It’s almost time for UMFM’s Pledge-O-Rama event, and each year we discuss the best of the previous year, and this year is no different, so this show is made up of items that you can take home with your pledge to UMFM’s fall fundraiser, as well as some of our favourite music of 2015! We do also have one concert coming up to preview, featuring a supergroup made up of some of Canada’s most renowned writers!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Down by the Henry Moore – Let’s Frolic Again – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Secret of a long lasting Love (with Nick Lowe) – Kings and Kings – CDN
Peter Katz – Story You Forgot – We Are the Reckoning – CDN
Jory Nash – Ain’t Coming Home – The Many Hats of – CDN
The 24th Street Wailers – Just Wait – Where Evil Grows – CDN
Lewis Melville – Nature’s Revenge – Songs of the Future – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Scott Nolan – Forever Is a Long Time – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
James McMurtry – These Things I’ve Come to Know – Complicated Game
Brock Zeman – Pulling your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – Pulling your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN
Mike June – The Darkness – Poor Man’s Bible
John Moreland – You Don’t Care for Me Enough to Cry – High on Tulsa Heat
Jason Isbell – How to Forget – Something more than Free
William Prince – Earthly Days – Earthly Days – CDN – WPG

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Brady Enslen – Beautiful Things – Beautiful Things – CDN
Richard Inman – 30 Days – 30 Days – CDN – WPG
Gurf Morlix – Dirty Old Buffalo – Eatin’ at Me
Jerry Jeff Walker – Like a Coat from the Cold – Ridin’ High
Kris Kristofferson – Jesus Was a Capricorn – Jesus Was a Capricorn
Lee Hazlewood – Pour Man – Love and other Crimes

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Lunch at Allen’s – Try Walkin’ Away – More Lunch at Allen’s – CDN
Lunch at Allen’s – Little Lambs – Lunch at Allen’s – CDN
Marc Jordan – Marina del Rey – Mannequin – CDN
Murray McLauchlan – Farmer’s Song – Songs from the Street – CDN
Marc Jordan – I’m a Camera – Blue Desert – CDN
Ian Thomas – Levity – Levity – CDN
Ian Thomas – Painted Ladies – Looking Back – CDN

Today a lot of great new music and some big concerts to discuss… what else do you need?!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Buick MacKane – John Conquest, You’ve Got enough Dandruff on your Collar to Bread a Veal Cutlet – The Pawn Shop Years
Jon Dee Graham – October – Swept Away
Jon Dee Graham – (Things Might Turn Out) Right – Knoxville Skyline
James McMurtry – Laredo – Big Sweet Life: The Songs of Jon Dee Graham

2:30 – 3:00 pm

James McMurtry – Choctaw Bingo – Saint Mary of the Woods
Drive-By Truckers – Surrender Under Protest – American Band
Butch Walker – East Coast Girl – Stay Gold
Nahko and Medicine for the People – San Quentin – HOKA
Buddy Miller – Wild Horses (w/Shawn Colvin) – Camayo Sessions at Sea

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Sheila Carabine – Little Girl – All In – CDN
Liz Longley – Weightless – Weightless
John Blek – Bleed You Dry – Cut the Light
John Blek – Kathleen – Cutting Room Floor
Corin Raymond – Trains and Boats and Buses – unreleased – CDN
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Howdoyoulikeitnow? – Instrumentality – CDN
Jaxon Haldane – Skinny Mona – Hectic – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Mayhemingways – CDs I Didn’t Sell – Mayhemingways – CDN
Mayhemingways – Small Town Crush – Mayhemingways – CDN
Mayhemingways – Hunter St. Blues – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Playing by Heart (w/Buddy Miller) – Kings and Kings – CDN
James McMurtry – No More Buffalo – It Had to Happen
James McMurtry – Holiday – Children Things

There’s not much better than two gorgeous voices singing in sweet, sweet harmony, and today, we’ve got a show chock full of just that, great duets! Cozy up to someone you love and enjoy!

This is one of those “standby” episodes that you may hear again at some point, but it’s full of such great music, you’ll be eagerly awaiting another listen!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle – Fireworks – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Carolyn Mark – It’s All Just A Matter Of (Where You Draw The Line) (with Geoff Berner) – Just Married: An Album Of Duets – CDN
The Corn Sisters – 90 Miles An Hour (Down A Dead End Street) – The Other Women
Oh Susanna – Lucky Ones (w/Jim Cuddy) – Soon The Birds – CDN
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Mother (with Sarah Harmer) – Rebuild The Wall – CDN
Jim Bryson – Somewhere Else (with Jim Cuddy) – Loose 4: Start Your Own Country – CDN
Lynn Miles – Goodbye (with Jim Bryson) – Fall for Beauty – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Steven Bowers – Comfortably Sweet (Featuring Christina Martin) – Circadian Anthem – CDN
Matt Epp And The Amorian Assembly – When You Know (Featuring Serena Ryder) – Learning to Lose Control – CDN
Jason Isbell – Stockholm (w/Kim Richey) – Southeastern
Kim Richey – Breakaway Speed (feat. Jason Isbell) – Thorn In My Heart
Jolene – I Read What You Wrote Today (with Kim Richey) – Hell’s Half Acre
Steve Earle – You’re Still Standin’ There (with Lucinda Williams) – I Feel Alright
Jason Ringenberg – James Dean’s Car (with Todd Snider) – All over Creation

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Rose Cousins – If I Should Fall Behind (with Mark Erelli) – We Have Made A Spark – CDN
Butch Walker – Battle vs. The War (w/Nikki Lane) – End of the World (One More TIme) / Battle vs. The War
Hayes Carll – Love Don’t Let Me Down (feat. Caitlin Rose) – single
Tannis Slimmon – My Body Moves (with David Francey) – Lucky Blue – CDN
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell – My Baby’s Gone – Livin’ Lovin’ and Losin’
Teddy Thompson – Take A Message To Mary (Everly Brothers cover, feat. Linda Thompson) – Separate Ways
Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazlewood – Summer Wine – Nancy & Lee
Johnny Cash – Jackson (with June Carter) – The Legend: Family & Friends

3:30 – 4:00 pm

John Prine – (We’re Not) The Jet Set (with Iris DeMent) – In Spite of Ourselves
Kris Kristofferson – Me and Bobby McGee (feat. Gordon Lightfoot, Ronnie Hawkins & Willie Nelson) – single
Billy Joe Shaver – Hard to Be an Outlaw (feat. Willie Nelson) – Long in the Tooth
Austin Lucas – Wrong Side of the Dream (feat. Lydia Loveless) – Between the Moon & the Midwest
Whiskeytown – Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight – Strangers Almanac
Shinyribs – East TX Rust (w/Ray Wylie Hubbard) – Well After Awhile
Shane Nicholson – Whistling Cannonballs (Feat. Paul Kelly) – Bad Machines
Gretchen Peters – When You Comin’ home (feat. Jimmy La Fave) – Blackbirds

Like the leaves, great new music just seems to be raining down these days, so we’ve got a pile to sift through. We’ve also got some HUGE Sunset Saloon news as we announce two amazing shows that are going to make it a November to remember!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Lydia Loveless – Heaven – Real
The Handsome Family – Gold – Unseen
Southern Culture on the Skids – Rice and Beans – The Electric Pinecones
Mekons and Robbie Fulks – Refill – Jura
John Paul White – I’ve Been over this Before (w/ The Secret Sisters) – Beulah
Billy Bragg and Joe Henry – Gentle on my Mind – Shine a Light: Field Recordings From the Great American Railroad
The Mavericks – Harvest Moon – All Night Live Vol. 1

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Mandolin Orange – Echo – Blindfaller
Skye Wallace – Rumbling Soul – Something Wicked – CDN
Paul Kelly – Sonnet 18 – Seven Sonnets and a Song
Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen – Hard Times – Death’s Dateless Night
Zachary Lucky – Make It on Time – Everywhere a Man can Be – CDN
Zachary Lucky – Helsinki – demos volume 1 – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Abbie Gardner & Anthony da Costa – Let Me Die in your Arms – Bad Nights/Better Days
Anthony da Costa & The Sentimentals – My Own Bed – single
The Loved – How Do You Fall in Love? – The Loved
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Mother – Rebuild the Wall – CDN
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Broken Fuckin’ Heart – Guitar Pickin’ Martyrs – CDN
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – $s to Doughnuts – Roger’s Waltz – CDN
Weeping Tile – Basement Apt. – Eepee – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Rueben de Groot – The Savings and Loan – Rocket Surgery – CDN
Tony Furtado – Dying Language – The Bell
Tony Furtado – Some of Shelly’s Blues – American Gypsy
Tony Furtado – Fortunate Son – Thirteen
NQ Arbuckle – Danko/Manuel – live recording – CDN

Today we need to commemorate the day in 2001 that the whole world changed, as well as the day in 2003 when Steel Belted Radio began. We also have another pile of great new music, and a tribute to a living legend who’s coming to town right away, as well as a couple of other upcoming shows!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mike Plume Band – Steel Belted Radio – The Steel Belted Radio EP – CDN
Lisa Winn – Cover my Eyes – Out from Under – CDN
Bruce Springsteen – My City of Ruin – America: A Tribute to Heroes
Alex Dezen – A Little Less Like Hell – Alex Dezen
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Beautiful Scars (w/ City and Colour) – Kings and Kings – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Scott Nolan – Rain – Highway Prayer – A Tribute to Adam Carroll – CDN – WPG
Dwight Yoakam – Purple Rain – Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars…
Sean Rowe – Girl Like You – All We Can Do – EP
Dolly Parton – Stairway to Heaven – The Acoustic Collection 1999-2002
The Wailin’ Jennys – Light of a Clear Blue Morning – The Year Dolly Parton Was my Mom – CDN – WPG
Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton – Just Someone I Used to Know – Dolly Parton (Box Set sampler)

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Dolly Parton – Jolene – Dolly Parton (box set sampler)
Johnny Cash – I’m a Drifter (with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) – Unearthed II: Trouble in Mind
Justin Townes Earle & Dawn Landes – Do I Ever Cross your Mind – single
Robbie Fulks – Jeannie’s Afraid of the Dark – 13 Hillbilly Giants
Bettye Lavette – Little Sparrow – I’ve Got my own Hell to Raise
Lynne Hanson – Heaven and Hell – River of Sand – CDN
Lynne Hanson – Rest of my Days – Once the Sun Goes Down – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Lynne Hanson – Foolish Things – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Steve Earle – Someday – Guitar Town
Steve Earle – Fearless Heart – Guitar Town
Shawn Colvin – Crazy – single
Patty Griffin – Change – Flaming Red

Summer may be over, but there were so many great memories this year that should sustain me for a while. Today a loving look back at some of the highlights, as well as some great new music, some upcoming concert news, and in honour of the long weekend, an extra long episode with a solid set of classics after 4:00!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Scott Nolan – You Rock We Roll – Montgomery Eldorado – CDN – WPG
Civil Twilight – Too Far Gone – Songs from Low Winter Sun
Anthony da Costa – Sometimes You Think You Know – Da Costa
Tuns – Lonely Life – Tuns – CDN
Jon Dee Graham & William Harries Graham – Thoughts after Midnight – single
Hoots & Hellmouth – Diction – In the Trees
Steve Cropper – Dedicated to the One I Love (with Lucinda Williams & Dan Penn) – Dedicated
Claire Lynch – Andrew’s Waltz – North by South

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Erin Rae – Monticello – Soon Enough
The Dead South – Banjo Odyssey – Good Company – CDN
James McMurtry and the Heartless Bastards – Choctaw Bingo – Live in Aught-Three
James McMurtry – How’m I Gonna Find You Now – Complicated Game

3:00 – 3:30 pm

William Prince – 7 – single – CDN – WPG
James Hill – Promenade – The Old Silo – CDN
Jon Brooks – Cage Fighter – Delicate Cages – CDN
Gretchen Peters – The Matador – Hello Cruel World
Three O’Clock Train – Train of Dreams – Train of Dreams EP – CDN
Ford Madox Ford – Expect It – Expect It / Before the Fall

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Bobby Bare Jr. – Valentine – From the End of your Leash
Robbie Fulks – Let’s Kill Saturday Night – Let’s Kill Saturday Night
Jon Langford & his Sadies – Are You an Entertainer? – Mayors of the Moon
Brock Zeman – Walking in the Dark – The Pinball Sessions – CDN
Jim Bryson – The Depression Dance – Somewhere We Will Find Our Place – CDN
The Young Novelists – Always Make the Mistake – Made Us Strangers – CDN
100 Mile House – Better, Still – Hollow Ponds – CDN
Blackie & the Rodeo Kings – Summertime’s Over – South – CDN

4:00 – 4:30 pm

Lydia Loveless – Same to You – Real
Lucero – Tears Don’t Matter Much – Live from Atlanta
The Hold Steady – Stay Positve – Stay Positve
The Damnwells – I Am a Leaver – Air Stereo
The Guthries – Season to Leave – Off Windmill – CDN

A bunch of great new music to kick things off, some wonderful live shows past and future, and we dive into the rich, deep, and inspiring catalogue of Wyckham Porteous, who ran into some serious health (and subsequent financial) issues in Scotland recently.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Wyckham Porteous – Deep into the Water – 3 AM – CDN
The Minus 5 – Mickey’s a cool Drummer – Of Monkees and Men
The Minus 5 – Richmond Fontaine – Of Monkees and Men
Alex Dezen – Randolph Tonight – II
Butch Walker – East Coast Girl – Stay Gold
Butch Walker – Ludlow Expectations – Stay Gold

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Richmond Fontaine – Claude Murray’s Breakdown – The High Country
Richmond Fontaine – Postcard from California – Post to Wire
Richmond Fontaine – Post to Wire – Post to Wire
BJ Barham – American Tobacco Company – Rockingham
BJ Barham – Rockingham – Rockingham
Jaxon Haldane – I Will Be the One – Hectic – CDN – WPG
Jaxon Haldane – Crystal – Down in Oklahoma – CDN – WPG

3:00 – 3:30 pm

D. Rangers – Trying to Start out Clean – Barbaric Cultural Practices – CDN – WPG
D. Rangers – Trois Rivieres – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
Wyckham Porteous – Blind Love – Could It Be my Road? – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Somebody Gonna Dance – Wyckham Porteous – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – 3 a.m. – Looking for Ground – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Jimmy Lafave – In this World – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Feel Alright – sexanddrinking – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Stellar Band of Neighbours – You Should Have Been There – Live at the Legion Hall – CDN
BOP Ensemble – Husbands & Wives – Between Trains – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Hungry Heart – 3 AM – CDN
Martyn Joseph – The Promise – recorded live on UMFM
Ryan Adams – Wonderwall – Love Is Hell
Bobby Bare Jr – Sister Golden Hair Alpha – The American Bread EP

Today some great new music, including the debut of songs from the brand new Jaxon Haldane album, a look back at the always magical Trout Forest Music Festival, a look ahead to a couple of shows, and we say bye bye to Bob (Egan, that is), who is retiring from active musician duty to take a job at the public library!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Kris Kristofferson, Gordon Lightfoot, and Ronnie Hawkins – Me and Bobby McGee – single
Billy Bragg and Joe Henry – The L & N Don’t Stop Here Anymore – Shine a Light: Field Recordings From the Great American Railroad
Kieran Kane – Lockeland Creek – Unguarded Moments
Lori McKenna – Wreck You – The Bird & the Rifle
Joe Purdy – Maybe We’ll All Get Along Someday – Who Will Be Next?
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Black Mark – Hearts and Lonely Hunters – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

100 Mile House – Hollow Ponds – Hollow Ponds – CDN
100 Mile House – My Love – Wait with Me – CDN
100 Mile House – Better, Still – Hollow Ponds – CDN
The Young Novelists – Couldn’t Be any Worse – Made Us Strangers – CDN
Graydon James & The Young Novelists – In your Defence – In the Year You Were Born – CDN
The Young Novelists – Always Make the Mistake – Made Us Strangers – CDN
Leaf Rapids – Agent of the Night – Lucky Stars – CDN – WPG

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Washboard Hank – Friendly Little Cat – Human Beans – CDN
Wax Mannequin – Volcano God – Festival Man – CDN
Chris Isaak – Baby Did a bad bad Thing – Forever Blue
Scott Cook – Time with You – Moonlit Rambles – CDN
Scott Cook – When We’re Back Around – One More Time Around – CDN
Jaxon Haldane – Charlie Parker – Hectic – CDN – WPG
Jaxon Haldane – You Know Whos – Hectic – CDN – WPG
Jaxon Haldane – Petrified – Hectic – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Wilco – Far Far Away – Being There
Oh Susanna – My Good Ol’ Gal – Johnstown – CDN
Reid Jamieson – The Unavoidable Truth – The Unavoidable Truth – CDN
Leeroy Stagger & The Wildflowers – I Believe in Love – Little Victories – CDN
Matt Mays – Downtown – Matt Mays – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Sun’s Hanging Low – The Last Supper in a Cheap Town – CDN
Neko Case & her Boyfriends – We’ve Never Met – Furnace Room Lullaby – CDN

Inspired by a recent wedding mixtape, here’s a collection of songs of love and devotion for you to share with someone you love!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Del Barber – Love Song For The Last 20 – Love Songs For The Last 20 – CDN – WPG
Greg Brown – I Wish I Was Married – Covenant
Paul Kelly & Uncle Bill – Until Death Do Them Part – Smoke
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson – Til Death Do Us Part – Wreck & Ruin
Bob Dylan – Wedding Song – Planet Waves
Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band – Outlaw’s Honeymoon – The Mountain
Buck Owens – (I’ll Love You) Forever And Ever – Buck ‘Em! The Music Of Buck Owens (1955-1967)
Radney Foster – I’m In (w/Abra Moore) – See What You Want To See

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Buddy Miller – That’s How Strong My Love Is – Poison Love
Van Morrison – Into the Mystic – Moondance
Ray LaMontagne – You Are The Best Thing – Gossip In The Grain
David Francey – Come Rain Or Come Shine – Skating Rink – CDN
David Myles – I Wouldn’t Dance – In the Nighttime – CDN
Rose Cousins – If I Should Fall Behind (w/Mark Erelli) – We Have Made A Spark – CDN
Stan Rogers – Forty-five Years – The Very Best of Stan Rogers – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Dolly Parton – Islands In The Stream (With Kenny Rogers) – Dolly Parton (Box Set Sampler)
Jonathan Byrd and Chris Kokesh – Do You Smell Something Burning? – The Barn Birds
John Prine – In Spite of Ourselves (w/ Iris DeMent) – In Spite of Ourselves
Gordon Lightfoot – Beautiful – Songbook – CDN
Brothers Cosmoline – I Know I’m In Love – Songs Of Work And Freedom – CDN
Steven Bowers – Comfortably Sweet (Featuring Christina Martin) – Circadian Anthem – CDN
The Lowest of The Low – Subversives – Shakespeare My Butt… – CDN
John Bottomley – Reaching Out to You – The Healing Dream – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Willie P Bennett – Lace And Pretty Flowers – Hobo’s Taunt – CDN
Townes Van Zandt – I’ll Be Here in the Morning – Legend
Jon Dee Graham – Majesty of Love – First Bear On The Moon
Jimmy LaFave – Only One Angel – Austin Skyline
Jason Isbell – Traveling Alone – Southeastern
Guy Clark – All Through Throwin’ Good Love After Bad – Old Friends
Greg Brown – Spring Wind – If I Had Known (Essential Recordings, 1980-1996)

Today a fond farewell to a Canadian folk legend, a happy birthday to an American one, some new music, and some great upcoming shows, including our official preview of next weekend’s Trout Forest Music Festival (and its big city competitor, The Interstellar Rodeo!)

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Jim Bryson – One Cigarette – The Occasionals – CDN
Penny Lang – Bright Lights And Promises – Gather Honey – CDN
Penny Lang – Where Will You Be? – Somebody Else – CDN
Penny Lang – Let Me Fly – Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky – CDN
Skye Wallace – Blood Moon – single – CDN
Lydia Loveless – Heaven – Real

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Lydia Loveless – Same to You – Real
Rosanne Cash – L.A. Freeway – Mason Jar Music & Friends – Decoration Day vol. 4
Rodney Crowell – Memphis, TN – Mason Jar Music & Friends – Decoration Day vol. 5
Rodney Crowell – I Wish It Would Rain – The Houston Kid
Rodney Crowell – The Flyboy & The Kid – Tarpaper Sky
Turnpike Troubadours – Kansas City Southern – Diamonds and Gasoline
Sturgill Simpson – You Can Have the Crown – High Top Mountain
The 24th Street Wailers – Spitfire – Where Evil Grows – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Jim Bryson – The Depression Dance – Somewhere We Will Find Our Place – CDN
Jim Bryson – Fleetwood – The North Side Benches – CDN
Oh Susanna – Loved You More – Namedropper – CDN
Leaf Rapids – Welcome Stranger – Lucky Stars – CDN
Jory Nash – Prisoner’s Lament – Tangle with the Ghost – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Young Novelists – Always Make the Mistake – Made Us Strangers – CDN
The Abrams Brothers – Thirteen – Northern Redemption – CDN
Scarlett Jane – Wild Fire – Stranger – CDN
Washboard Hank – Chompy the Headbiteroffer – Sweet Mysteries of Life – CDN
Skydiggers – A Penny More – Restless – CDN
Sam Outlaw – Keep It Interesting – Angelino
Wilco – Pick up the Change – A.M.