Lots of new & newly re-emerging music this week including the return of Bandcamp Fridays, plus some stellar streaming show highlights, timely tunes, and more!

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

Brock Zeman – February – Mostly Peaceful – CDN

Brock Zeman – King David (Miss & Love you David Olney) – Mostly Peaceful – CDN
The Avett Brothers – February Seven – The Carpenter
Jim Bryson – February – The Occasionals – CDN

Jim Bryson – The Wishes Pile Up – Where the Bungalows Roam – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – Copied Keys – Back to Me – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – Love – Shepherds of Good Hope – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – Your Love – live recording – CDN

Dan Reeder – Fun Campfire Song – single
Steve Poltz – Can O’ Pop – Stardust + Satellites – CDN
Sarah Borges – Wouldn’t Know You (feat. Eric Ambel) – Together Alone
Leather Apron Revival – When The Lights Went Out (feat. Leeroy Stagger) – Light and Shadow – CDN

Matt Fockler – Do You Dream? – Matt Fockler
Matt Fockler – Love Ain’t Easy – Matt Fockler
Jonathan Byrd & The Pickup Cowboys – Lakota Sioux – Pickup Cowboy

Gene MacLellan – Thorn In My Shoe – Gene MacLellan – CDN
Gene MacLellan – The Call – Gene MacLellan – CDN
Catherine MacLellan – Put Your Hand In The Hand – If It’s Alright With You – The Songs of Gene MacLellan – CDN
Ron Hynes – Godspeed (Requiem for Gene MacLellan) – Face To The Gale – CDN

Richard Inman – Cost You Everything – Come Back Through – CDN – MB
Scott Nolan – Halloween In NYC – single – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – Hoping for Angels – single – CDN – WPG

Johnny Irion Ft. Olivia Nora Guthrie – Losing End Again – Buscadero Americana
Tim Grimm – I Know Love Is All I Need – Buscadero Americana
Rob Lutes – In My Time of Dyin’ – Come Around – CDN

New music, requests, we talk about cancelling music that means a lot to us, the power of friendship even if we disagree, and we pay tribute to sensible, hard-working truckers, outside of that other more-vocal minority.

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

Steve Forbert – January 23-30, 1978 – Jack Rabbit Slim

Sweet Alibi – Same Roads – Make A Scene – CDN – WPG
Ben Stopfel – Winter – live recording – CDN – WPG
Bill Chambers – Broken Hearts Don’t Make A Sound – Bill Chambers and The City Girls
Goodnight, Texas – Jane, Come Down From Your Room – How Long Will It Take Them to Die
Billy Strings – Nothing’s Working – Renewal
The Mountain Goats – Mobile – Dark in Here

Derek & The Dominos – I Looked Away – Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Van Morrison – Into the Mystic – Moondance
Whiskeytown – Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight – Strangers Almanac

Matthew Barber – You’ve Got A Friend – Old Tapes – CDN
Del Barber – Friends Like Us – Stray Dogs (Collected B-Sides / Vol. 1) – CDN – WPG

Kendel Carson – I Like Trucks – Rearview Mirror Tears – CDN
Jonathan Byrd – A Big Truck Brought It – You Can’t Outrun the Radio
Richard Shindell – The Kenworth Of My Dreams – Sparrows Point
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Keep on Truckin’ – We Gotta Lotta Truckin’ to Do – CDN – WPG

Mayhemingways – Frances the Truck Driver – Skip Land – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – I Wanna Buy Your Truck – Falling Stars and Broken Hearts – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Water in The Fuel – Lipstick, Lies and Gasoline – CDN

NQ Arbuckle – Sure Friends – The Last Supper in A Cheap Town – CDN
Steve Poltz – I Want All My Friends to Be Happy – Folksinger – CDN
Forty Roses – Good Friend – City Girl – CDN
Dustin Bentall & The Smøkes – Just Be My Friend – You Are an Island – CDN

Colleen Brown – Really Just Need A Friend – Dirt – CDN
Paul Kelly – Would You Be My Friend? – Nothing but a Dream

Today on the show, more new music, some of Burke’s Best of ’21, and we celebrate two of our favourite female-fronted singer/songwriter trios from Winnipeg, one of which is celebrating 20 years together and another is releasing a long-awaited new album this week!

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

Steve Forbert – January 23-30, 1978 – Jack Rabbit Slim

Dan Reeder – Skiing Song – single
Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb – On the Road Again – Coming Home: A Collection of Songs
Mary Gauthier – Women Across the River – single
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Hellbent For Leather (feat. Steve Earle) – Co-Starring Too
Lawrence Maxwell – Meat – Ballad of Miles – CDN
Lawrence Maxwell – Better You – Ballad of Miles – CDN

Hailey Whitters – Everything She Ain’t – Raised
Bear’s Den – Spiders – Blue Hours
The Whitmore Sisters – The Ballad Of Sissy & Porter – Ghost Stories
Colin Hay – Now And The Evermore – single
Sandra McCracken – Most of the Time (w/Colin Hay) – single
Steve Dawson – Dimes – Gone, Long Gone – CDN
Corb Lund – Highway 87 – Songs my Friends Wrote – CDN

Brock Zeman – Someone for You – Me Then You – CDN

Sweet Alibi – Confetti – Make a Scene – CDN – WPG
Sweet Alibi – 9-5 – Make a Scene – CDN – WPG
Sweet Alibi – Next Somewhere – Make a Scene – CDN – WPG
Abigail Lapell – Pines – Stolen Time – CDN

The Wailin’ Jennys – Deeper Well – The Wailin’ Jennys – CDN – WPG
The Wailin’ Jennys – The Devil’s Paintbrush Road – Firecracker – CDN – WPG
The Wailin’ Jennys – Swing Low Sail High – Bright Morning Stars – CDN – WPG

Roseanne Reid – Hallucinate – live recording
Reb Fountain – Lacuna – IRIS
The Felice Brothers – Jazz on the Autobahn – From Dreams to Dust
Riddy Arman – Herding Song – Riddy Arman
Son Volt – These Are the Times – Electro Melodier

The 2022 new music is starting to roll out, so we’ve got a bunch of new finds today, as well as the return of live streaming concerts to preview/discuss, and more of the best music released in 2021!

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

Mayhemingways – 14th of January – Skip Land – CDN

Sean Burns – Gasoline – It Takes Luck to Get the Best of Me – CDN – WPG
Brock Zeman – Little Details – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN
Lynn Miles – Something Beautiful – Fall for Beauty – CDN
Tannis Slimmon – There’s A Lift – Oak Lake – CDN

Dan Reeder – Everything Changed – single
Jonathan Byrd – Fog on the Mountain (w/Abbie Gardener) – single
Eliza Gilkyson – Don’t Stop Lovin’ Me – Songs from the River Wind
Ian Noe – Pine Grove (Madhouse) – River Fools & Mountain Saints
Altameda – Wheel of Love – single – CDN

The Teskey Brothers – Get Back To The Land (feat. Emma Donovan) – single
Matt Andersen – Other Side of Goodbye – single – CDN
Frank Turner – A Wave Across A Bay – FTHC
Danny Burns – Mercenary Song (feat. Steve Earle) – Hurricane

Jackson Emmer – Colorado Line – single
Townes Van Zandt – Waiting Around to Die – Townes Van Zandt

Ryland Moranz – Stolen Land – Xo, 1945 – CDN
Matthew Ryan/The Pines at Night – Song for a Hard Year – Song for a Hard Year (Maxi-Single)
No-No Boy – St. Denis or Bangkok, From a Hotel Balcony (feat. Jacqueline Saporiti) – 1975
Jim Bryson – Werewolves – single – CDN
Caroline Marie Brooks – Night Drive – Everything at the Same Time – CDN

Mariel Buckley – Hundred Cities – 97 Riverdale – CDN
Dori Freeman – I Am – Ten Thousand Roses
Chloe Albert – Die Trying – Come Around Again – CDN
Vanessa Peters – Crazymaker – Modern Age
Lydia Loveless – Let’s Make Out – You’re Leaving Me

Mira Lu Kovacs – Want You – What Else Can Break
Yola – Starlight – Stand For Myself
Carsie Blanton – Be Good – Love & Rage

Our team of scientists and statisticians have completed their intensive study of albums released in 2021, and we can say, officially and without hesitation, the songs and albums heard today are among the absolute best! We don’t nearly have enough time in 2 hours to get to everything, but this is a pretty good look at some expected highlights, delightful discoveries, big-name faves, and downright fun!

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

Del Barber – Just A Little Heat – Stray Dogs (Collected B-Sides / Vol. 1) – CDN – WPG

Suzie Ungerleider – Pumpkins – My Name Is Suzie Ungerleider – CDN
Slow Leaves – Did It Again – Holiday – CDN – WPG
John Wort Hannam – Old Friend – Long Haul – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – The Places I Have Been – Dystopian Weekends – CDN
Joe Nolan – Cherry Valance – Scrapper – CDN
James McMurtry – What’s the Matter – The Horses and the Hounds

Serlin Greaves – Seasick – Sad Songs For Sale – CDN – WPG
John R. Miller – Shenandoah Shakedown – Depreciated
Charles Wesley Godwin – Lyin’ low – How the Mighty Fall
Sierra Ferrell – Jeremiah – Long Time Coming
Margo Cilker – Broken Arm in Oregon – Pohorylle

Allison Russell – Nightflyer – Outside Child – CDN
Arlo Parks – Black Dog – Collapsed In Sunbeams
Brandi Carlile – Right on Time – In These Silent Days
Steve Earle & The Dukes – Lone Pine Hill – J.T.

Shaela Miller – I Don’t Want Your Love – Big Hair Small City – CDN
Charlie Marie – El Paso – Ramble On
Melissa Carper – Makin’ Memories – Daddy’s Country Gold
Jake Vaadeland – Be a Farmer or a Preacher – Retro Man – CDN
Charley Crockett – Round This World – Music City USA

Mac Leaphart – That Train – Music City Joke
The Artisanals – The Road – Zia
Whitehorse – Why So Cruel – Strike Me Down – CDN
Rusty Robot – Ice Cream Truck – single – CDN – WPG

Our first episode of 2022, so some New Year’s Day songs, we talk about the nature of hope for a better year, spin some new, new to me, and new again music, take time out for the Jan. 2 Roger Miller Break, and provide our nearly-annual tribute to Hank & Townes!

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

Todd Snider – Happy New Year – The Devil You Know

Kenny Foster & Ags Connolly – Auld Lang Syne (Once Again) – single
Ray Wylie Hubbard – New Year’s Eve at the Gates of Hell – The Grifter’s Hymnal
Leeroy Stagger – New Year’s Day – Covers – CDN
Charlie Robison – New Year’s Day – Good Times
Slaid Cleaves – New Year’s Day – Wishbones
Mary Chapin Carpenter – New Year’s Day – Ashes And Roses

D.Rangers – New Years Blues – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
Richard Inman – New Years Blues – Faded Love Better Days – CDN – MB
The Bottle Rockets – Another Brand New Year – Brand New Year
Reid Jamieson – This Could Be the Year – Songs for a Winter’s Night – CDN
Justin Osborne – This Year – The Real Brent Brent
Pip Skid – This Year (feat. Charlie Fettah) – People Are the Worst – CDN – WPG

Christina Martin – Talk About It – Podcast Theme Song – single – CDN
Joe Nolan – Spectacle – single – CDN
The Panhandlers – West Texas in My Eye – The Panhandlers
William Prince – 7 – single – CDN – WPG
John Murry – What Becomes of The Broken Hearted – single

Roger Miller – Husbands and Wives – Words and Music
Buddy Miller – Nothing Can Stop Me – Poison Love
The Sadies – Home (w/Neko Case) – In Concert, Vol.1 – CDN
The Sadies – Jason Fleming (w/Neko Case) – In Concert, Vol.1 – CDN
Reid Jamieson – King Of The Road – ReidoRadio – CDN
Roger Miller – Dang Me – Best of

Hank Williams – I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry – Moanin’ the Blues
Townes Van Zandt – Waiting Around to Die – Townes Van Zandt
Hank Williams – Cold Cold Heart – The Hank Williams Story
Townes Van Zandt – If I Needed You – The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
Hank Williams – I’ll Never Get out of This World Alive – Low Down Blues, the Ultimate Recordings
Townes Van Zandt – Poncho & Lefty – The Late Great Townes Van Zandt

Christmas may be officially done for another year, but there’s been a lot going on the past few weeks, so we haven’t heard many of our annual favourites, so today we pull out all the stops and play some of the essentials that we haven’t gotten to and just can’t go a year without hearing. We also ease out of the holiday season with some Christmas songs that… aren’t, but you can get away with calling Christmas songs. Finally, in the tradition of holiday marathons of years gone by, we’re stretching out and taking over The Love and Happiness Hour at 4 pm on UMFM and playing some of my favourite L&H H classic rock, guilt and shame-free, just for fun!

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

Hayes Carll – Grateful for Christmas – KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories)

The Rocky Fortune – Merry Boxing Day – single – CDN
Courtney Barnett – Boxing Day Blues (Revisited) – single
The Heavy Blinkers – Boxing Day blues – The Heavy Blinkers – CDN
Oliver Schroer – Beneath the Ice, They Heard Bells – Stuck On A Cold Steel Pole – CDN

Emmylou Harris – Christmas Time’s a-Comin’ – Light of the Stable
George Strait – Merry Christmas Strait To You – Merry Christmas Strait To You
Mike Plume – Merry Xmas To My Ex-Miss – Back Home For Christmas – CDN
Buck Owens – Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy (Daddy Looked A Lot Like Him) – Christmas With Buck Owens
The Ronettes – Sleigh Ride – A Christmas Gift for You

Skydiggers – Good King Wenceslas – Still Restless: The Lost Tapes – CDN
Neko Case – Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis – New Coat of Paint: Waits Tribute
Mary Gauthier – Christmas In Paradise – Filth & Fire
Glen Campbell – O Holy Night – Home For The Holidays
John Prine – Christmas In Prison – Sweet Revenge
Swank! – Santa Claus Is Out On Bail – Christmas Is Fun! – CDN

James McMurtry – Holiday – Childish Things
Jeffrey Foucault – Ghost Repeater – Ghost Repeater
Turnpike Troubadours – Blue Star – Goodbye Normal Street
John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls – Christmas Lights – Everything The Hard Way
Ridley Bent – All the Heat Is in the Whiskey – Rabbit on My Wheel – CDN – WPG
Shannon Lyon – X-Mas In Korea – X-Mas In Korea – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Houses on the Hill – Dharma – CDN
Steve Earle – Nothing But A Child – Copperhead Road
Ian Tyson – Silver Bell – Songs From The Gravel Road – CDN
Jim Bryson – Snoopy and the Red Baron (fet. Jeremy Fisher) – Instant Holiday Album – CDN

Sunny Sweeney – One More Christmas Beer – single
Dave Gunning – Daddy’s Beer – Christmas – CDN
Decembersongs – Dad’s Drunk Again On Christmas – Decembersongs ’13

Anne Murray – You Needed Me – Let’s Keep It That Way – CDN
Gene MacLellan – Snowbird – Gene MacLellan – CDN
David Wiffen – Skybound Station – Coast To Coast Fever – CDN
Audience – I Had A Dream – The House On The Hill

Michel Pagliaro – What the Hell I’ve Got – What the Hell I’ve Got – CDN
Ian Thomas – Painted Ladies – Looking Back – CDN
Partland Brothers – Soul City – Electric Honey – CDN
Max Webster – Let Go The Line (feat. Kim Mitchell) – The Best Of Max Webster – CDN

Orphan – Miracle – Lonely at Night – CDN – WPG
Burton Cummings – Break It To Them Gently – Dream Of A Child – CDN – WPG
Harlequin – I Did It for Love – Greatest Hits – CDN – WPG

Toronto – Ready To Make Up – Girls Night Out – CDN
Melissa Etheridge – Like The Way I Do – Melissa Etheridge

Some songs for the season today alongside some new music, some love for the local music community, and, sadly, we must pay tribute to another great songwriter gone too soon, as we listen to some of the many great songs that Cameron Latimer had a hand in.

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

Jesse DeNatale – Lump of Coal (w/Scout DeNatale) – DeNatale Xmas

Elliott BROOD – Christmas in Hollis – The Christmas Life – CDN
Lucinda Williams – Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight) – Have a Rockin’ Little Christmas with Lucinda Williams

Dalton Domino – Wannabe (feat. Stephanie Lambring) – single
Charles Wesley Godwin – Lyin’ low – How the Mighty Fall
Charles Wesley Godwin – Temporary Town – How the Mighty Fall
Zach Bryan – Flying or Crying – DeAnn
The New Budapest Project – In My Dream – single – CDN

Leaf Rapids – Healing Feeling – Lucky Stars – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Have You Seen That Train – Music for Taverns, Bars, And Honky Tonks – CDN – WPG
Ridley Bent – Cry – Buckles & Boots – CDN – WPG
The Seams – The Ballad of Brian Fowler – The Seams – CDN

Cameron Latimer – Gin Train – B sides – CDN
Cameron Latimer – Empty Saddle – Fallen Apart – CDN
Forty Roses – Fading Away – City Girl – CDN
Barney Bentall & Co. – High Lonesome (Cameron Latimer) – The Grand Cariboo Opry – CDN
Dustin Bentall – Draft Dodger – Six Shooter – CDN

The Deep Dark Woods – 18th Of December – Jubilee – CDN
Paul Kelly – How to Make Gravy – Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train
Robert Earl Keen – Merry Christmas from the Family – No. 2 Live Dinner
Teddy Thompson – Boycotting Christmas – single

David Myles – Santa Never Brings Me A Banjo – It’s Christmas! – CDN
The Kinks – Father Christmas – Picture Book
The Handsome Family – So Much Wine – In the Air
Kathleen Edwards – It’s Christmastime (Let’s Just Survive) – A Dualtone Christmas – CDN

It’s the time of year for nostalgia, and we’ve got a heavy dose of that today as one of my favourite bands got back together this weekend, another let me know that it wasn’t happening this year, and yet another is celebrating an important anniversary, so we revisited them all, heard some new music, threw in some token holiday music, and wrapped up with a bit of a tribute to a Monkee!

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

The Damnwells – I Will Keep The Bad Things From You – Bastards Of The Beat

The Damnwells – Louisville – Air Stereo
The Damnwells – Kiss Catastrophe – Bastards Of The Beat

Danny Greaves – All Uncovered – live recording – CDN – WPG
The Doctor – Me And Nick Drake – High Is As High Gets – CDN
The New Meanies – Northern Shore (Drowned) – Highways – CDN – WPG
The New Meanies – Scenic Anomaly – Three Seeds – CDN – WPG

Lowest of the Low – Subversives – Shakespeare My Butt… – CDN
Lowest of the Low – Bleed a Little While Tonight – Shakespeare My Butt… – CDN
Lowest of the Low – Bloodline – Shakespeare My Butt… – CDN
Stephen Stanley Band – The Troubadour’s Song – Jimmy & the Moon – CDN

Lowest of the Low – Feel It Still (Live at The Horseshoe Tavern) (feat. Skye Wallace) – Taverns and Palaces (Live) – CDN
American Aquarium – Nobody Wins – Slappers, Bangers & Certified Twangers, Vol. 2
Band of Horses – In Need of Repair – Things Are Great
Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Paint The Red Rose Blue – The Boy Named If
Jamestown Revival – Working on Love – Young Man
Maya De Vitry – Dogs Run On – Violet Light

Matt Mays – Christmas Eve Day – single – CDN
Georgia Satellites – Run Run Rudolph (Live) – single

The Minus 5 – Michael Nesmith – Of Monkees And Men
Tony Furtado – Some of Shelly’s Blues (Live) – Cider House Sessions (Live at Reverend Nat’s)
Erin Rae – As We Go Along – Lagniappe Session

Sitting down to record this episode, I learned of the death of an iconic music fan in Winnipeg. We are blessed with an incredibly strong music scene in Winnipeg, but it’s not just the musicians that make it magical, it’s the venues and passionate fans that make it all possible. Well known among musicians, venue owners, and passionate fans, John Hak was one of the most visible and unique music lovers in town. Always down in the front row, dressed in yellow, clutching a notebook and dancing like only he could, John brought a lot of passion and spirit and touched a lot of lives. Today’s show, and our dance party finale, is dedicated to him. Appropriately, there’s a lot of great local music to come this week on stage and we’ll preview a bunch of it. We’ve also got some new finds from Bandcamp Day and even a few festive favourites.

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

The Skydiggers – Even When You Fall – Road Radio – CDN

Nathan – Temptation – Winnipeg: The High And Lonesome Years Vol. II – CDN – WPG
Leaf Rapids – There They Go – Citizen Alien – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns and Lost Country – Town Song (w/Andrew Neville) – Boots & Saddle and CKUW 95.9 fm Present A Night of Country Music – CDN – WPG
The Perpetrators – Six Pack – Live At The High And Lonesome Club – CDN – WPG

Steven Page – Canada Loves You Back (feat. Odds) – single – CDN
Chuck Prophet – Kiss Me Deadly (Live with the Make Out Quartet) – The Land That Time Forgot Revisited
Cory Chisel – Wicked Game – Songs From Quarantine Vol. 2
Guy Clark – Step Inside This House – Songs From Quarantine Vol. 2

Lynn Jackson – Christmas In The Dark – single – CDN
JP Hoe – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – Brighten Up the Night – CDN

Matt Patershuk – Shane MacGowan – An Honest Effort – CDN
Ryan McMahon – Are You Alright – single – CDN
The Rave-Ups – How Old Am I? – Tomorrow
The Violet Archers – Keep It In The Ground – single – CDN
Tony Furtado – Squirrelville – Squirrelville
The Cactus Blossoms – Hey Baby – One Day
Jake Vaadeland – Rock Bottom – No More Pain in My Heart – CDN
Richard Inman – Waiting on the River – single – CDN

The Pogues – Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) – If I Should Fall from Grace with God
Austin Lucas – Alone on Christmas – single

Joshua Cockerill – Dance With You – The Trick With Your Heart I’m Learning To Do – CDN
Nathaniel Mayer – I Wanna Dance with You – I Just Want to Be Held
Rodney Crowell – Dancin’ Circles Round The Sun (Epictetus Speaks) – The Outsider
Bebop Cowboys – Dancing on Saturday Night (with Chris Whiteley) – Canadian Dance Hall – CDN