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

The mailbag overfloweth, so it’s time to dig deep and pull out some of the many new releases that have come our way. We’ve got plenty of good ones from past favourites and new discoveries. We’ve also got the goods on upcoming shows at Times Change(d) and the BBQ & Blues festival, and much more!

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Matthew Ryan – Little Darling – Keep Hoping Machine Running: Songs of Woody Guthrie
David Wilcox – 1927 Talking Dustbowl Blues – Keep Hoping Machine Running: Songs of Woody Guthrie
Malcolm Holcombe – The Crossing – Down the River
Tom House – Love Song – Winding Down the Road
Grant Peeples – Things Have Changed (with Ruthie Foster) – Prior Convictions
Jon Dee Graham – Unafraid – Garage Sale
Radney Foster – Easier Said than Done – Del Rio, Texas Revisited: Unplugged & Lonesome
Cris Cuddy – Long & Lonesome Old Freight Train – Diamond Shine – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Nels Andrews – Starboard – Scrimshaw
Headwater – Your Love (Focus) – Push – CDN
Portage & Main – What Have I Done – PEAK Performance Project 2012 – Top 20 – CDN
Redgy Blackout – Alexandria – PEAK Performance Project 2012 – Top 20 – CDN
T. Nile – Running – single – CDN
Animal Parts – King of Kings – Animal Parts – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Belle Starr – This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) – The Burning of Atlanta – CDN
Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt – Company of Friends – Together
Patterson Hood – Come Back Little Star – Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance
Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons – Never Meant to Love You – Old Believers
Kelly Joe Phelps – Goodbye to Sorrow – Brother Sinner & The Whale
Steve Dawson – Nightshade – Nightshade – CDN
Jim Byrnes – Ophelia – My Walking Stick – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Sojourners – People Get Ready – Hold On – CDN
Jonathan Byrd – The Law & the Lonesome – The Law and the Lonesome
Jonathan Byrd – Reckon I Did – Cackalack
Corin Raymond – I Wish I Was in Love – There Will Always Be a Small Time – CDN
Raghu Lokanathan – Ghostbucketgirl – Blue Girl – CDN
Jeremy Messersmith – Repo Man – The Reluctant Graveyard
Jeremy Messersmith – Organ Donor – The Reluctant Graveyard

We’re deep in the thick of festival season (our favourite season), and next weekend marks an unpleasant apex, when 3 of our favourites, Edmonton, Regina, and Trout Forest take place on the same weekend. It’s tough to choose from among your favourites, so today on the show we’ll lay out the highlights of the two closest (and the ones not sold out) in hopes of reaching a decision. Today is also the day for the Gimli Alternative Folk Festival, and that’s always worth a drive, so a few highlights from that one as well.

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

2:00 – 2:30

Willie P Bennett – Down to the Water – Live 1978 – CDN
Lindy – Lake Winnipeg – recorded live on UMFM – CDN – WPG
Lindy – May Not Be Right for You – recorded live on UMFM – CDN – WPG
Lindy – Picture of You – Suspension Of Disbelief – CDN – WPG
Paper Moon – Witness – What Are You Going To Do With Me EP – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – Can’t Turn Around – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – As Far As I Can Tell – Love Songs for the Last 20 – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Del Barber – Story That You Tell – Where the City Ends – CDN – WPG
Stan Rogers – Turnaround – Turnaround – CDN
Stan Rogers – The Mary Ellen Carter – Between the Breaks… Live! – CDN
Old Man Luedecke & Lake of Stew – Monsanto Jones – Sing All About It EP – CDN
Shred Kelly – Cabin Fever – In the Hills – CDN
Keri Latimer – Kindred Spirit – Crowsfeet and Greyskull – CDN – WPG
James Vincent McMorrow – Sparrow & The Wolf – Early in the Morning

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Scott Nolan – Montgomery Eldorado – Montgomery Eldorado – CDN – WPG
Gordie Tentrees – Black Seeds – North Country Heart – CDN
Jonathan Byrd – The Fifth Wheel – The Law and the Lonesome
Jonathan Byrd – Prairie Girl – The Law and the Lonesome
Red Moon Road – Do or Die – Red Moon Road – CDN – WPG
Dan Frechette – Where The Water Tastes Like Wine – Lucky Day – CDN – WPG
Jon Brooks – Fort McMurray – Delicate Cages – CDN
Miss Quincy – I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl – Like the Devil Does – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Emmylou Harris – All My Tears – Wrecking Ball
Mavis Staples – Wrote A Song For Everyone – You Are Not Alone
Mavis Staples – We’ll Never Turn Back – We’ll Never Turn Back
Serena Ryder – Sweeping the Ashes – Is It O.K. – CDN
The Heartbroken – Tonight, Tonight – The Heartbroken – CDN

Today we’re joined by singer/songwriter/fringe festival performer Corin Raymond, who’s touring his new one-man show, Bookworm, and preparing for his upcoming album “Paper Nickels” which is made up of songs by great under-appreciated Canadian writers, and is being funded with Canadian Tire money! Along to help out with the hosting duties is a big fan of Corin’s and all kinds of great music, and a very knowledgeable and great guy, Oly Backstrom.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Del Barber – Right Side of the Wrong – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Ron Hynes – Sawchuk – Stealing Genius – CDN
Ron Hynes – Record Man – Get Back Change – CDN
Jason Collett – Parry Sound – Idols of Exile – CDN
Dave Quanbury – Impatient Love – No Vacancy – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Corin Raymond interview

Corin Raymond – Ol’ Fort Mac – live performance – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Raghu Lokanathan – Sugar Candy Mountain – Petal Press – CDN
Corin Raymond – Fucking Genius – unreleased – CDN
Corin Raymond – Something to Lean On – live performance – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Jonathan Byrd – I Was an Oak Tree – Cackalack
Corin Raymond – Brand New Song – Paper Nickles – CDN
Corin Raymond – There Will Always Be a Small Time – There Will Always Be a Small Time – CDN

We’ve got some great shows coming up around town this week, so some previews are in order. Today would have been the late great Paul Quarrington’s birthday, so a tribute is also in order.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Del Barber – Soul of the Land That’s Mine – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Joy Kills Sorrow – Wouldn’t Have Noticed – This Unknown Science
Joy Kills Sorrow – New Man – This Unknown Science
Robbie Fulks – Where There’s a Road – Georgia Hard
Chatham County Line – Chip Of A Star – IV
Old Crow Medicine Show – Carry Me Back to Virginia – Carry Me Back

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Corin Raymond – Blue Mermaid Dress – There Will Always Be a Small Time – CDN
The Dustin Bentall Outfit – Three Thousand Miles – Six Shooter – CDN
Geoff Berner – That’s What Keeps the Rent Down, Baby – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Paul Quarrington – Wherever You Go – The Songs – CDN
Porkbelly Futures – You Gotta Love a Train – Porkbelly Futures – CDN
Paul Quarrington – Lake Effect Snow – The Songs – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

The Mastersons – The Other Shoe – Birds Fly South
Allison Moorer – The Broken Girl – Crows
Allison Moorer – New Years Day – Getting Somewhere
Allison Moorer – Revelator – Mockingbird
Gillian Welch – My First Lover – Time (The Revelator)

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Gillian Welch – Annabelle – Revival
Gillian Welch – Caleb Meyer – Hell Among the Yearlings
The Wailin’ Jennys – One More Dollar – Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House – CDN – WPG
Joy Kills Sorrow – One More Night – This Unknown Science
Steve Earle – Waitin’ on the Sky – I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive
Steve Earle – Tennessee Blues – Washington Square Serenade
Steve Earle – Even When I’m Blue – Copperhead Road

We’re pre-recorded today with a recently recorded in-studio session with Martyn Joseph, who was in town for the Folk Festival but found time to come in to chat and sing some of his powerful songs. We’ve also got previews of some great upcoming concerts, some great male/female harmonies.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm
Jimmy Lafave – Deportee – Ribbon of Highway Endless Skyway The Woody Guthrie Tribute Tour
Shannon Lyon – Carry Me Down – Summer Blonde – CDN
Shannon Lyon – You Showed Me How – Wandered – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Backyard Song – Safe Inside – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Same Old Walk – El Sol – CDN
Shannon Lyon – On Losing Your Friends – Broken Things – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Joy Kills Sorrow – I Still Miss Someone – Joy Kills Sorrow
Joy Kills Sorrow – Send Me a Letter – Darkness Sure Becomes this City
Del Barber – Love and Wine – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Rose Cousins – If I Should Fall Behind (w/ Mark Erelli ) – We Have Made a Spark – CDN
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell – My Baby’s Gone – Livin’ Lovin’ Losin’: Songs of The Louvin Brothers
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson – Sweetest Waste of Time – Rattlin’ Bones
Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt – Company of Friends – Together
Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt – Swing from a Note – Together

3:00 – 3:30 pm

D.Rangers – Trois Rivieres – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
D.Rangers – Runaway – We Stay High and Lonesome – CDN – WPG

Martyn Joseph interview

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Martyn Joseph – Everything Is Grace – live performance
Martyn Joseph – There’s Always Maybe – live performance
Martyn Joseph – Whoever It Was that Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home – live performance

Today is the OFFICIAL Winnipeg Folk Fest preview show, as we play some of the artists that you need to see and talk about some of the places that you need to be at next weekend’s festival.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle – Canada Day/Toronto – Let’s Just Stay Here – CDN
Jimmy Lafave – Oklahoma Hills (w/Lucinda Williams) – Trail
Eliza Gilkyson – Peace Call – Land of Milk and Honey
Billy Bragg & Wilco – Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key – Mermaid Avenue
Todd Snider – Alcohol and Pills – East Nashville Skyline

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Todd Snider – If Tomorrow Never Comes – The Devil You Know
The Beauties – Hearts Are Down – The Beauties – CDN
Blitzen Trapper – Furr – Furr
Elliott BROOD – Northern Air – Days Into Years – CDN
Madison Violet – Crying – No Fool for Trying – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Martyn Joseph – How Did We End Up Here – Deep Blue
Willy Porter – Unconditional – High Wire Live
Matt Andersen – So Gone Now – Something in Between – CDN
Mary Gauthier – Mercy Now – Mercy Now
Early Winters – Heaven Help Us – Early Winters
Doug Paisley – No One But You – Constant Companion – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Bahamas – Lost in the Light – Barchords – CDN
Feist – One Evening – Let It Die – CDN
The Head and the Heart – Down in the Valley – The Head and the Heart
Iron & Wine – Sunset Soon Forgotten – Our Endless Numbered Days
Wyckham Porteous – Jimmy Lafave – In This World – CDN
Jimmy Lafave – Only One Angel – Austin Skyline