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.

Today a look back at this year’s Calgary Folk Music Festival, which happened last weekend. It was my first time there in a decade, and it had me wondering what took me so long to come back. Lots of highlights and sounds of the festival to share today! We’ve also got an exciting upcoming show to promote and some well-wishes for our favourite newlywed singer/songwriter!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Eilen Jewell – Santa Fe – Queen of the Minor Key
mini-Mekons & Carolyn Mark – Are You an Entertainer? – live recording
Carolyn Mark – It’s all just a Matter of (Where You Draw the Line) – live recording – CDN
Geoff Berner – Let’s Dance and Celebrate the Misfortunes of People we Hate (with Kris Demeanor and Carolyn Mark) – live recording – CDN
Bobby Bare, Jr. – My Baby Took my Baby away – live recording

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Kathleen Edwards – Football in the Grass – live recording – CDN
Carolyn Mark – In Another Time – Come! Back! Special! – CDN
Kris Demeanor – High Ground – Entirely New Beasts – CDN
Elizabeth Cook – Cutting Diamonds – Exodus Of Venus
Northern Beauties – You Make It Right – EP – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Robbie Fulks – Let’s Kill Saturday Night – Let’s Kill Saturday Night
The Dudes – Saturday Night – Barbers, Thieves and Bartenders – CDN
Oh Pep! – Bushwick – Stadium Cake
Colleen Rennison – Fancy – See The Sky About To Rain – CDN
The Tallest Man On Earth – The Gardener – Shallow grave
Sam Outlaw – Ghost Town – Sam Outlaw
Ian Tyson – Casey Tibbs – All The Good ‘uns – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Cave Singers – Summer Light – Welcome Joy
Brock Zeman – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN
Brock Zeman – Until It Bleeds – Me Then You – CDN
Brock Zeman – Gastown – Cold Winter Comes Back – CDN
Del Barber – Harvest Moon – Daytrotter Studio 1/20/201 – CDN – WPG

Last week’s look back at the previous weekend’s 56th Mariposa Folk Festival was fun, but we didn’t get through nearly enough of the great artists and moments I’d seen there, so we need another episode to look through some more of the Mariposa magic!

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Lydia Loveless – Longer – Real
Irish Mythen – Tullamore Blues – live recording – CDN
Samantha Robichaud – Jesus (featuring Irish Mythen) – In the Green Room – CDN
Irish Mythen – Gypsy Dancer – Irish Mythen – CDN
Stef Paquette – Tout c’que j’veux – live recording – CDN
Melanie Brulée – Strange Desire – Sucré/Salé – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Sheesham and Lotus and ‘Son – 1929 – 1929: The New Kings of Old-Time – CDN
Murder Murder – The Last Gunfighter Ballad – From the Stillhouse – CDN
Murder Murder – Sweet Revenge – From the Stillhouse – CDN
Jeffrey Foucault – Mexican Home – Shoot The Moon Right Between The Eyes: Jeffrey Foucault Sings The Songs Of John Prine
Jeffrey Foucault – I Love You (And You Are A Fool) – Salt As Wolves
Jeffrey Foucault – Des Moines – Salt As Wolves
Colin Linden – Knob & Tube – Rich In Love – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

The Tragically Hip – Black Day In July – Beautiful: A Tribute To Gordon Lightfoot – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Sundown – Dream It All Away Tour EP – CDN
Gordon Lightfoot – Alberta Bound – Songbook – CDN
James Hill – Promenade – The Old Silo – CDN
Anne Janelle & James Hill – Ah, Poor Bird – Ah, Poor Bird – CDN
Anne Janelle – Black is the Colour – So Long at the Fair – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Brother Sun – Sad – Some Part of the Truth
Brother Sun – These Hands – Some Part of the Truth
Dave Gunning – Coal from the Train – No More Pennies – CDN
Catherine MacLellan – Gone Too Soon – The Raven’s Sun – CDN
Dan Reeder – Maybe – This New Century
Slow Leaves – Dreamer – Beauty Is so Common – CDN – WPG
Ane Brun – All My Tears – Rarities
Ane Brun – Orphan Girl – Rarities

A look back at the 56th Mariposa Folk Festival, which was held last weekend in Orillia, ON (with one off-topic tangent along the way), including an interview with my favourite Mariposa memory-maker, Jon Brooks!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mike Ferris – Mercy Now – Shine For All The People
Mary Gauthier – Between the Daylight and the Dark – Between the Daylight and the Dark
Mary Gauthier – Last of the Hobo Kings – Between the Daylight and the Dark
Mary Gauthier – When a Woman Goes Cold – Trouble & Love

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Fred Eaglesmith – Cigarette Machine – 6 Volts – CDN
Scott Nolan – Fire Up – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
William Prince – 7 – single – CDN – WPG
Gretchen Peters – The Matador – Hello Cruel World
Gretchen Peters – Five Minutes – Hello Cruel World
George Strait – The Chill of an early Fall – Chill of an early Fall

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Jon Brooks – When We Go – Moth nor Rust – CDN

Jon Brooks interview

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Jon Brooks – If We Keep what’s within Us, What’s within us will Kill Us, but if we Give what’s within Us, What’s within Us Will Save Us – Moth nor Rust – CDN
Jon Brooks – Cage Fighter – Delicate Cages – CDN

Today a tribute to a friend who’s tying the knot this summer, some sounds of the month of July, a look ahead to the Mariposa Folk Festival next weekend as well as Mike Plume’s upcoming StuDome show, some of my current musical obsessions, and more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Ian & Sylvia – Someday Soon – Northern Journey – CDN
Del Barber – Country Girl – Prairieography – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – All that It Takes – Prairieography – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – If I Told You that I Loved You – Love Songs for the Last 20 – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Queen of July – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Spirit of the West – July – Star Trails – CDN
Matt Mays – Full July Moon – Matt Mays – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

The Avett Brothers – Sixteen in July – Four Thieves Gone
Grant Lee Phillips – No Mercy in July – The Narrows
Joe Ely – July Blues – Happy Songs from Rattlesnake Gulch
Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men – Fourth of July – Out in California
Joe Purdy – 4th of July – 4th of July
David Francey – Fourth of July – The Waking Hour – CDN
Ana Egge – Fifth of July – Bright Shadow – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

The Milk Carton Kids – Memphis – The Ash & Clay
Gretchen Peters – Sunday Morning (Up and Down my Street) – Burnt Toast & Offerings
Eliza Gilkyson – Hard Times in Babylon – Hard Times in Babylon
Mary Gauthier – Mercy Now – Mercy Now

3:30 – 4:00 pm

John Blek and the Rats – Take Me Home – Leave your Love at the Door
John Blek and the Rats – Calling out my Name – Leave your Love at the Door
John Blek and the Rats – Cities Keep Changing – Leave your Love at the Door
The Wynntown Marshals – There Was a Time – The End of the Golden Age
Mike Plume Band – Dimaggio – Fools for the Radio – CDN
Mike Plume – Looking for You (A Travelogue of Sorts) – A Drive Thru Record Volume II – CDN