On this, the last show of May, we celebrate June’s arrival, look ahead to some exciting concerts and spend a lot of time going through the backlog of great recently released music!

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

Mike June – Alright – The Blurst of Mike June

Kris Demeanor & his Crack Band – Airborne Bastard – Party All Night: Live at the Ironwood – CDN
Mike Plume – Wind At My Back – Song And Dance, Man – CDN
D.Rangers – June Off Of Drinkin’ – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell – Waiting On June – Begonias

Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Town Song – Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – CDN – WPG
Ridley Bent – Suicidewinder – Blam – CDN – WPG
Matt Epp – Ready In Time – single – CDN – WPG
Matt Epp And The Amorian Assembly – When You Know (Featuring Serena Ryder) – Learning to Lose Control – CDN – WPG
Matt Epp – Inside Out Man – Rolling Wave – CDN – WPG

Odds – Fall Guy – Crash The Time Machine – CDN
Jenn Grant – One Hit Wonders – Champagne Problems – CDN

Slow Leaves – Nothing Really Changes – Meantime – CDN – WPG
NQ Arbuckle – Wicked Thing – Love Songs for the Long Game – CDN
Raul Malo – Granada Boulevard – Say Less
Ags Connolly – Change My Mind – Siempre
Gabe Lee – Property Line – Drink the River
The Paper Kites – Hurts so Good – At The Roadhouse

Brandi Carlile – Home – single
Lori McKenna – Killing Me (feat. Hillary Lindsey) – 1988
Margo Cilker – Lowland Trail – Valley of Heart’s Delight
Anna Tivel – The Good Fight – Outsiders B Sides
Courtney Marie Andrews – These Are The Good Old Days – Loose Future

Eliza Gilkyson – Safety Zone – Home
Nels Andrews – Mr. Rabbit – single
Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors – Troubles – Strangers no More

We’re thoroughly enjoying the Victoria Day long weekend this year with some timely tunes, eagerly anticipated new music, songs about the troubles in my yard, and a whole lot of big, dumb, nostalgic rock.

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

Melissa McClelland – Victoria Day (May Flowers) – Victoria Day – CDN

Jeff Beadle – Victoria Day – single – CDN
The Warped 45s – Victoria Day – Matador Sunset – CDN
Melissa McClelland – Little Birds – Stranded In Suburbia – CDN

Darlingside – Birds Say – Birds Say
Abigail Lapell – Night Bird And Morning Bird – Hide nor Hair – CDN
Lynn Miles – Little Bird – Fall for Beauty – CDN
Kasey Chambers – Little Bird – Little Bird
Rheostatics – Little Bird, Little Bird – 2067 – CDN
Anne Janelle & James Hill – Ah, Poor Bird – single – CDN

NQ Arbuckle – Funny Bone – Love Songs for the Long Game – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Seven Year Itch – Love Songs for the Long Game – CDN
Mike Plume & Jenny Orenstein – Dance Ruby, Dance – single – CDN
Mike Plume Band – You Don’t Believe (That’s Something You Could Do) – single – CDN

The Nude Party – Ride On – Rides On
Jess Klein – Never Gonna Break Me – single
Lydia Loveless & Jason Hawk Harris – Portions For Foxes – single
Rilo Kiley – Love and War (11/11/46) – More Adventurous
Wild Moccasins – No Muse – Look Together
Neko Case – People Got A Lotta Nerve – Middle Cyclone

Scouting For Girls – Elvis Ain’t Dead – Scouting For Girls
Jeffrey Gaines – I Like You – Somewhat Slightly Dazed
The Jayhawks – Waiting for the Sun – Hollywood Town Hall
Luke Doucet – The Lovecats – Blood’s Too Rich – CDN
Paul Kelly – Won’t You Come Around – Ways & Means
Josh Ritter – Right Moves – The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter

Red Wanting Blue – White Snow – From The Vanishing Point
The Wallflowers – One Headlight – Bringing Down the Horse
Soul Asylum – Black Gold – Grave Dancers Union
Gin Blossoms – Found Out About You – New Miserable Experience
R.E.M. – The One I Love – Document

The Glorious Sons – White Noise – The Union – CDN
July Talk – Let Her Know – July Talk – CDN
The Four Horsemen – Rockin’ Is Ma Business – Nobody Said It Was Easy
Great White – Move It – Twice Shy
Brother Cane – And Fools Shine On – Seeds
The New Meanies – Scenic Anomaly – Three Seeds – CDN – WPG

Pre-recorded today as we’re celebrating some great moms today on Mother’s Day! In their honour, some songs for Mama, as well as talk about a bunch of live shows past and future, as well as some related classics and a whole lot more! Happy Day to all of the wonderful moms out there!

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

Loudon Wainwright III – My Mother And My Sweetheart – High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project

Crash Test Dummies – Afternoons & Coffeespoons – God Shuffled His Feet – CDN – WPG
The Replacements – Androgynous – Let It Be
XTC – Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead – Nonsuch

The Replacements – Can’t Hardly Wait – Pleased To Meet Me
The Replacements – Alex Chilton – Pleased To Meet Me
Big Star – When My Baby’s Beside Me – #1 Record
Big Star – The Ballad Of El Goodo – #1 Record

Cry Cry Cry – Cold Missouri Waters – Cry Cry Cry
James Keelaghan – Hillcrest Mine – Small Rebellions – CDN
James Keelaghan – Kiri’s Piano – History – The First 25 Years – CDN

James McMurtry – Red Dress – Live in Aught-Three
Ben de la Cour – In God We Trust … All Others Pay Cash – Shadow Land

Mary Gauthier – Drag Queens in Limousines – Drag Queens in Limousines

Gordon Lightfoot – Mama Said – Songbook – CDN
Ridley Bent – Mama – Buckles & Boots – CDN – WPG
Suzie Ungerleider – Mama – Oh Susanna – CDN
Post Script – Mama – If Not for You – CDN
William Prince – Mama – Earthly Days – CDN – WPG
Jim Bryson – Mama Tried – single – CDN

Anna Tivel – Alleyway – Small Believer
Jeffrey Martin – I Know What I Know – OurVinyl Sessions
Ondara – Lockdown On Date Night Tuesday – Folk n’ Roll Vol. 1: Tales Of Isolation
Great Lake Swimmers – Bodies and Minds – Bodies and Minds – CDN
Mike Plume – Dance Ruby Dance – single – CDN

A few cool live shows to talk about, an exciting new band to introduce, and a whole lot of love and respect for one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Gordon Lightfoot!

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

Rheostatics – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Melville – CDN

Crash Test Dummies – The Voyage – The Ghosts That Haunt Me – CDN – WPG
Crash Test Dummies – Here I Stand Before Me – God Shuffled His Feet – CDN – WPG
Ray LaMontagne – How Come – Trouble
Scott Nolan & Joanna Miller – Lay Down – North/South – CDN – WPG

Ratboys – Black Earth, WI – single
Ratboys – The Stanza – Happy Birthday, Ratboy
Chris Carmichael – Nowhere – Chris Carmichael – CDN – WPG

The Gourds – Lower 48 – Blood of the Ram

Johnny Cash – If You Could Read My Mind – American V – A Hundred Highways
Waylon Jennings – Long Way Back Home – Country-Folk
Anne Murray – Cotton Jenny – Talk It Over In The Morning – CDN
Ian & Sylvia – For Lovin’ Me – Folk Hits – CDN

Bill Bourne – Early Morning Rain – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Summer Side Of Life – Beautiful: A Tribute To Gordon Lightfoot – CDN
Lee Harvey Osmond – Oh, Linda – The Folk Sinner – CDN
The Warped 45s – Bitter Green – Turning Back The Pages Of My Sweet Shattered Dreams – CDN
Luke Doucet And The White Falcon – Sundown – Steel City Trawler – CDN – WPG
John Bottomley – The Way I Feel – Songs With The Ornamental Hermits – CDN

Gordon Lightfoot – Canadian Railroad Trilogy – Songbook – CDN
Gordon Lightfoot – Carefree Highway – Sundown – CDN
Gordon Lightfoot – Beautiful – Gord’s Gold – CDN
Ron Sexsmith – Stay Loose – Covered in Gold: 5.0, Side A – CDN
Stompin’ Tom Connors – Spin, Spin (Live) – Stompin’ Tom Live At The Horseshoe – CDN

Hey, hey, it’s almost May! We’re pre-recorded because we’re taking a trip waaaay out to Transcona today, but we’ll hear Mayday and other timely tunes, take a trip to the 25th anniversary Kilkenny Roots Festival, dive into the backlog of great new music that’s been accumulating, and more!

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

Sean Burns & Lost Country – Big Freightliner – Music for Taverns, Bars, And Honky Tonks – CDN – WPG

Sean Burns & Lost Country – Chaparral – A Bakersfield Half-Dozen – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Freightliner Fever – We Gotta Lotta Truckin’ To Do – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Town Song – single – CDN – WPG

Blue Rodeo – 5 Days In May – Five Days In July – CDN
Matthew Ryan – Watch Your Step – Mayday
Matthew Ryan – Guilty – Mayday
The Damnwells – cinco de mayo – DWs Demos and Rarities
Scott Nolan – No Bourbon & Bad Radio – North/South – CDN – WPG

Chuck Prophet – Jesus Was a Social Drinker – Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins
William The Conqueror – Somebody Else – Excuse Me While I Vanish
Austin Lucas – Wrong Side of the Dream (feat. Lydia Loveless) – Between the Moon & the Midwest
Fantastic Cat – Nobody’s Coming To Get You – The Very Best of Fantastic Cat

Del Barber – Something To Say – Almanac – CDN – WPG
Ben de la Cour – American Mind – Sweet Anhedonia
Malcolm Holcombe – Bits and Pieces – Bits & Pieces
Anna Tivel – American Novella – Outsiders B Sides
Evangeline Gentle – Sarah – single – CDN

Paul Kelly – Quarantine – Poetry
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Cast Iron Skillet – Weathervanes
Steve Earle – Make Me A Pallet – I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100
Parker Millsap – Wilderness Within You (feat. Gillian Welch) – Wilderness Within You
Bella White – Flowers On My Bedside – Among Other Things – CDN
Jenn Grant – All of This Time w/Bahamas – single – CDN

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – El Dorado – City of Gold
Great Lake Swimmers – Uncertain Country – Uncertain Country – CDN

What used to be pretty commonplace on this show has become all too rare, as we haven’t welcomed a live performer into the studio to chat and play some songs, I believe since Pledge-O-Rama, Oct. of 2019! What better way to get back in the swing of things than by welcoming the great Martyn Joseph back for another wide-ranging conversation and some terrific live songs! As if that weren’t enough, chauffeur to the stars and former UMFM co-host T-Bar was along for the ride. We also had time for a few new songs, including Record Store Day finds, and a Blair Packham birthday appreciation set!

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

Martyn Joseph – Felt So Much – 1960

Martyn Joseph interview
Martyn Joseph – Trying to Grow – live performance
Martyn Joseph – When We Get Through This – live performance
Martyn Joseph – Albert’s Place – live performance
Martyn Joseph – Whoever It Was That Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home – Whoever It Was That Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home

Andrina Turenne – Out Of Luck – Bold As Logs – CDN – WPG
Lucinda Williams – Stolen Moments – Stories from a Rock ‘n’ Roll Heart
Jeremie Albino – You I’m Waiting On – single – CDN
Odds – Crash the Time Machine – Crash the Time Machine – CDN

The Jitters – I Love Her Now – Louder Than Words – CDN
The Jitters – That’s When I Need You – The Jitters – CDN
Blair Packham – Everything That’s Good – Everything That’s Good – CDN
Blair Packham – One-Hit Wonder – Could’ve Been King – CDN

Junkhouse – Praying for the Rain – Strays – CDN
Son Volt – Dynamite Woman – Day of the Doug: The Songs of Doug Sahm
Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires – Beeswing – The Sound Emporium EP

New music including a couple of eagerly anticipated new albums from a couple of friends/favourites, we preview some upcoming shows, and seek answers for a problem that’s plaguing me in my otherwise lovely new home!

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

Del Barber – The Sparrow and the Crow – Prairieography – CDN – WPG

Del Barber – One Good Year – Almanac – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Flash In The Pan – Almanac – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Maria – Almanac – CDN – WPG

Ben de la Cour – Suicide of Town – Sweet Anhedonia
Ben de la Cour – Birdcage – Sweet Anhedonia
Ben de la Cour – I’ve Got Everything I Ever Wanted – Sweet Anhedonia

Christina Martin – Little Princess – single – CDN
Lucinda Williams – New York Comeback (w/Bruce Springsteen) – Stories From a Rock n Roll Heart
Melissa Payne – So Real – single – CDN
Tim Easton – Sliver of Light – single
Slow Leaves – American Band – single – CDN – WPG

Martyn Joseph – Albert’s Place – single
Martyn Joseph – Wichita Lineman – 1960 Acoustic
Martyn Joseph – Down To The Well – 1960

Ralph Stanley – Wild Geese Cry – This Is Americana
the wicks – geese – clouds – CDN
Townes Van Zandt – Black Crow Blues – In the Beginning…
Lindi Ortega – Murder Of Crows – Cigarettes & Truckstops – CDN
Nathan – Scarecrow – Key Principles – CDN – WPG
Nels Andrews – Denim Scarecrow – Sunday Shoes
Turnpike Troubadours – The Bird Hunters – Turnpike Troubadours
The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt – The Wild Hunt

Band Of Horses – Marry Song – Cease to Begin
The Hold Steady – Constructive Summer – Stay Positive

New music, concert announcements and rumours, requests, we celebrate real love and the real, unsung heroes of the new music documentary that everyone is talking about, and more!

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

NQ Arbuckle – All Apologies – Love Songs for the Long Game – CDN

The Watchmen – Stereo (Live Acoustic) – Silent Radar Super Deluxe Edition – CDN – WPG
Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives – Country Star – Altitude
Matthew Logan Vasquez – Untouchable – As All Get Out
Esther Rose – Spider – Safe to Run
Whitney Rose – My Own Jail – single – CDN

Craig Finn – Messing with the Settings – A Legacy of Rentals
Vivat Virtute – Do Not Worry – Hold Music – CDN – WPG
Jim Bryson – Before When – single – CDN
Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – Metal Girls – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN

Joe Nolan – The Losing Game – Lost Verses – CDN
Skinny Dyck – Dreamin’ – Get to Know Lonesome – CDN

Peter Case – Have You Ever Been In Trouble? – Doctor Moan
Elliott BROOD – The Banjo Song – Northern Companion – CDN

Drive-By Truckers – Home Field Advantage – Brighter Than Creations Dark
Shonna Tucker and Eye Candy – Your Jealousy – A Tell All
Shonna Tucker and Eye Candy – A Family Dinner – A Tell All
Amanda Shires – Bad Behavior – Take It Like A Man
Amanda Shires – The Problem (feat. Jason Isbell) – single
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – White Man’s World – The Nashville Sound

The Teskey Brothers – This Will Be Our Year – Take My Heart
Merle Haggard – Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver) – Big City
Buck Owens – Act Naturally – The Buck Owens Story, Volume 1: 1956-1964

Timely tunes, new music aplenty, a set in honour of this weekend’s CFMAs, recent vinyl finds, and more!

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

Strays Don’t Sleep – April’s Smiling at Me – Strays Don’t Sleep

Kipp Kocay – April – April and Other Months – CDN – WPG
Jason White – April – The Longing
John Prine – Spanish Pipedream – John Prine
Merle Haggard & The Strangers – Sing Me Back Home – Sing Me Back Home
John Bottomley – Long Way To Go – Blackberry – CDN

Blaze Foley – Clay Pigeons – The Complete Outhouse Sessions: Night One (Live)
Ags Connolly – Headed South for a While – single
Skydiggers – Come to My Senses – single – CDN
Ken Yates – Ordinary Life – single – CDN
Darling West & Matthew Logan Vasquez – Light Ahead – single

Kris Ulrich – Big in the USA – single – CDN – WPG
Mise En Scene – Reality Bites – single – CDN – WPG – WPG
Taylor Ashton – Running Up That Hill – Pizza Tickets – CDN

Sue Foley – New Used Car – New Used Car – CDN
Shooter Jennings – Walk Of Life – Country Rock: Part 1
The No Ones – Phil Ochs is Dead – My Best Evil Friend
Eilen Jewell – Crooked River – Get Behind the Wheel
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Middle of the Morning – Weathervanes

Kyle McKearney – Annie – Down-Home – CDN
John Wort Hannam – Old Friend – Long Haul – CDN
Abigail Lapell – Stolen Time – Stolen Time – CDN
Amanda Rheaume – Do About Her – The Spaces In Between – CDN
Suzie Ungerleider – Ships – My Name is Suzie Ungerleider – CDN
Madison Violet – The Sycamore – Eleven – CDN

Willie P Bennett – Willie’s Diamond Joe – Tryin’ to Start out Clean – CDN
Lyle Lovett – Closing Time – Lyle Lovett
Jason Collett – No Redemption Song – Here’s to Being Here – CDN

Pre-recorded this week as I’m off on a family road trip, and to commemorate that, a show full of road/driving/highway/travelling classics from a bunch of our favourites!

This week’s show is one of those timeless standby episodes that you might hear again someday, but I’m hoping that you’ll enjoy it so much that you won’t even mind.

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

Fred Eaglesmith – The Highway Callin’ – From The Paradise Motel – CDN

Fred Eaglesmith – Ninety-Nine Miles An Hour – Indiana Road – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – 105 – Lipstick Lies & Gasoline – CDN
Willie P Bennett – White Line – Tryin’ To Start Out Clean – CDN
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Born To Be A Traveller – Bark – CDN

Stephen Fearing – The Longest Road – The Assassin’s Apprentice – CDN
Skydiggers – Drive Away – Road Radio – CDN
The Cash Brothers – Nebraska – How Was Tomorrow – CDN
Kings Of The Moon – Drive So Far – Kings Of The Moon – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – Drive Day – Canadian Amplifier – CDN – WPG

Nathan – Trans Am – Key Principles – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Yellowhead Road – Prairieography – CDN – WPG
Romi Mayes – Hard Road – Achin In Yer Bones – CDN – WPG
Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Road Rage – Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – CDN – WPG

Mike Plume – Looking For You: A Travelogue Of Sorts – A Drive Thru Record Volume II – CDN
Peter Case – Travellin’ Light – The Man With The Blue Postmodern fragmented neo-traditionalist Guitar
John Hiatt – Drive South – Slow Turning
Jim Bryson – Travelled By Land – The Occasionals – CDN
John Blek & the Rats – Don’t Take The Road I’ve Taken – Leave Your Love At The Door

Lynn Miles – Night Drive – Love Sweet Love – CDN
Patty Griffin – Long Road – 1000 Kisses
Melissa Payne – The Long Road – Darker Than Your Dark – CDN
Oh Susanna – Back Dirt Road – Johnstown – CDN
Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Ana Egge – Driving With No Hands – Bad blood – CDN

Robert Earl Keen – The Road Goes On Forever – West Textures
Chris Knight – Me and This Road – The Jealous Kind
Paul Kelly – Keep On Driving – Stolen Apples