Today we’re joined by singer/songwriter/fringe festival performer Corin Raymond, who’s touring his new one-man show, Bookworm, and preparing for his upcoming album “Paper Nickels” which is made up of songs by great under-appreciated Canadian writers, and is being funded with Canadian Tire money! Along to help out with the hosting duties is a big fan of Corin’s and all kinds of great music, and a very knowledgeable and great guy, Oly Backstrom.
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Del Barber – Right Side of the Wrong – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Ron Hynes – Sawchuk – Stealing Genius – CDN
Ron Hynes – Record Man – Get Back Change – CDN
Jason Collett – Parry Sound – Idols of Exile – CDN
Dave Quanbury – Impatient Love – No Vacancy – CDN – WPG
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Corin Raymond interview
Corin Raymond – Ol’ Fort Mac – live performance – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Raghu Lokanathan – Sugar Candy Mountain – Petal Press – CDN
Corin Raymond – Fucking Genius – unreleased – CDN
Corin Raymond – Something to Lean On – live performance – CDN
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Jonathan Byrd – I Was an Oak Tree – Cackalack
Corin Raymond – Brand New Song – Paper Nickles – CDN
Corin Raymond – There Will Always Be a Small Time – There Will Always Be a Small Time – CDN
A folk music miracle has occurred, as someone, somewhere found some new, unreleased live recordings of the late great Willie P Bennett, and managed to sneak some copies out into the world. We love folks like that, and it’s our great pleasure and duty to spin it for you, as well as some other Willie songs by other great people. We’ve also got a bit of a tribute to Steve Goodman, we’ve got tickets to giveaway and much more!
We’ve got some great shows coming up around town this week, so some previews are in order. Today would have been the late great Paul Quarrington’s birthday, so a tribute is also in order.
We’re back live in-studio this week with a look at house concerts past and future, this year’s great lineup at Brandon Folk Festival, some great new music, and a lovey dovey birthday set for a special listener.
I’ve been a Shannon Lyon fan since I first heard his album Wandered almost a decade ago. Since then, he’s written some of my favourite songs in the world. They’re gritty, dark, often sad, sometimes beautiful and celebratory, always amazing. So it was with great excitement that I put together plans to bring him to Winnipeg for a couple of shows.
Well, things don’t always go as planned. One show got cancelled, and the other got moved at the last minute. There was some scrambling to rearrange the show date, and unfortunately that meant that some folks couldn’t make the show. We also knew that some other friends wouldn’t be able to make the show, because they’re a little too far away.
And so, in an attempt to make all those who missed out feel like they were there, and to have a permanent record of what turned out to be an amazing night for all in attendance, I wanted to record a bunch of the show.
With that in mind, I present the following video and audio of the show. None of the recordings are particularly spectacular. I thought I had all bases covered by using two audio recorders, but both ended up with some problems – one was too distorted and the other (which you’ll find here) has some noise (I think Carter was kicking the table that the recorder was sitting on). Oh well, it’s not meant to be a proper live album or a totally accurate reflection of Shannon’s amazing talent.
For those, I highly encourage you to look up his official sites: http://shannonlyonmusic.com/ http://shannonlyon.bandcamp.com/ – at this site, you can download a lot of Shannon’s work over the years. Most people download it for free. Good people make a donation in return. Be a good person, eh.
Shannon Lyon
July 18, 2012
@ Sunset Saloon
You Showed Me HOw
Get Over You
Someday Mourning
Olde Freightliner
Pleasing You Pleases Me
Naive
Oh Why
Backyard Song
Carry Me Down
Lake Huron
Barcelona
I Believe In You
Sad Nights
Since I’m Loving You
Three Days of You
Apparently, there were a couple of great songs left over for an encore, but our crowd was a little too polite, and I was a little too quick to jump up and signal that the show was over. For that, I am eternally regretful. Oh well, we’ll do better next time.
We’ve got some great shows coming up around town this week, so some previews are in order. Today would have been the late great Paul Quarrington’s birthday, so a tribute is also in order.
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Del Barber – Soul of the Land That’s Mine – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Joy Kills Sorrow – Wouldn’t Have Noticed – This Unknown Science
Joy Kills Sorrow – New Man – This Unknown Science
Robbie Fulks – Where There’s a Road – Georgia Hard
Chatham County Line – Chip Of A Star – IV
Old Crow Medicine Show – Carry Me Back to Virginia – Carry Me Back
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Corin Raymond – Blue Mermaid Dress – There Will Always Be a Small Time – CDN
The Dustin Bentall Outfit – Three Thousand Miles – Six Shooter – CDN
Geoff Berner – That’s What Keeps the Rent Down, Baby – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Paul Quarrington – Wherever You Go – The Songs – CDN
Porkbelly Futures – You Gotta Love a Train – Porkbelly Futures – CDN
Paul Quarrington – Lake Effect Snow – The Songs – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
The Mastersons – The Other Shoe – Birds Fly South
Allison Moorer – The Broken Girl – Crows
Allison Moorer – New Years Day – Getting Somewhere
Allison Moorer – Revelator – Mockingbird
Gillian Welch – My First Lover – Time (The Revelator)
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Gillian Welch – Annabelle – Revival
Gillian Welch – Caleb Meyer – Hell Among the Yearlings
The Wailin’ Jennys – One More Dollar – Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House – CDN – WPG
Joy Kills Sorrow – One More Night – This Unknown Science
Steve Earle – Waitin’ on the Sky – I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive
Steve Earle – Tennessee Blues – Washington Square Serenade
Steve Earle – Even When I’m Blue – Copperhead Road
We’re pre-recorded today with a recently recorded in-studio session with Martyn Joseph, who was in town for the Folk Festival but found time to come in to chat and sing some of his powerful songs. We’ve also got previews of some great upcoming concerts, some great male/female harmonies.
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Jimmy Lafave – Deportee – Ribbon of Highway Endless Skyway The Woody Guthrie Tribute Tour
Shannon Lyon – Carry Me Down – Summer Blonde – CDN
Shannon Lyon – You Showed Me How – Wandered – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Backyard Song – Safe Inside – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Same Old Walk – El Sol – CDN
Shannon Lyon – On Losing Your Friends – Broken Things – CDN
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Joy Kills Sorrow – I Still Miss Someone – Joy Kills Sorrow
Joy Kills Sorrow – Send Me a Letter – Darkness Sure Becomes this City
Del Barber – Love and Wine – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Rose Cousins – If I Should Fall Behind (w/ Mark Erelli ) – We Have Made a Spark – CDN
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell – My Baby’s Gone – Livin’ Lovin’ Losin’: Songs of The Louvin Brothers
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson – Sweetest Waste of Time – Rattlin’ Bones
Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt – Company of Friends – Together
Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt – Swing from a Note – Together
3:00 – 3:30 pm
D.Rangers – Trois Rivieres – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
D.Rangers – Runaway – We Stay High and Lonesome – CDN – WPG
Martyn Joseph interview
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Martyn Joseph – Everything Is Grace – live performance
Martyn Joseph – There’s Always Maybe – live performance
Martyn Joseph – Whoever It Was that Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home – live performance
Due to some scheduling difficulties, the Shannon Lyon show originally scheduled for this weekend has been moved up to June 18, that’s TONIGHT!
Tell the Band to Go Home and The Sunset Saloon are very excited to present:
Shannon Lyon
Outdoor potluck dinner & entertainment spectacular
July 18, 2012
6:00 dinner, 7:00 show
Suggested donation $15-20 (price flexible, all proceeds to a talented musician making his way across this vast country)
Bring a lawn chair if the weather is nice (perhaps bug spray…)
All are welcome (bring the kids, friends, family, people off the street, whatever)
Questions? RSVP? Fill out the contact form below!
We’re rolling out all the stops this time for a super show at Sunset Saloon, featuring Shannon Lyon. We’re going to try doing the show in the back yard, if the weather and the bugs don’t ruin the party. With that in mind, we want to get things rolling and over somewhat early, so we’re adding in a dinner component. If you want to come a bit early, bring a dish for a good old fashioned pot-luck. In reality, you don’t have to bring a thing, because we’ve always got you covered. But some kind and generous folks usually bring stuff anyway (we love ’em for it), and really, who doesn’t love a good pot-luck? You can opt in or out of the dinner festivities without guilt. We’ll be here. If you show up to eat, we’ll feed you. If not, we hope to see you at the show. It promises to be amazing.
The first time I heard Shannon Lyon was around the time of the release of his 2003 breakthrough album, “Wandered.” He was the first Canadian artist signed to Richard Branson’s V2 label, and as such, his album got sent out to media dorks like me. I hope that most of them had the same reaction as I did, “WOW!” That album remains one of my all-time favourite releases. It’s gritty and worn, but tender and melodic. It’s powerful and intense, but it contains some really beautiful lyrics. I got to see Shannon live once, when he opened for Luther Wright & The Wrongs at The West End Cultural Centre on their big “Rebuild the Wall” tour. I was blown away. I gave him my business card and told him to keep in touch.
Well, that took a while. I can’t blame the guy, I was a dork and he was on a whirlwind promotional tour. He also lived in Holland. Although from southern Ontario, he moved to Europe and spent most of his time making music and touring overseas. He continued to release terrific albums, most of which were distributed in Canada by the wonderful folks at Busted Flat Records, which has been Shannon’s Canadian base of operations throughout most of his singer/songwriter career (he did record a few early albums as “The Shannon Lyon Pop Explosion.” They’re pretty neat too. I’ll play ’em for you when you come over.) He recorded a bunch of neat stuff in Europe, including a DVD and a rockin’ album of Townes Van Zandt covers. He also put out a really strong album called “This Love This Love,” and eventually, he dropped me a line telling me about it.
Then, a while ago, things really started moving. The long-rumoured Townes CD surfaced online, along with another new CD, “XMas in Korea” as well as a career-spanning retrospective collection, simply called “Songs.” And what songs they are. The amazing thing about all of these albums is that Shannon put them online to download, FREE (although, good-hearted folk are encouraged to pay anyway. Once you hear these songs, you’ll know that they’re worth some money.) He moved back to Canada, ending up in BC, and he started making plans to head across the country this summer, camping and singing along the way. He was looking for places to stop. You can’t get to one end of the country to the other without passing through Winnipeg – it simmply can’t be done – so, probably thanks to Allison Green, he dropped me a line asking if I knew of a place he could play. Uh, YEAH!
He also put up a brand new recording, “Broken Things,” which is definitely one of his best. We made plans to get him to Winnipeg and it’s all happening Wednesday, July 18.
As we wrap up Folk Fest 2012, we’re pleased to present a live session with one of this year’s highlights, Martyn Joseph. He dropped by the studio just before the festival to chat and sing some live songs. Also, we look ahead to a couple of very special house concerts that we’re presenting, featuring Shannon Lyon and Joy Kills Sorrow, and we spin some great new music.