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

After last week’s all-Canadian special, we’re back mixing it up with some great new music, including this month’s Bandcamp haul, some great requests, and a few timely tunes in honour of the turn of the calendar.

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

Dave Alvin – Fourth Of July – King Of California
Ana Egge – Fifth of July – Bright Shadow – CDN
Spirit Of The West – July – Star Trails – CDN
Radiogram – Summer Song Summer – All the Way Home – CDN
Del Barber – Queen Of July – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Chuck Prophet – Summertime Thing – No Other Love

Chuck Prophet – Marathon – The Land That Time Forgot
Skydiggers – Lovin’ You Ain’t Easy – Lovin’ You Ain’t Easy – CDN
Justin Osborne – Rock On – The Real Brent Brent
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Fake Tattoo – Found Songs Vol. 1
Ruby Boots – Keeping Me Alive – Pandemophenia

SomeRiseSomeFall ft John Blek – The Munition Maker – Biologically Blue
SomeRiseSOmeFall ft Anna Mitchell – The Rain Came Down On Everything – single

Lynn Miles – In for a Penny (bonus track) – We’ll Look for Stars – CDN
Lynn Miles – A Heart Can Only Take So Much – We’ll Look for Stars – CDN
Scott Cook – Say Can You See – Tangle of Souls – CDN
Terry Allen and The Panhandle Mystery Band – All These Blues Go Walkin’ By (feat. Shannon McNally) – Just Like Moby Dick
Julian Velard and Alex Dezen – Michael and Heather at the Baggage Claim – Saving for a Custom Van
Leeroy Stagger – Black Teenagers – single – CDN

Leeroy Stagger – Carol – (stay safe sessions – episode #001) – CDN
Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures – Maybe I Will See You Again – Orange Juice
Steve Earle & The Dukes – If I Could See Your Face Again – Ghosts of West Virginia
Ronnie Fauss – Nothing Worth Saying – single
The Texas Gentlemen – Train to Avesta – Floor It!

Sean Burns – Whiskey Glass – Cold Beans & Broken Eggs – CDN – WPG
Skinny Dyck – Dreamin’ – Get to Know Lonesome – CDN
Skinny Dyck – Goodbye Seems So Easy (Acoustic) – single – 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 because this is a pretty good one.

Playing great Canadian music is a main mission and joy on this show because I really believe that the best music in the world comes from right here. Every week I try to stack the show with a lot of great homegrown music, but this week, in honour of Canada Day, we’re 100% all Canadian and proud of it.

This episode is kind of like a beginner’s guide to the best of Canadian music, or a Canadian Greatest Hits, if you will. It aims to pull together some of the most essential Canadian music ever made in an attempt to show the strength and breadth of our music. We look at some of the early giants whose shoulders today’s artists stand on, and a few contemporary artists who are making timeless music bound to be looked back on in years to come.

I can’t pretend to put together a comprehensive list in just 2 hours, but I think this one covers a lot of the most important bases. Please let me know what would be on your list of essential Canadian music!

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

Rheostatics – Seven (Northern Wish) – Music Inspired By The Group Of 7 – CDN
The Guess Who – These Eyes – Wheatfield Soul – CDN
Anne Murray – Snowbird – This Way Is My Way – CDN
Ian & Sylvia – Four Strong Winds – Four Strong Winds – CDN
Gordon Lightfoot – Early Mornin’ Rain – Lightfoot! – CDN
The Band – The Weight (Remastered) – Music From Big Pink – CDN

Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Cinnamon Girl – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – CDN
Joni Mitchell – You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio – For The Roses – CDN
Leonard Cohen – Bird on the Wire – Songs From A Room – CDN
Stan Rogers – Barrett’s Privateers – Fogarty’s Cove – CDN

Willie P Bennett – White Line – Tryin’ To Start Out Clean – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith & The Flying Squirrels – Summerlea – Things Is Changin’ – CDN
Lynn Miles – Black Flowers – Unravel – CDN
Ron Hynes – Sonny’s Dream – Face to the Gale – CDN

Blue Rodeo – Hasn’t Hit Me Yet – Five Days In July – CDN
Spirit of the West – Home For A Rest – Save This House – CDN
Skydiggers – Slow Burning Fire – Restless – CDN
Blackie and The Rodeo Kings – Lean On Your Peers – Kings of Love – CDN
Michel Pagliaro – Lovin’ You Ain’t Easy – Rainshowers – CDN

The Lowest of The Low – Rosy and Grey – Shakespeare My Butt… – CDN
The Weakerthans – Left & Leaving – Left & Leaving – CDN – WPG
Sarah Harmer – Don’t Get Your Back Up – You Were Here – CDN
Oh Susanna – Home Soon (The Cherry Song) – Johnstown – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – 12 Bellevue – Failer – CDN

David Francey – Wind In The Wires – Torn Screen Door – CDN
Mike Plume Band – Wind At My Back – Song & Dance, Man – CDN
Jim Bryson – February – The Occasionals – CDN
Nathan – Lampshade – Stranger – CDN – WPG

Happy Father’s Day to all of the great dads out there. We’ve got some songs for you today, as well as some great new music, requests, and some songs and love in honour of one of our most valuable music venues, which could use our help right now. Consider helping support the great work that Erick and his staff do down at the Park Theatre if you’re able: https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-helping-high-five-for-the-park-theatre

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

Loudon Wainwright III – Bein’ a Dad – 40 Odd Years
Loudon Wainwright III – Daughter – Strange Weirdos: Music From and Inspired by the Film Knocked Up
Johnsmith – Father’s Day – Gravity of Grace
Jonathan Byrd – Father’s Day – Cackalack
Five Chinese Brothers – My Dad’s Face – Singer Songwriter Beggarman Thief

Sean Burns – Daddy Was an Auctioneer – It Takes Luck To Get The Best Of Me – CDN
Skinny Dyck – Glory for Me – Get to Know Lonesome – CDN – WPG
Colter Wall – Western Swing & Waltzes – Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs – CDN
Vincent Neil Emerson – Road Runner (feat. Colter Wall) – single
Corb Lund – Never Not Had Horses – Agricultural Tragic – CDN

Hailey Whitters – All The Cool Girls – The Dream
Elizabeth Cook – Perfect Girls of Pop – Aftermath
Katie Pruitt – Expectations – Expectations

American Aquarium – Six Years Come September – Lamentations
The Bottle Rockets – Perfect Far Away – 24 Hours A Day
Kieran Kane – Six Months, No Sun – Six Months, No Sun
Buddy & Julie Miller – Get Offa My Money – single

SomeRiseSomeFall – Biologically Blue (featuring John Blek) – Biologically Blue
Our Native Daughters – You’re Not Alone (feat. Rhiannon Giddens & Allison Russell) – Songs of Our Native Daughters
Norah Jones – I’m Alive – Pick Me Up Off The Floor
John Bottomley – Candle In The Dark – Blackberry – CDN

JP Hoe And The Truly Richards – Rise – The Live Beta Project – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – Lay Down – North/South – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Living with a Long Way to Go – Prairieography – CDN – WPG
Mike Plume – Five Crow Silver (Montreal) – Red and White Blues – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Drive-In Movie – Drive-In Movie – CDN

Today we bounce around between new music and older classics, and most exciting of all, we get ready for the return of live music in Winnipeg!

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

Kathleen Edwards – Options Open – live recording – CDN
John Prine – I Remember Everything – single
Mick Flannery – In the Gutter – Alive – Cork Opera House 2019
John Blek – Hannah (Live at StudiOwz) – Digressions #1 Live at StudiOwz
J.S. Ondara – Lockdown On Date Night Tuesday – Folk n’ Roll Vol. 1: Tales Of Isolation

Matt Fockler – Write a Song? – live recording
Jonathan Byrd – Do You Dream? – Pickup Cowboy
Corin Raymond – The Law and the Lonesome – Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams – CDN
Scott Cook – Leave a Light On – Tangle of Souls – CDN
Mayhemingways – Haybales – Skip Land – CDN

Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Poor Choices Song – Winnipeg: The High & Lonesome Years [Vol. IV] – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – Postcards – No Bourbon And Bad Radio – CDN – WPG
JD Edwards Band – This House Will Stand – Roads and Roads – CDN – WPG

John Moreland – Nobody Gives a Damn About Songs Anymore – In the Throes
Erin Enderlin – Tonight I Don’t Give a Damn – Faulkner County
Ruby Boots – Don’t Give a Damn – Don’t Talk About It

Bootsy Collins – Stars (MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund) w/ Emisunshine – single
The Ropes – Waterfall – The Ropes – CDN
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Bad Trick (feat. Ringo Starr, Don Was, Joe Walsh & Chris Robinson) – Co-Starring
Silver Clouds – A Minor Hesitation – Silver Clouds – CDN – WPG
Matthew Ryan – Farewell (feat. Dave Coleman & Kevin Salem) (More Guitars Mix) – Farewell
Elvis Costello – No Flag – single
Fontaines D.C. – I Don’t Belong – A Hero’s Death

John Craigie – Part Wolf – Asterisk the Universe
Jaime Wyatt – Hurt So Bad (w/Shooter Jennings) – Neon Cross
Sean Burns – Beans, Bacon, and Gravy – It Takes Luck To Get The Best Of Me – CDN – WPG
Son Volt – Windfall – Trace