We’re back live this week after a few pre-recorded weeks, and the new releases have been piling up in the meantime, so most of today’s show is devoted to that backlog! We’ve also got a couple of local shows to talk about, past and future, as well as a bit of a tribute to one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Merle Haggard, who passed away this week.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Del Barber & The No Regretskys – Lights Go Out – The Puck Drops Here – CDN – WPG
Kaley Tallon – Life to Live – unknown – CDN – WPG
Matthew Barber & Jill Barber – Summer Wages – Family Album – CDN
Teddy Thompson and Kelly Jones – Wondering – Little Windows
Dylan LeBlanc – Look How Far We’ve Come – Cautionary Tale
Parker Millsap – Heaven Sent – The Very Last Day

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Mayhemingways – Hunter St. Blues – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Mayhemingways – Small Town Crush – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
David Myles – Learning to Love – Here Now Is – CDN
Shotgun Jimmie – Walkman Battery Bleed – Field of Trampolines – CDN
The Wild Feathers – Don’t Ask Me to Change – Lonely Is a Lifetime
The Vegabonds – Oh My Lord – What We’re Made of

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Hayes Carll – You Leave Alone – Lovers and Leavers
Nudie – Everything’s Different in the Night – Everything’s Different in the Night – CDN
Richmond Fontaine – I Got off the Bus – You can’t Go Back if there’s Nothing to Go Back to
Ken Whiteley – Omar Khadr’s Blues – Freedom Blues – CDN
Steve Dawson – Leave my Name Behind – Solid States & Loose Ends – CDN
South Rail – Wide Eyed Smile – Stars

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Corin Raymond – Take Me to the Mountain – Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams – CDN
Jonathan Byrd & The Sentimentals – On the Edge – Mother Tongue
Martyn Joseph – Sanctuary – Sanctuary
Merle Haggard – If I Could only Fly – If I Could only Fly
Merle Haggard – Sing Me Back Home – 16 Biggest Hits
Merle Haggard – Silver Wings – 16 Biggest Hits

Today, part 3 of the transportation trilogy, as I’m finally flying back to Winnipeg today. We’ve got some great songs about planes and coming home. Once again, Winnipeg is blessed with a pretty great lineup of upcoming live concerts, so another hour of previews of some of the ones that I recommend most!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Animal Parts – Home To You – Other Rooms – CDN
Bobby Bare – Leaving on a Jet Plane – This Is Bare Country
Robbie Fulks – I Never Did Like Planes – Georgia Hard
Carolyn Mark – Happy 2B Flying Away – Nothing Is Free – CDN
Angus & Julia Stone – Big Jet Plane (Radio Edit) – Big Jet Plane – EP
Scouting For Girls – The Airplane Song – Scouting For Girls
Del Barber – Coming Home With The Summer – Love Songs For The Last 20 – CDN – WPG
Stephen Fearing – Home – Industrial Lullaby – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Eilen Jewell – Home to Me – Queen of the Minor Key
Skydiggers – I’ll Be Home – Skydiggers – CDN
Christina Martin – You Come Home – Two Hearts – CDN
The Bottle Rockets – I Wanna Come Home – The Bottle Rockets/The Brooklyn Side Reissues
Malcolm Holcombe – Going Home – Not Forgotten
Melissa Payne – Home – Melissa Payne – CDN
Oh Susanna – Home Soon (The Cherry Song) – Johnstown – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Prairie Oyster – One Way Track – String of pearls – A Greatest Hits Collection – CDN
Russell deCarle – Don’t Ask the Question – Under The Big Big Sky – CDN
Steve Dawson – Walkin’ Down The Line – Waiting For The Lights To Come Up – CDN
Steve Dawson – Trouble On The Run – We Belong To The Gold Coast – CDN
Jonathan Byrd – Poor Johnny – You Can’t Outrun the Radio
Jonathan Byrd – I Was An Oak Tree – Cackalack
Jonathan Byrd – The Law and the Lonesome – The Law and the Lonesome

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Corin Raymond – Under the Belly of the Night – Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams – CDN
Corin Raymond And The Sundowners – Brand New Song – Paper Nickels – CDN
Corin Raymond – Blue Mermaid Dress – There Will Always Be A Small Time – CDN
Corin Raymond – Record Lonesome Night – Record Lonesome Night – CDN
D.Rangers – Runnin’ Back To Saskatoon – Guess Who’s Home – A Tribute – CDN – WPG
The Scott Nolan Band – Guns Guns Guns – Guess Who’s Home – A Tribute – CDN – WPG

Episode #635

Pre-recorded again because I’m off travelling. This week, I’ll be taking the train from one place to another, so we explore the places and mode of transportation in song! I don’t know if you’re aware, but there are a few “train” songs out there… We barely scratched the surface! In hour 2, once again Winnipeg will play host to some incredible live music this week, so previews of some of the most exciting & significant shows coming up!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mike Dunn & the Kings of New England – Sundowner – Sundowner
Mike Dunn – Faith Healer – Hard Luck Soft Rock
Patty Griffin – Don’t Let Me Die In Florida – American Kid
Loudon Wainwright III – Florida (Lucky You) – 40 Odd Years
Todd Snider – Play a Train Song – Todd Snider Live-The Storyteller
Mike Plume Band – Another Train Song – Simplify – CDN
Reid Jamieson – Rail – Courting Juniper – EP – CDN
David Francey – Morning Train – The Waking Hour – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Lyle Lovett – Texas Trilogy: Train Ride – Step Inside This House
Clive Holden with John K Samson, Christine Fellows, and Jason Tait – Trains of Winnipeg – Trains of Winnipeg – CDN – WPG
Willie P Bennett – Come On Train – Hobo’s Taunt – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – I Like Trains – Official Bootleg Series Vol. 2 – CDN
Kasey Chambers – Freight Train – The Captain – Bonus Disc
Holly Williams – Railroads – The Highway
Scott Nolan – This Train – No Bourbon And Bad Radio – CDN – WPG
Tom Waits – Downtown Train – Rain Dogs

3:00 – 3:30 pm

The Young Novelists – Come Back to Me – Made Us Strangers – CDN
The Young Novelists – Always Make the Mistake – Made Us Strangers – CDN
Leaf Rapids – Healing Feeling – Live on UMFM 2014 – CDN – WPG
The Lowest of The Low – Bleed a Little While Tonight – Shakespeare My Butt… – CDN
Ron Hawkins And The Rusty Nails – Crackstatic – Crackstatic – CDN
The Do Good Assassins – Public Transit – Rome – CDN
Ron Hawkins – Strum and Drag – Spit Sputter and Sparkle – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Spirit Of The West – Political – Labour Day – CDN
Spirit Of The West – Profiteers – Labour Day – CDN
Spirit Of The West – Home For A Rest – Save This House – CDN
Spirit Of The West – D For Democracy (Scour The House) – Go Figure – CDN
Spirit Of The West – Canadian Skye – Weights And Measures – CDN
The 24th Street Wailers – Aim To Please – Wicked – CDN
The 24th Street Wailers – Cursed – Where Evil Grows – CDN
The 24th Street Wailers – Don’t Cross Me – Where Evil Grows – CDN

Episode #634

Today I’m doing some travelling, and taking a bus trip, so some songs about that mode of transportation, as well as some of the places I’ll see along the way. Hour 2 is all about some of the amazing shows happening in Winnipeg this week, and boy, are there some good ones!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Oh Susanna – Greyhound Bus – Short Stories – CDN
Jonathan Richman – You’re Crazy For Taking The Bus – Action Packed: The Best Of Jonathan Richman
Todd Snider – Continuing Saga of the Classic Bummer or Is This My One Way Bus Ticket to Cleveland – Time As We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker
Blaze Foley – Christian Lady Talkin’ On a Bus – Cold, Cold Wold
Andrew Vincent – Bus Stop – Rotten Pear – CDN
Scott Nolan – Bus Station Sadness – No Bourbon And Bad Radio – CDN – WPG
The Replacements – Kiss Me On The Bus – Don’t You Know Who I Think I Was? The Best Of The Replacements

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Skydiggers – 80 Odd Hours – Just Over this Mountain – CDN
Malcolm Holcombe – Savannah Blues – Pitiful Blues
Robbie Fulks – Georgia Hard – Georgia Hard
Whiskeytown – Macon, Georgia County Line – Drunken Confessions
Levon Helm – Watermelon Time in Georgia – The Ties That Bind: The Best of… 1975-1996
Iron & Wine – Summer In Savannah – Walking Far From Home [single]
LP – Savannah – Forever For Now

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Fretless – Lonesome Scene Of Winter (Featuring Oliver Swain & Ruth Moody) – The Fretless – CDN
Fretless – Waterbound (Featuring Ruth Moody) – Waterbound – CDN
Daniel Koulack & Karnnel Sawitsky – How Does A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live (featuring Joey Landreth) – Fiddle And Banjo – CDN – WPG
Matt Patershuk & The Dirty Plaid Orchestra – King Of This Town – Outside The Lights Of Town – CDN
Matt Patershuk – I Was So Fond Of You – I Was So Fond Of You – CDN
Red Moon Road – Beauty In These Broken Bones – Sorrows And Glories – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Watchmen – One Man Gone – Indie-Can ’89 Sampler – CDN – WPG
The Watchmen – Crazy Days – McLaren Furnace Room – CDN – WPG
The Watchmen – Soft Parade – Slomotion: Fast Forward – CDN – WPG
Dolly Parton – Slow Ass Jolene – single
Dolly Parton – Just Someone That I Used To Know (With Porter Wagner) – Dolly Parton
Robbie Fulks – Jeannie’s Afraid Of The Dark – 13 Hillbilly Giants
Lee Hazlewood – Dolly Parton’s Guitar – Poet, Fool Or Bum/Back On The Street Again

Episode #633

Today a conversation with Ron Hawkins of The Lowest of the Low, a preview of tonight’s David Francey show, plus new music and much more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Ron Hawkins – Strum and Drag – Spit Sputter Sparkle – CDN
Ron Hawkins – Beautiful Girl – Spit Sputter Sparkle – CDN
Ron Hawkins – ’til It Kills ya – Spit Sputter Sparkle – CDN
Ron Hawkins – City of Lies – Spit Sputter Sparkle – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

The Lowest of the Low – Black Mondays – Hallucigenia – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – Henry Needs a new Pair of Shoes – Shakespeare My Butt – CDN
David Francey – Junkie’s Heart – Empty Train – CDN
David Francey – Rain – So Say We All – CDN
Go Jane Go – My Blue Ridge Cabin Home – Go Jane Go – CDN
David Francey – I Live in Fear – Late Edition – CDN
David Francey – Wanna Be Loved – The Waking Hour – CDN
David Francey – Wind in the Wires – Torn Screen Door – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Poor Nameless Boy – Bravery – Bravery – CDN
Poor Nameless Boy – Atlantic Ocean – Bravery – CDN
Grant Lee Phillips – Find my Way – The Narrows
Malcolm Holcombe – Another Black Hole – Another Black Hole
Robbie Fulks – Fare thee Well, Carolina Gals – Upland Stories
Hayes Carll – The Love that We Need – single

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Carrie Rodriguez – Perfidia – Lola
Alejandro Escovedo – Sister Lost Soul – Real Animal
Chuck Prophet – Pin a Rose on Me – Age of Miracles
Lucinda Williams – Drunken Angel – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Kris Kristofferson – Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down – Third World Warrior
The Beatles – Blackbird – The Beatles

Episode #632

Today we’ve got some new (and rather old) music, as well as previews of the upcoming return of David Francey and a show billed as Stones vs. Beatles, which had us weighing the musical options. Things were going so well that we ended up going into overtime with a half hour of bonus classics!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Len Udow – River Run – Through Curved Glass – CDN – WPG
Paul Bergman – Sundogs – Anthropology – CDN
Alex Dezen – Leonardo – Alex Dezen
Jim Bryson – Call Out – Somewhere We Will Find our Place – CDN
Corin Raymond – Hard on Things – Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams – CDN
Del Barber & The No Regretskys – Lights Go Out – The Puck Drops Here – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

David Francey – Border Line – Torn Screen Door – CDN
David Francey – Highwire – Far End of Summer – CDN
David Francey – Tonight in my Dreams – The Waking Hour – CDN
David Francey – Come Rain or Come Shine – Skating Rink – CDN
Dala – Lennon & McCartney – Best Day – CDN
Bob Schneider – John Lennon – Burden of Proof
Colin Linden – John Lennon in New Orleans – From the Water – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

The Co-Dependents – The Ballad of John and Yoko – Live at the Mecca Cafe Volume 2 – CDN
The Co-Dependents – Far Away Eyes – Live at the Mecca Cafe – CDN
Mike June & The Dirty Doves – The Ballad of the Ballad of John and Yoko – Lovesick
The Flying Burrito Brothers – Wild Horses – Sacred Hearts And Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology
Matthew Ryan – Streets of Love – Paint It Black: An Alt-Country Tribute to The Rolling Stones
The Gaslight Anthem – Tumbling Dice – single
Steve Earle & The Supersuckers – Before they Make Me Run – Steve Earle & The Supersuckers

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Hayes Carll – Sake of the Song – single
Hayes Carll – KMAG YOYO – KMAG YOYO
Bob Schneider – Miss Oblivion – The Californian
Buddy Miller – It’s Been a Change – Cruel Moon
Chuck Prophet – Where the Hell Is Henry? – Let Freedom Ring
The Dustin Bentall Outfit – Six Shooter – Six Shooter – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – 4 O’Clock Stop – Shakespeare My Butt – CDN

4:00 – 4:30 pm

Johnathan Byrd & Chris Kokesh – You Can’t Outrun the Radio – Live at 4th & Main, Wray, Colorado
Scott Nolan – Swing Low – single – CDN – WPG
Paul Kelly – Nothing but a Dream – Ways & Means
Griffin House – Lonely One – Flying Upside Down
Christina Martin – Cut It Out – Two Hearts – CDN
Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons – Curious Thing – Death Won’t Send a Letter
Tim O’Reagan – These Things – Tim O’Reagan