Well, Pledge-O-Rama is over for another year, and our listeners came through and helped the station comfortably surpass our goal, so we’re in good shape for the next year to come. Tell the Band to Go Home is still a little short of our goal, however, so feel free to get in a late pledge if you’re so inclined!

Today on the show, we’ve got some concerts to preview, including the return of our pal Matt Patershuk who joined us for a chat about his new album and the upcoming show. We’ve also got to do our Canadian duty by paying tribute to one of our country’s most universally beloved icons, Gord Downie.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Charlie Mars – The Money – The Money
Matt Patershuk – Tennessee Walker – I Was so Fond of You – CDN
Red Moon Road – Beauty in these broken Bones – Sorrows and Glories – CDN – WPG
The Mavericks – Waiting for the World to End – Mono
Jesse Winchester – O What a Thrill – Love Filling Station
Matt Patershuk – Sometimes you’ve got to Do bad Things to Do Good – Same as I ever Have Been – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Matt Patershuk interview

Matt Patershuk – Sparrow – Same as I ever Have Been – CDN
Matt Patershuk – Pep the Cat Murdering Dog – I Was so Fond of You – CDN
Steve Dawson – Walking down the Line – Waiting for the Lights to Come Up – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Shane Koyczan – Instructions for a bad Day – single – CDN
Shane Koyczan and the Short Story Long – Visiting Hours – Remembrance Year – CDN
Joel Plaskett – Just Because (for Gord Downie) – single – CDN
The Glorious Sons – Gordie – The Union – CDN
The Tragically Hip – Black Day in July – Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Selena Martin with the Faceless Force of Bigness – Grace, Too – Have Not Been the Same – Vol. 1: Too Cool to Live, Too Smart to Die – CDN
Chris Koster – Fully Completely – 7th Fire Records 7″ Series – CDN
Justin Rutledge – Fiddler’s Green (w/Jenn Grant) – Daredevil – CDN
Al Tuck – Chancellor – single – CDN
Skinny Dyck & Friends – Acres of Elbow Room – Twenty One-Nighter – CDN
William Matheny – Living Half to Death – Strange Constellations

It’s the final day of Pledge-O-Rama 2017 and once again our listeners have come through in fine fashion and donated generously to help the station to keep going and growing! In a last ditch attempt to get closer to my personal goal, I came down to UMFM ridiculously early to host my own morning show!

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

6:00 – 6:30 am

Chords of Canada – Superfunhappywakeupsong – Somebody Needs a Timeout – CDN – WPG
Lyle Lovett – Just the Morning – I Love Everybody
Big Sugar – Sleep in Late – Big Sugar – CDN
Wilco – When you Wake up Feeling Old – Summerteeth
Colin Hay – I Can’t Get Up Out of this Bed – American Sunshine
Greg Brown – Good Morning Coffee – In the Dark with You

6:30 – 7:00 am

Greg Brown – Smell of Coffee – Milk of the Moon
Guy Clark – Instant Coffee Blues – Old No. 1
Lisa Leblanc – Could you Wait ’til I’ve had my Coffee? – Why you wanna Leave, Runaway Queen? – CDN
The Tragically Hip – Pigeon Camera – Fully Completely – CDN
The Tragically Hip – Scared – Day for Night – CDN
Tom Petty – Square One – Highway Companion
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Anything that’s Rock ‘n’ Roll – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Jesse Winchester – Step by Step – Let the Rough Side Drag

7:00 – 7:30 am

Jesse Winchester – Sham-a-ling-dong-ding – Love Filling Station
Twisty – Four Walls – Twisty Sings Twisty – CDN – WPG
Iron & Wine – Sunset Soon Forgotten – Our Endless Numbered Days
Paul Macleod – Rectify – Tell the Band to Go Home – CDN
Martin Tielli – Bobcaygeon – unreleased – CDN

7:30 – 8:00 am

Leeroy Stagger – Enemy Inside – Love Versus – CDN
The Wynntown Marshals – The End of the Golden Age – The End of the Golden Age
John Blek & the Rats – Lord! Don’t Leave Me – Leave your Love at the Door
John Blek & the Rats – Don’t Take the Road I’ve Taken – Leave your Love at the Door
Oh Susanna – Thunderbird – A Girl in Teen City – CDN
Spirit of the West – Canadian Skye – Weights and Measures – CDN
Spirit of the West – D for Democracy – Go Figure – CDN

8:00 – 8:30 am

Novillero – The Art of Carrying On – Aim Right for the Hole in their Lives – CDN – WPG
Novillero – Laissez-Faire System – Aim Right for the Hole in their Lives – CDN – WPG
Duotang – The Cons & the Pros – The Cons & the Pros – CDN – WPG
The Inbreds – Any Sense of Time – Kombinator – CDN
Paper Moon – Turning Colours into Greys – Broken Hearts Break Faster Everyday – CDN – WPG
The Details – Always, Always, Always, Never – Draw a Distance. Draw a Border. – CDN – WPG
The Paperbacks – Who Will Run the Starfish Hospital? – An Episode of Sparrows – CDN – WPG

8:30 – 9:00 am

The Bonaduces – The Second Annual National – The Democracy of Sleep – CDN – WPG
Skydiggers – At 24 – Skydiggers – CDN
Blackie & the Rodeo Kings – Better off Alive – Let’s Frolic Again – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Tryin’ to Start out Clean – Tryin’ to Start out Clean – CDN
D Rangers – Love, Lust and Loneliness – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
Matt Epp & the Amorian Assembly – When you Know (w/Serena Ryder) – Learning to Lose Control – CDN – MB
Jim Bryson – Fleetwood – The North Side Benches – CDN
The Replacements – Wake Up – Don’t Tell a Soul
The Bottle Rockets – Early in the Morning – The Bottle Rockets
The Bottle Rockets – Radar Gun – The Brooklyn Side
Deer Tick – Let’s all Go to the Bar – Divine Providence

Our pal Gail Comfort was, unfortunately, unable to make it in for Pledge-O-Rama this year, so we called in some backup in the form of a chat with one of Gail’s favourites, Oh Susanna, in an effort to raise a little bit of money for the station that we love.

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

6:00 – 6:30 pm

Oh Susanna – Lucky Star – A Girl in Teen City – CDN
Leaf Rapids – Lucky Stars – Lucky Stars – CDN – WPG
Bob Dylan – Buckets of Rain – Blood on the Tracks
Bob Dylan – All along the Watchtower – John Wesley Harding
Jimmy Lafave – Sweetheart like You – Buffalo Return to the Plain

6:30 – 7:00 pm

Oh Susanna – Getting Ready – A Girl in Teen City – CDN

Oh Susanna interview

Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – Metal Girls – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN
The Lovebullies – When I’m in L-O-V-E – When I Get Through with You – CDN

It’s time once again for UMFM Pledge-O-Rama, where we ask our wonderful listeners to show some support and love for the station to keep us going and growing.

Along to show their support today, we have a chat with Christina Martin, as well as in-studio live performances by Jay Aymar and JP Hoe!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Del Barber – Everything Is not Enough – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Jay Aymar – Overtime – Overtime – CDN
Christina Martin – You Come Home – Two Hearts – CDN

JP Hoe interview

2:30 – 3:00 pm

JP Hoe – Changed my Life – live performance – CDN – WPG
Dawes – Time in Los Angeles – Nothing Is Wrong
Jim Bryson & the Weakerthans – Wild Folk – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN
Oh Susanna – Thunderbird – A Girl in Teen City – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Christina Martin – Lungs Are Burning – single – CDN

Christina Martin interview

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Room at the Top – Echo

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Jay Aymar interview

Jay Aymar – Here’s a New One – live performance – CDN
Jay Aymar – The Devil in your Diary – live performance- CDN

On this, our first episode of our 16th year on the air, we pay tribute to the great Tom Petty, preview some exciting upcoming events and spin some great new music! Get ready for the Tell the Band to Go Home Pledge-O-Rama Spectacular next Sunday! Tune in and support UMFM!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

JP Hoe – Yer So Bad – live recording – CDN – WPG
The Wailin’ Jennys – Wildflowers – Fifteen – CDN – WPG
Chris Carmichael – Apartment Song – live recording – CDN – WPG
Leeroy Stagger & The Wildflowers – Swingin’ – live recording – CDN
Colleen Brown & David Celia – Stop Draggin’ my Heart Around – Seasons are Circling bonus track – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Aaron Lee Tasjan & Lilly Hiatt – Walls – single
Johnny Cash – I Won’t Back Down – American III: Solitary Man
Johnny Cash – The Running Kind (w/Tom Petty) – Unearthed
Johnny Cash – Southern Accents – American II: Unchained
Mark Erelli – Alright for Now (feat. Jeffrey Foucault) – Innocent when you Dream
Kasey Anderson – Walls – Way Out West
The Weepies – Learning to Fly – Sirens
The Gaslight Anthem – You Got Lucky – Handwritten (deluxe version)

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Rhett Miller – American Girl – The Interpreter: Live at Largo
Martin Sexton – Purple Rain – Twang Trust Broadcasts 1999-2007
The Be Good Tanyas – When Doves Cry – Hello Love – CDN
Dwight Yoakam – Purple Rain – Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars…

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Terra Lightfoot – Norma Gale – New Mistakes – CDN
Whitehorse – Nighthawks – Panther in the Dollhouse – CDN
The Wilderness of Manitoba – Echoes – Island of Echoes – CDN
The Woodshed Orchestra – U Don’t Have 2 Cry (w/Amanda Balsys) – Guest Book – CDN
John Blek – Salt in the Water – Catharsis Vol. 1
Anna Mitchell – All these Things – Anna Mitchell
John Blek & The Rats – Calling out my Name – Leave your Love at the Door

Today we chat with The Mastersons before their Tuesday show with Steve Earle, pay tribute to the great Charles Bradley, and much more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Steve Earle – Baby’s Just as Mean as Me (featuring Eleanor Whitmore) – Terraplane
Charles Bradley – Why Is It so Hard? – No Time for Dreaming
Charles Bradley – Victim of Love – Victim of Love
Charles Bradley – Ain’t It a Sin – Changes
Charles Bradley – Heart of Gold – No Time for Dreaming (expanded edition)
The Mastersons – Crash Test – Birds Fly South

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Chris Masterson (The Mastersons) interview

The Mastersons – You Could Be Wrong – Transient Lullaby
The Mastersons – Transient Lullaby – Transient Lullaby

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Carolyn Mark and the New Best Friends – Not a Doll – The Pros and Cons of Collaboration – CDN
Lisa Leblanc – Ace of Spades – Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen? – CDN
Steve Earle and the Dukes – Fixin’ to Die – Live at The Continental Club
Jon Dee Graham & the Fighting Cocks – Wait/Airplane – live recording
Slow Leaves – Careless and Serene – Enough about Me – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm
Slow Leaves – Slow Leaves – Enough about Me – CDN – WPG
Slow Leaves – Life of a better Man – Beauty Is so Common – CDN – WPG
Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown – Complete Greatest Hits – CDN
Jory Nash – Ain’t Coming Home – The Many Hats of – CDN
Jory Nash – Ballad of Easy Chair – Lo-Fi Northern Blues – CDN
Oh Susanna – Thunderbird – A Girl in Teen City – CDN
Ben de la Cour – Evelyn – Midnight in Havana

Today we’ve got another pile of great new music, as well as a look at some amazing upcoming shows, including the return of our pals Josh Fewings & Benj Rowland, aka Mayhemingways, who are headed to town for their first headlining show at the West End Cultural Centre on Sept. 18! Josh gave us a call to chat after a nasty tire blowout in Saskatchewan.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mayhemingways – End Up this Way – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Geoff Berner – Phony Drawl – Canadiana Grotesquica – CDN
Matt Patershuk – Blank Pages and Lost Wages – Same as I Ever Have Been – CDN
Rob Lutes – Rocky Mountain Time – Walk in the Dark – CDN
Melissa Payne – Strong Heart – single – CDN
Sean McConnell – Nothing on You (featuring Lori McKenna) – Undone: Acoustic Recordings

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Anthony da Costa – Go Steady (acoustic version) – da Costa Deluxe
Anthony da Costa – Talking to You (acoustic version) – da Costa Deluxe
Radney Foster – Raining on Sunday – For You to See the Stars
The Sweetback Sisters – I Got Lucky with You – King of Killing Time
Eilen Jewell – It’s your Voodoo Working – Down Hearted Blues

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Carolyn Mark – In Another Time – Come! Back! Special! – CDN
Carolyn Mark – The Queen of Vancouver Island – The Queen of Vancouver Island – CDN
D. Rangers – Tryin’ to Start Out Clean – Barbaric Cultural Practices – CDN – WPG
The Cave Singers – Lost in the Tide – Banshee
The Cave Singers – Hen of the Woods – Welcome Joy
Elliott BROOD – Write It all Down for You – Mountain Meadows – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Andrew Neville & the Poor Choices – Nick Hill – Winnipeg: The High & Lonesome Years [Vol. IV] – CDN – WPG
Adrien Sala – Andrew Neville – Winnipeg: The High & Lonesome Years [Vol. IV] – CDN – WPG
Corin Raymond – Brand New Song – Paper Nickels – CDN

Josh Fewings (Mayhemingways) interview

Mayhemingways – Hunter St. Blues – Hunter St. Blues – CDN

On this week’s show, we’ve got some great upcoming show to talk about and a huge pile of new music, both new releases and new finds that I dug out of a couple of my favourite U.S. goldmines.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Jim Bryson – The Depression Dance – Somewhere We Will Find Our Place – CDN
The Sadies – Loved on Look (w/Greg Keelor) – Tremendous Efforts – CDN
The Sadies – Tiger Tiger – Stories Often Told – CDN
Mayhemingways – Small Town Crush – Mayhemingways – CDN
Mayhemingways – Hunter St. Blues – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Poor Choices Song – Winnipeg: The High & Lonesome Years [Vol. IV] – CDN – WPG
Whitney Rose – Tied to the Wheel – Rule 62 – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Whitney Rose – Trucker’s Funeral – Rule 62 – CDN
Romantica – St. Paul City Lights – Shadowlands
Slaid Cleaves – Still Be Mine – Ghost on the Car Radio
Blaze Foley – Girl Scout Cookies – The Lost Muscle Shoals Recordings
The Deep Dark Woods – Fallen Leaves – Yarrow – CDN
Shuyler Jansen – Don’t Ask Why – Today’s Remains – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Buick 6 – Righteously – Plays Well with Others
John Fullbright – Write a Song – Songs
The Bottle Rockets – Welfare Music – The Brooklyn Side
Danny Barnes – Angel – Rocket
Waltons – Wascana – Cock’s Crow – CDN
Ha Ha Tonka – Everything – Heart-Shaped Mountain
The Rave-Ups – She Says (Come Around) – Chance

3:30 – 4:00 pm

T. Hardy Morris – Quieter (When I Leave Town) – Hardy & The Hardknocks: Drownin on a Mountaintop
Butch Hancock – Tell Me What You Want To Know – Own & Own
The Push Stars – Keg On My Coffin – Paint The Town
Chip Taylor – I’ll Only Be Me Once (w/Lucinda Williams) – The Little Prayers Trilogy
Chip Taylor – One Hell of a Guy (w/Guy Clark) – 16 Angels Dancing ‘cross the Moon
Townes Van Zandt – Shrimp Song – Austin City Limits 1976

Summer’s over, Lindsay’s here, amazing upcoming shows, and a great Cheapo find. How’s that sound?

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Blackie & the Rodeo Kings – Summertime’s Over – South – CDN
Big Star – September Gurls – Radio City
Paolo Nutini – Autumn – These Streets
Ben Arnold – Fine September – Solo
Jonathan Byrd – Golden Glow of Autumn – Wildflowers
Joe Nolan – Autumn Sky – Tornado – CDN
David Francey – Far End of Summer – Far End of Summer – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

NQ Arbuckle – The Autumn Leaves – The Last Supper in a Cheap Town – CDN
Matthew Ryan – Me & My Lover – East Autumn Grin
Elliott BROOD – Lindsay – Days Into Years – CDN
Lindsay Ferguson – Apologies – Chameleon – CDN
Lindsay Buckingham – Never Going Back Again – Rare on Air Volume 1
Frank Turner – Plea from a Cat Named Virtute – Polaroid Picture EP
Art of Time Ensemble – Virtute the Cat Explains her Departure (w/Steven Page) – A Singer Must Die – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

John K Samson – Virtute at Rest – Winter Wheat – CDN – WPG
Washboard Hank – Friendly Little Cat – Human Beans – CDN
Jack Off Jill – My Cat – Sexless Demons and Scars
Tracy McNeil & The GoodLife – Wildcats – Nobody Ever Leaves
Luke Doucet and the White Falcon – The Lovecats – Blood’s Too Rich – CDN
Rheostatics – Introducing Happiness – Introducing Happiness – CDN
Mayhemingways – Oldest Home Bum – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Mayhemingways – CDs I Didn’t Sell – Mayhemingways – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Three O’Clock Train – The Devil Likes Me – Wig Wam Beach – CDN
Three O’Clock Train – Train of Dreams – Train of Dreams – CDN
Garnet Rogers – All That Is – All That Is: The Songs of – CDN
Lynne Hanson – Every Honest Misstep – Uneven Ground – CDN
Vika and Linda – I Didn’t Know Love Could Be Mine – Vika and Linda
Vika and Linda – I Know Where to Go to Feel Good – Vika and Linda

This is one of those “standby” episodes that you might hear again some day, but it’s so darn good that you surely won’t mind!

Hanging out at music festivals (especially smaller ones), you hear a lot of artists covering other artists. This episode is full to the brim with classic songs that have been covered by others in my recent travels.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Guy Clark – Dublin Blues – Dublin Blues
Townes Van Zandt – Rex’s Blues – Flyin’ Shoes
John Prine – Speed of the Sound of Loneliness – German Afternoons
Ian & Sylvia – Some Day Soon – Some Day Soon – CDN
Ian Tyson – M.C. Horses – Eighteen Inches of Rain – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Blackie and the Rodeo King – Blackie and the Rodeo King – CDN
Guy Clark – El Coyote – My Favorite Picture Of You

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Stan Rogers – Northwest Passage – Northwest Passage – CDN
David Francey – Red Winged Blackbird – Torn Screen Door – CDN
James Keelaghan – Cold Missouri Waters – A Recent Future – CDN
David Wiffen – Driving Wheel – David Wiffen – CDN
The Band – Chest Fever – Music From Big Pink – CDN
Bruce Springsteen – One Step Up – Tunnel of Love

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Blaze Foley – Cold, Cold World – Cold, Cold World
Waylon Jennings – Lonesome, On’ry and Mean – Lonesome, On’ry and Mean
Waylon Jennings – Waymore’s Blues – Dreaming My Dreams
Billy Joe Shaver – Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me – Old Five and Dimers like Me
Billy Joe Shaver – Slow Rollin’ Low – Honky Tonk Heroes
Sturgill Simpson – You Can Have the Crown – High Top Mountain
The Marshall Tucker Band – Can’t You See – Marshall Tucker Band
Richard Inman – Sunday Morning – Richard Inman – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Hank Williams – Your Cheatin’ Heart (single version) (feat. The Drifting Cowboys) – 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection, Vol.2
Elvis Presley – That’s Alright Mama – Sun Records Greatest Hits
Johnny Cash – The Streets of Laredo – The Legend
The Band – Long Black Veil – Music from Big Pink – CDN
Sam Cooke – Bring It on Home to Me – The Best of
Al Green – Love and Happiness – Greatest Hits
Solomon Burke – That’s How I Got to Memphis – Nashville