Alex Dezen Birthday Bash, an exciting new local band, a returning longtime favourite band, some new stuff, a look ahead to Static Roots 2022, and we spin some songs about a woman’s right to choose, which we’re fully in favour of.

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

Sean Burns & Lost Country – Don’t Play with Fire – Music for Taverns, Bars, And Honky Tonks – CDN – WPG

The Damnwells – Kiss Catastrophe – Bastards Of The Beat
The Damnwells – Accidental Man – Air Stereo
The Damnwells – No One Listens to the Band Anymore – No One Listens To The Band Anymore
The Damnwells – Kentexas – The Damnwells

Show Pony – If I’m Really That Bad – single – CDN – WPG
Show Pony – Rising Sun – single – CDN – WPG

The Wooden Sky – The Wooden Sky – When Lost at Sea – CDN
The Wooden Sky – The Late King Henry – If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone – CDN
The Wooden Sky – It Gets Old To Be Alone – Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun – CDN

Mike Plume – Motorbike – The Song Harvester EP – Vol 1 – CDN
Will Hoge – John Prine’s Cadillac – Wings on my Shoes
Jake Vaadeland – Gonna Find My Baby – single – CDN

Mary Gauthier – Till I See You Again – Dark Enough to See the Stars
Treetop Flyers – Dance Through The Night – Palomino
Robert Jon & the Wreck – Tired of Drinking Alone – Last Light on the Highway
Vandoliers – Every Saturday Night – The Vandoliers

Jeffrey Gaines – Choices – Jeffrey Gaines
Jeffrey Gaines – I Didn’t Want To Be Daddy – Jeffrey Gaines
Ben Folds Five – Brick – Whatever and Ever Amen
Graham Parker – You Can’t Be Too Strong (Acoustic) – Squeezing out Sparks – 40th Anniversary Acoustic Version
Graham Parker & The Rumour – Coathangers – Three Chords Good

Loretta Lynn – The Pill – Back To The Country
Julie Miller – Dangerous Place – Meet Julie Miller
Dave Alvin – Plastic Rose – Blue Blvd.

How about that heat, huh? We got hit with a heck of a heatwave this weekend, and it was hard to think of anything else, so we’ve got a pile of “hot” songs today, as well as a bunch for those who were supposed to run the Manitoba Marathon today before the heat spoiled the party!

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

Chuck Prophet – Marathon – The Land That Time Forgot

Farm Fresh – My Ex-Girl – Time Is Running Out – CDN – WPG
Chuck Prophet – Hot Talk – ¡Let Freedom Ring!
Kill It Kid – Run – Feet Fall Heavy
The New Meanies – Summer Heats Us Up – 2005 Demos – CDN – WPG

Dave Alvin – Run Conejo Run – Eleven Eleven
Jon Langford & His Sadies – What Makes Johnny Run? – Mayors of the Moon
Lynne Hanson – Run Johnny Run – 7 Deadly Spins – CDN
Nick Rose – Run Tom Longboat – Oxbow Lake – CDN
Ana Egge & The Stray Birds – Jenny Run Away – Bright Shadow – CDN
Slaid Cleaves – Run Jolee Run – Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away

Todd Snider – Beer Run – New Connection
The Dustin Bentall outfit – Take the Money and Run – Six Shooter – CDN
Terra Lightfoot – No Hurry – Every Time My Mind Runs Wild – CDN

The Hold Steady – Hot Soft Light – Boys And Girls In America
The Rocky Fortune – Hot Black Blood – Back Of The Beeside – CDN
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet – Hot Boxcar – Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham – CDN
Sharkskin – Hothead – Sharkskin – CDN
Saun & Starr – Hot Shot – Look Closer
The Weepies – I Was Made For Sunny Days – Be My Thrill

Eilen Jewell – Too Hot To Sleep – Letters From Sinners & Strangers
Chloe Albert – Sunny Day Song – Dedicated State – CDN
Turnpike Troubadours – Long Hot Summer Days – Diamonds And Gasoline
Joe Purdy – Sunshine – This American
The Empty Standards – Sunshine – Waiting Out The Flood – CDN – WPG

Portage & Main – Good Morning Sunshine – Never Had the Time – CDN
Hoots & Hellmouth – West Of Where The Sun Goes Down – Hoots & Hellmouth
Paul Bergman – Sundogs – Anthropology – CDN – MB
Clem Snide – Heat of the Moment – unreleased
Thomas Trio and the Red Albino – Sun Rising – Thomas Trio and the Red Albino – CDN

Timely tunes, new music, a couple of exciting upcoming shows, and a big ol’ birthday party to wrap things up!

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

The Damnwells – cinco de mayo – DWs Demos and Rarities

Lyle Lovett – 12th of June – 12th of June
Mary Gauthier – Truckers and Troubadours – Dark Enough to See the Stars
Ani DiFranco – 32 Flavors (feat. Sara Lee & Andy Stochansky) – Living In Clip 25th Anniversary Edition
Elvis Costello & Rusty – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere / Dance Dance Dance – The Resurrection Of Rust

Madison Violet – Sweet Desperado – eleven – CDN
Lissie – Flowers (feat. Bre Kennedy) – Carving Canyons
Sierra Ferrell – Give It Time-Alt Version – single

Dennis Ellsworth – Come Back to Me (feat. Rose Cousins) – single – CDN
Bonny Light Horseman – California (feat. Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson & Josh Kaufman) – Rolling Golden Holy
Michaela Anne – Chasing Days – Oh To Be That Free
The Deslondes – South Dakota Wild One – Ways & Means

Blake Berglund – Crooked Old Earth – Realms – CDN
Ridley Bent – Hangtown – Ridley Bent and the Killer Tumbleweeds – CDN – WPG

D.Rangers – Three Barriers – We Stay High and Lonesome – CDN – WPG
The Stanley County Cutups – Lonesome River – The Stanley County Cutups EP – CDN – WPG
Leaf Rapids – Virginia – Citizen Alien – CDN – WPG
Shotgun Jimmie – Too Many Flowers – Transistor Sister – CDN – MB
Shotgun Jimmie – Skype Date – Everything, Everything – CDN – MB
The Perpetrators – Sweetgrass – Stick Em Up – CDN – WPG

Christina Martin – Falling for You – Sleeping with a Stranger – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Carol – Depression River – CDN
Wynntown Marshals – The End of the Golden Age – The End of the Golden Age
John Blek & The Rats – Wandering Child – Borders
Christina Martin – Somewhere with You – It’ll Be Alright – CDN

Junior Brown – Broke Down South Of Dallas – 12 Shades Of Brown
Waylon Jennings – Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line – Only the Greatest
Iain Matthews – Like Dominoes – Pure & Crooked

The good news is that we have some exciting upcoming shows to preview and a whole pile of great new releases and a few inspired by Dagwood Radio on UMFM. The bad news is that we have yet another tribute to a brilliant musician that we lost this week, as we say a fond farewell to the great Kelly Joe Phelps.

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

Scott Nolan – Annabella Street – The Suburb Beautiful – CDN – WPG

Scott Nolan – Without the Night – The Suburb Beautiful – CDN – WPG
Mike Lynch – Momma Crying on the Phone – Building Character – CDN
Mike Lynch – Old Fashioned Side of Me – Road Map – CDN

Kelly Joe Phelps – River Rat Jimmy – Shine Eyed Mister Zen
Kelly Joe Phelps – Beggar’s Oil – Sky Like A Broken Clock
Kelly Joe Phelps – It’s James Now – Slingshot Professionals
Kelly Joe Phelps – Goodbye To Sorrow – Brother Sinner & The Whale

Leo Rondeau – Washed up Troubadour – Right on Time
Dr. Dog – Jim Song – Abandoned Mansion
Turnpike Troubadours – Good Lord Lorrie – Goodbye Normal Street

Whitehorse – Summer Wine – single – CDN
Mariel Buckley – Shooting at the Moon – Everywhere I Used to Be – CDN
Anna Tivel – Outsiders – Outsiders
Skinny Dyck – In On The Upswing – Palace Waiting – CDN

The Sadies – Stop and Start – Colder Streams – CDN
The Vandoliers – Before the Fall – The Vandoliers
Nikki Lane – First High – Denim & Diamonds
S.G. Goodman – Work Until I Die – Teeth Marks
Boy Golden – A Little Space – Church Of Better Daze – CDN – WPG

Michaela Anne – I’m Only Human – Does It Ever Break Your Heart?
Michaela Anne – If I Wanted Your Opinion – Desert Dove
Joan Shelley – Home – The Spur
Brent Cobb – Wild And Blue – Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson

Yet another tribute to a dearly departed music legend today, as we remember the great Rompin’ Ronnie Hawkins. We’ve also got great new music and previews of some exciting upcoming festivals near and far.

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

Sean Burns & Lost Country – Chaparral – A Bakersfield Half Dozen – CDN – WPG

Ronnie Hawkins – Forty Days – Ronnie Hawkins
The Band – Who Do You Love [Concert Version] (feat. Ronnie Hawkins) – The Last Waltz – CDN
Ronnie Hawkins – Days Gone By – single
Kris Kristofferson – Me and Bobby McGee (feat. Gordon Lightfoot, Ronnie Hawkins & Willie Nelson) – single
The Band – White Cadillac (Ode To Ronnie Hawkins) – Jubilation – CDN

JP Hoe – Out Of The Darkness – Botanicals – CDN – WPG
David Myles – Mystery – It’s Only A Little Loneliness – CDN
Matthew Barber – Every Time You Cry – No Singing Or Dancing – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – No One to Turn to but Your Brother – O Glory – CDN
Scott Cook – Get ‘Em, Letitia James! – single – CDN

Rowan – I Don’t Wanna Talk – Does It Make You Happy?
Carleton Stone – Papercut – Papercut – CDN

Ocie Elliott – Like a River – A Place – CDN
Rodney Crowell – Earthbound – Fate’s Right Hand
Katie Pruitt – Expectations – Expectations
Tony Furtado – Broken Bell – The Bell
Anna Tivel – Alleyway – Small Believer

Slow Leaves – Feel It Too – Holiday – CDN – WPG
Shotgun Jimmie – Join the Band – Field of Trampolines – CDN – MB
Leaf Rapids – Dear Sister – Citizen Alien – CDN – WPG

Dean Owens – New Mexico (feat. Joey Burns & John Convertino) – Sinner’s Shrine
Sarah Jane Scouten – Bang Bang – When the Bloom Falls From the Rose – CDN
Robert Jon & The Wreck – She’s A Fighter – single

Live in studio today as we celebrate the posthumous birthday of our namesake Paul MacLeod and pay tribute to a true giant in the Canadian folk/roots/blues scene, Michael “A Man Named” Wrycraft, who designed incredible album packages for some of our favourite and most significant artists.

Michael hosted a couple of amazing radio shows, which you can find and enjoy here: https://www.mixcloud.com/amancalledwrycraft/

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

Paul MacLeod – Cruelty – Tell the Band to Go Home – CDN

Paul MacLeod – Broken Wing – Close and Play – CDN
Paul MacLeod – Lies – Bright Eyes Fade – CDN
Paul MacLeod – Another White Band – Gauge – CDN

Bob Snider – Lila – Stuck on a Cold Steel Pole – CDN
Jesse Winchester – Sundown – Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot
Harry Manx – Long Black Veil – Johnny’s Blues – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Swinging from the Chains of Love – Swinging from the Chains of Love: The Best of – CDN

Carlos del Junco – Yul Brynner – Big Boy – CDN
Ken Whiteley – Good News – Gospel Music Makes Me Feel Alright! – CDN
Jim Byrnes – The Beast in Me – House of Refuge – CDN
Stan Rogers – The White Collar Holler – Between the Breaks… Live! – CDN

Dave Gunning – We Can’t Win – No More Pennies – CDN
Martyn Joseph – How Did We End Up Here – Deep Blue
Jory Nash – Ain’t Coming Home – The Many Hats of Jory Nash – CDN
James Keelaghan – Safe Home – House of Cards – CDN
Bruce Cockburn – Last Night of the World – Breakfast in New Orleans Dinner in Timbuktu – CDN

Lynn Miles – Never Coming Back – Love Sweet Love – CDN
The Wailin’ Jennys – Arlington – 40 Days – CDN – WPG
Kim Beggs – I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight – Blue Bones – CDN
Lynne Hanson – Here We Go Again – Once the Sun Goes Down – CDN

Ron Hynes – My Father’s Ghost – Stealing Genius – CDN
Jay Aymar – Take Me Home – Your Perfect Matador – CDN
Bob Snider – On a Night Like This – Stealin’ Home – CDN

Some new music, an exciting new discovery, and a bunch of great classics today!

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

Martyn Joseph – I’d Take You Out – single

Sam Fender – Spit Of You – Seventeen Going Under
Sam Fender – Getting Started – Seventeen Going Under
Sam Fender – The Borders – Hypersonic Missiles

Paolo Nutini – Lose It – single
Julia Jacklin – Lydia Wears A Cross – single
Valerie June – Fade Into You – single

Carter Felker – Nothin’ but Net – Even the Happy Ones Are Sad – CDN
The Band of Heathens – Not Mine to Begin With – single
Wilco – Tired of Taking It Out On You – Cruel Country
Steve Forbert – It’s Too Bad (You Super Freak) – Moving Through America

Kellie Loder – Molded Like a Monster – Benefit of the Doubt – CDN
Kellie Loder – Fearless – single – CDN

Stan Rogers – The Field Behind the Plow – Northwest Passage – CDN
Garnet Rogers – Blood Brothers – Get A Witness (live) – CDN
David Wiffen – Don’t Think Twice (It’s All right) – At The Bunkhouse Coffeehouse (Live) – CDN
Tom Wilson & Bob Lanois – That’s How I Walk – The Shack Recordings Vol. 1 – CDN
Stephen Fearing – Stay with Me – The Unconquerable Past – CDN
Colin Linden – 4 Cars – bLOW – CDN

Wyckham Porteous – In This World – In This World – CDN
Alejandro Escovedo – Always A Friend – Real Animal
Chuck Prophet – Just to See You Smile – Age of Miracles
Jimmy LaFave – Buffalo Return to the Plains – Buffalo Return to the Plains

Ray Bonneville – Roll With the Punches – Rough Luck – CDN
Gurf Morlix – One More Second – Last Exit to Happyland
Blaze Foley & the Beaver Valley Boys – Officer Norris – Cold, Cold World

Lots of live music inspired content today as we look forward to a couple of exciting upcoming shows and talk about some great ones that have happened recently, and throw in some new music and old classics to round things out.

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the great moms out there! We’re grateful and in awe of your hard work and patience!

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

Martyn Joseph – Her Name Is Rose – Sanctuary

Martyn Joseph – Working Mother – Evolved
Martyn Joseph – How Did We End up Here – Deep Blue
The Duhks – Four Blue Walls – The Duhks – CDN – WPG
The Duhks – Mountains O’ Things – Migrations – CDN – WPG

Rob Waddell – You’ll Be Famous I’ll Be Fine – Everything Is From Now On – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns – Daddy Was an Auctioneer – It Takes Luck to Get the Best of Me – CDN – WPG
Waylon Jennings – Mental Revenge – Jewels
Harry McClintock – Big Rock Candy Mountain – O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Music From The Motion Picture / Deluxe Edition)
Loudon Wainwright, III – Dead Skunk – Album III

Raghu Lokanathan – Sugar Candy Mountain – Petal Press – CDN
Corin Raymond – Fucking Genius – Paper Nickels (bonus track) – CDN
John Fullbright – Moving – From The Ground Up

Jim Bryson – Arrows Of Hope – Country Wifi – CDN
Jim Bryson – All The Same Things (For The Same Reaction) – Country Wifi – CDN
Mary Gauthier – Dark Enough to See the Stars – single
Sierra Ferrell – Hey Me, Hey Mama – single
Sierra Ferrell – In Dreams – single

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – I Just Came Home To Count The Memories – I Just Came Home To Count The Memories
Pharis & Jason Romero – Souvenir – single – CDN
JD McPherson – Just Around The Corner – single
Drive-By Truckers – Every Single Storied Flameout – Welcome 2 Club XIII

Lydia Loveless – Head – Somewhere Else
Drive-By Truckers – Three Dimes Down – Brighter Than Creations Dark
Lucero – Tears Don’t Matter Much – That Much Further West

Teenage Head – Picture My Face – Teenage Head – CDN
Fontaines D.C. – Boys in the Better Land – Dogrel

New music, upcoming shows, and an overdue tribute to the great Bill Bourne

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

Matthew Ryan – Irrelevant – Mayday

The Sadies – Cut up High and Dry – Colder Streams – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – O Glory Lost Those Blues Again – O Glory – CDN
Ken Yates – Best of the Broken Things – Cerulean – CDN
Dan Mangan – In Your Corner (For Scott Hutchison) – single – CDN
Frightened Rabbit – The Woodpile – Pedestrian Verse

Mike Dunn – You Belong to the Darkness – single
John Moreland – Ugly Faces – Birds in the Ceiling
Patty Griffin – Get Lucky – Tape: Home Recordings & Rarities
Lyle Lovett – Pants Is Overrated – 12th of June

Chloë Doucet – Satan Loves You – single – CDN
S.G. Goodman – All My Love Is Coming Back To Me – Teeth Marks
Corb Lund – Big American Headliner – Songs My Friends Wrote – CDN
Wilco – Falling Apart (Right Now) – Cruel Country

The Small Glories – Oh My Love – Assiniboine & The Red – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Meantime – Stray Dogs (Collected B-Sides / Vol. 1) – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Lucky Prairie Stars – Easy Keeper – CDN – WPG
Chris Stapleton – Tennessee Whiskey – Traveller – CDN

Martyn Joseph – Born Too Late – 1960
Martyn Joseph – Dic Penderyn – Evolved

Bill Bourne – Grace – live recording – CDN
Bourne & Macleod – Ole Buffalo – Dance & Celebrate – CDN
Bill Bourne & Shannon Johnson – Victory Train – Victory Train – CDN
Tri Continental – Worried Man – Live – CDN
Eivør – If I Needed You – Eivør

So you say you like Country music? Or perhaps you say you don’t and need to be tricked into it? Well, today we’ve got two hours of songs, albums, and artists, recommended if you like country music that might be able to broaden your horizons a bit. We’ve got some genuine country music that you might not be familiar with, alongside some roots rockin’ folkies with a bit of the ol’ country flair.

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

Sean Burns – Gasoline – It Takes Luck to Get the Best of Me – CDN – WPG

Skydiggers – Just Before the Rain – Restless – CDN
Blue Rodeo – Heart Like Mine – Outskirts – CDN
Blue Shadows – I Know – Lucky To Me – CDN
Wendy Bird – Deliver Me – Natural Wonder – CDN

Willie P. Bennett – Goodbye, So Long, Hello – The Lucky Ones – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Spookin’ The Horses – Lipstick, Lies And Gasoline – CDN
D.Rangers – Trois Rivieres – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
Chris Knight – Framed – Chris Knight
Blaze Foley – If I Could Only Fly – Live at the Austin Outhouse
Ron Hynes – No Kathleen – Cryer’s Paradise – CDN

Rodney Crowell – Highway 17 – The Houston Kid
Rodney Crowell – Come On Funny Feelin’ – Fate’s Right Hand

John Blek & the Rats – Cities Keep Changing – Leave Your Love at the Door
Andrew Combs – Please, Please, Please – Worried Man
Nikki Lane – Hard Livin’ – Walk of Shame
Lydia Loveless – Steve Earle – Indestructible Machine
Hannah Aldridge – Aftermath – Gold Rush

Brothers Cosmoline – Motel 6 – Songs Of Work And Freedom – CDN
The Guthries – Better Part of an Hour – Off Windmill – CDN
Scott Nolan – Swing Low – single – CDN – WPG
Hayes Carll – Hey Baby Where You Been – Little Rock
Melissa Payne – Don’t Say – Melissa Payne – CDN
Nathan – Gasoline – Jimson Weed – CDN – WPG

5 Chinese Brothers – She’s A Waitress (And I’m In Love) – Singer Songwriter Beggarman Thief
Slaid Cleaves – Broke Down – Broke Down
Radney Foster – Just Call Me Lonesome – Del Rio