Episode #796

This episode is another one of those timeless standby episodes that you might hear again sometime when I can’t make it down to the station and I’m not able to provide something all-new. Hopefully, you’ll agree that the music in here is so great that you won’t mind revisiting this episode down the road.

This episode is called the Special Guest Spectacular because every song features some kind of special guest sitting in with another artist or band. Every once in a while you catch one artist singing backup or doing a duet or playing a solo on someone else’s song, and this show collects a whole bunch of those. We also dip our toes into the extensive well of special guest appearances by the Canadian and American queens of such appearances!

Note: Unfortunately there are a few little audio hiccups that appeared during recording. Technical difficulties are entirely ours.

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

Cedar Park – What She Tells Me (w/NQ Arbuckle) – Way Back Home – CDN
Willie P Bennett – (Who’s Gonna Get The) Last Word (In) (w/Bruce Cockburn) – Heartstrings – CDN
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – White Line (w/Willie P Bennett) – High Or Hurtin’ – CDN
Scott Nolan – Don’t Blame Your Blues on Me (with The Weber Brothers and Paul Reddick) – Willie P Bennett Legacy Project – CDN – WPG
Paul Reddick – Villanelle (w/Colin Linden & Kathleen Edwards) – Revue: The Best of Paul Reddick – CDN
Colin Linden – Test Song (w/Kathleen Edwards) – Southern Jumbo – CDN
Jim Bryson (with Jim Cuddy) – Somewhere Else – Loose 4: Start Your Own Country – CDN
Oh Susanna – Lucky Ones (w/Jim Cuddy) – Soon The Birds – CDN

Jason Plumb – Old Familiar Ring (w/Sarah Harmer) – Under and Over – CDN
Rheostatics – Loving Arms (w/Sarah Harmer) – The Story of Harmelodia – CDN
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Mother (w/Sarah Harmer) – Rebuild the Wall – CDN
Reid Jamieson – Holding Out (w/Sarah Harmer) – The Unavoidable Truth – CDN
Michael Johnston – The Country North of Peterborough (w/Andy Maize) – Curious Heart – CDN

Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – If I Can’t Have You (w/Lucinda Williams) – Kings & Queens – CDN
Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell – God I’m Missing You (w/Lucinda Williams) – Kin
Kevin Gordon – Down to the Well (w/Lucinda Williams) – Down to the Well
Colin Linden – Don’t Tell Me (w/Lucinda Williams) – Big Mouth – CDN
Matthew Ryan – Devastation (w/Lucinda Williams) – Concussion
Amos Lee – Clear Blue Eyes (w/Lucinda Williams) – Mission Bell
Steve Earle – You’re Still Standin’ There (w/Lucinda Williams) – I Feel Alright

John Prine – In Spite of Ourselves (feat. Iris DeMent) – In Spite of Ourselves
Billy Bragg & Wilco – Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key (w/Natalie Merchant) – Mermaid Avenue
Steven Bowers – Comfortably Sweet (Featuring Christina Martin) – Circadian Anthem – CDN
Matt Epp And The Amorian Assembly – When You Know (Featuring Serena Ryder) – Learning to Lose Control – CDN

Jolene – I Read What You Wrote Today (with Kim Richey) – Hell’s Half Acre
Jason Isbell – Stockholm (w/Kim Richey) – Southeastern
Kim Richey – Breakaway Speed (feat. Jason Isbell) – Thorn In My Heart

Episode #795

Today a fun episode where we preview the 4th annual Static Roots Festival taking place July 12-13 in Oberhausen, Germany! Our long time friend and supporter Dietmar Leibecke joins us to go through every act on the bill this year and talk a bit about the magic!

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

Jimmy LaFave – Amsterdam – Buffalo Return to the Plains
Stephen Stanley Band – Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright (w/Hadley McCall Thackston) – live recording – CDN
Terra Lightfoot – Never Will – live recording – CDN

The Wave Pictures – Better to Be Loved – City Forgiveness
John Murry – The Ballad of the Pajama Kid – The Graceless Age
John Blek – The Blackwater – Thistle & Thorn
The Brother Brothers – Frankie – Some People I Know
Cordovas – Salome – Cordovas
Ags Connolly – Nothin’ Unexpected – Nothin’ Unexpected

Orphan Colours – Goodnight California – All On Red
Joe Nolan – Ode to Sturgeon County – Cry Baby – CDN
Luke Tuchscherer – A Song for Jack Brown – Always Be True
Joana Serrat – Lost Battles – Dripping Springs
Don Gallardo – Shine a Light on Me – single
The Hanging Stars – Pick up the Pieces – Songs for Somewhere Else
Dawn Brothers – Got to Act – Classic
Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar – Will We Ever Learn – Run to Me – CDN

Jon Brooks – Gulfport, MS – No One Travels Alone – CDN
Brock Zeman – Drop the Bucket – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN
Leaf Rapids – Citizen Alien – Citizen Alien – CDN – WPG
Oh Susanna – Parallel Rail – Johnstown – CDN

Episode #795

Another busy show full of exciting shows past & future to chat about, wonderful new music, German requests, and more!

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

Leeroy Stagger – Poison The Well – Dream It All Away – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Strange Attractor – Strange Attractor – CDN
Rheostatics – Here Come The Wolves – Here Come The Wolves – CDN
Crash Test Dummies – The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead (feat. Ellen Reid) – Dumb & Dumber – CDN – WPG
Crash Test Dummies – Comin’ Back Soon (The Bereft Man’s Song) – The Ghosts That Haunt Me – CDN – WPG

Mike Plume Band – Bird’s Eye View – Fools For The Radio – CDN
Corb Lund – Always Keep An Edge On Your Knife – Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer – CDN
John Prine – Please Don’t Bury Me – Sweet Revenge
Mike Plume Band – Give A Little To Get A Little Back – 8:30 Newfoundland – CDN
Tom Petty – Wildflowers – Wildflowers

Scott Cook – Fellas, Get Out the Way – Further Down the Line – CDN
Scott Cook – When We’re Back Around – One More Time Around – CDN

Dr. John – Snake Eyes – City Lights
Dr. John – Goin’ Back to New Orleans – Goin’ Back to New Orleans
Hollow Coves – The Woods – Wanderlust
100 Mile House – Hidden Springs – Hiraeth – CDN

Buddy & Julie Miller – Breakdown on 20th Ave. South – Breakdown on 20th Ave. South
Andrew Combs – Stars of Longing – Ideal Man
Mariel Buckley – Casting Stones – single – CDN
Rodney Crowell – Flatland Hillbillies (feat. Randy Rogers & Lee Ann Womack) – Texas
Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis – If I Had a Rose – Beautiful Lie
Anthony da Costa – Almost Mine – Shadow Love
Begonia – Hanging on a Line – single – CDN – WPG
The Devin Cuddy Band – Radio – Amy’s Dream – EP – CDN

Episode #793

A pile of new music today, including an exclusive new song from Matt Epp’s upcoming album, our usual roundup of great requests, memories of a fine show this weekend, and we look ahead to the upcoming reunion of one of my favourite live bands of all time!

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

Mike Plume Band – Steel Belted Radio – Steel Belted Radio EP – CDN
Mike Plume Band – If There Ever was a Fool – Song & Dance, Man – CDN
Mike Plume Band – Wind at my Back – Song & Dance, Man – CDN
Mike Plume Band – Walkin’ By – Fools for the Radio – CDN
Mike Plume Band – Promise Me You’ll Never Tell – Fools for the Radio – CDN
Mike Plume – Mike Plume Band – Looking for You (A Travelogue of Sorts) – A Drive Thru Record Volume II – CDN

Sweet Alibi – Crawling Back to You – Canada Covers Tom Petty – CDN – WPG
Bob Dylan – Gotta Serve Somebody – Slow Train Coming
Alana Levandoski – Don’t Be Denied – Borrowed Tunes II (a Tribute to Neil Young) out of the Blue – CDN – MB

Sarah Jane Scouten – Bang Bang – When the Bloom Falls from the Rose – CDN
The Small Glories – Secondhand – Assiniboine & The Red – CDN – WPG
Black Sea Dahu – In Case I Fall for You – White Creatures
Garda – Upper/Lower Water Course – A Heart of a Pro
The Deep Dark Woods – All The Money I Had Is Gone – Winter Hours – CDN
Joana Serrat – Western Cold Wind – Dripping Springs

Matt Epp – Can’t Hold a Flame – unreleased – CDN
Zachary Lucky – Raining In December – live recording – CDN
Scott Nolan – Bella Vista – single – CDN – WPG
Figure Walking – Blue World (Remix) – single – CDN – WPG
Anthony da Costa – Shadow Love (acoustic) – single
Charlie Whitten – Teacher Teaching – Tiny Horse
Stationwagon – Another Plan – Stationwagon
Liam Corcoran – I’m a Wreck – single – CDN

Episode #792

This one started off a little rough as we dealt with a major Internet outage, but eventually we pulled it together enough to talk about great shows past and future, play a bunch of great requests, and say a fond farewell to wto like-minded artists who happened to be friends and happened to die on the very same day, Leon Redbone and Mose Scarlett.

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

Old Man Luedecke – Easy Money – Easy Money – CDN
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Swingin’ – Echo
Taylor Janzen – The Waiting Room – Interpersonal – CDN – WPG
Bruce Cockburn – Pacing the Cage – The Charity of Night – CDN
Ani Difranco – Cradle and All – Not a Pretty Girl
John K. Samson – Postdoc Blues – Winter Wheat – CDN
Sweet Alibi – One Chance – Walking in the Dark – CDN – WPG

Julia Jacklin – Don’t Know How To Keep Loving You – Crushing
Julia Jacklin – Body – Crushing
Mia Sheard – Girly Man – Reptilian – CDN

Cass McCombs – Honesty Is No Excuse – Big Wheel and Others
Ian Noe – That Kind of Life – Between the Country
Ian Noe – Barbara’s Song – Between the Country
Yola – It Ain’t Easier – Walk Through Fire
Stationwagon – Gone Away – Stationwagon

Mose Scarlett – Muscatel Tale (w/Colin Linden) – Precious Seconds – CDN
Mose Scarlett – Darktown Strutters Ball (w/Jeff Healey) – Precious Seconds – CDN
Scarlett, Washington, Whiteley – Wait ’til the Sun Shines Nelly – Sitting on a Rainbow – CDN
Scarlett, Washington, Whiteley – We’ll Meet Again – We’ll Meet Again – CDN

Leon Redbone – When I Kissed that Girl Good-bye – Whistling in the Wind
Leon Redbone – Lazybones – On The Track
John Prine – Spanish Pipedream – John Prine
John Prine – Grandpa Was a Carpenter – Sweet Revenge

Episode #791

Lots of great requests and new music on this episode, as well as memories of a great show this weekend and we look forward to some great ones coming up!

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

Willie P Bennett – John Henry, the Gambler – Live 1978 – CDN
Red Moon Road – Breathing Slow – Sorrows and Glories – CDN – WPG
James Keelaghan – Kiri’s Piano – My Skies – CDN
Patty Griffin – No Bad News – Children Running Through
Joe Jencks – Morning Star – The Forgotten

Si Kahn and The Looping Brothers – Hard Times – It’s a Dog’s Life
Leeroy Stagger – Fire And Fury – Me and the Mountain – CDN
Irish Mythen – I Painted a Picture – Little Bones – CDN
Catherine MacLellan – Waiting On My Love – Out Of Time/Waiting On My Love – CDN
Buddy & Julie Miller – I’m Gonna Make You Love Me – single
Nick Lowe – Trombone (w/Los Straitjackets) – Love Starvation / Trombone

Hazel Dickens And Alice Gerrard – Working Girl Blues – Hazel Dickens And Alice Gerrard
Daniel Norgren – I Waited for You – The Green Stone
Daniel Norgren – Let Love Run the Game – Wooh Dang
Daniel Norgren – Music Tape – Buck
Nick Mulvey – Look at Miss Ohio – live recording
Carson McHone – Lucky – Carousel
Carson McHone – Good Time Daddy Blues – Carousel
Madison Violet – Baby in the Black and White – No Fool For Trying – CDN

Scott Cook – If He Showed Up Now – Further Down the Line – CDN
JP Hoe – Nothing’s Gonna Harm You – Mannequin – CDN – WPG
Paul Bergman – Sundogs – Anthropology – CDN – MB
Charlie Whitten – Out of This – single
Charlie Whitten – Naive – Travis County

Episode #790

Lots going on today as we look back at a couple of great shows and ahead to a couple more, play a pile of great requests, and we try to help Al get that motorhome started!

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

Greg Macpherson – Company Store – Maintenance – CDN – WPG
Jim White – If Jesus Drove a Motorhome – Drill a Hole In That Substrate and Tell Me What You See
Jackie Greene – Motorhome – Back To Birth
Joe Jencks – Auto Mechanically Declined – What Kind of Brother

Greg Macpherson – The Place – The Year of the Record Break – CDN – WPG
Greg Macpherson – Buy a Ticket – Balanced on a Pin – CDN – WPG
Greg Macpherson Band – Numbers – Good Times Coming Back Again – CDN – WPG
Greg Macpherson – First Class – Mr. Invitation – CDN – WPG

Ken Yates – Keep Your Head Down – Huntsville – CDN
Watertown – Always Hoping – One Phoebe Street – CDN
Hemingway Corner – Watch Over You – Under The Big Sky – CDN

the mother hips – Motorhome – Later Days
Matthew Milia – Alive at the Same Time – Alone at St. Hugo
Pete Gow – One Last One-Night Stand – Here There’s No Sirens
Lera Lynn – Crimson Underground (feat. Rodney Crowell) – Plays Well with Others
Rhiannon Giddens – Better Get It Right the First Time – Freedom Highway
Joan Shelley – How Sad How Lovely (feat. Daniel Martin Moore) – Rivers and Vessels
Michaela Anne – Worrying Mind – Bright Lights and the Fame
Emma-Lee – What Would Tom Petty Do? – single – CDN

Kris Kristofferson – Help Me Make It Through The Night – Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson – For The Good Times – The Essential
Joe Jencks – How Can I Keep From Singing – The Wonder Deep Within
The Small Glories – Oh My Love – Assiniboine & the Red – CDN – WPG
The Small Glories – Secondhand – Assiniboine & the Red – CDN – WPG

Episode #789

A lot of great musicians seem to have been born in 1969, and a couple of our all-time favourites on the show turned 50 within a day of each other last week, so a happy 50th tribute to Shannon Lyon & Jim Bryson today, as well as some great new music, German requests, and more!

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

Leeroy Stagger – Love Versus – Love Versus – CDN
Melissa Payne – 1000 Pieces – single – CDN
Anna Tivel – Worthless – The Question
Courtney Marie Andrews – Took You Up – May Your Kindness Remain (Acoustic)
Josh Ritter – Old Black Magic – Fever Breaks
Craig Finn – Blankets – I Need a New War
Bear’s Den – Hiding Bottles – So that you might hear me
Joey Landreth – Cryin’ – Hindsight – CDN

The Dream Syndicate – Black Light – These Times
Paul Kelly – Nothing On My Mind – Words And Music
Chuck Prophet – Doubter Out of Jesus (All Over You) – Soap And Water

Gob Iron – Waterloo – Waterloo/True Transmission to Your Heart
Jim Cuddy – Rhinestone Cowboy – Countrywide Soul/Rhinestone Cowboy – CDN

The Milk Carton Kids – New York – Prologue
Samantha Crain – Elk City – Under Branch & Thorn & Tree
Sister Speak – Catch Me As I Fall (feat. Tolan Shaw) – The Stand – CDN
Kasey Chambers – You Ain’t Worth Suffering For – Dragonfly
Gillian Welch – Annabelle – Revival

Shannon Lyon – Could You Be My Light – Wandered – CDN
Shannon Lyon – I Believe in You (U R Reason) – Safe Inside – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Pleasing You Pleases Me – Broken Things – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Mods Rule – The Lights Behind – CDN

Jim Bryson – 26 Miles By Car – The Occasionals – CDN
Jim Bryson – Captain Finch – The North Side Benches – CDN
Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – Metal Girls – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN

Episode #788

It’s another busy concert week in Winnipeg, but without a doubt, the two biggest highlights are the long-awaited album release show for the new Leaf Rapids album Citizen Alien and the even longer-awaited reunion of legendary Winnipeg band Acoustically Inclined! Keri & Devin Latimer stopped by to chat about the Leaf Rapids show and Kerry Krishna & Mira Black stopped by for a conversation and some live music getting us even more excited about their show on Saturday!

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

Leaf Rapids – Healing Feeling – recorded live on UMFM – CDN – WPG
Acoustically Inclined – Purple Haze – Are You Inclined? – CDN – WPG
Dan Mangan – Have a Little Faith in Me – single – CDN
Leaf Rapids – Barbershop Shears – Citizen Alien – CDN – WPG

Keri & Devin Latimer (Leaf Rapids) interview

Leaf Rapids – Caragana Switch – Citizen Alien – CDN – WPG
Leaf Rapids – Citizen Alien – Citizen Alien – CDN – WPG

Acoustically Inclined – Are We There Yet? – Acoustically Inclined – CDN – WPG

Kerry Krishna & Mira Black (Acoustically Inclined) interview

Acoustically Inclined – Finally – live performance – CDN – WPG
Acoustically Inclined – Wayfaring Stranger – live performance – CDN – WPG
Acoustically Inclined – Sew Buttons – Acoustically Inclined – CDN – WPG

Episode #786

Today we survey the aftermath of this year’s Record Store Day and we celebrate 10 years of amazing shows at The Sunset Saloon by looking at just a few of the many, many highlights!

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

Brock Zeman – Ain’t Nothin’ – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Kevin Hearn & friends – Superhero Suite – Superhero Suite – CDN
Motorhead – Rockaway Beach – 7″ single
Elvis Costello – If You Love Me – Purse
The Minus 5 – Bleach Boys & Beach Girls – Stroke Manor
John Hiatt – All Kinds of People – John Hiatt & Lilly Hiatt
Steve Earle – Don’t Let the Sunshine Fool You – El Coyote/Don’t Let the Sunshine Fool You

Leaf Rapids – There They Go – Citizen Alien – CDN – WPG
Oh Susanna – Johnstown – Johnstown – CDN
Leaf Rapids – Citizen Alien – Citizen Alien – CDN – WPG

The Brother Brothers – I Will Be With You – Some People I Know
Cordovas – I’m the One Who Needs You Tonight – That Santa Fe Channel

Scott Cook – Pass It Along – One More Time Around – CDN
Scott Cook – The Kid with the Comic Book – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Corin Raymond – Under the Belly of the Night – Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams – CDN
Christina Martin – You Come Home – Two Hearts – CDN
Melissa Payne – Don’t Say – Melissa Payne – CDN
Mayhemingways – End Up this Way – Hunter St Blues – CDN

Sunparlour Players – If the Creeks Don’t Rise – Hymns for the Happy – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Since I’m Loving You – Wandered – CDN
Jim Bryson – Elizabeth – The North Side Benches – CDN
Bidiniband – Stolen Car – live recording – CDN