Episode #659

Like the leaves, great new music just seems to be raining down these days, so we’ve got a pile to sift through. We’ve also got some HUGE Sunset Saloon news as we announce two amazing shows that are going to make it a November to remember!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Lydia Loveless – Heaven – Real
The Handsome Family – Gold – Unseen
Southern Culture on the Skids – Rice and Beans – The Electric Pinecones
Mekons and Robbie Fulks – Refill – Jura
John Paul White – I’ve Been over this Before (w/ The Secret Sisters) – Beulah
Billy Bragg and Joe Henry – Gentle on my Mind – Shine a Light: Field Recordings From the Great American Railroad
The Mavericks – Harvest Moon – All Night Live Vol. 1

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Mandolin Orange – Echo – Blindfaller
Skye Wallace – Rumbling Soul – Something Wicked – CDN
Paul Kelly – Sonnet 18 – Seven Sonnets and a Song
Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen – Hard Times – Death’s Dateless Night
Zachary Lucky – Make It on Time – Everywhere a Man can Be – CDN
Zachary Lucky – Helsinki – demos volume 1 – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Abbie Gardner & Anthony da Costa – Let Me Die in your Arms – Bad Nights/Better Days
Anthony da Costa & The Sentimentals – My Own Bed – single
The Loved – How Do You Fall in Love? – The Loved
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Mother – Rebuild the Wall – CDN
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Broken Fuckin’ Heart – Guitar Pickin’ Martyrs – CDN
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – $s to Doughnuts – Roger’s Waltz – CDN
Weeping Tile – Basement Apt. – Eepee – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Rueben de Groot – The Savings and Loan – Rocket Surgery – CDN
Tony Furtado – Dying Language – The Bell
Tony Furtado – Some of Shelly’s Blues – American Gypsy
Tony Furtado – Fortunate Son – Thirteen
NQ Arbuckle – Danko/Manuel – live recording – CDN

Episode #658

Today we need to commemorate the day in 2001 that the whole world changed, as well as the day in 2003 when Steel Belted Radio began. We also have another pile of great new music, and a tribute to a living legend who’s coming to town right away, as well as a couple of other upcoming shows!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mike Plume Band – Steel Belted Radio – The Steel Belted Radio EP – CDN
Lisa Winn – Cover my Eyes – Out from Under – CDN
Bruce Springsteen – My City of Ruin – America: A Tribute to Heroes
Alex Dezen – A Little Less Like Hell – Alex Dezen
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Beautiful Scars (w/ City and Colour) – Kings and Kings – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Scott Nolan – Rain – Highway Prayer – A Tribute to Adam Carroll – CDN – WPG
Dwight Yoakam – Purple Rain – Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars…
Sean Rowe – Girl Like You – All We Can Do – EP
Dolly Parton – Stairway to Heaven – The Acoustic Collection 1999-2002
The Wailin’ Jennys – Light of a Clear Blue Morning – The Year Dolly Parton Was my Mom – CDN – WPG
Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton – Just Someone I Used to Know – Dolly Parton (Box Set sampler)

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Dolly Parton – Jolene – Dolly Parton (box set sampler)
Johnny Cash – I’m a Drifter (with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) – Unearthed II: Trouble in Mind
Justin Townes Earle & Dawn Landes – Do I Ever Cross your Mind – single
Robbie Fulks – Jeannie’s Afraid of the Dark – 13 Hillbilly Giants
Bettye Lavette – Little Sparrow – I’ve Got my own Hell to Raise
Lynne Hanson – Heaven and Hell – River of Sand – CDN
Lynne Hanson – Rest of my Days – Once the Sun Goes Down – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Lynne Hanson – Foolish Things – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Steve Earle – Someday – Guitar Town
Steve Earle – Fearless Heart – Guitar Town
Shawn Colvin – Crazy – single
Patty Griffin – Change – Flaming Red

Episode #657

Summer may be over, but there were so many great memories this year that should sustain me for a while. Today a loving look back at some of the highlights, as well as some great new music, some upcoming concert news, and in honour of the long weekend, an extra long episode with a solid set of classics after 4:00!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Scott Nolan – You Rock We Roll – Montgomery Eldorado – CDN – WPG
Civil Twilight – Too Far Gone – Songs from Low Winter Sun
Anthony da Costa – Sometimes You Think You Know – Da Costa
Tuns – Lonely Life – Tuns – CDN
Jon Dee Graham & William Harries Graham – Thoughts after Midnight – single
Hoots & Hellmouth – Diction – In the Trees
Steve Cropper – Dedicated to the One I Love (with Lucinda Williams & Dan Penn) – Dedicated
Claire Lynch – Andrew’s Waltz – North by South

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Erin Rae – Monticello – Soon Enough
The Dead South – Banjo Odyssey – Good Company – CDN
James McMurtry and the Heartless Bastards – Choctaw Bingo – Live in Aught-Three
James McMurtry – How’m I Gonna Find You Now – Complicated Game

3:00 – 3:30 pm

William Prince – 7 – single – CDN – WPG
James Hill – Promenade – The Old Silo – CDN
Jon Brooks – Cage Fighter – Delicate Cages – CDN
Gretchen Peters – The Matador – Hello Cruel World
Three O’Clock Train – Train of Dreams – Train of Dreams EP – CDN
Ford Madox Ford – Expect It – Expect It / Before the Fall

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Bobby Bare Jr. – Valentine – From the End of your Leash
Robbie Fulks – Let’s Kill Saturday Night – Let’s Kill Saturday Night
Jon Langford & his Sadies – Are You an Entertainer? – Mayors of the Moon
Brock Zeman – Walking in the Dark – The Pinball Sessions – CDN
Jim Bryson – The Depression Dance – Somewhere We Will Find Our Place – CDN
The Young Novelists – Always Make the Mistake – Made Us Strangers – CDN
100 Mile House – Better, Still – Hollow Ponds – CDN
Blackie & the Rodeo Kings – Summertime’s Over – South – CDN

4:00 – 4:30 pm

Lydia Loveless – Same to You – Real
Lucero – Tears Don’t Matter Much – Live from Atlanta
The Hold Steady – Stay Positve – Stay Positve
The Damnwells – I Am a Leaver – Air Stereo
The Guthries – Season to Leave – Off Windmill – CDN

Episode #656

A bunch of great new music to kick things off, some wonderful live shows past and future, and we dive into the rich, deep, and inspiring catalogue of Wyckham Porteous, who ran into some serious health (and subsequent financial) issues in Scotland recently.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Wyckham Porteous – Deep into the Water – 3 AM – CDN
The Minus 5 – Mickey’s a cool Drummer – Of Monkees and Men
The Minus 5 – Richmond Fontaine – Of Monkees and Men
Alex Dezen – Randolph Tonight – II
Butch Walker – East Coast Girl – Stay Gold
Butch Walker – Ludlow Expectations – Stay Gold

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Richmond Fontaine – Claude Murray’s Breakdown – The High Country
Richmond Fontaine – Postcard from California – Post to Wire
Richmond Fontaine – Post to Wire – Post to Wire
BJ Barham – American Tobacco Company – Rockingham
BJ Barham – Rockingham – Rockingham
Jaxon Haldane – I Will Be the One – Hectic – CDN – WPG
Jaxon Haldane – Crystal – Down in Oklahoma – CDN – WPG

3:00 – 3:30 pm

D. Rangers – Trying to Start out Clean – Barbaric Cultural Practices – CDN – WPG
D. Rangers – Trois Rivieres – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
Wyckham Porteous – Blind Love – Could It Be my Road? – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Somebody Gonna Dance – Wyckham Porteous – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – 3 a.m. – Looking for Ground – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Jimmy Lafave – In this World – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Feel Alright – sexanddrinking – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Stellar Band of Neighbours – You Should Have Been There – Live at the Legion Hall – CDN
BOP Ensemble – Husbands & Wives – Between Trains – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Hungry Heart – 3 AM – CDN
Martyn Joseph – The Promise – recorded live on UMFM
Ryan Adams – Wonderwall – Love Is Hell
Bobby Bare Jr – Sister Golden Hair Alpha – The American Bread EP