A super-sized, action packed episode, as we close out another year and start up a new one. We play a bunch of the best of 2010. As usual, we can’t let New Year’s Day pass without tributes to Hank & Townes, who both left us on Jan. 1.

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Slaid Cleaves – One Good Year – Broke Down
Matthew Ryan & Hammock – Like New Year’s Day – Like New Year’s Day
D. Rangers – New Years Blues – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
Hank Williams – I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive – The Ultimate Collection
Reid Jamieson – I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry – Vinyl Cafe Demos – April2008 – CDN
Neko Case – Alone and Forsaken – Canadian Amp
Hank Williams – Cold, Cold Heart – The Ultimate Collection

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Townes Van Zandt – Flyin’ Shoes – Flyin’ Shoes
Danny Schmidt w/ Carrie Elkin – Rex’s Blues
Jeffrey Foucault – Nothin’ – Riding the Range – The songs of Townes Van Zandt
Phosphorescent – Why She’s Acting This Way – More Townes Van Zandt by the Great Unknown
Shannon Lyon – If I Needed You – Riding the Range – The songs of Townes Van Zandt
Shannon Lyon – Blue Flowers – This Love This Love – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Paul Quarrington – Wherever You Go – The Songs – CDN
Brian MacMillan – All I Have – Shine – CDN
Jenn Grant – Annie’s Song – Songs for Siigoun EP – CDN
Jack Marks – Michigan Love – Lost Wages – CDN
Jadea Kelly – Heavy Heart – Eastbound Platform – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Leeroy Stagger & The Wildflowers – I Believe in Love – Little Victories – CDN
Danny Michel – Who’s Gonna Miss You? – Sunset Sea – CDN
The Head and the Heart – Down in the Valley – The Head and the Heart
Beta Radio – Either Way – Seven Sisters
Turnpike Troubadours – Diamonds and Gasoline – Diamonds and Gasoline

4:30 – 5:00 pm

The Details – The Original Mark – The Original Mark EP – CDN – WPG
Jim Bryson – Rust and Fade – Kelp 16 – CDN
Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – Decidedly – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN
Tanya Davis – Tra La La – Clocks and Hearts Keep Going – CDN
Greg Macpherson – First Class – Mr. Invitation – CDN – WPG
The Damnwells – She Goes Around – No One Listens to the Band Anymore
Hannah Georgas – This Is Good – This Is Good – CDN
Sweet Thing – Over You – Sweet Thing – CDN

5:00 – 5:30 pm

Yukon Blonde – Babies Don’t Like Blue Anymore – Yukon Blonde – CDN
The John Henrys – Little One – White Linen – CDN
Band of Horses – Dilly – Infinite Arms
Tired Pony – Dead American Writers – The Place We Ran From
Christina Martin – Daisy – I Can Too – CDN
Lissie – When I’m Alone – Catching a Tiger
Keith & Renee – But I Do – Detour – CDN – WPG
Griffin House – Just Another Guy – The Learner

5:30 – 6:00 pm

The Beauties – Tired Fired Blues – The Beauties – CDN
Jesse Malin & The St. Marks Social – Burning the Bowery – Love It to Life
Wintersleep – Black Camera – New Inheritors – CDN
The Gaslight Anthem – Stay Lucky – American Slang
Alejandro Escovedo – Anchor – Street Songs of Love
Mumford & Sons – The Cave – Sigh No More

Have yourself a very Merry Boxing Day with the first of our year-end, best-of shows. We look at some notable releases and events from the past year. And, since Christmas is a time of excess, we stretch out a bit and go for a good 3 ½ hours!

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

2:00pm – 2:30pm

The Rocky Fortune – Merry Boxing Day – single – CDN
The Supersuckers – Call It Christmas – Redeye 2008 Holiday Sampler
Mojo Nixon – Christmas, Christmas – Christmas, Christmas
The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale of New York – The Very Best of the Pogues
Hoots & Hellmouth – A Song For Solstice – The Key’s 12 Days Of Christmas
Lyle Lovett – Simple Song – recorded live @ The West End Cultural Centre, Oct. 23, 1997
Twilight Hotel – Viva la Vinyl – Highway Prayer – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Rheostatics – King of the Past – Whale Music – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – So Long Bernie – Shakespeare My Butt – CDN
The Blue Shadows – A Paper ‘n a Promise – On the Floor of Heaven Deluxe Edition – CDN
Blaze Foley – You’ll Get Yours Aplenty – The Dawg Years (1975-1978)
Blaze Foley – Clay Pigeons – Sittin’ by the Road

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Ryan Bingham – The Weary Kind – Crazy Heart Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Holly Williams – Mama – Here with Me
Dave McCann and the Firehearts – Unfamiliar Ground – Dixiebluebird – CDN
Will Kimbrough – Godsend – (EP)
The Fabulous Ginn Sisters – Hey Doll – You Can’t Take a Bad Girl Home
Noisettes – Never Forget You – Wild Young Hearts

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Beauties – Hearts Are Down – The Beauties – CDN
The Beauties – Without You – The Beauties – CDN
Justin Rutledge – Jack of Diamonds – The Early Widows – CDN
Justin Townes Earle – Harlem River Blues – Harlem River Blues
Luke Doucet and The White Falcon – Thinking People – Steel City Trawler – CDN
Peter Katz w/Melissa McClelland – Let Me Go – First of the Last to Know – CDN
Matthew Barber – I Think You’re Gonna Feel My Love – True Believer – CDN

4:00 – 4:30 pm

Jackie Greene – Medicine – Till the Light Comes
Josh Ritter – Change of Time – So Runs the World Away
Jeremy Messersmith – Repo Man – The Reluctant Graveyard
Band of Horses – Factory – Infinite Arms
Patty Griffin w/Buddy Miller – Never Grow Old – Downtown Church

4:30 – 5:00 pm

Jay Nash & Garrison Starr – Sweet Talking Liar – Live at Sun Studio
Madison Violet – Crying – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
John Wort Hannam – Requiem for a Small Town – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Christina Martin – Subject to Change – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Officer Down – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Drive-By Truckers – The Wig He Made Her Wear – The Big To-Do

5:00 – 5:30 pm

Fred Eaglesmith – Shallow – Cha Cha Cha – CDN
Paolo Nutini with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band – Between the Devil & The Deep Blue Sea – Preservation
David Francey – When I’m Not Thinking About You – Fixing this Place to Suit Myself – CDN
Scott Nolan – Swing Low – single – CDN – WPG
Jakob Dylan – Everybody’s Hurting – Women + Country
Kim Richey – Leaving 49 – Wreck Your Wheels
Sarah Harmer – The City – Oh Little Fire – CDN
Sunparlour Players – Battle of ’77 – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Sunparlour Players – Be the One – Hymns for the Happy – CDN

A really exciting show for me, as I’m joined live, in-studio by (almost) my entire family for a very special Merry Christmas from the Family episode filled with festive favourites, holiday trivia, holiday humour, and more!

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Robert Earl Keen – Merry Christmas from the Family – Merry Christmas from the Family
Robert Earl Keen – Happy Holidays Y’all – Walking Distance
John Prine – Christmas in Prison – Sweet Revenge
Mary Gauthier – Christmas in Paradise – Filth & Fire
Rough Shop – How to Make Gravy – Just Because It Was Christmas

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Paul Kelly – Christmas Must Be Tonight – Won’t You Come Around EP
Radney Foster – Away in a Manger – Dualtone Holiday EP
Melissa McClelland & Lisa Winn – O Holy Night – CDN
Bing Crosby & David Bowie – Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy – Bing Crosby – Christmas Classics
Emmylou Harris – Light of the Stable – Light of the Stable
Boris Karloff – You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch – How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Burl Ives – Have a Holly Jolly Christmas – Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
The Blue Shadows – Run Run Rudolph – 2009 Reid Family Christmas Spectacular – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Hatcher-Briggs – Holiday – CDN – WPG
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison – Please Daddy, Don’t Get Drunk – Happy Holidays
Ox – Xmas in the Jailhouse – Silent Night and other Cowboy Songs – CDN
Drive-By Truckers – Hope Santa’s Out of Rehab for Christmas – Stu & Kathy Present a Ding Dong Dandy Christmas 2004
Swank – Santa Claus Is Out on Bail – Christmas Is Fun – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Russell deCarle – Blues for Christmas – Under the Big Big Sky – CDN
Tom Wilson and the Dogs – We’re Gonna Make a Beautiful World Together – Design Hope: December Songs – CDN
Ron Sexsmith – Something to Hold On To (At Christmas) – Redeye 2008 Holiday Sampler – CDN
Jill Barber – This Christmas – This Christmas – CDN
Don Amero – All I Need This Christmas – CDN – WPG
Paper Moon – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – CDN – WPG

It’s Weakerthans week in Winnipeg, as our greatest band is set to kick off 4 shows at different venues across town. While they are somewhat famous and maybe don’t need our help any more, there is no greater songwriter in our city (past or present), so it’s our duty to play a bunch of the greatest songs ever written in and about our town. But, that’s not the only exciting time of year approaching, it’s also Christmas, and we’ve got a batch of Christmas tunes that won’t make you nauseous. Also, some new songs, some winter songs, and some all-around good songs.

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Jim Bryson – Impaler – The Occasionals – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Snowing in Nashville – Everything Is Real – CDN
Ruth Moody – Cold Outside – The Garden – CDN – WPG
The Head and the Heart – Winter Song – The Head and the Heart
Tanya Davis – Tra-la-la – Clocks and Hearts Keep Going – CDN
Shuyler Jansen – Wedding Band – Voice from the Lake – CDN
Steve Earle and Allison Moorer – After the Fire Is Gone – Coal Miner’s Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Matt Andersen – O Holy Night – The Spirit of Christmas – CDN
Matt Andersen – Hobo Christmas Train – The Spirit of Christmas – CDN
Oliver Schroer – Beneath the Ice, They Heard Bells… – Stuck on a Cold Steel Pole – CDN
Skydiggers – Good King Wenceslas – The Truth About Us – CDN
Good Lovelies – Maybe this Time – Under the Mistletoe – CDN
Ox – It’s Christmas Time Again – Silent Night and other Cowboy Songs

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Jim Bryson and the Weakerthans – Freeways in the Front Yard – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN
The Weakerthans – Fallow – Fallow – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – None of the Above – Fallow – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – Confessions of a Futon Revolutionist (country style) – Hopelessly Devoted to You Vol. 3 – CDN – WPG
The Wakerthans – Ringing of Revolution – Return of the Read Menace – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Weakerthans – Everything Must Go! – Left & Leaving – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – Pamphleteer – Left & Leaving – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – Watermark – Left & Leaving – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – Plea from a Cat Named Virtute – Reconstruction Site – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – A New Name for Everything – Reconstruction Site – CDN – WPG
John K Samson – Reconstruction Site – live recording – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – Night Windows – Reunion Tour – CDN –WPG

Pre-recorded this week as I’m off nerding it up at the big Lowest of the Low show in Toronto. Of course I can’t let another week go by without some more Low and without bragging about my part in the reissue of the greatest album of all time. A bunch of tributes to the greats this week (besides the Low), including a new tribute to The Band starring one of the long-time members, plus upcoming tribute shows to Tom Waits and John Lennon, and a whole bunch more!

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Jim Bryson – Sleeping in Toronto – The North Side Benches – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – Under the Carlaw Bridge – Shakespeare My Butt – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – Just About “The Only” Blues – Shakespeare My Butt – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – Henry Needs a New Pair of Shoes – Shakespeare My Butt – CDN
The Sadies – The Shape I’m In – Garth Hudson Presents a Canadian Celebration of The Band – CDN
Blue Rodeo – King Harvest – Garth Hudson Presents a Canadian Celebration of The Band – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Easily Amused – Walk Away – recorded live on UMFM – CDN – WPG
Easily Amused – Song for Belfast – Simple Stuff – CDN – WPG
Keith & Renee – But I Do – Detour – CDN – WPG
The Wailin’ Jennys – Heaven When I’m Home – recorded live on UMFM – CDN – WPG
Ruth Moody – Travellin’ Shoes – The Garden – CDN – WPG

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Ox – Christmas with the Band – Silent Night and other Cowboy Songs – CDN
Neko Case – Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis – New Coat of Paint
Tom Waits – I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You – Closing Time
Tom Waits – Hold On – Mule Variations
Tom Waits – Long Way Home – Orphans
Scott Nolan Band – Philipino Box Spring Hog – American Hotel – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Brothers Cosmoline – No Reply – Songs of Work & Freedom – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Please, Please Me – 3 a.m. – CDN
Brandi Carlile – All You Need Is Love – XOBC
Steve Earle – I’m Looking Through You – Train a Comin’
The Co-Dependents – The Ballad of John and Yoko – Live At The Mecca Café – Volume 2 – CDN
Nathaniel Mayer – I Found Out – I Just Want to Be Held
The Blue Shadows – If We Make It Through December – On The Floor Of Heaven – Deluxe Re-issue – CDN
Shannon Lyon – December Song – El Sol – CDN

We’re pre-recorded this week. We’ve got some great new music from the mailbag and beyond. We also take a look ahead at my dream come true weekend, which is happening next weekend in Toronto. That gets us a little nostalgic and we hop in the time machine to relive the 90s.

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mike Plume – Mine All Mine (My Baby) – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
The Head and the Heart – Down in the Valley – The Head and the Heart
The Tallest Man on Earth – Tangle in this Trampled Wheat – Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird
The Tallest Man on Earth – Little River – Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird
Justin Townes Earle – One More Night in Brooklyn – Harlem River Blues
Russell deCarle – Don’t Ask the Question – Under the Big Big Sky –
Porkbelly Futures – Can’t Find My Way Back to You – The Crooked Road – CDN
Stellar Band of Neighbours – Do You Remember Me – Live at the Legion Hall – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Tanya Davis – Eulogy for You and Me – Clocks and Hearts Keep Going – CDN
Angela Desveaux – Wandering Eyes – Wandering Eyes – CDN
Jenny and Jonny – Animal – I’m Having Fun Now
The Details – The Original Mark – The Original Mark EP – CDN – WPG
Jen Lane – Today I Lost My Mind – For the Night – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – Kissing Cousins – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN
Jim Bryson – Without Piano – The Occasionals – CDN
Jim Bryson – Elizabeth – The North Side Benches – CDN
Jim Bryson – The Wishes Pile Up – Where the Bungalows Roam – CDN
The Weakerthans – My Favourite Chords – Left & Leaving – CDN – WPG
The Lowest of the Low – Rosy and Grey – Shakespeare My Butt – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – Letter from Bilbao – Shakespeare My Butt – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – Subversives – Shakespeare My Butt – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Rheostatics – California Dreamline – Whale Music – CDN
The Watchmen – Crazy Days – McLaren Furnace Room – CDN – WPG
Duck Shot Hunter – All This Time – Yum – CDN – WPG
Skydiggers – Just Before the Rain – Restless – CDN
Thomas Trio and the Red Albino – 142 Thru – Thomas Trio and the Red Albino – CDN
The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir – Ain’t It Better to Ignite – 1985-1995 – CDN

Our favourite co-host of all drops in for a visit, as Carter is along for the ride today. Together we kick off the Christmas season, we pay tribute to one of Winnipeg’s best bands of all time, The D. Rangers, who hang up the muckbucket this week, we pay tribute to the winners at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, and look at some upcoming shows and one exciting CD re-release. And, because last week’s miserable show was such a big hit with listeners, we play just a little bit more Sad Bastard Music.

Loudon Wainwright III – Suddenly, It’s Christmas – Career Moves
Paul Kelly – How to Make Gravy – The A to Z Recordings
Merle Haggard – If We Make It Through December – Live At Billy Bob’s Texas: Motorcycle Cowboy
Willie P. Bennett – Driftin’ Snow – Tryin’ to Start Out Clean – CDN
Romi Mayes, The D. Rangers, and David Essig – Fallin’ – Beverly Street – CDN – WPG

2:30 – 3:00

Romi Mayes and the Temporarily Employed – Comin’ Home Soon – The Living Room Sessions – CDN – WPG
Shuyler Jansen – Don’t Ask Why – Today’s Remains – CDN
D. Rangers – Viscosity Breakdown – D. Rangers – CDN – WPG
D. Rangers – We Stay High & Lonesome – We Stay High and Lonesome – CDN – WPG
D. Rangers – Love, Lust and Loneliness – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
John Wort Hannam – Requiem for a Small Town – Queen’s Hotel – CDN
Amelia Curran – The Mistress – Hunter, Hunter – CDN
Dala – Girl from the North Country – Girlsfrom the North Country – CDN

3:00 – 3:30

Rose Cousins – White Daisies – The Send Off – CDN
The Once – What Will You Be Building – The Once – CDN
Jill Barber – In Perfect Time – A Note to Follow So – CDN
Jill Barber – Hard Line – For All Time – CDN
Jill Barber – Never Quit Loving You – Chances – CDN

3:30 – 4:00

David Francey – The Waking Hour – The Waking Hour – CDN
Andy Swan – You Got the Diamonds (I Got the Shaft) – Ottawa – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Marco Polo – XOK – CDN
Colin Linden – Without the One You Love – Big Mouth – CDN
Willie P Bennett – If You Have to Choose – Hobo’s Taunt – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – Bleed a Little While Tonight – Shakespeare My Butt – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – Kinda the Lonely One – Shakespeare My Butt – CDN

Two hours of Sad Bastard Music, as we play songs of heartache and heartbreak.

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

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Hatcher-Briggs – In my Hour of Darkness – Getting There from Here – CDN – WPG
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Broken Fuckin’ Heart – Guitar Pickin’ Martyrs – CDN
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – It’s Mighty Dark to Travel – Guitar Pickin’ Martyrs – CDN
Ridley Bent – Buckles & Boots – Buckles & Boots – CDN – WPG
Shannon McNally – Worst Part of a Broken Heart – Geronimo
Kate Maki – Over – Confusion Unlimited – CDN
Kim Richey – Here I Go Again – Kim Richey

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Matthew Ryan – Dam – May Day
Matthew Ryan – Return to Me – Regret over the Wires
Matthew Ryan – Sadlylove – East Autumn Grin
Matthew Ryan – Irrelevant – May Day
Lynn Miles – Trying not to Be so Sad – Love Sweet Love – CDN
Lynn Miles – Never Coming Back – Love Sweet Love – CDN
Lynn Miles – Goodbye – Fall for Beauty – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Matt Andersen – So Gone Now – Something in Between – CDN
Rose Cousins – I Don’t Care – The Send Off – CDN
Christina Martin – Temporary Hell – Two Hearts – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Broke and Broken Hearted – Dear Love – CDN
Luke Doucet – Broken One – Broken (and other Rogue States) – CDN
Derek & The Dominoes – Bell Bottom Blues – Layla and other assorted Love Songs
Chris Isaak – Go Walking Down There – Forever Blue

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Richard & Linda Thompson – Don’t Renege on our Love – Shoot out the Lights
Ben Folds Five – Song for the Dumped – Whatever and Ever Amen
Scouting for Girls – Elvis Isn’t Dead – Scouting for Girls
Fred Eaglesmith & The Flying Squirrels – Brand New Boy – Things Is Changin’ – CDN
Slaid Cleaves – Cry – Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – My Heart Is Broken – Jacksonville City Nights
Richard Shindell – Happy Now – Sparrows’ Point
Gram Parsons – Still Feeling Blue – Sacred Hearts And Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology

Looking ahead to some great upcoming shows (Hatcher-Briggs CD release, Neilfest, etc.), looking back at some of the music we meant to play on Halloween, and looking around for some music to cheer us up as the weather turns for the worse. We’ve got it all!

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

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Jim Bryson­ – Fleetwood­ – The North Side Benches­ – CDN
The Fuse­ – My Elizabeth­ – Trying Must Count for Something­ – CDN­ – WPG
The Blue Shadows­ – If I Were You­ – On the Floor of Heaven­ – CDN
Wendy Bird­ – Deliver Me­ – Natural Wonder­ – CDN
Hatcher-Briggs­ – The Leavings­ – Getting There from Here­ – CDN­ – WPG
Neil Young­ – Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Part I) ­ – Freedom­ – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Neil Young­ – Powderfinger­ – Rust Never Sleeps­ – CDN
Bourbon Tabernacle Choir & Rheostatics­ – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere­ – 1985-1995­ – CDN
Del Barber­ – Miles and Years­ – Love Songs for the Last 20­ – CDN­ – WPG
Shannon Lyon­ – Naive­ – Wandered­ – CDN
Shannon Lyon­ – Barcelona­ – Wandered­ – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Matthew Ryan­ – Me & My Lover­ – East Autumn Grin
Matthew Ryan­ – Chickering Angel­ – Concussion
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson­ – The Devil’s Inside My Head­ – Rattlin’ Bones
Nathan­ – Lock Your Devils Up­ – Jimson Weed­ – CDN­ – WPG
Shannon McNally­ – Memory of a Ghost­ – Western Ballad
Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles­ – Me and your Ghost­ – The Stars Are Out

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Lucero­ – The Devil And Maggie Chascarrillo­ – 1372 Overton Park
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals­ – If I Am a Stranger­ – Cold Roses
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings­ – 49 Tons­ – Kings of Love­ – CDN
Langhorne Slim­ – Diamonds and Gold­ – Langhorne Slim
Mike Plume Band­ – Something to Say­ – Song & Dance, Man­ – CDN
Buddy Miller­ – 100 Million Little Bombs­ – Poison Love
Ass Ponys­ – Kung Fu Reference­ – Lohio

It’s Halloween, and although (for a change) we had a full show planned with tons of spooky & scary tunes to get the ghosts & goblins ready for the big day, I played a dirty trick on myself, and it definitely wasn’t a treat… I left my ipod and the entire show at home! What happens when a totally technology dependent radio host tries to make up a show on the spot? Now that’s scary! Luckily, Del Barber dropped by to chat about his upcoming shows, and we bestow an annual honour upon him.

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

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Andy Maize – Lovely You – The History of Forgetting – CDN
The Deep Dark Woods – Silver Ships of Andilar – More Townes Van Zandt by the Great Unknown
Chris Mills – Tecumseh Valley – Introducing Townes Van Zandt via the Great Unknown
The Sumner Brothers – Colorado Girl – More Townes Van Zandt by the Great Unknown
Blaze Foley – You’ll Get Yours Aplenty – The Dawg Years (1975-1978)
Blaze Foley – Living in the Woods in a Tree – The Dawg Years (1975-1978)

2:30 – 3:00 pm

John Prine w/Iris DeMent – In Spite of Ourselves – In Person and on Stage
Ryan Adams – Halloweenhead – Easy Tiger
Paul MacLeod – Ghosts – Close and Play – CDN
The Wooden Sky – My Old Ghosts – If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone – CDN
Sara Bareilles – Not Alone – Kaleidoscope Heart
Matthew Ryan – The End of a Ghost Story – Dear Lover (acoustic version)

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Bobby Bare Jr. – Rock and Roll Halloween – A Storm a Tree My Mother’s Head
Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs – Devil’s in the Jukebox – God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise
Kasey Chambers – Devil on your Back – Little Bird
Matt Andersen – Devil’s Bride – Live from the Phoenix Theatre – CDN
Jeremy Messersmith – A Girl, a Boy, and a Graveyard – The Reluctant Graveyard
Jeremy Messersmith – Deathbed Salesman – The Reluctant Graveyard
Jeremy Messersmith – Lazy Bones – The Reluctant Graveyard

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Sunparlour Players – Robbers Lullaby – Hymns for the Happy – CDN

Del Barber interview

Del Barber – Love Song for the Last 20 – Love Songs for the Last 20 – CDN – WPG