A great new album from Figure Walking has us rocking our socks off, we’ve got a bunch of other great new music, a few exciting upcoming events to go to and we discuss guitar songs for absolute beginners. Good stuff galore!

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

Figure Walking – Paradise – Vertical / Horizontal – CDN – WPG
Anthony da Costa – Away from My Heart – single
Delta Spirit – The Pressure – What Is There
Will Kimbrough – My Right Wing Friend – single
Brent Cowles – A Whole New Life – It’s Coals.
Ben Glover – Arguing With Ghosts (feat. Kim Richey) – single

Sarah MacDougall – Sometimes You Lose, Sometimes You Win – The Greatest Ones Alive – CDN
Laura Marling – Hope We Meet Again – Song for our Daughter
Annie Oakley – Words We Mean – Words We Mean
Mo Kenney – Game of Pricks – single – CDN

JP Hoe and the Truly Richards – Completely – The Live Beta Project – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Truck Drivin’ Son-of-a-Gun – We Gotta Lotta Truckin’ To Do – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Six Days on the Road – We Gotta Lotta Truckin’ To Do – CDN – WPG

Figure Walking – Colourful – Vertical/Horizontal – CDN – WPG
Figure Walking – Singapore – The Big Other – CDN – WPG
Greg Macpherson – First Class – Mr. Invitation – CDN – WPG

Matthew Ryan – Guilty – May Day
Jon Dee Graham – Laredo (Small Dark Something) – Hooray for the Moon
James McMurtry – Levelland – Live in Aught-Three
Mike Plume Band – Radiate – Fools for the Radio – CDN

The Replacements – Can’t Hardly Wait – Pleased to Meet Me
Lucinda Williams – Drunken Angel – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Skydiggers – Even When You Fall – Road Radio – CDN

Skydiggers – I’ll Be Home – Skydiggers – CDN
Oh Susanna – Beauty Boy (acoustic) – Sleepy Little Sailor (deluxe edition) – CDN

We’ve got a show chock full of great new music including this month’s Bandcamp day highlights, plus a few fairly recent classics.

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

Jim Bryson – Labor Drive – Tired of Waiting – CDN
Jim Bryson – Knights Of 1000 Sleeps ft. Caroline Brooks – single – CDN
Mike Plume – (We Are One) Dandelions – single – CDN
Mike Plume – Summers Around Here (Don’t Last Forever) – Lonesome Stretch of Highway – CDN
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Looking at the World Through a Windshield – We Gotta Lotta Truckin’ To Do – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Phantom 309 – We Gotta Lotta Truckin’ To Do – CDN – WPG

Iris DeMent – How Long – single
Elizabeth Cook – Two Chords and a Lie – Aftermath
Liz Longley – Get to Know Someone – Funeral for My Past
Terra Lightfoot – It’s over Now – Consider the Speed – CDN

Robert Plant – Too Much Alike (with Patty Griffin) – Digging Deep: Subterranea
Craig Finn – All These Perfect Crosses – All These Perfect Crosses
Elliott BROOD – Bird Dog – Keeper – CDN

Kristel Snellen – Love at First Sight – demo
Colter Wall – Sleeping on the Blacktop – live recording – CDN
The Satin Cowboy & The Seven Deadly Sins – Song for Tom Petty – Amigos
Zephaniah OHora – We Planned to Have It All – Listening to the Music

John Murry – Holocaust – single
Hayes Carll – Bad Liver and a Broken Heart – Alone Together Sessions
Bright Arcana – Old Bones (feat. Anna Tivel) – Bright Arcana in the Lowland Plains
Chris Stapleton – Starting Over – Starting Over
Brent Cobb – Shut up and Sing – Keep ‘Em On They Toes

Parker Millsap – Tell Me – Other Arrangements
Ken Yates – When We Came Home – Quiet Talkers – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – Hard on Everyone – Total Freedom – CDN

Another great one gone as we pay a fond farewell to the great Justin Townes Earle, who left us far too soon. We’ve got plenty of examples of him covering other artists, other artists covering him, and a few fun surprises to remember him by. On a happier note, on Friday, September 4, our buddy Sean Burns releases a collection of some of his favourite truckin’ songs called “We Gotta Lotta Truckin’ to Do,” so we hop in the cab and crank a few of our faves to get us ready.

Remember to keep in touch with the people you care about during these days of isolation. You never know what someone’s going through unless you reach out. The only way to get through this madness is with a little help. I’m here for you any time.

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

Justin Townes Earle – Hard Livin’ – The Good Life
Justin Townes Earle – Slippin’ and Slidin’ – live recording
Justin Townes Earle – Louisiana 1927 – live recording
Justin Townes Earle – Frightened By the Sound – The Saint of Lost Causes

Justin Townes Earle – Can’t Hardly Wait – Midnight at the Movies
Justin Townes Earle – Glory Days – Dead Man’s Town: Born in the U.S.A. Revisited
Justin Townes Earle – Justin Townes Earle – single
Justin Townes Earle – Far From Me – Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine
Steve Earle – Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold (w/Justin Townes Earle) – Townes

Wanda Jackson – What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome? – Unfinished Business
Zoë Nutt – Look the Other Way – Like You
Swift Creek – Harlem River Blues – Magnolia
Michael Cerveris & Loose Cattle – Ghost of Virginia (Live) – North of Houston: Live at 54 Below

Scott Cook – Just Enough Empties – Tangle of Souls – CDN
Joe Nolan – Sweet Lady – Cry Baby: B-Sides – CDN
Jim Cuddy – Good News (Acoustic) – single – CDN
Colter Wall – Cowpoke – Western Swing & Waltzes and other Punchy Songs – CDN

Sean Burns & Lost Country – Keep on Truckin’ – We Gotta Lotta Truckin’ To Do – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Yellowhead Road – Prairieography – CDN – WPG
Kendel Carson – I Like Trucks – Rearview Mirror Tears – CDN
Sweet Alibi – Pick up Truck – Walking in the Dark – CDN – WPG
Corin Raymond & The Sundowners – A Big Truck Brought It – Paper Nickels – CDN
Mayhemingways – Frances the Truck Driver – Skip Land – CDN

Fred Eaglesmith – Water in the Fuel – Lipstick, Lies And Gasoline – CDN
Willie P Bennett – White Line – Tryin’ To Start Out Clean – CDN
Townes Van Zandt – Pancho and Lefty – The Late Great Townes Van Zandt

Today we’ve got some of the very best of all time and some great new finds as we take the old and the new and shake them up for a pretty great selection of music.

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

Shannon Lyon – Sad Nights – Wandered – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Someday Mourning – Safe Inside – CDN
Townes Van Zandt – Nothin’ – Delta Momma Blues
Guy Clark – Desperadoes Waiting for a Train – Heartworn Highways (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Blaze Foley & the Beaver Valley Boys – Cold, Cold World – Cold, Cold World
Gurf Morlix – One More Second – Last Exit to Happyland

Tom Petty – There Goes Angela (Dream Away) [Home Recording] – Wildflowers and All the Rest
Richard Shindell – The Road to Calvary – Willie Nile Uncovered
Jerry Joseph – Days of Heaven – The Beautiful Madness
Lydia Loveless – Wringer – Daughter

Thomas Csorba – Heartache After Heartache – Thomas Csorba
Thomas Csorba – Expectation Runs – Thomas Csorba
Hurray For The Riff Raff – Rican Beach – The Navigator

Matthew Ryan – Rivers – single
Scott Cook – Tulsa – Tangle of Souls – CDN
Scott Cook – Tangle of Souls – Tangle of Souls – CDN
Corin Raymond – Rec Room – Dirty Mansions – CDN

Ridley Bent – Faded Red Hoodie – Buckles & Boots – CDN
Dustin Bentall – Streets With No Lights – Streets With No Lights – CDN
Barney Bentall – Dream Of A Day – Gift Horse – CDN
The Blue Shadows – I Know – Lucky to Me – CDN
The O’Kanes – When We’re Gone, Long Gone – The O’Kanes

Jesse DeNatale – Beside You – The Wilderness
Jesse Denatale – Dreamer’s Holiday – Soul Parade
Tom Waits – Downtown Train – Rain Dogs

We’ve got the best of the new & the old today, with some long-awaited new music from one of our all-time favourites, some newly discovered older music from some other artists we love, some other stellar new releases, and a few old favourites to round things out.

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

Ron Hawkins and the Do Good Assassins – Heartbreak in Hopper Street – 246 – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – Glenfern – Total Freedom – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – Ashes to Ashes – Total Freedom – CDN
Courtney Marie Andrews – Guilty – Old Flowers
Will Courtney – Guilty – At Home With Will Courtney and the Wild Bunch

Lissie – Just Because I Can – Catching a Tiger leftover single
Lissie – In Sleep – Catching A Tiger
Rumer – Hard Times for Lovers – Nashville Tears
Dinner Belles – Wandering Eye – The River And The Willow – CDN
Dinner Belles – No Good – The River And The Willow – CDN
Ayla Brook – (I Think I) Hit My Limit – Desolation Sounds – CDN
John Murry – Super Trouper – single

Figure Walking – Mr. X – Vertical/Horizontal – CDN – WPG
Robert Jon & the Wreck – Do You Remember – Last Light on the Highway
Waylon Payne – Sins of the Father – Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me: Act I
Kevin Gordon – Down to the Well – Down to the Well: Solo Demos Unearthed
Drew Holcomb – Long Legged Guitar Pickin’ Man – Kitchen Covers: The Collection
Jonathan Byrd – Under the Belly of the Night – Pickup Takeout

Shawn William Clarke – Ballad of a Boorish Man – William – CDN
Shawn William Clarke – I Blame the Loyalist Ghost – William – CDN
The Waterboys – My Wanderings in the Weary Land – Good Luck, Seeker
Pete Gow – I Will & I Do (live) – One Live One- Night Stand

Hemingway Corner – Watch Over You – Under The Big Sky – CDN
Joshua Cockerill – Dance with You – The Trick With Your Heart I’m Learning To Do – CDN
Chris Knight – Banging Away – The Jealous Kind

Yet another show loaded with great new music, including some cool covers and the latest haul from this mont’s Bandcamp Day!

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

Chuck Prophet – Paying My Respects to the Train – The Land That Time Forgot
Ben de la Cour – Suicide of Town – single
Terra Lightfoot – Paper Thin Walls – Consider the Speed – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – Simple Math – Total Freedom – CDN
Oh Susanna – River Blue (Acoustic) – Sleepy Little Sailor (deluxe reissue) – CDN

Arlo Parks – Black Dog – single
Darlingside – Ocean Bed – Fish Pond Fish
The Avett Brothers – Victory – The Gleam III
Bonny Light Horseman – Green Rocky Road – Green/Green

Drew Holcomb – Rainbow – Kitchen Covers
Anna Ash – Sister Golden Hair (America cover) – live recording
Kasey Chambers – Black Bess w/Jimmy Barnes – Cannot Buy My Soul (2020 Edition): The Songs of Kev Carmody
Midnight Oil – Gadigal Land (feat. Dan Sultan, Joel Davison, Kaleena Briggs & Bunna Lawrie) – The Makarrata Project

Dan Reeder – Stay Down, Man – Every Which Way
Dan Reeder – Born a Worm – Every Which Way
Peggy & Dan Reeder – Oma und Opa – single

Sarah Shook – Stone Door – live recording
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Life Is A Movie – Found Songs Vol. 2
Anthony Da Costa – Shadow Love – Your Name EP
Scott The Hoople – Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go To The Party – Rock & Roll Party 66
Colleen Brown – It’s The End Of The World (Again) – remix – single – CDN

Stephen Fearing, Connie Kaldor, James Keelaghan, Shari Ulrich – Hard Times Come Again No More – single – CDN
Stephen Stanley & Carla MacNeil – When I Get My Confidence Back – Demo – Too Many Sisters • Non-Barking Dog (2020 Extended Version) – CDN
Ken Yates – I Don’t Remember This Town – Quiet Talkers B-Sides – CDN
Scott Cook – Tulsa – Tangle Of Souls – CDN
Joe Nolan – Looking For Your Heart – Cry Baby B-Sides – CDN
David Francey – I Live in Fear – Late Edition – CDN

Today we get a little political with some pointed new tunes, spin some other great new music and get lost in the 80s in honour of a great music documentary that premiered this weekend!

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

Geoff Berner – The Ghost of Terry Fox (Is Looking Down on Me Tonite) – Canadiana Grotesquica – CDN
John K. Samson – Fantasy Baseball at the End of the World – single – CDN – WPG
Neil Young – Lookin’ for a Leader – 2020 – single – CDN
Buddy & Julie Miller – The Last Bridge You Will Cross (For John Lewis) – single
Buddy & Julie Miller – Let It Rain (feat. The McCrary Sisters & Steve Earle) – single

Kathleen Edwards – Fools Ride – Total Freedom – CDN
Lydia Loveless – Love Is Not Enough – Daughter
Laura Veirs – Burn Too Bright – My Echo
Bonnie Whitmore – Right / Wrong – Last Will and Testament
Malin Pettersen – Hometown – Wildhorse

Charlie Whitten – I Asked – I’m Waiting
Andy Shauf – Jeremy’s Wedding – Judy / Jeremy’s Wedding – CDN
Jayme Stone – Future Promise – Awake – CDN
Port Cities – I Still See You at Parties (w/Emma Lee) – single – CDN
The Ropes – From The River – The Ropes – CDN

Del Barber – Dancing In The Living Room – Easy Keeper – CDN – WPG
Jim Bryson – Free Falling – Itty Bitty Little Dittie V3 (under cover) – CDN
Chris Page – Runnin’ Down A Dream – Itty Bitty Little Dittie V3 (under cover) – CDN
Peter Dreimanis – State Trooper – At the End of Every Hard Earned Day People Find Some Reason to Believe by Toronto Covers Project – CDN
Will Courtney And The Wild Bunch – Cracking Up (Single Mix) – At Home With Will Courtney And The Wild Bunch
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers – Apocalypse – Cover Charge: NC Artists Go Under Cover to Benefit Cat’s Cradle
Molly Tuttle – Olympia, WA – …but i’d rather be with you

Matthew Ryan – Heaven Is a Place on Earth – single
Alex Dezen – Middle of Nowhere (House of Schock) – After the Go-Go’s EP
Alex Dezen – Rush Hour (Jane Wiedlin) – After the Go-Go’s EP
Cameron Dezen Hammon – Addicted to Love – Words Don’t Bleed
Barnstar! – I Think We’re Alone Now – C’mon!
Barney Bentall & The Legendary Hearts – U Shook Me All Night Long – Greatest Hits: 1986-1996 – CDN
Max Webster – Let Go The Line – A Million Vacations – CDN

This is another in our collection of timeless Standby episodes, which you may hear again sometime when I’m not able to put together a new episode for whatever reason. I’m pretty sure you won’t mind.

Have you ever noticed how many songs there are about or by Charlies? No, seriously, it’s an epidemic or something! You wouldn’t think that Charlie would pop up so often in songs, but we’ve got two hours of Charlies for you, and there are a whole bunch that I had to leave off! Good Times, Charlie!

So, Charlie, whoever you are, this one’s for you!

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

Jaxon Haldane – Charlie Parker – recorded live on UMFM – CDN – WPG
Charlie Robison – Good times – Good Times
Waylon Jennings – Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues – Lonesome, On’ry and Mean
Dan Frechette – Good Time Charlie Blues – Nothing To Lose But The Blues – CDN – WPG

The Deep Dark Woods – Charlie’s (Is Coming Down) – CBC Radio 2 Song Quest – CDN
Jory Nash – Charlie – New Blue Day – CDN
Kenneth Pattengale & Joey Ryan – Charlie – Retrospect
Peter Mulvey – Charlie – Kitchen Radio

Lucinda Williams – Lake Charles – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Shinyribs – Take Me Lake Charles – Gulf Coast Museum
Sons Of Bill – Charleston – One Town Away
Shovels & Rope – The Fall Of Charleston – Divided & United: The Songs Of The Civil War [Disc 1]
Barnstar! – Charlottesville – C’mon
Jesse Dayton – Charlottesville (Live) – On Fire in Nashville

Charlie Earle – The Hulk Song – Live at the Red Dog – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Charlene – The Official Bootleg Series Volume Two – CDN
Vance Gilbert – Charlene – Shaking Off Gravity
Jack Marks – Charlotte Anne – Two of Everything – CDN
Brock Zeman – Sweet Charlotte – Brock Zeman & The Dirty Hands – CDN
Rueben deGroot – (So Long) Charlotte – Rocket Surgery – CDN

Cindy Doire – Charlie Boy – Sticks and Mud – CDN
Jon Dee Graham – Shoeshine Charlie – Knoxville Skyline
Drive-By Truckers – Drag The Lake Charlie – The Big To-Do
Charlie Feathers – That Certain Female – Teenage Cruisers
Stompin’ Tom Connors – Chase Me, Charley – The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom – CDN

Lee Hazlewood – Charlie Bill Nelson – Strung Out on Something New: The Reprise Recordings
Lee Hazlewood – Me and Charlie – Strung Out on Something New: The Reprise Recordings
Tannis Slimmon – Ernest, Charlie & Allan – Lucky Blue – CDN
Charlie Major – I’m Gonna Drive You Out Of My Mind – The Other Side – CDN

We’ve got loads and loads of great new music this week and some more of our favourite 2020 songs & releases so far.

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

Mike Plume – Younger Than We Are Today – Lonesome Stretch of Highway – CDN

S.N.F.U. – Cement Mixer (to all my beautiful friends) – single – CDN
Lynn Miles – Merle – We’ll Look for Stars – CDN
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Secret Keepers – The Dirt and the Stars
Lori McKenna – The Balladeer – The Balladeer
Michaela Anne – Good Times – single

Gillian Welch – Happy Mother’s Day – single
Gillian Welch – Strange Isabella – Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs
Bonny Light Horseman – The Roving – Bonny Light Horseman
The Sea The Sea – Fall Before The Climb – Stumbling Home
Liza Anne – Desire – Change My Mind

Sea Changer – See You There (featuring Molly Parden) – single
Sons of Bill – In Your Eyes (w/Molly Parden) – single
Eilen Jewell – Green River – single

Ron Hawkins and the Do Good Assassins – Teenage Insurrection – 246 – CDN
Elvis Costello – Hetty O’Hara Confidential – single
Country Westerns – I’m Not Ready – Country Westerns
Jesse Dayton – Just What I Needed – Mixtape Volume 1
Jesse Dayton – Carencro Girl – Gulf Coast Sessions

Charlie Whitten – A Long Time – I’m Waiting
Charlie Whitten – Save Me – I’m Waiting
Brent Cobb – Keep ‘Em on They Toes – Keep ‘Em on They Toes

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – King of This Town – King of This Town – CDN
Scott Nolan – Ballad of a Stranger – single – CDN – WPG
Jim Bryson – Mama Tried – single – CDN
Kennedy Road – The Heart Will Buzz – A Little Fight Left Yet – CDN
The Bros. Landreth – Goodbye (feat. Mariel Buckley) – Something New, Something Blue – CDN – WPG
Sarah Harmer – St. Peter’s Bay – Are You Gone – CDN

This is the weekend when we’d normally be off in Germany enjoying our beloved Static Roots Festival, but alas, COVID has ruined everything. Luckily, we’ve got some new music from festival friends & past performers to enjoy. We’ve also got another batch of great new releases to tell you about, and there have been so many this year that I thought we’d take some time half way through the year to play some songs from some of my favourite 2020 releases thus far.

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

Stephen Stanley – The Troubadour’s Song – (stay safe sessions – episode #003) – CDN
The Stephen Stanley Band – Things I Wish I’d Never Seen – Live Static Roots Oberhausen, Germany – CDN
Anna Tivel – The Question – (stay safe sessions – episode #002)
The Hanging Stars – I Woke Up in July – I Woke Up in July
John Murry – Intruder (Early Version) – The Resurrection Of John Quixano El Bueno

Kathleen Edwards – Hard On Everyone – Total Freedom – CDN
The Golden Seals – Options Open – single – CDN
Silver Clouds – The Maginot Line – Silver Clouds – CDN – WPG
Figure Walking – Last Dollar (Green July) – Vertical/Horizontal – CDN – WPG
The Jayhawks – Looking up Your Number – Xoxo
Craig Cardiff – Yellowknife – single – CDN

Oh Susanna – Sacrifice (Acoustic) – Sleepy Little Sailor (Deluxe Reissue) – CDN
Courtney Marie Andrews – How You Get Hurt – Old Flowers
Becca Mancari – First Time – The Greatest Part
Gillian Welch – Jackson – All The Good Times

Sean Burns – Gasoline – It Takes Luck To Get The Best Of Me – CDN – WPG
Joe Nolan – Maybe We Didn’t Get Our Timing Right – Drifters – CDN
Ken Yates – Easy Way Out – Quiet Talkers – CDN
Slow Leaves – Miss You – Shelf Life – CDN – WPG
Katie Pruitt – Expectations – Expectations

NQ Arbuckle – Love Songs For The Long Game – single – CDN
Melissa Payne – Darker Than Your Dark – Darker Than Your Dark – CDN
Campbell Woods – For You – Keeper – CDN
Ben de la Cour – God’s Only Son – Shadow Land