Episode #1120

Back in the swing of things with a regular episode for the first time in 2026. By regular, I mean it’s a bit of a mess, but we like it that way! Some classics, far off festival news, loads of fresh new music and forays into pumped up pop music, punky classics, and local faves!

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

Fred Eaglesmith – White Rose – Drive-in Movie – CDN

Fred Eaglesmith – Drive-in Movie – Drive-in Movie – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Driftin’ Snow – Tryin’ To Start Out Clean – CDN
Lynn Miles – Black Flowers – Unravel – CDN

Union Duke – Coming in Clear – UD IV – CDN
David James Allen – Platform No. 12 (Old Friends) – Jubilation Potpourri – CDN
Vandoliers – You Can’t Party With The Lights On (feat. Joshua Ray Walker & Taylor Hunnicutt) – Life Behind Bars

Joel Stewart & The Future Hall of Famers – Buffalo – Songs for Stadiums – CDN
John Blek – Better – The Midnight Ache
Dennis Ellsworth – Rainy Slope – Bound by Love – CDN
Steve Poltz – Love a Little Bigger – JoyRide – CDN
John Craigie – Dry Land – I Swam Here
Sammy Brue – Love At A Glance – The Journals
Boy Golden – Like a Child – Best of Our Possible Lives – CDN – WPG

Melissa Carper & Theo Lawrence – Good Luck To Ya – Havin’ a Talk
Natalie Del Carmen – El Cortez – Pastures
Anna Tivel – Memphis – Animal Poem B-Sides
Joy Oladokun – Nothing Comes Easy – single
Courtney Marie Andrews – Keeper – Valentine
John Muirhead & Abigail Lapell – Everything, Everywhere (Reimagined) – single – CDN

Bear’s Den – Red Earth & Pouring Rain – Red Earth & Pouring Rain
Scouting For Girls – She’s So Lovely – Scouting For Girls
Rilo Kiley – Portions for Foxes – More Adventurous
Wild Moccasins – No Muse – Look Together
The New Pornographers – Letter From An Occupant – Mass Romantic – CDN
The Beaches – I Ran (So Far Away) – single – CDN
Colleen Brown – Fight! Fight! Fight! – Dirt – CDN
Ron Hawkins and the Rusty Nails – Crackstatic – Crackstatic – CDN

Young Fresh Fellows – I’m a Prison – Loft
Fontaines D.C. – Boys In the Better Land – Dogrel
The Godfathers – Birth, School, Work, Death – Birth, School, Work, Death
Slow – Have Not Been The Same – Against the Glass – CDN
The Replacements – Bastards of Young – Tim
The Hold Steady – Stuck Between Stations – Boys and Girls in America
The Weakerthans – Aside – Left and Leaving – CDN – WPG

Christine Fellows – SWAG – Stuff We All Get – CDN – WPG
Jim Bryson – All The Same Things (For The Same Reaction) – Country Wifi – CDN
Greg Macpherson – Wide Turn – Maintenance – CDN – WPG
Keri Latimer – Mud and Slobber – Crowsfeet and Greyskull – CDN – WPG
Jacob Brodovsky – I Love You and I’m Sorry – I Love You and I’m Sorry – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – The Waitress – Headwaters – CDN – WPG

Episode #1119

This week, Winnipeg’s Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club is celebrating 25 years of good people with excellent taste in music. Today on the show, we hear loads of music recorded at the club, released by the club, about the club, and songs & stories from plenty of my personal highlights of great shows I’ve seen there over the years.

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!

Check the 25th Anniversary celebration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/times-changed-high-lonesome-club-25th-anniversary-celebration-tickets-1978847613481

High & Lonesome tunes: https://highandlonesomeclub.bandcamp.com/ / https://seanburns.bandcamp.com/album/we-gotta-lotta-truckin-to-do

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

Sound Czech – The Chicken Toss Song – Winnipeg: The High & Lonesome Years – CDN – WPG

Nathan – Temptation – Winnipeg: The High And Lonesome Years Vol. II – CDN – WPG
The Perpetrators – Josco, Can I Have Another Shot Of Beam? – Winnipeg: The High & Lonesome Years Vol. III – CDN – WPG
Adrien Sala – Andrew Neville – Winnipeg: The High & Lonesome Years Vol. IV – CDN – WPG
Andrew Neville – Honky Tonk Shangri-La – We Still Gotta Lotta Livin’ To Do – CDN – WPG
The High & Lonesome Choir – Cakewalk – We Best Choose To Pick The Blues (A Winnipeg Tribute to Big Dave McLean) – CDN – WPG

Sean Burns & Lost Country – Big(ger) Freightliner – We Gotta Lotta Truckin’ To Do – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns & Lost Country – White Lines and Taillights (w/Del Barber) – Boots & Saddle and CKUW 95.9 fm Present A Night of Country Music – CDN – WPG
Bryan Trottier – Mama Tried – Live at Times Change(d) Feb. 18, 2017 – CDN
Bidiniband – Legal Age Life at Variety Store – Live at Times Change(d) Feb. 18, 2017 – CDN
Kev Corbett – 12 Steps to Hell – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Romi Mayes – On The Corner of Grant and Alice – Sweet Somethin Steady – CDN – WPG
The Sadies – The Times Change – Tales of the Rat Fink Original Soundtrack – CDN
Scott Nolan Band – Chicken Flew – American Hotel – CDN – WPG
D. Rangers – We Stay High & Lonesome – We Stay High and Lonesome – CDN – WPG

Geoff Berner – The South Side of Town – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Kris Demeanor & his Crack Band – Down In The Zone – Party All Night: Live at the Ironwood – CDN
Dave Lang – It’s the Circus – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
John Wort Hannam – Scottsman’s Bluff – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle – Officer Down – recorded live on UMFM – CDN

Madison Violet – Baby In The Black & White – No Fool For Trying – CDN
The John Henrys – Little One – White Linen – CDN
Jack Marks – Exley’s Blues – Two Of Everything – CDN
Corin Raymond – Hard on Things – Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams – CDN
Dustin Bentall – Nine Inch Nails – recorded live on UMFM – CDN

Mayhemingways – Hunter St Blues – Hunter St Blues – CDN
Express and Company – Carry Me Along – Ontario – CDN
Brock Zeman – Until It Bleeds – Me Then You – CDN

The 24th Street Wailers – Aim To Please – Wicked Game – CDN
Three O’Clock Train – Train of Dreams (Revisited) – Train of Dreams – CDN
New Country Rehab – Back in Time – Ghost of Your Charms – CDN
Mike Lynch – Road Map – Road Map – CDN
Jake Vaadeland – Be a Farmer or a Preacher – Retro Man – CDN

Jonathan Byrd – You Can’t Outrun the Radio – You Can’t Outrun the Radio – CDN
Scott Cook – If He Showed Up Now – Further Down the Line – CDN
Colin Linden – I Need Water – Rich In Love – CDN
Stephen Fearing – Stay with Me – The Unconquerable Past – CDN
Ben de la Cour – God’s Only Son – Shadow Land
Sunparlour Players – Talk It to Death – Hymns for the Happy – CDN

Jim Cuddy – Rhinestone Cowboy – Countrywide Soul – CDN
Elliott Brood – Edge of Town – Tin Type – CDN
Hayes Carll – Down The Road Tonight – Little Rock

Episode #1118

Last week we heard 3 full hours of my favourite music from 2025 and still there was plenty left over for this week. We kicked things off with an hour of cover versions before some leftovers, new discoveries, local highlights, and a summertime concert that’s worth looking forward to!

Last week’s Best of 2025

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

Bob Schneider – Highway to Hell – The Texas Bluegrass Massacre

The Musical Stage Company – Sunday Bloody Sunday (feat. Andrew Penner) – UnCovered: U2 & The Rolling Stones – CDN
Ian Noe – Born In The USA – single
Joe Ely – Waiting Around to Die – Love and Freedom
James McMurtry – Laredo (Small Dark Something) – The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy

John R. Miller – Human Highway (w/Abby Hamilton) – Fireside Sessions Vol. 2
Steve Earle – Long May You Run – Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 1
Bevverly – Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around – single
Zoe Sky Jordan – Heaven (feat. Ezra Jordan) – single – CDN
Lissie – Everywhere – Promises
Chaparelle – Dance with Somebody – Western Pleasure

Benjamin Dakota Rogers – Spookin’ The Horses – This Ol’ Way – CDN
Turnpike Troubadours – Just Like Old Times – single

Presley Haile – Someday Soon – Off To Find A Sunny Day
Sarah Jane Scouten – Feeling Single, Seeing Double – The Sweetest Homewrecker – CDN
Ferris & Sylvester – Still Crazy After All These Years – single
Kathleen Edwards – Traveling Alone (feat. Jason Isbell) – Covers – CDN
Julian Taylor & Jim Cuddy – Tulsa Time – single – CDN

David Myles – Happen Now – Songs From The Gang: A Celebration Of Joel Plaskett – CDN
Slow Leaves – Looking Out My Window – In Solitude, For Company – CDN – WPG
Dominique Adams – Part Time – To Keep – CDN – WPG
Leith Ross – Grieving – I Can See The Future – CDN – WPG
Begonia – Hotter Than the Sun – Fantasy Life – CDN – WPG

Lucette – Back In The Blue (feat. Mariel Buckley) – Nice Girl From The Suburbs – CDN
Julianna Riolino – On A Bluebird’s Wing – Echo in the Dust – CDN
Neko Case – Wreck – Neon Grey Midnight Green
I’m With Her – Ancient Light – Wild and Clear and Blue
Tami Neilson – Keep On (feat. The Secret Sisters) – Neon Cowgirl – CDN

Derek Hintz – New Year Lament – single – CDN

Matt Andersen – Stay Home with You – The Hammer & The Rose – CDN
Lennie Gallant – Counting on Angels – Shelter From the Storms – CDN
Kristina Murray – Get Down To It (feat. Logan Ledger) – Little Blue
Mel Parsons – Don’t Leave the Light On – single
Mise En Scene – Beige Corolla – Leftovers – CDN – MB
Sweet Megg – This Train – Never Been Home
Chaparelle & Sierra Ferrell – When It Snows In Texas – single

Lynn Miles – Unravel – Unravel – CDN
Lynn Miles – Flames of Love – Love Sweet Love – CDN
Lynn Miles – Highway 105 – TumbleWeedyWorld – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – 105 – Lipstick, Lies And Gasoline – CDN
Willie P. Bennett – Red Dress – Take My Own Advice – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Down By The Henry Moore – Let’s Frolic Again – CDN

Episode #1117

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!

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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

Episode #1116

A bonus half hour allowed for a little extra Can-con Christmas music before jumping into yet another tribute to a fallen music icon. Lately, we’ve had to pay tribute to Todd Snider and Raul Malo, and we were hoping to not have to do it for a while, but the sad news arrived that Joe Ely had left us so an extended tribute was in order once again. Joe has been a pillar of the Texas roots scene for decades and has dabbled in a wide variety of styles and worked with just about everybody over the course of his career. He was also another gem of a human being. He will be missed but his many musical contributions will surely never be forgotten. It would be impossible to fully cover the man’s career in the time we had, but we heard a cross-section of his solo material, work with others, others covering his songs, him covering others’ songs, and more!

Joe Ely website

Todd Snider tribute

Raul Malo tribute / Boots and Saddle show tribute / Twang Trust tribute

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

Oliver Schroer – Beneath The Ice, They Heard Bells – Stuck On A Cold Steel Pole – CDN
Joni Mitchell – River – Blue – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – It’s Christmastime (Let’s Just Survive) – A Dualtone Christmas – CDN
Skydiggers – Good King Wenceslas – Still Restless The Lost Tapes – CDN

Melissa Payne and Benj Rowland – Fairy Tale of NewYork – live recording – CDN
Mike Plume Band – O Christmas Tree / Merry Xmas to My Ex Miss – Back Home for Christmas – CDN
David Myles – Santa Never Brings Me A Banjo – It’s Christmas – CDN

Paul Kelly – How to Make Gravy – recorded live on UMFM

NQ Arbuckle – Christmas in Hell – single – CDN
Swank! – Santa Claus Is Out On Bail – Christmas Is Fun! – CDN
The Rocky Fortune – Merry Boxing Day – single – CDN
Christina Martin – Sex Drugs and Christmas Time – single – CDN
Son of Dave – I Like Surprises – single – CDN – WPG
Elliott BROOD – SANTACLAUGE – single – CDN
JP Hoe – Deliberate – Brighten Up the Night – CDN – WPG

Joe Ely – She Never Spoke Spanish To Me – Joe Ely
Joe Ely – Tonight I Think I’m Gonna Go Downtown – Honky Tonk Masquerade
Joe Ely – Musta Notta Gotta Lotta – Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
Joe Ely – What’s Shakin’ Tonight – B4 84
Joe Ely Band – Brainlock – Roadie
Joe Ely – Odds of the Blues (feat. Bruce Springsteen) – Driven to Drive

Joe Ely – Working On the Highway – Light of Day: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen
Joe Ely – Put Down the Gun – A Case for Case: A Tribute to the Songs of Peter Case
Joe Ely & Todd Snider – Oh Boy! – Not Fade Away (Remembering Buddy Holly)
Joe Ely & Sue Foley – Great Balls Of Fire – Brace Yourself!: A Tribute To Otis Blackwell
Joe Ely – Joy (feat. David Grissom) – For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson
Joe Ely – White Line Fever – Tulare Dust: A Songwriters’ Tribute To Merle Haggard
Uncle Tupelo – Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way? (feat. Joe Ely) – Anodyne (bonus track)

Joe Ely – Because the Wind – live recording
Joe Ely – Dublin Blues – This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark
Joe Ely – Magdalene – Panhandle Rambler
Guy Clark – The Indian Cowboy – Old Friends
Joe Ely – Honky Tonk Masquerade (Live) – A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver (Live)
Joe Ely – Early Morning Rain – single
Joe Ely – Waiting Around to Die – Love and Freedom

Marty Stuart – Me And Billy The Kid – Hillbilly Rock
Robert Earl Keen – The Road Goes on Forever (Live) [feat. Joe Ely] – Live Dinner Reunion
Marcia Ball – Fingernails – Blue House
Rosie Flores – Love And Danger – Once More With Feeling
Syd Straw – Learning the Game (with Joe Ely) – Surprise
Kelly Willis – Settle For Love – Bang Bang
Lisa Rhodes – I’ll Be Your Fool – Shivers
Kimmie Rhodes – Rose Loves the Carnival – Small Town Girl

The Flatlanders – South Wind of Summer – Now Again
Los Super Seven – Let Her Dance (feat. Joe Ely) – Heard It On The X
James McMurtry – Slew Foot – Childish Things
Joe Ely – Buildin’ More Fires – Songs From Chippy
Terry Allen – I’m Not That Kat Anymore – Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm
Alejandro Escovedo – Silver City – The Crossing