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

The new releases are drying up but we’ve got some seasonal tunes, some exciting upcoming shows to preview, a look through my guitar lesson playlist, and we jump in the time machine and go back 10 years to hear a few of the best songs from 2011!

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

Matthew Ryan/The Pines at Night – Bows & Arrows – A Year of Novembers

Merle Haggard – If We Make It Through December – If We Make It Through December
Paul MacLeod – December – Gauge – CDN
Catherine MacLellan – Calling You Home (for the Holidays) – Holiday – CDN
Slow Leaves – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (feat. Jill Barber) – single – CDN – WPG

The Grey Jays – Molecules – single – CDN – WPG
Corin Raymond – Rec Room – Dirty Mansions – CDN
The Small Glories – Oh My Love – Assiniboine & The Red – CDN – WPG
Silver Clouds – Minor Hesitation – Silver Clouds – CDN – WPG

Serlin Greaves – Seasick – Sad Songs for Sale – CDN – WPG
The Watchmen – Brighter Hell – Silent Radar – CDN – WPG

Lynne Hanson – Shadowland – single – CDN
The Weakerthans – Night Windows – Reunion Tour – CDN – WPG
Santo & Johnny – Sleepwalk – Santo & Johnny
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet – Having An Average Weekend – Savvy Show Stoppers – CDN
Duane Eddy – Rebel Rouser – Have ‘Twangy’ Guitar Will Travel
Don Rich & The Buckaroos – The Happy-Go-Lucky-Guitar – Country Pickin’ – The Don Rich Anthology
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Chaparral – A Bakersfield Half-Dozen – CDN – WPG

Sean Burns – Daddy Was an Auctioneer – It Takes Luck to Get the Best of Me – CDN – WPG
Rob Waddell – You’ll Be Famous I’ll Be Fine – Everything Is From Now On – CDN – WPG

Morgan Cameron Ross – My Brother Went To Prison – Morgan Cameron Ross – CDN
Ron Hawkins – One Hundred Five – Straitjacket Love – CDN
Good Luck Mountain – The Seven Sisters – Good Luck Mountain
The Warped 45s – Live Bait – Matador Sunset – CDN
Nikki Lane – Walk of Shame – Walk of Shame

We’ve got a bunch of new music to spin today, a look at a couple of exciting upcoming shows to preview, and we send some love and support out to our friends in B.C., dealing with catastrophic flooding.

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

Del Barber – Friends Like Us – Stray Dogs (Collected B-Sides / Vol. 1) – CDN – WPG

Leeroy Stagger – Slowly Sinking – Dear Love – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Beautiful House – Beautiful House – CDN
Sunparlour Players – If the Creeks Don’t Rise – Hymns For The Happy – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Depression River – Depression River – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – More Love Than Money – Dystopian Weekends – CDN

Paul Cauthen – Country as Fuck – single
Blue Rodeo – The Opening Act – Many a Mile – CDN
Steve Poltz – Conveyor Belt – Stardust and Satellites – CDN
Erin Rae – Candy & Curry – Lighten Up

Kacey Musgraves – Fix You – single
The Colorist Orchestra & Howe Gelb – Gentle On My Mind – Not On The Map

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) – Raising Sand
Calexico – Quattro (World Drifts in) – Feast of Wire
Buddy Miller – The Price of Love – Midnight And Lonesome
Lucinda Williams – Can’t Let Go – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Brent Cobb – When It’s My Time – And Now, Let’s Turn To Page…
David Myles – When It Comes My Turn – Things Have Changed – CDN

Bobby Dove – Golden Years – Hopeless Romantic – CDN – MB
Zachary Lucky – Sometimes I Wonder (How I Got This Far) (w/Richard Inman) – Midwestern – CDN
Zachary Lucky – Rex’s Blues – Songs For Hard Times – CDN

Del Barber – Story That You Tell – Where The City Ends – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – As Far As I Can Tell – Love Songs For The Last 20 – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Everything Is not Enough – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Living With A Long Way To Go – Prairieography – CDN – WPG

New music! All-time classics! Upcoming concerts! Birthdays! More!

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

Ron Sexsmith – Snow Angel – Time Being – CDN

Aaron Lee Tasjan – Traveling After Dark – Highway Butterfly: The Songs of Neal Casal
Dori Freeman & Teddy Thompson – Sweeten the Distance – Highway Butterfly: The Songs of Neal Casal
The Staves – Failure (Be Kind Version) – single
Goodnight, Texas – Borrowed Time – single
Jamestown Revival – These Days – single
Parker Millsap – In Between – OurVinyl Sessions

Amanda Shires – Always Christmas Around Here (feat. Lawrence Rothman) – For Christmas
Jenny Lewis – Puppy and a Truck – single
Legendary Shack Shakers – Punk Rock Retirement Plan – Cockadoodledeu
Zachary Lucky – Rock and Roll Dad – Midwestern – CDN
Field Guide – A Memory (feat. Georgia Harmer) – single – CDN – WPG

Sam Outlaw – Half a World Away – Popular Mechanics
Lucy Dacus – Thumbs Again – single

Bobby Dove – Sometimes It’s a Lonely Road – Hopeless Romantic – CDN – MB
Zachary Lucky – Leavin’ Cheyenne – Songs For Hard Times – CDN
Del Barber – I Belong With You – Stray Dogs (Collected B-Sides / Vol. 1) – CDN – WPG

Jonathan Byrd & The Pickup Cowboys – Lakota Sioux – Pickup Cowboy
Jonathan Byrd – Poor Johnny – You Can’t Outrun the Radio
David Francey – Hard Steel Mill – Torn Screen Door – CDN
David Francey – Banks of the Seaway – Far End of Summer – CDN
David Francey – Lonely Road – The Broken Heart of Everything – CDN

Kieran Kane – He Never Knew What Hit Him – Dead Reckoning
Iain Matthews – Tigers Will Survive (Part II) – The Dark Ride
Turnpike Troubadours – Kansas City Southern – Diamonds And Gasoline
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson – Once in a While – Rattlin’ Bones
Catherine MacLellan – Too Easy – Church Bell Blues – CDN

Spirit of the West – Political – Labour Day – CDN
Spirit of the West – D for Democracy – Go Figure – CDN

Timely tunes, a few new songs, and a whole bunch of birthday celebrations today on the show!

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

Paul Kelly – How to Make Gravy – Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train

Sean Burns and Lost Country – – Daylight Savings (w/Skinny Dyck) – Boots & Saddle and CKUW 95.9 fm Present A Night of Country Music – CDN – WPG
The Damnwells – Daylight Savings – demo
Mike Plume – On Remembrance Day – single – CDN
D.Rangers – – Hold Back The Tears – Barbaric Cultural Practices – CDN – WPG

The Grey Jays – – Molecules – single – CDN – WPG
The Whitmore Sisters – Hurtin’ For A Letdown – Ghost Stories
T. Buckley – Wildfire – Frame By Frame – CDN

Hayes Carll – Nice Things – You Get It All
Kenny Rogers – The Gambler – The Gambler

James Talley – Give My Love to Marie – Tryin’ Like the Devil
Dale Murray – The Wind Is Trying to Kill Me – Dream Mountain Dream – CDN

Dale Murray – Dream Mountain Dream – Dream Mountain Dream – CDN
The Guthries – Trials and Tribulations – Off Windmill – CDN
The Guthries – Season to Leave – Off Windmill – CDN
Dave Alvin – Out of Control – Ashgrove
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Rabbit – Snake Farm

Guy Clark – L.A. Freeway – Old No.1
Guy Clark – The Cape – Dublin Blues
Guy Clark – Randall Knife (Live) – Live From Austin, TX

Matthew Ryan – Watch Your Step – Mayday
Matthew Ryan – Me & My Lover – East Autumn Grin
Matthew Ryan – American Dirt – Matthew Ryan Vs. The Silver State

A few timely tunes in honour of the spooky season, new music, live music previews of shows here and abroad, including next weekend’s Crankie Festival and we end off with a couple of the many birthday boys this week!

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

Scott Nolan – Halloween in NYC – recorded live on UMFM – CDN – WPG

Elliott BROOD – C’est l’Halloween – single – CDN
Bobby Bare Jr. – Rock and Roll Halloween – A Storm – A Tree – My Mother’s Head
Vance Gilbert – The Day Before November – Good Good Man

Eleanor Buckland – October – You Don’t Have to Know
Lynne Hanson – Shadowland – single – CDN
Jesse Dayton – Born With a Tail – Beaumonster

Corb Lund – This Is My Prairie – single – CDN
George Strait – The Weight of the Badge – single
Willie Nelson & Lukas Nelson – All Things Must Pass – single

The Band of Heathens & Ray Wylie Hubbard – Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone – single
Lowest of the Low – When She Falls (Live at Lee’s Palace) – Taverns And Palaces – CDN
The Wilderness of Manitoba – Oblivion – Farewell to Cathedral – CDN

Courtney Marie Andrews – Magician’s Best Trick – No One’s Slate is Clean
Courtney Marie Andrews – Irene – Honest Life
David Keenan – The Grave of Johnny Filth (feat. David Keenan Poet) – “WHAT THEN?”

Scott Nolan w/The Penderecki String Quartet – Manitoba Skyline – Manitoba Skylines – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan w/The Penderecki String Quartet – Candy – Manitoba Skylines – CDN – WPG
Andrina Turenne – When the Smoke Clears – single – CDN – WPG
Keri Latimer – Kindred Spirit – Crowsfeet and Greyskull – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Meantime – Stray Dogs (Collected B-Sides / Vol. 1) – CDN – WPG

Leeroy Stagger – Ventura (For Neal Casal) – Dystopian Weekends – CDN
Gram Parsons – Return of the Grievous Angel – Grievous Angel
Lyle Lovett – Closing Time – Lyle Lovett

Busy week as we hear some new music, celebrate the season with some Autumn songs, celebrate Willie P Bennett’s 70th birthday, preview some live and streaming concerts, and we say goodbye to Wailin’ Jonny Wong and Bloodshot Records, which appears to be winding down after 25+ years of incredible music!

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

Willie P Bennett – White Line – Tryin’ To Start Out Clean – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Come On Train – Hobo’s Taunt – CDN
Willie P Bennett – John Henry, The Gambler – Blackie And The Rodeo King – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Breaking The Silence – Take My Own Advice – CDN

Jonathan Byrd and Chris Kokesh – Autumn – The Barn Birds
Paolo Nutini – Autumn – These Streets
Johnsmith – Come Some Autumn Day – Kickin’ This Stone
Drive-By Truckers – First Air of Autumn – English Oceans
NQ Arbuckle – The Autumn Leaves – The Last Supper In A Cheap Town – CDN
Joe Nolan – Autumn Sky – Tornado – CDN
Joe Nolan – Autumn Stars – Rootsy House Sessions – CDN

Matt Patershuk – Turn the Radio Up – An Honest Effort – CDN
Poor Nameless Boy – Jean Jackets – single – CDN
Jamestown Revival – Young Man – Young Man
Danny George Wilson – We’ve Got a Lot to Learn – Another Place
Old Town Crier – I Might Get Lost – I’m Longing for You Honey in Middleboro, Mass

The 24th Street Wailers – Aim to Please – Recorded live on UMFM – CDN
The 24th Street Wailers – Chin Wagger – Recorded live on UMFM – CDN

Jr. Gone Wild – Five Million Songs – Still Got The Jacket – CDN
The Perpetrators – Josco – Tow Truck – CDN – WPG
Corin Raymond – Under the Belly of the Night – Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams – CDN
Suzie Ungerleider – Pumpkins – My Name is Suzie Ungerleider – CDN

Justin Townes Earle – Harlem River Blues – Harlem River Blues
Lydia Loveless – Steve Earle – Indestructible Machine
Alejandro Escovedo – Castanets – A Man Under the Influence
Bobby Bare Jr. – Valentine – From the End of Your Leash
The Sadies – Loved On Look – Tremendous Efforts – CDN
Neko Case – Deep Red Bells – Blacklisted
Robbie Fulks – Parallel Bars – The Very Best of Robbie Fulks