Episode #736

Today’s episode was pre-recorded but full of great music, including some great new releases, requests, memories of concerts past and preview of exciting shows to come, including a very exciting in-studio guest on the show next week!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mike Plume Band – More than a Game – 8:30 Newfoundland – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Enemy Inside – Love Versus – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Enough Love to Go Around – Radiant Land – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Red Bandana – Everything Is Real – CDN
Steve Dawson – Rose’s Blues – Solid States and Loose Ends – CDN
Leaf Rapids – April – Lucky Stars – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Stephen Fearing – Blue Line – Up Front! Canadians Live from Mountain Stage – CDN
Stephen Fearing – The Life – Folkscene Collection Volume Two – CDN
Stephen Fearing – Whoville – Sixty Second Songs – CDN
Mayhemingways – Bad Old Days – Skip Land – CDN
Tim Easton – Never Punch the Clock Again – Paco & the Melodic Polaroids
John Prine – When I Get to Heaven – The Tree of Forgiveness
Frank Turner – Make America Great Again – Be More Kind

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Anna Tivel – Small Believer – Small Believer
Anna Ternheim – Just as Friends – For the Young
Courtney Marie Andrews – Two Cold Nights in Buffalo – May Your Kindness Remain
Neko Case – Bad Luck – Hell-On
The Artisinals – Angel 42 – Literally Anywhere EP

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Hold Steady – Eureka – Eureka b/w Esther
The Hold Steady – Stay Positive – Stay Positive
Major Love – So Good – Major Love EP – CDN
Skydiggers – This New Country – Desmond’s Hip City – CDN
John Bottomley – Long Way to Go – Blackberry – CDN
John Bottomley – The Healing Dream – The Healing Dream – CDN
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Don’t Walk Away – live recording
Jade Jackson – Motorcycle – Gilded

Episode #735

An exciting episode indeed, as we welcomed back to the studio one of my very favourite guests and songwriters of them all, Stephen Fearing, who dropped in to chat and sing a few songs. What a treat! We also had another exciting show to preview and some great new music.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Stephen Fearing – Love like Water – Every Soul’s a Sailor – CDN

Stephen Fearing interview

Stephen Fearing – Red Lights in the Rain – live performance – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Stephen Fearing – Blowhard Nation – live performance – CDN
Stephen Fearing – Every Soul’s a Sailor – live performance – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Scott Nolan – Fire Up – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – Rosie – No Bourbon & Bad Radio – CDN – WPG
Mayhemingways – Bad Old Days – Skip Land – CDN
Mayhemingways – Wanderers – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Loretta – Let’r Buck – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Ben de la Cour – Uncle Boudreaux Went to Texas – The High Cost of Living Strange
Mariel Buckley – Rose Coloured Frames – Driving in the Dark – CDN
Robby Hecht & Caroline Spence – Over You – single
Parker Millsap – Come Back when you can’t Stay – Other Arrangements
Harrow Fair – Told a Lie to my Heart – Call to Arms – CDN
David Francey – Lonely Road – The Broken Heart of Everything – CDN
The Landreth Bros. – Alone in the Dark – Undercover Bros. – CDN – WPG
Travis Linville – Wishes – Up Ahead

Episode #734

No jokes & no fools on today’s show, just great music through and through! We’ve got some exciting shows past & future to discuss, including a big guest on next week’s episode, some stellar listener suggestions, and a pile of new & new to me music.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Scott Nolan – Easter at the Waffle House – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
Stephen Fearing – The Assassin’s Apprentice – The Assassin’s Apprentice – CDN
Stephen Fearing – Blowhard Nation – Every Soul’s a Sailor – CDN
Martyn Joseph – Here Come the Young – unreleased
John Prine – God Only Knows – The Tree of Forgiveness

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Courtney Marie Andrews – Kindness of Strangers – May Your Kindness Remain
Bennett Wilson Poole – Ask Me Anything – Bennett Wilson Poole
Traveller – Hummingbird – Western Movies
The Vegabonds – Everything I Need – single
The Artisanals – Roll With It – Literally Anywhere
The Pollies – Lost – Not Here
Dylan Leblanc – Look How Far We’ve Come w/Rayland Baxter – Luck Mountain Sessions

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Skylar Bouchard – Montreal – Tired of the City – CDN – WPG
Carrie Rodriguez & Ben Kyle – If I Needed You – We Still Love Our Country
Lyle Lovett – Step Inside this House – Step Inside this House
Adela Diane – Ether & Wood – Cusp
The Black Lillies – Two Hearts Down – 100 Miles of Wreckage
Fred Eaglesmith – Freight Train – Official Bootleg Series Vol. 2 – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Ridley Bent & The Killer Tumbleweeds – Pretty Li’l Self – Ridley Bent & The Killer Tumbleweeds – CDN – WPG
Ridley Bent – Suicidewinder – Blam! – CDN – WPG
Omar & The Howlers – Hard Times in the Land of Plenty – Hard Times in the Land of Plenty
Jerry Miller – What a Little Moonlight Can Do (w/Eilen Jewell) – New Road Under my Wheels
Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Tonight I Think I’m Gonna Go Downtown – After Awhile
Greg Brown – Downtown – One Night

Episode #733

A long-awited visit by Quinton Blair, who stops by to chat and sing some great songs before tonight’s Honky Tonk Blues show at The West End Cultural Centre, as well as a bunch of requests & dedications and a pile of great new music!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Huey Lewis & The News – Honky Tonk Blues – Sports
Quinton Blair – Following Him Around – Cash Crop – CDN – MB
Little Miss Higgins – My Home, My Heart – My Home, My Heart – CDN – MB
Jess Reimer – 1500 Appeals – The Nightjar and the Garden – CDN – MB
Jaxon Haldane – Twenty-One – Hectic – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Quinton Blair – 300,000 KM – live performance – CDN – MB
Quinton Blair – Someday Soon – live performance – CDN – MB
Quinton Blair – After They’re Gone – live performance – CDN – MB
Quinton Blair – Blues Man – Blues Man – CDN – MB
Del Barber – Living with a Long Way to Go – Prairiography – CDN – WPG
Blake Berglund – Moose Mountain – Realms – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Ian Felice – In the Kingdom of Dreams – In the Kingdom of Dreams
Mipso – Coming Down the Mountain – Coming Down the Mountain
Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle – Officer Down – Let’s Just Stay Here – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Cheap Town – Live at the Dakota – CDN
John Moreland – Nobody Gives a Damn About Songs Anymore – In the Throes
John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls – Low – Everything the Hard Way

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Bennett Wilson Poole – Soon Enough – Bennett Wilson Poole
Parker Millsap – Fine Line – Other Arrangements
Calexico – Music Box – The Thread that Keeps Us
The Young Novelists – Back to the Hard Times – In City & Country – CDN
Hannah Aldridge – Parchman – Razor Wire
Caroline Rose – Jeannie Becomes a Mom – LONER

Episode #732

Wow, what a weekend! A couple of amazing shows with the Cuddy crew kicked things off in fine form and required some reflection on the show today. We also had a big ol’ pile of new music, as well as a whole lot of music from some wonderful women in belated honour of International Women’s Day!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Luke Doucet – One Too Many – Broken (and other Rogue States) – CDN
The Devin Cuddy Band – Maggie’s Hardware Store – Amy’s Dream – CDN
Sam Polley and The Old Tomorrow – Rude Girl – EP in a Day – CDN
Bazil Donovan – Little ole Wine Drinker Me – Matinee – CDN
Colin Cripps – Your True Colours – Stormy Northern Days – CDN
Jim Cuddy – Water’s Running High – Skyscraper Soul – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Erin Costelo – Fighter – Down Below, the Status Quo – CDN
Major Love – So Good – Major Love EP – CDN
The Decemberists – Once in my Life – I’ll Be your Girl
Neko Case – Hell-On – Hell-On
Bob Schneider – Making It Up – Blood and Bones
Scenic Route to Alaska – All These Thoughts – Tough Luck – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Julie Miller – I Need You – Broken Things
Julie Miller – Out in the Rain – Broken Things
Kathleen Edwards – Westby – Failer – CDN
Christina Martin – You Come Home – Two Hearts – CDN
Eliza Gilkyson – Wonderland – Land of Milk and Honey
Eilen Jewel – Dusty Boxcar Wall – Letters from Sinners & Strangers
Eddi Reader – California – Angels & Electricity

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Bronwynne Brent – Heartbreaker – Stardust
Hannah Aldridge – Living on Lonely – Gold Rush
Anna Tivel – Illinois – Small Believer
Mary Gauthier – Camelot Motel – Filth & Fire
Mary Gauthier – Brothers – Rifles & Rosary Beads

Episode #731

This Friday marks the long-awaited return of Barney Bentall to Winnipeg, when he opens for Jim Cuddy. We were fortunate enough to chat with Barney once again today. We also heard a bunch of new music, talked about some interesting upcoming shows, paid tribute to a fallen great, and more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Barney Bentall & the Legendary Hearts – Come Back to Me – Barney Bentall & the Legendary Hearts – CDN
Barney Bentall – The Miner – The Drifter and the Preacher – CDN
Barney Bentall – Won’t Change the World – The Drifter and the Preacher – CDN
Jim Cuddy – She Gets Down – The Light that Guides You Home – CDN
Jim Cuddy – Lonely When You Leave – Constellation – CDN
Skydiggers – The Air that I Breathe – Warmth of the Sun – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

John Prine – Knockin’ on your Screen Door – The Tree of Forgiveness
Matthew Ryan – Run Rabbit Run (Unadorned) – Run Rabbit Run EP
Tracy Grammer – Hole – Low Tide
Leeroy Stagger – Run Rabbit Run – Love Versus – CDN
Mike Edel – Finish Line – single – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Barney Bentall interview

Barney Bentall – The Ocean and You (A Song for John Mann) – The Drifter and the Preacher – CDN
Spirit of Canada: Friends of John Mann – Home for a Rest – single – CDN
Spirit of the West – Political – Labour Day – CDN
The Jeff Healey Band – My Little Girl – See the Light – CDN
Jeff Healey – My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now – Adventures in Jazzland – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Fred J. Eaglesmith and the Flying Squirrels – York Road – There Ain’t No Easy Road – CDN
Fred J. Eaglesmith and the Flying Squirrels – White Ash & Black Ash – Things Is Changin’ – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Sleeping in Clay – Sharpen the Plow – CDN
Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Flowers in the Dell – Let’r Buck – CDN
D. Rangers – Hold Back the Tears – Barbaric Cultural Practices – CDN
Mayhemingways – Better of You – Skip Land – CDN
Brock Zeman – 10 Year Fight – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN

Episode #730

Today we’ve got a pile of new music and memories to sort through and then an hour of music brought to you by the letter W!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Colleen Brown – Soap & Denim – Direction – CDN
The Decemberists – Severed – I’ll Be Your Girl
The Young Novelists – Come Round Again – In City & Country – CDN
Christina Martin – Where the Dark Meets the Light – Impossible to Hold – CDN
Mayhemingways – Haybales – Skip Land – CDN
William Crighton – Riveria Kid – William Crighton

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Shovels & Rope – Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (w/John Moreland) – Busted Jukebox Volume 2
Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle – Too Sober to Sleep – Let’s Just Stay Here – CDN
The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer – Hard on Things – single – CDN
The Steel Wheels – Kiss Me Like a Stranger – No More Rain
The Lonely Heartstring Band – The Tide – Deep Waters
Brandi Carlile – The Mother – By the Way, I Forgive You

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Lucinda Williams – Jackson – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
David Wilcox – Eye of the Hurricane – How Did You Find Me Here
David Wilcox – Ecstasy – The Collected Works: 1977-1993 – CDN
Gillian Welch – Wayside/Back in Time – Soul Journey
The Wailin’ Jennys – Begin – Firecracker – CDN – WPG
Dar Williams – Here Tonight – Emerald

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Nathan Wiley – Black Bones – Bottom Dollar – CDN
The Wheat Pool – Lefty – Hauntario – CDN
Jim White – Borrowed Wings – Drill a Hole in that Substrate and Tell Me What You See
Tom Waits – Come on up to the House – Mule Variations
Ray Wylie Hubbard – The Messenger – Los Gringos Lament
David Wiffen – Driving Wheel – David Wiffen – CDN
Loudon Wainwright III – Dead Skunk – Loudon Wainwright III

Episode #729

On this episode, we ramble around, playing new music, talking about upcoming shows, and celebrating Louis Riel Day weekend!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Rheostatics – King of the Past – Whale Music – CDN
The Damnwells – Louisville – Air Stereo
Blue Rodeo – Rebel – Outskirts – CDN
Drive-By Truckers – Rebels – The Fine Print (A Collection Of Oddities And Rarities 2003-2008)
Major Love – Toughen Up – live recording – CDN
Colleen Brown – Fight! Fight! Fight! – Dirt – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Terra Lightfoot – Paradise – New Mistakes – CDN
Terra Lightfoot – Norma Gale – New Mistakes – CDN
William Chrighton – 2000 Clicks – William Crighton
Ryan Adams – Baby I Love You – single
Butch Walker – Jamie – Cassette Backs
Hannah Aldridge – I Know Too Much – Gold Rush
Prinz Grizzly – Walls – Come On In

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Dan Bern – Talkin’ Canada Blues – live recording
Leeroy Stagger – Dirty Windshields – Radiant Land – CDN
Romantica – Love in the Winter – Outlaws
Kim Richey – I Tried – Edgeland
Letitia Vansant – Gut It to the Studs – Gut It to the Studs
Brandi Carlile – Sugartooth – By the Way, I Forgive You

3:30 – 4:00 pm

John Prine – Summer’s End – The Tree of Forgiveness
Amber Rubarth – Townes – American Folk
Ben de la Cour – Guy Clark’s Fiddle – The High Cost of Living Strange
Anna Tivel – Dust and Magic – single
Jeffrey Martin – What We’re Marching Toward – One Go Around
Joe Purdy – San Jose – Take my Blanket and Go

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