Some songs I’ve been bingeing this week, timely tunes, new music, requests, some leftovers from last week’s Essential Albums special, and some old classics. Fun stuff!

Listening suggestions
Boots & Saddle Show: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/bootsandsaddle/
Dagwood Radio: umfm.com/programming/shows/dagwood-radio
Heavyweight: pushkin.fm/podcasts/heavyweight
Last week’s special episode: tellthebandtogohome.com/2026/10/11/podcast-october-11-2026-essential-albums/

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

Luke Doucet And The White Falcon – Motorbike – Blood’s Too Rich – CDN

Tom Waits – Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards) – Closing Time
Tom Waits – Martha – Closing Time
Cam Penner – She’s In My Head – Trouble & Mercy – CDN
Jenny Orenstein – Ice Cream – Astroturf – CDN
The Everly Brothers – Roving Gambler – Songs Our Daddy Taught Us

Kings Of The Moon – Leaves – Kings Of The Moon – CDN – WPG
Ryland Moranz – Israel – Xo, 1945 – CDN
The Weakerthans – Sun in an Empty Room – Reunion Tour – CDN – WPG
Arts Fishing Club – Who Are You – Pocket Full Of Mumbles

Boy Golden – Meadowsweet (Acoustic) – Best of Our Possible Lives (Deluxe) – CDN – WPG
FONTINE – Imposter – single – CDN – WPG

The Sways – Someday We Will Dream About Today – Are We Already There?
Amble – Church Bells – Church Bells
Olivia Wolf & Buddy Miller – Galilee – Snake of Diamonds
Cara Luft – My Heart Will Always Be – My Heart Will Always Be – CDN – WPG

John Blek – Living Slow – Digressions #4 Living Slow
Jordie Lane – Habitual – Habitual
David Newbould – All I’ve Got In Front Of Me Is The Past – All I’ve Got In Front Of Me Is The Past – CDN
Deer Tick & The Felice Brothers – Run Chicken Run – Felice County Fair (A Celebration of The Felice Brothers)
The Decemberists – The Better Part Of Bravery – Wildwood Soundtrack

Billy Bragg & Wilco – Aginst Th’ Law (Alternate Version) – Mermaid Avenue The Complete Sessions
Wilco – Far, Far Away – Being There
Son Volt – Last Minute Shakedown – Straightaways

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Lace and Pretty Flowers – High or Hurtin’: The Songs of Willie P. Bennett – CDN
Willie P. Bennett – Breaking The Silence – Take My Own Advice – CDN
Guy Clark – The Cape – Dublin Blues
John Hiatt – Real Fine Love – Stolen Moments

Richard & Linda Thompson – For Shame Of Doing Wrong – Pour Down Like Silver
Neko Case – The Tigers Have Spoken – The Tigers Have Spoken
Jay Farrar & Kelly Willis – Travelin’ Light – The Other Bob a Tribute to Bob Neuwirth
R.E.M. – Wall of Death – New Adventures In Hi-Fi (25th Anniversary Edition)
River Shook – Country Angel – Country Angel

Catherine MacLellan – The Long Way Home – Church Bell Blues – CDN
Gene MacLellan – The Call – Gene MacLellan – CDN
Al Tuck – Feeling Single, Seeing Double – Fair Country – CDN
Old Man Luedecke – Joy Of Cooking – Hinterland – CDN
Steven Bowers – Comfortably Sweet (feat. Christina Martin) – Circadian Anthem EP – CDN
Ron Hynes – Godspeed (Requiem for Gene MacLellan) – Face To The Gale – CDN

The latest music nerd social media trend, My9, which asks users to “Pick the 9 albums that made you” is equal parts infuriating and intriguing. How could you ever boil down a lifetime of music to 9 albums? Well, it turns out that I absolutely cannot. I made 4 different lists of 9 and still left dozens out. Today on the show, we hear music from a bunch of albums that made me, and once again, failed to even come close to covering them all.

Scroll down to see my social media images, and then go make your own; I’d love to see it!

To see even more from my lists, you can check out the playlists that represent my different eras:

Early Influences

Middle Period/Great Awakening

Modern Favourites

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

Men at Work – It’s a Mistake – Cargo

Supertramp – The Logical Song – Breakfast in America
Corey Hart – Eurasian Eyes – Boy In The Box – CDN
Huey Lewis & the News – Finally Found a Home – Sports
Honeymoon Suite – New Girl Now – Honeymoon Suite – CDN

Derek & The Dominos – I Looked Away – Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – Love Struck Baby – Texas Flood
The Jeff Healey Band – My Little Girl – See the Light – CDN
Pat Travers – Women on the Edge of Love – Hot Shot

The Pursuit of Happiness – Hard to Laugh – Love Junk – CDN
The Smithereens – Blues Before and After – 11
Loverboy – Friday Night – Lovin’ Every Minute Of It – CDN
Van Halen – Light up the Sky – Van Halen II
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Pump It Up – This Year’s Model

Kings of the Moon – Coming Home – Kings of the Moon – CDN – WPG
Spirit of the West – Profiteers – Labour Day – CDN
Rheostatics – Record Body Count – Melville – CDN
Lowest of the Low – Salesmen, Cheats and Liars – Shakespeare My Butt… – CDN
The Weakerthans – Watermark – Left and Leaving – CDN – WPG

Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories – Stay – Tails
Sarah Harmer – Around this Corner – You Were Here – CDN
Lucinda Williams – Metal Firecracker – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Nathan – Australia – Stranger – CDN – WPG
Oh Susanna – Home Soon (The Cherry Song) – Johnstown – CDN

Jimmy Lafave – I Walk Along with You – Buffalo Return to the Plains
Danny Michel – Toledo – In the Belly of a Whale – CDN
Slaid Cleaves – Broke Down – Broke Down
Shannon Lyon – Naive – Wandered – CDN
John Bottomley – You Lose and you Gain – Blackberry – CDN

Jim Bryson – Feel Much Better – The North Side Benches – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – 12 Bellevue – Failer – CDN
Mike Plume Band – Wind at My Back – Song and Dance, Man – CDN
Joel Stewart and the Future Hall of Famers – Our Finest Hour – Songs for Stadiums – CDN
Skydiggers – Radio Waves – Road Radio – CDN

The Wailin’ Jennys – One Voice – 40 Days – CDN – WPG
Brandi Carlile – Josephine – The Story
Christina Martin – You Come Home – Two Hearts – CDN
Terra Lightfoot – Paradise – New Mistakes – CDN
Leaf Rapids – Healing Feeling – Lucky Stars – CDN – WPG

Sean Burns – Gasoline – It Takes Luck To Get The Best Of Me – CDN – WPG
Brock Zeman – Pulling your Sword – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN
JP Hoe – Nicest – The Dear John Letters – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – If I Told You that I Loved You – Love Songs for the Last 20 – CDN – WPG

New music, trucking songs in honour of 10/4, and an hour of feel-good favourites guaranteed to make you forget about your problems for a while!

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

Martin Tielli – Cruelty – single – CDN

Angela Autumn – Electric Lizard – Believer
Kiki Cavazos – I’m Gone – Early Mountain Songs
Kaitlin Butts – What More Could You Want – Hello, Honky Tonk
Dala – Love With A Broken Heart – The Big Bang – CDN

Ian Noe – What I’d Give – Canyon Falls Trailer Band
Flatland Cavalry – Life, Love, and Happiness (Entertainer’s Lament) – Work of Heart: Heartstrings
Martyn Joseph – If I Should Fall – Revolved

The Secret Beach – If You Don’t Love Me, Let Me Go – We were born here, what’s your excuse? – CDN – MB
Dan Mangan – Post-War Blues – Oh Fortune – CDN
Dan Mangan – Robots – Nice, Nice, Very Nice – CDN
Dan Mangan – So Much for Everyone – recorded live on UMFM – CDN

Sean Burns & Lost Country – Big(ger) Freightliner – We Gotta Lotta Truckin’ To Do – CDN – WPG
Parker Millsap – Truck Stop Gospel – Parker Millsap
Son Volt – Looking at the World Through a Windshield – A Retrospective 1995-2000
Junior Brown – Highway Patrol – Junior High
Junior Brown – Broke Down South Of Dallas – 12 Shades Of Brown
Red Sovine – Phantom 309 – Phantom 309

Fred Eaglesmith – Water In The Fuel – Lipstick, Lies And Gasoline – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – 18 Wheels – Milly’s Café – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Trucker Speed – 6Volts – CDN
David Francey – Highway – Far End Of Summer – CDN
David Francey – Border Line (feat. David Francey) – Torn Screen Door – CDN

Richard Shindell – The Kenworth Of My Dreams – Sparrows Point
The Bottle Rockets – Highway 70 Blues – Bit Logic
Mayhemingways – Frances the Truck Driver – Skip Land – CDN

Caroline Rose – Yip Yip Yow – Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall
The Mountain Goats – Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds – Days
The Burning Hell – Amateur Rappers – People – CDN
Plastic Bertrand – Ca plane pour moi – Plastic Bertrand
Fontaines D.C. – Boys in the Better Land – Dogrel

Donnie Iris – Ah! Leah! – Back on the Streets
Nick Lowe – Cruel to Be Kind – Labour of Lust
Doug and the Slugs – Day by Day – Slugcology 101 – CDN
Toronto – Ready To Make Up – Girls Night Out – CDN
The New Pornographers – Letter From An Occupant – Mass Romantic – CDN

Paul Kelly – Dumb Things – Under the Sun
Rose Tattoo – All the Lessons – Assault & Battery
Frank Turner – Reasons Not to Be an Idiot – Love Ire & Song
Junkhouse – Be Someone – Birthday Boy – CDN
Jeremy Messersmith – Lazy Bones – The Reluctant Graveyard

High school nostalgia, an unexpected listening party for a Canadian classic, a show that I found rather disappointing, new music, we say thanks & goodbye to the great David Corley, and we preview the eagerly anticipated return of Carter Felker along with his pals in Starpainter!

Chris Brown & Kate Fenner‘s Geronimo: katefennerandhughchristopherbrown.bandcamp.com/album/geronimo

David Corley: davidcorley.bandcamp.com

Starpainter & Carter Felker: sidestagewpg.com/tm-event/starpainter-sam-singer-carter-felker

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

NQ Arbuckle – Happy Birthday – Hanging the Battle-Scarred Piñata – CDN

Kings Of The Moon – Procrastination – Kings Of The Moon – CDN – WPG
Duck Shot Hunter – Lines – Duck Shot Hunter – CDN – WPG

Lyle Lovett – Closing Time – Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett – Walk Through The Bottomland – Pontiac
Lyle Lovett – Simple Song – Pontiac
Lyle Lovett – Just The Morning – I Love Everybody

Chris Brown & Kate Fenner – While You Sleep – Geronimo – CDN
Chris Brown & Kate Fenner – My Love Is not Waiting – Geronimo – CDN
Chris Brown & Kate Fenner – Margaret – Geronimo – CDN

Jim Bryson – in six (Plush Finley) – LOWER THAN FI – Volume 1 – CDN
Todd Snider – Freewheelin’ (Every Day at a Time) – My Second Rodeo
Matthew Barber – These Days – Find The Time – CDN

Chip Taylor – Don’t Let It Happen Again – single
Dan Reeder – I will be blowing more jazz in the future – single
Noel McKay – Terrifically Vain – Songs About Bad People
Teddy Thompson – Call Your Girlfriend – single
Buddy Miller – Ruby Hang On (feat. Regina McCrary) – Buddy Miller

Damhnait Doyle – Bad Bad Women – Bird in Flames – CDN
Lydia Loveless – Accolades – Accolades
Julia Jacklin – Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon) – The Gem
Garrison Starr – It’s Alright – The Gospel Truth
Hannah Aldridge – Birds of Paradise – single

Starpainter – I Found a River – Cayenne Flowerbed – CDN
Rayland Baxter – Bolly Plateau – True Violet
Joey Frendo – Two Steps – single
Jack Browning – Muhlenberg County Stars (Acoustic) – Painted Skies – CDN
Jake Xerxes Fussell – Rock Island Line – The Old Beloved Path

David Corley – Easy Mistake – Available Light
David Corley – Pullin’ Off The Wool – Lights Out
David Corley – Whirl – Zero Moon
David Corley – Take Me Down Some – live recording

Stephen Stanley Band – 40 Endings – Jimmy & the Moon – CDN
Hugh Christopher Brown – Moved by Hands to Shelter – Pacem – CDN
David Corley – To Live Is to Fly (feat. Sarah McDermott & Hugh Christopher Brown) – When the Wind Blows: The Songs of Townes Van Zandt

Carter Felker – Everyday Life – Everyday Life – CDN
Carter Felker – Living Free – Even The Happy Ones Are Sad – CDN
Carter Felker – Losing Hand – Loser – CDN
Carter Felker – I Can’t Believe – Skinny Dyck & Friends: Twenty One-Nighters – CDN

We’ve got your official AC/DC pre-game show with some covers, previews of other shows more up our alley, including appearances by Jeff Plankenhorn, aka J. Plank, who has played with a long list of our favourites, so we picked out some highlights. We’ve also got new music and some leftovers from last week’s 2001 special!

J Plank: jplankmusic.com

Last week’s special episode: https://wp.me/p1lizT-hwt

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

Bob Schneider – Highway to Hell – The Texas Bluegrass Massacre

Kathleen Edwards – Money Talks – Live From The Bowery Ballroom – CDN
Lucinda Williams – It’s A Long Way To The Top – Little Honey
Barney Bentall & The Legendary Hearts – U Shook Me All Night Long – Greatest Hits: 1986-1996 – CDN
Hayseed Dixie – T.N.T. – A Hillbilly Tribute to ACDC
The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan – Angus Young Is a Rock and Roll Man – Good Songs About People Who Make Good Songs Always

Daniel James McFadyen – Hurt My Heart – Back to the Country – CDN
Hendrika – Wasted – I Can’t Remember – CDN
Guy Clark – Waltzing Fool – My Favorite Picture Of You
Lyle Lovett – Step Inside This House – Step Inside This House
Lyle Lovett – Anyhow, I Love You – This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark
Tony Furtado – If I Had A Boat (feat. Ben Demerath) – Full Circle

Sean Burns & Lost Country – Second Time Around – Better Off In Time & Other Songs For The Dance Floor – CDN – WPG

J. Plank – The Closer – single – CDN
Jeff Plankenhorn – Holy Lightning (feat. Patty Griffin) – Sleeping Dogs – CDN
Jeff Plankenhorn – Like Flowers (feat. Ruthie Foster) – Soulslide – CDN
Jeff Plankenhorn – Home Again – Plank – CDN

Jeff Plankenhorn – Thirty Years of Farming – Eaglesmith: The Songs of Fred Eaglesmith, a Tribute – CDN
Scott Nolan – Rain – Highway Prayer: A Tribute to Adam Carroll – CDN – WPG
Hayes Carll – Easy Come Easy Go – Flowers and Liquor
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Black Dog – Eternal And Lowdown
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Prayer – Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ there as Fast as I Can

Joe Ely – Odds of the Blues (feat. Bruce Springsteen) – Driven to Drive
Jimmy LaFave & Ribbon of Highway Cast – Do Re Mi – Ribbon of Highway
Eliza Gilkyson – Borderline – Paradise Hotel
Slaid Cleaves – Below – Wishbones
O’Connor & Plank – Melancholy in D – New Sunlight

Ruby Plume – Always The Same – single – CDN
Katie Pruitt – Fools for the Fleeting – Fools for the Fleeting
Beth Orton – Waiting – The Ground Above
Damhnait Doyle – Bad Bad Women – single – CDN
Belle Plaine – The Weather – single – CDN

Suzie Ungerleider – Kings Road – Sleepy Little Sailor – CDN
Luke Doucet – Mitzi’s – Aloha, Manitoba – CDN
Ron Sexsmith – This Song – Blue Boy – CDN
The Kelele Brothers – The Joker (That’s What They Call Me) – Escape From Bover County – CDN

Brothers Cosmoline – Motel 6 – Songs Of Work And Freedom – CDN
Jenny Whiteley – Soda Machine – Jenny Whiteley – CDN
James Keelaghan – Sinatra and I – Home – CDN
Charlie Robison – The Wedding Song (Duet with Natalie Maines) – Step Right Up

It’s been 25 years since the tragic events of 9/11. Much has been said about the profound losses and changes to all of our lives after that day. It also happened to be a music new release day, and a bunch of great albums were released that day and quickly overshadowed by what was going on in the world. Today we listen back to some of that great music and then widen the focus to listen to musical memories from a year of great joys and sorrows.

Fools for the Radio by Mike Plume Band: https://mikeplume.bandcamp.com/album/fools-for-the-radio
Mike Plume Band live in Winnipeg, 2001: https://mikeplume.bandcamp.com/album/live-the-west-end-cultural-centre-12-21-2001
Read Mike’s incredible 9/11 story: https://www.mikeplume.com/9-11/

This is one of our standby series of episodes that are meant to be timeless, so we can pop them into the schedule again some time when I can’t be at the studio live, so enjoy this one now and again!

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

Mike Plume Band – Dreamer – Fools for the Radio – CDN

Mike Plume Band – Promise Me You’ll Never Tell – Fools For The Radio – CDN
John Hiatt – I’ll Never Get Over You – The Tiki Bar Is Open
Ben Folds – Losing Lisa – Rockin’ The Suburbs
Robert Earl Keen – Not A Drop Of Rain – Gravitational Forces
Nick Lowe – Lately I’ve Let Things Slide – The Convincer
Martin Tielli – I’ll Never Tear You Apart – We Didn’t Even Suspect He Was the Poppy Salesman – CDN

Rheostatics – Mumbletypeg – The Night of the Shooting Stars – CDN
Hawksley Workman – Your Beauty Must Be Rubbing Off – (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves – CDN
Danny Michel – Fireworks – In the Belly of a Whale – CDN
CAKE – Short Skirt / Long Jacket – Comfort Eagle
Bob Schneider – Bullets – Lonelyland
Tom Wilson – Shine Your Star – Planet Love – CDN

Colin Linden – The Last Thought – Big Mouth – CDN
Gillian Welch – My First Lover – Time (The Revelator)
Kim Barlow – Give Me a Kiss (You Dirty Old Bugger) – Gingerbread – CDN
The Be Good Tanyas – Light Enough to Travel – Blue Horse – CDN
Harry Manx – Bring That Thing – Dog My Cat – CDN

Lester Quitzau – Rollin’ & Tumblin’ – So Here We Are – CDN
The New Meanies – Northern Shore – Highways – CDN – WPG
John Mayer – Neon – Room For Squares
Sloan – The Other Man – Pretty Together – CDN
Remy Shand – Take A Message – The Way I Feel – CDN – WPG
The Watchmen – Soft Parade – Slomotion – CDN – WPG

Ryan Adams – New York, New York – Gold
Easily Amused – Social Song – Novice – CDN – WPG

Nathan – Glorious Exhaust – Stranger – CDN – WPG
Christine Fellows – A Day in the Road – The Last One Standing – CDN – WPG
Luke Doucet – Mitzi’s – Aloha, Manitoba – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – This Time – Postcards – CDN – WPG
The D. Rangers – D. Range Special – The D. Rangers – CDN – WPG

Fred Eaglesmith – Lucille – Ralph’s Last Show – CDN
The Co-Dependents – Devil Woman – Live Recording Event – CDN
The Good Brothers – What The Hell I’ve Got – One True Thing – CDN
The Sadies – Loved on Look – Tremendous Efforts – CDN
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Mother – Rebuild The Wall – CDN

Lucinda Williams – Essence – Essence
Lynn Miles – Over You – Unravel – CDN
Chris Brown & Kate Fenner – Pair of Twos – O Witness – CDN
David Francey – February Morning Drive – Far End Of Summer – CDN
The Cash Brothers – Night Shift Guru – How Was Tomorrow – CDN

Your long weekend playlist has arrived with loads of new music and a bunch of old classics. What more could you need?

Crackdown book: penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/700597/crackdown-by-garth-mullins/9780385674898

Crackdown podcast: crackdownpod.com

Sean Burns & Lost Country album release: ticketweb.ca/event/sean-burns-lost-country-sidestage-tickets/14967043

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

Mike Edel – Blue Above The Green – India, Seattle – CDN

Leeroy Stagger – Enemy Inside – Love Versus – CDN
Easton Stagger Phillips – Always Came Back to You – Resolution Road
Evan Phillips – Not Over You – single

Amyl and The Sniffers – Jerkin’ – Truth or Consequence (Live from El Coyote)
Noel McKay – The Midas Touch – single
Thomas Sticha – Damn, That’s Crazy – single
Joey Frendo – First Band – Harder than Dreaming
Low Dead Space – Steve Earle – Die in Vancouver – CDN
Dud – What I Say May Not Go – May Not Go (Unrealized Recordings from 1996) – CDN – WPG

Sean Burns & Lost Country – Second Time Around – Better Off In Time & Other Songs For The Dance Floor – CDN – WPG
Joel Stewart and the Future Hall of Famers – Our Finest Hour – Songs for Stadiums – CDN
Cam Penner – Pushing On – Crybaby – CDN
Paige Plaisance – Movin’ Out – Swampwater

Jenn Grant – Eye of the Tiger – single – CDN
Paul Kelly – Stardust – Seventy (Deluxe Edition)
Hayley Reardon – If I Had A Boat – single
Harry Manx – Water is Wide – Falling Upwards – CDN
Willow Avalon – You’re So Vain – single
case/lang/veirs – Hold On Hold On (Live) – case/lang/veirs (10th Anniversary Edition)

Kacy Lee Anderson – Giving In – Hello, I’m Irrelevant – CDN
Madi Diaz – Feel Something – Fatal Optimist (UN-unplugged)
Mama’s Broke – Failing – Reunion – CDN
Molly Tuttle – Rosalee (Acoustic) – So Long Little Miss Sunshine
The Dusky Suns – Ripple – single – CDN – WPG

Kacey Musgraves & Willie Nelson – Uncertain, TX – Middle of Nowhere
Guy Clark – Uncertain Texas – Better Days
Willie Nelson – Stuff That Works – Oh What A Beautiful World

John Blek – Autumn’s Lament – Digressions #4 – Living Slow EP
The Sways – All I Ever Wanted Was You – single
Buddy Miller – As Long as I Have You – Buddy Miller
Rayland Baxter – Better Man – single
Ian Noe – Leeann – Canyon Falls Trailer Band
Mary Gauthier – Alcohol and Adderall – Reckonking

Stan Rogers – The Field Behind The Plow – Northwest Passage – CDN
Willie P. Bennett – Music In Your Eyes – Tryin’ To Start Out Clean – CDN
David Francey – Red-Winged Blackbird – Torn Screen Door – CDN
Kieran Kane – In a Town This Size – Six Months, No Sun
James Keelaghan – Cold Missouri Waters – A Recent Future – CDN
Cry Cry Cry – Shades Of Gray – Cry Cry Cry
Dar Williams – It’s Alright – Promised Land
Indigo Girls – Pendulum Swinger – Despite Our Differences

20 years of Air Stereo, new music, a comprehensive tribute to the great Wyckham Porteous, who left us recently, and a bit of Dolly, because the world needs more people like Dolly.

Damnwells Air Stereo documentary: https://youtu.be/8uIm6r6O1dQ?si=hknuHkaXXiM7HJAT

Sean Burns & Lost Country album release: ticketweb.ca/event/sean-burns-lost-country-sidestage-tickets/14967043

The only Dolly tribute you really need: Listen (2:00) View Playlist

Consider making a tax-deductible donation to one of the causes I’m supporting this month:

Great Cycle Challenge (in support of SickKids and their fight against childhood cancer): greatcyclechallenge.ca/Riders/JeffRobson

Team 81 (in support of U-Turn Parkinsons and their support of Parkinsons patients in our community): team81.ca/jeff-robson

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

Jim Bryson – Ontario – Somewhere We Will Find Our Place – CDN

The Damnwells – I’ve Got You – Air Stereo
The Damnwells – You Don’t Have to Like Me to Love Me (tonight) – Air Stereo
The Damnwells – I Am a Leaver – Air Stereo

Mariel Buckley – Sunflowers – Strange Trip Ahead – CDN
Paige Plaisance – Waiting – single
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Better Off In Time – Better Off In Time & Other Songs For The Dance Floor – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Stop! – Better Off In Time & Other Songs For The Dance Floor – CDN – WPG

Cam Penner – Come Dance with Me – Crybaby – CDN
Lake Street Dive – You’re Never Around – Laundry Day Overalls / You’re Never Around
Grey DeLisle & Les Greene – I’m Gonna Let You Call Me Baby – Grey & Greene
Grey DeLisle – The Lights Are off but Somebody’s Home – The Lights Are off but Somebody’s Home
Shinyribs – Arkansas Mud – single

Wyckham Porteous – Somebody Gonna Dance – Wyckham Porteous – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Blind Love – Could It Be My Road? – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – 3 a.m. – Looking for Ground – CDN

Wyckham Porteous – Jimmy Lafave – In this World – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – In this World – In this World – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – The First Time – sexanddrinking – CDN

Wyckham Porteous – Walk On – U ‘R’ Buddha – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – I Will Follow You – 3 a.m. – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Deep into the Water – 3 a.m. – CDN

BOP Ensemble – Husbands & Wives – Between Trains – CDN
Stellar Band of Neighbours – In Your Hands – Live at the Legion Hall – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Everyone Who Loves You – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Snow on the Hills – recorded live on UMFM – CDN

Wyckham Porteous – Song for John – live recording – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Take My Hand (feat. Sean Pugh) – single – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Christmas Day Song (feat. Sam Parton) – single – CDN

The Buried Heart Project – Streets Where You Live – single – CDN
Baba Brinkman – Never Cry Wolf (feat. Wyckham Porteous) – The Rap Guide to Wilderness – CDN
David Gogo – Where The Devil Won’t Go – Different Views – CDN

The Wailin’ Jennys – Light Of A Clear Blue Morning – The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom – CDN – WPG
Ana Egge & The Stray Birds – Wildflowers – Bright Shadow – CDN
Robbie Fulks – Jeannie’s Afraid Of The Dark – 13 Hillbilly Giants
Bettye LaVette – Little Sparrow – I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise

MacLean & MacLean – Dolly Parton’s Tits – Suck Their Way to the Top – CDN – WPG
Lee Hazlewood – Dolly Parton’s Guitar – Poet, Fool Or Bum/Back On The Street Again
Sarah Harmer – Islands in the Stream (with John K Samson, Bee Gees cover) – live recording – CDN

Memories of Trout Forest & recent shows, new music, and a look at Barney Bentall and some of his family and friends!

Consider making a tax-deductible donation to one of the causes I’m supporting this month:

Great Cycle Challenge (in support of SickKids and their fight against childhood cancer): greatcyclechallenge.ca/Riders/JeffRobson

Team 81 (in support of U-Turn Parkinsons and their support of Parkinsons patients in our community): team81.ca/jeff-robson

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

Madison Violet – Something To Live For – The Good In Goodbye – CDN

Hendrika – Alder – single – CDN
Hendrika – Being Around – I Can’t Remember – CDN
KC Is Lazy – Fire – single – CDN – WPG
Billie Zizi – Midnight Sun – Levitate – CDN

Sean Burns & Lost Country – Tables & Chairs – Better Off In Time And Other Songs For The Dance Floor – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns – Daddy Was an Auctioneer – It Takes Luck To Get The Best Of Me – CDN – WPG
Rob Waddell – Lights Off Too Fast – Everything Is From Now On – CDN – WPG

Dani-Rae Clark – Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge – Empty Plates For Desperate Men – CDN
Dani-Rae Clark – Wish It Was You – Empty Plates For Desperate Men – CDN
Kimmi Bitter – Bigsby Burnout (feat. Willis Farnsworth) – Bittersweet
Kimmi Bitter – Don’t Talk to Strangers – Bittersweet
Alex Lambert – Shoot Me Down – single
Ken Pomeroy – This Old Guitar – Tonight’s News

The Rose Hips – Spacey – Into The Garden
Trueblood – Paint a Picture – single
Caroline Rose – Yip Yip Yow – Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall
The Replacements – Bastards of Young – Tim
The Weakerthans – Plea from a Cat Named Virtute – Reconstruction Site – CDN – WPG

So Faint & Hannah Georgas – Fully Slow – single – CDN
Los Lobos – Paddi-Wack Song (feat. Jason Gutierrez & The JG3) – Three Stars Tribute: Honoring the Legacies of Rock & Roll Pioneers
Amble – Last Rites – Love and all its Wares
Goodnight, Texas – Argentina (Goodbye for Now) – single
Julian Taylor – Drive – single – CDN

Barney Bentall & The Legendary Hearts – Crime Against Love – Lonely Avenue – CDN
Barney Bentall & The Legendary Hearts – Like A Hurricane – Borrowed Tunes: A Tribute To Neil Young – CDN
Barney Bentall & Co. – Come Back To Me – The Grand Cariboo Opry – CDN

Barney Bentall – A Man Is – Gift Horse – CDN
Barney Bentall – Hold My Heart – The Inside Passage – CDN
Barney Bentall – The Ocean and You ( A song for John Mann) – The Drifter and the Preacher – CDN

High Bar Gang – Mothers Not Dead – Lost And Undone: A Gospel Bluegrass Companion – CDN
Wendy Bird – (Born To Be) Riding Only Down – Natural Wonder – CDN
RanchWriters – Bonaparte Plateau – RanchWriters – CDN
Spirit of The West – The Crawl – Tripping Up The Stairs – CDN

Dustin Bentall – The River Song – Streets With No Lights – CDN
The Dustin Bentall Outfit – Six Shooter – Six Shooter – CDN
Dustin Bentall & The Smøkes – Shine – You Are an Island – CDN
Ridley Bent – Nine Inch Nails – Buckles & Boots – CDN – WPG
Leeroy Stagger – Everything Is Real – Everything Is Real – CDN

Joe Satriani – Ride – Flying In A Blue Dream

Celebrating 20 festivals of amazing and diverse music in the woods at the Trout Forest Music Festival, programmed by our friend Devin Latimer! Devin took over booking the music for the festival in 2007, and I’ve been a regular attendee and a huge fan ever since! 2026 marks his 20th festival (including a couple of off-site festivals) and I thought it was worth a look back at some of my personal highlights from those festivals. Thank you Devin for coming up with one of the most impressive and entertaining lineups on a shoestring budget. It really is remarkable how great he’s done over the past 20 years. Here’s hoping for many more!

Trout Forest Music Festival: troutfest.com

About the Trout:

Trout Forest 2020: Trout on a Line:

Trout Forest 2021: Rolling Trout Revue:

check out Devin’s band, Leaf Rapids: leafrapids.org

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

Nathan – Let Them Look – Key Principles – CDN – WPG

Elliott BROOD – Chuckwagon – Mountain Meadows – CDN
Carolyn Mark – Fireworks (with NQ Arbuckle) – Just Married: An Album Of Duets – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Outside the Stars – The Last Supper in a Cheap Town – CDN

The New Meanies – Northern Shore – Highways – CDN – WPG
Ray Bonneville – Roll With the Punches – Rough Luck – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Deep Into The Water – 3 AM – CDN
Kevin Fox – Lightning – Come Alive – CDN

Matt Andersen – So Gone Now – Something In Between – CDN
Christina Martin – Daisy – I Can Too – CDN
Tannis Slimmon – Around Him – Lucky Blue – CDN
Jon Brooks – Mimico – Ours And The Shepherds – CDN

C.R. Avery – Folk Singer – The Great Canadian Novel – CDN
Geoff Berner – Phoney Drawl – Canadiana Grotesquica – CDN
Lynn Miles – Lesson in Everything – Downpour – CDN
Bourne & Macleod – Ole Buffalo – Dance & Celebrate – CDN

The Philosopher Kings – Coupe De Ville – Borrowed Tunes: A Tribute To Neil Young – CDN
Joe Nolan – Did Somebody Call the Cops – Tornado – CDN
Jim Bryson – Sleeping In Toronto – The North Side Benches – CDN
The 24th Street Wailers – Aim To Please – Wicked – CDN

Terra Lightfoot – Paradise – New Mistakes – CDN
Mayhemingways – Hunter St. Blues – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Campbell Woods – Picture of You – Keeper – CDN
Noah Derksen – don’t think twice, it’s all right – stolen serenades – CDN – WPG

Steve Poltz – Salt Suit – Noineen Noiny Noin – CDN
Scott Cook – Just Enough Empties – Tangle of Souls – CDN
Russell deCarle – She’s A Yum Yum – Alone In This Crowd – CDN
Andrew Neville and the Poor Choices – Two at a Time – Let’r Buck – CDN – WPG

Skinny Dyck – Dreamin’ – Get to Know Lonesome – CDN
Lindy – Beautifully Undone – Suspension of Disbelief – CDN – WPG
Begonia – Butterfly – Powder Blue – CDN – WPG
Evangeline Gentle – Underdog – Where The Diamonds Are – CDN

Jadea Kelly – Waiting for You (feat. Zoe Sky Jordan) – Weather Girl – CDN
Kris Ulrich – Friends on the Internet – Big in the USA – CDN – WPG
Greg MacPherson – Invisible – Balanced on a Pin – CDN – WPG
Mariel Buckley – Shooting at the Moon – Everywhere I Used to Be – CDN