It is December, and although this year doesn’t seem to hold a lot of joy, we’ll embrace the holiday spirit and let a few new festive tunes slip in to the show today and in the weeks to come. We’ve also got the long-awaited new all-star local compilation as well as a bunch of other great new songs and a lot of other good stuff for you today.

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

Paul Kelly – How to Make Gravy – Words and Music
Andrew Neville – Honky Tonk Shangri-La – We Still Gotta Lotta Livin’ To Do – CDN – WPG
D. Rangers – Man or a Fool – We Still Gotta Lotta Livin’ To Do – CDN – WPG
Del Barber w/ Grant Siemens – Meantime – We Still Gotta Lotta Livin’ To Do – CDN – WPG

John Blek – Like A Child – Digressions #2 Grounded
Serlin Greaves – The Needle and the Damage Done – single – CDN – WPG
Death Cab for Cutie – Flirted With You All My Life – The Georgia E.P.
Gregory Alan Isakov – Bullet Holes – Evening Machines
Slim Dunlap – Hate this Town – single
Mariel Buckley – No Surprise – single – CDN

The Oldest Forest – Put On A Fuckin Mask Stupid Part 2 – single – CDN – WPG
The Oldest Forest – Let’s Do The Foxtrot – single – CDN – WPG
The Oldest Forest – They Call Me Country – single – CDN – WPG

Skydiggers – Even When You Fall – Road Radio – CDN
Skydiggers – Good King Wenceslas – The Truth About Us – CDN
The Burning Hell – Better King Wenceslas – Mathias Kom’s Holy Hullabaloo – CDN

Liz Longley – One Missing – A Little Magic
Phoebe Bridgers – If We Make It Through December – If We Make It Through December EP
Boreal – Snow Falls Down – single – CDN
Calexico – Peace of Mind – Seasonal Shift
Rodney Crowell – Let’s Skip Christmas This Year – Christmas Everywhere
The Handsome Family – So Much Wine – In the Air

Nathan – John Paul’s Deliveries – Key Principles – CDN – WPG
The Wailin’ Jennys – One Voice – 40 Days – CDN – WPG
Oh Susanna & Michael Johnston – My Christmas Dreams – Decemberly – CDN
Allison Moorer – O Holy Night – Five Holiday Favorites

2020 has been an unmitigated disaster in almost every regard except for new music, which has been outstanding. Today we’re going to look at some of our favourites in hopes that you might add some music to your online shopping list or your own wish list, especially with the final Bandcamp Friday of the year coming up this week. These aren’t necessarily all of the best songs & albums of the year, just some of our standout favourites.

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

Kathleen Edwards – Glenfern – Total Freedom – CDN
Jim Bryson – Knights Of 1000 Sleeps ft. Caroline Brooks – single – CDN
Evangeline Gentle – Drop My Name – Evangeline Gentle – CDN
Ken Yates – Easy Way Out – Quiet Talkers – CDN
Graven – Real Rain – Years – CDN

Joe Nolan – Maybe We Didn’t Get Our Timing Right – Drifters – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Love Songs for the Long Game – single – CDN
Kennedy Road – Kennedy – A Little Fight Left Yet – CDN
Campbell Woods – For You – Keeper – CDN
John Prine – I Remember Everything – single

Sarah Harmer – St. Peter’s Bay – Are You Gone – CDN
Melissa Payne – Shake Me – Darker Than Your Dark – CDN

Icecream Hands – Thank You – No Weapon But Love
Jerry Joseph – Days of Heaven – The Beautiful Madness
Drive-By Truckers – The New OK – The New OK
Chuck Prophet – Marathon – The Land That Time Forgot
Our Man In The Field – I’ll Be Gone – The Company of Strangers

Scott Nolan – Ballad of a Stranger – single – CDN – WPG
William Prince – Old Souls – Reliever – CDN – WPG
Ben de la Cour – In God We Trust … All Others Pay Cash – Shadow Land – CDN

Sean Burns – Gasoline – It Takes Luck To Get The Best Of Me – CDN – WPG
Skinny Dyck – Dreamin’ – Get to Know Lonesome – CDN
Mike Plume – Younger Than We Are Today – Lonesome Stretch of Highway – CDN
Slow Leaves – Miss You – Shelf Life – CDN – WPG

A whole lot of cool covers today and the rest is brought to you by the letter B as we have a bunch of BROOD, a bit of Bruceness, and we visit with the Bobs I know!

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

Lowest of the Low – Black Monday – Hallucigenia – CDN
Rusty Cage – The Black Friday Song – Really Stupid Bad Songs That I Made
Casey Laforet – Put On A Fuckin Mask Stupid – single – CDN
Casey Laforet – Mr. Brownstone (Wild Turkey Version) – single – CDN
Elliott BROOD – Stay Out (acoustic) – single – CDN
Elliott BROOD – A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. – single – CDN

Steve Earle & The Dukes – Harlem River Blues – J.T.
John Anderson, Toby Keith, Buddy Miller & Tanya Tucker – Okie From Muskogee (Live) – Sing Me Back Home: The Music of Merle Haggard
Lauren Ruth Ward – Riders on the Storm – Happy Birthday Jim
Lissie – Wrecking Ball – Thank You to the Flowers
Molly Parden & Hollow Hum – Found out About You – Why Worry: A Collection of Covers
Molly Tuttle – She’s A Rainbow – …but i’d rather be with you
Dan Mangan – Losing My Religion – Thief – CDN

Matthew Ryan – Untitled Verses for Distances – Life Is Beautiful
Jennah Barry – Rocket – Holiday – CDN

NQ Arbuckle – Atlantic City – Live at Lincoln County Social Club – CDN
Martyn Joseph – One Step Up – Tires Rushing by in the Rain
Rose Cousins – If I Should Fall Behind – We Have Made a Spark – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – Human Touch (w/Bahamas) – single – CDN
Ruth Moody – Dancing in the Dark – These Wilder Things – CDN – WPG
Townes Van Zandt – Racing in the Streets – Roadsongs

Bob Schneider – Big Blue Sea – live recording
Bob Schneider – I Wish the Wind Would Blow Me – recorded live on UMFM
Bob Schneider – The Way Life Is Supposed to Be – I’m Good Now
Bob Schneider – Lake Michigan – single

Bob Snider – Talk to Me Babe – Caterwaul & Doggerel – CDN
Bobby Long – Who Have You Been Loving – A Winter Tale
Bobby Bare Jr. – Valentine – From the End of Your Leash
Lonesome Bob – Got Away With It – Things Change

The new music rollout is slowing down, so not as much of the fresh stuff this week, but we’ve got a bunch left over from Bandcamp day and previous weeks to keep us busy. We’ve also got some great requests and we celebrate the birthday of one of our most played and beloved artists this week, and mark the first anniversary of the death of another.

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

NQ Arbuckle – Part Of A Poem By Alden Nowlan Called Ypres: 1915 – XOK – CDN
Phoebe & Maggie – Iris – single
Kurt Vile – Gone Girl – Speed, Sound, Lonely KV
The Circuit Breakers – Gonna Be A Darkness – single
Scott Nolan Band – Johnny Tornado – We Best Choose To Pick The Blues (A Winnipeg Tribute to Big Dave McLean) – CDN – WPG

Last Year’s Man – The Dark End of the Road (feat. Jesse Terry) – Brave the Storm
Last Year’s Man – Feet of Clay (feat. The Hackles) – Brave the Storm
Chris Stapleton – Joy Of My Life – Starting Over
Jackson Emmer – When the Lawn Gets Dark – Alpine Coda
Luther Wright & the Wrongs – All We Ever Need – single – CDN
Julia Jacklin – to Perth, before the border closes – single
Jess Klein – My Own Beating Heart (feat. Gaelynn Lea & Mark Simonsen) – single
Gillian Welch – Sin City – Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 3

Nora Jane Struthers & Joe Overton – In Your Yard – PSA 45
Nora Jane Struthers – The Hunger – Bright Lights, Long Drives, First Words
India Ramey – You and Me Against the World – Shallow Graves
Daniel Norgren – My Rock Is Crumbling – The Green Stone
Chris Bennett moreguitar – Disenchanted World – Disenchanted World – CDN

Justin Farren – Two Wheel Drive and Japanese – Pretty Free
The Bones of J.R. Jones – Sing Sing – The Wildness
Chris Moyse – Live Till We Die – Bitter Ballads & Cynical Prayers
Daniel Martin Moore – Anyway – Golden Age
Kelsey Waldon – Mississippi Goddam (feat. Adia Victoria & Kyshona Armstrong) – single

David Francey – Torn Screen Door – Torn Screen Door – CDN
David Francey – Broken Glass – Skating Rink – CDN
David Francey – The Waking Hour – The Waking Hour – CDN
Spirit Of The West – Political – Labour Day – CDN
Spirit Of The West – Home for a Rest – Save this House – CDN

We’ve got a mountain of new music to traverse today, including a pile of new cover versions. A diverse mix of great new music awaits!

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

Elliott BROOD – Where Everybody Knows Your Name – single – CDN
Casey Laforet – Let The Mystery Be – single – CDN
Casey Laforet – Bluebird Wine – single – CDN
Lucinda Williams – A Face In The Crowd – Lu’s Jukebox Vol 1 – Runnin’ Down a Dream: A Tribute to Tom Petty
Dave Alvin – Highway 61 Revisited – From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings

Scott The Hoople – Thrasher – NEIL (Vol. 1)
Katie Pruitt – Ohio – Ohio / After The Gold Rush
Mike Cooley, Patterson Hood, Jason Isbell – Danko/Manuel – Live at the Shoals Theatre
The Warm Up: Elliott, Rose, da Costa – Love Ain’t Easy – live recording
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) – Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In)

Rising Appalachia – Sometimes I… – The Sails of Self
Amy Montgomery – Intangible – Intangible

Icecream Hands – No Weapon But Love – No Weapon But Love
The Jellybricks – Faith – Some Kind of Lucky
Silver Clouds – Inclement Weather – Silver Clouds – CDN – WPG
Steve Wynn – Milky White (feat. Eric Ambel) – Decade
Leeroy Stagger – Deeper Well – Strange Path – CDN
Son of Dave – Carry On – single – CDN – WPG

Graven – Legend of You – Years – CDN
Graven – Real Rain – Years – CDN
Kellen Saip – We’re All in This Together – single – CDN
Braden Gates – New in Town – Kitchen Days – CDN
Forest Sun – Help Me Find My Way – Help Me Find My Way

Steve Poltz – Quarantine Blues – single – CDN
Van Morrison – As I Walked Out – single
David Lee Roth – Somewhere over the Rainbow Bar and Grill – single