Hard to believe, but it’s already time for our annual Winnipeg Folk Festival preview, with some of the new and notable artists to watch for out at Birds Hill next weekend!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Stan Rogers – The Bluenose – Turnaround – CDN
The Bros. Landreth – Tappin’ on the Glass – Let It Lie – CDN – WPG
Cara Luft – Give Up – The Light Fantastic – CDN – WPG
Chic Gamine – Closer – City City – CDN – WPG
Andrew James O’Brien – All These Things – Songs for Searchers – CDN
Joe Nolan – Did Somebody Call the Cops – Tornado – CDN
Sunparlour Players – For This I Can Be Sure – The Living Proof – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Shovels & Rope – Birmingham – O’ Be Joyful
Shinyribs – East TX Rust (w/Ray Wylie Hubbard) – Well After Awhile
James Hill – Little Wing – A Flying Leap
The Wilderness Of Manitoba – Chasing Horses – Island of Echoes – CDN
Hurray For The Riff Raff – End of the Line – Small Town Heroes
Baskery – The Shadow – Little Wild Life
Whitney Rose – Chivalry Is Dead – Whitney Rose – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Sweet Alibi – Deep – We’ve Got To – CDN – WPG
John Hammond – 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought Six – Wicked Grin
James McMurtry – Levelland – Live in Aught-Three
The Wooden Sky – It Gets Old To Be Alone – Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun – CDN
Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles – She’s Gone – Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles
Corb Lund – Hurtin’ Albertan – Counterfeit Blues – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

David Myles – What Would I Have To Do – In the Nighttime – CDN
Ruth Moody – One Light Shining – These Wilder Things – CDN – WPG
Scarlett Jane – Wild Fire – Stranger – CDN
JP Hoe – Nothing’s Gonna Harm You – Mannequin – CDN – WPG
Lynn Miles – Million Brilliant – Downpour – CDN
Lynn Miles – Only Way Out – Black Flowers Vol.3 – CDN
Lynn Miles – Never Coming Back – Love Sweet Love – CDN

Some rainy day music & Jayhawks news to kick things off, some Mandatory Stan, and yet more upcoming shows, as well as some old classics!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Jesse DeNatale – Rainsville – Dreamer’s Holiday
The Jayhawks – Save It for a Rainy Day – Rainy Day Music
The Jayhawks – Driving Wheel – Live at the Muddy Rivers Music Festival, Aug. 23, 2003
The Jayhawks – Smile – Smile
The Mavericks – All Over Again – In Time

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Stan Rogers – Giant – Home in Halifax – CDN
Stan Rogers – The Mary Ellen Carter – Between the Breaks… Live! – CDN
Stan Rogers – The Field Behind the Plow – Northwest Passage – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Music In Your Eyes – Tryin’ To Start Out Clean – CDN
David Francey – Border Line – Torn Screen Door – CDN
Lynn Miles – Night Drive – Love Sweet Love – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Drive-in Movie – Drive-in Movie – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Del Barber – Living with a long Way to Go – Prairieography – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – The Waitress – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Love Song for the Last 20 – Love Songs for the Last 20 – CDN – WPG
Shannon Lyon – The Dirty Old South – The Lights Behind – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Soul of the World – The Lights Behind – CDN
Catherine MacLellan – Emily’s Song – Church Bell Blues – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Carolyn Mark – Not a Doll – The Pros And Cons Of Collaboration – CDN
John Bottomley – Candle in the Dark – Blackberry – CDN
The Weakerthans – Benediction – Reconstruction Site – CDN – WPG
Mike Plume Band – Dreamer – Fools for the Radio – CDN
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Lean on your Peers – Kings of Love – CDN
The 24th Street Wailers – Aim to Please – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
The 24th Street Wailers – Chin Wagger – Wicked – CDN

Last week was quite a week indeed, with Jon Dee Graham & Mike June stopping in town. While they were here, they were kind enough to drop by UMFM for a chat and some live songs, so we’ve got those for you today. As if that weren’t enough, we’ve got more new music and more upcoming shows!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Jon Dee Graham – I Don’t Feel That Way – The Great Battle
Mike June – Miss Lavelle White Blues – Exile On Wilson Street
Mike June – Hard Times – Talkin’ Revolution Blues
Nels Andrews – Butterfly Wing – Off Track Betting
Jess Klein – Open Road – Learning Faith
Shannon Lyon – Suddenly – The Lights Behind – CDN
Shannon Lyon – You Showed Me How – The Lights Behind – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Anthony da Costa – Mountain Range – The Family Records Singles Club – Vol. 11
Hannah Aldridge – Razor Wire (Acoustic) – Razor Wire
First Aid Kit – The Bell – Stay Gold
Corb Lund – Five Dollar Bill – Counterfeit Blues – CDN
Jaxon Haldane – Drip Dry – Jaxon Haldane – CDN – WPG
D.Rangers – June Off Of Drinkin’ – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
The F5 four – Miss Molly – Tornado Breakdown

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Easton Stagger Phillips – Traveller – Resolution Road – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – E S P – Truth Be Sold – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Enough Love to Go Around – Radiant Land – CDN

Jon Dee Graham & Mike June interview

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Mike June – Let It Go – live performance
Jon Dee Graham – Barbara & Steve – live performance
Mike June – What if God Gave Up – live performance
Jon Dee Graham – E. 11th Street – live performance
Jon Dee Graham – Dedication – live performance

It’s Dad’s Day, so some songs by, for, and about dads. We’re also plenty excited about the upcoming return of a really great dad, Jon Dee Graham, and that’s reason enough to celebrate the man’s amazing songs.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill And The Little Hillbillies – The Ballad of Poppa Bill – Little Kasey Chambers and The Lost Music
Shannon Lyon – Barcelona – The Lights Behind – CDN
Shannon Lyon – In All Honesty – The Lights Behind – CDN
John Mann – Today Is your Birthday – The Waiting Room – CDN
Linda McRae – Strength, Hope and Love – Fifty Shades of Red – CDN
Quinton Blair – Take my Hand, Take Me Home – Blues Man – CDN
Greg Trooper – Mary of the Scots in Queens – Incident on Willow Street
Ian Foster – Man out of Time – The Great Wave – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

The Willie Graham Players – Rock and Roll in the Street – Big Sweet Life: The Songs of Jon Dee Graham
Jon Dee Graham – October – Summerland
Jon Dee Graham – Way Down in the Hole – Hooray For The Moon
Jon Dee Graham – Faithless – Escape from Monster Island
Jon Dee Graham – I Don’t Feel that Way – The Great Battle
Jon Dee Graham – Amsterdam – Full

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Jon Dee Graham & The Fighting Cocks – My Lucky Day – It’s Not as Bad as It Looks
Martyn Joseph – One Step Up – Under Lemonade Skies
Catherine MacLellan – If It’s Alright with You – Snowbird: The Songs of Gene MacLellan – CDN
Pieta, Zoe & Constie Brown – Ella Mae – Going Driftless: An Artist’s Tribute to Greg Brown
Sarah Harmer – Trouble in the Fields – Songs for Clem – CDN
Del Barber – Arianna – Prairieography – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Barney Bentall – Four Went to War (with Dustin Bentall) – Flesh and Bone – CDN
Loudon Wainwright III – Daughter – Strange Weirdos: Music from and Inspired by the Film Knocked Up
The Pines – Dead Feathers – Dark So Gold
Teddy Thompson – I Should Get up – Separate Ways
Justin Townes Earle – Mama’s Eyes – Midnight at the Movies
Chloe and Luke – So Far Away – I’m Somebody Too – CDN – WPG
Leeroy Stagger – Mister – Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 – CDN

It’s the busy season for shows, and we keep doing our best to keep you informed & ready with more previews, and Ron from Lockport challenges us to find a better “Wrecking Ball” than ol’ Hannah Montana; he didn’t know what he was getting into.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mary Gauther – Another Train – Trouble and Love
The 24th Street Wailers – Chin Wagger – Wicked – CDN
The 24th Street Wailers – Solid Ground – Wicked – CDN
The Secret Sisters – My Heart Skips a Beat – The Secret Sisters
Madison Violet – Baby in the Black and White – Come as You Are (Live) – CDN
Gillian Welch – Tear my Stillhouse Down – Revival

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Shannon Lyon – Mods Rule – The Lights Behind – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Jenny’s Song – The Lights Behind – CDN
Radney Foster – Whose Heart You Wreck (Ole To The Muse) – Everything I Should Have Said
Joe Purdy – Waiting for Loretta Too Long – Eagle Rock Fire
Baskery – The Fire – Little Wild Life
Jay Aymar – King of the World – Overtime – CDN
Jay Aymar – Gonna Love You Anyway – Halfway Home – CDN
Ian Tyson – My Cherry Coloured Rose – Yellowhead to Yellowstone and other Love Songs – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball – Wrecking Ball
Kasey Anderson and The Honkies – My Baby’s a Wrecking Ball – Live Honkies
Rod Picott – Wrecking Ball – Girl From Arkansas
Del Barber – Love Is Just A Wrecking Ball – Where The City Ends – CDN – WPG
John Wort Hannam – Wrecking Ball – Two Bit Suit – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Amelia Curran – Wrecking Ball – Hunter, Hunter – CDN
Gillian Welch – Wrecking Ball – Soul Journey
Emmylou Harris – Born to Run – Spyboy
James Keelaghan – Cold Missouri Waters – History: The First 25 Years – CDN
Cry Cry Cry – Fall on Me – Cry Cry Cry
Jess Klein – I Sure Would – Draw Them Near

Once again the hot new releases just keep on coming, and we’ve got more stellar upcoming shows to preview!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Easton Stagger Phillips – Festival Song – One for the Ditch
Shannon Lyon – I Crossed the Ocean – The Lights Behind – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Oh Why – The Lights Behind – CDN
Mary Gauthier – How You Learn to Live Alone – Trouble and Love
Scott Nolan – Darlene – North/South – CDN – WPG
Hayes Carll – Bad Liver and a Broken Heart – Trouble in Mind
Corb Lund Band – Expectation and the Blues – Modern Pain – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Radney Foster – Not In My House – Everything I Should Have Said
Jimmer – The Far Left Side of You – The Would-Be Plans
Jamestown Revival – Revival – Utah
Parker Millsap – Truck Stop Gospel – Parker Millsap
Buddy Miller – Worry Too Much – Universal United House of Prayer
The Civil Wars – From this Valley – Mercyland: Hymns for the Rest of Us

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Brandy Zdan – The Nearness Of You – Live At 280 – CDN – WPG
Twilight Hotel – No Place for a Woman – recorded live on UMFM – CDN – WPG
Tower Of Song – True Love Leaves No Traces – In City and in Forest – CDN
Reid Jamieson – Tower Of Song – Reido Incognito – CDN
Amanda Shires – A Song for Leonard Cohen – Down Fell the Doves
James McMurtry – You’d a’Thought (Leonard Cohen Must Die) – Live In Europe

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Colleen Rennison – All La Glory – See the Sky About to Rain – CDN
The 24th Street Wailers – I Need You – Wicked Game – CDN
Jim Byrnes – The Duck’s Yas Yas Yas – St. Louis Times – CDN
Washboard Hank – Chompy the Headbiteroffer – Sweet Mysteries of Life – CDN
Washboard Hank – You Should Always Pick Up String – Big Fun For Kids – CDN
Washboard Hank & The Country Squires – Washboard Boogie – Hoorah For Washboard Hank – CDN
Washboard Hank – My Pie – Willie P Bennett Legacy Project – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith & The Flying Squirrels – White Trash – Ralph’s Last Show – CDN

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

Today lots of new music, including the beginning of our trip through the new album from Shannon Lyon, great shows to preview, and some roots rockin’ classics!

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Shannon Lyon – We Don’t Need too Much – The Lights Behind – CDN
Shannon Lyon – The Lights Behind – The Lights Behind – CDN
Joe Purdy – Eagle Rock Fire – Eagle Rock Fire
Sturgill Simpson – Turtles All the Way Down – Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Baskery – The Shadow – Little Wild Life
The Duhks – Beyond The Blue – Beyond The Blue – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Easton Stagger Phillips – Traveller – Resolution Road – CDN
Hannah Aldridge – Old Ghost – Razor Wire
Carlene Carter – Blackie’s Gunman (w/Elizabeth Cook) – Carter Girl
Melissa Payne – Cool West Wind – High and Dry – CDN
Ruth Moody – Far and Wide – 7″ single – CDN – WPG
Butch Walker – Battle vs. the War (w/Nikki Lane) – End of the World (One More Time) / Battle vs. the War
Old Man Luedecke – Brightest on the Heart (w/Ruth Moody) – 7″ single – CDN
Drive-By Truckers – Dragon Pants – Dragon Pants EP

3:00 – 3:30 pm

The Other Brothers – Pitiful – Everything Can Change – CDN – WPG
Little Miss Higgins & The Winnipeg Five – Early Morning Thief – Bison Ranch Recording Sessions – CDN
Shotgun Jimmie – Skype Date – Everything, Everything – CDN
The Notorious Cherry Bombs – It’s Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night that Chew your Ass out all Day Long – The Notorious Cherry Bombs
The Cicadas – When Losers Rule the World – The Cicadas
Rodney Crowell – The Flyboy & The Kid – Tarpaper Sky

3:30 – 4:00 pm

True Believers – Sleep Enough to Dream – True Believers
The Hobart Brothers & L’il Sis Hobart – All Things Being Equal – At Least We Have Each Other
The Hobart Brothers & L’il Sis Hobart – Ballad of Sis (Didn’t I Love You) – At Least We Have Each Other
Daddy – Nobody from Nowhere – For a Second Time
Little Village – Take Another Look – Take Another Look
Linda Ronstadt – Poor Poor Pitiful Me – The Very Best of
Andrew Combs – Devil’s Got My Woman – Worried Man