It’s May Day! That means I have a good excuse to play a bunch of tracks from one of my very favourite albums of all time! We’ve also got more great new music and a look ahead to the return of one of Canada’s greatest roots rockin’ bands, Skydiggers!

playlist

download

part 2 currently unavailable

Artist – Title – Album

Todd Snider – Can’t Complain – Near Truths And Hotel Rooms [Live]
Shannon Lyon – I’m Letting You Go – Broken Things
Brock Zeman – Where Words Mean Nothing – Rotten Tooth
Matthew Ryan – Beautiful Fool – May Day
Matthew Ryan – Railroaded – May Day
Matthew Ryan – The Dead Girl – May Day

Jess Klein – So Fucking Cool – Learning Faith
The Levon Helm Band – The Same Thing – Midnight Ramble Sessions Volume 3
Sarah Borges – Record On Repeat – Radio Sweetheart
Mary Gauthier – When a Woman Goes Cold – Trouble & Love
Ray LaMontagne – Ojai – Supernova
Radney Foster – Whose Heart You Wreck (Ode To The Muse) – Everything I Should Have Said
The Other Brothers – 4/4 Time – Everything Can Change
Sunparlour Players – Soapbox – The Living Proof
Skydiggers – We Don’t Talk Much Anymore – Skydiggers
Skydiggers – Just Before the Rain – Restless
Skydiggers – 80 Odd Hours – Just Over this Mountain
Skydiggers – What Do You See? – Road Radio
Skydiggers – Even When You Fall – Road Radio
Skydiggers – Pull Me Down – Just Over this Mountain

More great new music, including Record Store Day goodies, and a couple of great upcoming shows to preview!

playlist

download

download

Artist – Title – Album

Radney Foster – Mine Until The Morning (Featuring Pattty Griffin) – Everything I Should Have Said
Radney Foster – Not In my House – Everything I Should Have Said
Radney Foster – I’ve Got a Picture – See What You Want to See
Alex Dezen – Other People’s Drugs – 2/4
Alex Dezen – Death Metal and Disco – 1/4
Melissa Payne – High and Dry – High and Dry
Mary Gauthier – Another Train – Trouble & Love
Scott Nolan & Joanna Miller – The Last One – North / South
Willie Sugarcapps – Oh, Colorado – Willie Sugarcapps
The Wild Feathers` – Marie – Got It Wrong / Marie
Doug Paisley – Lies Lead to Lies – Growing Souls single
Butch Walker – Battle vs. The War (w/Nikki Lane) – End of the Word (One More Time) / Battle vs. the War

Brock Zeman – Dreamland Motel – Rotten Tooth
Brock Zeman – Push Them Stones – Me Then You
Brock Zeman – Picture of You – $100 Difference
Shannon Lyon – Pleasing You Pleases Me – Broken Things
Shannon Lyon – Barcelona – Wandered
Shannon Lyon – The Hobo Song – Bound

It’s Bad Thursday, and we’re off to see Sunparlour Players tonight, so a bit of an abbreviated episode. A look back at a great Bad Thursday from our past, and a look ahead to this weekend’s Record Store Day!

playlist

download

download

Artist – Title – Album

Sunparlour Players – Point Pelee Is the Place to Be – live recording
Sunparlour Players – Green Thumb – live recording
Sunparlour Players – Soapbox – The Living Proof
Dan Mangan – The Indie Queens Are Waiting – recorded live on UMFM
Brock Zeman – Ain’t Nothin’ – recorded live on UMFM
The Deep Dark Woods – All the Money I Have Is Gone – recorded live on UMFM
Shannon Lyon – Since I’m Loving You – live recording

Flash Lightnin’ – On the Radio – For The Sinners
Ryan Adams – This Is It – 1974
Matthew Ryan – American Dirt – vs. The Silver State
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires – Ain’t No Stranger – There is a Bomb in Gilead
Trampled By Turtles – Victory – Palomino

New music! Lots of it! It’s good! Listen!

playlist

part 1 currently unavailable

download

Artist – Title – Album

Doug Seegers – Going Down to the River (ft. Jill Johnson & Magnus Carlson) – single
Will Kimbrough – Soulfully – Sideshow Love
Willie Sugarcapps – Mr. Lee – Willie Sugarcapps
Rodney Crowell – The Long Journey Home (for Ben) – Tarpaper Sky
Jerry Leger – Factory Made – Early Riser
Carlene Carter – Blackie’s Gunman – Carter Girl
Doug Paisley – Radio Girl – Strong Feelings
Bobby Bare Jr.’s Young Criminals’ Starvation League – Blame Everybody (But Yourself) – Undefeated
John Fullbright – Happy – Songs
John Murry – Glass Slipper – Califorlornia

The Hold Steady – Spinners – Teeth Dreams
J. Roddy Walston & The Business – Sweat Shack – Essential Tremors
Reverend Horton Heat – Smell of Gasoline – Rev
Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering Sun – The Conquering Sun – Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering Sun
Odds – Ghost Bike – Game Face On
NQ Arbuckle – Life Boat (Song for Carolyn Mark) – The Future Happens Anyway
Sunparlour Players – How to Build a Fort with Nothing – The Living Proof
The Wicks – Charlottetown – The Good Times Are Gone
The Wicks – What Went Wrong – The Good Times Are Gone

Show reviews & previews aplenty, including Juno madness, Ridley Bent, Sweet Alibi, Matt Epp, and more, along with an unreleased gem from our namesake, Mike Plume!

playlist

download

download

Artist – Title – Album

Rodney Crowell – Fever on the Bayou – Tarpaper Sky
Bobby Bare Jr – The Big Time – Undefeated
The Belle Brigade – How I See It – Just Because
The Bros. Landreth – Our Love – Let It Lie
The Bros. Landreth – Runaway Train – Let It Lie
Luke Doucet – Blood’s Too Rich – Blood’s Too Rich

JP Hoe – Conversation – Mannequin
Justin Rutledge – Through with You – Valleyheart
Chloe Albert – Honey Bee – Dedicated State
Blackie & the Rodeo Kings – Lean on your Peers – Kings of Love
Ridley Bent – Fill Your Boots – Wildcard
Ridley Bent – Heartland Heartbreak – Buckles & Boots
Ridley Bent – Suicidewinder – Blam
Sweet Alibi – Deep – We’ve Got To
Sweet Alibi – Trouble – We’ve Got To
Kim Churchill – Single Spark – Silence / Win
Matt Epp & The Amorian Assembly – Learning to Lose Control – Learning to Lose Control
Mike Plume Band – Me and Ern – unreleased

Upcoming shows! New music! Fun stuff! Oh my!

playlist

download

download

Artist – Title – Album

Odds – Game Face On – Game Face On
Odds – Blow This Place Up – Game Face On
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Drugs and Junk Food – Crooked River Burning
The New Meanies – Scenic Anomaly – Three Seeds
The New Meanies – Northern Shore (Drowned) – Highways
Scott Nolan – Postcards – No Bourbon & Bad Radio
Scott Nolan – Rosie – No Bourbon & Bad Radio
The Beauties – Without You – The Beauties
Andrew Neville and the Poor Choices – Brand New Song – Andrew Neville and the Poor Choices
Craig Cardiff – Safe Here – Floods and Fires

Chris Trapper – Bye Bye Beautiful – Technicolor
Chris Trapper – Northwest Sun – Technicolor
Chris Trapper – The More I Think – The Few & the Far Between
Colin Hay – I Can’t Get Up Out of This Bed – American Sunshine
Whitehorse – Brisee – Ephemere Sans Repere
Luke Doucet – It’s Not the Liquor I Miss – Broken (and other rogue states)
Del Barber – Everything Is Not Enough – Headwaters
JP Hoe – Nothing’s Gonna Harm You – Mannequin
Matt Epp & The Amorian Assembly – When You Know (featuring Serena Ryder) – Learning to Lose Control
July Talk – Paper Girl – July Talk

The new NQ Arbuckle album is on its way, so we see what we think. We’ve also got a new one from Whitehorse that’s got us in the mood to parlez francais (or something like that.) Sunparlour Players and New Country Rehab are coming up, and Del Barber’s doing release shows. Phew, that’s a show!

playlist

download

download

Artist – Title – Album

NQ Arbuckle – Red Wine – The Future Happens Anyway
NQ Arbuckle – Back to Earth – The Future Happens Anyway
NQ Arbuckle – Huntsville Affair – Not Alone (Medicins Sans Frontiéres)
Whitehorse – Éphémère sans repère – Éphémère sans repère
Rheostatics – Chanson Les Ruelles – Melville
Whitehorse – Strawberry Blonde – The Road to Massey Hall
Ron Sexsmith – Wishing Wells – Retriever
Ben Arnold – House of Cards – Calico
Bruce Knauer – Allnight Breakfast Special – Allnight Breakfast Special
Sunparlour Players – How To Build A Fort With Nothing – The Living Proof
Sunparlour Players – I Hope This Isn’t The End For You – The Living Proof
Lake Street Dive – Use Me Up – Bad Self Portraits
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Don’t Walk Away, I’m Talking to You – Crooked River Burning
Del Barber – Love Song for the Last 20 – Love Songs for the Last 20
Del Barber – Love and Wine – Headwaters
Del Barber – Farewell, God Bless You, Goodbye – Prairieography
New Country Rehab – Alone & Forsaken – Lost Highway EP
New Country Rehab – Too many Parties and too many Pals – Ghost of your Charms

New music aplenty, some great upcoming live shows, and some of the great “other” stuff you don’t hear on your normal radio!

playlist
part 1
part 2

Live music, new music, and some rockin’ classics from the 90s. Huh? It’ll make sense if you listen. I think.

playlist

part 1 currently unavailable

download

Artist – Title – Album

The Fretless – Dirty Harry – The Fretless
The Fretless – Lonesome Scene of Winter (featuring Oliver Swain & Ruth Moody) – The Fretless
Fearing & White – Secret of a Long-Lasting Love – Tea and Confidence
Shannon Lyon – Barcelona – Wandered
Brock Zeman – Ain’t Nothin’ – recorded live on UMFM
The Amigos – Any Way You Want Me To – Diner in the Sky
Harlan Pepper – TV (Let It Slide) – Take Out a Twenty & Live Life to the Fullest
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours – Sweetheart 2014
Grant Peeples and the Peeples Republik – It’s Too Late to Live in Austin – Punishing the Myth

Harper Blynn – Halo – single
Harper Blynn – Sucker – Busy Hands
The Damnwells – No One Listens to the Band Anymore – No One Listens to the Band Anymore
Melissa Etheridge – Like the Way I Do – Melissa Etheridge
Omar & The Howlers – Hard Times in the Land of Plenty – Hard Times in the Land of Plenty
David Bowie – Modern Love – Let’s Dance
54-40 – One Day in your Life – Show Me
The Smithereens – Behind the Wall of Sleep – Especially for You
Odds – Heterosexual Man – Bedbugs
The Pursuit of Happiness – Ten Fingers – Love Junk

Celebrating great live music, including the battle between Ron Hynes and Old Man Luedecke/Jordie Lane, and the return of Peter Cash & Skydiggers! Other good stuff, too. Just listen.

playlist

download

download

Artist – Title – Album

Skydiggers – Slow Burning Fire – Restless
Skydiggers – What Do You See? – Road Radio
Skydiggers – Ramblin’ On – Just Over this Mountain
Brock Zeman – Rotten Tooth – Rotten Tooth
Sunparlour Players – Green Thumb – Us Little Devils
July Talk – Guns + Ammunition – July Talk

Ron Hynes – Dry – Ron Hynes
Ron Hynes – Record Man – Get Back Change
Ron Hynes – Godspeed – Snowbird: The Songs of Gene MacLellan
Old Man Luedecke – Monsanto Jones – Sing All About It
Old Man Luedecke – Joy of Cooking – Hinterland
Jordie Lane – Black Diamond – Live at the Wheaty
Rah Rah – Prairie Girl – The Poet’s Dead
Imaginary Cities – Hummingbird – Temporary Resident
Nathan – Glorious Exhaust – Stranger
Chloe Albert – Little White Lies – Dream Catcher
Christina Martin – Marina – Sleeping with a Stranger
Oh Susanna – Namedropper – Loved You More
LP – Someday – Into the Wild