It’s International Women’s Day, and we’re celebrating with an all-female show today! We’re playing a game of Girls Play Boys, where female artists cover songs written and made famous by males, and show them how the songs should really be sung! We’ve also got a bit of new music and some great requests/suggestions from some of our favourite female listeners. Sadly, we also had to do a bit of a tribute to Canadian singer/songwriter Laura Smith, who passed away this weekend.

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

Dar Williams – All Men Are Liars – Labour of Love: The Music of Nick Lowe

Laura Smith – Shade Of Your Love – B’tween the Earth and My Soul – CDN
Laura Smith – For Better Or For Worse – It’s A Personal Thing – CDN
Laura Smith – Safe Home, Sweet Home – Everything Is Moving – CDN

Courtney Marie Andrews – If I Told – Old Flowers
Liz Longley – Get to Know Someone – Funeral For My Past

Linda McRae – When Love is a Game – Shadow Trails – CDN
Brandi Carlile – Forever Young – Live At Benaroya Hall with The Seattle Symphony
Brandi Carlile – Sixty Years On – Brandi Carlile
Cameron Dezen Hammon – Addicted to Love – Words Don’t Bleed
The Be Good Tanyas – When Doves Cry – Hello Love – CDN
Imelda May – Tainted Love – Mayhem
The Sweetback Sisters – Rattled – Looking for a Fight

Chris Brown & Kate Fenner – Margaret – Geronimo – CDN
Paul Kelly – Keep On Coming Back for More (featuring Clairy Browne) – The Merri Soul Sessions
Skydiggers – Ramblin’ On (Featuring Jessy Bell Smith) – She Comes Into The Room – CDN
Rheostatics – Loving Arms – The Story Of Harmelodia – CDN
Michael Johnston – Apology Featuring Oh Susanna – Curious Heart – CDN

Wendy Bird – Deliver Me – Natural Wonder – CDN
Eliza Gilkyson – Sleeper – Going Driftless: An Artists’ Tribute to Greg Brown
Lori McKenna – The Needle and the Damage Done – Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists cover Neil Young for Charity
Martina McBride – Help Me Make It Through The Night – Timeless
Iris DeMent – House Where Nobody Lives – Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits

Lisa LeBlanc – Ace of Spades – Why You Wann Leave, Runaway Queen? – CDN
Good Lovelies – Crabbuckit – Let The Rain Fall – CDN

A whole lot of feel-good music today on the show, as I recently discovered the best song ever, and went on a journey to find other songs that made me feel as good as that one does. We also heard some great new music, talked about concert and festival rumours, and shook our fists at the cloud.

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

The Secret Sisters – Tin Can Angel – Saturn Return
Katie Pruitt – Expectations – Expectations
Kathleen Edwards – 12 Bellevue – Failer – CDN
Christina Martin – You Come Home – Two Hearts – CDN
Lucinda Williams – Essence – Essence
David Francey – Border Line – Torn Screen Door – CDN

Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke – Songs In The Key Of Life
10cc – The Things We Do For Love – Deceptive Bends
Three Dog Night – Joy To The World – Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965–1975
Katrina & The Waves – Walking On Sunshine – Katrina & The Waves
Paolo Nutini – New Shoes – These Streets

Joe Nolan – Kisses in the Dark – Drifters – CDN
Melissa Payne – Unchain Myself – Darker Than Your Dark – CDN
Letitia VanSant – You Can’t Put My Fire Out – Circadian
Taylor Ashton – Straight Back – The Romantic – CDN
Steve Earle & The Dukes – Devil Put the Coal in the Ground – Ghosts of West

Mariel Buckley – Rose Coloured Frames – Driving in the Dark – CDN
Mariel Buckley – Jumping the Fence – Driving in the Dark – CDN
Del Barber – Juanita – Easy Keeper – CDN – WPG
John Prine – Hello in There – John Prine

Dennis Ellsworth – Whatever You Want – Common Senseless – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Enemy Inside – Love Versus – CDN

A whole lot of great new and new-to-me music today, alongside some fine requests and a little bit of political rabble-rousing.

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

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Trust Yourself – King of This Town – CDN
Brian Wright – Got Me Under Pressure / Nice to See You Smile Again – The Sneak Ups
Low Cut Connie – Look What They Did – single
Chuck Prophet – Get Off the Stage – single
Drive-By Truckers – Babies in Cages – The Unraveling
John K. Samson – Millennium for All – single – CDN – WPG

Joe Nolan – Maybe We Didn’t Get Our Timing Right – Drifters – CDN
Melissa Payne – Darker Than Your Dark – Darker Than Your Dark – CDN
Dustin Bentall – Fresno – High In The Satellite – CDN

Merle Haggard – Mama Tried – The Complete ’60s Captitol Singles
Josh Ritter – Heaven Knows – Heaven Knows
Ray LaMontagne – Trouble – Trouble
Sweet Alibi – Trouble – We’ve Got To – CDN
Chris Brown & Kate Fenner – Trouble – O Witness – CDN

Our Man in the Field – Eleanor’s Song – The Company of Strangers
Our Man in the Field – (Thin) I Used to Be Bullet Proof – The Company of Strangers
Teddy Thompson – Heartbreaker Please – Heartbreaker Please
Anthony Da Costa – Runaway – Feet on the Dashboard
Clem Snide – Roger Ebert – Forever Just Beyond

Sleepy Gonzales – Falling Off Rainbow Road in Mario Kart – mellowtrauma
Sarah Jane Scouten – Show Pony – Confessions – CDN
Malin Pettersen – Alonesome – Alonesome
Darling West – Loneliness – While I Was Asleep
Lynne Hanson – Long Way Home – Just Words – CDN
Frazey Ford – Azad – U Kin B the Sun – CDN
Sarah Harmer – Just Get Here – Are You Gone – CDN

A couple of amazing concerts this week have us reflecting off the top, before venturing into some requests and a whole lot of amazing new music!

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

Mike Plume – I’m Your Huckleberry – Lonesome Stretch of Highway – CDN
Andrew Neville – Town Song (w/Sean Burns & Lost Country) – Boots & Saddle & CKUW 95.9 Present A Night of Country Music – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns – My Old Self – Music for Taverns, Bars, And Honky Tonks – CDN – WPG
Merle Haggard & The Strangers – Swinging Doors – Swinging Doors and the Bottle Let Me Down
Buck Owens – Sam’s Place (Original Mono Single Version) – Buck ‘Em! The Music Of Buck Owens (1955-1967)
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Chapparral – A Bakersfield Half-Dozen – CDN – WPG

David Essig – Berkley Springs – Six Strings North of the Border – Volume 1 – CDN
David Essig, Romi Mayes, The D. Rangers – Declaration Day – Beverly Street – CDN
The Duhks – Out Of The Rain – Migrations – CDN – WPG

Baltic Street – Iona Fyfe – single
Billy Bragg & Wilco – California Stars – Mermaid Avenue
Christopher Paul Stelling – Lucky Stars – Best Of Luck
Leaf Rapids – Lucky Stars – Lucky Stars – CDN – WPG

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Be Afraid – Reunions
Drive-By Truckers – Slow Ride Argument – The Unraveling
Chuck Prophet – Get Off the Stage – single
The Mastersons – Eyes Open Wide – No Time for Love Songs
The Hanging Stars – Tom Petty – A New Kind of Sky

David Myles – Leave Tonight – Leave Tonight – CDN
Slow Leaves – Miss You – Shelf Life – CDN – WPG
Lynne Hanson – True Blue Moon – Just Words – CDN
Jenn Grant – Happy Birthday, Baby – Reimagine – CDN
Nora Jane Struthers – Slow Climb – Bright Lights, Long Drives, First Words – CDN

Leeroy Stagger – Go By Feel – Love Versus sessions (Patreon exclusive) – CDN
The Shannon Lyon Pop Explosion – You Don’t Belong Here – single – CDN
Scenic Route to Alaska – Daydreaming – single – CDN

A few requests break up a show almost entirely devoted to exciting upcoming concerts. Sean Burns drops in to chat about his upcoming release show for his new album and CKUW FunDrive, which started this weekend.

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

Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – Metal Girls – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN
Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – Wild Folk – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN
Chuck Hawthorne – Such Is Life – Fire out of Stone
Libby Koch – Just the Way – Redemption 10: Live at Blue Rock
Joe Nolan – Sweet Cool Paradise – Rootsy House Sessions – CDN

David Essig, Romi Mayes, The D. Rangers – Tremble and Weep – Beverly Street – CDN
David Essig & Rick Scott – Willie P – Double Vision – CDN
D. Rangers – Tryin’ to Start Out Clean – Barbaric Cultural Practices – CDN – WPG

Mick Flannery – Goodbye – White Lies
Moddi – Army Dreamers – Unsongs
Kevin Morby – I Have Been to the Mountain – Singing Saw
Gord Downie – Love Over Money – Introduce Yerself – CDN

Sean Burns interview

Sean Burns & Lost Country – Above and Beyond – A Bakersfield Half Dozen – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Truck Drivin’ Man – A Bakersfield Half Dozen – CDN – WPG
Ags Connolly – Then and Now – Wrong Again
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Playboy – A Bakersfield Half Dozen – CDN – WPG
Buck Owens – Hello Trouble – Buck ‘Em: The Music Of Buck Owens (1955-1967)

An impressive amount of great local music made it on air today as we celebrated Juno nominations, concerts past and present, mourned the apparent loss of our house band, dove into some great new music, and more!

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

William Prince – That’s All I’ll Ever Become – Reliever – CDN – WPG
Vince Andrushko – Groundhog Day – Vince Andrushko – CDN – WPG
Catherine MacLellan – February Song – Dark Dream Midnight – CDN
Jim Bryson – February – The Occasionals – CDN
The Young Novelists – Palindrome – Made Us Strangers – CDN

Del Barber – Lucky Prairie Stars – Easy Keeper – CDN – WPG
The Small Glories – Oh My Love – Assiniboine & the Red – CDN – WPG
Big Dave McLean – Baby – Pocket Full of Nothin’ – CDN – WPG

Logan McKillop – Out of the Blue – Anchorless – CDN – MB
Logan McKillop – Gary’s Lament – Prairie Sky – CDN – MB
Sweet Alibi – I’ll Wait – We’ve Got To – CDN – WPG
Sweet Alibi – Confetti – single – CDN – WPG

Joey Gregorash – Jodie – North Country Funk – CDN – WPG
Joey Gregorash – Together (The New Wedding Song) – 7″ single – CDN – WPG

Nathan – Australia – Stranger – CDN – WPG
Nathan – Stone – Jimson Weed – CDN – WPG
Nathan – John Paul’s Deliveries – Key Principles – CDN – WPG

Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar – Will We Ever Learn – Run to Me – CDN
Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar – Addicted – Send the Nightingale – CDN
Mike Plume Band – Younger Than We Are Today – Lonesome Stretch of Highway – CDN

Sean Burns & Lost Country – Truck Drivin’ Man – A Bakersfield Half-Dozen – CDN – WPG
Jim Lauderdale – Cackalacky – When Carolina Comes Home Again
The SteelDrivers – Bad For You – Bad For You
Jamie McDell – Worst Crime (feat. Robert Ellis) – The Botox EP
Joe Nolan – Tupelo Honey – Drifters – CDN
Salim Nourallah – This Doesn’t Feel Like Peace, Love, Or Understanding – Jesus of Sad

The flood of new releases continues this week as we heard an hour or so of great new songs, chatted about a couple of local shows, played our usual selection of German requests, and more!

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

Jim Bryson – Fleetwood – The North Side Benches – CDN
Evangeline Gentle – So It Goes – Evangeline Gentle – CDN
Evangeline Gentle – Ordinary People – recorded live at UMFM – CDN
Rhianna Rae Saj – Paris to Rome – Begin Again – CDN – WPG

Two Crows for Comfort – Broken Hearted Lover – 17 Feet – CDN – WPG
Logan McKillop – When Your Love Comes Undone – Anchorless – CDN – WPG
Skylar Bouchard – Montreal – Tired of the City – CDN – WPG

Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer – Not Dark Yet – Not Dark Yet
Courtney Marie Andrews – Downtown Train – Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits
Teddy Thompson and Kelly Jones – I Thought That We Said Goodbye – Little Windows
Shovels & Rope – Carry Me Home – By Blood
Nathaniel Rateliff – And It’s Still Alright – And It’s Still Alright

Anthony Da Costa – Feet On The Dashboard – Feet On The Dashboard
Sam Lewis – Neighbors – SOLO
Bart Budwig – Five Bucks – Another Burn on the Astroturf
Gill Landry – I Love You Too – Skeleton at the Banquet
John Blek – Revived – The Embers

The Shannon Lyon Pop Explosion – You Don’t Belong Here – single – CDN
The Sadies – The Most Despicable Man Alive – The Sadies / King Khan – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – King of This Town – King of This Town – CDN
Harrow Fair – Sins We Made – single – CDN

Sean Burns & Lost Country – Roll, Truck, Roll – A Bakersfield Half-Dozen – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns – My Old Self – Music for Taverns, Bars, And Honky Tonks – CDN – WPG
Pat Reedy & The Longtime Goners – Make It Back Home – single
Chris Knight – William – Chris Knight
John Moreland – When My Fever Breaks – LP5

We’re starting to see some new music and some great upcoming shows after the Christmas break, and we’ve got some eagerly anticipated new music to share and a few shows to chat about. Unfortunately, we lost one of the world’s great songwriters this weekend as the great David Olney died doing what he loved to do. Criminally underappreciated by the masses, Olney was a true songwriters’ songwriter and today we listened to a bunch of his own recordings and those of others performing his songs. What a loss!

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

The Wailin’ Jennys – Deeper Well – The Wailin’ Jennys – CDN – WPG
William Prince – Old Souls – Reliever – CDN – WPG
William Prince – Heaven and Hell – Reliever – CDN – WPG
Sarah Harmer – St. Peter’s Bay – Are You Gone – CDN
100 Mile House – Worth the Wait – Love and Leave You – CDN
Ken Yates – Quiet Talkers – Quiet Talkers – CDN
Martyn Joseph – When I’m Gone – Days Of Decision: A Tribute To Phil Ochs

Ron Sexsmith – You Don’t Wanna Hear It – Hermitage – CDN
Ayla Brook and The Sound Man – All That I Wanted To Do – Desolation Sounds – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – World Gone Mad – King of This Town – CDN
Drive-By Truckers – Thoughts and Prayers – The Unraveling

Evangeline Gentle – Sundays – Evangeline Gentle – CDN
Joshua Hyslop – If I Was a Better Man – Cold Wind (EP) – CDN

David Olney – Saturday Night And Sunday Morning – Eye Of The Storm
David Olney – Titanic – Eye Of The Storm
David Olney – Vincent’s Blues – High, Wide And Lonesome
David Olney – My Lovely Assistant – Lenora
David Olney – Big Top (Tornado) – Don’t Try To Fight It

David Olney – God Shaped Hole – The Wheel
Dave Olney & the X-Rays – The Contender – live recording

Emmylou Harris – Jerusalem Tomorrow – Cowgirl’s Prayer
Linda Ronstadt – Women ‘Cross the River – Feels Like Home
Slaid Cleaves – Millionaire – Unsung
Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch & Fats Kaplin – Postcard from Mexico – Lost John Dean
Kieran Kane – I Took My Power Back – Somewhere Beyond The Roses

Prerecorded today, and another in our list of standby episodes that you may end up hearing some other time, but the music is so good that you surely won’t mind. This time I found a way to make sure that the show was timely and topical for whatever date it might get played again by playing songs about every month of the year, at least twice! We’re calling this one More than Two Good Years because we covered each month at least twice, and then some! I hope you enjoy the show and hope to be back live next week!

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

Slaid Cleaves – One Good Year – Broke Down
Mayhemingways – 14th of January – Skip Land – CDN
David Francey – February Morning Drive – Far End of Summer – CDN
Mary Gauthier – March 11, 1962 – The Foundling Alone
Leaf Rapids – April – Lucky Stars – CDN – WPG

Blue Rodeo – 5 Days In May – Five Days In July – CDN
The Cash Brothers – Saturday in June – How Was Tomorrow – CDN
Del Barber – Queen of July – Headwaters – CDN – WPG

Mark Erelli – August – Little Vigils
Malcolm Holcombe – September – Another Black Hole
Jon Dee Graham – October – Summerland
Matthew Ryan – 3rd of October – East Autumn Grin
Skydiggers – November in Ontario – Desmond’s Hip City – CDN

The Pursuit Of Happiness – Kalendar – Where’s The Bone – CDN
Shannon Lyon – December Song – El Sol – CDN
Zachary Lucky – Raining in December – Midwestern – CDN
Steve Forbert – January 23-30, 1978 – Jack Rabbit Slim
The Lowest of the Low – Dogs of February – Hallucigenia – CDN

Uncle Tupelo – Sandusky – March 16-20, 1992
Gillian Welch – April the 14th Part 1 – Time (The Revelator)
The Damnwells – cinco de mayo – DWs Demos and Rarities
D.Rangers – June Off Of Drinkin’ – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG

Ana Egge – Fifth of July – Bright Shadow – CDN
Sam Weber – August – Shadows In The Road – CDN
Ben Arnold – Fine September – Solo
Clem Snide – Tuesday, October 24th – Soft Spot
Gram Parsons – November Nights – Another Side Of This Life
The Deep Dark Woods – 18th of December – Jubilee – CDN

Back for the first time in 2020! 2019 was another great year for music, so we spent the bulk of the show listening to some of our favourites, including a lot of amazing female artists. We did find a few new songs, play some German requests, and pay a tribute to the late, great Christ Whitley.

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

Willie P Bennett – You – Hobo’s Taunt – CDN
Dan Bern – Jerusalem – Dan Bern

Evangeline Gentle – The Strongest People have Tender Hearts – Evangeline Gentle – CDN
Melissa Payne – September Skies – Darker Than Your Dark – CDN
The Secret Sisters – Hold You Dear – Saturn Return
Dori Freeman – 2 Step (w/Teddy Thompson) – Every Single Star
Joan Shelley – The Fading (w/Bonnie Prince Billy) – Like The River Loves The Sea

Julia Jacklin – Don’t Know How to Keep Loving You – Crushing
Anna Tivel – Minneapolis – The Question
Buddy & Julie Miller – Everything Is Your Fault – Breakdown on 20th Ave. South
Abigail Lapell – Down by the Water – Getaway – CDN
Iris DeMent – House Where Nobody Lives – Come on Up to the House: Women Sing Waits
Ana Egge – Ballad of the Poor Child (feat. Iris DeMent) – Is It the Kiss – CDN

Josh Ritter – Empty Hearts – The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter
Eilen Jewell – Working Hard for Your Love – Gypsy
Aldous Harding – Fixture Picture – Designer

Jim Bryson – Better on Drugs – Let’s Get Friendship Right – CDN
Skydiggers – Ineligible – Let’s Get Friendship Right – CDN
Andy Maize & The Future’s Not What It Used to Be – Northern Shore – Leap Before you Look – CDN
Lee Harvey Osmond – A Common Disaster – Mohawk – CDN
Brock Zeman – I’ve Conditioned Myself to Be Cool – Hey Tom – CDN
Jon Brooks & The Outskirts of Approval – War Resister – Moth nor Rust II – CDN

Chris Whitley – Poison Girl – Living With The Law
Chris Whitley – Wild Country – Dirt Floor
Chris Whitley – Kick the Stones – On Air (Live)
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Too Many Bridges to Cross Over – A Bakersfield Half-Dozen – CDN – WPG