Episode 1156

We’re throwing it back with a show full of rockin’ and groovy favourites that would fit squarely onto the playlist for Steel Belted Free Range Radio, which aired on UMFM from 2003-2017. In theory, that show was a little more rockin’ and diverse than this show, and these forgotten gems are highlights on a playlist that I use to get me going when I’m biking or trying to get work done.

This is one of our standby series of episodes that are meant to be timeless, so we can pop them into the schedule again some time when I can’t be at the studio live, so enjoy this one now and again!

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Artist – Song Title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – MB=Manitoba Artist – WPG=Winnipeg artist

Ray LaMontagne – How Come – Trouble
The Decemberists – O Valencia! – The Crane Wife
Clem Snide – Fill Me with your Light – End of Love
Chris Mills – Living In The Aftermath – Living In The Aftermath

Feist – Past In Present – The Reminder – CDN
Jason Collett – No Redemption Song – Here’s To Being Here – CDN
Joel Plaskett – Sailors Eyes – Three – CDN
Ron Hawkins – War Without End – Constellations EP – CDN

Richard Buckner – Town – Meadow
James McMurtry – Safe Side – Candyland
Rodney Crowell – Topsy Turvy – The Houston Kid
Peter Case – Travellin’ Light – The Man With The Blue Postmodern fragmented neo-traditionalist Guitar
Sarah Borges & Broken Singles – Me And Your Ghost – The Stars Are Out

Howie Beck – Flashover – How To Fall Down In Public – CDN
Hemingway Corner – Annabelle – Under The Big Sky – CDN
Iain Matthews – Back Of The Bus – Skeleton Keys
The Duhks – You Don’t See It – Fast Paced World – CDN – WPG
Cory Chisel And The Wandering Sons – Curious Thing – Death Won’t Send A Letter

Bob Marley & The Wailers – Natural Mystic – Exodus
Fish & Bird – My Head My Heart My Gut – Left Brain Blues – CDN
Gurf Morlix – One More Second – Last Exit To Happyland
Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer – Furr

Jesse DeNatale – Shangri-La West – Shangri-La West
Barenaked Ladies – Blame It On Me – Gordon – CDN
Chatham County Line – Country Boy/City Boy – IV
Ben Gibbard & Jay Farrar – These Roads Don’t Move – One Fast Move Or I’m Gone

Josh Rouse – Comeback (Light Therapy) – 1972
Paul Kelly – Nothing But a Dream – Ways & Means
Camper Van Beethoven – Sweethearts – Key Lime Pie
David Gray – Fugitive – Draw The Line

Chloe Albert – Back Again – Dedicated State – CDN
Rose Cousins – Edmonton – If You Were For Me – CDN
Chris Neufeld – Reinventing Miss Exciting – Colorado Low – CDN – WPG
Greg Macpherson – The Song – The Year of the Record Break – CDN – WPG
Reid Jamieson – The Sum Of Your Parts – The Unavoidable Truth – CDN

Will Kimbrough – Less Polite – Americanitis
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – If I Am A Stranger – Cold Roses
Josh Ritter – Open Doors – The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter
Lucero – Sounds Of The City – 1372 Overton Park
Nick Lowe – Nutted By Reality – Jesus of Cool

Episode #1155

Some songs I’ve been bingeing this week, timely tunes, new music, requests, some leftovers from last week’s Essential Albums special, and some old classics. Fun stuff!

Listening suggestions
Boots & Saddle Show: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/bootsandsaddle/
Dagwood Radio: umfm.com/programming/shows/dagwood-radio
Heavyweight: pushkin.fm/podcasts/heavyweight
Last week’s special episode: tellthebandtogohome.com/2026/10/11/podcast-october-11-2026-essential-albums/

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Artist – Song Title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – MB=Manitoba Artist – WPG=Winnipeg artist

Luke Doucet And The White Falcon – Motorbike – Blood’s Too Rich – CDN

Tom Waits – Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards) – Closing Time
Tom Waits – Martha – Closing Time
Cam Penner – She’s In My Head – Trouble & Mercy – CDN
Jenny Orenstein – Ice Cream – Astroturf – CDN
The Everly Brothers – Roving Gambler – Songs Our Daddy Taught Us

Kings Of The Moon – Leaves – Kings Of The Moon – CDN – WPG
Ryland Moranz – Israel – Xo, 1945 – CDN
The Weakerthans – Sun in an Empty Room – Reunion Tour – CDN – WPG
Arts Fishing Club – Who Are You – Pocket Full Of Mumbles

Boy Golden – Meadowsweet (Acoustic) – Best of Our Possible Lives (Deluxe) – CDN – WPG
FONTINE – Imposter – single – CDN – WPG

The Sways – Someday We Will Dream About Today – Are We Already There?
Amble – Church Bells – Church Bells
Olivia Wolf & Buddy Miller – Galilee – Snake of Diamonds
Cara Luft – My Heart Will Always Be – My Heart Will Always Be – CDN – WPG

John Blek – Living Slow – Digressions #4 Living Slow
Jordie Lane – Habitual – Habitual
David Newbould – All I’ve Got In Front Of Me Is The Past – All I’ve Got In Front Of Me Is The Past – CDN
Deer Tick & The Felice Brothers – Run Chicken Run – Felice County Fair (A Celebration of The Felice Brothers)
The Decemberists – The Better Part Of Bravery – Wildwood Soundtrack

Billy Bragg & Wilco – Aginst Th’ Law (Alternate Version) – Mermaid Avenue The Complete Sessions
Wilco – Far, Far Away – Being There
Son Volt – Last Minute Shakedown – Straightaways

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Lace and Pretty Flowers – High or Hurtin’: The Songs of Willie P. Bennett – CDN
Willie P. Bennett – Breaking The Silence – Take My Own Advice – CDN
Guy Clark – The Cape – Dublin Blues
John Hiatt – Real Fine Love – Stolen Moments

Richard & Linda Thompson – For Shame Of Doing Wrong – Pour Down Like Silver
Neko Case – The Tigers Have Spoken – The Tigers Have Spoken
Jay Farrar & Kelly Willis – Travelin’ Light – The Other Bob a Tribute to Bob Neuwirth
R.E.M. – Wall of Death – New Adventures In Hi-Fi (25th Anniversary Edition)
River Shook – Country Angel – Country Angel

Catherine MacLellan – The Long Way Home – Church Bell Blues – CDN
Gene MacLellan – The Call – Gene MacLellan – CDN
Al Tuck – Feeling Single, Seeing Double – Fair Country – CDN
Old Man Luedecke – Joy Of Cooking – Hinterland – CDN
Steven Bowers – Comfortably Sweet (feat. Christina Martin) – Circadian Anthem EP – CDN
Ron Hynes – Godspeed (Requiem for Gene MacLellan) – Face To The Gale – CDN

Episode #1154

The latest music nerd social media trend, My9, which asks users to “Pick the 9 albums that made you” is equal parts infuriating and intriguing. How could you ever boil down a lifetime of music to 9 albums? Well, it turns out that I absolutely cannot. I made 4 different lists of 9 and still left dozens out. Today on the show, we hear music from a bunch of albums that made me, and once again, failed to even come close to covering them all.

Scroll down to see my social media images, and then go make your own; I’d love to see it!

To see even more from my lists, you can check out the playlists that represent my different eras:

Early Influences

Middle Period/Great Awakening

Modern Favourites

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Artist – Song Title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – MB=Manitoba Artist – WPG=Winnipeg artist

Men at Work – It’s a Mistake – Cargo

Supertramp – The Logical Song – Breakfast in America
Corey Hart – Eurasian Eyes – Boy In The Box – CDN
Huey Lewis & the News – Finally Found a Home – Sports
Honeymoon Suite – New Girl Now – Honeymoon Suite – CDN

Derek & The Dominos – I Looked Away – Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – Love Struck Baby – Texas Flood
The Jeff Healey Band – My Little Girl – See the Light – CDN
Pat Travers – Women on the Edge of Love – Hot Shot

The Pursuit of Happiness – Hard to Laugh – Love Junk – CDN
The Smithereens – Blues Before and After – 11
Loverboy – Friday Night – Lovin’ Every Minute Of It – CDN
Van Halen – Light up the Sky – Van Halen II
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Pump It Up – This Year’s Model

Kings of the Moon – Coming Home – Kings of the Moon – CDN – WPG
Spirit of the West – Profiteers – Labour Day – CDN
Rheostatics – Record Body Count – Melville – CDN
Lowest of the Low – Salesmen, Cheats and Liars – Shakespeare My Butt… – CDN
The Weakerthans – Watermark – Left and Leaving – CDN – WPG

Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories – Stay – Tails
Sarah Harmer – Around this Corner – You Were Here – CDN
Lucinda Williams – Metal Firecracker – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Nathan – Australia – Stranger – CDN – WPG
Oh Susanna – Home Soon (The Cherry Song) – Johnstown – CDN

Jimmy Lafave – I Walk Along with You – Buffalo Return to the Plains
Danny Michel – Toledo – In the Belly of a Whale – CDN
Slaid Cleaves – Broke Down – Broke Down
Shannon Lyon – Naive – Wandered – CDN
John Bottomley – You Lose and you Gain – Blackberry – CDN

Jim Bryson – Feel Much Better – The North Side Benches – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – 12 Bellevue – Failer – CDN
Mike Plume Band – Wind at My Back – Song and Dance, Man – CDN
Joel Stewart and the Future Hall of Famers – Our Finest Hour – Songs for Stadiums – CDN
Skydiggers – Radio Waves – Road Radio – CDN

The Wailin’ Jennys – One Voice – 40 Days – CDN – WPG
Brandi Carlile – Josephine – The Story
Christina Martin – You Come Home – Two Hearts – CDN
Terra Lightfoot – Paradise – New Mistakes – CDN
Leaf Rapids – Healing Feeling – Lucky Stars – CDN – WPG

Sean Burns – Gasoline – It Takes Luck To Get The Best Of Me – CDN – WPG
Brock Zeman – Pulling your Sword – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN
JP Hoe – Nicest – The Dear John Letters – CDN – WPG
Del Barber – If I Told You that I Loved You – Love Songs for the Last 20 – CDN – WPG

Episode #1153

New music, trucking songs in honour of 10/4, and an hour of feel-good favourites guaranteed to make you forget about your problems for a while!

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Artist – Song Title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – MB=Manitoba Artist – WPG=Winnipeg artist

Martin Tielli – Cruelty – single – CDN

Angela Autumn – Electric Lizard – Believer
Kiki Cavazos – I’m Gone – Early Mountain Songs
Kaitlin Butts – What More Could You Want – Hello, Honky Tonk
Dala – Love With A Broken Heart – The Big Bang – CDN

Ian Noe – What I’d Give – Canyon Falls Trailer Band
Flatland Cavalry – Life, Love, and Happiness (Entertainer’s Lament) – Work of Heart: Heartstrings
Martyn Joseph – If I Should Fall – Revolved

The Secret Beach – If You Don’t Love Me, Let Me Go – We were born here, what’s your excuse? – CDN – MB
Dan Mangan – Post-War Blues – Oh Fortune – CDN
Dan Mangan – Robots – Nice, Nice, Very Nice – CDN
Dan Mangan – So Much for Everyone – recorded live on UMFM – CDN

Sean Burns & Lost Country – Big(ger) Freightliner – We Gotta Lotta Truckin’ To Do – CDN – WPG
Parker Millsap – Truck Stop Gospel – Parker Millsap
Son Volt – Looking at the World Through a Windshield – A Retrospective 1995-2000
Junior Brown – Highway Patrol – Junior High
Junior Brown – Broke Down South Of Dallas – 12 Shades Of Brown
Red Sovine – Phantom 309 – Phantom 309

Fred Eaglesmith – Water In The Fuel – Lipstick, Lies And Gasoline – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – 18 Wheels – Milly’s Café – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Trucker Speed – 6Volts – CDN
David Francey – Highway – Far End Of Summer – CDN
David Francey – Border Line (feat. David Francey) – Torn Screen Door – CDN

Richard Shindell – The Kenworth Of My Dreams – Sparrows Point
The Bottle Rockets – Highway 70 Blues – Bit Logic
Mayhemingways – Frances the Truck Driver – Skip Land – CDN

Caroline Rose – Yip Yip Yow – Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall
The Mountain Goats – Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds – Days
The Burning Hell – Amateur Rappers – People – CDN
Plastic Bertrand – Ca plane pour moi – Plastic Bertrand
Fontaines D.C. – Boys in the Better Land – Dogrel

Donnie Iris – Ah! Leah! – Back on the Streets
Nick Lowe – Cruel to Be Kind – Labour of Lust
Doug and the Slugs – Day by Day – Slugcology 101 – CDN
Toronto – Ready To Make Up – Girls Night Out – CDN
The New Pornographers – Letter From An Occupant – Mass Romantic – CDN

Paul Kelly – Dumb Things – Under the Sun
Rose Tattoo – All the Lessons – Assault & Battery
Frank Turner – Reasons Not to Be an Idiot – Love Ire & Song
Junkhouse – Be Someone – Birthday Boy – CDN
Jeremy Messersmith – Lazy Bones – The Reluctant Graveyard

Episode #1152

High school nostalgia, an unexpected listening party for a Canadian classic, a show that I found rather disappointing, new music, we say thanks & goodbye to the great David Corley, and we preview the eagerly anticipated return of Carter Felker along with his pals in Starpainter!

Chris Brown & Kate Fenner‘s Geronimo: katefennerandhughchristopherbrown.bandcamp.com/album/geronimo

David Corley: davidcorley.bandcamp.com

Starpainter & Carter Felker: sidestagewpg.com/tm-event/starpainter-sam-singer-carter-felker

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Artist – Song Title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – MB=Manitoba Artist – WPG=Winnipeg artist

NQ Arbuckle – Happy Birthday – Hanging the Battle-Scarred Piñata – CDN

Kings Of The Moon – Procrastination – Kings Of The Moon – CDN – WPG
Duck Shot Hunter – Lines – Duck Shot Hunter – CDN – WPG

Lyle Lovett – Closing Time – Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett – Walk Through The Bottomland – Pontiac
Lyle Lovett – Simple Song – Pontiac
Lyle Lovett – Just The Morning – I Love Everybody

Chris Brown & Kate Fenner – While You Sleep – Geronimo – CDN
Chris Brown & Kate Fenner – My Love Is not Waiting – Geronimo – CDN
Chris Brown & Kate Fenner – Margaret – Geronimo – CDN

Jim Bryson – in six (Plush Finley) – LOWER THAN FI – Volume 1 – CDN
Todd Snider – Freewheelin’ (Every Day at a Time) – My Second Rodeo
Matthew Barber – These Days – Find The Time – CDN

Chip Taylor – Don’t Let It Happen Again – single
Dan Reeder – I will be blowing more jazz in the future – single
Noel McKay – Terrifically Vain – Songs About Bad People
Teddy Thompson – Call Your Girlfriend – single
Buddy Miller – Ruby Hang On (feat. Regina McCrary) – Buddy Miller

Damhnait Doyle – Bad Bad Women – Bird in Flames – CDN
Lydia Loveless – Accolades – Accolades
Julia Jacklin – Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon) – The Gem
Garrison Starr – It’s Alright – The Gospel Truth
Hannah Aldridge – Birds of Paradise – single

Starpainter – I Found a River – Cayenne Flowerbed – CDN
Rayland Baxter – Bolly Plateau – True Violet
Joey Frendo – Two Steps – single
Jack Browning – Muhlenberg County Stars (Acoustic) – Painted Skies – CDN
Jake Xerxes Fussell – Rock Island Line – The Old Beloved Path

David Corley – Easy Mistake – Available Light
David Corley – Pullin’ Off The Wool – Lights Out
David Corley – Whirl – Zero Moon
David Corley – Take Me Down Some – live recording

Stephen Stanley Band – 40 Endings – Jimmy & the Moon – CDN
Hugh Christopher Brown – Moved by Hands to Shelter – Pacem – CDN
David Corley – To Live Is to Fly (feat. Sarah McDermott & Hugh Christopher Brown) – When the Wind Blows: The Songs of Townes Van Zandt

Carter Felker – Everyday Life – Everyday Life – CDN
Carter Felker – Living Free – Even The Happy Ones Are Sad – CDN
Carter Felker – Losing Hand – Loser – CDN
Carter Felker – I Can’t Believe – Skinny Dyck & Friends: Twenty One-Nighters – CDN