Every year or so I try to whip up another timeless episode that can be popped into my slot when I can’t make it down to the station live. This year’s entry has us spinning some straightforward blues and country classics!

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Artist – Title – Album

B.B. King – How Blue Can You Get? – Live At The Regal
Albert King – Born Under A Bad Sign – The Very Best of Albert King
Howlin’ Wolf – Spoonful – 20 Blue Classics – Moanin’ At Midnight
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – Give Me Back My Wig – Couldn’t Stand The Weather
The Fabulous Thunderbirds – Amnesia – Tuff Enuff
The Rockin’ Highliners – Easy On The Eyes – What Were You Thinking?
The Perpetrators – 12,000 Miles – The Perpetrators
Carlos Del Junco – Yul Brynner – Big Boy
Lester Quitzau – Rollin’ & Tumblin’ – So Here We Are
Ray Bonneville – Gust Of Wind – Gust Of Wind
Colin Linden – Skeleton Key – recorded live on UMFM
Merle Haggard – Sing Me Back Home – The Complete ’60s Captitol Singles
Kris Kristofferson – Help Me Make It Through The Night – Kristofferson
Ian Tyson – Summer Wages – Cowboyography
Buck Owens – Sam’s Place (Original Mono Single Version) – Buck ‘Em! The Music Of Buck Owens (1955-1967)
Charlie Major – Nobody Gets Too Much Love – The Other Side
Radney Foster – A Fine Line – Del Rio, TX 1959
Robbie Fulks – Countrier than Thou – Georgia Hard
Kieran Kane – I’ll Go On Loving You – The Blue Chair
Jim Lauderdale – I Know Better Now – The Hummingbirds
Shane Nicholson – The Broken Things – Bad Machines

It’s our belated Canada Day special, and instead of just doing the usual lineup of great Canadian talent, we’re going to stick closer to home and play some great Manitoba talent from the past and present, including a few that maybe you didn’t even know had local roots!

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Artist – Title – Album

The Guess Who – Sour Suite – So Long Bannatyne
D. Rangers – Runnin’ Back To Saskatoon – Guess Who’s Home – A Tribute
SwingSoniq – Ma Cherie – Moonglow
Alana Levandoski – Don’t Be Denied – Borrowed Tunes II (a Tribute to Neil Young) out of the Blue
Crash Test Dummies – The Ghosts That Haunt Me – The Ghosts That Haunt Me
Remy Shand – Take a Message – The Way I Feel
Acoustically Inclined – Knot – Acoustically Inclined
Veal – Cauchemar – Hot Loser
Greg MacPherson – The Song – The Year of the Record Break
The Weakerthans – None of the Above – Fallow
Special Fancy – Train Guy – King Me
Paper Moon – String Of Blinking Lights – Broken Hearts Break Faster Every Day
The Details – Always, Always, Always, Never. – Draw a Distance. Draw a Border.
The Paperbacks – Plans In Advance – An Episode of Sparrows
leaderhouse – Elephant Song – leaderhouse
Spirit of the West – Political – Labour Day
Corin Raymond And The Sundowners – Brand New Song – Paper Nickels
Bob Wiseman – Cousin Dave – It’s True
Rheostatics – The Royal Albert (Joey 2) – Double Live [Disc 2]
Rheostatics – King Of The Past – Whale Music

Wasn’t that a party! A look back at last night’s amazing Mike Plume Band show, and a look ahead to the exciting upcoming Mike June & Jess Klein show! I only recently figured out that one of my favourite songwriters ever, Alex Dezen of The Damnwells is my birthday neighbour, so I have to wish him well, and give myself the gift of some great Damnwells songs. We end off with a solid set of Steel Belted classics.

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Artist – Title – Album

Mike Plume Band – Silver Lining – Song & Dance, Man
Mike Plume Band – Live It Up until they Lower Me Down – Red and White Blues
JP Hoe – Beautifully Crazy – Hideaway
Mike June – Hard Times – Talkin’ Revolution Blues
Mike June – What If God Gave Up (with Jon Dee Graham) – recorded live on UMFM
Jess Klein – If There’s a God – Bootleg
Jess Klein – Behind a Veil – Behind a Veil
Jess Klein – Open Me – Draw Them Near
The Damnwells – Kentexas – The Damnwells
The Damnwells – She Goes Around – No One Listens to the Band Anymore
The Damnwells – Kiss Catastrophe – Bastards Of The Beat
NQ Arbuckle – Huntsville Affair – Not Alone (Medicins Sans Frontiéres) (Disc 4)
Kathleen Edwards – 12 Bellevue – Failer
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Stoned – Bark
Matt Mays & El Torpedo – On the Hood – Matt Mays & El Torpedo
Christina Martin – Falling For You – Sleeping With A Stranger

It’s Father’s Day today, so a very special episode featuring fathers & our children, as I’m joined by my son Jeremy, and a special co-host, Gary Annable, who was one of the original hosts of Steel Belted Radio but hasn’t been back on UMFM in a decade; he brought his son along and we were joined by Matt Epp, who brought his infant daughter Luma with him for a chat and to play some songs from his new album.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Jess Klein – Cloud Song – Draw Them Near
Mike June – Let It Go (with Jon Dee Graham) – recorded live on UMFM
Mike Plume Band – Dimaggio – Fools for the Radio – CDN
Leaf Rapids – Galaxie 500 – recorded live on UMFM – CDN – WPG
Matt Epp – North Star – Ready in Time – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Matt Epp interview

Matt Epp – Promised Land – Luma – CDN
Matt Epp – Hard to Say – live performance – CDN
Matt Epp – Cash & Blood – live performance – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Matt Epp – Ready in Time – Ready in Time – CDN
Guy Clark – The Randall Knife – Dublin Blues
Drive-By Truckers – Outfit – Decoration Day
Steve Goodman – My Old Man – No Big Surprise: Anthology
Weddings Parties Anything – Father’s Day – Difficult Loves

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses) – Remember Me – The Low Highway
Loudon Wainwright III – A Year – Grown Man
Bobby Bare Jr. with Isabella Bare – Daddy, What If – Twistable, Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute To The Songs of Shel Silverstein
Syd Straw – My Daddy (Flies a Ship in the Sky) – Daddy-O Daddy: Rare Family Songs of Woody Guthrie
Catie Curtis – Dad’s Yard – Hello Stranger
Sean Rowe – My Little Man – Madman

Plenty of great shows to preview tonight, including next week’s long-awaited return of the Mike Plume Band, as well as some rockin’ classics. Good stuff.

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Artist – Title – Album

Charles Bradley – Why Is It So Hard – No Time for Dreaming
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – We Get Along – Give the People What they Want
Frazey Ford – Done – Indian Ocean
Leaf Rapids – Healing Feeling – Lucky Stars
Matt Epp – When You Know (Featuring Serena Ryder) – Learning to Lose Control
Matt Epp – Ready in Time – Ready in Time
Mike Plume – Coming Home Again (Hey Hey What D’Ya Say) – Red And White Blues
Mike Plume Band – It’s Over – Born So Long Ago Live 1997-2002
Mike Plume Band – Rich Man – Song And Dance, Man
Mike Plume Band – Radiate – Fools for the Radio
Matthew Ryan – Me & My Lover – East Autumn Grin
Chris Knight – Love and a .45 – Chris Knight
American Aquarium – Hurricane – Small Town Hymns
The Jayhawks – The Eyes Of SarahJane – Rainy Day Music
Drive-By Truckers – Danko/Manuel – The Dirty South
Jason Isbell – Stockholm (w/Kim Richey) – Southeastern

Some beautiful classics to start things off, including one so good, I had to play it twice! Today is the birthday of two fine folks, Christina Martin and our pal and longtime supporter Dietmar Leibecke, so a tribute to each is in order!

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Artist – Title – Album

Radiogram – All the Way Home – Summer Song Summer
Jim Bryson – Flowers – Where the Bungalows Roam
Shannon Lyon – Nobody Else – The Lights Behind
Shannon Lyon – Nobody Else – The Lights Behind (so amazing, I had to play it twice!)
Fred Eaglesmith & The Flying Squirrels – Summerlea – Things Is Changin’
Del Barber – Miles and Years – Love Songs For The Last 20
Brock Zeman – Pulling your Sword – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back
Christina Martin – Cut It Out – Two Hearts
Christina Martin – Daisy – I Can Too
Christina Martin – Marina – Sleeping with a Stranger
Christina Martin – Somewhere With You – It’ll Be Alright
Leeroy Stagger – Carol – Depression River
Romi Mayes – Just Like the Rest – Achin In Yer Bones
Matt Epp & the Amorian Assembly – Never Have I Loved Like This – At Dawn
Jack Marks – The Dress Song – Two of Everything
Corin Raymond and the Sentimentals – Blue Mermaid Dress – live recording
John Southworth – Ode to the Morning Sky – Niagara
Danny Michel – Fireworks – In The Belly Of A Whale