It’s time for another of our legendary marathons where we ring out the old year and look forward to the new. As always, we’ve got tributes to two of the greatest and most important songwriters of all time, who coincidentally died on the same day – Jan. 1, as well as an extensive look back at some of the best and most interesting albums and events of the year, and discuss some things to look forward to in the new year!

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

12:00 – 12:30 pm

Reid Jamieson – Last Day of the Year – The Unavoidable Truth – CDN
Reid Jamieson – I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry – Vinyl Cafe Demos April 2008 – CDN
Social Distortion – Alone and Foresaken – Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
Girls Guns & Glory – Move It on Over – Tribute to Hank Williams LIVE
The Handsome Family – Lost Highway – Scattered
The Supersuckers – All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down) – Holdin’ the Bag
Hank Williams – Cold, Cold Heart – The Ultimate Collection
Guy Clark – Hank Williams Said It Best – Dublin Blues

12:30 – 1:00 pm

Hank Williams Jr. – If You Don’t Like Hank Williams – Kris Kristofferson: Singer/Songwriter
Johnny Cash – The Night Hank Williams Came to Town (w/Waylon Jennings) – Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town
Waylon Jennings – Are You Sure Hank Done It this Way? – Dreaming My Dreams
Jerry Jeff Walker – I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight – Live at Gruene Hall
Eleven Hundred Springs – Hank Williams Wouldn’t Make It Now in Nashville, Tennessee – Bandwagon
Townes Van Zandt – Pancho & Lefty (Alternate 1972 Mix Without Strings And Horns) – Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971 – 1972
Townes Van Zandt – Kathleen – Our Mother the Mountain
Townes Van Zandt – Talkin’ Karate Blues – Austin City Limits 1976

1:00 – 1:30 pm

Shannon Lyon – Buckskin Stallion Blues – Sorrow & Solitude – CDN
Shannon Lyon – If I Needed You – Riding the Range – The songs of Townes Van Zandt – CDN
Danny and the Champions of the World – For the Sake of the Song – Riding the Range – The songs of Townes Van Zandt
Lindi Ortega – Waitin’ Around to Die – ’til the Going Gets Gone – CDN
Kate Maki – I’ll Be Here in the Morning – Introducing Townes Van Zandt Via The Great Unknown – CDN
Great Lake Swimmers – Our Mother the Mountain – Introducing Townes Van Zandt Via The Great Unknown – CDN

1:30 – 2:00 pm

Jinder – Townes’ Blues – Nine Cents from Benelux
Barney Bentall – The Ocean and You (a Song for John Mann) – The Drifter and the Preacher – CDN
Troy Kokol – Jim Cuddy – Lonely Ghost – CDN
Jim Cuddy – While I Was Waiting – Constellation – CDN
Blair Packham – Enough Is Never Enough – Unpopular Pop – CDN
Steven Page – The Work at Hand – Heal Thyself Pt. 1: Instinct – CDN
Flagship Romance – Caught Up – Tales from the Self-Help Section

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Leeroy Stagger – Living in the Future – Love Versus – CDN
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – White Man’s World – The Nashville Sound
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Atlantic City – Live from Welcome to 1979
Lydia Loveless – Boy Crazy – Live from the Documentary Who Is Lydia Loveless?
Robert Finley – Real Love Is Like Hard Time – Goin’ Platinum!

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Paul Kelly – My Man’s Got a Cold (w/Vika Bull) – Life Is Fine
Sunny Sweeny – Bottle by My Bed – Trophy
Kasey Chambers – Ain’t No Little Girl – Dragonfly
John Murry – Wrong Man – A Short History of Decay
Terra Lightfoot – Norma Gale – New Mistakes – CDN
Oh Susanna – My Old Vancouver – A Girl in Teen City – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Angeleena Presley – Bless Your Heart – Wrangled
Whitney Rose – Trucker’s Funeral – Rule 62 – CDN
Sam Outlaw – Tenderheart – Tenderheart
Romantica – Lonely Star – Shadowlands
Daddy – Rock ‘n’ Roll, Part 3 – Let’s Do This

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Daddy – When Disney Takes Jerusalem – Let’s Do This
Dylan Ireland – Downtown Habit – Every Other Night – CDN
Kayla Howran – Country Radio – Spare Parts – CDN
Ha Ha Tonka – Everything – Heart-Shaped Mountain
Larissa Tandy – The River – The Grip – CDN
John Baumann – Here I Come – Proving Grounds
James McMurtry – State of the Union – single

4:00 – 4:30 pm

The Trashmen – Surfin’ Bird – Surfin’ Bird/Bird Dance Beat
NQ Arbuckle – XOK – XOK – CDN
King Creosote – My Favourite Girl – Thrawn
Peter Bruntnell – Yuri Gagarin – Nos da Comrade

4:30 – 5:00 pm

Adam Levy & Anthony da Costa – The Springs – Neighbors
Brandi Carlile – That Year – Give Up the Ghost
David Corley – Take Me Down Some – Zero Moon
The Stephen Stanley Band – 40 Endings – Jimmy & the Moon – CDN
Charlie Whitten – Who’ll Take My Place – Hey Love
Jim Bryson – Mary New Year’s Eve – Instant Holiday Album – CDN

It was Christmas Eve babe
In the studio
A DJ said to me, here’s another one
And then he played some songs for the season…

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

12:00 – 12:30 pm

The Pogues – Fairytale of New York w/Kirsty MacColl – The Very Best Of
The Handsome Family – So Much Wine – In the Air
The Minus 5 – When Christmas Hurts You this Way – Dear December
Nat King Cole – The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot – The Magic of Christmas with Children
The Hold Steady – Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You – single
Rev. Horton Heat – Run Rudolph Run – We Three Kings: Christmas Favorites
Drive-By Truckers – I Believe in Father Christmas – The 2016 Reid Family Christmas Spectacular!

12:30 – 1:00 pm

Adam’s House Cat – Santa’s Out of Rehab by Christmas – A Truer Christmas
Cracker – Merry Christmas Emily – single
New Kids on the Block – Funky, Funky, XMAS – Merry, Merry Christmas
Butch Walker – Santa Self! (F*ck your Christmas Party) – single
Chip Tayler – Merry F’n Christmas – single
Erin McKeown – Santa Is an A**hole – F*ck That! Erin McKeown’s Anti-Holiday Album

1:00 – 1:30 pm

Rheostatics – When Winter Comes – Melville – CDN
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet – Winterfresh – Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham – CDN
Bobby Long – Winter Tale – Winter Tale
Blackie & the Rodeo Kings – Driftin’ Snow – High or Hurtin’ – CDN
Blaze Foley – Cold, Cold World – Cold, Cold World
Reid Jamieson – The Coldest Night of the Year – Songs for a Winter’s Night – CDN

1:30 – 2:00 pm

Melissa Payne – Cold Out There – High and Dry – CDN
Bahamas – Tenth Avenue Freeze Out – live recording – CDN
The Blue Shadows – If We Make It Through December – On the Floor of Heaven (deluxe reissue) – CDN
Shannon Lyon – December Song – el sol – CDN
Tom Wilson and the Dogs – We’re Gonna Make a Beautiful World Together – December Songs – CDN
Ruth Moody – Cold Outside – The Garden – CDN – WPG
Paul Kelly – Cold as Canada – Spring and Fall
The Decemberists – When U Love Somebody – iTunes Session

2:00 – 2:30 pm

The Damnwells – XMas Eve – demo
Lindi Ortega – Christmas Eve with You – Tennessee Christmas – CDN
Keb Mo – Shoppin’ on Christmas Eve – 2011 Paste Christmas Sampler
Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Christmas Eve Can Kill You – All is calm / All is bright :: The Fuel/Friends 2012 Holiday Mix
Oliver Schroer – Beneath the Ice, They Heard Bels… – Stuck on a Cold Steel Pole – CDN
Bob Snider – Lila – Stuck on a Cold Steel Pole – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

John Prine – Christmas in Prison – Sweet Revenge
Mary Gauthier – Christmas In Paradise – Filth & Fire
Steve Earle – Nothing But a Child – Copperhead Road
Whiskeytown – Houses on the HIll – Strangers Almanac
Vanessa Peters – O Holy Night – The Christmas We Hoped For
David Francey – Silent Night – Carols for a Christmas Eve – CDN
Ken Whiteley – Go Tell It on the Mountain – The Light of Christmas – CDN
Emmylou Harris – Christmas Time’s a Comin’ – Light of the Stable

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Teddy Thompson – Boycotting Christmas – single
The Resentments – I Hate Christmas – The Resentments
Shinyribs – Birthday Cake for Jesus – Swank Holiday Promo 2016
Mike Plume – Merry Xmas to my Ex-Miss – Back Home for Christmas – CDN
Danny Barnes – All Alone for Christmas – single
Warp Drive – Christmas Time (Is Religiously Complicated) – single
NQ Arbuckle – Christmas in Hell – single – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

George Thorogood – Rock and Roll Christmas – Classic Rock Christmas
Harper Blynn – Christmas Ain’t No Good Without You – single
Colleen Brown – Heading Home (Christmas Song) – single – CDN
Peter Mulvey – River – Wonderland: A Winter Solstice Celebration
Jeffrey Foucault – Ghost Repeater – Ghost Repeater
Turnpike Troubadours – Blue Star – Goodbye Normal Street
Mojo Nixon – Christmas, Christmas – single

It is Christmas time, but we don’t like to overdo the festive hits too much just yet (we’ll wait until next week’s 4 hour Christmas Eve show!), but we’ve got some of the greats this week, as well as some requests, a look back at last night’s John Gorka show, some requests, classics, and a tribute to a fallen favourite, Pat DiNizio of The Smithereens.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

JP Hoe – Shopping Mall Santa – Hoe Hoe Hoe Holiday Songs – CDN – WPG
John Gorka – Love Is Our Cross to Bear – Before the Beginning: The Unreleased I Know – Nashville, 1985
Red Horse – Scorpion – Red Horse
Stan Rogers – Lock-Keeper – From Fresh Water – CDN
John Gorka – Love Is Our Cross to Bear – Land of the Bottom Line
Lyle Lovett – Which Way Does that Old Pony Run – and his Large Band

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Jimmy Lafave – Walk Away Renee – Austin Skyline
David Francey – Border Line – Torn Screen Door – CDN
James Keelaghan – Red-Winged Blackbird – Home – CDN
Ken Yates – Help Is on the Way – Huntsville – CDN
Shawn William Clarke – Young in Love (at the End of the World) – Topaz – CDN
John Blek – Little Sparrow – Cut the Light
The Cash Brothers – Night Shift Guru – How Was Tomorrow – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Beards – I Still Believe – Christmas.
Dave Gunning – Daddy’s Beer – Christmas – CDN
David Myles – Santa Never Brings Me a Banjo – It’s Christmas – CDN
Oh Susanna – Silver Bells – Christmas Is for Boys and Girls – CDN
Lyle Lovett – Christmas Morning – The Road to Ensenada
The Chestnuts – Santa Claus Got Stuck in my Chimney – I Can’t Believe It’s Christmas – Again!

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Smithereens – Blues Before and After – 11
The Smithereens – Behind the Wall of Sleep – Especially for You
The Smithereens – House We Used to Live In – Green Thoughts
The Smithereens – Downbound Train – One Step Up/Two Steps Back: The Songs of Bruce Springsteen
The Smithereens – Batman Theme – Live in Concert! Greatest Hits and More
The Smithereens – Sorry – 2011
The Smithereens – Blood and Roses – Especially for You

Folks are starting to make their annual best-of lists, and while we like to take our time with those over here (sometimes a year or more…), it’s wise to scan the good lists and learn about some new artists or revisit albums that we haven’t spent enough time with. Today we meet some exciting new finds, revisit some contenders, discuss some exciting upcoming shows, and spin some all-time Christmas classics!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Dave Bidini – Little Black Snowflake – The First Christmas – CDN
The Kelele Brothers – Father Christmas – Has-Beens & Wives – CDN
Robert Earl Keen – Merry Christmas from the Family – Merry Christmas from the Family
Skydiggers – Good King Wenceslas – Still Restless: The Lost Tapes – CDN
Monica Schroeder – Christmas (Is Just Me Thinking about You) – single – CDN – WPG
Caroline Spence – Heart of Somebody – Spades and Roses

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Birds of Chicago – Étoile D’ Amour (Stardust) – American Flowers
Ane Brun – Right in Time – Leave me Breathless
Joan Shelley – The Push and Pull – Joan Shelley
Lissie – Blood & Muscle – Castles
This Is the Kit – Bullet Proof – Moonshine Freeze
Carter Sampson – Everything You Need – Wilder Side

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Corin Raymond – Hard on Things – Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams – CDN
Jonathan Byrd & The Sentimentals – Under the Belly of the Night – single
Jonathan Byrd – The Law & the Lonesome – The Law & the Lonesome
Corin Raymond – Dutch – Paper Nickels – CDN
John Gorka – Nazarene Guitar – True in Time
John Gorka – The Water Is Wide – Where Have All The Flowers Gone: The Songs Of Pete Seeger
John Gorka – That’s How Legends Are Made – Land of the Bottom Line

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Stan Rogers – At Last, I’m Ready for Christmas – From Coffee House To Concert Hall – CDN
Stan Rogers – First Christmas – Between the Breaks… Live! – CDN
Shawn William Clarke – Autumn in New Brunswick – Topaz – CDN
Seamus Fogarty – Heels Over Head – The Curious Hand
Gill Landry – Berlin – Love Rides a Dark Horse