Today some great new music, exciting concerts past and future, and we play a game of Too Close for Comfort by listening to some songs that sound kind of similar!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Ron Sexsmith – Strawberry Blonde – Other Songs – CDN
The Secret Sisters – Losing Heart – Cover Stories: Brandi Carlile Celebrates 10 Years of The Story
The Secret Sisters – He’s Fine – You Don’t Own Me Anymore
Jessica Mitchell – That Record Saved my Life – Hold Onto the Light: Tour EP – CDN
Chris Stapleton – Without your Love – Songs from a Room

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives – Air Mail Special – Way Out West
Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives – Torpedo – Way Out West
Chris Stapleton – Second One to Know – Songs from a Room
Matthew Ryan – (I Just Died) Like an Aviator – Hustle Up Starlings
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Cumberland Gap – The Nashville Sound
Figure Walking – Singapore – The Big Other – CDN – WPG
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Live by the Song (w/Rodney Crowell) – Kings and Kings – CDN
Brinsley Schwarz – (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding – Surrender to the Rhythm

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Butch Walker and the Black Widows – Summer of ’89 – The Spade
The Dixie Chicks – Goodbye Earl – Fly
Mike Edel & Leeroy Stagger – Hello Hello Goodbye – PEAK Boot Camp 2015 – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Enemy Inside – Love Versus – CDN
The Sweet Alibi – One Chance – Walking in the Dark – CDN – WPG
JP Hoe – Nothing’s Gonna Harm You – Mannequin – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

D. Rangers – Trois Riveres – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
Pat Temple and the High Lonesome Players – Auxiliary Workhouse Breakdown – Stone Boat – CDN
Pat Temple – So Long Gone – One Song at a Time – CDN
Shotgun Jimmie – Join the Band – Field of Trampolines – CDN – MB
The Burning Hell – Amateur Rappers – People – CDN
The Burning Hell – My Name Is Mathias – Flux Capacitor – CDN

Today, a birthday party, some new & newish music, a couple of requests, and a visit from the great Scott Cook, who dropped in to chat and play some of his wonderful songs!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Jim Bryson – Breathe – Somewhere We Will Find our Place – CDN
Jim Bryson – Without Piano – The Occasionals – CDN
Jim Bryson – Captain Finch – The North Side Benches – CDN
Larissa Tandy – My Mother’s Boyfriend – The Grip – CDN
Larissa Tandy – I Won’t Let You Go – The Grip – CDN
Steph Cameron – Young and Living Free – Daybreak over Jackson Street – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

The Waifs – Sugar Mama – Ironbark
Lynne Hanson – Every Honest Misstep – Uneven Ground – CDN
100 Mile House – Hidden Springs – Hiraeth – CDN
John K Samson – Vampire Alberta Blues – Winter Wheat – CDN
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Cumberland Gap – The Nashville Sound
Figure Walking – Victorious – The Big Other – CDN – WPG
James McMurtry – Choctaw Bingo – Live in Aught-Three

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Scott Cook – Your Sweet Time – Further down the Line – CDN

Scott Cook interview

Scott Cook – Further down the Line – live performance – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Scott Cook – Alberta, you’re Breaking my Heart – live performance – CDN
Scott Cook – The Kid with the Comic Book – live performance – CDN
Scott Cook – Pass It Along – live performance – CDN
Tom Waits – Downtown Train – Rain Dogs

A great show by Elliott BROOD last night gets us started and off on some tangents. We’ve also got some great Record Store Day finds, some requests and upcoming shows, as well as a tribute to the great Jimmy Lafave.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Jimmy Lafave – For Everyman – Looking into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne
D. Rangers – Runaway – We Stay High and Lonesome – CDN – WPG
Emmylou Harris – Bad Moon Rising – Evangaline
Bob Seger – Night Moves – Greatest Hits
Mike June – The Darkness – Poor Man’s Bible

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Elliott BROOD – Taken – Work and Love – CDN
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking – Live from Welcome to 1979
Steve Earle and the Dukes – Are You Sure Hank Done It this Way – Live at the Continental Club
Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin – Hard Travelin’ – Hard Travelin’
Dolly Parton – Girl Left Alone – Puppy Love/Girl Left Alone 7″
E.L. Fields Gospel Wonders – Heaven Bound (featuring Sharon Jones) – 7″ single

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Jimmy Lafave – When It Starts to Rain – Austin Skyline
Jimmy Lafave – Buffalo Return to the Plains – Buffalo Return to the Plains
Jimmy Lafave – The Beauty of You – The Night Tribe
Jimmy Lafave – On a Bus to St. Cloud – Texoma
Gretchen Peters – When You Comin’ Home (with Jimmy Lafave) – Blackbirds
Slaid Cleaves – Still Fighting the War – Still Fighting the War

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Johnsmith – The Times they Are a Changin’ – Gravity of Grace
Jimmy Lafave – Lorena – Dark River: Songs of the Civil War Era
Scott Cook – Fellas, Get out of the Way – Further down the Line – CDN
Serena Ryder – Weak in the Knees – Live – CDN
The Hold Steady – Sequestered in Memphis – Stay Positive
Scott Nolan – Right on the wrong Time – No Bourbon and Bad Radio – CDN – WPG
Post Script – Avec les yeux ferme – If Not for You – CDN

Today, in honour of Easter, some of our annual slightly sacrilegious, sarcastic silliness, as well as a listen to another of 2017’s greatest releases so far, and a look ahead to an intimate show coming up next week.

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
The Hold Steady – How a Resurrection Really Feels – Separation Sunday
The Hold Steady – Both Crosses – Live from SoHo
Glossary – Cheap Wooden Cross – Long Live All of Us
Shinyribs – The Cross Is the Boss – I Got your Medicine

2:30 – 3:00 pm

David Newberry – Easter – No One will Remember You – CDN
Works Progress Administration – Rise Up – WPA
Band of Horses – Is There a Ghost – Cease to Begin
John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls – Holy Ghost Haunted – Everything the Hard Way
Chuck Prophet – Jesus Was a social Drinker – Bobby Fuller Died for your Sins
Chuck Prophet – I Felt like Jesus – Temple Beautiful
Chuck Prophet – Would You Love Me? – LIVE! at the Krush

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Chuck Prophet – Doubter Out of Jesus (All Over You) – Soap and Water
Rodney Crowell – Life without Susanna – Close Ties
Rodney Crowell – Nashville 1972 – Close Ties
Rodney Crowell – I Don’t Care Anymore – Close Ties
Leeroy Stagger – Joe Strummer and Joey Ramone – Love Versus – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Living in the Future – Love Versus – CDN
John Paul White – Fight for You – Beulah

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Elliott BROOD – Edge of Town – Tin Type – CDN
Elliott BROOD – Second Son – Ambassador – CDN
Elliott BROOD – W.I.A.D.F.Y. – Mountain Meadows – CDN
Elliott BROOD – If I Get Old – Days into Years – CDN
Elliott BROOD – The Fall – single – CDN
Altameda – Dirty Rain – Dirty Rain – CDN

Today we look back at a terrific concert that happened in town this weekend, we spin some new music, including the greatest album I’ve heard so far this year, preview a show, and celebrate a couple of birthdays!

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Romi Mayes – Just Like the Rest – Achin’ in yer Bones – CDN – WPG
The Watchmen – Brighter Hell – Live and in Stereo – CDN – WPG
R.E.M. – Superman – Life’s Rich Pageant
R.E.M. – Disturbance at the Heron House – Unplugged 1991/2001: The Complete Sessions
Garham Parker – The Three Martini Lunch – Live! Alone in America
Them – Richard Cory – Complete Them (1964-1967)

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Bob Marley & The Wailers – Redemption Song (band version) – Uprising
Ken Tizzard with bad Intent – Someone to Stand beside Me – The Goodness of bad Intent – CDN
Ken Tizzard – Waste your Time – No Dark No Light – CDN
Sean Rowe – I’ll Follow your Trail – New Lore
Andrew Combs – Lauralee – Canyons of my Mind

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Mike Edel & Leeroy Stagger – Hello Hello Goodbye – PEAK Boot Camp 2015 – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Enemy Inside – Love Versus – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Love Versus – Love Versus – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Little Brother – Love Versus – CDN
John Wort Hannam – Love Lives On – Love Lives On – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

John Wort Hannam – Pretty Good – Brambles & Thorns – CDN
John Wort Hannam – Scotsman’s Bluff – Pocket Full of Holes – CDN
Brian MacMillan – Turn the Radio Up – Shine – CDN
Brian MacMillan – Signs – Let the Darkness Go – CDN
Charlie Parr – Falcon – Stumpjumper
Charlie Parr – Manifold – While No One Was Looking: Toasting 20 Years of Bloodshot Records

Tonight’s the night when the fancy Juno Awards broadcast happens, but everyone knows that the good stuff is decided the night before, so we’ve already got some exciting results and reactions. We’ve also got some great new music to share and a look ahead to tomorrow’s star-studded tribute to The Band’s Last Waltz!

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Leaf Rapids – April – Lucky Stars – CDN – WPG
William Prince – Earthly Days – Earthly Days – CDN – WPG
Corin Raymond – Morning Glories – Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams – CDN
Corin Raymond – Hard on Things – Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams – CDN
William Prince – Bloom – Earthly Days – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Scott Nolan – Forever Is a Long Time – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
Scott Cook – Dogs and Kids – Further Down the Line – CDN
Richard Laviolette – Someone to Tell my Story when I’m Gone – Taking the Long Way Home – CDN
Sam Outlaw – Tenderheart – Tenderheart
Altameda – I Saw a Ghost last Night – Dirty Rain – CDN
Abigail Lapell – Diamond Girl – Hide nor Hair – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Joel Plaskett – Just Because (for Gord Downie) – single – CDN
Gord Downie – Son – Secret Path – CDN
Colin Linden – I Need Water – Rich in Love – CDN
Whitehorse – Pretty Thing – Rich in Love – CDN
Paul Reddick – Celebrate – Ride the One – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Band – Don’t Do It – The Last Waltz 40th Anniversary Collection – CDN
Corb Lund – It’s Hard to Keep a white Shirt Clean (for Willie P Bennett) – Losin’ Lately Gambler – CDN
Ollabelle – I Am Waiting – Ollabelle
Matt Andersen – So Gone Now – Something in Between – CDN
Matt Andersen & Del Barber – Willie’s Diamond Joe – live recording – CDN

A belated look at the career and production influence of Joel Plaskett, who stopped in town this past week, as well as a road trip playlist for any of us lucky enough to be getting out of town for a bit over Spring Break!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Skydiggers – Drive Away – Road Radio – CDN
Joel Plaskett – Happen Now – La De Da – CDN
Joel Plaskett – Fashionable People (Kids’ Cbc Version) – single – CDN
Shotgun Jimmie – That’s Not Joel (feat. Joel Plaskett & Joel Plaskett) – New Scotland Records Singles Series, Vol. 3. – CDN
Joel Plaskett – Jimmie’s Still Jimmie (feat. Joel Plaskett & Joel Plaskett) – New Scotland Records Singles Series, Vol. 3. – CDN
Bill & Joel Plaskett – Solidarity – Solidarity – CDN
Bill & Joel Plaskett – Help Me Somebody Depression Blues – Solidarity – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Shotgun Jimmie – Love Letter – Field Of Trampolines – CDN
Steve Poltz – Killin’ Myself (To Be With You) – Dreamhouse – CDN
Old Man Luedecke – Baby, We’d Be Rich – I Never Sang Before I Met You – CDN
James Hill – Promenade – The Old Silo – CDN
Colleen Brown – Soap & Denim – Direction – CDN
Two Hours Traffic – Drop Alcohol – Territory – CDN
Two Hours Traffic – Heroes Of The Sidewalk – Two Hours Traffic – CDN
David Myles – Out of Love – Turn Time Off – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

James McMurtry – South Dakota – Complicated Game
Kinky Friedman – Rapid City South Dakota – Kinky Friedman
Bellwether – South Dakota – Bellwether
No River City – Visit Me – This Is Our North Dakota
Chris Knight – North Dakota – A Pretty Good Guy
Lyle Lovett – North Dakota – Joshua Judges Ruth
The Cave Singers – Hen Of The Woods – Welcome Joy

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Blue Rodeo – Underground – Outskirts – CDN
Jaxon Haldane – Underground – Down In Oklahoma – CDN – WPG
Drive-By Truckers – The President’s Penis is Missing – Pizza Deliverance
J.J. Cale – Travelin’ Light – Troubadour
Parker Millsap – Truck Stop Gospel – Parker Millsap
Griffin House – Vacation – Balls
Kris Delmhorst – Drive – Cars

Today we pay tribute to the music and legacy of Chuck Berry and look forward to my favourite weekend of the year, The Trout Forest Music Festival in August. Festival AD Devin Latimer and his second in command, son Oscar stop by to tell us all about it!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Steve Forbert – Too Much Monkey Business – King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents: In Concert
George Jones & Johnny Paycheck – Maybelline – Double Trouble
Waylon Jennings – Brown Eyed Handsome Man – The Lost Nashville Sessions
Buck Owens & his Buckaroos – Johnny B. Goode – in London
Ernest Tubb – Thirty Days (to Come back Home) – Retrospective: Volume 2
The Co-Dependents – Bye Bye Johnny – Live Recording Event – CDN
Billy Cowsill – Roll Over Beethoven – Live – CDN
Rodney Crowell – Memphis, TN – Mason Jar Music & Friends: Decoration Day, Vol. 5

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Shannon McNally – Going Back to Memphis – Run to Cover
Linda Ronstadt – Back in the U.S.A. – Living in the U.S.A.
Emmylou Harris – C’est la vie – Luxury Liner
Rockpile – Oh What a Thrill – Seconds of Pleasure
Whitehorse – Nadine – The Northern South Vol 1 – CDN
The Razorbacks – It Wasn’t Me – Full House – CDN
Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks – Forty Days – I Feel Good
Wanda Jackson – There’s a Party Goin’ On – There’s a Party Goin’ On

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Dave Alvin – Promised Land – Live from Austin, TX
Ry Cooder – 13 Question Method – Get Rhythm
Chris Stapleton – Tennessee Whiskey – Traveller
Lindi Ortega – I Want You – Tin Star – CDN

Devin & Oscar Latimer (Trout Forest Music Festival) interview

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Mayhemingways – Oldest Home Bum – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
King Creosote + Michael Johnston – Will You Wait for Me? – The Bound of the Red Deer
Joey Landreth – Whiskey – Whiskey – CDN – WPG
Terra Lightfoot – No Hurry – Live in Concert – CDN
Del Barber – Livin’ with a long Way to Go – Prairieography – CDN – WPG

On this episode, we spin some new music, visit with an old friend, and take a trip to Ireland in advance of St. Patrick’s Day!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Guy Clark – Dublin Blues – Dublin Blues

New & “New”:
Guy Clark – The Last Hobo – The Best of the Dualtone Years
Chip Taylor – A Song I Can Live with – A Song I Can Live with
Curtis McMurtry – Loves Me More – The Hornet’s Nest
Colin Hay – A Thousand Million Reasons – Fierce Mercy

Revisiting Chris:
Chris Trapper – Skin – The Few and the Far Between
Chris Trapper – The Few and the Far Between – The Few and the Far Between

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Chris Trapper – Everything Was Possible – Symphonies of Dirt & Dust

New:
John Craigie – Bucket List Grandma – No Rain, No Rose
John Craigie – Tumbling Dice – No Rain, No Rose
Tony Furtado – Give Me your Soul – Cider House Sessions: Live at Reverend Nat’s
Shinyribs – A Certain Girl – I Got your Medicine
Scott H. Biram – Still Around – The Bad Testament

Emergency Can-Con infusion:
Lewis Melville – Cast Iron – Sixty Second Songs – CDN
Tannis Slimmon – Can’t See Through – Sixty Second Songs – CDN
Hillbilly Burlesque – The Pines – Sixty Second Songs – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Michael Johnston – Bedbugs – Sixty Second Songs – CDN
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – The Midget Motorist – Sixty Second Songs – CDN
Stan Rogers – Northwest Passage – Northwest Passage – CDN
Off to Ireland:
John Blek – The Night and the Liquor – Cut the Light
John Blek – Valerie – Cutting Room Floor
John Blek & The Rats – Wandering Child – Borders
John Blek & The Rats – Calling out my Name – Leave your Love at the Door
Steve Earle – Galway Girl – Transcendental Blues

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Jess Klein – Ireland – Draw Them Near
Romantica – The National Side – America
Little Green Cars – My Love Took me down to the River to Silence Me – Absolute Zero
Patty Griffin – Irish Boy – American Kid
Imelda May – Call me – LIFE. LOVE. FLESH. BLOOD

More Can-Con:
Brooke Wylie – I Will Miss Growing Old with You (with John Wort Hannam) – Don’t Waste the Silence – CDN
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet – The Singing Cowboy – Sport Fishin’ – CDN
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet – Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham – Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham – CDN

On this episode, we think back on the previous night’s fabulous Blackie & The Rodeo Kings show and have an early celebration of International Women’s Day by playing almost an hour and a half of fabulous female artists!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

The Guthries – Patsy Cline – Off Windmill – CDN

Memories of Blackie:
Thompson Wilson – Seeping through the Ground – Homewood Tapes – CDN
Willie P Bennett – White Line – Tryin to Start out Clean – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Sometimes It Comes so Easy – Take my own Advice – CDN
Stephen Fearing – The Bells of Morning – The Man who Married Music: The Best of – CDN
Colin Linden – Might as well Enjoy the Rain – Southern Jumbo – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Tom Wilson – Shine your Star – Planet Love – CDN

New & New-ish:
Lynne Hanson – Just for Now – Uneven Ground – CDN
Lynne Hanson – Gotta Have Rain – Uneven Ground – CDN
Abigail Lapell – Fur and Feathers – Hide nor Hair – CDN
Kayla Luky – Bottom of a Bottle – Back to Dirt – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Celebrating Fabulous Females:
Patsy Cline – I Fall To Pieces – 12 Greatest Hits
Patsy Cline – She’s Got You – 12 Greatest Hits
Loretta Lynn – Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (with Lovin’ on Your Mind) – Coal Miner’s Daughter: The Very Best of Loretta Lynn
Butcher Holler – Fist City (feat. Eilen Jewell) – Eilen Jewell Presents A Tribute To Loretta Lynn
Neko Case – Rated X – The Tigers Have Spoken
Dolly Parton – Just Because I’m A Woman – Dolly Parton (Box Set Sampler)
Ana Egge & The Stray Birds – Wildflowers – Bright Shadow
The Wailin’ Jennys – Light Of A Clear Blue Morning – The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom – CDN
Nathan – Stone – Jimson Weed – CDN
Nikki Lane – Lies – Walk of Shame

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Imelda May – Tainted Love – More Mayhem
Sarah Harmer – Weakened State – You Were Here – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – What Are You Waiting For? – Back To Me – CDN
Madison Violet – Lauralee – No Fool For Trying – CDN
Brandi Carlile – Have You Ever – The Story
Caroline Herring – Fireflies – Camilla
Chloe Albert – Say Goodbye – Dream Catcher – CDN
Dala – Anywhere Under the Moon – Who Do You Think You Are? – CDN
Rose Cousins – All The Stars – We Have Made A Spark – CDN