It’s Earth Day this week, and any good folk show has to play some hippie earth songs, so we played a few earth & earthy numbers. What better place to get your fill of tree huggin’ songs than at a folk festival, and we looked ahead to a couple of good ones to consider trekking to this summer. And, some fabulous new music. A jam packed show once again.
Episode #256
A bit of everything on this one, requests, dedications, upcoming concerts, new music, old classics, and more! Featuring music from Mike Plume Band, Gram Parsons, Steve Dawson, Whiskeytown, and more. You can’t go wrong with a lineup like that!
part 1: unavailable
part 2:download
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00pm – 2:30pm
Greg Brown – Spring Wind – If I Had Known (Essential Recordings, 1980-1996)
Greg Brown – Worrisome Years – If I Had Known (Essential Recordings, 1980-1996)
Greg Brown – Sleeper – Dream Café
Tom Waits – You Can Never Hold Back Spring – Orphans: Bawlers
Jim Lauderdale & Donna the Buffalo – Wait ’til Spring – Wait ’til Spring
Bright Eyes – Land Locked Blues – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
2:30pm – 3:00pm
Don Brownrigg – These a.m. Times – Wander Songs – CDN
Jim Bryson – Flowers – Where the Bungalows Roam – CDN
Loudon Wainwright III – Doin’ the Math – Strange Weirdos: Music from and Inspired by the Film Knocked Up
Bobby Bare Jr’s Young Criminals Starvation League – Your Adorable Beast – From the End of Your Leash
NQ Arbuckle – Outside the Stars – The Last Supper in a Cheap Town – CDN
Bob Snider – Dog – Stealin’ Home – CDN
Mike Plume Band – If There Ever Was a Fool – Song & Dance, Man – CDN
3:00pm – 3:30pm
Mike Plume Band – Steel Belted Radio – Born So Long Ago Live 1997-2002 – CDN
Mike Plume – The Best Job I Ever Had – Table for One – CDN
Steve Dawson – Walkin’ Down the Line – Waiting for the Lights to Come Up – CDN
Steve Dawson – Hard to Get Gertie – Waiting for the Lights to Come Up – CDN
Gram Parsons – Still Feeling Blue – GP
The Byrds – You’re Still on My Mind – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Gram Parsons & The Flying Burrito Brothers – When Will I Be Loved – Gram Parsons Archives Vol. 1: Live At The Avalon Ballroom April 4th, 1969
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Whiskeytown – Luxury Liner – Strangers Almanac
Whiskeytown – Excuse Me if I Break my own Heart Tonight – Strangers Almanac
Uncle Tupelo – Moonshiner – March 16-20, 1992
Uncle Tupelo – Sandusky – March 16-20, 1992
Buddy & Julie Miller – Keep Your Distance – Buddy & Julie Miller
Hayes Carll – Bad Liver and a Broken Heart – Trouble in Mind
Kathleen Edwards – 12 Bellevue – Failer – CDN
NO SHOW – Bought a house instead! Hate to miss a show, but if you’re upset, you’re welcome to come and check out one of the house concerts I hope to host once we move in this summer!
Last week we were joined by a legend who’s just about done it all, and this week, it’s a newcomer with a very bright future. Ridley Bent stopped by to chat and play us some of his heart breaking country songs and even one of his great “hick hop” numbers. This guy is great, so check this one out.
Paul Kelly!
We’ve been lucky on this show and we’ve had more than our fair share of great guests live in-studio, but this week, we topped them all. We were joined live by perhaps one of the greatest songwriters on the planet, all the way from Australia, Mr. Paul Kelly. He and nephew Dan Kelly were in town to promote Paul’s great new album Stolen Apples with a show at the Royal Albert, but they were gracious enough to stop by the studio first to chat and play a couple of songs.
Episode #254
Some new music to start us off. Music Month in Manitoba continues with a busy week of shows, and we’ll tell you about the ones you need to see, including Paul Kelly on Thursday!
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part 2: download
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00pm – 2:30pm
Rheostatics – Jesus Was Once a Teenager Too – Introducing Happiness – CDN
Dave Bidini – The Moncton Hellraiser – At the Barricades: Vol. 1 – CDN
Greyson Capps – Graveyard – Songbones
Harry Manx & Friends – Take This Hammer – Live at the Glenn Gould Studio – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Hungry Heart – 3 a.m. – CDN
Jimmy Lafave – Buffalo Return to the Plains – Buffalo Return to the Plains
2:30pm – 3:00pm
Lyle Lovett – Step Inside this House – Step Inside this House
Romi Mayes – Willie’s Diamond Joe – Twang Trust Broadcasts 1999-2007 – CDN – WPG
Los Lobos – Marie Marie – Ride This
Ron Hynes – My Name Is Nobody – Ron Hynes – CDN
Jason Collett – No Redemption Song – Here’s to Being Here – CDN
Jason Collett – Bitter Beauty – Motor Motel Love Songs – CDN
Peter Katz and the Curious – These Are The Days – More Nights – CDN
3:00pm – 3:30pm
Scott Nolan – Drive Day – live recording – CDN – WPG
Jill Barber – In Perfect Time – A Note to Follow So – CDN
Jill Barber – Hard Line – For All Time – CDN
Matthew Barber – And You Give – Ghost Notes – CDN
Matthew Barber – I’m Gonna Settle My Accounts With You – Ghost Notes – CDN
Patrick Park – Here We Are – Everyone’s In Everyone
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Paul Kelly – Before Too Long – A to Z downloads
Paul Kelly – To Her Door – Live at the Continental and the Esplanade
Paul Kelly – Deeper Water – Deeper Water
Paul Kelly – From Little Things Big Things Grow – Comedy
Paul Kelly – Nothing But a Dream – Ways & Means
Paul Kelly – Won’t You Come Around – Ways & Means
Another classic lost forever as the station’s digital logger wasn’t working again. One of these days I’ll get in the habit of checking that before the show. In the meantime, this is yet another reminder to listen in live if you can, just in case.
Just one important show this week as Music Month continues, but it’s a good ‘un, featuring The Weakerthans, Dala, and Danny Michel, so we had to play some tunes from them. This weekend the news I wait for all year started to arrive as The Winnipeg Folk Festival released a preliminary lineup, and there are some highlights on there for sure, so we heard from a few of the folks I’m most looking forward to. Then, some of the great new releases I have been meaning to get on for a while, and a few old classics. (and a couple of funny jokes from Carter too!)
This episode might make you a bit dizzy with all of the looking back and forward, but it’s worth the whiplash. We looked back at Stephen Fearing’s great show, Jeff Healey’s great career, and at one of the greatest Canadian bands of all, The Lowest of the Low.
We also looked forward to some new/upcoming releases from some old favourites. Lastly, we looked forward to Monday’s Steve Earle/Allison Moorer concert by looking ahead at Allison’s great new album, which looks back on some old classics, and we looked back at some of the great work Steve Earle has done with others
Music Month in Manitoba continues with one of the most solid weeks of shows we’ve seen in a very long time. It kicks off this afternoon with Hayes Carll playing live at Candor. Can’t miss that one, so this show is pre-recorded. Hayes takes the stage again tonight opening for Corb Lund. Then, Brock Zeman & Dan Walsh are back, a stellar Townes Van Zandt tribute show on Friday, then Saturday, it’s Stephen Fearing & Oh Susanna for goodness sake! How could we possibly think of anything but shows on a week like that?