A few tunes today to kick off THE BIG GAME (once we figure out what that game is), before veering off into holiday territory. The holidays get us thinking about those year-end “best of” lists, so we’ve got some new and notable contenders for those considerations. And, of course, some exciting shows to preview, this time Willy Porter and the return of The Wooden Sky.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Dave Gunning – A Game Goin’ On (with David Francey) – No More Pennies – CDN
David Francey – Skating Rink – Skating Rink – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – Hockey Skates – Failer – CDN
Luke Doucet & The White Falcon – Sundown – Steel City Trawler – CDN
Romi Mayes – Hand Me Down World – Guess Who’s Home – CDN – WPG
Buck Owens & Susan Raye – Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy – A Truer Christmas

2:30 – 3:00 pm

JP Hoe – The Shopping Mall Santa – The Hoe Hoe Hoe Holiday EP – CDN – WPG
Don Amero – All I Need This Christmas – Christmastime – CDN – WPG
Reid Jamieson – This Could Be The Year – Songs For a Winter’s Night – CDN
Dave Gunning – We Can’t Win – No More Pennies – CDN
Scarlett Jane – Beautiful – Stranger – CDN
Trent Severn – Snowy Soul – Trent Severn – CDN
Belle Starr – This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) – The Burning of Atlanta – CDN
Sera Cahoone – Every Little Word – Deer Creek Canyon

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale – South in New Orleans – Buddy and Jim
Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors – Love is Magic – Passenger Seat
Andrew Combs – Heavy – Worried Man
Rayland Baxter – The Mtn. Song – Feathers & Fishhooks
Hayes Carll – Love Don’t Let Me Down (feat. Caitlin Rose) – single
Caitlin Rose – Piledriver Waltz – Piledriver Waltz / Love Is A Laserquest

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Willy Porter – Angry Words – High Wire Live
Willy Porter – Unconditional – High Wire Live
The Wooden Sky – The Wooden Sky – When Lost at Sea – CDN
The Wooden Sky – Oh My God (It Still Means a Lot to Me) – If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone – CDN
The Wooden Sky – Malibu Rum – Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun – CDN
The Wooden Sky – Bloodshot to Blue – Bedrooms & Backstreets – CDN

Blackie’s back! Whenever Blackie & the Rodeo Kings roll through town, it’s cause for celebration, so much of today’s show is dedicated to that glorious occasion, including a chat with our old friend Stephen Fearing. That’s not the end of the special celebrations, as another old friend, James Murdoch, returns to town with Jay Sparrow, when Murdoch & Sparrow play Sunset Saloon this week. We chat with James and hear some of their great songs. And, as if that weren’t enough, we’ve got some exciting new releases.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – The Lucky Ones – Kings of Love – CDN
Mike Plume – Five Crow Silver – Five Crow Silver – CDN
Barney Bentall – The Outskirts of Buffalo – Flesh and Bone – CDN
Dustin Bentall & The Smokes – You Are an Island – Orion – CDN
The Do Good Assassins – Public Transit – Rome – CDN
James Murdoch Band – Simple Lullaby – Wondering Where the Rush Has Gone – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

James Murdoch interview

Murdoch & Sparrow – Share the Burden – Dominion Day – CDN
Jay Sparrow – Stronger – White – CDN
Blackie and The Rodeo Kings – Black Sheep (with Serena Ryder) – Kings and Queens – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Stephen Fearing interview

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Shelter Me – Kings and Queens – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Better Off Alive – Let’s Frolic Again – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – That’s What I Like – Let’s Frolic – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – If I Catch You Cryin’ – BARK – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Nickels and Dimes – Kings of Love – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Has Anyone Seen My Baby Here Tonight? – High or Hurtin’ – CDN
Willie P Bennett – John Henry the Gambler – Live 1978 – CDN

It’s Remembrance Day, so a tribute to soldiers and peace is in order. We’ve also got more exciting upcoming shows to preview and new music to share. Mix in some requests and dedications, and we’ve got ourselves a pretty decent program.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Driftin’ Snow – Secret Stash – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Part Of A Poem By Alden Nowlan Called Ypres: 1915 – XOK – CDN
Matthew De Zoete – Remembrance Day – Bottom of the World – CDN
Tom Waits – Road to Peace – Orphans – Brawlers
Eliza Gilkyson – Peace Call – Land Of Milk And Honey
Nick Lowe – What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love and Understanding? (Acoustic) – At My Age (bonus tracks)

2:30 – 3:00 pm

James Keelaghan – Cold Missouri Waters – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Christina Martin – What I Always Knew – Sleeping with a Stranger – CDN
Iris DeMent – The Night I Learned How not to Pray – Sing the Delta
Shari Ulrich – (Now You’re) Gone – Find Our Way – CDN
Martyn Joseph – Feels Like This – Songs for the Coming Home
Paul Kelly – Cold As Canada – Spring and Fall

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Kasey Anderson and The Honkies – Heavy Heart (bonus track) – Let the Bloody Moon Rise
John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls – Gods – Everything the Hard Way
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires – Roebuck Parkway – There Is a Bomb in Gilead
Andy Shauf – Drink My Rivers – The Bearer of Bad News – CDN
Andrew Combs – Runnin’ You Out of My Mind – Worried Man
Andrew Combs – Too Stoned to Cry – Worried Man
Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle – Too Sober to Sleep – Let’s Just Stay Here – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Old Man Luedecke – Roll in my Sweet Baby’s Arms – Tender Is the Night – CDN
Amelia Curran – The Modern Man – Spectators – CDN
Amelia Curran – Hands on a Grain of Sand – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Amelia Curran – You Won’t Find Me – War Brides – CDN
Danny Michel & The Benque Players – Break It You Buy It – Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me – CDN
Danny Michel – Midnight Train – Valhalla – CDN

It’s a busy week on the concert calendar, so there’s plenty for us to preview, including the return of Elliott BROOD, Brock Zeman, James Keelaghan. Also on the schedule, we chat with Rose Cousins who returns to the West End and we were planning to be visited in-studio by The Wilderness of Manitoba; sadly, we had to enact the Fred Eaglesmith Clause on that one, when their gear was locked up at a venue in Brandon so they didn’t make it in time for the end of the show. They did, however, record some songs after the show, which you can listen to at the UMFM Live Sessions page.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Cedar Park – What She Tells Me (feat. NQ Arbuckle) – Way Back Home – CDN
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Mother Blues – The Grifter’s Hymnal
Lynn Jackson – Yellow Moon – Down in the Dust – CDN
Jory Nash – Sally – Little Pilgrim – CDN
Brock Zeman – Light in the Attick – We Have Made a Spark – CDN
Brock Zeman – Someone for You – We Have Made a Spark – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Rose Cousins – The Shell – We Have Made a Spark – CDN
Rose Cousins – Go First – We Have Made a Spark – CDN
Rose Cousins – I Were the Bird – The Send Off – CDN
Rose Cousins – Sadie in the Kitchen – The Send Off – CDN

Rose Cousins interview

Rose Cousins – This Light – We Have Made a Spark – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

James Keelaghan – Safe Home – House of Cards – CDN
James Keelaghan – Love What a Road – Road – CDN
The Crooked Brothers – 17 Horses – Lawrence, Where’s Your Knife? – CDN – WPG
Elliott BROOD – Lindsay – Days Into Years – CDN
Elliott BROOD – Miss You Now – Mountain Meadows – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Brock Zeman – Until It Bleeds – Me Then You – CDN
Brock Zeman – Triple Crown – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
The Wilderness of Manitoba – Chasing Horses – Island of Echoes – CDN
The Wilderness of Manitoba – Echoes – Island of Echoes – CDN
The Wilderness of Manitoba – Hardship Acres – When You Left the Fire – CDN
The Wilderness of Manitoba – Morning Sun – Island of Echoes – CDN
The Wilderness of Manitoba – Hermit – When You Left the Fire – CDN

After a hugely successful Pledge-O-Rama event last week, we’re back to doing what we do best, playing great new music, upcoming exciting live shows, and giving you all of the information that you need. We’ve got plenty of all of the above on today’s show!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Robbie Fulks – It’s About the Money – 50-vc. Doberman Sampler
Kasey Anderson & The Honkies – Just Kids (acoustic) – Let the Bloody Moon Rise
Kasey Anderson & The Honkies – Don’t Look Back – Let the Bloody Moon Rise
John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls – This Town Tonight – Everything the Hard Way
John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls – Low – Everything the Hard Way
Matthew Ryan – The Events at Dusk – In the Dusk of Everything

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Matthew Ryan – It Always Rains When You Miss Her – In the Dusk of Everything
Mike Angus – What Does It Mean? – Hymns – CDN
The Wilderness of Manitoba – Chasing Horses – Island of Echoes – CDN
Amelia Curran – Blackbird on Fire – Spectators – CDN
Lucinda Williams – Mississippi You’re on my Mind – Quiet About It: A Tribute to Jesse Winchester
Jory Nash – A Song About Love – Little Pilgrim – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Sunparlour Players – Robbers Lullaby – Hymns for the Happy – CDN
Ana Egge – Evil – Bad Blood – CDN
Ana Egge – Motorcycle – Bad Blood – CDN
Dan Mangan – Journal of a Narcoleptic – Postcards and Daydreaming – CDN
Dan Mangan – Robots – Nice, Nice, Very Nice – CDN
The Rural Alberta Advantage – The Breakup – Departing – CDN
The Rural Alberta Advantage – Tornado ’87 – Departing – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Fish & Bird – Burst Into Flower – Left Brain Blues – CDN
The JD Edwards Band – Singing All the Way Home – Roads and Roads – CDN
Bahamas – Lost in the Light – Barchords – CDN
Jason Collett – You’re Not the One and Only One – Reckon – CDN
Richard Shindell – Are You Happy Now? – Thirteen Songs You Ma or May Not Have Heard Before

We’ve been talking about it and preparing for it for a long time, and finally it’s here, UMFM’s first Pledge-O-Rama fall funding event. Things are a little different today, because instead of giving you the best music and information, we’re hoping that you’ll give to us and make a pledge to support the station. We’ve got plenty of prizes and incentives to dole out, and special live musical guests, Nathan!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Jonathan Byrd and Chris Kokesh – You Can’t Outrun The Radio – Live at 4th & Main, Wray, Colorado
Nathan – Trans Am – live performance – CDN – WPG
Nathan – Bad Ideas – live performance – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

The Strumbellas – Lakes – recorded live on UMFM – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Ron from Lockport – Jeff Robson Brings Bruce Springsteen to Winnipeg – Live @ The Sunset Saloon – CDN
Stan Rogers – Barrett’s Privateers – Fogerty’s Cove – CDN
Jack Marks – The Dress Song – Two of Everything
Shannon Lyon – Since I’m Loving You – Wandered – CDN
Julie Miller – All My Tears – Broken Things – CDN
Christina Martin – You Come Home – Two Hearts – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Del Barber – Everything Isn’t Enough – Headwaters – CDN – WPG

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