Local singer/songwriter Don Amero has been on our radar for a few years, but today marks the first time we get to sit down and chat and hear some of his impressive songs performed live. We’ve got a few other exciting shows to preview, and of course, UMFM Pledge-O-Rama kicks off next week, so this is our last pre-pledge show!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Del Barber – Love and Wine – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Don Amero – Turn These Grey Skies Blue – Heart on my Sleeve – CDN – WPG

Don Amero interview

Don Amero – Young Forever – live performance – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Don Amero – Sound of Us Going Down – live performance – CDN – WPG
Don Amero – Love Song – Heart on my Sleeve – CDN – WPG

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Matthew De Zoete – Colour Film – Colour Film – CDN
Matthew De Zoete – Criminal – Colour Film – CDN
Catherine MacLellan – Keep on Fighting – Silhouette – CDN
Catherine MacLellan – The Long Way Home – Church Bell Blues – CDN
Matt Epp and The Amorian Assembly – Never Have I Loved Like This – At Dawn – CDN
Matt Epp – She’s High Water – Orphan Horse – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Old Man Luedecke – Joy of Cooking – Hinterland – CDN
Old Man Luedecke – My Love Comes Stepping Up the Stairs – My Hands Are on Fire and other Love Songs – CDN
Royal Wood – Juliet – A Good Enough Day – CDN
Matt Mays – So Distant – Matt Mays – CDN
Jeffrey Michael Straker – Sans Souci – Vagabond – CDN
Matthew Ryan – And So It Goes – In The Dusk Of Everything
Brian Dunn – Winnipeg – TVs and Radios – CDN
The Warped 45s – Live Bait – Matador Sunset – CDN

Lots of great music to be thankful for today, with a whole lot of great new releases, and an extended preview of this week’s Sunparlour Players show at the West End!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Sunparlour Players – Don’t Be Afraid of the Spark – Us Little Devils – CDN
Sunparlour Players – Shake And Bake For Goodness Sake – Sunparlour Preserves – CDN
Sunparlour Players – Runner – Us Little Devils – CDN
Sunparlour Players – You Are A Bright Light – Sunparlour Preserves – CDN
Sunparlour Players – Green Thumb – Us Little Devils – CDN
Sunparlour Players – If the Creeks Don’t Rise – Hymns for the Happy – CDN
Sunparlour Players – Robbers Lullaby – Hymns for the Happy – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Matthew Ryan – And It’s Such A Drag – In The Dusk Of Everything
Sera Cahoone – And Still We Move – Deer Creek Canyon
Lindi Ortega – The Day You Die – Cigarettes & Truckstops – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Driftin’ Snow – Secret Stash – CDN
Willie P. Bennett – My Pie – Live 1978 – CDN
Scott Nolan with the Weber Brothers & Paul Reddick – Don’t Blame your Blues on Me – Soundcloud single – CDN – WPG

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Carolyn Mark – The Cereal Is the Prize – The Queen of Vancouver Island – CDN
Christina Martin – What I Always Knew – Sleeping With A Stranger – CDN
Ingrid Gatin – Slow Dancing – Transmissions from UMFM 101.5 2012 – CDN – WPG
Red Moon Road – Hypothetical Girl – Transmissions from UMFM 101.5 2012 – CDN – WPG
Melissa Payne – Don’t Say – Melissa Payne – CDN
Lynn Jackson – Paper Airplanes – Down in the Dust – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Graydon James & The Young Novelists – Small-Town Hymns – In the Year You Were Born – CDN
Dave Gunning – Coal from the Train – No More Pennies – CDN
Old Man Luedecke – A & W Song – Tender Is the Night – CDN
Slaid Cleaves – Pickin’ California – Even More Songs of Route 66: From Here to There
John Hiatt – We’re Alright Now – Mystic Pinball
Jason Collett – You’re Not the One and Only Lonely One – Reckon – CDN
Jenn Grant – I’ve Got Your Fire – The Beautiful Wild – CDN
Angus & Julia Stone – Hush – Down The Way

Tell the Band to Go Home officially premièred on Sept. 29, 2002, so today’s show marks the end of a full decade of broadcasting the best singer/songwriters of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We’re headed into our second decade, continuing on doing what we love, spreading the word about great singers and great songs, especially independent, Canadian, and Winnipeg artists. One of our most played, most valued, and favourite artists of the past decade is Jim Bryson, and he joined us on the telephone today. We also had a reunion with the lady who started this singer/songwriter on Sunday tradition, and who taught me a lot and let me inherit the time slot, Lisa-Marie Serafin. She first brought me on to push a few buttons on her show, The Songwriters’ Circle, and the rest is history!

Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm

Paul MacLeod – Cruelty – Tell the Band to Go Home – CDN
Kris Demeanor – This Old House – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Kris Demeanor – Speed it Up – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Josh Ritter – What Would I Do Without You – recorded live on UMFM
Dale Murray – My New World (with Christina Martin) – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Bob Schneider – I Wish – recorded live on UMFM
Del Barber – The Waitress – recorded live on UMFM – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Jim Bryson interview

Jim Bryson – Feel Much Better – The North Side Benches – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Jim Bryson & Jeremy Fisher – Cigarette Thin (The Age of Asparagus) – single – CDN
Nathan – Stone – Jimson Weed – CDN – WPG
The Lemonheads – Waiting Around To Die – Varshons
NQ Arbuckle – Huntsville Affair – Not Alone (Medicins Sans Frontiéres) (Disc 4) – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Paul Kelly – How to Make Gravy – Words and Music
Oh Susanna – Home Soon (The Cherry Song) – Johnstown – CDN

Lisa-Marie Serafin interview

Lisa-Marie Serafin – Grandma’s Cabin – Fiollowing Instinct – CDN – WPG

Too much to do today and not enough time to get to it all, but we did our best and managed to squeeze in new music, requests, dedications, a preview of Kathleen Edwards’ upcoming show, and a special live in-studio visit by Redgy Blackout for some live music and conversation!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Leeroy Stagger & The Wildflowers – Atlantic City – 2009-10-23 Laboratorium, Stuttgart, Germany – CDN
John Wort Hannam – Pretty Good – Brambles and Thorns – CDN
John Wort Hannam – Poor Man – Brambles and Thorns – CDN
Bill Bourne – Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Songs from a Gypsy Caravan – CDN
Old Man Luedecke – Song for Ian Tyson – Tender Is The Night EP – CDN
Ian Tyson – Rio Colorado – From the Stone House – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Redgy Blackout – Like Penguins Do – Meet You on the other Side – CDN
Danny Michel – Survivor’s Guilt – Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me – CDN
Whitehorse – Cold July – The Fate of the World Depends on this Kiss – CDN
Lucy Kaplansky – Reunion – Reunion
Jess Klein – Tell Me This Is Love – Behind a Veil
Scarlett Jane – Oh Darling – Stranger – CDN
Ani DiFranco – Splinter – Which Side Are You On?

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Keri Latimer – Persuader – Crowsfeet and Greyskull – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – One More Song the Radio Won’t Like – Failer – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – Summerlong – Back to Me – CDN
Redgy Blackout – Lovely Lovely Day – Songs at 140 BPM – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Redgy Blackout – Don’t Take Me Home – live performance – CDN
Redgy Blackout – When I Wait – live performance – CDN
Redgy Blackout – Alexandria – live performance – CDN
Redgy Blackout – When U Were a Kid – Redgy Blackout – CDN

We’ve got plenty of upcoming shows this week, including Redgy Blackout, Christa Couture, Craig Cardiff, Valdy, Leeroy Stagger, and Jeremy Messersmith! That’s a pretty good basis for a show, but we’ve also got plenty of new music and old favourites to fill it out.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

John Prine – That’s the Way that the World Goes ‘Round – Great Days Anthology
Jeremy Messersmith – Easy Lovers, Hardly Friends – The Alcatraz Kid
Leeroy Stagger – Maria – Radiant Land – CDN
Justin Rutledge – Don’t Be So Mean Jellybean – In the Fall – CDN
Jill Andrews – These Words – EP

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Aimee Mann – Charmer – Charmer
Old Man Luedecke – Tender is the Night – Tender is the Night EP – CDN
Annabelle Chvostek – Fox Tail – Ensemble – CDN
Belle Starr – Jolene – The Burning of Atlanta – CDN
Scarlett Jane – Beautiful – Stranger – CDN
Scarlett Jane – Wild Fire – Stranger – CDN
Madison Violet – Come as You Are – The Good in Goodbye – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Jeremy Messersmith – Virginia – The Silver City
Leeroy Stagger – Enough Love to Go Around – Radiant Land – CDN
Redgy Blackout – 100 Cigarettes – Redgy Blackout – CDN
Redgy Blackout – Lovely Lovely Day – Songs at 140 BPM – CDN
Christa Couture – Good Bayou – The Living Record – CDN
Craig Cardiff – Safe Here – Floods & Fires – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires – There is a Bomb in Gilead – There is a Bomb in Gilead
Jim Byrnes – Sensitive Man – I Hear the Wind in the Wires – CDN
JD McPherson – North Side Gal – Signs & Signifiers
Eilen Jewell – Shakin’ All Over – Sea of Tears
Buddy Miller – Hey Porter – We Walk the Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash
Valdy – Rock ‘n Roll Song – Family Gathering – CDN
Valdy & Gary Fjellgaard – The Boys of Rhythm – Contenders – CDN
Valdy – Saviours’ Place – Read Between the Lines – CDN
Jeremy Messersmith – A Girl, A Boy, and a Graveyard – The Reluctant Graveyard

It’s back to school time, and while I don’t expect any sympathy from anyone, perhaps we can all use a good set of picker-upper favourites to start the day, so we shall provide one for any occasion. If that didn’t do the trick, surely the great new music or the exciting upcoming shows should, or perhaps a tribute to my wonderful son Jeremy, who is having his 4th birthday party today!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

The Damnwells – Newborn History – Bastards of the Beat
Band of Horses – No One’s Gonna Love You – Cease to Begin
Alejandro Escovedo – Sister Lost Soul – Real Animal
Chuck Prophet – Pin A Rose On Me – Age Of Miracles
Jim Bryson – Fleetwood – The North Side Benches – CDN
Christina Martin – Falling for You – Sleeping with a Stranger – CDN
Del Barber – Everything Is Not Enough – Headwaters – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

JP Hoe – I Only Did It for Love – Mannequin – CDN – WPG
Whitehorse – Out Like a Lion – The Fate of the World Depends on this Kiss – CDN
Danny Michel & The Benque Players – Take My Heart and Run – Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me – CDN
Calexico – Splitter – Algiers
Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires – Righteous, Ragged Songs – There Is a Bomb in Gilead
Jimmy Lafave – Bring Back the Trains – Depending on the Distance
Carolyn Mark – You’re Not a Whore (If No On’es Paying) – The Queen of Vancouver Island – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

The Bills – Shining Face – Yes Please – CDN
The Bills – Not the End – Yes Please – CDN
The Bills – Gale in my Sail – Yes Please – CDN
The Arrogant Worms – The Happy Happy Birthday Song – Hindsight 20/20 – CDN
Farmer Jason – Get Up! Up! Up! – A Day at the Farm
Farmer Jason – He’s a Moose on the Loose (with Todd Snider) – Rockin’ in the Forest
Farmer Jason – The Moose Lives Where? (with Todd Snider and Jo Nesbo) – Nature Jams

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Warped 45s – Pale Horse – Matador Sunset – CDN
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Mighty Dark to Travel – Guitar Pickin’ Martyrs – CDN
Jeremy Messersmith – Knots – The Reluctant Graveyard
Jeremy Messersmith – Lazy Bones – The Reluctant Graveyard
Jeremy Messersmith – Welcome to Suburbia – The Silver City

I’m fresh in from a trip to the Minnesota State fair where I saw some amazing shows, picked up a bunch of new music, and saw plenty to talk about. Also on today’s show, some show previews, new music, and much more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Madison Violet – Home – The Good in Goodbye – CDN
Madison Violet – She’s Got Something to Live For (Deluxe Edition bonus track) – The Good in Goodbye – CDN
Jeremy Messersmith – Violet! – The Reluctant Graveyard
The Jayhawks – I’d Run Away – Tomorrow The Green Grass
The Mavericks – Born to Be Blue – Suited Up and Ready EP
Wanda Jackson – You Know I’m No Good – The Party Ain’t Over
Will Hoge – When I Get My Wings – Number Seven

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Storyhill – Well of Sorrow – Shade of the Trees
Danny Schmidt – This Too Shall Pass – recorded live on UMFM
Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt – Company of Friends – Together
Sam Baker – Iron – Mercy
Nels Andrews – Broken Conversation – Sunday Shoes
Storyhill – Lay Down Your Weary Tune – Nod to Bob 2

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Gillian Welch – Look at Miss Ohio – Soul Journey
The New Lightweights – So Hard to Be Together – The New Lightweights – CDN – WPG
Joshua Cockerill – Blue Eyed Prairie Sky – The Trick with your Heart I’m Learning to Do – CDN
Animal Parts – What Our Love Is – Animal Parts – CDN
Animal Parts – I Won’t Ever Let You Down – Animal Parts – CDN
Joshua Cockerill – Dance With You – The Trick with your Heart I’m Learning to Do – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Corb Lund – Bible on the Dash (featuring Hayes Carll) – Cabin Fever – CDN
Hayes Carll – Stomp and Holler – KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories)
Kris Kristofferson – Big River – We Walk the Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash
Lissie – Games People Play – Covered Up with Flowers
Ana Egge – Motorcycle – Bad Blood – CDN
Scarlett Jane – Beautiful – Stranger – CDN
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires – Roebuck Parkway – There Is a Bomb in Gilead
Lynn Miles – All Bitter Never Sweet – Black Flowers Vol. 3 – CDN

Another fun-filled afternoon of new music and information, plus a couple of spotlight sets of songs by folks we love, but don’t play all that often because they don’t often release new music or come to Winnipeg, Kim Barlow and Rory McLeod – tired of waiting for an excuse to play them, we’ll just do it because we feel like it.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Whitehorse – Radiator Blues – The Fate of this World Depends on this Kiss – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Pleasing You Pleases Me – Broken Things – CDN
Andy Shauf – Sweet Victoria – Sam Jones Feeds His Demons – CDN
Iris DeMent – Go On Ahead and Go Home – Sing the Delta Sampler
Valdy – VLT – Read Between the Lines – CDN
Rodney Crowell – Dangerous Fun (feat. Emmylou Harris & Vince Gill) – Quiet About It: A Tribute to Jesse Winchester
Gabrielle Papillon – Little Bug – Little Bug – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

The Guthries – Better Part of an Hour – Off Windmill – CDN
Matt Mays – Your Heart – Matt Mays – CDN
Rose Cousins – White Daisies – The Send Off – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – What Are You Waiting For? – Back to Me – CDN
Jim Bryson – Without Piano – The Occasionals – CDN
Lynn Miles – Goodbye (with Jim Bryson) – Fall for Beauty – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Kim Barlow – Waterfall – Gingerbread – CDN
Kim Barlow – Slim Pickins – luckyburden – CDN
Annie Lou – Heavy Heart – Annie Lou – CDN
Spring Breakup – Unprincipled – It’s Not You, It’s Me – CDN
The Burning Hell – My Name Is Matthias – Flux Capacitor – CDN
Rory McLeod – Farewell Welfare (part 1) – Angry Love

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Rory McLeod – Black, Brown, White – Travelling Home
Rory McLeod – When Mum and Daddy Made Me – Mouth to Mouth
Rory McLeod – Be My Rambling Woman – Lullabies for Big Babies
Rory McLeod – Shirley’s Her Name – Angry Love
The Bills – The Plant Song – Yes Please – CDN
Sons of Bill – Santa Ana Winds – Sirens
The Warped 45s – Live Bait – Matador Sunset – CDN

This is one of those “standby” episodes that we put on the air in times when we can’t make it in and don’t have time to whip up something new. As such, it’s a timely one that doesn’t refer to anything new or upcoming, so it’s full of classics that stand the test of time. This one also attempts to pull out some of our favourites that we don’t hear often enough.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Monica Schroeder – Something Beautiful – The Expectation of Home – CDN – WPG
Chris Neufeld – Waterwheel – Colorado Low – CDN – WPG
Darren Day – Anne – This Evening Tonight – CDN – WPG
Nicky Mehta – Row Him Home – Weather Vane – CDN – WPG
Tannis Slimmon – Around Him – Lucky Blue – CDN
Lewis Melville – My Body Moves – Not Really a Bluegrass Album – CDN
Chris Brown & Kate Fenner – My Love Is Not Waiting – Geronimo – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Stephen Fearing – Home – Industrial Lullaby – CDN
Catherine MacLellan – The Long Way Home – Church Bell Blues – CDN
Robert Earl Keen – Not a Drop of Rain – Gravitational Forces
Will Kimbrough – Big Big Love – Wings
John Hiatt – Cry Love – Walk On

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Patrick Park – Here We Are – Everyone’s in Everyone
Paul Kelly and the Messengers – Careless – So Much Water so Close to Home
Colin Hay – Beautiful World – Going Somewhere
Loudon Wainwright III – Daughter – Strange Weirdos: Music from and Inspired by the Film Knocked Up
Peter Mulvey – Shirt – Kitchen Radio
Gregory Alan Isakov – Big Black Car – This Empty Northern Hemisphere
David Myles – I Don’t Want to Know – On the Line – CDN
Kim Richey – Here I Go Again – Kim Richey
Radney Foster – I’m In – See What You Want to See

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Lynn Miles – Undertow – Unravel – CDN
Julie Miller – All My Tears – Broken Things
Shannon McNally – The Worst Part of a Broken Heart – Geronimo
Patty Griffin – Long Ride Home – 1000 Kisses
The Secret Sisters – Tennessee Me – The Secret Sisters
Nick Lowe – The Beast in Me – The Impossible Bird
Townes Van Zandt – Highway Kind – High, Low, and in Between

Lots of new music today, including the eagerly awaited new album from Whitehorse and another dig into the mailbag. As usual, there are some exciting shows to preview, and all kinds of other good things to talk about.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Whitehorse – Peterbilt Coalmine – The Fate of the World Depends on this Kiss – CDN
Whitehorse – Devil’s Got a Gun – The Fate of the World Depends on this Kiss – CDN
Whitehorse – Mismatched Eyes (Boat Song) – The Fate of the World Depends on this Kiss – CDN
Veal – Mexico Texaco – Hot Loser – CDN
Mia Sheard – Girly Man – Reptilian – CDN
Liam Titcomb – Landslide – Cicada – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Liam Titcomb – Comes to Mind – single – CDN
Liam Titcomb – Those Three Words – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
JP Hoe – Learn to Let You Go – Mannequin – CDN – WPG
Christina Martin – What I Always Knew – Sleeping with a Stranger – CDN
Dale Murray – My New World – Dream Mountain Dream – CDN
Fish & Bird – Burst Into Flower – Left Brain Blues – CDN
Fish & Bird – Circle Tune – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Del Barber – Soul of the Land That’s Mine – Headwaters – CDN – WPG

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Keith & Renee – I’m Gonna Wait – Best Day – CDN – WPG
I See Hawks in L.A. – Hope Against Hope – Shoulda Been Gold: 2001-2009
Vanessa Peters – The State I’m Living In – The Burn The Truth The Lies
Antje Duvekot – The Perfect Date – New Siberia
Richard Shindell – The Ballad of Mary Magdalen – 13 Songs You May or May Not Have Heard Before
Tim Grimm – China – Wilderness Songs and Bad Man Ballads
Nels Andrews – Three Hermits – Scrimshaw

3:30 – 4:00 pm

John Murry – If I’m To Blame – The Graceless Age
The Hobart Brothers & L’il Sis Hobart – All Things Being Equal – At Least We Have Each Other
American Aquarium – Lonely Ain’t Easy – Burn.Flicker.Die
Shovels & Rope – Hail Hail – O’ Be Joyful
Cary Ann Hearst & Michael Trent – Boxcar – Shovels & Rope
Brandi Carlile – 100 – Bear Creek