For some odd reason, we took a trip to the barnyard, with songs about chickens, poneys, and even some monkeys. Don’t ask.

In between all of that silliness, we had a visit from Todd Hunter & Jeff Derksen, who are about to release a new Todd Hunter Band disc, called “Life Is Good.” Todd is good, and so is the record. He’s not very silly though, and doesn’t know any songs about chickens, ponies, or monkeys. Oh well.

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Episode #156
Sunday, April 23, 2006
2:00-4:00 pm central time
CJUM 101.5 UMFM in Winnipeg, Manitoba
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For some odd reason, we took a trip to the barnyard, with songs about chickens, ponies, and even some monkeys. Don’t ask.

In between all of that silliness, we had a visit from Todd Hunter & Jeff Derksen, who are about to release a new Todd Hunter Band disc, called “Life Is Good.” Todd is good, and so is the record. He’s not very silly though, and doesn’t know any songs about chickens, ponies, or monkeys. Oh well.

Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Todd Hunter Band – Life Is Good – Life Is Good – CDN – WPG
Andy Sheppard – Beautiful Downtown Chicken – Andy Sheppard – CDN – WPG
Ron Hynes – Movie Scene – Ron Hynes – CDN
Jon Dee Graham – Amsterdam – Full
Jeff Daniels – If I weren’t so stupid, you wouldn’t be so smart – Live and Unplugged
Guy Davis – Skunkmello’s Dance of the Chickens – Skunkmello
Rae Spoon – Chicken Factory – Throw Some Dirt on Me – CDN

2:30pm – 3:00pm

Jason Ringenberg – Guitar pickin’ chicken – A Day at the Farm with Farmer Jason
Hayes Carll – Chickens – Little Rock
The Flatlanders – Eggs of your chickens – Wheels of Fortune
Fred Eaglesmith – Rooster fight – Balin – CDN
Todd Hunter Band – I will wait – Life Is Good – CDN – WPG
Todd Hunter Band – Gone – Life Is Good – CDN – WPG

Todd Hunter interview

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Todd Hunter BandNow I know – live performance – CDN – WPG
Todd Hunter BandGoodbye – live performance – CDN – WPG
Todd Hunter BandWe’re fine – Life Is Good – CDN – WPG
Lyle Lovett and his Large Band – Which way does that old pony run – Lyle Lovett and his Large Band

3:30pm – 4:00pm

Kasey Chambers – Pony – Wayward Angel
Caitlin Cary – Pony – While You Weren’t Looking
Diana Jones – Pony – My Remembrance of You
Chuck Prophet – What makes the monkey dance – No Other Love
Chuck Prophet – Monkey in the middle – Age of Miracles
The Sadies – Monkey & cork – Stories Often Told – CDN

It’s Easter Sunday. We try really hard not to delve into politics or religion on this show; we’re non-judgmental listening at its finest. But I have noticed that a lot of my favourite singer/songwriters have name-checked the man upstairs in songs that aren’t exactly religious. So, because I’m never one to pass up a fun and easy theme, we heard some songs for Jesus, and then some songs just for us down here.

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Episode #155
Sunday, April 16, 2006
2:00-4:00 pm central time
CJUM 101.5 UMFM in Winnipeg, Manitoba
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It’s Easter Sunday. We try really hard not to delve into politics or religion on this show; we’re non-judgmental listening at its finest. But I have noticed that a lot of my favourite singer/songwriters have name-checked the man upstairs in songs that aren’t exactly religious. So, because I’m never one to pass up a fun and easy theme, we heard some songs for Jesus, and then some songs just for us down here.

Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Slaid Cleaves – This morning I am born again – Broke Down
Rheostatics – Jesus was once a teenager too – Introducing Happiness – CDN
Jim White – If Jesus drove a motorhome – Drill a Hole in that Substrate and Tell Me What You See
Bocephus King – Jesus the bookie – All Children Believe in Heaven – CDN
Tom Waits – Chocolate Jesus – Mule Variations
Clem Snide – Jews for Jesus blues – End of Love
Garnet Rogers – Jesus and Elvis – Night Drive – CDN

2:30pm – 3:00pm

Willy Porter – Jesus on the grille – Dog Eared Dream
Stephen Fearing – Town called Jesus – That’s the Way I Walk – CDN
Tom Wilson – Jesus sings the blues – Slim X – CDN
Justin Rutledge & the Junction Forty – Lay me down sweet Jesus – No Never Alone – CDN
Wilco – Jesus, etc. – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Lyle Lovett – Church – Joshua Judges Ruth

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Iain Matthews – God looked down – God Looked Down
Lori McKenna – Bible song – Bittertown
Chuck Prophet – Summertime thing – No Other Love
Rodney Crowell – Earthbound – Fate’s Right Hand
Rod Picott – I coulda been the king – Stray Dogs
Chris Knight – Framed – Chris Knight

3:30pm – 4:00pm

Josh Ritter – Kathleen – Hello Starling
Jesse DeNatale – Shangri-La West – Shangri-La West
Richard Shindell – Waist deep in the big muddy – Vuelta
Nathan Wiley – Black bones – Bottom Dollar – CDN
Scott Nolan – Golden – No Bourbon & Bad Radio – CDN – WPG
Danny Michel – Coalmine – Fibsville – CDN
Jim Bryson – Sleeping in Toronto – The North Side Benches – CDN

A bit of a mixed bag as usual. Some new releases and plenty of excitement about the release of the lineup for the Winnipeg Folk Festival.

Then, a compilation of compilations, as I pulled a bunch of great compilation discs off the shelf and dug up some gems.

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Episode #154
Sunday, April 9, 2006
2:00-4:00 pm central time
CJUM 101.5 UMFM in Winnipeg, Manitoba
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A bit of a mixed bag as usual. Some new releases and plenty of excitement about the release of the lineup for the Winnipeg Folk Festival.

Then, a compilation of compilations, as I pulled a bunch of great compilation discs off the shelf and dug up some gems.

Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Josh Ritter – Snow is gone – Hello Starling

Winnipeg Folk Fest artists:
Willie P Bennett – Willie’s diamond Joe – Collectibles – CDN
Oh Susanna – Carrie Lee – Oh Susanna – CDN
John Rauhouse & Neko Case – River of no Return – Steel Guitar Rodeo
Alejandro Escovedo – Thirteen years – Thirteen Years

New music:
Calexico – All systems red (acoustic version) – www.casadecalexico.com
Garrison Starr – No man’s land – The Sound of You and Me

2:30pm – 3:00pm

The Complements – Something like happiness – Something like Happiness – CDN
Son Volt – Looking at the world through a windshield – A Retrospective: 1995-2000
Don Edwards – Coyote – Grizzly Man Soundtrack

Cool Compilations:
John Prine – Speed of the sound of loneliness – Country Outlaws: Renegade Country Music
Townes Van Zandt – Tecumseh Valley – Country Outlaws: Renegade Country Music
Robert Earl Keen – What I really mean – KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 13
Shawn Colvin – Not a drop of rain – KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 10

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Gillian Welch – Elvis Presley blues – KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 12
Fred Eaglesmith – Steam – Hobo Stew – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Lucille – Live at the Iron Horse Vol. 1 – CDN
Carolyn Mark – Fuzzy slippers – Roots on the Rails 2003 – CDN
Carolyn Mark – A flat miner – Frank Slide: 100 Years from Them – CDN
David Francey – Fishing seasons – All for a Song – CDNd

3:30pm – 4:00pm

Bob Snider – Old Nova Scotian – Moose: The Compilation – CDN
Bob Snider – I’m a cowboy now – Moose Lodge – CDN
Swank – Devil sway – Showdown – CDN
Twilight Hotel – Wrapped around your finger – headinthesandrecordsandfriends – CDN – WPG
Lewis Melville – Cast iron – Sixty Second Songs – CDN
Tannis Slimmon – These wheels – Truck Songs – CDN
John Langford and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, with Neko Case – Poor Ellen Smith – The Executioner’s Last Songs Vol. 1
John Langford and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, with Alejandro Escovedo and Dave Alvin – Bad news – The Executioner’s Last Songs Vol. 3
Neko Case & the Sadies – Rated X – Making Singles, Drinking Doubles

Matt Epp – You’ll find me alone – You’ll Find Me Alone – CDN – WPG

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Featuring different kinds of love songs as we approach that silliest of greeting card holidays.

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Featuring an in-studio visit by JP Hoe, who never ceases to amaze me when he drops by with crop of songs even better than the ones before.

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Episode #145
Sunday, February 5, 2006
2:00-4:00 pm central time
CJUM 101.5 UMFM in Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Featuring an in-studio visit by JP Hoe, who never ceases to amaze me when he drops by with crop of songs even better than the ones before.

Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Jim Bryson – Fleetwood – The North Side Benches – CDN
Ox – Truck drivin’ country music promoter – The Upstairs Sound Laboratory EP Vol. 1 – CDN
Elliott BROOD – Oh Alberta – Tin Type – CDN
Elliott BROOD – Second son – Ambassador – CDN
Rodney Crowell – Topsy turvy – The Houston Kid
Chuck Prophet – You did (bomp shooby dooby bomp) – Age of Miracles

2:30pm – 3:00pm

Richard Buckner – Poor old Tom – A Case for Case: A Tribute to the Songs of Peter Case
Todd Snider – Travelin’ light – A Case for Case: A Tribute to the Songs of Peter Case
Peter Case – Beyond the blues – A Case for Case: A Tribute to the Songs of Peter Case
Kieran Kane & Kevin Welch with Fats Kaplan – Just like that – You Can’t Save Everybody
Sam Phillips – Fan dance – KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 13
Bodeans – Fadeaway – KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 13
Natalie Maines with Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis – Travelin’ soldier – Songs for Tsunami Relief: Austin to South Asia

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Patty Griffin – Perfect white girls – Silver Bell
JP Hoe – Always – 2006 demo – CDN – WPG

JP Hoe interview

3:30pm – 4:00pm

JP Hoe – Nicest – live performance – CDN – WPG
JP Hoe – All of a sudden – live performance – CDN – WPG
JP Hoe – Why can’t you say – live performance – CDN – WPG
JP Hoe – Even angels – The Here in Review EP – CDN – WPG