Episode #1097

New music, upcoming shows & festivals, songs with similarities, and we celebrate 25 years of some truly monumental Manitoba music!

Weakerthans merch: https://cutloosemerch.ca/collections/the-weakerthans

Jadea Kelly at Second Chance Saloon: https://tellthebandtogohome.com/2025/06/30/jadea-kelly-the-second-chance-saloon-aug-7-2025/

Trout Forest Music Festival: https://www.troutfest.com/

Team 81 fundraiser: https://www.team81.ca/jeff-robson

Great Cycle Challenge: https://greatcyclechallenge.ca/Riders/JeffRobson

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

Lowest of the Low – Pamphleteer – One Great Tribute! A love letter to The Weakerthans – CDN

The Weakerthans – Everything Must Go! – live recording – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – My Favourite Chords – Left & Leaving – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – Without Mythologies – Transmissions (2004) – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – Bad Time to Be Poor – The Secret Sessions: Rheostatics Tribute – CDN – WPG

Florry – First it was a movie, then it was a book – Sounds Like…
Wednesday – Elderberry Wine – Bleeds
Friendship – Resident Evil – Caveman Wakes Up
James McMurtry – Sons of the Second Sons – The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy
Drive-By Truckers – The Righteous Path – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
Drive-By Truckers – Sink Hole – Decoration Day

Lydia Loveless – There Is a Beach on Walnut Street – single
John Calvin Abney – Last Chance – Transparent Towns
Joe Ray McDonald – First Rains of May – Cowboy Cake – CDN
Joe Ray McDonald – Barrooms – Human Dogs – CDN
Micah Schnabel – No Xmas Cards for Fascists (feat. Call Me Rita) – single

Madi Diaz – Feel Something – Fatal Optimist
Sierra Ferrell & Nikki Lane – A Lesson In Leavin’ – single
Hannah White – Hard Hitting Memories – single
Anna Tivel – White Goose – single

Pony Gold – Impossible Dream – High Road Reverie – CDN
Anna Tivel – Altogether Alone – Living Thing
Kathleen Edwards – Change The Sheets – Voyageur – CDN

The Haileys – Good Girl – Get a Room – CDN – WPG

Jadea Kelly – Friday – Weather Girl (Deluxe) – CDN
Jadea Kelly – Mercy – Love & Lust – CDN
Jadea Kelly – Heavy Heart – Eastbound Platform – CDN

Greg Macpherson – Wide Turn – Maintenance – CDN – WPG
Washboard Hank – The Midnight Ride of Red Dog Ray – Donkeys & Tire Fires – CDN
Cara Luft, Keri Latimer, & Jess Reimer – Tumbling Tumbleweeds – HER (204): Stories of One Great City Revisited – CDN – WPG

Jacob Brodovsky – I Love You and I’m Sorry – I Love You and I’m Sorry – CDN – WPG
Lindy Vopnfjörð – The Limit – Young Waverer – CDN – WPG
Lindy Vopnfjörð – State of the Heart – State of the Heart – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns – Before She Made Me Crawl – Lost Country – CDN – WPG
D. Rangers – Trying To Start Out Clean – Barbaric Cultural Practices – CDN – WPG

Episode #1096

Back live in the studio again after our trip to Germany for Static Roots Festival and we’ve got memories and highlights as well as local shows and a huge backlog of new music!

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

Christina Martin – Thank You For Being a Friend – single – CDN

Craig Cardiff – Miss Ohio – Mothers & Daughters – CDN
Craig Cardiff – Dirty Old Town – Goodnight (Go Home) – CDN
Craig Cardiff – Safe Here – Floods & Fires – CDN

The Jitters – That’s When I Need You – The Jitters – CDN
The Jitters – Closer Every Day – The Jitters – CDN
Blair Packham – Heads and Tails – The Impossible Dream – CDN
Wilco – Passenger Side – A.M.

Dom Glynn & His Sunday Best – My Get Up and Go’s Done Got Up and Gone – live recording
Savannah Gardner – Born in the Wrong Generation (feat. The Recovering Good Girls) – single
David Ford – Nobody Tells Me What To Do – Songs For The Road
Michele Stodart – Reason to Believe – The Nebraska Sessions: A Tribute

Hayley Reardon – Until It Happens – After Everything
Hayley Reardon – Awake in Berlin – single
Ryan O’Reilly – Good Enough (feat. Hayley Reardon) – single
Ryan O’Reilly – Wicklow (feat. Jadea Kelly) – single
Jadea Kelly – Start With Sorry – Weather Girl – CDN

Joe Nolan – Blood on the Pages – Luv in the New World – CDN
David Newbould – Broken Hearts Are Paint – Average Fidelity – CDN
Josh Ritter – Truth is a Dimension (Both Invisible and Blinding) – I Believe in You, My Honeydew
Hayes Carll – We’re Only Human – We’re Only Human
Steve Earle & Reckless Kelly – Bad Girls – single
William Prince – On Rolls the Wheel – Further from the Country – CDN – WPG
Altameda – Life Is A Desert – single – CDN
Benjamin Tod & Madison Hughes – Goner – single

Dominique Adams – Fine Lines – To Keep – CDN – WPG
Neko Case – Wreck – Neon Grey Midnight Green
Pony Gold – Impossible Dream – single – CDN
Caroline Spence – Fun At Parties – Heart Go Wild
Amanda Shires – A Way It Goes – Nobody’s Girl

Shannon McNally – After Midnight – single
BettySoo – Gulf Road (feat. James McMurtry) – If You Never Go Away
James McMurtry – Broken Freedom Song – The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy
MJ Lenderman – Just Be Simple – I Will Swim to You: A Tribute to Jason Molina
Waxahatchee & Kevin Morby – You Found Me (From the Netflix Series “Too Much”) – single
Lissie – America – Promises
Ian Noe – Born In The USA – single
Mariel Buckley – The Other Man – 97 Riverdale – CDN

Episode #1095

I take great pride in playing a lot of local music on this show and celebrating and supporting the local music community as much as I can, but I don’t think I’ve ever devoted an entire episode to showing off the wide variety of great music being made by artists from Manitoba or by other artists who have come here to record. I realized quickly that there was no way to distill it to a “Best of” or a complete overview, so this is a personal sampling of some of the great music that I love that came from here or was recorded here. There’s so much more to discover and enjoy, but I hope you get a sense of the talent and passion that comes from this place by listening to this show!

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

JP Hoe – I Only Did It For Love – Mannequin – CDN – WPG

The Watchmen – One Man Gone – Indie-Can ’89 Sampler – CDN – WPG
Jeffrey Hatcher & The Big Beat – Man Who Would Be King – Cross Our Hearts – CDN – WPG
Crash Test Dummies – Here I Stand Before Me – God Shuffled His Feet – CDN – WPG
Leaderhouse – Elephant Song – Leaderhouse – CDN – WPG
The New Meanies – Scenic Anomaly – Three Seeds – CDN – WPG

Duck Shot Hunter – If You Were Here – Duck Shot Hunter – CDN – WPG
Kings Of The Moon – Coming Home – Kings Of The Moon – CDN – WPG
Paper Moon – String Of Blinking Lights – Broken Hearts Break Faster Every Day – CDN – WPG
Lindy – Witness – Suspension of Disbelief – CDN – WPG
Joel Kroeker – Goodbye Jane – Melodrama – CDN – WPG

The Paperbacks – If I Make it Through This Winter – An Episode of Sparrows – CDN – WPG
Novillero – Art Of Carrying On – Aim Right for the Holes in Their Lives – CDN – WPG

The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site – Reconstruction Site – CDN – WPG
Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – Metal Girls – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN
Christine Fellows – A Day in the Road – The Last One Standing – CDN – WPG
Imaginary Cities – Bells Of Cologne – Fall Of Romance – CDN – WPG
Jacob Brodovsky – Night Baker – I Love You and I’m Sorry – CDN – WPG

Nathan – John Paul’s Deliveries – Key Principles – CDN – WPG
The Wailin’ Jennys – Arlington – 40 Days – CDN – WPG
Sweet Alibi – One Chance – Walking in the Dark – CDN – WPG
Easily Amused – Song For Belfast – Simple Stuff – CDN – WPG
Begonia – Hanging on a Line – Fear – CDN – WPG

Red Moon Road – Beauty in These Broken Bones – Sorrows and Glories – CDN – WPG
The Duhks – Four Blue Walls – The Duhks – CDN – WPG
Two Crows for Comfort – Older Still – Show Me Light – CDN – WPG
Romi Mayes – Mercy On Me – Achin In Yer Bones – CDN – WPG

Corin Raymond – Dirty Mansions – Dirty Mansions – CDN – WPG
Jonathan Byrd – Poor Johnny – You Can’t Outrun the Radio
Stephen Fearing – Stay with Me – The Unconquerable Past – CDN
Ben de la Cour – God’s Only Son – Shadow Land

Sean Burns – Gasoline – It Takes Luck To Get The Best Of Me – CDN – WPG
Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Town Song – Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – CDN – WPG
D. Rangers – Trois Rivieres – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
Ridley Bent – Arlington – Buckles & Boots – CDN – WPG
JD Edwards Band – This House Will Stand – Roads And Roads – CDN – WPG

Del Barber – Farewell, God Bless You, Goodbye – Prairieography – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – Rosie – No Bourbon & Bad Radio – CDN – WPG
Paul Bergman – Sundogs – Anthropology – CDN – MB
The Other Brothers – Second Wind – Points Of View – CDN – WPG
Slow Leaves – Miss You – Shelf Life – CDN – WPG
Greg MacPherson – Buy a Ticket – Balanced on a Pin – CDN – WPG

Episode #1094

Shining a spotlight on a true Canadian music MVP, producer/singer/songwriter/guitar player/pedal steel wizard/all-around good guy, Dale Murray! Dale is well-known by musicians but tends to be out of the spotlight most of the time, spending much of his time and sharing his talent by making others shine. He’s been a valuable contributor to a wide variety of bands and projects, and on today’s show, we listen to as many and as much as we can fit into 3 hours, but still ended up leaving a LOT out!

Dale Murray online: dalemurray.bandzoogle.com
music: dalemurray.bandcamp.com

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

The Guthries – Trials and Tribulations – Off Windmill – CDN

Anne Murray – Rest Easy (In My Love) – Here You Are – CDN
Sandbox – Curious – Bionic – CDN
Bubbles and the Shitrockers – Drinkin’ With The Angels – Longhauler – CDN

Dale Murray – Thought You Were Right – Brighter Lives, Darker Side – CDN
Dale Murray – The Grove – Dream Mountain Dream – CDN

The Guthries – Terrible Thing – The Guthries – CDN
The Guthries – Coax Me – Take It In: A Tribute to Sloan – CDN

Booming Airplanes – Silver Lining – Yarn – CDN
the Heavy Blinkers – Lazy In Love – Better Weather – CDN
Ruth Minnikin – This Heavy Heart – EP – CDN

Kate Maki, Ruth Minnikin, Dale Murray, Ryan Levecque, Nathan Lawr – Brighter Lives, Darker Side – A Midautumn Night’s Dream – CDN
Kate Maki, Ruth Minnikin, Dale Murray, Ryan Levecque, Nathan Lawr – On Our Way – A Midwinter Night’s Dream – CDN
Kate Maki – Old Guitar – The Sun Will Find Us – CDN

Matt Mays – Back Home Weather – Matt Mays – CDN
Matt Mays & El Torpedo – Good People – Matt Mays & El Torpedo – CDN
Matt Mays – Take It On Faith – Coyote – CDN

Cuff the Duke – Confessions from a Parkdale Basement – Sidelines of the City – CDN
Cuff the Duke – Follow Me – Way Down Here – CDN
Two Hours Traffic – Stolen Earrings – Little Jabs – CDN
Liam Corcoran – July-eh, July-oh – Rom-Drom – CDN

Buck 65 – Wicked and Weird – Talkin’ Honky Blues – CDN
The Hylozoists – The Hylozoists – La Nouvelle Gauche – CDN
Dale Murray – Away From Home – Pickers for Grinners vol. 1 – CDN
Hayden – The Valley – The Place Where We Lived – CDN
Hayden – Barely Friends – In Field & Town – CDN

David Myles – Where I Want To Be – Things Have Changed – CDN
The Olympic Symphonium – Blood from a Stone (feat. Catherine MacLellan & Dale Murray) – More in Sorrow Than in Anger – CDN

Jenn Grant – Britt n’ kip – Orchestra for the Moon – CDN
Dave Gunning – Merry Christmas Lonely Cowboy – Christmas Too – CDN
Al Tuck – Tuck My Blues Away – Food For The Moon – CDN
Joel Plaskett – Pine, Pine, Pine – Three – CDN
Joel Plaskett – Broken Heart Songs – The Park Avenue Sobriety Test – CDN

Norma MacDonald – Everyone Lets You Down – the forest for the trees – CDN
Kim Wempe – Bring It Here – Painting With Tides – CDN
Ashley Condon – A New Heart – Come In From The Cold – CDN

Jason Haywood – Nothing Stays the Same – Nothing Stays the Same – CDN
Adam Puddington – Deer in the Headlights – For the Meantime – CDN
The Prospector’s Union – The Valley Neighbours – Syracuse – CDN
Matt Murphy – New Mr. Me – The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico: Bring It Back Home – CDN

Dale Murray – My New World – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Christina Martin – You Come Home – Two Hearts – CDN
Christina Martin – Somewhere with You – It’ll Be Alright – CDN

Episode #1093

Normally the weekend I’d roll out the annual Canada Day spectacular, but instead a freewheeling (or “freeballing,” if you ask a gym teacher) episode featuring birthdays, new music, a full preview of this year’s exciting and eagerly anticipated Static Roots Festival, and a bunch of great classics!

If you’re looking for great Canadian music, check out last week’s Six Shooter Records retrospective: https://tellthebandtogohome.com/2025/06/22/podcast-june-22-2025-six-shooter-records-retrospective/

or last year’s All Canadian Bangers II: https://tellthebandtogohome.com/2024/07/01/podcast-june-30-2024-all-canadian-bangers-ii/

or the first All Canadian Bangers: https://tellthebandtogohome.com/2023/07/03/podcast-july-2-2023-all-canadian-bangers/

Static Roots Festival: staticrootsfestival.com

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

Jason Collett – Love Song to Canada – To Wit To Woo – CDN

Colin Hay – Overkill – Man at Work
Colin Hay – Beautiful World – Going Somewhere
Colin Hay – Waiting For My Real Life To Begin – Going Somewhere

Chuck Prophet – Pin a Rose on Me – Age of Miracles
The Damnwells – Newborn History – Bastards Of The Beat
Chris Isaak – Somebody’s Crying – Forever Blue

James McMurtry – Laredo (Small Dark Something) – The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy
Yukon Blonde – Adore You – Friendship & Rock ‘n’ Roll – CDN
Katie Pruitt – Backseat Driver – single
The Accidentals – Better Than Me – Time Out 3
Ron Sexsmith – Cigarette And Cocktail – Hangover Terrace – CDN

Dom Glynn & his Sunday Best – Singing to Survive – single
Savannah Gardner – Wildfire – Recovering Good Girl

Todd Day Wait – Time Will Let You Know – Letters From The Road
The Southern Fold – Before the Fall – single
Bobbie – I need you more than I want you – The Sacred in the Ordinary
Peter Bruntnell – Out of the Pines – Houdini and the Sucker Punch
Bywater Call – Colours – Shepherd – CDN

Embla and the Karidotters – Resting Bitch Face – Off Leash
Hayley Reardon – Child of a Giver (feat. Arnau Figueres & Pau Figueres) – Live at Starseed Studios
Pert Near Sandstone – Can’t Hardly Wait – single
Michele Stodart – These Bones – Invitation
Pearl Charles – Does This Song Sound Familiar? (7″ Version) – single
Uncle Lucius – Bertha – Live from Ear Studio
The Godfathers – Bring On The Sunshine – Alpha Beta Gamma Delta PLUS

John K. Samson – Fantasy Baseball at the End of the World – single – CDN – WPG
John K. Samson – When I Write My Master’s Thesis – Provincial – CDN – WPG
Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – Wild Folk – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN
Tuns – Lonely Life – Tuns – CDN
Steven Page – The Work at Hand – Heal Thyself Pt. 1: Instinct – CDN
Odds – It Falls Apart – Bedbugs – CDN
Trans-Canada Highwaymen – Lovin’ You Ain’t Easy – Explosive Hits Vol.1 – CDN

Brock Zeman – Push Them Stones – Me Then You – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – 105 – Lipstick Lies & Gasoline – CDN
Blackie and The Rodeo Kings – Stoned – BARK – CDN
Gillian Welch – The Way It Goes – The Harrow & The Harvest
Ian Noe – Letter to Madeline – Between the Country
Jeffrey Martin – Edge of Lost – single