project – I Live on a Battlefield – Tomorrow You’re Going
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Josh Ritter – Rosalie – Link of Chain: A Songwriters Tribute to Chris Smither
Oh Susanna – Oregon – Namedropper – CDN
Melissa Payne – Downtown – High and Dry – CDN
Cowboy Junkies – Cortez The Killer – ‘Neath Your Covers, Part 2 – CDN
Jerry Leger – Wonderin – Latent Recordings – CDN
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell – I Just Wanted to See You so Bad – The Traveling Kind
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Jimmy Lafave – Sweetheart Like You – Buffalo Return To The Plains
Neko Case – Buckets of Rain – Sweetheart 2005
Storyhill – Lay Down Your Weary Tune – Nod to Bob 2
Shannon McNally – It’s All Over Now Baby Blue – Run For Cover
Whitehorse – It Ain’t Me, Babe – The Road To Massey Hall – CDN
The Tallest Man On Earth – I Want You – Daytrotter Studio 10/9/2009
Matthew Ryan – Forever Young – Subterranean Homesick Blues: A Tribute to Bob Dylan’s ‘Bringing It All Back Home’
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Scott Shea – Let It Storm – Let It Storm – CDN
Eilen Jewell – Somethings Weren’t Meant To Be – Sundown over Ghost Town
Shinyribs – The Sacred & The Profane – Live In Austin
The Waterboys – I Can See Elvis – Modern Blues
Leeroy Stagger – Poison the Well – Dream It All Away – CDN
Mandolin Orange – Daylight – Such Jubilee
Today we’ve got a bunch of great new music, an unplanned tribute to David Wilcox (both of them!) and we celebrate cranky Bob’s 74th birthday!
2:00 – 2:30 pm
David Wilcox – Breakfast at the Circus – Breakfast at the Circus – CDN
David Wilcox – Miss You When You Go – The Natural Edge – CDN
David Wilcox – Ecstasy – The Collected Works 1977-1993 – CDN
David Wilcox – Between the Lines – Breakfast at the Circus – CDN
David Wilcox – Red Eye – live recording
The Pine Hill Project – I Live on a Battlefield – Tomorrow You’re Going
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Josh Ritter – Rosalie – Link of Chain: A Songwriters Tribute to Chris Smither
Oh Susanna – Oregon – Namedropper – CDN
Melissa Payne – Downtown – High and Dry – CDN
Cowboy Junkies – Cortez The Killer – ‘Neath Your Covers, Part 2 – CDN
Jerry Leger – Wonderin – Latent Recordings – CDN
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell – I Just Wanted to See You so Bad – The Traveling Kind
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Jimmy Lafave – Sweetheart Like You – Buffalo Return To The Plains
Neko Case – Buckets of Rain – Sweetheart 2005
Storyhill – Lay Down Your Weary Tune – Nod to Bob 2
Shannon McNally – It’s All Over Now Baby Blue – Run For Cover
Whitehorse – It Ain’t Me, Babe – The Road To Massey Hall – CDN
The Tallest Man On Earth – I Want You – Daytrotter Studio 10/9/2009
Matthew Ryan – Forever Young – Subterranean Homesick Blues: A Tribute to Bob Dylan’s ‘Bringing It All Back Home’
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Scott Shea – Let It Storm – Let It Storm – CDN
Eilen Jewell – Somethings Weren’t Meant To Be – Sundown over Ghost Town
Shinyribs – The Sacred & The Profane – Live In Austin
The Waterboys – I Can See Elvis – Modern Blues
Leeroy Stagger – Poison the Well – Dream It All Away – CDN
Mandolin Orange – Daylight – Such Jubilee
I’m fresh off of my visit to the U.S. to see the Damnwells with stories to tell and a bunch of great new music picked up at the shows and the almighty Electric Fetus. Coming up it’s a Skydiggers convergence, as the band plays Winnipeg on former ‘digger Paul MacLeod’s birthday!
Mike Dunn – Faith Healer – Hard Luck Soft Rock
Mike Dunn – Cry for Me – Hard Luck Soft Rock
Leeroy Stagger – Something Beautiful – Dream It All Away
The Waterboys – Destinies Entwined – Modern Blues
Matt Epp – Ready in Time – Ready in Time
Matt Epp – Cash & Blood – Ready in Time
The Weepies – Never Let You Down – Sirens
Aqua Alta – BTOcean – Dreamsphere
Calexico – Tapping on the Line – Edge of the Sun
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell – The Traveling Kind – The Traveling Kind
Skydiggers – Monday Morning – Skydiggers
Skydiggers – Accusations – Restless
Skydiggers – Shimmy Up those Words – Just Over this Mountain
Skydiggers – Alice Graham – Road Radio
Skydiggers – Desmond’s Hip City – Desmond’s Hip City
Skydiggers – Fire Engine (Red Explosion) – Northern Shore
Paul MacLeod – Listen Mary – Close and Play
Paul MacLeod – Lies – Bright Eyes Fade
Paul MacLeod – Cruelty – Tell the Band to Go Home
It’s time to nerd out about some amazing upcoming shows! We’ll run down the Sunset Saloon summer series, and go totally overboard playing only 2 bands in the last hour of the show, but with a wealth of material between them, there’s plenty to love. In between, we’ve got a solid set of classics from folks we don’t hear often enough.
Skydiggers – It’s Sunday Pouring Down – Restless – CDN
Jess Klein – Open Road – Bootleg
Mike June – The Lucky One – Talkin’ Revolution Blues
Corin Raymond And The Sundowners – Veronica – Paper Nickels – CDN
Brock Zeman – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN
Will Kimbrough – Happier – Home Away
Blitzen Trapper – Furr – Furr
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Hayes Carll – Sit In With The Band – Little Rock
Dan Bern – Tiger Woods – Smartie Mine
The Be Good Tanyas – When Doves Cry – Hello Love – CDN
Belle Starr – This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) – The Burning Of Atlanta – CDN
Laura Cortese – Life is Good Blues – Into The Dark
Brandi Carlile – My Song – The Story
Howie Beck – Don’t Put Your Arms Around Me No More – How To Fall Down In Public – CDN
Matt Epp – Ready In Time – single – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
The Damnwells – Newborn History – Bastards Of The Beat
The Damnwells – Louisville – Air Stereo
The Damnwells – Everything – One Last Century
The Damnwells – Feast of Hearts – No One Listens to the Band Anymore
The Damnwells – She Goes Down – The Damnwells
The Damnwells – You’re Gonna Love Me Again – Golden Days EP
The Damnwells – She’s The New York City Skyline – demo
The Damnwells – I Will Keep The Bad Things From You – Bastards Of The Beat
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Skydiggers – Too Bad You Say It’s Over – Skydiggers – CDN
Skydiggers – A Penny More – Restless – CDN
Skydiggers – Pull Me Down – Just Over this Mountain – CDN
Skydiggers – Even When You Fall – Road Radio – CDN
Skydiggers – Dear Henry – Desmond’s Hip City – CDN
Skydiggers – Deep Water (31 Mile Lake) – Northern Shore – CDN
It’s time to nerd out about some amazing upcoming shows! We’ll run down the Sunset Saloon summer series, and go totally overboard playing only 2 bands in the last hour of the show, but with a wealth of material between them, there’s plenty to love. In between, we’ve got a solid set of classics from folks we don’t hear often enough.
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Skydiggers – It’s Sunday Pouring Down – Restless – CDN
Jess Klein – Open Road – Bootleg
Mike June – The Lucky One – Talkin’ Revolution Blues
Corin Raymond And The Sundowners – Veronica – Paper Nickels – CDN
Brock Zeman – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN
Will Kimbrough – Happier – Home Away
Blitzen Trapper – Furr – Furr
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Hayes Carll – Sit In With The Band – Little Rock
Dan Bern – Tiger Woods – Smartie Mine
The Be Good Tanyas – When Doves Cry – Hello Love – CDN
Belle Starr – This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) – The Burning Of Atlanta – CDN
Laura Cortese – Life is Good Blues – Into The Dark
Brandi Carlile – My Song – The Story
Howie Beck – Don’t Put Your Arms Around Me No More – How To Fall Down In Public – CDN
Matt Epp – Ready In Time – single – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
The Damnwells – Newborn History – Bastards Of The Beat
The Damnwells – Louisville – Air Stereo
The Damnwells – Everything – One Last Century
The Damnwells – Feast of Hearts – No One Listens to the Band Anymore
The Damnwells – She Goes Down – The Damnwells
The Damnwells – You’re Gonna Love Me Again – Golden Days EP
The Damnwells – She’s The New York City Skyline – demo
The Damnwells – I Will Keep The Bad Things From You – Bastards Of The Beat
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Skydiggers – Too Bad You Say It’s Over – Skydiggers – CDN
Skydiggers – A Penny More – Restless – CDN
Skydiggers – Pull Me Down – Just Over this Mountain – CDN
Skydiggers – Even When You Fall – Road Radio – CDN
Skydiggers – Dear Henry – Desmond’s Hip City – CDN
Skydiggers – Deep Water (31 Mile Lake) – Northern Shore – CDN
The Damnwells are back and on tour, and it rolls in to St. Paul, MN this weekend! We’re not going to pass up this opportunity, so T-Bar & I are heading down, and I know that other local folks will as well. In honour of that, we listen to some rockin’ Damnwells classics and travel back in time to our chat with Alex from the band in 2010. We’ve also got a whole pile of other great roots rockin’ classics, including a trip to Mississippi with Mike Plume for some snake grabbing!
Mike Plume Band – Jubilee – Born So Long Ago Live 1997-2002
Justin Rutledge – Be A Man – The Early Widows
The Beauties – Heart Of Stone – The Beauties
Band of Horses – The Funeral – Everything All The Time
Bon Iver – Flume – For Emma, Forever Ago
Matthew Barber – Father and Son – Songs For The Haunted Hillbilly
Washboard Hank – Love Song of the Dump – Sweet Mysteries of Life
The Magnificent Sevens – Needle In The Hay – All Kinds Of Mean
Reid Jamieson – Grass & Dirt – The Unavoidable Truth
The Wooden Sky – Angels – If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone
Swank – The Innocent at Rock Creek – The Survival Issue
The Damnwells – What You Get – Bastards Of The Beat
The Damnwells – Accidental Man – Air Stereo
The Damnwells – She Goes Around – No One Listens to the Band Anymore
The Damnwells – Money and Shiny Things – The Damnwells
Alex Dezen interview (recorded May 27, 2010)
The Damnwells – Kentexas – The Damnwells
The Damnwells – The Sound – Bastards Of The Beat
Tell the Band to Go Home & Steel Belted Radio proudly present:
Corin Raymond‘s Bookworm & solo acoustic musical performance!
Monday, July 27 7:30 pm. $20 Advance tickets will be sold to ensure a full house! It will not be hard to move these tickets come July, so get them while you can.
Corin Raymond is a dynamic, engaging performer. He’s a hell of a songwriter and even more of a song supporter. His most recent album is a collection of songs by great Canadian songwriters. He paid for it all with Canadian Tire Money. It’s a story that took on a life of its own and was written about and reported on widely in the media last year. Now, he’s turned it into a new one-man show all about The Great Canadian Tire Money Caper, and it’s coming to the Winnipeg Fringe Festival this July. (here’s a review of the new show) He’ll be performing his new show nightly July 15-26 at The West End Cultural Centre, and once word gets out about Corin’s performance, it’ll surely be packed nightly. Corin is also doing a set of music at his home away from home, The Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club on Saturday, July 25, where he’ll be backed by and opening for Kieran West & His Buffalo Band! It’ll be a rockin’ good time, and it too will be jam packed.
Previous to this new fringe show, Corin performed his first one-man-show, Bookworm at our Fringe Festival in 2012. It was such a powerful, amazing, entertaining show, and I’m one of many people who have been asking Corin when he was going to perform it in Winnipeg again. Well, this is the only performance he’s got planned!
Bookworm is amazing. Here’s the brief bio:
A story of a father reading to his son, growing up in a library, plus Spiderman, Ray Bradbury, and meeting the Minotaur for the first time just outside Wawa.
Written and performed by Corin Raymond
Dramaturged by TJ Dawe
Directed by Morgan Jones Phillips
Storytelling that has comedy, drama, plenty of beauty and life-inspiration, and a climax no one could possibly predict, all wrapped into an hour.
Audience: 12 and up
Warning: This show WILL open your heart.
Here are some press quotes, and even they don’t really do this incredible show justice:
“Raymond’s way of connecting with the audience is remarkable, and he will generously share his prized personal and fictional stories with you”.CFUV Radio
“Some storytellers leave you gaping, forgetful of your surroundings and only wanting more. Corin Raymond is this storyteller. He is the man who is passionate about the pronunciation of Roald Dahl’s Grand High Witch’s speech pattern. He can recount the tale of Theseus from memory, in detail and will freely admit to memorizing the opening lines of his favourite book. And while it would be possible to simply sit and listen to Raymond tell the tales of ancient Greece, Bookworm also manages to convey the cross-generational influences and complex relationship between a father and son. It’s well-paced, well-performed and will have you heading to the first bookstore as you leave the theatre while calling your dad to say hey”. Samantha Power, Vue Weekly
“Corin Raymond is a storyteller who by the end of the night you’ll have known your whole life.” The Globe and Mail
“The best compliment I can think of to give Corin Raymond’s charming and utterly engaging Bookworm is that it’s like being read to for an hour by a guy who’s totally passionate about the story he’s reading—which is exactly what Bookworm is. An ode to books and the people who love them, Raymond cleverly mixes everyday autobiography with an inherited love of what lies between the covers of his favourite books; and while there is a great surprise waiting in the final minutes of the show, it isn’t the crux of the show—Raymond’s own passion is…Bookworm is the kind of show you want to share with everyone you know. Every local bookstore owner or worker, book club member or solo lover of the printed word—be it fiction, poetry, history or comic books—must see this memorable production.” John Threlfall CWmagazine.com
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Tell the Band to Go Home & Steel Belted Radio proudly present:
Mike June & Jess Klein at The Sunset Saloon (house concert in Westwood)
Saturday, June 27, 2015
8:00
Suggested donation $20-25 (price flexible, all proceeds to these talented musicians)
(also appearing June 28 at The StuDome in Crescentwood. Contact us and we’ll hook you up with details about that one! You can also visit the Facebook page for that one.)
If you wish, bring a drink for yourself, and/or a snack to share, but we’ve always got plenty of all of those on hand!
I do believe that there will be another batch of our special custom homemade ice cream! Planning is underway for the perfect flavour.
All are welcome (bring the kids, friends, family, people off the street, whatever)! Our house is family friendly (we’ve got 3 kids, a trampoline, and plenty of room, so feel free to bring the family), easy-going, friendly, and open to all! If you don’t know us yet, come on down and make some new friends!
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Last year, New Jersey native, Austin, TX based singer/songwriter/all around great guy Mike June appeared in Winnipeg alongside the legendary Jon Dee Graham. Truth be told, we would have let Jon Dee bring just about anyone along, because were so excited to have him. I was too busy dreaming of how to become pals with Jon Dee to really do much homework finding out about this Mike June guy. That allowed me to have one of the most pleasant surprises of the year, because Mike turned out to be absolutely fantastic! With a quick wit, an undeniable charm, and a list of powerful and amazing songs, Mike won us over, and how. I couldn’t wait to see more of Mike.
(psssssttt… Did you miss last year’s show? Want to relive it? Here, check this out!
Well, earlier this year he posted that he was going to be doing shows in the “upper midwest,” and asked if anyone wanted to put a show together. I have no clue where the “upper midwest” is, but I know that we’re definitely upper, and west seemed about right, so I chimed right in and got to work trying to bring last year’s sensation back to town. I thought that, for once, I’d throw Stu Reid a bone (I’ve picked up more than a few tasty scraps from my old pal over the years) and ask him to maybe host a show too. He hesitated.
Then the bombshell dropped, and Stu’s tune changed mighty quickly. Turns out, Mike June is bringing someone along, too. Once again, he could have invited that Nickelback douche for all I care, so long as he came back to town and played some songs again. Turns out, we got a MUCH better deal!
Joining Mike on this portion of the tour, and in life, is the fabulously talented Jess Klein! Jess was a folk fest sensation when she appeared here in 2000 and 2003. I was a huge fan from the get-go, and I’ve followed her career ever since. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that this powerful singer/songwriter who blew everyone away at The Folk Festival would someday play in my living room.
