No jokes & no fools on today’s show, just great music through and through! We’ve got some exciting shows past & future to discuss, including a big guest on next week’s episode, some stellar listener suggestions, and a pile of new & new to me music.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Scott Nolan – Easter at the Waffle House – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
Stephen Fearing – The Assassin’s Apprentice – The Assassin’s Apprentice – CDN
Stephen Fearing – Blowhard Nation – Every Soul’s a Sailor – CDN
Martyn Joseph – Here Come the Young – unreleased
John Prine – God Only Knows – The Tree of Forgiveness

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Courtney Marie Andrews – Kindness of Strangers – May Your Kindness Remain
Bennett Wilson Poole – Ask Me Anything – Bennett Wilson Poole
Traveller – Hummingbird – Western Movies
The Vegabonds – Everything I Need – single
The Artisanals – Roll With It – Literally Anywhere
The Pollies – Lost – Not Here
Dylan Leblanc – Look How Far We’ve Come w/Rayland Baxter – Luck Mountain Sessions

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Skylar Bouchard – Montreal – Tired of the City – CDN – WPG
Carrie Rodriguez & Ben Kyle – If I Needed You – We Still Love Our Country
Lyle Lovett – Step Inside this House – Step Inside this House
Adela Diane – Ether & Wood – Cusp
The Black Lillies – Two Hearts Down – 100 Miles of Wreckage
Fred Eaglesmith – Freight Train – Official Bootleg Series Vol. 2 – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Ridley Bent & The Killer Tumbleweeds – Pretty Li’l Self – Ridley Bent & The Killer Tumbleweeds – CDN – WPG
Ridley Bent – Suicidewinder – Blam! – CDN – WPG
Omar & The Howlers – Hard Times in the Land of Plenty – Hard Times in the Land of Plenty
Jerry Miller – What a Little Moonlight Can Do (w/Eilen Jewell) – New Road Under my Wheels
Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Tonight I Think I’m Gonna Go Downtown – After Awhile
Greg Brown – Downtown – One Night

A long-awited visit by Quinton Blair, who stops by to chat and sing some great songs before tonight’s Honky Tonk Blues show at The West End Cultural Centre, as well as a bunch of requests & dedications and a pile of great new music!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Huey Lewis & The News – Honky Tonk Blues – Sports
Quinton Blair – Following Him Around – Cash Crop – CDN – MB
Little Miss Higgins – My Home, My Heart – My Home, My Heart – CDN – MB
Jess Reimer – 1500 Appeals – The Nightjar and the Garden – CDN – MB
Jaxon Haldane – Twenty-One – Hectic – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Quinton Blair – 300,000 KM – live performance – CDN – MB
Quinton Blair – Someday Soon – live performance – CDN – MB
Quinton Blair – After They’re Gone – live performance – CDN – MB
Quinton Blair – Blues Man – Blues Man – CDN – MB
Del Barber – Living with a Long Way to Go – Prairiography – CDN – WPG
Blake Berglund – Moose Mountain – Realms – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Ian Felice – In the Kingdom of Dreams – In the Kingdom of Dreams
Mipso – Coming Down the Mountain – Coming Down the Mountain
Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle – Officer Down – Let’s Just Stay Here – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Cheap Town – Live at the Dakota – CDN
John Moreland – Nobody Gives a Damn About Songs Anymore – In the Throes
John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls – Low – Everything the Hard Way

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Bennett Wilson Poole – Soon Enough – Bennett Wilson Poole
Parker Millsap – Fine Line – Other Arrangements
Calexico – Music Box – The Thread that Keeps Us
The Young Novelists – Back to the Hard Times – In City & Country – CDN
Hannah Aldridge – Parchman – Razor Wire
Caroline Rose – Jeannie Becomes a Mom – LONER

Wow, what a weekend! A couple of amazing shows with the Cuddy crew kicked things off in fine form and required some reflection on the show today. We also had a big ol’ pile of new music, as well as a whole lot of music from some wonderful women in belated honour of International Women’s Day!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Luke Doucet – One Too Many – Broken (and other Rogue States) – CDN
The Devin Cuddy Band – Maggie’s Hardware Store – Amy’s Dream – CDN
Sam Polley and The Old Tomorrow – Rude Girl – EP in a Day – CDN
Bazil Donovan – Little ole Wine Drinker Me – Matinee – CDN
Colin Cripps – Your True Colours – Stormy Northern Days – CDN
Jim Cuddy – Water’s Running High – Skyscraper Soul – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Erin Costelo – Fighter – Down Below, the Status Quo – CDN
Major Love – So Good – Major Love EP – CDN
The Decemberists – Once in my Life – I’ll Be your Girl
Neko Case – Hell-On – Hell-On
Bob Schneider – Making It Up – Blood and Bones
Scenic Route to Alaska – All These Thoughts – Tough Luck – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Julie Miller – I Need You – Broken Things
Julie Miller – Out in the Rain – Broken Things
Kathleen Edwards – Westby – Failer – CDN
Christina Martin – You Come Home – Two Hearts – CDN
Eliza Gilkyson – Wonderland – Land of Milk and Honey
Eilen Jewel – Dusty Boxcar Wall – Letters from Sinners & Strangers
Eddi Reader – California – Angels & Electricity

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Bronwynne Brent – Heartbreaker – Stardust
Hannah Aldridge – Living on Lonely – Gold Rush
Anna Tivel – Illinois – Small Believer
Mary Gauthier – Camelot Motel – Filth & Fire
Mary Gauthier – Brothers – Rifles & Rosary Beads

This Friday marks the long-awaited return of Barney Bentall to Winnipeg, when he opens for Jim Cuddy. We were fortunate enough to chat with Barney once again today. We also heard a bunch of new music, talked about some interesting upcoming shows, paid tribute to a fallen great, and more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Barney Bentall & the Legendary Hearts – Come Back to Me – Barney Bentall & the Legendary Hearts – CDN
Barney Bentall – The Miner – The Drifter and the Preacher – CDN
Barney Bentall – Won’t Change the World – The Drifter and the Preacher – CDN
Jim Cuddy – She Gets Down – The Light that Guides You Home – CDN
Jim Cuddy – Lonely When You Leave – Constellation – CDN
Skydiggers – The Air that I Breathe – Warmth of the Sun – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

John Prine – Knockin’ on your Screen Door – The Tree of Forgiveness
Matthew Ryan – Run Rabbit Run (Unadorned) – Run Rabbit Run EP
Tracy Grammer – Hole – Low Tide
Leeroy Stagger – Run Rabbit Run – Love Versus – CDN
Mike Edel – Finish Line – single – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Barney Bentall interview

Barney Bentall – The Ocean and You (A Song for John Mann) – The Drifter and the Preacher – CDN
Spirit of Canada: Friends of John Mann – Home for a Rest – single – CDN
Spirit of the West – Political – Labour Day – CDN
The Jeff Healey Band – My Little Girl – See the Light – CDN
Jeff Healey – My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now – Adventures in Jazzland – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Fred J. Eaglesmith and the Flying Squirrels – York Road – There Ain’t No Easy Road – CDN
Fred J. Eaglesmith and the Flying Squirrels – White Ash & Black Ash – Things Is Changin’ – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Sleeping in Clay – Sharpen the Plow – CDN
Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Flowers in the Dell – Let’r Buck – CDN
D. Rangers – Hold Back the Tears – Barbaric Cultural Practices – CDN
Mayhemingways – Better of You – Skip Land – CDN
Brock Zeman – 10 Year Fight – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN

Today we’ve got a pile of new music and memories to sort through and then an hour of music brought to you by the letter W!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Colleen Brown – Soap & Denim – Direction – CDN
The Decemberists – Severed – I’ll Be Your Girl
The Young Novelists – Come Round Again – In City & Country – CDN
Christina Martin – Where the Dark Meets the Light – Impossible to Hold – CDN
Mayhemingways – Haybales – Skip Land – CDN
William Crighton – Riveria Kid – William Crighton

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Shovels & Rope – Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (w/John Moreland) – Busted Jukebox Volume 2
Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle – Too Sober to Sleep – Let’s Just Stay Here – CDN
The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer – Hard on Things – single – CDN
The Steel Wheels – Kiss Me Like a Stranger – No More Rain
The Lonely Heartstring Band – The Tide – Deep Waters
Brandi Carlile – The Mother – By the Way, I Forgive You

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Lucinda Williams – Jackson – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
David Wilcox – Eye of the Hurricane – How Did You Find Me Here
David Wilcox – Ecstasy – The Collected Works: 1977-1993 – CDN
Gillian Welch – Wayside/Back in Time – Soul Journey
The Wailin’ Jennys – Begin – Firecracker – CDN – WPG
Dar Williams – Here Tonight – Emerald

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Nathan Wiley – Black Bones – Bottom Dollar – CDN
The Wheat Pool – Lefty – Hauntario – CDN
Jim White – Borrowed Wings – Drill a Hole in that Substrate and Tell Me What You See
Tom Waits – Come on up to the House – Mule Variations
Ray Wylie Hubbard – The Messenger – Los Gringos Lament
David Wiffen – Driving Wheel – David Wiffen – CDN
Loudon Wainwright III – Dead Skunk – Loudon Wainwright III

On this episode, we ramble around, playing new music, talking about upcoming shows, and celebrating Louis Riel Day weekend!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Rheostatics – King of the Past – Whale Music – CDN
The Damnwells – Louisville – Air Stereo
Blue Rodeo – Rebel – Outskirts – CDN
Drive-By Truckers – Rebels – The Fine Print (A Collection Of Oddities And Rarities 2003-2008)
Major Love – Toughen Up – live recording – CDN
Colleen Brown – Fight! Fight! Fight! – Dirt – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Terra Lightfoot – Paradise – New Mistakes – CDN
Terra Lightfoot – Norma Gale – New Mistakes – CDN
William Chrighton – 2000 Clicks – William Crighton
Ryan Adams – Baby I Love You – single
Butch Walker – Jamie – Cassette Backs
Hannah Aldridge – I Know Too Much – Gold Rush
Prinz Grizzly – Walls – Come On In

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Dan Bern – Talkin’ Canada Blues – live recording
Leeroy Stagger – Dirty Windshields – Radiant Land – CDN
Romantica – Love in the Winter – Outlaws
Kim Richey – I Tried – Edgeland
Letitia Vansant – Gut It to the Studs – Gut It to the Studs
Brandi Carlile – Sugartooth – By the Way, I Forgive You

3:30 – 4:00 pm

John Prine – Summer’s End – The Tree of Forgiveness
Amber Rubarth – Townes – American Folk
Ben de la Cour – Guy Clark’s Fiddle – The High Cost of Living Strange
Anna Tivel – Dust and Magic – single
Jeffrey Martin – What We’re Marching Toward – One Go Around
Joe Purdy – San Jose – Take my Blanket and Go