The new music just keeps on rolling in, and we’ve got plenty of wonderful releases to go through today. Yesterday was International Women’s Day, and while we never need a reason to play a bunch of our favourite female artists, it seems especially important to do it today.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Greg Brown – Spring Wind – Dream Cafe
Grant Peeples and the Peeples Republik – Who Woulda Thunk It – Punishing the Myth
Lydia Loveless – Chris Isaak – Somewhere Else
Dawes – Someone Will – Stripped Down at Grimey’s
Alex Dezen – Death Metal & Disco – 1/4
Whitehorse – It Ain’t Me Babe – The Road to Massey Hall – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Chris Mills and the Distant Stars – Wild Places – Alexandria
Early Winters – The Weight of the World – Vanishing Act – CDN
Early Winters – A Thing for You – Vanishing Act – CDN
Drive-By Truckers – Primer Coat – English Oceans
Drive-By Truckers – Pauline Hawkins – – Before The Night Takes Me
John Gorka – High Horse – Bright Side of the Down

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Steve Dawson – The Medicine Show Comes to Avalon – Rattlesnake Cage – CDN
Fafard and Schwartz – State Trooper – Borrowed Horses – CDN
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires – Roebuck Parkway – There Is a Bomb in Gilead
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires – Centreville – There Is a Bomb in Gilead
Shari Ulrich – It’s Alright – Everywhere I Go – CDN
Amanda Rheaume – Passed Down the Line – Keep a Fire – CDN
Ann Vriend – You Can Have Me – For the People in the Mean Time – CDN
Lake Street Dive – Use Me Up – Bad Self Portraits

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Fundies – Maniac Fool – The Fundies
Joy Kills Sorrow – Jake – Wide Awake
Rheostatics – Loving Arms (w/Sarah Harmer) – The Story of Harmelodia – CDN
Oh Susanna – Into my Arms – Namedropper – CDN
Sweet Alibi – Never Change – We’ve Got To – CDN – WPG
Scarlett Jane – Beautiful – Stranger – CDN
Romi Mayes – Long Way Home – Sweet Somthing Steady – CDN – WPG
Kathleen Edwards – Sidecar – Voyageur – CDN

It’s a busy week for shows, and there are some great ones in the weeks to come, so plenty to preview and celebrate today. We also pay tribute to the late great Jeff Healey, a day after the anniversary of his untimely death.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Keri Latimer – Kindred Spirit – Crowsfeet and Greyskull – CDN – WPG
Ron Hynes – Sawchuk – Stealing Genius – CDN
Ron Hynes – A Good Dog Is Lost – Get Back Change – CDN
Ron Hynes – Movie Scenes – Ron Hynes – CDN
Old Man Luedecke – Sorry If I Let You Down – I Never Sang Before I Met You – CDN
Old Man Luedecke – Tender Is the Night – Tender Is the Night – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Jordie Lane – I Could Die Looking at You – Live at the Wheaty
The Fugitives – Bigger than Luck – Bigger than Luck EP – CDN
The Fugitives – All this Trouble – Eccentrically We Love – CDN
Tim Hus – Western Star – Western Star – CDN
Tim Hus – Curse of Hank – Alberta Crude – CDN
Shannon Lyon – I Believe in You (UR Reason) – Safe Inside – CDN
Chris Trapper – Technicolor – Technicolor

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Brock Zeman – Triple Crown – Me Then You – CDN
Sunparlour Players – Runner – Us Little Devils – CDN
Del Barber – Big Smoke – Prairieography – CDN – WPG
The Jeff Healey Band – Confidence Man – See the Light – CDN
The Jeff Healey Band – Someday, Someway – See the Light – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

The Jeff Healey Band – How Long Can a Man Be Strong – Hell to Pay – CDN
Jeff Healey – I Would Do Anything for You – Among Friends – CDN
Jeff Healey – My Blackbirds Asre Bluebirds Now – Adventures in Jazzland – CDN
Skydiggers – Ramblin’ On (w/Jessy Bell Smith) – She Comes Into the Room – CDN
Skydiggers – 80 Odd Hours – Just Over this Mountain – CDN
The Cash Brothers – Nebraska – How Was Tomorrow – CDN

We’ve got a bunch of new & notable music to start today’s show, before shifting gears and going back into the past and digging through the big ol’ pile o’ vinyl records I lugged into the station for a vinyl revival show.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Steven Bowers – Bees in Jars – Tired Light – CDN
Steven Bowers – Only One – Tired Light – CDN
Ron Hynes – Love and Hunger – Stealing Genius – CDN
Christina Martin – There Is a Light – There Is a Light EP – CDN
Christina Martin – Take – I Can Too – CDN
Old Man Luedecke – Sorry If I Let You Down – I Never Sang Before I Met You – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Old Man Luedecke – My Love Comes Stepping up the Stairs – My Hands Are on Fire and other Love Songs – CDN
Jordie Lane – Lost in You – Live at the Wheaty
Sean Rowe – To Leave Something Behind – 7″ single
John Prine – Fish and Whistle – Bruised Orange
The O’Kanes – When We’re Gone, Long Gone – The O’Kanes
Mickey Newbury – How I Love Them Old Songs – Frisco Mabel Joy

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Ry Cooder – The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor) – Bop ’til You Drop
Randy Newman – Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man) – Good Old Boys
Leon Redbone – Ain’t Misbehavin’ (I’m Savin’ My Love for You) – On the Track
Tom T Hall – I Care – Greatest Hits Vol. 2
Bob Dylan & The Band – Wedding Song – Planet Waves
Jesse Winchester – Step By Step – Let the Rough Side Drag
Nick Lowe – Half a Boy and Half a Man – Nick Lowe and his Cowboy Outfit
Easton Stagger Phillips – Lucillia – Resolution Road – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Jack Marks – Maggie’s Hardware Store – Blues Like These – CDN
Ox – She Shot Me Down – Dust Bowl Revival – CDN
Chalk Circle – My, Myself & I – The Great Lake – CDN
Jeffrey Hatcher & The Big Beat – Deliver Me – Cross Our Hearts – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – None of the Above – Fallow – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – My Favourite Chords – Left and Leaving – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site – Reconstruction Site – CDN – WPG