It’s Mom’s Day, and what could be more important than spending some time with great mothers, so we’re pre-recorded today, but leaving you with some sweet sounds to share with that special lady. We’ve got show previews aplenty to encourage you to take mom out to see some live music, and a bunch of songs that we know she’ll love.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Sunparlour Players – Bless this City – This Beautiful City Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – CDN
The Other Brothers – Pitiful – Everything Can Change – CDN – WPG
Melissa Payne – Not the only One – High and Dry – CDN
Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt – Kiss Me Now – For Keeps
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Summertime’s Over – South – CDN
The Milk Carton Kids – Memphis – The Ash & The Clay

2:30 – 3:00 pm

The Milk Carton Kids – Michigan – Prologue
(The Milk Carton Kids) Kenneth Pattengale & Joey Ryan – Broken Headlights – Retrospect
Jonathan Byrd and Chris Kokesh – You Can’t Outrun the Radio – Live at 4th & Main, Wray, Colorado
Jonathan Byrd and Chris Kokesh – A Big Truck Brought It – Live at 4th & Main, Wray, Colorado
Jonathan Byrd – Cackalack – Cackalack

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Neko Case – Night Still Comes – The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
Neko Case – Hold On, Hold On – CBC Radio: In Session at Studio 211
The Sadies – Jason Fleming (w/ Neko Case & Garth Hudson) – In Concert Volume One – CDN
The Corn Sisters – She’s Leaving Town – The Other Women – CDN
Reid Jamieson – King Of The Road – ReidoRadio – CDN
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell – Invitation To The Blues – Old Yellow Moon
Lyle Lovett – Walk Through The Bottomland – Pontiac

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Jimmy Lafave – Sweetheart Like You – Buffalo Return to the Plains
Jackie Greene – Honey I Been Thinking About You – Sweet Somewhere Bound
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – My Love For You Is Real – Follow The Lights [EP]
David Francey – Come Rain Or Come Shine – Skating Rink – CDN
David Myles – All I’ve Got To Give – In the Nighttime – CDN
Matthew Barber – Keep It Alive – Matthew Barber – CDN
Jill Barber – Never Quit Loving You – Chances – CDN

I’ve been a huge fan of Shannon Lyon for over a decade. In the past few years, I’ve gotten to know him and enjoy his company, and I’ve had him play at my house a few times, but I’ve never been able to convince him to come on the show, until now! Shannon joins us today to talk about log-cabin living, Lost Creek recording studio, production work, and more. He also plays live and premieres some advance tracks from his upcoming album, The Lights Behind!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Skydiggers – I Will Give You Everything – Skydiggers – CDN
Shannon Lyon – The Lights Behind – The Lights Behind – CDN

Shannon Lyon interview

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Michael Coughlan – Means Crossed with Ends – The Sixth Avenue Verses – CDN
David Fougere – Westmorland Hotel – Somewhere in the Milky Way
James Gray – We Only Have so Long – Home to Me – CDN
Myrle – From Me to You – Myrle – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Shannon Lyon – I Crossed the Ocean – The Lights Behind – CDN
Shannon Lyon – OK Guy – live performance – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Suddenly – live performance – CDN
Shannon Lyon – I Am Watching – Broken Things – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Jesse Winchester – Mississippi You’re on my Mind – The Best of
Son Volt – Windfall – Selections from 6 String Belief
Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Slaid Cleaves – One Good Year – Broke Down
Sunparlour Players – For this I Can’t Be Sure – The Living Proof – CDN
Skydiggers – Ramblin’ On – She Comes into the Room – CDN

It’s the day after Record Store Day, but the celebration’s still going on! Some RSD releases, before a chat with Brock Zeman, who we’ve been blessed to have play a number of times at The Sunset Saloon, but who is now headed to town to play the big room, The West End Cultural Centre! We’ll find out how he feels and how he’s preparing for this big break. Today we also get to be the official announcer of the 2014 lineup for The Trout Forest Music Festival! AD Devin Latimer gave us a call to spill the beans and get us excited for that great festival in August.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

JP Hoe – Rise – The Live Beta Project – CDN – WPG
Neko Case, Howe Gelb, Jason Lytle, etc. – Satellite of Love – Songs from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Mars
Wax Mannequin & The Burning Hell – Total Eclipse of the Heart – Hear Some Evil – CDN
Drive-By Truckers – Trying to Be the Boss (on a Beaver Brown Budget) – Dragon Pants EP
Brock Zeman – Rotten Tooth – Rotten Tooth – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Brock Zeman – Day Before Tomorrow – Rotten Tooth – CDN
Brock Zeman – There Will Always Be a Right Now – Rotten Tooth – CDN
Ridley Bent – Brooklyn Texas – Wildcard – CDN – WPG

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Lynn Miles – Love Sweet Love – Love Sweet Love – CDN
The Sweet Alibi – I Will Wait – We’ve Got To – CDN – WPG
JD Edwards Band – This House Will Stand – Roads and Roads – CDN – WPG
Slow Leaves – Life of a Better Man – Second Chances – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Fearing & White – Secret Of A Long-Lasting Love – Tea and Confidences – CDN
Fearing & White – Heart o’ the Morning – Fearing & White – CDN
Shannon Lyon – I’m Letting You Go – Broken Things – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Three Days of You – el Sol – CDN
Shannon Lyon – I Believe in You – Safe Inside – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Blue Flowers – This Love This Love – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Sometimes It Hurts – Wandered – CDN
Andrew James O’Brien – Thank You – Songs for Searchers – CDN

It’s a good news/bad news kind of day. First the good! One of the most electrifying live bands in Canada, Sunparlour Players return to Winnipeg this week after a bit of a wait, so we celebrate with some of their amazing songs and a chat with Andrew Penner, one half of this truly dynamic duo. The bad news this week, is that we had to say goodbye to the great Jesse Winchester. The man’s name wasn’t nearly well enough known, but his amazing legacy of songs and performances proves that he had a larger impact than many would even realize. A heartfelt tribute to this great songwriter, performer, and person is definitely in order.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Stompin’ Tom Connors – Algoma Central 69 – Northlands Zone – CDN
Sunparlour Players – If the Creeks Don’t Rise – Hymns for the Happy – CDN
Sunparlour Players – I Hope This Isn’t the End for You – The Living Proof – CDN
Sunparlour Players – Old Fashioned Face – The Living Proof – CDN
Sunparlour Players – Bless this City – The Living Proof – CDN
Sunparlour Players – Runner – Us Little Devils – CDN
Sunparlour Players – Battle of ’77 – Wave North – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Sunparlour Players – Soapbox – The Living Proof – CDN
Sunparlour Players – How to Build a Fort with Nothing – The Living Proof – CDN
Brock Zeman – Until It Bleeds – Me then You – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Hot Shot – The Future Happens Anyway – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Jesse Winchester – Quiet About It – Jesse Winchester
Jesse Winchester – Step By Step – Let the Rough Side Drag
Jesse Winchester – Rhumba Man – Nothing but a Breeze
Jesse Winchester – Sundown – Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot
Jesse Winchester – Do It – Third Down, 110 to Go
Jesse Winchester – No Pride at all – Gentlemen of Leisure
Jesse Winchester – That’s What Makes You Strong – Live from Mountain Stage

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Buddy Miller – A Showman’s Life – Midnight and Lonesome
Emmylou Harris – My Songbird – Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
Lucinda Williams – Mississippi, You’re on my Mind – Quiet About it: A Tribute to Jesse Winchester
Kieran Kane – Love Is Fair – The Blue Chair
The Mavericks – O What a Thrill – What a Crying Shame
Lyle Lovett – Isn’t that So – Release Me

Here’s the latest entry in our archive of timeless episodes that you may hear again at some point when I can’t make it in, and can’t quite find the time to record something new. It doesn’t happen all that often, but when it does, it’s nice to have a few of these on hand.

This time, we’re going with a theme, albeit a bit of a silly one – we’re playing artists in order of their alphabetical placement – going all the way from Alvin to Zeman on this A to Z episode!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men – Mobile Blue – Frisco Mabel Joy Revisited: For Mickey Newbury
Rayland Baxter – Olivia – Feathers & Fishhooks
Neko Case – Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis – New Coat of Paint
Dala – Sunday Dress – Who Do You Think You Are? – CDN
Justin Townes Earle – Mama’s Eyes – Midnight at the Movies
Steve Forbert – Song for Katrina – The Best Of Steve Forbert: What Kinda Guy?
Patty Griffin – The Cape – This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark (This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark)

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Lee Hazlewood – Summer Wine ( With Suzi Jane Hokum) – These Boots Are Made For Walkin’
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Alabama Pines – Here We Rest
Eilen Jewell – Dusty Boxcar Wall – Letters From Sinners & Strangers
Peter Katz And The Curious – These Are the Days – More Nights – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – Letter from Bilbao – Shakespeare My Butt – CDN
Paul Macleod – Giants – Tell the Band to Go Home – CDN
Nathan – Let them Look – Key Principles – CDN – WPG
Oh Susanna – Alabaster – Johnstown – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

K Phillips – Lincoln City, OR (Keep It Safe) – American Girls
Paul Quarrington – Wherever You Go – The Songs – CDN
Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous – More Adventurous
John K Samson – Relative Surplus Value – recorded live on UMFM – CDN – WPG
The Tallest Man on Earth – Troubles Will Be Gone – The Wild Hunt
Uncle Tupelo – Moonshiner – 89/93: An Anthology
Townes Van Zandt – Our Mother the Mountain – Our Mother the Mountain

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Tom Waits – Hold On – Mule Variations
XTC – Dear God – Skylarking
Neil Young – No More – Freedom – CDN
Brock Zeman – Talking Reality Show Blues – Brock Zeman & The Dirty Hands – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – XOK – XOK – CDN
The Band – Get Up Jake – A Musical History – CDN

It’s Junofest weekend in Winnipeg, and there’s so much going on that today’s show had to be pre-recorded, but I had to make sure that there was something on to celebrate great Canadian music and a couple of exciting upcoming events.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

David Francey – Long Long Road – So Say We All – CDN
Little Miss Higgins & The Winnipeg Five – Dead Cow Hill – Bison Ranch Recording Sessions – CDN – WPG
Lee Harvey Osmond – Break Your Body – The Folk Sinner – CDN
The Strumbellas – In This Life – We Still Move on Dance Floors – CDN
Lindi Ortega – I Want You – Tin Star – CDN
Ridley Bent – Kickin’ Up Dust – Wildcard – CDN – WPG
Ridley Bent – Cry – Buckles & Boots – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Ridley Bent – Pastures of Heaven – Blam – CDN – WPG
Jadea Kelly – Heavy Heart – Eastbound Platform – CDN
Kim Churchill – Window to the Sky – Silence / Win
Matt Epp + The Amorian Assembly – War – Learning to Lose Control – CDN
Sunparlour Players – I Hope this Isn’t the End for You – The Living Proof – CDN
Brock Zeman – Don’t Forget to Grow Old – Rotten Tooth – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Jonathan Byrd – Slip Away – You Can’t Outrun the Radio
Corin Raymond – Brand New Song – Paper Nickels – CDN
Raghu Lokanathan – Sugar Candy Mountain – Petal Press – CDN
Scott Cook – When We’re Back Around – One More Time Around – CDN
Chris Trapper – Skin – The Few & The Far Between
Chris Trapper – Look What the Wind Blew In – ’til the Last Leaf Falls
The Push Stars – Keg on my Coffin – Paint the Town

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Chris Trapper – West Side – Technicolor
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Everything that I Have Is Broken – Crooked River Burning
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Li’l Firecracker – Hard Love and Free Luck
Ricky Young – Acoustic Guitars – Learn to Steal
Leeroy Stagger – Sleep Alone – Everything Is Real – CDN
Jim Bryson – Fleetwood – The North Side Benches – CDN
The Jayhawks – Stumbling through the Dark – Rainy Day Music

The Juno Awards celebration is coming to Winnipeg, and it’s right around the corner, so we’re feeling the excitement and looking forward to some of the magic on today’s show. We’ve also got some great new music, a great new discovery, and memories of the 2 night CD release party for Del Barber’s Prairieography!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Del Barber – If I Told You that I Loved You – Love Songs for the Last 20 – CDN – WPG
Ian & Sylvia – Someday Soon – Greatest Hits – CDN
Belle Plaine – Notes from a Waitress (Thanks Bulgakov) – Notes from a Waitress – CDN
Ridley Bent – High Lonesome – Wildcard – CDN – WPG
The Devin Cuddy Band – Dancin’ – Volume One – CDN
Chic Gamine – I Don’t Lie – Chic Gamine – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Sweet Alibi – I Will Wait – We’ve Got To – CDN – WPG
Matt Epp And The Amorian Assembly – When You Know (Featuring Serena Ryder) – Learning to Lose Control – CDN
Serena Ryder – Sweeping the Ashes – Is It O.K. – CDN
JP Hoe – Nothing’s Gonna Harm You – Mannequin – CDN – WPG
Nathan – Stone – Jimson Weed – CDN – WPG
Rah Rah – Prairie Girl – The Poet’s Dead – CDN
July Talk – Let Her Know – July Talk – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Lyle Lovett – Our Lady of the Well – Looking into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne
Bob Schneider – Running on Empty – Looking into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne
Jimmy Lafave – For Everyman – Looking into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne
Eliza Gilkyson – Fast Freight – The Nocturne Diaries
Joshua Hedley – Green Eyes – Green Eyes EP

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Joshua Hedley – Weird Thought Thinker – Jam in the Van
Jonny Corndawg – Silver Panty Liners – Down On The Bikini Line
Jonny Fritz – Ain’t It your Birthday – Dad Country
Johnny Cash – Baby Ride Easy – Out Among the Stars
Adam Carroll – Rough Side – Let It Choose You
New Country Rehab – Effigy – Lost Highway EP – CDN
Lyle Lovett – Step Inside this House – Step Inside this House
Steve Earle – I Feel Alright – I Feel Alright

A couple of long awaited new releases to kick off the show, from Ridley Bent and Sunparlour Players. We also got the Folk Fest lineup and the Junofest schedule this week, so plenty to chat about there. Lastly, there are a couple of great shows coming up this week, including the two night CD release for Del Barber’s new one, Prairieography!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

The Damnwells – You’re Gonna Love Me Again – Golden Days EP
Ridley Bent – The Most Beautiful Woman Around – Wildcard – CDN – WPG
Ridley Bent – You Got Lucky – Wildcard – CDN – WPG
Ridley Bent – Brooklyn Texas – Wildcard – CDN – WPG
Sunparlour Players – Soapbox – The Living Proof – CDN
Sunparlour Players – How To Build A Fort With Nothing – The Living Proof – CDN
Sunparlour Players – Bless this City – The Living Proof – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

James McMurtry – Choctaw Bingo – Live in Aught-Three
Langhorne Slim & The Law – The Way We Move – The Way We Move
Shovels & Rope – Boxcar – Shovels & Rope
Shinyribs – Song of Lime Juice & Despair – Gulf Coast Museum
James Hill – Little Wing – A Flying Leap – CDN
David Myles – I Will Love You (acoustic version) – single – CDN
Joe Nolan – Did Somebody Call the Cops – Tornado – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

The Bros. Landreth – Tappin’ On the Glass – Let It Lie – CDN – WPG
JP Hoe – Learn to Let You Go – Mannequin – CDN – WPG
Chloe Albert – Say Goodbye – Dream Catcher – CDN
Luke Doucet – Long Haul Driver – Blood’s Too Rich – CDN
Lee Harvey Osmond – Oh Linda – The Folk Sinner – CDN
July Talk – Having You Around – July Talk – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Del Barber – Story that You Tell – Where the City Ends – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Miles and Years – Love Songs for the Last 20 – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – The Waitress – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Big Smoke – Prairieography – CDN – WPG
New Country Rehab – Home to You – Ghost of your Charms – CDN

The new music just keeps on rolling in, and we’ve got plenty of wonderful releases to go through today. Yesterday was International Women’s Day, and while we never need a reason to play a bunch of our favourite female artists, it seems especially important to do it today.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Greg Brown – Spring Wind – Dream Cafe
Grant Peeples and the Peeples Republik – Who Woulda Thunk It – Punishing the Myth
Lydia Loveless – Chris Isaak – Somewhere Else
Dawes – Someone Will – Stripped Down at Grimey’s
Alex Dezen – Death Metal & Disco – 1/4
Whitehorse – It Ain’t Me Babe – The Road to Massey Hall – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Chris Mills and the Distant Stars – Wild Places – Alexandria
Early Winters – The Weight of the World – Vanishing Act – CDN
Early Winters – A Thing for You – Vanishing Act – CDN
Drive-By Truckers – Primer Coat – English Oceans
Drive-By Truckers – Pauline Hawkins – – Before The Night Takes Me
John Gorka – High Horse – Bright Side of the Down

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Steve Dawson – The Medicine Show Comes to Avalon – Rattlesnake Cage – CDN
Fafard and Schwartz – State Trooper – Borrowed Horses – CDN
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires – Roebuck Parkway – There Is a Bomb in Gilead
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires – Centreville – There Is a Bomb in Gilead
Shari Ulrich – It’s Alright – Everywhere I Go – CDN
Amanda Rheaume – Passed Down the Line – Keep a Fire – CDN
Ann Vriend – You Can Have Me – For the People in the Mean Time – CDN
Lake Street Dive – Use Me Up – Bad Self Portraits

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Fundies – Maniac Fool – The Fundies
Joy Kills Sorrow – Jake – Wide Awake
Rheostatics – Loving Arms (w/Sarah Harmer) – The Story of Harmelodia – CDN
Oh Susanna – Into my Arms – Namedropper – CDN
Sweet Alibi – Never Change – We’ve Got To – CDN – WPG
Scarlett Jane – Beautiful – Stranger – CDN
Romi Mayes – Long Way Home – Sweet Somthing Steady – CDN – WPG
Kathleen Edwards – Sidecar – Voyageur – CDN