Our pal Gail Comfort was, unfortunately, unable to make it in for Pledge-O-Rama this year, so we called in some backup in the form of a chat with one of Gail’s favourites, Oh Susanna, in an effort to raise a little bit of money for the station that we love.

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

6:00 – 6:30 pm

Oh Susanna – Lucky Star – A Girl in Teen City – CDN
Leaf Rapids – Lucky Stars – Lucky Stars – CDN – WPG
Bob Dylan – Buckets of Rain – Blood on the Tracks
Bob Dylan – All along the Watchtower – John Wesley Harding
Jimmy Lafave – Sweetheart like You – Buffalo Return to the Plain

6:30 – 7:00 pm

Oh Susanna – Getting Ready – A Girl in Teen City – CDN

Oh Susanna interview

Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – Metal Girls – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN
The Lovebullies – When I’m in L-O-V-E – When I Get Through with You – CDN

Episode #711

It’s time once again for UMFM Pledge-O-Rama, where we ask our wonderful listeners to show some support and love for the station to keep us going and growing.

Along to show their support today, we have a chat with Christina Martin, as well as in-studio live performances by Jay Aymar and JP Hoe!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Del Barber – Everything Is not Enough – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Jay Aymar – Overtime – Overtime – CDN
Christina Martin – You Come Home – Two Hearts – CDN

JP Hoe interview

2:30 – 3:00 pm

JP Hoe – Changed my Life – live performance – CDN – WPG
Dawes – Time in Los Angeles – Nothing Is Wrong
Jim Bryson & the Weakerthans – Wild Folk – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN
Oh Susanna – Thunderbird – A Girl in Teen City – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Christina Martin – Lungs Are Burning – single – CDN

Christina Martin interview

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Room at the Top – Echo

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Jay Aymar interview

Jay Aymar – Here’s a New One – live performance – CDN
Jay Aymar – The Devil in your Diary – live performance- CDN

Episode #710

On this, our first episode of our 16th year on the air, we pay tribute to the great Tom Petty, preview some exciting upcoming events and spin some great new music! Get ready for the Tell the Band to Go Home Pledge-O-Rama Spectacular next Sunday! Tune in and support UMFM!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

JP Hoe – Yer So Bad – live recording – CDN – WPG
The Wailin’ Jennys – Wildflowers – Fifteen – CDN – WPG
Chris Carmichael – Apartment Song – live recording – CDN – WPG
Leeroy Stagger & The Wildflowers – Swingin’ – live recording – CDN
Colleen Brown & David Celia – Stop Draggin’ my Heart Around – Seasons are Circling bonus track – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Aaron Lee Tasjan & Lilly Hiatt – Walls – single
Johnny Cash – I Won’t Back Down – American III: Solitary Man
Johnny Cash – The Running Kind (w/Tom Petty) – Unearthed
Johnny Cash – Southern Accents – American II: Unchained
Mark Erelli – Alright for Now (feat. Jeffrey Foucault) – Innocent when you Dream
Kasey Anderson – Walls – Way Out West
The Weepies – Learning to Fly – Sirens
The Gaslight Anthem – You Got Lucky – Handwritten (deluxe version)

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Rhett Miller – American Girl – The Interpreter: Live at Largo
Martin Sexton – Purple Rain – Twang Trust Broadcasts 1999-2007
The Be Good Tanyas – When Doves Cry – Hello Love – CDN
Dwight Yoakam – Purple Rain – Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars…

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Terra Lightfoot – Norma Gale – New Mistakes – CDN
Whitehorse – Nighthawks – Panther in the Dollhouse – CDN
The Wilderness of Manitoba – Echoes – Island of Echoes – CDN
The Woodshed Orchestra – U Don’t Have 2 Cry (w/Amanda Balsys) – Guest Book – CDN
John Blek – Salt in the Water – Catharsis Vol. 1
Anna Mitchell – All these Things – Anna Mitchell
John Blek & The Rats – Calling out my Name – Leave your Love at the Door

Episode #709

Today we chat with The Mastersons before their Tuesday show with Steve Earle, pay tribute to the great Charles Bradley, and much more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Steve Earle – Baby’s Just as Mean as Me (featuring Eleanor Whitmore) – Terraplane
Charles Bradley – Why Is It so Hard? – No Time for Dreaming
Charles Bradley – Victim of Love – Victim of Love
Charles Bradley – Ain’t It a Sin – Changes
Charles Bradley – Heart of Gold – No Time for Dreaming (expanded edition)
The Mastersons – Crash Test – Birds Fly South

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Chris Masterson (The Mastersons) interview

The Mastersons – You Could Be Wrong – Transient Lullaby
The Mastersons – Transient Lullaby – Transient Lullaby

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Carolyn Mark and the New Best Friends – Not a Doll – The Pros and Cons of Collaboration – CDN
Lisa Leblanc – Ace of Spades – Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen? – CDN
Steve Earle and the Dukes – Fixin’ to Die – Live at The Continental Club
Jon Dee Graham & the Fighting Cocks – Wait/Airplane – live recording
Slow Leaves – Careless and Serene – Enough about Me – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm
Slow Leaves – Slow Leaves – Enough about Me – CDN – WPG
Slow Leaves – Life of a better Man – Beauty Is so Common – CDN – WPG
Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown – Complete Greatest Hits – CDN
Jory Nash – Ain’t Coming Home – The Many Hats of – CDN
Jory Nash – Ballad of Easy Chair – Lo-Fi Northern Blues – CDN
Oh Susanna – Thunderbird – A Girl in Teen City – CDN
Ben de la Cour – Evelyn – Midnight in Havana

Episode #708

Today we’ve got another pile of great new music, as well as a look at some amazing upcoming shows, including the return of our pals Josh Fewings & Benj Rowland, aka Mayhemingways, who are headed to town for their first headlining show at the West End Cultural Centre on Sept. 18! Josh gave us a call to chat after a nasty tire blowout in Saskatchewan.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mayhemingways – End Up this Way – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Geoff Berner – Phony Drawl – Canadiana Grotesquica – CDN
Matt Patershuk – Blank Pages and Lost Wages – Same as I Ever Have Been – CDN
Rob Lutes – Rocky Mountain Time – Walk in the Dark – CDN
Melissa Payne – Strong Heart – single – CDN
Sean McConnell – Nothing on You (featuring Lori McKenna) – Undone: Acoustic Recordings

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Anthony da Costa – Go Steady (acoustic version) – da Costa Deluxe
Anthony da Costa – Talking to You (acoustic version) – da Costa Deluxe
Radney Foster – Raining on Sunday – For You to See the Stars
The Sweetback Sisters – I Got Lucky with You – King of Killing Time
Eilen Jewell – It’s your Voodoo Working – Down Hearted Blues

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Carolyn Mark – In Another Time – Come! Back! Special! – CDN
Carolyn Mark – The Queen of Vancouver Island – The Queen of Vancouver Island – CDN
D. Rangers – Tryin’ to Start Out Clean – Barbaric Cultural Practices – CDN – WPG
The Cave Singers – Lost in the Tide – Banshee
The Cave Singers – Hen of the Woods – Welcome Joy
Elliott BROOD – Write It all Down for You – Mountain Meadows – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Andrew Neville & the Poor Choices – Nick Hill – Winnipeg: The High & Lonesome Years [Vol. IV] – CDN – WPG
Adrien Sala – Andrew Neville – Winnipeg: The High & Lonesome Years [Vol. IV] – CDN – WPG
Corin Raymond – Brand New Song – Paper Nickels – CDN

Josh Fewings (Mayhemingways) interview

Mayhemingways – Hunter St. Blues – Hunter St. Blues – CDN

Episode #707

On this week’s show, we’ve got some great upcoming show to talk about and a huge pile of new music, both new releases and new finds that I dug out of a couple of my favourite U.S. goldmines.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Jim Bryson – The Depression Dance – Somewhere We Will Find Our Place – CDN
The Sadies – Loved on Look (w/Greg Keelor) – Tremendous Efforts – CDN
The Sadies – Tiger Tiger – Stories Often Told – CDN
Mayhemingways – Small Town Crush – Mayhemingways – CDN
Mayhemingways – Hunter St. Blues – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Poor Choices Song – Winnipeg: The High & Lonesome Years [Vol. IV] – CDN – WPG
Whitney Rose – Tied to the Wheel – Rule 62 – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Whitney Rose – Trucker’s Funeral – Rule 62 – CDN
Romantica – St. Paul City Lights – Shadowlands
Slaid Cleaves – Still Be Mine – Ghost on the Car Radio
Blaze Foley – Girl Scout Cookies – The Lost Muscle Shoals Recordings
The Deep Dark Woods – Fallen Leaves – Yarrow – CDN
Shuyler Jansen – Don’t Ask Why – Today’s Remains – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Buick 6 – Righteously – Plays Well with Others
John Fullbright – Write a Song – Songs
The Bottle Rockets – Welfare Music – The Brooklyn Side
Danny Barnes – Angel – Rocket
Waltons – Wascana – Cock’s Crow – CDN
Ha Ha Tonka – Everything – Heart-Shaped Mountain
The Rave-Ups – She Says (Come Around) – Chance

3:30 – 4:00 pm

T. Hardy Morris – Quieter (When I Leave Town) – Hardy & The Hardknocks: Drownin on a Mountaintop
Butch Hancock – Tell Me What You Want To Know – Own & Own
The Push Stars – Keg On My Coffin – Paint The Town
Chip Taylor – I’ll Only Be Me Once (w/Lucinda Williams) – The Little Prayers Trilogy
Chip Taylor – One Hell of a Guy (w/Guy Clark) – 16 Angels Dancing ‘cross the Moon
Townes Van Zandt – Shrimp Song – Austin City Limits 1976

Episode #706

Summer’s over, Lindsay’s here, amazing upcoming shows, and a great Cheapo find. How’s that sound?

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Blackie & the Rodeo Kings – Summertime’s Over – South – CDN
Big Star – September Gurls – Radio City
Paolo Nutini – Autumn – These Streets
Ben Arnold – Fine September – Solo
Jonathan Byrd – Golden Glow of Autumn – Wildflowers
Joe Nolan – Autumn Sky – Tornado – CDN
David Francey – Far End of Summer – Far End of Summer – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

NQ Arbuckle – The Autumn Leaves – The Last Supper in a Cheap Town – CDN
Matthew Ryan – Me & My Lover – East Autumn Grin
Elliott BROOD – Lindsay – Days Into Years – CDN
Lindsay Ferguson – Apologies – Chameleon – CDN
Lindsay Buckingham – Never Going Back Again – Rare on Air Volume 1
Frank Turner – Plea from a Cat Named Virtute – Polaroid Picture EP
Art of Time Ensemble – Virtute the Cat Explains her Departure (w/Steven Page) – A Singer Must Die – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

John K Samson – Virtute at Rest – Winter Wheat – CDN – WPG
Washboard Hank – Friendly Little Cat – Human Beans – CDN
Jack Off Jill – My Cat – Sexless Demons and Scars
Tracy McNeil & The GoodLife – Wildcats – Nobody Ever Leaves
Luke Doucet and the White Falcon – The Lovecats – Blood’s Too Rich – CDN
Rheostatics – Introducing Happiness – Introducing Happiness – CDN
Mayhemingways – Oldest Home Bum – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Mayhemingways – CDs I Didn’t Sell – Mayhemingways – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Three O’Clock Train – The Devil Likes Me – Wig Wam Beach – CDN
Three O’Clock Train – Train of Dreams – Train of Dreams – CDN
Garnet Rogers – All That Is – All That Is: The Songs of – CDN
Lynne Hanson – Every Honest Misstep – Uneven Ground – CDN
Vika and Linda – I Didn’t Know Love Could Be Mine – Vika and Linda
Vika and Linda – I Know Where to Go to Feel Good – Vika and Linda

This is one of those “standby” episodes that you might hear again some day, but it’s so darn good that you surely won’t mind!

Hanging out at music festivals (especially smaller ones), you hear a lot of artists covering other artists. This episode is full to the brim with classic songs that have been covered by others in my recent travels.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Guy Clark – Dublin Blues – Dublin Blues
Townes Van Zandt – Rex’s Blues – Flyin’ Shoes
John Prine – Speed of the Sound of Loneliness – German Afternoons
Ian & Sylvia – Some Day Soon – Some Day Soon – CDN
Ian Tyson – M.C. Horses – Eighteen Inches of Rain – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Blackie and the Rodeo King – Blackie and the Rodeo King – CDN
Guy Clark – El Coyote – My Favorite Picture Of You

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Stan Rogers – Northwest Passage – Northwest Passage – CDN
David Francey – Red Winged Blackbird – Torn Screen Door – CDN
James Keelaghan – Cold Missouri Waters – A Recent Future – CDN
David Wiffen – Driving Wheel – David Wiffen – CDN
The Band – Chest Fever – Music From Big Pink – CDN
Bruce Springsteen – One Step Up – Tunnel of Love

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Blaze Foley – Cold, Cold World – Cold, Cold World
Waylon Jennings – Lonesome, On’ry and Mean – Lonesome, On’ry and Mean
Waylon Jennings – Waymore’s Blues – Dreaming My Dreams
Billy Joe Shaver – Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me – Old Five and Dimers like Me
Billy Joe Shaver – Slow Rollin’ Low – Honky Tonk Heroes
Sturgill Simpson – You Can Have the Crown – High Top Mountain
The Marshall Tucker Band – Can’t You See – Marshall Tucker Band
Richard Inman – Sunday Morning – Richard Inman – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Hank Williams – Your Cheatin’ Heart (single version) (feat. The Drifting Cowboys) – 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection, Vol.2
Elvis Presley – That’s Alright Mama – Sun Records Greatest Hits
Johnny Cash – The Streets of Laredo – The Legend
The Band – Long Black Veil – Music from Big Pink – CDN
Sam Cooke – Bring It on Home to Me – The Best of
Al Green – Love and Happiness – Greatest Hits
Solomon Burke – That’s How I Got to Memphis – Nashville

Episode #704

As the leaves start to drop (boo!), so do the new releases, and we’ve got a big ol’ pile of exciting new records to share today! We’ve also got some memories of the amazing Trout Forest Music festival, and more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Paul Kelly – Rock out on the Sea – Life Is Fine
Paul Kelly – My Man’s Got a Cold (feat. Vika Bull) – Life Is Fine
Eric Westbury – My Kind of People (Are Getting hard to Find) – Atomic Wilderness – CDN
Murder Murder – Goodnight, Irene – Wicked Lines & Veins – CDN
Rod Melancon – Praying for Light – Southern Gothic
Shannon Lyon – Olde Freightliner – Patreon – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Jonathan Byrd – That’s Right Jack – demos
Tom Russell – Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (with Joe Ely) (bonus track) – Folk Hotel
Terra Lightfoot – Paradise – New Mistakes – CDN
Mayhemingways – Blackie & the Rodeo King (w/The Weber Brothers) – live recording – CDN
King Creosote & the Earlies – Cod Liver Oil & the Orange Juice – live recording

3:00 – 3:30 pm

David Myles – Cry, Cry, Cry – Real Love – CDN
Slaid Cleaves – Already Gone – Ghost on the Radio
Bruce Cockburn – States I’m In – Bone on Bone – CDN
Susto – Diamonds Icaro – Jam in the Van
Will Hoge – Through Missing You – Anchors
Courtney Marie Andrews – Near You – single
Erin Rae – Wild Blue Wind – single

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Ray Wylie Hubbard – Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ There as Fast as I Can (w/Lucinda Williams & Eric Church) – Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ There as Fast as I Can
Lucinda Williams – Six Blocks Away – This Sweet Old World
Del Barber – Someday Soon – live recording – CDN – WPG
Del Barber & The Honky Tonk Heartbreakers – Heartland Heartbreak – live recording – CDN – WPG
Ridley Bent – Nine Inch Nails – Buckles & Boots – CDN – WPG

Episode #703

This week we say a fond farewell to Glen Campbell, preview a great local show and the upcoming Interstellar Rodeo, visit with our old friend Ben Kyle, and more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Rheostatics – P.I.N. – Night of the Shooting Stars – CDN
Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy – Rhinestone Cowboy
Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb – Wichita Lineman – In Session
Glen Campbell – Sing – Meet Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell – Record Collector’s Dream – Rhinestone Cowboy
King Creosote + Michael Johnston – Supermoon – The Bound of the red Deer
King Creosote – Love Life – Astronaut Meets Appleman

2:30 – 3:00 pm

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Bats in the Attic – Diamond Mine
King Creosote – Bluebell, Cockleshell, 123 – From Scotland with Love
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives – Sundown in Nashville – Country Music
Yola Carter – What You Do – Orphan Offering
Terra Lightfoot – Never Will – Live in Concert – CDN
Danny Michel – In the Belly of a Whale – In the Belly of a Whale – CDN
Rheostatics – Horses – Melville – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

The Dead South – Banjo Odyssey – Good Company – CDN
Chloë Doucet – Lighthouse – Double Back – CDN
Sarah Slean – Sweet Ones – Sarah Slean – CDN
Oh Susanna – Thunderbird – A Girl in Teen City – CDN
Colleen Brown – I Can’t Wrap my Heart around It (feat. Major Love) – Seasons Are Circling – CDN
Colleen Brown – Try It Again (feat. Slow Leaves) – Seasons Are Circling – CDN
Slow Leaves – How Do I Say – Enough about Me – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Romantica – National Side – America
Ben Kyle – Don’t Settle – Ben Kyle
Ben Kyle & Carrie Rodriguez – Love Hurts – We Still Love Our Country
Romantica – Cecil Ingram Connor – Shadowlands
The Flying Burrito Brothers – Hot Burrito #2 – The Gilded Palace of Sin
Bob Dylan – All along the Watchtower – John Wesley Harding