Today we celebrate the 70th birthday of one of the most important songwriters in the world, Guy Clark, with a bunch of his songs, some stories, and some friends. As if that weren’t reason enough to celebrate, this week sees … Continue reading
If you’re a regular listener, you’ve surely heard, or at least heard me mention, regular listener and all around good fella, Ron from Lockport. Every year at Christmas time, he is called into action as one of Santa’s helpers, visiting … Continue reading
FAR #147 Jeff Robson Tell the Band to Go Home CJUM 101.5 UMFM Winnipeg, Manitoba www.tellthebandtogohome.com Artist: Album (Label) *JR AoM: Steven Bowers: Beothuk Words (self) *JR 2. Sunparlour Players: Us Little Devils (Outside) 3. Elliott BROOD: Days Into Years … Continue reading
FAR #144 Jeff Robson Tell the Band to Go Home CJUM 101.5 UMFM Winnipeg, Manitoba www.tellthebandtogohome.com Artist: Album (Label) *JR AoM. The Warped 45s: Matador Sunset (Pheromone) *JR 2. Catherine MacLellan: Silhouette (True North) 3. Malcolm Holcombe: To Drink the … Continue reading
All the cool kids are releasing new albums on vinyl these days, and the coolest of the cool put out limited edition coloured vinyl versions, so that nerds like me can bring a bunch of them down to play on … Continue reading
We’ve got some roots rock classics, some T-Bar picks, some upcoming shows, and more! playlist [download id=”58″] [download id=”59″] … Continue reading
The 2011 Western Canadian Music Awards take place tonight, and the slate of nominees is especially strong, and especially stacked with Winnipeg artists, so what else are we to do but play a whole bunch of the nominees? We’ve also … Continue reading
One of our favourite bands, Sunparlour Players, released a new record this week, and it’s a gem. That led us off into previewing some other great roots rockin’ bands who return to town soon. We’ve got a few classics and … Continue reading
Dale Murray is one talented dude, and the first part of the show demonstrates that. He produced the wonderful new record by Steven Bowers, as well as the recent works of our good friend Christina Martin, and he used to … Continue reading
A little bit of everything we love on this show, with no clear rhyme or reason. It’s a bunch of great music, what better reason could you need to tune in? playlist [download id=”51″] [download id=”52″] … Continue reading