Playlist: Episode #679

The political climate is getting downright disgusting down there, but luckily there are great artists who can make something beautiful out of a very bad situation. A bunch of those songs & stories today. We’ve also got a bunch of new music, an exciting show to preview, and we step on Skippy & Chelsea’s toes a bit by playing a few songs about time – this week’s theme on What’s the Narrative!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mary Gauthier – Can’t Find the Way – Between Daylight and Dark
Mary Gauthier – Mercy Now – Mercy Now
Jon Brooks – Mercy – Delicate Cages – CDN
Tom Russell – California Snow – Borderland
Tom Russell – Who’s Gonna Build your Wall? – Wounded Heart of America
Drive-By Truckers – Ramon Casiano – American Band

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Stephen Fearing – Blowhard Nation – Every Soul’s a Sailor – CDN
Scott Cook – If He Showed up now – live recording – CDN
Anais Mitchell – Why We Build the Wall – Hadestown
Imelda May – Black Tears – Life Love Flesh Blood
Whitehorse – Boys Like You – single – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Fred Eaglesmith – Twin City Mini – Standard – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Old Machine – Standard – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Miss Mary Jane – Standard – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Codeine – live recording – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Country Squall – Tryin’ to Start out Clean – CDN
Willie P Bennett – If You Have to Choose – Hobo’s Taunt – CDN
Stan Rogers – The Field Behind the Plow – Northwest Passage – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Mayhemingways – Wanderers – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Mayhemingways – Jenny Ran Away in the Mud – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Mayhemingways – Bowling Green – Mayhemingways – CDN
Mayhemingways – Sad, Single, and Sorry – Mayhemingways – CDN
Melissa Payne – Bring Me Back – High and Dry – CDN
Express and Company – Out by the Trees – Ontario – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – 4 O’Clock Stop – Shakespeare my Butt – CDN
Three O’Clock Train – Train of Dreams – Train of Dreams – CDN
B.B. King – Three O’Clock Blues – The Ultimate Collection

Episode #678

Today a bunch of new (and new to me) music, as well as a tribute to the great Greg Trooper who passed away recently.

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2:00 – 2:30 pm

Kathleen Edwards – Human Touch – unreleased – CDN
Imelda May – Call Me – single
Abigail Lapell – Diamond Girl – Hide nor Hair – CDN
Alex Dezen – Holding on to You (Holding on to Me) – II
Alex Dezen – None of these Things – El Ganzo Sessions video

2:30 – 3:00 pm

The Damnwells – Lost – The Damnwells
The Damnwells – Kiss Catastrophe – Bastards of the Beat
Murray McLauchlan – Columbus – Gulliver’s Taxi – CDN
Murray McLauchlan – Dirty Boulevard – Gulliver’s Taxi – CDN
Murray McLauchlan – Farmer’s Song – Songs from the Street – CDN
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Down by the Henry Moore – Let’s Frolic Again – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Gurf Morlix – Move Someone – The Soul and the Heal
John Craigie – Broken – No Rain, No Rose
Nudie – If a Heart could Tell – Remember This – CDN
Abigail Lapell – Murder City – Hide nor Hair – CDN
Greg Trooper – Real Like That – Straight Down Rain
Greg Trooper – When my Tears Break through – Floating
Steve Earle – Little Sister (live) – Copperhead Road (Deluxe Edition)

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Greg Trooper – These Sunday Nights – The Williamsburg Affair
Greg Trooper – Ireland – Between a House and a hard Place Live at Pine Hill Farm
Lucy Kaplansky – The Heart – The Tide
Vince Gill – We Won’t Dance – When I Call your Name
Billy Bragg – Everywhere – Vol. 2
Brandi Carlile – Beginning to Feel the Years – The Firewatcher’s Daughter

Episode #677

To get away from the dreadful and dreary weather, we’re taking a vacation today, and spending an hour in Australia to visit with a few friends from Down Under. On the way home, we’ll stop in on the East Coast and visit with Al Tuck, before rocking it on home with some loud & energetic classics!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Kathleen Edwards – Money Talks – Live from the Bowery Ballroom – CDN
Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen – Meet Me in the Middle of the Air – Death’s Dateless Night
Paul Kelly – Careless – Careless
Paul Kelly & Uncle Bill – You Can’t Take It with You – Smoke
Bill Chambers – Theresa – Live at the Pub Tamworth

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Bill Chambers – Letter to Fred – Live at the Pub Tamworth
Bill Chambers – Drinkin’ too much – Cold Trail
Bill Chambers – Roll the Windows Down – Cold Trail
Kasey Chambers – Stalker – Bittersweet
Shane Nicholson – Broken Things – Bad Machines
Colin Hay – Waiting for my real Life to Begin – Going Somewhere
Colin Hay – Beautiful World – Going Somewhere
Little Birdy – Brother – Confetti

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Nathan – Australia – Stranger – CDN
Nudie – Stop Hittin’ on Louise – Behind that Big Red Curtain: A Tribute to Al Tuck – CDN
Al Tuck – Always on my Mind – Fair Country – CDN
The Silver Hearts – 9th & Hennepin (w/Al Tuck) – Play Rain Dogs – CDN
Al Tuck – Brother from another Mother – My Blues Away – CDN
Al Tuck – Talk (or Hold your Peace) – Food for the Moon – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Car Seat Headrest – Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales – Teens of Denial
The Warped 45s – Live Bait – Matador Sunset – CDN
Mike Plume Band – Rattle the Cage – Song & Dance, Man – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – 12 Bellevue – Failer – CDN
Jon Dee Graham – Laredo (Small Dark Something) – Hooray for the Moon
Matthew Ryan – Guilty – May Day

Episode #676

2017 started off not much better than 2016, when the sad news of one of Canada’s iconic music venues, Toronto’s Hugh’s Room, has closed. We played some songs in honour of Hugh’s shows past and uncertain future. That, and the end-of-holidays return to work, gave us a little taste of The Darkness, which was soon resolved by an exciting upcoming concert and a review of some great stuff from 2016, and more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Steve Forbert – Romeo’s Tune – Jackrabbit Slim
Steve Forbert – Song for Katrina – Little Stevie Orbit
Jory Nash – Luger – The Many Hats of – CDN
Gordon Lightfoot – The Way I Feel – Songbook – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Sundown – Dream It all Away Tour EP – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Mike June – The Darkness – Poor Man’s Bible
Rose Cousins – The Darkness – We Have Made a Spark – CDN
Blue Rodeo – In the Darkness – In our Nature – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – Eternal Fatalist – Shakespeare my Butt – CDN
Ron Hawkins – Chrome – Spit Sputter Sparkle – CDN
Blue Rodeo – Disappear – Live at Massey Hall – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Blue Rodeo – ’til I Gain Control Again – Five Days in July – CDN
Blue Rodeo – 5 Will Get You Six – Outskirts – CDN
Lucinda Williams – Hickory Wind – The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris
Holly Williams – Settle Down – Southern Family
Harrow Fair – Told a Lie to my Heart – Call to Arms – CDN
Amanda Rheuaume – Blood from a Stone – Holding Patterns – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The High Bar Gang – Long Lonesome Highway Blues – Someday the Heart will Trouble the Mind – CDN
Amanda Shires – The Way It Dimmed – My Piece of Land
Rob Waddell – Gloria – Everything Is from now On – CDN
Trevor Alguire – My Sweet Rosetta – Perish the Light – CDN
Shannon Lyon – I Might just Stay Home – My Throat Is Soar – CDN
Rodney Crowell – It ain’t Over yet – Close Ties
Rodney Crowell – Still Learning How to Fly – Fate’s Right Hand

Episode #675

The latest in our annual series of holiday marathons where we take over some of the extra time in the schedule and stretch out and get deep into some themes and songs we don’t listen to often. It’s January 1, and the anniversary of the deaths of two of the most significant writers of all time, so tributes to Hank Williams and Townes Van Zandt to start things off. 2016 was a pretty ruthless year when it came to killing off a lot of important artists, so we take time to remember a few of those who might have been overshadowed by bigger names. We’re also working hard, trying to narrow down the Best of 2016 list, so we listen to some favourites from the year and continue to shape the official list.

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

12:30 – 1:00 pm

Hank Done It this Way:
Hank Williams – I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive – The Ultimate Collection
Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen – Angel of Death – Death’s Dateless Night
Neko Case – Alone and Forsaken – Canadian Amp
Hank Williams – I’m so Lonesome I could Cry – The Ultimate Collection
Ryan Adams – Lovesick Blues – Hank Williams: Timeless
Mary Gauthier – Lost Highway – Live on the Air: 1998-2004
Buck Owens – Hey, Good Lookin’ – Honky Tonk Man: Buck Sings Country Classics
Serena Ryder and the Beauties – Ramblin’ Man – Serena Ryder and the Beauties
The Secret Sisters – Why Don’t You Love Me – The Secret Sisters

1:00 – 1:30 pm

The Co-Dependents – Long Gone Lonesome Blues – Live Recording Event
Billy Cowsill – Your Cheatin’ Heart – Sorrow Bound: Hank Williams Re-Examined
Jerry Jeff Walker – I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight – Live at Gruene Hall
Kris Kristofferson – If You Don’t Like Hank Williams – The Essential
Johnny Cash – The Night Hank Williams Came to Town – The Legend
The Roadside Graves – Hank Williams – We Can Take Care of Ourselves
Guy Clark – Hank Williams Said It Best – Dublin Blues

1:30 – 2:00 pm

A Tribute to Townes:
Guy Clark – To Live’s to Fly – Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt – Pancho and Lefty – The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
Shannon Lyon – If I Needed You – Sorrow & Solitude
The Lemonheads – Waitin’ Around to Die – Varshons
Steve Earle – Tecumseh Valley – Train a Comin’
Kate Maki – I’ll Be Here in the Morning – Introducing Townes Van Zandt Via The Great Unknown
Townes Van Zandt – Rake – Delta Momma Blues

2:00 – 2:30 pm

The 2016 Death Toll:
Guy Clark – Let Him Roll – Old No. 1
The Snakehandlers – People who Died – Country Rock is Neither
Lonnie Mack – Wham! – The Wham of that Memphis Man!
Lonnie Mack – Why – The Wham of that Memphis Man!
Scott Nolan – One Little Spark – Silverhill

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Paul MacLeod – Cruelty – Tell the Band to Go Home
Paul MacLeod – Ghosts – Close and Play
Paul MacLeod – Lies – Bright Eyes Fade
Paul MacLeod – Another White Band – Gauge
Penny Lang – Where Will You Be? – Somebody Else
Energy Orchard – The House Must Fall – Energy Orchard
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – How Long Do I Have to Wait for You? – Naturally

3:00 – 3:30 pm

2016 in review:
Liam Corcoran – Hand It to You – Behind that big red Curtain: A Tribute to Al Tuck
Al Tuck – Chancellor – single
Buddy Miller – One of these Days – The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris
Alejandro Escovedo – Sunday Morning Feeling – Burn Something Beautiful
Amanda Shires – My Love (The Storm) – My Piece of Land
Jason Isbell – God Is a working Man – Southern Family

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Live by the Song (with Rodney Crowell) – Kings and Kings
Brock Zeman – Drinks (the Clown) – The Carnival Is back in Town
Mayhemingways – Hunter St. Blues – Hunter St. Blues
Corin Raymond – Under the Belly of the Night – Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams
Colleen Brown – I Can’t Wrap my Heart around It – Seasons are Circling
Alex Dezen – A Little less like Hell – Alex Dezen