Holiday Hits, festive favourites, upcoming shows, and a visit from junior Jeremy!

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Artist – Title – Album

Shinyribs – Birthday Cake for Jesus – single
Odds – Love Is what you Get – single
Matthew Ryan – Chrismas (Baby, Please Come Home) – single
Fortunate Ones – Come on! Let’s Boogie to the Elf Dance! – All Will Be Well
Claire Lynch Band – Snow Day – Holiday!
The Secret Sisters – Little Drummer Boy – single
Chris Stalcup and the Grange – I Hate Christmas – single
The Resentments – I Hate Christmas – The Resentments
James McMurtry – Holiday – Childish Things
Curtis McMurtry – Gulf Road – Respectable Enemy
Anne Janelle – River – single
The Handsome Family – So Much Wine – In the Air
Jim Bryson – The Depression Dance – Somewhere We Will Find our Place
Figure Walking – The Country – single
Figure Walking – Sounds – single
Greg Macpherson Band – The Day the Water Dried up from the Tap – Good Times Coming back again
The New Meanies – Three Seeds – Three Seeds

Tonight we start off with some solid favourites before veering into the holiday spirit (sort of…), talking about the big Rheounion going on in Toronto this weekend, and then swerving back onto the road with some more classics!

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Artist – Title – Album

Greg Macpherson – Big Skies – Mr. Invitation
Ox – She Shot Me Down – Dust Bowl Revival
Bob Snider – Sittin In The Kitchen – Caterwaul And Doggerel
Sunparlour Players – Talk It To Death – Hymns For The Happy
Jim White – Crash Into The Sun – Transnormal Skiperoo
Kathleen Edwards – Mint – Voyageur
The Resentments – I Hate Christmas – The Resentments
Butch Walker – Santa’Self (F*ck Your Christmas Party) – single
Rah Rah – Good Winter – Ho! Ho! Ho! Canada VI
Marshall Crenshaw – (It’s Going To Be A) Lonely Christmas – The dB’s & Friends: Christmas Time Again!
Teddy Thompson – Boycotting Christmas – single
The Violet Archers (featuring Ruedi, Sadie + Oliver) – Good King Edmund – The 2011 Zunior Holiday Blender
Dave Clark – So Lucky – Christmas Candy: The 2013 Zunior Holiday Album
The Woodshed Orchestra – Big Hit Song – Buzz
Nick Buzz – Uncle Bumbo’s Christmas – A Quiet Evening at Home
Bidiniband – Last of the Dead Wrong Things – In The Rock Hall
Shooting John – Bright Day – Moodswings
Whiskeytown – Don’t Be Sad – Pneumonia
Mike Dunn – Girl From Buffalo – Hard Luck Soft Rock
Justin Rutledge – Out Of The Woods – Valleyheart
Christina Martin – Falling For You – Sleeping With A Stranger

Holy cow, it’s December already! Luckily, we can ease into it, and the inevitable Christmas juggernaut, with some great music! We’ve also got some songs with deeper meaning, and a whole pile of new and old Steel Belted classics!

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Artist – Title – Album

Blue Shadows – If We Make It Through December – On The Floor Of Heaven – Deluxe Re-issue
Amelia Curran – December – Lullabies for Barflies
Shannon Lyon – December Song – El Sol
Malcolm Holcombe – Words Of December – Pitiful Blues
Teenage Fanclub – December – Bandwagonesque
The Lemonheads – December – The Lemonheads
Paul Kelly – How To Make Gravy – Words And Music
The Evaporators – Who Are You? – Ho Ho Ho Canada III
Erin McKeown – You Wish Us A Happy Holidays – F*ck That! Erin McKeown’s Anti-Holiday Album
Gord Downie – I Will Not Be Struck – Secret Path
John K. Samson – 17th Street Treatment Centre – Winter Wheat
Drive-By Truckers – Baggage – American Band
Drive-By Truckers – Guns Of Umpqua – American Band
Lydia Loveless – Out On Love – Real
Jon Dee Graham – (things might turn out) Right – Knoxville Skyline
Zachary Lucky – Make it on time – Everywhere A Man Can Be
Anthony da Costa – Go Steady – Da Costa
NQ Arbuckle – Huntsville Affair – Live At The Dakota
Three O’Clock Train – Train Of Dreams – Train Of Dreams
John Bottomley – Candle In The Dark – Blackberry
Calexico – Corona – Convict Pool
Eliza Gilkyson – Wonderland – Land Of Milk And Honey
Lissie – Record Collector – Catching A Tiger

This is the one where we play some new music, get a little bit political, and then try really hard to feel better about the mess that our world has become, and somehow, come out feeling a whole lot better!

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Artist – Title – Album

Brock Zeman – Hammer Them Stakes Down – The Carnival Is Back In Town
Brock Zeman – Freak Show – The Carnival Is Back In Town
Skye Wallace – Not Ready For This To Start – Something Wicked
Tami Neilson – Dynamite – Dynamite!
Ryan Granville-Martin – Eight (feat. Colleen Brown) – Mouthparts and Wings
Radney Foster – All that I Require – single
James McMurtry – Remembrance – single
Drive-By Truckers – What It Means – American Band
Tom Russell – Who’s Gonna Build Your Wall? – The Wounded Heart Of America
Joe Purdy – Maybe We’ll All Get Along Someday – Who Will Be Next?
Todd Snider – This Land Is Our Land – Songs For The Daily Planet
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – This Land Is Your Land – Naturally
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes? – Soul Time!
Townes Van Zandt – Hunger Child Blues – In the Beginning
Hayes Carll – Sit In With The Band – Little Rock
Corb Lund – Five Dollar Bill – Counterfeit Blues
Del Barber & The No Regretskys – Flame of Victory (Coach’s Corner Theme) – The Puck Drops Here
Del Barber & The No Regretskys – Clear The Track, Here Comes Shack – The Puck Drops Here
The 24th Street Wailers – Where Evil Grows – Where Evil Grows
Wayne Hancock – Slingin’ Rhythm – Slingin’ Rhythm

UMFM’s Pledge-O-Rama is almost over for another year, but on this final full day of action, we need to pull out all the stops in an effort to help the station make its goal! On tonight’s show, you’ll hear plenty shameless pitches designed to bring in your pledge, as well as plenty of exciting reasons why you should!

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Artist – Title – Album

The Damnwells – Lost – The Damnwells
The Damnwells – Kiss Catastrophe – Bastards of the Beat
Mike Dunn – Faith Healer – Hard Luck Soft Rock
Joshua Fletcher – Still Your Blues – Ready, Aim
Dan Bern – One Piece at a Time – Hoody
Darrell Scott – Country Music I’m Talking to You – 10: Songs Of Ben Bullington
Robert Earl Keen – Vincent Black Lightning – Happy Prisoner (The Bluegrass Sessions)
Leeroy Stagger – Sundown – Dream It All Away Tour EP
Mike Edel – Blue Above The Green – India, Seattle
Matt Epp – Ready in Time – Ready in Time
Christina Martin – Somewhere With You – It’ll Be Alright
Sweet Alibi – One Chance – Walking In The Dark
Dar Williams – Here Tonight – Emerald
Alabama Shakes – Don’t Wanna Fight – Sound & Color

A solid 90 minutes featuring great roots rockin’ music inspired by concerts past and present, as well as some great new music.

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Artist – Title – Album

Lydia Loveless – Same To You – Real
Drive-By Truckers – Zip City – Southern Rock Opera / Act I
Drive-By Truckers – Sink Hole – Decoration Day
Drive-By Truckers – Hell No, I Ain’t Happy – Decoration Day
The Replacements – Unsatisfied – Let It Be
The Replacements – Androgynous – Let It Be
Scott Nolan – Postcards – No Bourbon And Bad Radio
James McMurtry – How’m I Gonna Find You Now – Complicated Game
James McMurtry – Red Dress – Saint Mary Of The Woods
James McMurtry – Levelland – Live in Aught-Three
Mayhemingways – Bowling Green – Mayhemingways
Mayhemingways – Wanderers – Hunter St. Blues
Mayhemingways – Jenny Ran Away In The Mud – Hunter St. Blues
Fred Eaglesmith – Rodeo Boy – 50 Odd Dollars
Fred Eaglesmith – 105 – Lipstick Lies & Gasoline
Fred Eaglesmith – Careless – Cha Cha Cha
Buddy Miller Feat. Jill Andrews – Come Early Mornin’ – Cayamo Sessions At Sea
Sheila Carabine – Bear – All In
Aoife O’Donovan – Pearls – Man In A Neon Coat: Live From Cambridge
Lisa LeBlanc – Ace of Spades – Why You Wann Leave, Runaway Queen?
Liz Longley – Say Anything You Want – Weightless

Tonight we recap some huge Sunset Saloon news, spin a pile of great new music, and set ourselves up for a weekend road trip.

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Artist  – Title  – Album

Rueben deGroot – (So Long) Charlotte – Rocket Surgery
Rocket Surgery – Ain’t Thinking About That Right Now – Live At The Toucan
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Goodbye Blue Sky – Rebuild The Wall
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – The Parking Lot Song – Hearts and Lonely Hunters
Tony Furtado – Astoria – The Bell
Tony Furtado – These Chains – These Chains
William Prince – Earthly Days – Earthly Days
Stephen Fearing – Blowhard Nation – Every Soul’s a Sailor
Joe Purdy – Maybe We’ll All Get Along Someday – Who Will Be Next?
Joe Purdy – Who Will Be Next? – Who Will Be Next?
C.R. Avery – Hollywood Movie Blues – All the Angels didn’t Scare Me
Lisa LeBlanc – City Slickers and Country Boys – Why You Wann Leave, Runaway Queen?
Aoife O’Donovan – Boulder to Birmingham – Man In A Neon Coat: Live From Cambridge
Jon Dee Graham – Dan Stuart’s Blues – Knoxville Skyline
Dan Stuart – The Greatest – Can o’ Worms
Mike June – Jon Dee’s Blues – Poor Man’s Bible
Lydia Loveless – Midwestern Guys – Real
Drive-By Truckers – Filthy and Fried – American Band
Drive-By Truckers – The Righteous Path – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark

A bit of an abbreviated episode tonight as we head down to see Lynn Hanson at Times Change(d.) Some of her music, of course, as well as some stellar new releases and a solid set of rockin’ good times to end things off!

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Artist – Title – Album

Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen – Hard Times – Death’s Dateless Night
Mandolin Orange – Lonesome Whistle – Blindfaller
Matt the Electrician – Old Town Rock ‘n’ Roll – Highway Prayer: A tribute to Adam Carroll
Anthony Da Costa – Talking to You – Da Costa
BJ Barham – Reidsville – Rockingham
John Blek – Little Sparrow – Cut the Light
Lynne Hanson – Good Intentions – River of Sand
Lynne Hanson – River of Sand – River of Sand
Lynne Hanson – Heaven or Hell – recorded live on UMFM
The Hold Steady – Your Little Hoodrat Friend – Separation Sunday
The Replacements – I Hate Music – The Complete Studio Albums: 1981-1990
July Talk – Headsick – July Talk
Adam Baldwin – Tarred and Feathered – Adam Baldwin
Dustin Bentall & The Smokes – Every Chord that Rings – You Are an Island

We kick things off with a three-fer-Thursday where we heard 3 songs from 3 great artists with eagerly-awaited brand new music, then we talk upcoming shows and end things off with a female set designed to lead into Venus Envy, which follows us!

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Alex Dezen – Randolph Tonight – II
Alex Dezen – A Little less like Hell – Alex Dezen
Alex Dezen – California – California b/w Iowa (That’s Who We Are)
John K Samson – Postdoc Blues – Winter Wheat
John K Samson – When I Write my Master’s Thesis – Provincial
The Weakerthans – Night Windows – Reunion Tour
Jaxon Haldane – Twenty One – Hectic
Jaxon Haldane – Hectic – Hectic
Jaxon Haldane – They Don’t Build Shit to Last – Hectic
Scott Cook and the Long Weekends – I Live Down Here (with Raghu Lokanathan) – Go Long
Wax Mannequin – Volcano God – Festival Man
Supersuckers – Listen Up – Get It Together!
Chris Isaak – Go Walking Down There – Forever Blue
Chris Stapleton – Parachute – Traveller
Lindi Ortega – I Want You – Tin Star
Lissie – When I’m Alone – Catching a Tiger
Little Green Cars – My Love Took Me Down to the River to Silence Me – Absolute Zero
Chloe Albert – Where Did I Go Wrong? – Dream Catcher

Summer may be working its way toward fall, but we’re determined to enjoy every last minute, so a celebration of the season to kick things off, before we talk about upcoming shows and drop some big news about an unexpected shakeup in one of Canada’s biggest and best bands!

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Artist – Title – Album

Chuck Prophet – Summertime Thing – No Other Love
Radiogram – Summer Song Summer – All the Way Home
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood – Summer Wine – Nancy & Lee
The Mavericks – Summertime (When I’m with You) – Mono
Kathleen Edwards – Summerlong – Back to Me
Two Hours Traffic – Stuck for the Summer – Little Jabs
Chris Stapleton – Tennessee Whiskey – Traveller
Lindi Ortega – Jimmy Dean – Little Red Boots
The New Meanies – Scenic Anomaly – Three Seeds
Ray Ullenboom – Back to Berlin – March 2013 demo
Crooked Brothers – Organs on Demand – Thank You I’m Sorry
Red Moon Road – Beauty in these broken Bones – Sorrows and Glories
Greg Macpherson – Motel Hotel – Fireball
Shotgun Jimmie – Too Many Flowers – Transistor Sister
Slow Leaves – Life of a better Man – Beauty Is so Common
Blue Rodeo – Glad to Be Alive – Palace of Gold
Blue Rodeo – Tell Me Again – In Our Nature
Bob Egan – Comin’ Down Hard – Bob Egan