Canada is the greatest country in the world for many reasons, most notably to us, the amazing music that comes from here. We celebrate great Canadian music every single week on this program, but especially on the occasion of our nation’s birthday, it’s time to do another Canada Day Spectacular, where we play nothing but truly essential Canadian music. This one’s especially for our great international listeners who might not know just how much great music we give to the world, but also for anyone who enjoys some of the greatest songs & writers that the world has ever known.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Del Barber – O Canada – single – CDN – WPG
Rheostatics – Northern Wish – Melville – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – Just About “The Only” Blues – Shakespeare My Butt… – CDN
The Weakerthans – Left and Leaving – Left and Leaving – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – One Great City! – Reconstruction Site – CDN – WPG
The Guess Who – Undun – Canned Wheat – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Joey Gregorash – Jodie – North Country Funk – CDN – WPG
Gordon Lightfoot – Canadian Railroad Trilogy – The Way I Feel – CDN
Leonard Cohen – So Long, Marianne – Songs of – CDN
Joni Mitchell – You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio – For The Roses – CDN
Stan Rogers – Northwest Passage – Northwest Passage – CDN
Alana Levandoski – Don’t Be Denied – Borrowed Tunes II: A Tribute to Neil Young: Out of the Blue – CDN – MB

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Willie P Bennett – White Line – Tryin’ to Start Out Clean – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Water in the Fuel – Lipstick Lies & Gasoline – CDN
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Nickels and Dimes – Kings of Love – CDN
David Francey – Wind in the Wires – Torn Screen Door – CDN
Oh Susanna – Home Soon (The Cherry Song) – Johnstown – CDN
Nathan – John Paul’s Deliveries – Key Principles – CDN – WPG
Lynn Miles – Over You – Unravel – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Jim Bryson – Without Piano – The Occasionals – CDN
Blue Rodeo – Bad Timing – Five Days in July – CDN
The Blue Shadows – Deliver Me – On the Floor of Heaven – CDN
Mike Plume Band – If There Ever Was a Fool – Song & Dance, Man – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Sun’s Hanging Low – The Last Supper in a Cheap Town – CDN
John Bottomley – You Lose and You Gain – Blackberry – CDN

Young Jeremy drops by for a fun episode that rambles around with silliness, new music, favourites, great requests, concert news, and much more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Del Barber – Henhouse Manifesto – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Loudon Wainwright III – Dead Skunk – Album III
Farmer Jason – Punk Rock Skunk – Rockin’ in the Forest
Sunparlour Players – Like an Animal – Us Little Devils – CDN
Anna Tivel – Alleyway – Small Believer
Anna Tivel – Blue World – Small Believer

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Terra Lightfoot – Hold You – New Mistakes – CDN
Bruce Springsteen – Old Dan Tucker – We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Trigger Hippy – Pretty Mess – Trigger Hippy
Charlie Whitten – Balance – Playwright EP
Jory Nash – We Don’t Talk About Her – Wilderness Years – CDN
The Wild Feathers – Wildfire – Greetings from the Neon Frontier
Lucero – Long Way Back Home – Among the Ghosts

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Wilco – You And I – Wilco
Nikki Sudden – Farewell, My Darling (w/Jeff Tweedy) – Red Brocade
Lewis & Leigh – Whiskey and Wine – Ghost
The Honey Dewdrops – Lowlands – Tangled Country
Chris Trapper – Extraordinary – Technicolor
Elliott BROOD – Lindsay – Days Into Years – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Eric Bogle – He’s Nobody’s Moggy Now – Scraps of Paper
Motel Mirrors – Paper Doll – In the Meantime
The Wandering – Loving Him Was Easier than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again – Go On Now, You Can’t Stay Here
Shannon McNally & Amy Lavere – If It Were Mine to Keep – Chasing the Ghost: The Rehearsal Sessions
William Prince – 7 – single – CDN – WPG
Annie Sumi – The City – In the Unknown – CDN

It’s Dad’s Day, and we’ve got some songs for the good ones out there (as well as the great moms who work double time to make up for the bad ones), new music, exciting shows past & future, great requests, and more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Jonathan Byrd – Father’s Day – Cackalack
Butch Walker – Father’s Day – Afraid of Ghosts
Paul Kelly – Going About my Father’s Business – A to Z
Mojo Nixon – When Did I Become my Dad – Sock Ray Blue!
Daddy – You Made Your Bed – At the Women’s Club
Sweet Alibi – Daddy – We’ve Got To – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Jory Nash – Sister Station – Wilderness Years – CDN
Jory Nash – Dark Matter – Wilderness Years – CDN
The Devin Cuddy Band – Radio – Amy’s Dream – CDN
The LYNNeS – Heartbreak Song for the Radio – Heartbreak Song for the Radio – CDN
Skydiggers – Radio Waves – Road Radio – CDN
Terra Lightfoot – Stars Over Dakota – New Mistakes – CDN
Terra Lightfoot – No Hurry – Every Time My Mind Runs Wild – CDN
Farm Fresh – My Ex-Girl – Time Is Running Out – CDN – MB

3:00 – 3:30 pm

John K Samson – Postdoc Blues – Winter Wheat – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – None of the Above – Fallow – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – Plea from a Cat Named Virtute – Reconstruction Site – CDN – WPG
Christina Martin – Daisy – I Can Too – CDN
Lucinda Williams – Essence – Essence

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Evan Dando – Looking for Space – The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver
Rachel Unthank And The Winterset – Blackbird – The Bairns
Holly Williams – Drinkin’ – The Highway
David Olney – Two Kinds of Love – Lenore
Ruth Moody – Dancing in the Dark – These Wilder Things – CDN – WPG
Jade Jackson – Motorcycle – Gilded
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Li’l Firecracker – Hard Love and Free Luck

This weekend marks the anniversary of the first two Static Roots Festivals hosted by longtime friend and supporter of this program, Mr. Festival Director Dietmar Leibecke. We called to wish him a happy birthday and chat about this year’s festival, which is happening next month. We’ve got plenty of Static Roots artists, past and present, as well as some new (and some new-to-me) music, as well as some great requests and more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Leeroy Stagger – Living in the Future – Love Versus – CDN
Mariel Buckley – Jumping the Fence – Driving in the Dark – CDN
Mariel Buckley – Stray Dogs – Driving in the Dark – CDN
Justin Rutledge – Heaven Help Us – East – CDN
Skinny Dyck & Friends – New Pair of Shoes (Leeroy Stagger & Mariel Buckley) – Twenty One-Nighters – CDN
Skinny Dyck & Friends – Acres of Elbow Room (John Wort Hannam) – Twenty One-Nighters – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Liv Greene – Gone – single
Robert Ellis – Elephant – Robert Ellis
Calvin Russell – Rockin’ the Republicans – Sounds from the Fourth World
Peter Bruntnell – Mr. Sunshine – Nos Da Comrade
Jack Marks – Song for You – live recording – CDN
Erin Rae – Monticello – live recording

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Dietmar Leibecke (Static Roots Festival) interview

Bennett Wilson Poole – Ask Me Anything – Bennett Wilson Poole
Prinz Grizzley – I May Be Late – Come on In
Cordovas – I’m The One Who Needs You Tonight – That Santa Fe Channel

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Anthony Da Costa – Talking to You – Da Costa Deluxe
Terra Lightfoot – Norma Gale – New Mistakes – CDN
Hannah Aldridge – Razor Wire – Razor Wire
The Stephen Stanley Band – Birthday Clown – Jimmy and the Moon – CDN
Scott Dibble & Watertown – Laura-Lee – One Phoebe Street – CDN
Madison Violet – LauraLee – No Fool for Trying – CDN

Winnipeg rules, as the recent debut of home-town supergroup Middle of Nowhere proved once again! We’ve got a big set of MoN love to kick things off, before treading into new music, requests, some rockin’ classics, and more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mike June – Alright – Election Day
Middle of Nowhere – Dreams – live recording – CDN – WPG
Middle of Nowhere – Night Birds – Middle of Nowhere – CDN – WPG
Middle of Nowhere – When You Get In – Middle of Nowhere – CDN – WPG
JP Hoe – Yeah Yeah Yeah – Hideaway – CDN – WPG
Slow Leaves – How Do I Say – Enough About Me – CDN – WPG
Imaginary Cities – A Way with your Words – Fall of Romance – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Begonia – Juniper – Lady in Mind – WPG
Nathan – The Wind – Key Principles – CDN – WPG
Fortunate Ones – Somebody Like You – Hold Fast – CDN – WPG
The Andrew Collins Trio – Leaving’s Not hte Only Way to Go – Tongue – CDN
Matt Epp – The Bell – Shadowlands – CDN
American Aquarium – Crooked + Straight – Things Change

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Drive-By Truckers – Outfit – Decoration Day
Drive-By Truckers – The Righteous Path – Brighter than Creation’s Dark
Lucero – What Are You Willing to Lose? – 1372 Overton Park
Paul Kelly And The Messengers – Dumb Things – Under The Sun
NQ Arbuckle – Huntsville Affair – Not Alone (Medicins sans Frontieres) – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Rykarda Parasol – Valborg’s Eve – The Color Of Destruction
Giant Sand – The Inner Flame – The Inner Flame (A Tribute to Rainer Ptacek)
The Head and the Heart – Down in the Valley – The Head and the Heart
Terra Lightfoot – Pinball King – New Mistakes – CDN
Anthony Da Costa – Go Steady – Da Costa
Jonathan Byrd & The Sentimentals – Under the Belly of the Night – single

Another rambling episode with some new music, a couple of visits with old friends, some great requests, a look at Winnipeg’s newest supergroup, a set of rockin’ classics to close things off, and more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Loudon Wainwright III – Florida (Lucky You) – 40 Odd Years
Shinyribs – Walt Disney – Okra Candy
Patterson Hood – Uncle Disney – Killers and Stars
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Florida Man – In the Blazes
Joe Nolan – Music in the Streets (w/Lydia Loveless) – Cry Baby – CDN
Matthew Barber – Back to You – Phase of the Moon – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

The Jayhawks – Everybody Knows – Back Roads and Abandoned Motels
The Jayhawks – Angelyne – Rainy Day Music
Animal Parts – Thoroughbred – La Jeunesse – CDN
Animal Parts – Where the Heart Is – Six Arms to Hold You – CDN
Animal Parts – I Won’t Ever Let You Down – Animal Parts – CDN
The Warped 45s – Hurdle River Crossing – Matador Sunset – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

The Warped 45s – Live Bait – Matador Sunset – CDN
Middle of Nowhere – Hang on to Me – Middle of Nowhere – CDN
Middle of Nowhere – Sinking Down – Middle of Nowhere – CDN
Middle of Nowhere – Can’t Afford to Be – Middle of Nowhere – CDN
Micah Schnabel – Hello, My Name Is Henry – Your New Norman Rockwell
Mick Flannery – Boston – Red to Blue
Vic Chesnutt – Guilt by Association – Is the Actor Happy?

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Liv Greene – Gone – Gone
The Small Glories – Home – Wondrous Traveler – CDN
The Weakerthans – Pamphleteer – Left & Leaving – CDN
The Weakerthans – Wellington’s Wednesday – Fallow – CDN
Figure Walking – Singapore – The Big Other – CDN
Brian MacMillan – Turn the Radio Up – Shine – CDN
Chuck Prophet – Where the Hell Is Henry? – Let Freedom Ring
Cuff the Duke – Take My Money and Run – Cuff the Duke – CDN

A rambling episode full of great music, just the way mom likes it! (Well, I hope she likes it, anyway.) Today we’ve got a few (questionable) “mother” songs, a heaping pile of amazing new music, and a sad farewell to another great talent gone too soon.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

JP Hoe – Mother – The Here in Review – CDN – WPG
Me Mom & Morgentaler – My Mother’s Friends – Shiva Space Machine – CDN
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Mother Blues – The Grifter’s Hymnal
Rayland Baxter – Mother Mother – Imaginary Man
Lucero – Mom – 1372 Overton Park
Lucero – For the Lonely Ones – Among the Ghosts
Lucero – To My Dearest Wife – Among the Ghosts

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Mike Plume Band – Mama’s Rolling Stone – Born by the Radio – CDN
Mike Plume Band – Western Wind – Born by the Radio – CDN
Jon Brooks – Proxima B – No One Travels Alone – CDN
American Aquarium – Tough Folks – Things Change
Rayland Baxter – Cassanova – Wide Awake
Milk Carton Kids – Big Time – All The Things That I Did and All The Things That I Didn’t Do

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Les Stroud – Poison (w/Oh Susanna) – Bittern Lake – CDN
Birds of Chicago – Super Lover – Love in Wartime
Anna Tivel – The Question – Anna Tivel on Audiotree Live
Gretchen Peters – Wichita – Dancing with the Beast
William Prince – Breathless – Earthly Days – CDN – WPG
Animal Parts – Gitanjali – Wysteria – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Matthew Barber – A Living – Phase of the Moon – CDN
Dawes – Crack the Case – Passwords
Frightened Rabbit – The Loneliness and the Scream – The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Frightened Rabbit – The Oil Slick – Pedestrian Verse
Paul MacLeod – Broken Wing – Close and Play – CDN
John Bottomley – Candle in the Dark – Blackberry – CDN

Today we’ve got a pile of great new music, some requests, some great concerts to discuss, and a set of Steel Belted-style rockin’ classics. Good stuff!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Stan Rogers – Watching the Apples Grow – Fogarty’s Cove – CDN
Stan Rogers – Make and Break Harbour – Fogarty’s Cove – CDN
Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane – Willie’s Diamond Joe – Grit – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Sleeping in Clay – Sharpen the Plow – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Baby Come Turn Out the Lights – Sharpen the Plow – CDN
Middle of Nowhere – Hang on to Me – Middle of Nowhere – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Middle of Nowhere – Super Grande Factory – Middle of Nowhere – CDN – WPG
The Young Novelists – All Alone – In City & Country – CDN
Erin Rae – Can’t Cut Loose – Putting on Airs
Kasey Chambers – Early Grave – Campfire
Parker Millsap – Good Night – Other Arrangements
Ben de la Cour – Company Town – The High Cost of Living Strange
Joshua Hedley – Weird Thought Thinker – Mr. Jukebox

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Darlingside – The God of Loss – Birds Say
Richmond Fontaine – A Night in the City – You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing to Go Back To
The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You – I And Love And You
Jared & The Mill – Life We Chose – Life We Chose
Jared & The Mill – Keep Me Going – Orme Dugas

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Altameda – Blackmarket Blues – Dirty Rain – CDN
Altameda – I Saw a Ghost Last Night – Dirty Rain – CDN
Dustin Bentall & The Smokes – Every Chord that Rings – You Are an Island – CDN
Alejandro Escovedo – Chip & Tony – Real Animal
Chuck Prophet – Diamond Jim – The Hurting Business
Jon Dee Graham – Laredo (Small Dark Something) – Horray for the Moon
Greg Macpherson Band – Goes Like This – Fireball – CDN – WPG

Along with the weather, the concert calendar is heating up, so we’ve got some stellar shows to discuss, both past and future, as well as some great new music, a tribute to an ailing unsung hero behind many great records, some requests, and more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mayhemingways – Frances the Truck Driver – Skip Land – CDN
Trent Severn – Winnipeg White Out – Portage – CDN
Guadalcanal Diary – Watusi Rodeo – Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man
Tom Petty – Square One – Highway Companion
The Watchmen – Any Day Now – Silent Radar – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Harry Manx – Only Then Will Your House Be Blessed – Wise and Otherwise – CDN
Harry Manx – Roses Given – Wise and Otherwise – CDN
Harry Manx – Long Black Veil – Bread and Buddha – CDN
Jory Nash – Dark Matter – Wilderness Years – CDN
Matt Epp – In A Flash – Shadowlands – CDN
Laura Cantrell – The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter – Not The Tremblin’ Kind
Ryan Adams – Firecracker – Gold
Butch Walker – East Coast Girl – Stay Gold

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Martyn Joseph – Cardiff Bay – Martyn Joseph
Martyn Joseph – Dic Penderyn – Evolved
Mayhemingways – CDs I Didn’t Sell – Mayhemingways EP – CDN
Mayhemingways – Wanderers – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Kasey Chambers – Barricades & Brickwalls – Barricades & Brickwalls

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Kasey Chambers – Runaway Train – Barricades & Brickwalls
Lucinda Williams – Righteously – World Without Tears
Emmylou Harris – Where Will I Be – Wrecking Ball
Shannon McNally – Down and Dirty – Jukebox Sparrows
Chris Whitley – Poison Girl – Living with the Law
Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain – May Your Kindness Remain
The Wailin’ Jennys – Across the Sea – Bright Morning Stars – CDN – WPG

Today a conversation with one of our favourite artists and oldest friends, Leeroy Stagger, we celebrate the birthday of another long-standing friend and favourite, spin some Record Store Day finds, and much more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Leeroy Stagger – Worn Out Welcome Home – Dear Love – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Love Versus – Love Versus – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Saskatoon – Depression River – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Cities on Fire – Truth Be Sold – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Living in the Future – Love Versus – CDN
The Jerry Cans – Ahead by a Century – 7″ single – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Wilco – Hotel Arizona – Live at the Troubadour L.A. 1996
Stompin’ Tom Connors – Luke’s Guitar – Live at the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern, June 30, 1971 – CDN
Stompin’ Tom Connors – Bud the Spud – Live at the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern, June 30, 1971 – CDN
Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives – Rattle and Roll – Way Out West – Desert Suite (Trip One)
Tom Russell – Veteran’s Day – Old Songs Yet To Sing
Tom Russell Band – Blue Wing – Poor Man’s Dream
The Tom Russell Band – Winnipeg – Hurricane Season

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Leeroy Stagger interview

Steve Dawson – Loose Ends – Solid States and Loose Ends – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Enemy Inside – Love Versus – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Stephen Kellogg – Lost and Found – Blunderstone Rookery
Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors – The Morning Song – Souvenir
American Aquarium – Family Problems – Wolves
Nathan – Glorious Exhaust – Stranger – CDN – WPG
Keri Latimer – So Long – Crowsfeet and Greyskull – CDN – WPG
Leaf Rapids – Healing Feeling – Lucky Stars – CDN – WPG