Episode #653

Today a fond farewell to a Canadian folk legend, a happy birthday to an American one, some new music, and some great upcoming shows, including our official preview of next weekend’s Trout Forest Music Festival (and its big city competitor, The Interstellar Rodeo!)

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Jim Bryson – One Cigarette – The Occasionals – CDN
Penny Lang – Bright Lights And Promises – Gather Honey – CDN
Penny Lang – Where Will You Be? – Somebody Else – CDN
Penny Lang – Let Me Fly – Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky – CDN
Skye Wallace – Blood Moon – single – CDN
Lydia Loveless – Heaven – Real

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Lydia Loveless – Same to You – Real
Rosanne Cash – L.A. Freeway – Mason Jar Music & Friends – Decoration Day vol. 4
Rodney Crowell – Memphis, TN – Mason Jar Music & Friends – Decoration Day vol. 5
Rodney Crowell – I Wish It Would Rain – The Houston Kid
Rodney Crowell – The Flyboy & The Kid – Tarpaper Sky
Turnpike Troubadours – Kansas City Southern – Diamonds and Gasoline
Sturgill Simpson – You Can Have the Crown – High Top Mountain
The 24th Street Wailers – Spitfire – Where Evil Grows – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Jim Bryson – The Depression Dance – Somewhere We Will Find Our Place – CDN
Jim Bryson – Fleetwood – The North Side Benches – CDN
Oh Susanna – Loved You More – Namedropper – CDN
Leaf Rapids – Welcome Stranger – Lucky Stars – CDN
Jory Nash – Prisoner’s Lament – Tangle with the Ghost – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Young Novelists – Always Make the Mistake – Made Us Strangers – CDN
The Abrams Brothers – Thirteen – Northern Redemption – CDN
Scarlett Jane – Wild Fire – Stranger – CDN
Washboard Hank – Chompy the Headbiteroffer – Sweet Mysteries of Life – CDN
Skydiggers – A Penny More – Restless – CDN
Sam Outlaw – Keep It Interesting – Angelino
Wilco – Pick up the Change – A.M.

Tonight a chat with one of our all-time favourites, Josh Finlayson of Skydiggers about their new album and the upcoming Interstellar Rodeo, as well as a pile of other exciting shows coming up!

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Artist – Title – Album

Skydiggers – The World Turns All Around Her – Here without You: The Songs of Gene Clark

Josh Finlayson/Skydiggers interview

Skydiggers – 8 Miles High – Here without You: The Songs of Gene Clark
Skydiggers – See You Again – Bittersweet Harmony
Skydiggers – Hasty Mart – City of Sirens
The Tragically Hip – In a World Possessed by the Human Mind – Man Machine Poem
The Tragically Hip – Nautical Disaster – Day for Night
Martin Tielli – Bobcaygeon – unreleased
The 24th Street Wailers – Aim to Please – Wicked
The 24th Street Wailers – Cursed – Where Evil Grows
Turnpike Troubadours – Diamonds and Gasoline – Diamonds and Gasoline
Jim Bryson – Soupy Sales – The Occasionals
Jim Bryson – Feel Much Better – The North Side Benches
Jim Bryson and the Weakerthans – Wild Folk – The Falcon Lake Incident
Jim Bryson – The Depression Dance – Somewhere we will Find our Place

Today a look back at this year’s Calgary Folk Music Festival, which happened last weekend. It was my first time there in a decade, and it had me wondering what took me so long to come back. Lots of highlights and sounds of the festival to share today! We’ve also got an exciting upcoming show to promote and some well-wishes for our favourite newlywed singer/songwriter!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Eilen Jewell – Santa Fe – Queen of the Minor Key
mini-Mekons & Carolyn Mark – Are You an Entertainer? – live recording
Carolyn Mark – It’s all just a Matter of (Where You Draw the Line) – live recording – CDN
Geoff Berner – Let’s Dance and Celebrate the Misfortunes of People we Hate (with Kris Demeanor and Carolyn Mark) – live recording – CDN
Bobby Bare, Jr. – My Baby Took my Baby away – live recording

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Kathleen Edwards – Football in the Grass – live recording – CDN
Carolyn Mark – In Another Time – Come! Back! Special! – CDN
Kris Demeanor – High Ground – Entirely New Beasts – CDN
Elizabeth Cook – Cutting Diamonds – Exodus Of Venus
Northern Beauties – You Make It Right – EP – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Robbie Fulks – Let’s Kill Saturday Night – Let’s Kill Saturday Night
The Dudes – Saturday Night – Barbers, Thieves and Bartenders – CDN
Oh Pep! – Bushwick – Stadium Cake
Colleen Rennison – Fancy – See The Sky About To Rain – CDN
The Tallest Man On Earth – The Gardener – Shallow grave
Sam Outlaw – Ghost Town – Sam Outlaw
Ian Tyson – Casey Tibbs – All The Good ‘uns – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Cave Singers – Summer Light – Welcome Joy
Brock Zeman – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN
Brock Zeman – Until It Bleeds – Me Then You – CDN
Brock Zeman – Gastown – Cold Winter Comes Back – CDN
Del Barber – Harvest Moon – Daytrotter Studio 1/20/201 – CDN – WPG

We’ve got plenty of shows past and future to discuss, as well as a new fundraising campaign that I’m excited to support!

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Artist – Title – Album

Robbie Fulks – Roots Rock Weirdoes – The Very Best Of
The Sadies – American Pageant (with Jon Langford) – In Concert Volume One
The Tallest Man on Earth – Burden of Tomorrow – The Wild Hunt
The Lowest of the Low – Bloodline – Shakespeare My Butt
The Lowest of the Low – New Westminster Taxi Squad – Nothing Short of a Bullet
The Lowest of the Low – The Dogs of February – Hallucigenia
The Grapes of Wrath – Good to See You – High Road
The Grapes of Wrath – Mexico – High Road
Leeroy Stagger & The Wildflowers – I Believe in Love – live recording
Brock Zeman – Little Details – Pulling your Sword out of the Devil’s Back
Brock Zeman – Push them Stones – Me then You
Brock Zeman – Picture of You – $100 Difference
William Prince – 7 – single
Danny Michel – Fireworks – In the Belly of a Whale
The JD Edwards Band – This House Will Stand – Roads and Roads
The Sweet Alibi – I’ll Wait – We’ve Got to
JP Hoe – Nothing’s Gonna Harm You – Mannequin

Episode #651

Last week’s look back at the previous weekend’s 56th Mariposa Folk Festival was fun, but we didn’t get through nearly enough of the great artists and moments I’d seen there, so we need another episode to look through some more of the Mariposa magic!

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2:00 – 2:30 pm

Lydia Loveless – Longer – Real
Irish Mythen – Tullamore Blues – live recording – CDN
Samantha Robichaud – Jesus (featuring Irish Mythen) – In the Green Room – CDN
Irish Mythen – Gypsy Dancer – Irish Mythen – CDN
Stef Paquette – Tout c’que j’veux – live recording – CDN
Melanie Brulée – Strange Desire – Sucré/Salé – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Sheesham and Lotus and ‘Son – 1929 – 1929: The New Kings of Old-Time – CDN
Murder Murder – The Last Gunfighter Ballad – From the Stillhouse – CDN
Murder Murder – Sweet Revenge – From the Stillhouse – CDN
Jeffrey Foucault – Mexican Home – Shoot The Moon Right Between The Eyes: Jeffrey Foucault Sings The Songs Of John Prine
Jeffrey Foucault – I Love You (And You Are A Fool) – Salt As Wolves
Jeffrey Foucault – Des Moines – Salt As Wolves
Colin Linden – Knob & Tube – Rich In Love – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

The Tragically Hip – Black Day In July – Beautiful: A Tribute To Gordon Lightfoot – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Sundown – Dream It All Away Tour EP – CDN
Gordon Lightfoot – Alberta Bound – Songbook – CDN
James Hill – Promenade – The Old Silo – CDN
Anne Janelle & James Hill – Ah, Poor Bird – Ah, Poor Bird – CDN
Anne Janelle – Black is the Colour – So Long at the Fair – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Brother Sun – Sad – Some Part of the Truth
Brother Sun – These Hands – Some Part of the Truth
Dave Gunning – Coal from the Train – No More Pennies – CDN
Catherine MacLellan – Gone Too Soon – The Raven’s Sun – CDN
Dan Reeder – Maybe – This New Century
Slow Leaves – Dreamer – Beauty Is so Common – CDN – WPG
Ane Brun – All My Tears – Rarities
Ane Brun – Orphan Girl – Rarities

Episode #650

A look back at the 56th Mariposa Folk Festival, which was held last weekend in Orillia, ON (with one off-topic tangent along the way), including an interview with my favourite Mariposa memory-maker, Jon Brooks!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mike Ferris – Mercy Now – Shine For All The People
Mary Gauthier – Between the Daylight and the Dark – Between the Daylight and the Dark
Mary Gauthier – Last of the Hobo Kings – Between the Daylight and the Dark
Mary Gauthier – When a Woman Goes Cold – Trouble & Love

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Fred Eaglesmith – Cigarette Machine – 6 Volts – CDN
Scott Nolan – Fire Up – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
William Prince – 7 – single – CDN – WPG
Gretchen Peters – The Matador – Hello Cruel World
Gretchen Peters – Five Minutes – Hello Cruel World
George Strait – The Chill of an early Fall – Chill of an early Fall

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Jon Brooks – When We Go – Moth nor Rust – CDN

Jon Brooks interview

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Jon Brooks – If We Keep what’s within Us, What’s within us will Kill Us, but if we Give what’s within Us, What’s within Us Will Save Us – Moth nor Rust – CDN
Jon Brooks – Cage Fighter – Delicate Cages – CDN

Episode #649

Today a tribute to a friend who’s tying the knot this summer, some sounds of the month of July, a look ahead to the Mariposa Folk Festival next weekend as well as Mike Plume’s upcoming StuDome show, some of my current musical obsessions, and more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Ian & Sylvia – Someday Soon – Northern Journey – CDN
Del Barber – Country Girl – Prairieography – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – All that It Takes – Prairieography – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – If I Told You that I Loved You – Love Songs for the Last 20 – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Queen of July – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Spirit of the West – July – Star Trails – CDN
Matt Mays – Full July Moon – Matt Mays – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

The Avett Brothers – Sixteen in July – Four Thieves Gone
Grant Lee Phillips – No Mercy in July – The Narrows
Joe Ely – July Blues – Happy Songs from Rattlesnake Gulch
Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men – Fourth of July – Out in California
Joe Purdy – 4th of July – 4th of July
David Francey – Fourth of July – The Waking Hour – CDN
Ana Egge – Fifth of July – Bright Shadow – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

The Milk Carton Kids – Memphis – The Ash & Clay
Gretchen Peters – Sunday Morning (Up and Down my Street) – Burnt Toast & Offerings
Eliza Gilkyson – Hard Times in Babylon – Hard Times in Babylon
Mary Gauthier – Mercy Now – Mercy Now

3:30 – 4:00 pm

John Blek and the Rats – Take Me Home – Leave your Love at the Door
John Blek and the Rats – Calling out my Name – Leave your Love at the Door
John Blek and the Rats – Cities Keep Changing – Leave your Love at the Door
The Wynntown Marshals – There Was a Time – The End of the Golden Age
Mike Plume Band – Dimaggio – Fools for the Radio – CDN
Mike Plume – Looking for You (A Travelogue of Sorts) – A Drive Thru Record Volume II – CDN