Episode #655

Today some great new music, including the debut of songs from the brand new Jaxon Haldane album, a look back at the always magical Trout Forest Music Festival, a look ahead to a couple of shows, and we say bye bye to Bob (Egan, that is), who is retiring from active musician duty to take a job at the public library!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Kris Kristofferson, Gordon Lightfoot, and Ronnie Hawkins – Me and Bobby McGee – single
Billy Bragg and Joe Henry – The L & N Don’t Stop Here Anymore – Shine a Light: Field Recordings From the Great American Railroad
Kieran Kane – Lockeland Creek – Unguarded Moments
Lori McKenna – Wreck You – The Bird & the Rifle
Joe Purdy – Maybe We’ll All Get Along Someday – Who Will Be Next?
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Black Mark – Hearts and Lonely Hunters – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

100 Mile House – Hollow Ponds – Hollow Ponds – CDN
100 Mile House – My Love – Wait with Me – CDN
100 Mile House – Better, Still – Hollow Ponds – CDN
The Young Novelists – Couldn’t Be any Worse – Made Us Strangers – CDN
Graydon James & The Young Novelists – In your Defence – In the Year You Were Born – CDN
The Young Novelists – Always Make the Mistake – Made Us Strangers – CDN
Leaf Rapids – Agent of the Night – Lucky Stars – CDN – WPG

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Washboard Hank – Friendly Little Cat – Human Beans – CDN
Wax Mannequin – Volcano God – Festival Man – CDN
Chris Isaak – Baby Did a bad bad Thing – Forever Blue
Scott Cook – Time with You – Moonlit Rambles – CDN
Scott Cook – When We’re Back Around – One More Time Around – CDN
Jaxon Haldane – Charlie Parker – Hectic – CDN – WPG
Jaxon Haldane – You Know Whos – Hectic – CDN – WPG
Jaxon Haldane – Petrified – Hectic – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Wilco – Far Far Away – Being There
Oh Susanna – My Good Ol’ Gal – Johnstown – CDN
Reid Jamieson – The Unavoidable Truth – The Unavoidable Truth – CDN
Leeroy Stagger & The Wildflowers – I Believe in Love – Little Victories – CDN
Matt Mays – Downtown – Matt Mays – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Sun’s Hanging Low – The Last Supper in a Cheap Town – CDN
Neko Case & her Boyfriends – We’ve Never Met – Furnace Room Lullaby – CDN

Episode #654

A collection of beautiful love songs inspired by Del Barber’s recent wedding. I never know what to give as a gift, so I went old school and made a mixed tape. It sounded pretty good to me, so I decided to make a show out of it and share it with others. So here it is!

This is one of those periodic “standby” episodes that gets dropped in when I can’t make it down to the studio, so you might hear this one again some time. It’s a good one, so I’m sure you won’t mind.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Del Barber – Love Song For The Last 20 – Love Songs For The Last 20 – CDN – WPG
Greg Brown – I Wish I Was Married – Covenant
Paul Kelly & Uncle Bill – Until Death Do Them Part – Smoke
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson – Til Death Do Us Part – Wreck & Ruin
Bob Dylan – Wedding Song – Planet Waves
Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band – Outlaw’s Honeymoon – The Mountain
Buck Owens – (I’ll Love You) Forever And Ever – Buck ‘Em! The Music Of Buck Owens (1955-1967)
Radney Foster – I’m In (w/Abra Moore) – See What You Want To See

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Buddy Miller – That’s How Strong My Love Is – Poison Love
Van Morrison – Into the Mystic – Moondance
Ray LaMontagne – You Are The Best Thing – Gossip In The Grain
David Francey – Come Rain Or Come Shine – Skating Rink – CDN
David Myles – I Wouldn’t Dance – In the Nighttime – CDN
Rose Cousins – If I Should Fall Behind (w/Mark Erelli) – We Have Made A Spark – CDN
Stan Rogers – Forty-five Years – The Very Best of Stan Rogers – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Dolly Parton – Islands In The Stream (With Kenny Rogers) – Dolly Parton (Box Set Sampler)
Jonathan Byrd and Chris Kokesh – Do You Smell Something Burning? – The Barn Birds
John Prine – In Spite of Ourselves (w/ Iris DeMent) – In Spite of Ourselves
Gordon Lightfoot – Beautiful – Songbook – CDN
Brothers Cosmoline – I Know I’m In Love – Songs Of Work And Freedom – CDN
Steven Bowers – Comfortably Sweet (Featuring Christina Martin) – Circadian Anthem – CDN
The Lowest of The Low – Subversives – Shakespeare My Butt… – CDN
John Bottomley – Reaching Out to You – The Healing Dream – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Willie P Bennett – Lace And Pretty Flowers – Hobo’s Taunt – CDN
Townes Van Zandt – I’ll Be Here in the Morning – Legend
Jon Dee Graham – Majesty of Love – First Bear On The Moon
Jimmy LaFave – Only One Angel – Austin Skyline
Jason Isbell – Traveling Alone – Southeastern
Guy Clark – All Through Throwin’ Good Love After Bad – Old Friends
Greg Brown – Spring Wind – If I Had Known (Essential Recordings, 1980-1996)

I don’t know how it is, but over the course of the next week there are 6 days where there are painful concert conflicts. We’ll weigh all of the matches on this episode and decide where we should be, if we can!

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Artist – Title – Album

Sturgill Simpson – Life Ain’t Fair and the World Is Mean – High Top Mountain
Jim Bryson – Impaler – The Occasionals
Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – Metal Girls – The Falcon Lake Incident
Jim Bryson – Breathe – Somewhere We Will Find Our Place
The 24th Street Wailers – Rock Step – Where Evil Grows
The Small Glories – Had I Paid – Wondrous Traveler
Slow Leaves – Neighborhood Watch – Beauty Is So Common
Rheostatics – One More Colour – Introducing Happiness
Martin Tielli and Jane Siberry – A Long Time Love Song – Kick At The Darkness (Songs Of Bruce Cockburn)
Jane Siberry – The Waitress – A Collection 1984-1989
The Wailin’ Jennys – Calling All Angels – Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House
K D lang And The Siss Boom Bang – Perfect Word – Sing It Loud
Serena Ryder – Blown Like The Wind At Night – Is It O.K.
Whitehorse – Emerald Isle – Whitehorse
Wintersleep – New Inheritors – New Inheritors
Weird Al Yankovic – You Don’t Love Me Anymore – The Essential Weird Al Yankovic
Jaxon Haldane – Talking Hit N’ Run Blues – Down In Oklahoma
Jaxon Haldane – Bald Headed Sally v2 – 2015 album outtake
Red Moon Road – Hypothetical Girl – Red Moon Road

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