We held back a bit on the new music last week for our Minneapolis themed show, so we had a bit of a backlog to clear out today and it filled up pretty much the entire show outside of a couple of timely tunes and some music as heard on TV.

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

Steve Earle – What’s So Funny About Peace, Love & Understanding – Just An American Boy: The Audio Documentary
Colin Linden – Love Everyone – Raised By Wolves – CDN
Grayson Capps – May We Love – South Front Street
Son Volt – The Globe – single
Scott The Hoople – Why Can’t We Do Less Wrong? – Sad Box & Other Hits
Kellie Loder – Molded Like a Monster – single – CDN

Chuck Prophet – Love Doesn’t Come From the Barrel of a Gun – The Land That Time Forgot
Arborist | Malojian – Good Things Follow You – Good Things Follow You
Campbell Woods – Leave Me (The Way You Found Me) – Fool For You #1 EP – CDN
Sean Burns – Gasoline – It Takes Luck To Get The Best Of Me – CDN – WPG
Figure Walking – Heavy Rain – Vertical/Horizontal – CDN – WPG
Red Moon Road – Time to Remember (live at Nonsuch) – Homemade Winnipeg: An Isolation Compilation – CDN – WPG

Kathleen Edwards – Birds On A Feeder – Total Freedom – CDN
Zoe Guigueno – Gettin’ Away with It – Secret Admirer – CDN
Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards – Corduroy Jacket – Bitter Better
Samantha Crain – Holding To The Edge Of Night – A Small Death
Molly Parden – Bolting Volts – 290520

Tim Bluhm – Too Far Into The Weeds – Gone With The Windshield
Peter Katz – Paper Thin – single – CDN
The Jayhawks – Dogtown Days – XOXO
Western Centuries – Space Force (feat. Jim Lauderdale) – Call the Captain
Jesse Malin – Crawling Back to You – Backstabbers
Ben de la Cour – Swan Dive – Shadow Land

The Eddy – The Eddy – The Eddy (From The Netflix Original Series)
Dar Williams – The Beauty of the Rain – The Beauty of the Rain
Glen Hansard – Bird of Sorrow – Rhythm And Repose

A smaller crop of new releases this week leads things off, but we do have the great privilege of premiering some amazing new music from Winnipeg’s own Sean Burns, created in isolation and coming out on the next BandCamp day. Most of today’s show is a love letter to a city that I love and visit often, Minneapolis, MN. The city has been at the forefront of racial tensions in the USA this week. Our hope is that things can move forward and get better without further violence. Sending some peace, love, and rock ‘n’ roll to all!

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

Alex Dezen – My Whole Life – single
Sean Burns – Daddy Was an Auctioneer – It Takes Luck to Get the Best of Me – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns – Don’t Let the Highway Get You Lost – It Takes Luck to Get the Best of Me – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns – NYC – It Takes Luck to Get the Best of Me – CDN – WPG
Northcote – Keep on Saying Goodbye – single – CDN

Lynn Miles – We’ll Look for Stars – We’ll Look for Stars – CDN
Courtney Marie Andrews – It Must Be Someone Else’s Fault – Old Flowers
Molly Parden – Weather2020 – 290520
Anna Tivel – Minneapolis (Acoustic) – The Question (Live and Alone)

Ben Kyle – Minneapolis – Ben Kyle
Romantica – St. Paul City Lights – Shadowlands

The Be Good Tanyas – When Doves Cry – Hello Love – CDN
Dwight Yoakam – Purple Rain – Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars..
Lydia Loveless – I Would Die 4 U – Boy Crazy and Single(s)
The Jayhawks – Blue – Live at First Avenue – 6/21/10

Lifter Puller – Lake Street Is For Lovers – Fiestas & Fiascos
The Hold Steady – Stuck Between Stations – Boys and Girls in America
The Hold Steady – Stay Positive – Stay Positive
Slim Dunlap – Times Like This – Times Like This
The Replacements – Skyway – Pleased To Meet Me

Mark Mallman – True Love – Mr. Serious
Mark Mallman – Minneapolis – single
Mason Jennings – Ballad For My One True Love – Live At First Ave.
Lucinda Williams – Minneapolis – World Without Tears

Tom Waits – Christmas Card From Hooker In Minneapolis – Blue Valentine
Tom Waits – 9th & Hennepin – Rain Dogs

Another wave of exciting new music washed over us this week, including some long-awaited new music from old friends, more great streaming shows coming up this week, and we rediscovered some old favourites, along with more good stuff! Chase away the isolation blues and let the good times roll!

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

Alex Dezen – Wherever We Go – single
Kathleen Edwards – Options Open – Total Freedom – CDN
Jim Bryson – Cut Bait – Tired of Waiting – CDN
Ken Yates – Easy Way Out – Quiet Talkers – CDN
Evangeline Gentle – You and I – single – CDN
Evangeline Gentle – Black is the Colour – single – CDN

Mike Plume – The Sweet Passing of Time – Lonesome Stretch of Highway – CDN
Scott Cook – Leave a Light On – Tangle of Souls – CDN
Neil Young – Try – Homegrown – CDN
Steve Earle & The Dukes – The Mine – Ghosts of West Virginia
The Jayhawks – This Forgotten Town – XOXO
Amanda Shires – Deciphering Dreams – single
Lindsay Ferguson – Siren – single – CDN
Tim O’Reagan – These Things – Tim O’Reagan

Walter Martin – Quarantine Boogie (Loco) – single
Joseph Huber – Souls Without Maps – The Suffering Stage
Tyler Childers – Whitehouse Road – Purgatory
JD McPherson – North Side Gal – Signs & Signifiers
Kayla Luky – The Best Things in Life – Back to Dirt – CDN – MB

Kennedy Road – Kennedy – A Little Fight Left Yet – CDN
Express and Company – Carry Me Along – Ontario – CDN
Melissa Payne – Shake Me – Darker Than Your Dark – CDN
Caroline Spence – Sit Here And Love Me – Mint Condition
Katie Pruitt – My Mind’s A Ship (That’s Going Down) – Expectations

Jim White – A Perfect Day To Chase Tornadoes – Wrong-Eyed Jesus!
Jory Nash – Dark Matter – Wilderness Years – CDN

Again we’ve got some very exciting new releases, streaming show memories and news, tributes to a few late, greats, and more!

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

Scott Nolan – Ballad of a Stranger – Montgomery Eldorado outtake – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – Morning on the Mountaintop – recorded live at the WECC – CDN – WPG
Ray LaMontagne – We’ll Make It Through – single
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit – Overseas – Reunions

Ben de la Cour – Shadow Land – Shadow Land
Ben de la Cour – Basin Lounge – Shadow Land
Chuck Prophet – Willie and Nilli – The Land That Time Forgot
Alex Dezen – Wherever We Go – single
Paul Kelly – Hummin’ to Myself – single

Steve Earle & The Dukes – Union, God and Country – Ghosts of West Virginia
Vincent Neil Emerson – 25 & Wastin’ Time – Fried Chicken & Evil Women
Vincent Neil Emerson – Letters on the Marquee – Fried Chicken & Evil Women

Cris Cuddy – The Night the Lights Blew Out (In St. John’s Newfoundland) – Dream On – CDN
Ron Hynes – Cryer’s Paradise – Cryer’s Paradise – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Sunset Pendulum – Heartstrings – CDN
Jim Bryson – Elizabeth – The North Side Benches – CDN

Paul MacLeod – Black Boys On Mopeds – Tell the Band to Go Home – CDN
Paul MacLeod – Lies – Bright Eyes Fade – CDN
John Bottomley – Brother To The Sea – Blackberry – CDN
Oh Susanna – Sleepy Little Sailor (Acoustic) – Sleepy Little Sailor (Deluxe Edition) – CDN

The Rad Trads – Shouldn’t Have to Ask Me Why – 99 in October
The Rad Trads – Spanish Radio – 99 in October
Son of Dave – Carry On – single – CDN – WPG
Joel Plaskett – I Lost It – 44 – CDN
Jackson C. Frank – Blues Run The Game – Blues Run The Game
Caroline Spence – The Middle – single

The wave of new music overwhelmed us again, and some of it was pretty rockin’ for your usual Tell the Band to Go Home episode, so the second hour reclaimed the moniker of Steel Belted Radio. We also paid tribute to another great artist who left us this weekend and retired another overused song title.

We here are the show wish to thank and send our love and admiration to all of the mothers out there who make all things possible. We appreciate and respect you all not just on Mother’s Day, but it is a good reminder to let you know how important you are!

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

NQ Arbuckle – Love Songs For The Long Game – single – CDN
Joe Nolan – Maybe We Didn’t Get Our Timing Right – Drifters – CDN
American Aquarium – The Day I Learned to Lie to You – Lamentations
Hayes Carll – Times Like These (Acoustic) – single
Pharis & Jason Romero – We All Fall – New Day / We All Fall – CDN
Gretchen Peters – Why You Been Gone so Long – The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury

Ben de la Cour – From Now On – Shadow Land
Richard Inman – What Was I Thinking? – Faded Love Better Days – CDN – MB
Scott Nolan – Black Diamond Lullaby – single – CDN
Samantha Crain – An Echo – Holding To The Edge Of Night
Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards – Treat You Better – Bitter Better

Rae Spoon – In My Town – bodiesofwater – CDN
Molly Tuttle – Helpless (feat. Old Crow Medicine Show) – single

Little Richard – Tutti Frutti – Here’s Little Richard
The Everly Brothers – Good Golly, Miss Molly – The Hit Sound Of The Everly Brothers
Will Hoge – Long Tall Sally – Again Somewhere Tomorrow (Live)

Alex Dezen – I’m the Worst Guitar Player (In a One-Man Band) – single
Alex Dezen – Praying for Rain – single
Junkhouse – Praying For The Rain – Strays – CDN
The Rocky Fortune – Tonight We Pray For Rain – Sway – CDN

David Myles – Kind Of Like It – Leave Tonight – CDN
Scenic Route to Alaska – Call Your Friends – single – CDN
Brian Wright & The SneakUps – Heavy Metal Shed Kids – Lapse of Luxury
Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death – A Hero’s Death
Ben de la Cour – God’s Only Son – Shadow Land
Communism – Take Care of Each Other – Get Down Get Together – CDN

The spring flood of new music continues, and we’ve got an entire show of almost all-new music. There’s lots of great music out there that will brighten your days and fill your life and we had a listen to some of the highlights on this episode.

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

Matthew Ryan – Dam – May Day
Matthew Ryan – Heaven Is a Place on Earth – single
Todd Snider – Angel from Montgomery – single
Jeffrey Martin and Anna Tivel – Tonight You Belong to Me – Songs for the Moon
Good Lovelies – Torn Screen Door – single – CDN
Pokey LaFarge – Oval Room – New West Records Nashville & Athens Artist Celebrity Coronavirus Awareness Fun Mix Pro-Am Mix For The Cure
Matthew Barber – Sundown – Old Tapes – CDN
Vanessa Peters – Aside – Mixtape
Anthony da Costa – Sumach Street – live recording

Lindy Vopnfjord – State of the Heart – State of the Heart – CDN
Steve Dawson & Funeral Bonsai Wedding – Last Flight Out – Last Flight Out
Special Consensus – East Chicago Blues (w/Robbie Fulks) – single

Antje Duvekot – Toys (Christian Boys) – Kiss the World Beautiful – Vol. II
Martyn Joseph – When We Get Through This – single
Humbird – On The Day We Are Together Again – live recording
Danny Schmidt – 2020 Vision – single
Chuck Mead – I Ain’t Been Nowhere – single
Drive-By Truckers – Quarantine Together – single
The Burning Hell – I Want to Drink in a Bar – single – CDN
Buddy & Julie Miller – Public Service Song #2: Concerning Bleach – single

Richard Inman – Holding You Was Worth More – Faded Love Better Days – CDN – MB
Slow Leaves – Half of the Bed – Shelf Life – CDN – WPG
Lynn Jackson – Cobwebs (CLN) – Lionheart – CDN
Jeremie Albino – Klondike Man – single – CDN
Mike Plume – (We Are One) Dandelions – single – CDN

I think I spoke too soon last week when I said that the new releases were slowing because we had so many this week that would couldn’t possibly fit them all in, but we heard some of the highlights for sure, including some of the many isolation coming out of quarantine. We also got some great requests this week, had a few laughs, rediscovered a great Winnipeg band from days gone by, and more!

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

Bill Bourne – Hunker Down – single – CDN
Luma – Hello, Hello – single – CDN
Craig Cardiff – To Be Safe, Loved & Home (2020) – single – CDN
Colleen Brown – Good Life – single – CDN

NQ Arbuckle – Love Songs For The Long Game – single – CDN
Alex Dezen – For a Good Time – single
Ken Yates – Evangeline – Close Talkers – CDN

Dennis J. Leise – Americana Music – State of Fairs
Dean Summerwind – Parked out by the Lake – single
Jonathan Byrd – I’ve Been Everywhere – Covid 19 version – single

summersets – Anywhere You Go – single – CDN
Joel Plaskett – Hey Stu! – 44 – CDN

Jeffrey Martin and Anna Tivel – Ain’t No Bugs on Me – Songs for the Moon
Anna Tivel – Shadowland – The Question (Live and Alone)
Anna Tivel – Crazy Time! – Yellow Room Recording

Kings of the Moon – Drive So Far – Kings of the Moon – CDN – WPG
Kings of the Moon – Leaves – Kings of the Moon – CDN – WPG

Jenie Thai – Dreamers and Lovers – single – CDN
Jeffery Straker – Light a Fire – single – CDN
Sussex – Superman’s Escape – Parade Day – CDN
Madison Violet – Small of My Heart – No Fool For Trying – CDN

Various Artists – Lean on Me – Thank You To Our Grocery Industry! – single – CDN
James McMurtry – Lights of Cheyenne – Live in Aught-Three
Chuck Prophet – Nixonland – The Land that Time Forgot

The new release tap is definitely being turned off a bit, so the flow of new music has dramatically slowed, but we’ve still got some new gems for you today, as well as another roundup of the live streams I’m most looking forward to this week. Recently I got sucked into one of those “10 album” challenges on social media, but this time it was a list of 10 significant live albums. While I kind of hate live albums in general, there are some artists who have managed to do it right and have come up with live albums that are essential pieces of their catalogs. We heard a few of those today, and much more!

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

Paul MacLeod – Giants – Tell the Band to Go Home – CDN
Lynn Jackson – Wake Up with the Sun – Down in the Dust – CDN
Paul MacLeod – A Clear Thought – Bright Eyes Fade – CDN
Skydiggers – Biloxi – There And Back (Live) – CDN

JP Hoe And The Truly Richards – Nicest – The Live Beta Project – CDN – WPG
Rheostatics – The Royal Albert (Joey 2) – Double Live – CDN
Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Poor Choices Song – Winnipeg: The High & Lonesome Years [Vol. IV] – CDN – WPG
The Sadies – Jason Fleming (w/ Neko Case & Garth Hudson) – In Concert Volume One – CDN
The Co-Dependents – Devil Woman – Live Recording Event – CDN
Billy Cowsill – I’m Moving On – Billy Cowsill Live – CDN

James McMurtry – Choctaw Bingo – Live in Aught-Three
Mike Plume Band – Bird’s Eye View – Born So Long Ago Live 1997-2002 – CDN

Catherine MacLellan & Tara MacLean – This Storm – single – CDN
Alex Dezen – No Getting Over It – single
Alex Dezen – Modern Life – single
NHD – Hello From An Emergency Room In Hollywood – And The Devil Went Up To Portland

Joe Nolan – Song Called Titanic – unreleased – CDN
Campbell Woods – She’s a Keeper (Reprise) – Keeper – CDN
Slow Leaves – Time Was on your Side – Shelf Life – CDN – WPG
John K. Samson – Millennium For All – single – CDN – WPG

Joe Ely – Soon All Your Sorrows Be Gone – Love in the Midst of Mayhem
American Aquarium – Six Years Come September – Lamentations

Jon Brooks – Gun Dealer – The Smiling & Beautiful Countryside – CDN
Zachary Lucky – Sunday Morning at the Dragstrip – Midwestern – CDN
Tony Furtado – One Too Many Mornings – These Chains

We seem to have hit a bit of a slow-down in the new releases, although we’ve got plenty for you again today. The live streams are still happening all over the place, though, so we’ve got the weekly rundown as well as tributes to Bill Withers and John Prine, and more!

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

Shannon Lyon – Grandpa Was a Carpenter – live recording – CDN
Matt Andersen – Ain’t No Sunshine – Second Time Around – CDN
Glen Campbell – Lean On Me – The Legacy (1961-2017)
Bill Withers – Grandma’s Hands – Just As I Am
Bill Withers – Lovely Day – Menagerie

Buddy & Julie Miller – Stay Home – single
Alex Dezen – Modern Life – single
Chris Trapper – Make It Through – single
Phoebe Bridgers – Kyoto – Punisher
Beoga & Lissie – In a Rocket – In a Rocket

Whitney Rose – In a Rut – We Still Go to Rodeos – CDN
Butch Walker – Gridlock – American Love Story
Rod Slaughter & Rob Pachol – Right Down the Line – single – CDN
Rusty Matyas – Bohemian Rhapsody (Klingon Version) (partial play) – single – CDN
Steve Forbert – Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues – Early Morning Rain

Jim Bryson – Without Piano – The Occasionals – CDN
Dennis Ellsworth – Anything at All – Common Senseless – CDN
Jeremy Messersmith – A Girl, a Boy, and a Graveyard – The Reluctant Graveyard
Leaf Rapids – Citizen Alien – Citizen Alien – CDN
Sussex – Lookin’ for Trouble – The Ocean Wide – CDN
Christina Martin – Where the Dark Meets the Light (Acoustic) – Wonderful Lie – CDN

Rheostatics – It’s The Super Controller! – Here Come The Wolves – CDN
Ron Sexsmith – When Love Pans Out – Hermitage – CDN
Ken Whiteley – Lay My Burden by the River – Calm In The Eye of the Storm – CDN
Bobby Bare – They Won’t Let Us Show It at the Beach – Great American Saturday Night

Andrew Calhoun – Goin’ Down to See John Prine – Tiger Tattoo

Fortunately, the new music releases are continuing full stream ahead for now, so we’ve got plenty of great material to keep us entertained, and we heard a big pile of it today. The live music calendar has shifted online, and my schedule has never been busier, so we chatted about the highlights of the week to come.

Remember to stay home and wash those hands regularly. Reach out to me or someone else if you’re struggling with anything at all or there’s something you need. We’re all in this together and we can’t do it alone!

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

Shannon Lyon – The Last Time I Cried – Lighter Longer – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Things I Used to Say to You – Lighter Longer – CDN
Northcote – Dancers and Queens – single – CDN
American Aquarium – Me + Mine (Lamentations) – Lamentations
The Artisanals – The Road – Zia

Steve Earle & The Dukes – John Henry Was a Steel Drivin’ Man – Ghosts of West Virginia
Steve Poltz – Shakin’ Out The Days – Nashville Unreleased Vol. I: Transmissions from Isolation Row – CDN
Brian Wright & The SneakUps – Poor Little Genius – Lapse of Luxury
Dennis Bouwman & the Wild Roses – All I Wanted – Sundog – CDN

Matt Epp – Throw It All Away (w/Kelly Prescott) – single – CDN
John Blek – Cinder & Smoke – single
Kennedy Road – Release Me – A Little Fight Left – CDN
Harrow Fair – Shiloh – Sins We Made – CDN

Joe Nolan – Jaguar – Drifters – CDN
Brock Zeman – Thanks For Letting Me Sleep Here – live recording – CDN
Terra Lightfoot – Norma Gale – New Mistakes – CDN
Mayhemingways – Bad Old Days – Skip Land – CDN
Jim Bryson – Cut Bait – Tired of Waiting – CDN

Brock Zeman – Gastown – The Pinball Sessions – CDN
John Prine – Hello In There – John Prine
Del Barber – Spanish Pipedream – Live at the West End – CDN – WPG

Slow Leaves – Miss You – Shelf Life – CDN – WPG
Teddy Thompson – At a Light – Heartbreaker Please
Nick Lowe – Lay It on Me – Lay It on Me
Lucinda Williams – You Can’t Rule Me – Good Souls Better Angels
Darrell Scott – Fool About You – Sings the Blues of Hank Williams
Corb Lund – 90 Seconds of your Time – Agricultural Tragic – CDN