Episode #924

Today on the show, more new music, some of Burke’s Best of ’21, and we celebrate two of our favourite female-fronted singer/songwriter trios from Winnipeg, one of which is celebrating 20 years together and another is releasing a long-awaited new album this week!

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

Steve Forbert – January 23-30, 1978 – Jack Rabbit Slim

Dan Reeder – Skiing Song – single
Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb – On the Road Again – Coming Home: A Collection of Songs
Mary Gauthier – Women Across the River – single
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Hellbent For Leather (feat. Steve Earle) – Co-Starring Too
Lawrence Maxwell – Meat – Ballad of Miles – CDN
Lawrence Maxwell – Better You – Ballad of Miles – CDN

Hailey Whitters – Everything She Ain’t – Raised
Bear’s Den – Spiders – Blue Hours
The Whitmore Sisters – The Ballad Of Sissy & Porter – Ghost Stories
Colin Hay – Now And The Evermore – single
Sandra McCracken – Most of the Time (w/Colin Hay) – single
Steve Dawson – Dimes – Gone, Long Gone – CDN
Corb Lund – Highway 87 – Songs my Friends Wrote – CDN

Brock Zeman – Someone for You – Me Then You – CDN

Sweet Alibi – Confetti – Make a Scene – CDN – WPG
Sweet Alibi – 9-5 – Make a Scene – CDN – WPG
Sweet Alibi – Next Somewhere – Make a Scene – CDN – WPG
Abigail Lapell – Pines – Stolen Time – CDN

The Wailin’ Jennys – Deeper Well – The Wailin’ Jennys – CDN – WPG
The Wailin’ Jennys – The Devil’s Paintbrush Road – Firecracker – CDN – WPG
The Wailin’ Jennys – Swing Low Sail High – Bright Morning Stars – CDN – WPG

Roseanne Reid – Hallucinate – live recording
Reb Fountain – Lacuna – IRIS
The Felice Brothers – Jazz on the Autobahn – From Dreams to Dust
Riddy Arman – Herding Song – Riddy Arman
Son Volt – These Are the Times – Electro Melodier

Episode #923

The 2022 new music is starting to roll out, so we’ve got a bunch of new finds today, as well as the return of live streaming concerts to preview/discuss, and more of the best music released in 2021!

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

Mayhemingways – 14th of January – Skip Land – CDN

Sean Burns – Gasoline – It Takes Luck to Get the Best of Me – CDN – WPG
Brock Zeman – Little Details – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN
Lynn Miles – Something Beautiful – Fall for Beauty – CDN
Tannis Slimmon – There’s A Lift – Oak Lake – CDN

Dan Reeder – Everything Changed – single
Jonathan Byrd – Fog on the Mountain (w/Abbie Gardener) – single
Eliza Gilkyson – Don’t Stop Lovin’ Me – Songs from the River Wind
Ian Noe – Pine Grove (Madhouse) – River Fools & Mountain Saints
Altameda – Wheel of Love – single – CDN

The Teskey Brothers – Get Back To The Land (feat. Emma Donovan) – single
Matt Andersen – Other Side of Goodbye – single – CDN
Frank Turner – A Wave Across A Bay – FTHC
Danny Burns – Mercenary Song (feat. Steve Earle) – Hurricane

Jackson Emmer – Colorado Line – single
Townes Van Zandt – Waiting Around to Die – Townes Van Zandt

Ryland Moranz – Stolen Land – Xo, 1945 – CDN
Matthew Ryan/The Pines at Night – Song for a Hard Year – Song for a Hard Year (Maxi-Single)
No-No Boy – St. Denis or Bangkok, From a Hotel Balcony (feat. Jacqueline Saporiti) – 1975
Jim Bryson – Werewolves – single – CDN
Caroline Marie Brooks – Night Drive – Everything at the Same Time – CDN

Mariel Buckley – Hundred Cities – 97 Riverdale – CDN
Dori Freeman – I Am – Ten Thousand Roses
Chloe Albert – Die Trying – Come Around Again – CDN
Vanessa Peters – Crazymaker – Modern Age
Lydia Loveless – Let’s Make Out – You’re Leaving Me

Mira Lu Kovacs – Want You – What Else Can Break
Yola – Starlight – Stand For Myself
Carsie Blanton – Be Good – Love & Rage

Episode #922

Our team of scientists and statisticians have completed their intensive study of albums released in 2021, and we can say, officially and without hesitation, the songs and albums heard today are among the absolute best! We don’t nearly have enough time in 2 hours to get to everything, but this is a pretty good look at some expected highlights, delightful discoveries, big-name faves, and downright fun!

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

Del Barber – Just A Little Heat – Stray Dogs (Collected B-Sides / Vol. 1) – CDN – WPG

Suzie Ungerleider – Pumpkins – My Name Is Suzie Ungerleider – CDN
Slow Leaves – Did It Again – Holiday – CDN – WPG
John Wort Hannam – Old Friend – Long Haul – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – The Places I Have Been – Dystopian Weekends – CDN
Joe Nolan – Cherry Valance – Scrapper – CDN
James McMurtry – What’s the Matter – The Horses and the Hounds

Serlin Greaves – Seasick – Sad Songs For Sale – CDN – WPG
John R. Miller – Shenandoah Shakedown – Depreciated
Charles Wesley Godwin – Lyin’ low – How the Mighty Fall
Sierra Ferrell – Jeremiah – Long Time Coming
Margo Cilker – Broken Arm in Oregon – Pohorylle

Allison Russell – Nightflyer – Outside Child – CDN
Arlo Parks – Black Dog – Collapsed In Sunbeams
Brandi Carlile – Right on Time – In These Silent Days
Steve Earle & The Dukes – Lone Pine Hill – J.T.

Shaela Miller – I Don’t Want Your Love – Big Hair Small City – CDN
Charlie Marie – El Paso – Ramble On
Melissa Carper – Makin’ Memories – Daddy’s Country Gold
Jake Vaadeland – Be a Farmer or a Preacher – Retro Man – CDN
Charley Crockett – Round This World – Music City USA

Mac Leaphart – That Train – Music City Joke
The Artisanals – The Road – Zia
Whitehorse – Why So Cruel – Strike Me Down – CDN
Rusty Robot – Ice Cream Truck – single – CDN – WPG

Episode #921

Our first episode of 2022, so some New Year’s Day songs, we talk about the nature of hope for a better year, spin some new, new to me, and new again music, take time out for the Jan. 2 Roger Miller Break, and provide our nearly-annual tribute to Hank & Townes!

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

Todd Snider – Happy New Year – The Devil You Know

Kenny Foster & Ags Connolly – Auld Lang Syne (Once Again) – single
Ray Wylie Hubbard – New Year’s Eve at the Gates of Hell – The Grifter’s Hymnal
Leeroy Stagger – New Year’s Day – Covers – CDN
Charlie Robison – New Year’s Day – Good Times
Slaid Cleaves – New Year’s Day – Wishbones
Mary Chapin Carpenter – New Year’s Day – Ashes And Roses

D.Rangers – New Years Blues – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
Richard Inman – New Years Blues – Faded Love Better Days – CDN – MB
The Bottle Rockets – Another Brand New Year – Brand New Year
Reid Jamieson – This Could Be the Year – Songs for a Winter’s Night – CDN
Justin Osborne – This Year – The Real Brent Brent
Pip Skid – This Year (feat. Charlie Fettah) – People Are the Worst – CDN – WPG

Christina Martin – Talk About It – Podcast Theme Song – single – CDN
Joe Nolan – Spectacle – single – CDN
The Panhandlers – West Texas in My Eye – The Panhandlers
William Prince – 7 – single – CDN – WPG
John Murry – What Becomes of The Broken Hearted – single

Roger Miller – Husbands and Wives – Words and Music
Buddy Miller – Nothing Can Stop Me – Poison Love
The Sadies – Home (w/Neko Case) – In Concert, Vol.1 – CDN
The Sadies – Jason Fleming (w/Neko Case) – In Concert, Vol.1 – CDN
Reid Jamieson – King Of The Road – ReidoRadio – CDN
Roger Miller – Dang Me – Best of

Hank Williams – I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry – Moanin’ the Blues
Townes Van Zandt – Waiting Around to Die – Townes Van Zandt
Hank Williams – Cold Cold Heart – The Hank Williams Story
Townes Van Zandt – If I Needed You – The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
Hank Williams – I’ll Never Get out of This World Alive – Low Down Blues, the Ultimate Recordings
Townes Van Zandt – Poncho & Lefty – The Late Great Townes Van Zandt

Episode #920

Christmas may be officially done for another year, but there’s been a lot going on the past few weeks, so we haven’t heard many of our annual favourites, so today we pull out all the stops and play some of the essentials that we haven’t gotten to and just can’t go a year without hearing. We also ease out of the holiday season with some Christmas songs that… aren’t, but you can get away with calling Christmas songs. Finally, in the tradition of holiday marathons of years gone by, we’re stretching out and taking over The Love and Happiness Hour at 4 pm on UMFM and playing some of my favourite L&H H classic rock, guilt and shame-free, just for fun!

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

Hayes Carll – Grateful for Christmas – KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories)

The Rocky Fortune – Merry Boxing Day – single – CDN
Courtney Barnett – Boxing Day Blues (Revisited) – single
The Heavy Blinkers – Boxing Day blues – The Heavy Blinkers – CDN
Oliver Schroer – Beneath the Ice, They Heard Bells – Stuck On A Cold Steel Pole – CDN

Emmylou Harris – Christmas Time’s a-Comin’ – Light of the Stable
George Strait – Merry Christmas Strait To You – Merry Christmas Strait To You
Mike Plume – Merry Xmas To My Ex-Miss – Back Home For Christmas – CDN
Buck Owens – Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy (Daddy Looked A Lot Like Him) – Christmas With Buck Owens
The Ronettes – Sleigh Ride – A Christmas Gift for You

Skydiggers – Good King Wenceslas – Still Restless: The Lost Tapes – CDN
Neko Case – Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis – New Coat of Paint: Waits Tribute
Mary Gauthier – Christmas In Paradise – Filth & Fire
Glen Campbell – O Holy Night – Home For The Holidays
John Prine – Christmas In Prison – Sweet Revenge
Swank! – Santa Claus Is Out On Bail – Christmas Is Fun! – CDN

James McMurtry – Holiday – Childish Things
Jeffrey Foucault – Ghost Repeater – Ghost Repeater
Turnpike Troubadours – Blue Star – Goodbye Normal Street
John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls – Christmas Lights – Everything The Hard Way
Ridley Bent – All the Heat Is in the Whiskey – Rabbit on My Wheel – CDN – WPG
Shannon Lyon – X-Mas In Korea – X-Mas In Korea – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Houses on the Hill – Dharma – CDN
Steve Earle – Nothing But A Child – Copperhead Road
Ian Tyson – Silver Bell – Songs From The Gravel Road – CDN
Jim Bryson – Snoopy and the Red Baron (fet. Jeremy Fisher) – Instant Holiday Album – CDN

Sunny Sweeney – One More Christmas Beer – single
Dave Gunning – Daddy’s Beer – Christmas – CDN
Decembersongs – Dad’s Drunk Again On Christmas – Decembersongs ’13

Anne Murray – You Needed Me – Let’s Keep It That Way – CDN
Gene MacLellan – Snowbird – Gene MacLellan – CDN
David Wiffen – Skybound Station – Coast To Coast Fever – CDN
Audience – I Had A Dream – The House On The Hill

Michel Pagliaro – What the Hell I’ve Got – What the Hell I’ve Got – CDN
Ian Thomas – Painted Ladies – Looking Back – CDN
Partland Brothers – Soul City – Electric Honey – CDN
Max Webster – Let Go The Line (feat. Kim Mitchell) – The Best Of Max Webster – CDN

Orphan – Miracle – Lonely at Night – CDN – WPG
Burton Cummings – Break It To Them Gently – Dream Of A Child – CDN – WPG
Harlequin – I Did It for Love – Greatest Hits – CDN – WPG

Toronto – Ready To Make Up – Girls Night Out – CDN
Melissa Etheridge – Like The Way I Do – Melissa Etheridge