Episode #640

Good things come in 3s, and unintentionally, we’ve got a bunch of 3 song tributes today, including a timely album title, a couple of birthdays, a recent death, and a late great. We’ve also got a pile of great new music as well as a sure-to-be-fun show to preview!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

It’s May Day!
Matthew Ryan – Guilty – May Day
Matthew Ryan – Watch Your Step – May Day
Matthew Ryan – The Dead Girl – May Day

Happy birthday Jim (April 30):
Jim Bryson – The Depression Dance – Somewhere We Will Find our Place – CDN
Jim Bryson – Impaler – The Occasionals – CDN
Jim Bryson – Feel Much Better – The North Side Benches – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Happy Birthday Shannon (April 29):
Shannon Lyon – Naive – Wandered – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Pleasing You Pleases Me – Broken Things – CDN
Shannon Lyon – The Dirty Old South – The Lights Behind – CDN

New music:
Quinton Blair – Following Him Around – Cash Crop – CDN – MB
Del Barber – Mon Chandail de Hockey – The Lights Go Out – CDN – WPG
Little Green Cars – Easier Day – Ephemera
The Jayhawks – Quiet Corners & Empty Spaces – Paging Mr. Proust
Amanda Rheaume – Get to the Part – Holding Patterns – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

David Wiffen – Mr. Wiffen – David Wiffen – CDN

R.I.P. Lonnie Mack:
Lonnie Mack – Why – The Wham of that Memphis Man!
Lonnie Mack – Wham! – The Wham of that Memphis Man!
Lonnie Mack – Oreo Cookie Blues – Strike like Lighning

Ry Cooder – Crow Black Chicken – Boomer’s Story

Rediscovering John Martyn:
John Martyn – Cocain – 7″ single

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Don’t Want to Know – Kings of Love – CDN
John Martyn – London Conversation – 7″ single

In Winnipeg May 5:
Dirtfight – Break Me from my Home – Pocket Sand – CDN

More badass boozegrass:
Al Scorch – Everybody Out – Circle ’round the Signs
D. Rangers – Tryin’ to Start out Clean – Barbaric Cultural Practices – CDN – WPG

Willie P Bennett – Come on Train – Hobo’s Taunt – CDN
The Delevantes – Pocket full of Diamonds – Long about that Time
Chris Stapleton – Traveller – Traveller

Episode #639

Last week I was off in Vancouver checking out Record Store Day and the final shows by Spirit of the West, and we’ve got plenty to say and hear about those events this week. We’ve also got another tribute to Prince, we celebrate the 15th anniversary of a classic album by Alejandro Escovedo, as well as listening to a whole heap of great new music!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Lydia Loveless – I Would Die 4 U – 7″ single
The Be Good Tanyas – When Doves Cry – Hello Love – CDN
Cory Branan – Under the Cherry Moon – 7″ single
Todd Snider – Shattered – Impending Doom
Norah Jones, Aimee Mann, Susanna Hoffs, Lydia Loveless, Neko Case, Kathryn Calder, Bryan May, and others – One Voice – Record Store Day EP
Jason Molina – I’ll Be Here in the Morning – 7″ single

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Billy Joe Shaver – Wacko from Waco (with Willie Nelson) – 7″ single
Colvin & Earle – Wake up little Suzie – 7″ single
Jeff Healey – Every Other Guy – Heal My Soul Bonus Sessions – CDN
Brian Fallon – Low Love – Georgia EP
Spirit of the West – Morning in the Bath Abbey – live recording – CDN
Hunters & Collectors – Throw Your Arms around Me – Greatest Hits Live
Spirit of the West – The Crawl – Tripping up the Stairs – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Spirit of the West – That’s Amore (live with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra) – Hit Parade – CDN
Alejandro Escovedo – Rhapsody – A Man Under the Influence
Alejandro Escovedo – Rosalie – A Man Under the Influence
Alejandro Escovedo – Castanets – A Man Under the Influence
Whiskeytown – Excuse Me While I Break my own Heart Tonight – Strangers Almanac
Dave Gunning – Alberta Gold – Lift – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Dave Gunning – Pasadena – Lift – CDN
Mountain Heart – No One to Listen – Blue Skies
The Deep Hollow – Getting Good at Feeling Bad – The Deep Hollow
Poor Nameless Boy – I’m not Going anywhere – Bravery – CDN
Colour Film – Pull Out Bed – Super 8 – CDN
Paul Bergman – Sundogs – Anthropology – CDN
Mayhemingways – Wanderers – Hunter St. Blues – CDN

Episode #638

Pre-recorded this week as I’m off on a little jaunt to Vancouver this weekend to say goodbye to Spirit of the West. In honour, we’ve got some songs about Vancouver by Spirit of the West and others. We’ve also got a couple of great upcoming shows to preview and some more really great new music to share!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Brock Zeman – Gastown – Cold Winter Comes Back – CDN
Spirit of the West – Profiteers – Labour Day – CDN
Radiogram – Blues for Vancouver – Unbetween – CDN
Aoife O’Donovan – Stanley Park – In The Magic Hour
Justin Rutledge And The Junction Forty – Sleeveless In Vancouver – No Never Alone – CDN
The Be Good Tanyas – Light Enough To Travel – Blue Horse – CDN
Geoff Berner – That’s What Keeps the Rent Down, Baby – recorded live on UMFM – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Geoff Berner – Official Theme Song for the 2010 Vancover/Whistler Olympic Games (The Dead Children Were Worth It!) – single – CDN
Geoff Berner – Condos – We Are Going to Bremen to Be Musicians – CDN
Bob Wiseman – Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver Airport – Giulietta Masina at the Oscars Crying – CDN
Mayhemingways – Wanderers – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Grant Lee Phillips – Loaded Gun – The Narrows
Colour Film – The Money’s On The Dresser – Super 8 – CDN
Skydiggers – Set You Free this Time – Here Without You – The Songs of Gene Clark – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Martyn Joseph – I Searched for You – Sanctuary
Martyn Joseph – Dic Penderyn – Evolved
Martyn Joseph – Luxury of Despair – recorded live on UMFM
Matthew Barber & Jill Barber – If I Needed You – The Family Album – CDN
Matthew Barber – Easily Bruised – Ghost Notes – CDN
Jill Barber – Never Quit Loving You – Chances – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Matthew Barber – Keep It Alive – Matthew Barber – CDN
Jill Barber – In Perfect Time – A Note to Follow So – CDN
Teddy Thompson and Kelly Jones – Wondering – Little Windows
Dori Freeman – You Say – Dori Freeman
Joan Shelley – Easy Now – Over and Even
Birds of Chicago – Love Kills Shadows – Real Midnight
The Cactus Blossoms – No More Crying The Blues – You’re Dreaming
Mike June – Cotton Fields – Poor Man’s Bible