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Playlist: Episode #528 Sunday, January 12, 2014

There are a few upcoming shows that we’re pretty excited about and need to celebrate. We also take another trip to Outlaw Country with some leftovers from Thursday’s celebration on Steel Belted Free Range Radio.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Steve Earle – Satellite Radio – Washington Square Serenade
Matt Epp + The Amorian Assembly – When You Know (w/Serena Ryder) – Learning to Lose Control – CDN
Matt Epp – This Old House (w/Eliza Gilkyson) – Safe or Free – CDN
Matt Epp – She’s High Water – Orphan Horse – CDN
Matt Epp + The Amorian Assembly – Never Have I Loved like This – At Dawn – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Corin Raymond and The Sundowners – Dutch – Paper Nickels – CDN
Corin Raymond and The Sundowners – Brand New Song – Paper Nickels – CDN
Corin Raymond – Blue Mermaid Dress – There Will Always Be a Small Time – CDN
Romi Mayes – Just Like the Rest – Acxhin’ in yer Bones – CDN – WPG
The Sweet Alibi – I’ll Wait – We’ve Got To – CDN – WPG

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Shannon Lyon – Pleasing You Pleases Me – Broken Things – CDN
Shannon Lyon – You Showed Me How – Wandered – CDN
James Gray – A Song for Sandy – Home to Me – CDN
Myrle – Rossland – Myrle – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Try Try Try Again – South – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Fleur de Lys – South – CDN
Austin Lucas – Somebody Loves You – Somebody Loves You

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Austin Lucas – Nevada County Line – A New Home In The Old World
Sturgill Simpson – Four Flame Candle – Sturgill Simpson
Sturgill Simpson – You Can Have the Crown – Sturgill Simpson
Wayne Hancock – Highway 54 – That’s What Daddy Wants
The Brothers Cosmoline – It’s Alright – Songs Of Work And Freedom – CDN
Whiskeytown – Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight – Strangers Almanac (deluxe edition)
Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Matt Epp @ Sunset Saloon, Jan. 19, 2014

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Sunday, January 19, 2014
2:00 pm matinée!
$15-20 suggested donation (all proceeds to the artists)
All are welcome (bring the kids, friends, family, or whoever might tag along!)
As usual, you can bring a beverage of your choice to enjoy or some food to share, but we’ll have plenty of both on hand, so it’s not necessary, so feel free to show up and enjoy whatever’s on hand!

Questions? RSVP? Fill out the contact form below!

music - 01Besides being a super talented musician, a true man of the world, and an undisputed rising star, Matt Epp is one of the most genuine, sweet people you’ll ever meet. If you’ve run across Matt, chances are he gave you his dazzling smile and a warm embrace.

After making a name for himself producing skateboarding videos, Matt Epp came to Winnipeg, started putting out music, and never looked back. He first came to our attention with his solo debut after parting with the group Hired Help, who put out an album under the name of Fired Help. His debut revealed a songwriter who was spiritual, personal, and passionate. His revealing, intimate songs found an audience quickly, and he rode his skateboard up to UMFM for the first of many visits. (He still proudly holds the title of “Only Singer/Songwriter to Show up on a Skateboard!”) His passion and determination were overwhelming and infectious. It was hard not to want to support someone with such a desire to travel around singing his songs.

The releases came steadily after that, and each one showed immense growth. His fourth album in as many years, “Safe or Free” featured duets with established stars Jesse DeNatale and Eliza Gilkyson (Emmylou Harris was a possibility, but timing didn’t work out!)

music - 02Then he hooked up with a powerful band, The Amorian Assembly, and his career grew by leaps and bounds. He spent a lot of time in Spain, France, and all over Europe and North America, and gained a following wherever he took his charming and captivating show.

His latest album, Learning to Lose Control, was produced by Jamie Candiloro, a name that might not mean much to you until you find out that he previously worked with folks like R.E.M and Ryan Adams – not too shabby! The album also includes a co-write and duet with Serena Ryder, who provides the perfect partner for Matt’s voice. That song, “When You Know,” is one of the most infectious and amazing songs of last year. It spent a long time on the CBC 2 Top 20 Countdown, and was repeatedly acknowledged as the song with “Most Online Votes” from friends and fans. The guy’s got a lot of them.

Matt made a special guest appearance at The Sunset Saloon in 2013 when he dropped in to sing with Christina Martin & Dale Murray, so it’s a great pleasure to welcome Matt for his own show this year!

This is a special Sunday afternoon matinée, going head-to-head with Tell the Band to Go Home on UMFM (I’m going to bug Jared to see if it’s at all possible to do the show live on location…). This is something I wouldn’t normally do, but the last time Matt was scheduled to come into the station to perform on the show, I stood him up because I was negotiating to buy the Saloon! He was kind and gracious, and it’s thanks to him that The Sunset Saloon even exists (kind of.)

Folks, spend a Sunday afternoon with a guy who you’ll surely want to form a lasting friendship with. Be here for this great event!

Matt Epp – Use Your Head from HEAVYWEATHER on Vimeo.

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Playlist: Episode #527 Sunday, January 5, 2014

One of the true legends of music left us this week, when Phil Everly, one half of the most successful and influential music duos of all time passed away. The influence of The Everly Brothers is heard in just about everything that we love on this show, so a fitting tribute is in order with just a few of the many covers of songs written or recorded by Don & Phil. And believe it or not, last week’s 5 hour marathon didn’t cover all of the musical highlights of 2013, so a bunch more this week!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

David Francey – Pandora’s Box – So Say We All – CDN
The Everly Brothers – Bird Dog – The Very Best of the Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers – Rip It Up – “They’re Off And Rolling” Says Archie
Buddy Miller – Price of Love – Midnight and Lonesome
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) – Raising Sand
Rockpile – When Will I Be Loved – Seconds Of Pleasure
Rockpile – When Will I Be Loved – Seconds Of Pleasure
Teddy Thompson – Take A Message To Mary (Everly Brothers cover, feat. Linda Thompson) – Separate Ways
Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion – Like Strangers (Everly Brothers cover) – ?

2:30 – 3:00 pm

John Prine – So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) – In Spite of Ourselves
Gram Parsons & the Fallen Angels – Sleepless Nights – Sacred Hearts And Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology
Dawn McCarthy And Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Devoted To You (Everly Brothers cover) – What The Brothers Sang
Billie Joe + Norah – Roving Gambler – Foreverly
Kaizers Orchestra – Whiskey Rabbi – Festival Man
Wax Mannequin – Volcano God – Festival Man – CDN
Shinyribs – If You Don’t Know Me By Now – Gulf Coast Museum

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Kathleen Edwards – All Of My Memories – The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver – CDN
Jeff Tweedy – The Ballad Of The Opening Band – Songs For Slim: Rockin’ Here Tonight – A Benefit Compilation
Wooden Sky – All Apologies – Milkin’ It – CDN
Lindi Ortega – Ring of Fire – 7″ single – CDN
The Fundies – I Can’t Stay Mad At You – The Fundies
Lake Street Dive – Hello? Goodbye! – Lake Street Dive
Joy Kills Sorrow – Was It You – Wide Awake
Have Gun, Will Travel – Trouble – Fiction, Fact or Folktale?

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Slaid Cleaves – Rust Belt Fields – Still Fighting The War
Lori McKenna – Susanna – Massachusetts
Guy Clark – El Coyote – My Favorite Picture Of You
Lynn Miles – Lesson in Everything – Downpour – CDN
Oh Susanna – Mozart for the Cat – Namedropper – CDN
Del Barber – Living With A Long Way To Go – Prairieography – CDN – WPG
The Bros. Landreth – Runaway Train – Let It Lie – CDN – WPG

Playlist: Episode #526 Sunday, December 29, 2013

Another super-sized holiday episode, this time, we sort through some of the musical highlights of 2013!

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

11:00 – 11:30 am

Lake Street Dive – Rich Girl – Fun Machine
Joy Kills Sorrow – Such Great Heights – Wide Awake
Laura Cortese – Into the Dark – Into the Dark
Belle Starr – Pull Me Down – Belle Starr – CDN

11:30 – 12:00 pm

Jason Isbell, John Paul White – Old Flame – High Cotton: A Tribute to Alabama
Elizabeth Cook, Jason Isbell – Pancho & Lefty – Tecumseh Valley / Pancho & Lefty
Townes Van Zandt – T for Texas – Sunshine Boy: The Unhears Studio Sessions & Demos 1971 – 1972
Guy Clark – My Favorite Picture Of You – My Favorite Picture Of You
Old 97’s & Waylon Jennings – The Other Shoe – Old 97’s & Waylon Jennings
Corin Raymond & The Sundowners – Sugar Candy Mountain – Paper Nickels – CDN

12:00 – 12:30 pm

Jonathan Byrd & Chris Kokesh – Do You Smell Something Burning? (bonus track) – The Barn Birds
Rob Vaarmeyer – Cadavra – Poster Child – CDN – WPG
Scott Cook – When We’re Back Around – One More Time Around – CDN
Scott Nolan & Joanna Miller – Lay Down – North/South – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – Don’t Blame Your Blues on Me w/ Paul Reddick & The Weber Brothers – unreleased – CDN – WPG
Shovels & Rope – The Fall of Charleston – Divided & United: The Songs of The Civil War

12:30 – 1:00 pm

Brandi Carlile and Emmylou Harris – Take Me Home, Country Roads – The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver
Kelly Willis And Bruce Robison – 9,999,999 Tears – Cheater’s Game
Buddy Miller – Yellow Submarine – Let Us in Americana the Music of Paul Mccartney
Whitehorse – It Ain’t Me, Babe – The Road To Massey Hall – CDN
John K Samson – Rocky Mountain Time – recorded live on UMFM – CDN – WPG
Calexico – Crystal Frontier – Spiritoso

1:00 – 1:30 pm

Randy Travis w/The Avett Brothers – Three Wooden Crosses – Music from CMT Crossroads
Jackie Greene – Love Is a Shining Catastrophe – 7″ single
Tift Merritt – Traveling Alone (acoustic) – Markings
Matthew Barber & The Spades – The People Got To Know – 7th Fire Records 7″ Series – CDN
James McKenty – Kingston Prison – 7th Fire Records 7″ Series – CDN
The Weber Brothers – Jesus Jesus – 7th Fire Records 7″ Series – CDN
Beginners Guide To Endings – I Found Out – 7th Fire Records 7″ Series – CDN

1:30 – 2:00 pm

Martyn Joseph – One Step Up – Tires Rushing by in the Rain
Josh Ritter – Hopeful – The Beast in its Tracks
Fred Eaglesmith – Drunk Girl – Tambourine – CDN
Chris Trapper – Northwest Sun – Technicolor
Steve Earle & The Dukes (and Duchesses) – After Mardi Gras – The Low Highway

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Deer Tick – The Dream’s In The Ditch – Negativity
Dawes – From a Window Seat – Stories Don’t End
Andrew Combs – Emily – Big Light Studio 2/15/2013
John Moreland – Nobody Gives a Damn About Songs Anymore – In the Throes
Gurf Morlix – Series of Closin’ Doors – Finds the Present Tense
Shinyribs – Texas Talking – Gulf Coast Museum
July Talk – Guns + Ammunition – July Talk – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Odds – Anything You Want – The Most Beautiful Place On Earth – CDN
Pistol George Warren – High School Blues – Hoots Deuce – CDN
New Country Rehab – Back in Time – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Jack Marks – Song for Me – Blues like These – CDN
Skydiggers – Desmond’s Hip City – She Comes Into the Room – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Skydiggers – Ramblin’ On – She Comes into the Room – CDN
Sean Rowe – To Leave Something Behind – single
The Milk Carton Kids – The Ash & The Clay – The Ash & The Clay
Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors – Another Man’s Shoes – Good Light
Little Green Cars – My Love Took Me Down to the River to Silence Me – Absolute Zero

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Matt Epp – When You Know – Learning to Lose Control – CDN
Tim Chaisson – Beat this Heart – The Other Side – CDN
Express and Company – Carry Me Along – Ontario – CDN
Easton Stagger Phillips – Always Came Back to You – Resolution Road – CDN
The Lowest Of The Low – Everywhere And Nowhere – Sordid Fiction – CDN
Dustin Bentall & The Smokes – Pretty Good Life – You Are an Island – CDN

2013 in review!

One more year end list for you, this time, it’s a little more scientific and objective than the others, but as usual, it’s absolutely meaningless! But fun!

Here are some nifty stats (and fireworks!) connected to tellthebandtogohome.com last year: http://jetpack.me/annual-report/19852641/2013/

Thanks for visiting, supporting, and just being out there.

Podcast: December 1, 2013

Today we chat with one of Winnipeg music’s most valuable players, Lloyd Peterson, about his upcoming star-studded tribute to Gordon Lightfoot. But that’s not all of the exciting shows coming up, we’ll see the return of Dustin Bentall & The Smokes and Neilfest; both are worthy of a celebratory preview.

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part 1
part 2
part 3

Podcast: November 24, 2013

Today’s a day full of favourites, mostly old, a few new. We revisit some great songs and artists we haven’t heard from in a while and debut a few new ones.

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part 1
part 2

Podcast: Steel Belted Radio – Nov. 21, 2013 – Charlie Mars

Another pre-recorded episode. Tonight part 2 of our Charlie Mars special, as Charlie sits down to play a whole pile of great songs in our studio. We’ve also got a hot political song from Whitehorse, we take a trip to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and even step lightly into Christmas music territory!

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part 1
part 2

Podcast: November 17, 2013

It’s interview day today, as we hear from folks involved in some great concerts this week, Brendan from The Fugitives, Don Brownrigg, and Barney Bentall!

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part 1 (The Fugitives)
part 2 (Don Brownrigg)
part 3 (Barney Bentall / Grand Cariboo Opry)

Podcast: Steel Belted Radio – Nov. 14, 2013 – Charlie Mars

This show features a conversation with Charlie Mars, who was in town last week opening for The Dixie Chicks!

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part 1
part 2 (Charlie Mars)