Podcast: Steel Belted Radio – May 26, 2016

Another show, another sad tribute. This week we found out that a true cultural icon and a tireless supporter of great Canadian talent has terminal brain cancer. Although we don’t generally play a lot of Tragically Hip on the show, today was definitely a day to break the rule and show some love and appreciation for a band that means so much to Canada. As if that weren’t enough, beloved local band The Duhks called it a day.

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Artist – Title – Album

The Tragically Hip – Small Town Bringdown – The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip – Highway Girl/Double Suicide – Roxy and Elsewhere
The Tragically Hip – I’ll Believe in You (or I’ll Be Leaving You Tonight) – Up to Here
Justin Rutledge – Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin’ Man – Daredevil
Selina Martin and the Faceless Faces of Bigness – Grace, Too – Have Not Been the Same Vol 1: Too Cool to Live too Smart to Die
The Tragically Hip – Long Time Running – Road Apples
Martin Tielli – Bobcaygeon – unreleased
Chris Koster – Fully Completely – 7th Fire Records 7″ Series
The Duhks – Four Blue Walls – The Duhks
The Duhks – Mountain’s o’ Things – Migrations
The Duhks – Mighty Storm – Fast Paced World
The Duhks – Beyond the Blue – Beyond the Blue
Rheostatics – Record Body Count – Melville
Thomas Trio and the Red Albino – Sun Rising – Thomas Trio and the Red Albino
The Tragically Hip – Nautical Disaster – Day for Night

Playlist: Episode #644 Sunday, May 29, 2016

After last week’s single-artist special, we return to a mixed bag again today, with some talk about house concerts past and future, some festivals, some great locals, and some more great Guy Clark songs, featuring covers and co-writes!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Verlon Thompson – Cindy (with Guy Clark) – Out at the Barn
Post Script – Grande Prairie – Post Script – CDN
Post Script – Dear Marie – If not for You – CDN
Mike Plume – Five Crow Silver – Five Crow Silver EP – CDN
Brock Zeman – The Moon ain’t Full – unreleased – CDN
David Olney – Don’t Try to Fight It – unreleased

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Jay Aymar – I’ll Leave when I’m Ready to Go – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Mayhemingways – Hunter St. Blues – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Jim Bryson – One Cigarette – The Occasionals – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Suddenly – The Lights Behind – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

William Prince – Breathless – Earthly Days – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan & Joanna Miller – The Last One – North / South – CDN – WPG
Quinton Blair – 300 000 KM – Cash Crop – CDN – MB
Del Barber & The No Regretskys – Sawchuk – The Puck Drops Here – CDN – WPG
Paul Kelly – Please Leave your Light on – Stolen Apples
Paul Kelly & The Stormwater Boys – They Thought I Was Asleep – Foggy Highway

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Verlon Thompson – Sideman’s Dream – Polished Steel Sessions
Verlon Thompson – Boats to Build – Live at the Ivey’s
Darrell Scott – Out in the Parking Lot (with Guy Clark) – Long Ride Home
Gary Nicholson – Somedays You Write the Song – Texas Songbook
Terry Allen – Queenie’s Song – Bottom of the World
Joe Ely – Magdalene – Panhandle Rambler
Chip Taylor – One Hell of a Guy (with Guy Clark) – 16 Angels Dancing ‘cross the Moon

4:00 – 4:35 pm

Bill Chambers – Magnolia Wind – Drifting South
Shawn Camp – Soldier’s Joy 1864 – Live at the Station Inn
Foster & Lloyd – Picasso’s Mandolin – It’s Already Tomorrow
Foster & Lloyd – Fair Shake – Faster & Llouder
The Cicadas – Our Little Town – The Cicadas
Rodney Crowell – The Rose of Memphis – Let the Picture Paint Itself
Hayes Carll – Rivertown – Little Rock
Kris Kristofferson – Under the Gun – A Moment of Forever

Podcast: May 22, 2016 – Let Him Roll: A Tribute to Guy Clark w/Aaron Goss, Mike Plume, and John Wort Hannam

Hanging with Guy Clark at the Edmonton Folk Festival in 2011

Hanging with Guy Clark at the Edmonton Folk Festival in 2011

Episode #643

This show is built on a solid base of the greatest songs and greatest songwriters of all time, and this week we lost Guy Clark, who’s indisputably one of the best there ever was. The thing about Guy is that for every one of his timeless songs, there is a story about a funny run-in with Guy or about how someone has been influenced by him. Today we covered a mixture of both, with a bunch of his greatest songs, and some special guests calling in to swap stories about their brushes with greatness. We were fortunate enough to hear from Aaron Goss (of The D. Rangers), Mike Plume, and John Wort Hannam!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Lyle Lovett – Step Inside this House – Step Inside this House
Guy Clark – Let Him Roll – Old No. 1
Guy Clark – Rita Ballou – Old No. 1

Aaron Goss interview

Guy Clark – Desperados Waiting for a Train – Old No. 1

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Mike Plume interview

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Guy Clark – The Randall Knife – Dublin Blues
Mike Plume – The Best Job I Ever Had – Table for One – CDN

John Wort Hannam interview

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Guy Clark – The Guitar – Somedays the Song Writes You
Guy Clark – Boats to Build – Boats to Build

4:00 – 4:30 pm

Scott Nolan – One Little Spark – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
John Wort Hannam – Sweet Sweet Rose – Two Bit Suit – CDN
Mike Plume – Back of my Hand – Live @ The Iron Horse 09/28/2001 – CDN
Guy Clark – The Cape – Dublin Blues
Guy Clark – My Favorite Picture of You – My Favorite Picture of You

Playlist: Episode #643 Sunday, May 22, 2016 – Let Him Roll: A Tribute to Guy Clark

This show is built on a solid base of the greatest songs and greatest songwriters of all time, and this week we lost Guy Clark, who’s indisputably one of the best there ever was. The thing about Guy is that for every one of his timeless songs, there is a story about a funny run-in with Guy or about how someone has been influenced by him. Today we covered a mixture of both, with a bunch of his greatest songs, and some special guests calling in to swap stories about their brushes with greatness. We were fortunate enough to hear from Aaron Goss (of The D. Rangers), Mike Plume, and John Wort Hannam!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Lyle Lovett – Step Inside this House – Step Inside this House
Guy Clark – Let Him Roll – Old No. 1
Guy Clark – Rita Ballou – Old No. 1

Aaron Goss interview

Guy Clark – Desperados Waiting for a Train – Old No. 1

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Mike Plume interview

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Guy Clark – The Randall Knife – Dublin Blues
Mike Plume – The Best Job I Ever Had – Table for One – CDN

John Wort Hannam interview

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Guy Clark – The Guitar – Somedays the Song Writes You
Guy Clark – Boats to Build – Boats to Build

4:00 – 4:30 pm

Scott Nolan – One Little Spark – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
John Wort Hannam – Sweet Sweet Rose – Two Bit Suit – CDN
Mike Plume – Back of my Hand – Live @ The Iron Horse 09/28/2001 – CDN
Guy Clark – The Cape – Dublin Blues
Guy Clark – My Favorite Picture of You – My Favorite Picture of You

Podcast: Steel Belted Radio – May 19, 2016 – Guy Clark Tribute (Old No. 1)

A tribute to the late great Guy Clark, one of the best damn songwriters that ever lived!

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Artist – Title – Album

Guy Clark – The Randall Knife – A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver: Live
Guy Clark – To Live’s to Fly – Poet: a Tribute to Townes van Zandt
Guy Clark – Good Hearted Woman – Lonesome, On’ry and Mean: A Tribute to Waylon Jennings
Guy Clark – In the Jailhouse Now – Guy Clark
Guy Clark – Honky Tonk Song – Caught in the Webb: A Tribute to the Legendary Webb Pierce
Guy Clark – Wild Man From Borneo – Pearls in the Snow,the Songs of Kinky Friedman
Guy Clark – Walk and Don’t Walk – Unsung Hero – A Tribute to the Music of Ron Davies
Guy Clark – Fort Worth Blues – Cold Dog Soup
Guy Clark – Voila, an American Dream – Guy Clark
Red Moon Joe – Guy Clark – Midnight Trains
Rodney Crowell – The Flyboy & the Kid – Tarpaper Sky
Rodney Crowell – Stuff that Works – Let the Picture Paint itself
Guy Clark & Townes Van Zandt – The Interfaith Dental Clinic – Together at the Bluebird Cafe
Townes Van Zandt – Heavenly Houseboat Blues – Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971 – 1972
Jerry Jeff Walker – L.A. Freeway – Great Gonzos
Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson – Desperados Waiting for a Train – Highwayman
Great Lake Swimmers – Dublin Blues – OndaDrops Vol. 4: Oneway Ticket To Nowhere
Ron Sexsmith – Broken Hearted People – This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark (This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark)
John Wort Hannam – With the Grain – Queen’s Hotel
Mike Plume – You Ain’t Livin’ if you don’t Die Tryin’ – single
Scott Nolan – Daytime Moon – No Bourbon and Bad Radio

Podcast: May 15, 2016

Episode #642

Today we’ve got another heaping helping of great new music and a mini-tribute to Tom Petty, which led into a great “overtime” set of great old school tunes!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Hard Working Americans – Opening Statement – Rest in Chaos
Jack Marks – Wicked Moon – Wicked Moon – CDN
Richmond Fontaine – Whitey and Me (Don’t Ride him Down) – You Can’t Go Back if there’s Nothing to Go Back to
Graham Nash – Another Broken Heart – This Path Tonight
JF Robitaille – Missing You (featuring Julie Doiron) – Palace Blues – CDN
Skydiggers – One in a Hundred – Here without You (The Songs of Gene Clark) – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Whitehorse – Big Boss Man – The Northern South Vol. 1 – CDN
Del Barber & The No Regretskys – A Game Goin’ On – The Puck Drops Here – CDN – WPG
Dave Gunning – Breaker’s Yard – Lift – CDN
David Myles – One in a Million – So Far – CDN
David Myles – Quiet after Violence – Here Now Is – CDN
Classified & David Myles – Work Away – Greatful – CDN
Mike Plume – A Song for Alberta – single – CDN
Joe Nolan – Angel of Alberta – single – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Gordon Lightfoot – Alberta Bound – Songbook – CDN
Corb Lund – Alberta Says Hello – Losin’ Lately Gambler – CDN
Chris Brown & Kate Fenner – Alberta Sky – O Witness – CDN
Alex Dezen – California – California B/W Iowa (That’s Who We Are)
Alex Dezen – Into the Hands of Hazleden – Alex Dezen
Alex Dezen – Iowa (That’s Who We Are) – California B/W Iowa (That’s Who We Are)

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Emma-Lee – What Would Tom Petty Do? – single – CDN
JP Hoe – You’re so Bad – Indie Kitchen Sessions – CDN – WPG
Leeroy Stagger & The Wildflowers – Swingin’ – live recording – CDN
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Even the Losers – Damn the Torpedoes
Barney Bentall and The Legendary Hearts – Come Back to Me – Barney Bentall and The Legendary Hearts – CDN
Crowded House – Something so Strong – Recurring Dream

4:00 – 4:35 pm

Huey Lewis & The News – You Crack Me Up – Sports
The Pursuit of Happiness – Killed by Love – Love Junk – CDN
Paul Kelly and the Messengers – Dumb Things – Under the Sun
The Lowest of the Low – Motel 30 – Hallucigenia – CDN
The Lemonheads – Mrs. Robinson – It’s a Shame about Ray
Big Star – When my Baby’s Beside Me – #1 Record/Radio City
The Replacements – Alex Chilton – Don’t You Know Who I Think I Was?
Cracker – Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now) – Greatest Hits Redux
Camper van Beethoven – Take the Skinheads Bowling – Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty
Elvis Costello – Watching the Detectives – My Aim Is True
Rheostatics & Bourbon Tabernacle Choir – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – Borrowed Tunes: A Tribute to Neil Young – CDN

Playlist: Episode #642 Sunday, May 15, 2016

Today we’ve got another heaping helping of great new music and a mini-tribute to Tom Petty, which led into a great “overtime” set of great old school tunes!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Hard Working Americans – Opening Statement – Rest in Chaos
Jack Marks – Wicked Moon – Wicked Moon – CDN
Richmond Fontaine – Whitey and Me (Don’t Ride him Down) – You Can’t Go Back if there’s Nothing to Go Back to
Graham Nash – Another Broken Heart – This Path Tonight
JF Robitaille – Missing You (featuring Julie Doiron) – Palace Blues – CDN
Skydiggers – One in a Hundred – Here without You (The Songs of Gene Clark) – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Whitehorse – Big Boss Man – The Northern South Vol. 1 – CDN
Del Barber & The No Regretskys – A Game Goin’ On – The Puck Drops Here – CDN – WPG
Dave Gunning – Breaker’s Yard – Lift – CDN
David Myles – One in a Million – So Far – CDN
David Myles – Quiet after Violence – Here Now Is – CDN
Classified & David Myles – Work Away – Greatful – CDN
Mike Plume – A Song for Alberta – single – CDN
Joe Nolan – Angel of Alberta – single – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Gordon Lightfoot – Alberta Bound – Songbook – CDN
Corb Lund – Alberta Says Hello – Losin’ Lately Gambler – CDN
Chris Brown & Kate Fenner – Alberta Sky – O Witness – CDN
Alex Dezen – California – California B/W Iowa (That’s Who We Are)
Alex Dezen – Into the Hands of Hazleden – Alex Dezen
Alex Dezen – Iowa (That’s Who We Are) – California B/W Iowa (That’s Who We Are)

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Emma-Lee – What Would Tom Petty Do? – single – CDN
JP Hoe – You’re so Bad – Indie Kitchen Sessions – CDN – WPG
Leeroy Stagger & The Wildflowers – Swingin’ – live recording – CDN
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Even the Losers – Damn the Torpedoes
Barney Bentall and The Legendary Hearts – Come Back to Me – Barney Bentall and The Legendary Hearts – CDN
Crowded House – Something so Strong – Recurring Dream

4:00 – 4:35 pm

Huey Lewis & The News – You Crack Me Up – Sports
The Pursuit of Happiness – Killed by Love – Love Junk – CDN
Paul Kelly and the Messengers – Dumb Things – Under the Sun
The Lowest of the Low – Motel 30 – Hallucigenia – CDN
The Lemonheads – Mrs. Robinson – It’s a Shame about Ray
Big Star – When my Baby’s Beside Me – #1 Record/Radio City
The Replacements – Alex Chilton – Don’t You Know Who I Think I Was?
Cracker – Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now) – Greatest Hits Redux
Camper van Beethoven – Take the Skinheads Bowling – Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty
Elvis Costello – Watching the Detectives – My Aim Is True
Rheostatics & Bourbon Tabernacle Choir – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – Borrowed Tunes: A Tribute to Neil Young – CDN

Podcast: Steel Belted Radio – May 12, 2016

Tonight some great new (and a long-lost classic) including something from The Burning Hell, which reminded me how cool that band is and led to a short tribute. The bulk of the show is dedicated to a continuation of a theme that was started on the Mother’s Day edition of Tell the Band to Go Home, where we heard a pile of great female artists, celebrating great women everywhere. I pulled out so many greats that they couldn’t all fit on Sunday’s show, so a lot were carried over tonight, as we looked at some great rockin’ ladies, because as we all know, women rock!

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Artist – Title – Album

The Burning Hell – Men Without Hats – Public Library
The Burning Hell – Amateur Rappers – People
The Burning Hell – My Name Is Mathias – Flux Capacitor
Al Scorch – Love after Death – Circle ’round the Signs
The Small Glories – Had I Paid – Wondrous Traveler
Reid Jamieson – Dear Leonard – Dear Leonard: The Cohen Collection
Sharkskin – Hammerhead – Sharkskin
Little Green Cars – My Love Took Me Down to the River to Silence Me – Absolute Zero
Rah Rah – Prairie Girl – The Poet’s Dead
The Weepies – Be My Thrill – Be My Thrill
The Hobart Brothers & L’il Sis Hobart – Ballad of Sis (Didn’t I Love You) – At Least We Have Each Other
Imelda May – Tainted Love – More Mayhem
Nikki Lane – Walk of Shame – Walk of Shame
Alice Russell – Somebody’s Gonna Love You (Featuring Quantic) – Under The Munka Moon
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals – Turntable – The Lion The Beast The Beat
Paper Moon – Your Attitude Towards Cuttlefish – Somebody Needs a Time Out
Easily Amused – Song For Belfast – Simple Stuff
Dar Williams – It’s Alright – It’s Alright EP
Weeping Tile – South Of Me – Valentino
Sarah Harmer – Weakened State – You Were Here
Eliza Gilkyson – Wonderland – Land of Milk and Honey

Podcast: May 8, 2016 – One for the Women!

It’s Mother’s Day, and instead of limiting ourselves to mothers, we’re opening up the playlist and celebrating all kinds of women with a (nearly) all-female show!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Shannon Lyon – If These Walls Could Walk – Shoreline – CDN
Guy Clark – The Cape – Dublin Blues
Lori McKenna – Susanna – Massachusetts
Brandi Carlile – Josephine – The Story
Melissa Payne – Cool West Wind – High and Dry – CDN
Neko Case – Deep Red Bells – Blacklisted
Emma Lee – You’re not Coming by – Backseat Heroine – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Dala – Anywhere under the Moon – Who Do You Think You Are? – CDN
Chloe Albert – Where Did I Go Wrong – Dreamcatcher – CDN
Angela Desvaux – Sure Enough – The Mighty Ship – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – Change the Sheets – Voyageur – CDN
Kelly Hogan – We Can’t Have Nice Things – I Like To Keep Myself In Pain
Jadea Kelly – Heavy Heart – Eastbound Platform – CDN
The Secret Sisters – Tennessee Me – The Secret Sisters

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Folk Uke – Shit Makes The Flowers Grow – Folk Uke
Good Lovelies – Crabbuckit – Let The Rain Fall – CDN
Carolyn Mark – Not A Doll – The Pros and Cons of Collaboration – CDN
Caitlin Rose – Only A Clown – The Stand-In
Laura Cortese – Life is Good Blues – Into The Dark
Ana Egge – Motorcycle – Bad blood – CDN
Keri Latimer – Kindred Spirit – Crowsfeet And Greyskull – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Gabrielle Papillon – Little Bug – Little Bug – CDN
Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers – Heart Like a Wheel – Old Gold
Indigo Girls – Run – Despite Our Differences
Patty Griffin – Truth #2 – Silver Bell
Madison Violet – Lauralee – No Fool For Trying – CDN
Christina Martin – Love Letters – Two Hearts – CDN
Lissie – In Sleep – Catching a Tiger

Playlist: Episode #641 Sunday, May 8, 2016 – One for the Women!

It’s Mother’s Day, and instead of limiting ourselves to mothers, we’re opening up the playlist and celebrating all kinds of women with a (nearly) all-female show!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Shannon Lyon – If These Walls Could Walk – Shoreline – CDN
Guy Clark – The Cape – Dublin Blues
Lori McKenna – Susanna – Massachusetts
Brandi Carlile – Josephine – The Story
Melissa Payne – Cool West Wind – High and Dry – CDN
Neko Case – Deep Red Bells – Blacklisted
Emma Lee – You’re not Coming by – Backseat Heroine – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Dala – Anywhere under the Moon – Who Do You Think You Are? – CDN
Chloe Albert – Where Did I Go Wrong – Dreamcatcher – CDN
Angela Desvaux – Sure Enough – The Mighty Ship – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – Change the Sheets – Voyageur – CDN
Kelly Hogan – We Can’t Have Nice Things – I Like To Keep Myself In Pain
Jadea Kelly – Heavy Heart – Eastbound Platform – CDN
The Secret Sisters – Tennessee Me – The Secret Sisters

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Folk Uke – Shit Makes The Flowers Grow – Folk Uke
Good Lovelies – Crabbuckit – Let The Rain Fall – CDN
Carolyn Mark – Not A Doll – The Pros and Cons of Collaboration – CDN
Caitlin Rose – Only A Clown – The Stand-In
Laura Cortese – Life is Good Blues – Into The Dark
Ana Egge – Motorcycle – Bad blood – CDN
Keri Latimer – Kindred Spirit – Crowsfeet And Greyskull – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Gabrielle Papillon – Little Bug – Little Bug – CDN
Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers – Heart Like a Wheel – Old Gold
Indigo Girls – Run – Despite Our Differences
Patty Griffin – Truth #2 – Silver Bell
Madison Violet – Lauralee – No Fool For Trying – CDN
Christina Martin – Love Letters – Two Hearts – CDN
Lissie – In Sleep – Catching a Tiger