Episode #728

One of the guiding lights on this program is the late, great Willie P Bennett. He died on February 15, 2008, and I’ve vowed to keep playing his music as long as I’m around. There are some exciting tribute shows going on this week, and BIG news about the LONG-awaited re-release of his music to discuss on this week’s show. We also heard a lot of his songs, both the originals and some cool covers, as well as some Willie tribute songs, some of Willie’s contributions to other artists’ albums, and more.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Willie P Bennett – Down to the Water – Tryin’ to Start out Clean – CDN
Willie P Bennett – If You Have to Choose – Hobo’s Taunt – CDN
Willie P Bennett – John Henry, the Gambler – Blackie and the Rodeo King – CDN
Willie P Bennett – The Lucky Ones – The Lucky Ones – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Breaking the Silence – Take my own Advice – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Last Word – Heartstrings – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Willie P Bennett – Baby, Come Turn Out the Lights – Sharpen the Plow – CDN
D. Rangers – Tryin’ to Start out Clean – Barbaric Cultural Practices – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – Don’t Blame Your Blues on Me (w/Paul Reddick & The Weber Brothers) – The Willie P Bennett Legacy Project – CDN – WPG
Blackie & the Rodeo Kings – Has Anyone Seen my Baby Here Tonight? – High or Hurtin’: The Songs of Willie P Bennett – CDN
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Sometimes It Comes so Easy – Let’s Frolic Again – CDN
Matt Andersen & Del Barber – Willie’s Diamond Joe – live recording – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Fred Eaglesmith – Spookin’ the Horses – The Official Bootleg Series Volume 2: The Fred Eaglesmith Texas Weekend 2004 – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Cumberland County – Falling Stars and Broken Hearts – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Codeine – live recording – CDN
George C. W. Douglas – I Remember Willie – Music from the Big Muddy – CDN
David Essig & Rick Scott – Willie P – Double Vision – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Corb Lund – It’s Hard to Keep a White Shirt Clean – Losin’ Lately Gambler – CDN
Scott Nolan – Drive Day – Canadian Amplifier: Official Bootleg Series Volume 2 – CDN – WPG
Dixie Flyers – Gold Rush – Light, Medium, Heavy – CDN
Sarah Harmer – How Deep in the Valley – I’m a Mountain – CDN
Stephen Fearing – Dog on a Chain – Industrial Lullaby – CDN
Old Man Luedecke – Caney Fork River – My Hands Are on Fire and other Love Songs – CDN
Prairie Oyster – Goodbye, So Long, Hello – String of Pearls – CDN

Episode #727

Today we play Namedropper, where each and every song is either about another song or songwriter, or mentions one or more of ’em! See if you can keep score at home and pick out all of the mentions, there’s a lot of them! I found so many of these songs that we will surely revisit this topic in the not-too-distant future, so if you’ve got other suggestions, let me know!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Oh Susanna – My Old Vancouver – A Girl in Teen City – CDN
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Name Droppin’ – Growl
Jon Dee Graham – Dan Stuart’s Blues – Knoxville Skyline
Mike June & the Dirty Doves – The Ballad of the Ballad (of John and Yoko) – Lovesick
Dala – Lennon & McCartney – Best Day – CDN
The Damnwells – I’ve Got You – Air Stereo
Kevin Roy – Heartworn Highways – Heartworn Highways – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Del Barber – Miles & Years – Love Songs for the Last 20 – CDN – WPG
Brock Zeman – Gastown – Cold Winter Comes Back – CDN
Richard Inman – Sunday Morning – Richard Inman – CDN
Rodney Crowell – Nashville 1972 – Close Ties
Ellis Paul – Singer-Songwriter Heaven – Singer-Songwriter Heaven: The Songs of Kevin Faherty

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Jonathan Byrd & The Sentimentals – Under the Belly of the Night – single
Corin Raymond & The Sundowners – Veronica – Paper Nickels – CDN
Luke Doucet – Long Haul Driver – Blood’s Too Rich – CDN
Adrien Sala – Andrew Neville – Winnipeg: The High & Lonesome Years Vol. IV – CDN – WPG
Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Poor Choices Song – Winnipeg: The High & Lonesome Years Vol. IV – CDN – WPG
Ridley Bent – Nine Inch Nails – Buckles & Boots – CDN – WPG
Dustin Bentall & The Smokes – The Ballad of Billy Cowsill – Orion – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Ry Cooder – Johnny Cash – I, Flathead – CDN
Emisunshine – Johnny, June, and Jesus – Ragged Dreams – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Johnny Cash – Six Volts – CDN
Wagons – Willie Nelson – Rumble, Shake and Tumble – CDN
The Replacements – Alex Chilton – Pleased to Meet Me
Broomsticks & Hammers – Moe Berg – Mirror Box – CDN
Mary Chapin Carpenter – I Feel Lucky – Come On Come On
Bobby Bare Jr.’s Young Criminals Starvation League – Visit Me in Music City – From the End of your Leash

Episode #726

We hit a lot of stops on today’s show, including the ditch, and had a lot of fun along the way. Lots of new music, requests, a look at an exciting upcoming show, a bit of a tribute to the great Willie P Bennett as we head toward the 10th anniversary of his death, and much more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Oh Susanna – Johnstown – Johnstown – CDN
Oh Susanna – You’ll Always Be – Johnstown – CDN
Jim Cuddy – Disappointment – All in Time – CDN
Jim Bryson – Impaler – The Occasionals – CDN
Weeping Tile – Pushover – Cold Snap – CDN
William Prince – You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover – single – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Offa Rex – Blackleg Miner – The Queen of Hearts
The Harmed Brothers – Elvis the Lion – Come Morning
The Stray Birds – Shining in the Distance – Magic Fire
Luan Parle – Day Is Done – Roll the Dice EP
Caitlin Canty – Take Me for a Ride – Motel Bouquet

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Donald Byron Wheatley – Not Tonight Josephine – Moondogs and Mad Dogs
The Jitters – That’s When I Need You – The Jitters – CDN
Jeffrey Gaines – Sorry the Very Next Day – Jeffrey Gaines
Willie P Bennett – Love Is a Game – Scenery/Sharpen the Plow – CDN
Jaxon Haldane – One Vessel/Shame on Me – recorded live on UMFM – CDN – WPG
Willie P Bennett – Me and Molly – Live 1978 – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Summerlea – Things Is Changin’ – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Lynn Miles – Black Flowers – Unravel – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Pleasing You Pleases Me – Broken Things – CDN
Chris Whitley – Phone Call from Leavenworth – Living with the Law
David Rawlings – Cumberland Gap – Poor David’s Almanac
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – If We Were Vampires – The Nashville Sound
Rodney Crowell – It Ain’t Over Yet – Close Ties

Episode #725

My very favourite co-host, young Jeremy drops by to keep the old man company on today’s show, and what a show it is, with new music, some cool covers, and lots of interesting tangents.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mayhemingways – Frances the Truck Driver – Skip Land – CDN
Lisa Leblanc – Ace of Spades – Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen? – CDN
Bun E. Carlos – Let the Mystery Be (featuring Xeno) – Greetings from Bunezuela
Colleen Brown & David Celia – Stop Dragging my Heart Around (bonus track) – Seasons are Circling – CDN
The LYNNeS – Heartbreak Song on the Radio – Heartbreak Song on the Radio – CDN
Anna Mitchell – Radio Waves – Anna Mitchell
Skydiggers – Radio Waves – Road Radio – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Blackie & the Rodeo Kings – Song on the Radio – BARK – CDN
Amelia Curran – Song on the Radio – They Promised You Mercy – CDN
Bob Snider – Darn Folksinger – Catterwaul & Doggerel – CDN
Iris DeMent – Wasteland of the Free – The Way I Should
Greg Brown – ‘cept You & Me Babe – Covenant
Bo Ramsey – Desert Flower – In the Weeds
Lucinda Williams – Out of Touch – Essence

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Mary Gauthier – Bullet Holes in the Sky – Bullet Holes in the Sky
Nora Jane Struthers – Grass – Champion
Bahamas – No Depression – Earthtones – CDN
Calexico – Under the Wheels – The Thread that Keeps Us
The King Heat Ensemble – Ten Years – Songs

3:30 – 3:45

Glen Hansard – Wheels on Fire – Between Two Shores
Hannah Aldridge – Gold Rush – Gold Rush
Jess Klein – If There’s a God – Learning Faith
Tom “Twisty” Fodey – Four Walls – Twisty Sings Twisty – CDN – WPG

Episode #724

On this episode, we’ve got a lot of new (and new-to-me) music, some timely tunes, and lots of requests & dedications courtesy of our wonderful listeners!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Blackie & the Rodeo Kings – Driftin’ Snow – live recording – CDN
Jeffrey Martin – Long Gone Now – One Go Around
Jeffrey Martin – Golden Thread – One Go Around
Jim Bryson – Hold the World – single – CDN
Anna Mitchell – It Pours – Anna Mitchell
TUNS – When You’re Ready – single – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Danny Michel – Midnight Train – New Coat of Paint (Volume 2) – CDN
Spirit of Canada – Home For A Rest – single – CDN
Sprit of the West – D for Democracy – Go Figure – CDN
Sprit of the West – Profiteers – Labour Day – CDN
Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain – May Your Kindness Remain
Lydia Loveless – I Would Die 4 U – Boy Crazy and Single(s)

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Alex Dezen – Shut Up – \\\
Figure Walking – Singapore – The Big Other – CDN – WPG
Greg Macpherson – First Class – Mr. Invitation – CDN – WPG
Ben Kweller – Homeward Bound – Changing Horses
Steph Cameron – Sing for Me – Daybreak Over Jackson Street – CDN
Ben de la Cour – Hold On – Midnight in Havana
The Warped 45s – Hurdle River Crossing – Matador Sunset – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Lyle Lovett – If I Had a Boat – Pontiac
John Hiatt – The River Knows Your Name – Walk On
John Gorka – Always Going Home – Out of the Valley
Scott Nolan – Swing Low – unreleased – CDN – WPG
Matt Epp – Room at the Top – Rubber + Chrome – CDN
Hiss Golden Messenger – Harder Rain – Hallelujah Anyhow