Wow! It really happened and it was even more amazing than I dreamed it would be. One of my favourite bands, Odds, played in my back yard to a packed crowd of music lovers. Then there was the encore. Kevin McDonald (from Kids in the Hall, but he probably hates always being referred to that way, even though if it weren’t for that show, we wouldn’t refer to him at all. What a problem.) is an old friend of the band, and stopped in to watch the show and sit in with the band. We were warned to get the kids inside before they started, and with good reason. Here’s a front row point of view that I never could have anticipated. Viewer discretion is definitely advised:
Of course, Jeremy heard all of the laughing and commotion and promptly led poor Devin and Keri’s kids right out (don’t worry, we hustled them right back in.) Jeremy said to me today, “that bucky bucky bucky guy sure was funny!” Lucky for me, he’s got his dad’s hearing.
I can’t promise anything nearly as amusing as that performance at our next show, but it will definitely be amazing in its own right. Saturday night, Shannon Lyon returns. He’s got a whole pile of new songs and stories, and he will bring his powerful, personal performances and engaging personality to our back yard on July 6. I promise you a great time, and a whole lot less swearing. Please join us: http://tellthebandtogohome.com/2013/05/13/shannon-lyon-sunset-saloon-july-6/
We’re also looking ahead to the August 14th appearance by Tannis Slimmon and the legendary Lewis Melville. I’ve been chasing this show for years, and I’m so glad it’s finally happening. Come and see why I’m so excited! Full details to come. SOON!
On the radio front:
Tomorrow of course will primarily be a celebration of great Canadian music as it’ll be the official Canada Day show!
Looking ahead, on Thursday we’ll give away a pair of tickets to see an all-time favourite Folk Festival performer, Dan Bern, as he comes to Winnipeg a bit before the festival to perform his soundtrack to Jonathan Demme‘s “Wilderness Song” on Sunday, July 7 (http://wecc.ca/site09/performers/Dan_Bern.html.) This will be a truly unique performance featuring acting, music, film, and a whole lot of magic. This will be the first time this piece has been performed in Canada, and the only Canadian performance this year! It’s looking like we’ll be joined live, in-studio by Dan Bern the day of the show, as part of the OFFICIAL Winnipeg Folk Festival preview!
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who came out last night, and especially those who helped, supported, and to those silly people who sang to me. Thanks to everyone for the obligatory Facebook post this week; you’re wonderful. And thanks to you for reading this madness, and for tuning in, supporting the radio show, and coming to see great live music; you’re making the world a better place!
Well, what do you know, it’s our 500th episode! More than 1000 hours on Sunday afternoons and counting. And rather than sitting around tooting our own horn, we’re back doing what we love, playing the best music in the world. Today it’s a star-studded tribute to the great dads out there, on Father’s Day.
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Nathan – Grassy Lake – Stranger – CDN – WPG
Eliza Gilkyson – The Bare Necessities – Your Town Tonight
Catherine MacLellan – Snowbird – Silhouette – CDN
Pieta, Zoe, & Constie Brown – Ella Mae – Going Driftless: An Artists’ Tribute to Greg Brown
Greg Brown – Remember the Sun – Freak Flag
Greg Brown – Spring Wind – Dream Cafe
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill and The Little Hillbillies – The Ballad of Poppa Bill – Little Kasey Chambers and The Lost Music
Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill And The Little Hillbillies – Poppa Bill Says – Little Kasey Chambers and The Lost Music
Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill And The Little Hillbillies – My Oh My – Little Kasey Chambers and The Lost Music
Bobby Bare, Jr with Isabella Bare – Daddy What If – Twistable Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to the Songs of Shel Silverstein
Johnny Cash – A Boy Named Sue – At San Quentin
Woody Guthrie – My Daddy (Flies A Ship In The Sky) – My Dusty Road
Merle Travis – Sixteen Tons – Folk Songs of the Hills
Washboard Hank – Daddy couldn’t Play the Fiddle – Sweet Mysteries of Life – CDN
Geoff Berner – My Dad’s a Lawyer – Light Enough to Travel EP – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Johnsmith – Father’s Day – Gravity of Grace
Frank Turner – Father’s Day – Last Minutes And Lost Evenings
Cat Stevens – Father and Son – Tea for the Tillerman
Matthew Barber – Father and Son – Songs For The Haunted Hillbilly
Jim Henry – Baby’s Coming Home – Jacsksonville
Ray Ullenboom – Back to Berlin – Don’t Tell the Band to Go Home – CDN – WPG
Leeroy Stagger – Mister – Truth Be Sold – CDN
Christina Martin – You Come Home – Two Hearts – CDN
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Drive-By Truckers – Outfit – Decoration Day
Drive-By Truckers – Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
Guy Clark – The Randall Knife – Craftsman
Rodney Crowell & Kris Kristofferson – My Father’s Advice – Kin
Adrien Sala & Rob Pachol – Horse and Rider – Parlour Music – WPG
Mike Plume Band – Five Crow Silver (Montreal) – Red and White Blues – CDN
Animal Parts – I Won’t Ever Let You Down – Animal Parts – CDN
Today a celebration of the birthdays of Luke Doucet and Slaid Cleaves, as well as a belated tribute to Stan Rogers, a week after the 30th anniversary of his death (oops.) And the great new music just keeps on coming, with a couple more stellar summer releases.
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Luke Doucet – Outlaws – Aloha Manitoba – CDN
John Moreland – I Need You To Tell Me Who I Am – In the Throes
John Moreland – Your Spell – In the Throes
Lynn Miles – My Road – Downpour – CDN
Lynn Miles – Broken Hearted – Downpour – CDN
Joy Kills Sorrow – Jake – Wide Awake
Joy Kills Sorrow – Was It You – Wide Awake
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Imaginary Cities – Chasing the Sunset – Fall of Romance – CDN – WPG
Joshua Hyslop – If I Was a Better Man – Cold Wind EP – CDN
Bonnie Whitmore – Reckless and Young – There I Go Again
Dar Williams – I Am the One Who Will Remember Everything – In the Time of Gods
Leeroy Stagger – Mister – Truth Be Sold – CDN
Lindy Vopnfjörð – May Not Be Right – Young Waverer – CDN
Rob Lutes – Things We Didn’t Choose – The Bravest Birds – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Stan Rogers – The Mary Ellen Carter – Between the Breaks… Live! – CDN
Stan Rogers – The Northwest Passage – The Northwest Passage – CDN
Stan Rogers – The Field Behind the Plow – The Northwest Passage – CDN
Stan Rogers – Music In Your Eyes – From Coffee House to Concert Hall – CDN
Slaid Cleaves – In the Rain – Still Fighting the War
Slaid Cleaves – Wishbones – Wishbones
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Slaid Cleaves – Call It Sleep – Unsung
Slaid Cleaves – Lydia – Broke Down
Rod Picott – Bring It On – Tiger Tom Dixon’s Blues
Luke Doucet – It’s Not the Liquor I Miss – Broken (and other rogue states) – CDN
Whitehorse – Out like a Lion – The Fate of the World Depends on this Kiss – CDN
Where does the time go? It’s the middle of June already!? How did that happen? It’s a good time to be alive and around great music. Here’s some news you can use to keep yourself in the right place at the right time.
Taking a cue from our friends at CKUW, although TTBTGH just turned 10 in the fall, we’re already turning 500! If they can go from 14 to 50, we can do one better. It’s the officially unofficial 500th episode of Tell the Band to Go Home this Sunday! It’s an amazing milestone for me. That’s 1000 hours of my life (more actually, because of all of those Christmas shows where we go 4, 5, 6 hours) – which according to the mathematicians at Google, equals 41 2/3 days! I don’t know if we really need a special episode again after the big one in the fall, but I’m open to suggestion. I got lazy and nervous and didn’t invite any special guests, but you never know who might be reading this and might want to come in or invite someone. Should we put together stats? Clips from the past? Highlights? Stories? You tell me!
I have to say a special thank you to all of you who have listened, supported, encouraged, and just made this crazy dream possible for this long. Most people get tired of me far sooner than many of you have, and although I worry about you for sticking around this long (don’t you have better things to do?) I sure am grateful. This show has changed my life forever, and I’ll always be grateful, and will always want to make it as enjoyable as possible for you!
Here’s a way to celebrate. Come to a Sunset Saloon show! These will be amazing, I assure you. Even if you’ve had enough amazing shows, come and snoop around in my closets, eat my food, spill beer on my floor, or just ask my family how they put up with me like they do!
Friday, June 21 (SOON!) at 8:00 – Joshua Cockerill/Animal Parts.
and on the horizon, Wednesday, August 14 at 8:00 – Tannis Slimmon & Lewis Melville!
I hope to see you out at the debut of Nathan Music Co. next Thursday at Times Change(d)!
Check this out! The trailer for a movie I’ve been waiting not so patiently for since the fall, Del Barber – Live At The Five Prairie Giants! This show was so amazing, and I can’t wait for you to see it. Look for me and Del’s mom Jean in the crowd in the trailer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAOhcx73K1o
Music you need to hear:
Jason Isbell – Southeastern
John Moreland – In the Throes
Leeroy Stagger – Truth Be Sold
Am I rambling again? Probably.
Thanks for being you and being out there somehow connected to me.
It’s a new music kind of day today, and we’ve got a wealth of it, including a bunch from some of our favourites. I also discovered some “new to me” music this week, and that’s just as fun to share. And, only one big show on my calendar this week, but it’s an interesting one, so a preview is in order.
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Leeroy Stagger – Celebrity – Truth Be Sold – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – ESP – Truth Be Sold – CDN
Slaid Cleaves – Still Fighting the War – Still Fighting the War
Lucero – The Other Side of Lonesome – Texas & Tennessee
Bob Schneider – The Best Day Ever – Burden of Proof
Mike and the Moonpies – Sunday – Sunday
Mike and the Moonpies – Glory – Mike and the Moonpies EP
Ridley Bent – David Harley’s Son – Skeleton Crew – CDN – WPG
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Loudon Wainwright III – Motel Blues – Recovery
Alejandro Escovedo – All About this Love – Por Vida Live
Two Cow Garage – No Surrender – Under the Influence Vol. 9
The Howlin’ Brothers – Julia Belle Swain – Howl
JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound – Howl – Howl
The Good Family – Instantmental Breakdown – The Good Family Album – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Del Barber – I Dream of Highways – unreleased – CDN – WPG
Guy Clark – My Favorite Picture Of You – My Favorite Picture Of You
Guy Clark – Heroes – My Favorite Picture Of You
James McMurtry – Cold Dog Soup – This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark
Townes Van Zandt – Tower Song (demo) – Sunshine Boy: The Unhears Studio Sessions & Demos 1971 – 1972
Townes Van Zandt – Sunshine Boy – Sunshine Boy: The Unhears Studio Sessions & Demos 1971 – 1972
Steve Earle & The Dukes (and Duchesses) – The Low Highway – The Low Highway
Lydia Loveless – Steve Earle – Indestructible Machine
Lydia Loveless – How Many Women – Indestructible Machine
3:30 – 4:00 pm
The Supersuckers – What It Takes – Get It Together
The Supersuckers – Creepy Jackalope Eye – Steve Earle & The Supersuckers
Steve Earle & The Supersuckers – Before they Make Me Run – Steve Earle & The Supersuckers
Animal Parts – The Trick with your Heart (part 3) – Animal Parts – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Could You Be My Light – Wandered – CDN
Tannis Slimmon – My Body Moves – Oak Lake – CDN
1. Leeroy Stagger: Truth Be Sold (Gold Lake) *JR
2. Matt Epp + The Amorian Assembly: Learning to Lose Control (self)
3. David Francey: So Say We All (Laker/Red House)
4. Ashley Condon: This Great Compromise (Laker)
5. The Good Family: The Good Family Album (Latent)
6. Charilie A’Court: Triumph & Disaster (self)
Today a long overdue in-studio visit by former Winnipegger, Matt Epp. He’s been on quite a roll the past few years with his Amorian Assembly, and their new album is a winner. Good to have him in to chat all about it. As usual, we’ve got all of the new music and classics you could shake a stick at, if you were to shake a stick at music. (That’s pretty weird, but if you’re so inclined, go for it.)
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Lucero – Texas & Tennessee – Texas & Tennessee
Ashley Condon – Betty’s Song – This Great Compromise – CDN
David Francey – Satellite – So Say We All – CDN
Belle Starr – New Girl Now – Belle Starr – CDN
Matt Epp + The Amorian Assembly – War – Learning to Lose Control – CDN
Matt Epp interview
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Matt Epp + The Amorian Assembly – Use Your Head – Learning to Lose Control – CDN
Matt Epp + The Amorian Assembly – When You know – Learning to Lose Control – CDN
Matt Epp + The Amorian Assembly – Learning to Lose Control – Learning to Lose Control – CDN
Matt Epp + The Amorian Assembly – Never Have I Loved Like This – At Dawn – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
New Country Rehab – Back in Time – The Ghost of your Charms – CDN
Shinyribs – Song of Lime Juice & Despair – Gulf Coast Museum
Jamie N Commons – Lead Me Home – The Walking Dead Original Soundtrack Vol. 1
Thom Swift – Sweet Thing – The Fortunate Few – CDN
Charlie A’Court – I’m Sorry (feat. Kim Wempe) – Triumph & Disaster – CDN
Miss Rae & The Midnight Ramblers – Man with the Revolver – demo EP – CDN – WPG
Adrien Sala, Tesia Rhind, and Rob Pachol – As the Living Do – SanfordandSongwriter Series – CDN – WPG
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Pat Temple and the High Lonesome Players – Auxiliary Workhouse Breakdown – Stone Boat – CDN
Pat Temple – So Long Gone – One Song at a Time – CDN
Das Macht Show – Smoke that Cigarette – “…One Night in Berlin” – CDN
Dust Poets – Hillbilly Love – Lovesick Town – CDN
Acoustically Inclined – Knot – Acoustically Inclined – CDN – WPG
John Moreland – Nobody Gives a Damn About Songs Anymore – In the Throes
John Moreland – Oh Julia – In the Throes
John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls – Low – Everything The Hard Way
It’s ramblin’ old Bobby D’s 72nd birthday tomorrow, and what else could we do but pay tribute in a way that only we can (or dare to.) There’s some reverence and some ridiculousness, of course. We’ve also got some world class Winnipeg music that’s every bit as great as that old coot, and a couple from the Canadian Bob Dylan (only better)!
Ah, the May long weekend is upon us at last. The weather’s ruining the party a bit, but hey, at least it’s not snow! We’ve got some great tunes to start the summer off right. First up some great new music before settling in to preview a couple of exciting shows this week, as well as some upcoming house concerts, real and imaginary. To end off the show, a tribute to a legendary cornerstone of the Canadian folk/roots community. Why? Because.
Joshua Cockerill (Animal Parts)
Friday, June 21, 2013
Live at Sunset Saloon (house concert, Westwood, Winnipeg)
8:00
Suggested donation $15-20
All are welcome (bring the kids, friends, family, people off the street, whatever) As usual, you can bring a beverage of your choice or food to share if you wish, but we’ll have plenty of both on hand, so feel free to save yourself the trouble and just enjoy whatever’s on hand!
It’s not fair that someone who is only 24 years old can write songs as well as Joshua Cockerill can. A lot of us old folk couldn’t write a song to save our lives, but this young kid whips off songs that stand alongside those of older, established artists, and they’re suitably impressed:
“Joshua Cockerill [of Animal Parts] is f***ing amazing. Buy his record. Now.”
– Serena Ryder
“As a songwriter, Joshua is one of the bright lights on the Canadian scene, and has one of the best new voices I’ve heard. Both sonically and lyrically, his album towers above any first attempt I’ve heard recently. I’m going to wager that Joshua will be around for quite some time.”
– Justin Rutledge
“The future looks bright for Joshua Cockerill”
– Rich Terfry (Buck 65), CBC Radio 2 Drive
See? Working on his songs and his craft since adolescence, Cockerill has honed both into two amazing albums and an engaging live show. Serena Ryder and Justin Rutledge appeared on his debut solo album, “The Trick with your Heart I’m Learning to Do,” alongside seasoned players like Kendel Carson (Dustin Bentall), Shawn Creamer (The Beauties), Burke Carroll (Luther Wright & The Wrongs), John Dinsmore (NQ Arbuckle/Kathleen Edwards), Christine Bougie (side person to anyone who’s anyone), and his older brother, Greg Cockerill. He’s got songs that are tender and heartfelt, and, with Animal Parts, he rocks out with solid backing, great energy, and irresistible melodies. The kid’s good. Really good.
He’s a bit of a road warrior, touring with a band a bunch of times, and solo. He’s versatile, charismatic, and disgustingly talented. I’m told that the ladies think he’s rather cute as well. Previously, he rocked the StuDome back yard, stole the show at Dauphin Countryfest, played a wonderful rockin’ set at The Standard, and now, he’s coming to the Sunset Saloon, so he’s officially made it to the big time!
You might not have heard a lot of Joshua’s songs yet (although, if you listen to Tell the Band to Go Home or Steel Belted Radio, you surely have), but you’ll go home humming the songs and remembering the name. Join us for Joshua Cockerillon June 21.
