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

Today’s episode was pre-recorded but full of great music, including some great new releases, requests, memories of concerts past and preview of exciting shows to come, including a very exciting in-studio guest on the show next week!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mike Plume Band – More than a Game – 8:30 Newfoundland – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Enemy Inside – Love Versus – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Enough Love to Go Around – Radiant Land – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Red Bandana – Everything Is Real – CDN
Steve Dawson – Rose’s Blues – Solid States and Loose Ends – CDN
Leaf Rapids – April – Lucky Stars – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Stephen Fearing – Blue Line – Up Front! Canadians Live from Mountain Stage – CDN
Stephen Fearing – The Life – Folkscene Collection Volume Two – CDN
Stephen Fearing – Whoville – Sixty Second Songs – CDN
Mayhemingways – Bad Old Days – Skip Land – CDN
Tim Easton – Never Punch the Clock Again – Paco & the Melodic Polaroids
John Prine – When I Get to Heaven – The Tree of Forgiveness
Frank Turner – Make America Great Again – Be More Kind

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Anna Tivel – Small Believer – Small Believer
Anna Ternheim – Just as Friends – For the Young
Courtney Marie Andrews – Two Cold Nights in Buffalo – May Your Kindness Remain
Neko Case – Bad Luck – Hell-On
The Artisinals – Angel 42 – Literally Anywhere EP

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Hold Steady – Eureka – Eureka b/w Esther
The Hold Steady – Stay Positive – Stay Positive
Major Love – So Good – Major Love EP – CDN
Skydiggers – This New Country – Desmond’s Hip City – CDN
John Bottomley – Long Way to Go – Blackberry – CDN
John Bottomley – The Healing Dream – The Healing Dream – CDN
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Don’t Walk Away – live recording
Jade Jackson – Motorcycle – Gilded

An exciting episode indeed, as we welcomed back to the studio one of my very favourite guests and songwriters of them all, Stephen Fearing, who dropped in to chat and sing a few songs. What a treat! We also had another exciting show to preview and some great new music.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Stephen Fearing – Love like Water – Every Soul’s a Sailor – CDN

Stephen Fearing interview

Stephen Fearing – Red Lights in the Rain – live performance – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Stephen Fearing – Blowhard Nation – live performance – CDN
Stephen Fearing – Every Soul’s a Sailor – live performance – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Scott Nolan – Fire Up – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – Rosie – No Bourbon & Bad Radio – CDN – WPG
Mayhemingways – Bad Old Days – Skip Land – CDN
Mayhemingways – Wanderers – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Loretta – Let’r Buck – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Ben de la Cour – Uncle Boudreaux Went to Texas – The High Cost of Living Strange
Mariel Buckley – Rose Coloured Frames – Driving in the Dark – CDN
Robby Hecht & Caroline Spence – Over You – single
Parker Millsap – Come Back when you can’t Stay – Other Arrangements
Harrow Fair – Told a Lie to my Heart – Call to Arms – CDN
David Francey – Lonely Road – The Broken Heart of Everything – CDN
The Landreth Bros. – Alone in the Dark – Undercover Bros. – CDN – WPG
Travis Linville – Wishes – Up Ahead

No jokes & no fools on today’s show, just great music through and through! We’ve got some exciting shows past & future to discuss, including a big guest on next week’s episode, some stellar listener suggestions, and a pile of new & new to me music.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Scott Nolan – Easter at the Waffle House – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
Stephen Fearing – The Assassin’s Apprentice – The Assassin’s Apprentice – CDN
Stephen Fearing – Blowhard Nation – Every Soul’s a Sailor – CDN
Martyn Joseph – Here Come the Young – unreleased
John Prine – God Only Knows – The Tree of Forgiveness

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Courtney Marie Andrews – Kindness of Strangers – May Your Kindness Remain
Bennett Wilson Poole – Ask Me Anything – Bennett Wilson Poole
Traveller – Hummingbird – Western Movies
The Vegabonds – Everything I Need – single
The Artisanals – Roll With It – Literally Anywhere
The Pollies – Lost – Not Here
Dylan Leblanc – Look How Far We’ve Come w/Rayland Baxter – Luck Mountain Sessions

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Skylar Bouchard – Montreal – Tired of the City – CDN – WPG
Carrie Rodriguez & Ben Kyle – If I Needed You – We Still Love Our Country
Lyle Lovett – Step Inside this House – Step Inside this House
Adela Diane – Ether & Wood – Cusp
The Black Lillies – Two Hearts Down – 100 Miles of Wreckage
Fred Eaglesmith – Freight Train – Official Bootleg Series Vol. 2 – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Ridley Bent & The Killer Tumbleweeds – Pretty Li’l Self – Ridley Bent & The Killer Tumbleweeds – CDN – WPG
Ridley Bent – Suicidewinder – Blam! – CDN – WPG
Omar & The Howlers – Hard Times in the Land of Plenty – Hard Times in the Land of Plenty
Jerry Miller – What a Little Moonlight Can Do (w/Eilen Jewell) – New Road Under my Wheels
Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Tonight I Think I’m Gonna Go Downtown – After Awhile
Greg Brown – Downtown – One Night

A long-awited visit by Quinton Blair, who stops by to chat and sing some great songs before tonight’s Honky Tonk Blues show at The West End Cultural Centre, as well as a bunch of requests & dedications and a pile of great new music!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Huey Lewis & The News – Honky Tonk Blues – Sports
Quinton Blair – Following Him Around – Cash Crop – CDN – MB
Little Miss Higgins – My Home, My Heart – My Home, My Heart – CDN – MB
Jess Reimer – 1500 Appeals – The Nightjar and the Garden – CDN – MB
Jaxon Haldane – Twenty-One – Hectic – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Quinton Blair – 300,000 KM – live performance – CDN – MB
Quinton Blair – Someday Soon – live performance – CDN – MB
Quinton Blair – After They’re Gone – live performance – CDN – MB
Quinton Blair – Blues Man – Blues Man – CDN – MB
Del Barber – Living with a Long Way to Go – Prairiography – CDN – WPG
Blake Berglund – Moose Mountain – Realms – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Ian Felice – In the Kingdom of Dreams – In the Kingdom of Dreams
Mipso – Coming Down the Mountain – Coming Down the Mountain
Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle – Officer Down – Let’s Just Stay Here – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Cheap Town – Live at the Dakota – CDN
John Moreland – Nobody Gives a Damn About Songs Anymore – In the Throes
John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls – Low – Everything the Hard Way

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Bennett Wilson Poole – Soon Enough – Bennett Wilson Poole
Parker Millsap – Fine Line – Other Arrangements
Calexico – Music Box – The Thread that Keeps Us
The Young Novelists – Back to the Hard Times – In City & Country – CDN
Hannah Aldridge – Parchman – Razor Wire
Caroline Rose – Jeannie Becomes a Mom – LONER