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
Reserve your advance tickets as soon as you are able!
Watch an excerpt:
Watch the whole show if you really want to RUIN it for yourself:
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.
It’s Mother’s Day, so we’re doing our best to keep moms happy today, especially. Moms love new music so we’ve got a bunch of that as well as some solid classics. Moms love getting concert tickets also, so we’ve also got some suggestions for last minute shopping!
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Jack Johnson – Better Together – In Between Dreams
Sam Outlaw – Keep It Interesting – Angeleno
Sam Outlaw – Ghost Town – Angeleno
Andrew Combs – Runnin You Out of my Mind – Worried Man
Rayland Baxter – The Mtn. Song – Feathers & Fishhooks
Good Lovelies – Old Fashioned Love – Burn the Plan – CDN
The Weepies – Sirens – Sirens
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Joshua Fletcher – A Little Out of Tune – Ready, Aim
John Moreland – White Flag – High on Tulsa Heat
Leeroy Stagger – Angry Young Man – Dream It All Away – CDN
American Aquarium – Losing Side of Twenty-Five – Wolves
The Damnwells – Too Old to Die Young – The Damnwells
Joel Plaskett – On a Dime – The Park Avenue Sobriety Test – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Peter Katz – Story You Forgot – We Are The Reckoning – CDN
Emma-Lee & Peter Katz – What’s on Your Mind – single – CDN
Skydiggers – Deep Water (31 Mile Lake) – Northern Shore – CDN
Skydiggers – See You Again – Bittersweet Harmony Ltd. – CDN
Skydiggers – I’ll Be Home – Skydiggers – CDN
Tannis Slimmon – Why Can’t You Read My Mind – Oak Lake – CDN
David Francey – Long Way Home – Torn Screen Door – CDN
Chris Brown & Kate Fenner – My Love Is Not Waiting – Geronimo – CDN
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Cry Cry Cry – Shades of Gray – Cry Cry Cry
Dar Williams – Wilder Than Her – What Do You Hear in These Sounds
Richard Shindell – Waist Deep in the Big Muddy – Live at the Chandler Music Hall Randoph Vermont 11/11/06
Fred Eaglesmith – I’m Just Dreamin’ – From The Paradise Motel – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Lace And Pretty Flowers – Hobo’s Taunt – CDN
Townes Van Zandt – If I Needed You – Legend
It’s Mother’s Day, so we’re doing our best to keep moms happy today, especially. Moms love new music so we’ve got a bunch of that as well as some solid classics. Moms love getting concert tickets also, so we’ve also got some suggestions for last minute shopping!
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Jack Johnson – Better Together – In Between Dreams
Sam Outlaw – Keep It Interesting – Angeleno
Sam Outlaw – Ghost Town – Angeleno
Andrew Combs – Runnin You Out of my Mind – Worried Man
Rayland Baxter – The Mtn. Song – Feathers & Fishhooks
Good Lovelies – Old Fashioned Love – Burn the Plan – CDN
The Weepies – Sirens – Sirens
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Joshua Fletcher – A Little Out of Tune – Ready, Aim
John Moreland – White Flag – High on Tulsa Heat
Leeroy Stagger – Angry Young Man – Dream It All Away – CDN
American Aquarium – Losing Side of Twenty-Five – Wolves
The Damnwells – Too Old to Die Young – The Damnwells
Joel Plaskett – On a Dime – The Park Avenue Sobriety Test – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Peter Katz – Story You Forgot – We Are The Reckoning – CDN
Emma-Lee & Peter Katz – What’s on Your Mind – single – CDN
Skydiggers – Deep Water (31 Mile Lake) – Northern Shore – CDN
Skydiggers – See You Again – Bittersweet Harmony Ltd. – CDN
Skydiggers – I’ll Be Home – Skydiggers – CDN
Tannis Slimmon – Why Can’t You Read My Mind – Oak Lake – CDN
David Francey – Long Way Home – Torn Screen Door – CDN
Chris Brown & Kate Fenner – My Love Is Not Waiting – Geronimo – CDN
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Cry Cry Cry – Shades of Gray – Cry Cry Cry
Dar Williams – Wilder Than Her – What Do You Hear in These Sounds
Richard Shindell – Waist Deep in the Big Muddy – Live at the Chandler Music Hall Randoph Vermont 11/11/06
Fred Eaglesmith – I’m Just Dreamin’ – From The Paradise Motel – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Lace And Pretty Flowers – Hobo’s Taunt – CDN
Townes Van Zandt – If I Needed You – Legend
A set of solid roots rockin’ classics to start, some exciting upcoming shows to preview next, and then we round it out with some rockin’ new music; quite a fun musical voyage this week.
Mike Plume Band – Rattle the Cage – Song & Dance, Man
Harper Blynn – Sucker – Busy Hands
Cracker – Duty Free – Cracker Greatest Hits Redux
Redgy Blackout – Alexandria – PEAK Performance Project 2012 – Top 20
Whiskeytown – Mirror, Mirror – Pneumonia
Alejandro Escovedo – Rhapsody – A Man Under the Influence
Whiskeytown – Yesterday’s News – Strangers Almanac
The Damnwells – The Girl That’s Not in Love with You – The Damnwells
Joshua Fletcher – Wheels – Ready, Aim
The 24th Street Wailers – Rock Step – Where Evil Grows
The 24th Street Wailers – Aim to Please – Wicked
The 24th Street Wailers – Chin Wagger – recorded live on UMFM
Jordie Lane – War Rages On – Live at the Wheaty
Jordie Lane – Feet Fall – Blood Thinner
Peter Katz – First of the Last to Know [with Glen Hansard] – First Of The Last To Know
Peter Katz – We Won’t Mind – We Are the Reckoning
Leeroy Stagger – New Music Biz Blues – Dream It All Away
Allison Moorer – I Lost My Crystal Ball – Down to Believing
Brandi Carlile – The Stranger at My Door – The Firewatcher’s Daughter
Today we send some love (again) to the great BB King, who is nearing the end of his magnificent time on Earth. On a happier note, we’ve got the usual mix of great new music and exciting upcoming shows. We also join in Todd Snider’s protest movement, hoping that everyone will just “Be Cool.” Some great songs should help!
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Colin Linden – When The Carnival Ends – Sad & Beautiful World 1975-1999 – CDN
B.B. King – How Blue Can You Get – Live at the Regal
B.B. King – Night Life – His Best: The Electric B.B. King
B.B. King – Blue Shadows – In London
The Fuse – The Reachers – Brilliant Sun – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Living in America – Dream It All Away – CDN
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Jason Isbell – 24 Frames – Something More than Free
Joel Plaskett & The Park Avenue Sobriety Test – When I Close my Eyes – Joel Plaskett & The Park Avenue Sobriety Test – CDN
Chuck Prophet – Tell Me Anything (Turn to Gold) – Sawyer Sessions
Good Lovelies – Waiting for You – Burn the Plan – CDN
Ginger St. James & The Grinders – Country Bumpkin – Diesel & Peas – CDN
The 24th Street Wailers – Where Evil Grows – Where Evil Grows – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Todd Snider – Enjoy Yourself – Nashville Skyline
Todd Snider – My Generation (Part 2) – Songs for the Daily Planet
Todd Snider – Good Fortune – The Storyteller Live
Will Kimbrough – It Ain’t Cool – Wings
Jim White – Why It’s Cool – Where It Hits You
John Prine – Everything’s Cool – The Missing Years
Bob Schneider – Everything’s Cool – A Perfect Day
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Jordie Lane – Diamond Ring – Blood Thinner
Jordie Lane – Black Diamond – Live at the Wheaty
Brock Zeman – Some Things Always Stay – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN
Alex Dezen – None of these Things – El Ganzo Sessions
Bob Snider – Darn Folksinger – Catterwaul & Doggerel – CDN
Bob Snider – Sittin’ in the Kitchen – Catterwaul & Doggerel – CDN
