Del Barber & Jessee Havey – Home to Manitoba
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Edmonton Folk Festival – August 7, 2011 – photos & videos
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August 14, 2011
We’re pre-recorded one more time, but we’ve got some stellar material on this episode. This week is our look back at the 32nd Edmonton Folk Music Festival, held last weekend. We’ll tell you about the highlights and surprises, the hits and the misses. Also, we got to do some in-person interviews with the stars, including Lissie, The Secret Sisters, and Deer Tick. We also got our hands on an eagerly awaited, not-yet-released CD, and managed to get a few words from one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Well worth a listen, I’d say.
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Steel Belted Radio – Aug. 11 – Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle!
We were thrilled enough when he came to the show on his own last year, but this year, our pal NQ Arbuckle brought the divine Ms. Carolyn Mark along for some songs, stories, and sound effects, and it turned out to be a whole heap o’ fun, as expected.
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Edmonton Folk Festival – August 6, 2011 – photos & videos
Deer Tick – Mexican Home (John Prine)
Deer Tick – Can’t Hardly Wait (The Replacements)
Jeremy Fisher – Me & Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Paul Simon)
Amos Garrett – Sleepwalk (Santo & Johnny)
Guy Clark – Dublin Blues
Del Barber – Colorado Girl (Townes Van Zandt)
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Edmonton Folk Festival – August 4 & 5, 2011 – photos & videos
Wanda Jackson – Fujiyama Mama
Lissie – When I’m Alone
(tune in for an interview with Lissie on Tell the Band to Go Home, August 14, 2011!)
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TTBTGH & SBFRR have Festival Fever!
It seems like a while since Tell the Band to Go Home has been on the air live, because it HAS been a long time, and, sadly, we’ve got one more pre-recorded show to go this week, but it’ll be a doozy! We’re fresh off the plane from Edmonton where we once again took in The Edmonton Folk Festival, and it turned out to be probably my favourite year for that trip. Lots of fun was had, and you’ll hear about it this week on the show! We’ve got new music (including a highly anticipated new disc which isn’t in stores yet…) and many tales to tell. Plus, once again, we managed to convince the folks at the festival that we were a serious media outlet, and they let us interview some rock stars, including Lissie (who is amazing and wonderful and sweet and will be a huge star, mark my words), The Secret Sisters (ditto for what I said about Lissie), and my new favourite band of all, Deer Tick. There are some fun moments in those chats, so don’t miss them! Plus, my biggest coup of the weekend… we’ll hear a few words from UNDOUBTEDLY one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Even Stu Reid will be impressed by this one…
Of course we’ll be pre-recorded because all good-hearted folks will be taking in the most fun and relaxing weekend of the summer, The Trout Forest Music Festival. Trust me folks, it’s a ton of fun and the most laid-back and affordable festival you’ll find anywhere. Check out the lineup and details for yourself: http://www.troutfest.com/.
But, if we haven’t convinced you enough, we have managed to convince the two most exciting performers at this year’s festival to join us LIVE on Steel Belted Radio this Thursday! That’s right, live, in-studio conversation, performances, and chaos courtesy of Carolyn Mark and NQ Arbuckle! Those two are not to be missed on the radio or in person, so tune in to Steel Belted Radio, Thursday, 6:30 – 8 on UMFM, then get down to the Times Change(d) that evening for what is sure to be a show-of-the-year candidate, and then pack up the car and head to Ear Falls on Friday for more fun and hilarity. It’s going to be a great time, I assure you.
Over the next few days I’ll try to get some photos and stories up from the Edmonton festival, and then the Tell the Band to Go Home podcast for this week will be up for you to download and listen to in the car on the way to and/or from the Trout Fest this weekend. I guess I’d better get moving on some of that!
Thanks, as always!
August 7, 2011
This week we’re pre-recorded yet again, but that only makes us want to put on an even better show, and I think we’ve done it. We’ve got a heaping helping of new music, some unusual covers, and extended previews of upcoming shows featuring Lyle Lovett, Mary Gauthier, Carolyn Mark, and NQ Arbuckle!
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Steel Belted Radio – August 4, 2011
We’re pre-recorded this week, live from the basement, and that allows Jeremy to stop by with a rockin’ request to start things off, and to sing along. That’s not to be missed. Then, we preview yet another Fred Eaglesmith show, but we’ve been playing him a lot lately, so it’s time to dig out a bunch of great covers of Fred songs, and some of his co-writes. We also look ahead to Mary Gauthier and Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle!
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July 31, 2011
Today we look back at our first 400 episodes (or so) by analyzing our latest set of totally unscientific, totally irrelevant, and totally interesting statistics. We look at our most played songs, albums, and artists. There are plenty of surprises and interesting results to consider, so we’ll hear from some of the songs, albums, and artists from the top o’ the pops.
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Episode #401 Sunday, July 24, 2011
We’re pre-recorded this week, and since we’re coming to you from my basement, it allows us the opportunity to blow the dust off some discs that don’t seem to make it down to the station as often as they should. It’s another 2 hours of great hidden gems.
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00pm – 2:30pm
Joel Kroeker – Endings – Melodrama – CDN
Jory Nash – The Ballad of Easy Chair – Lo-Fi Northern Blues – CDN
Jory Nash – Waiting for Animals to Come – Spaz Loves Weezie – CDN
Dee Carstensen – The Wish – Home Away from Home
Eileen Laverty – My Old Friend the Blues – Dancing with Angels – CDN
Gretchen Peters – Sunday Morning (Up and Down My Street) – Burnt Toast & Offerings
Melwood Cutlery – Ballad of the Moonlight Lady – Campfire – CDN
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Sam Larkin – Mirabeau Bridge – Ransom – CDN
James Keelaghan – Hillcrest Mine – Then Again – CDN
Garnet Rogers – All That Is – All That Is: The Songs of – CDN
Steven Bowers – Bees in Jars – Homing – CDN
Lisa Winn – Almost Alright – Out from Under – CDN
Bill Chambers – Theresa – Frozen Ground
Paul Thorn – I Have a Good Day – Ain’t Love Strange
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Iain Matthews – Back of the Bus – Skeleton Keys
Greg Trooper – Real Like That – Straight Down Rain
Buddy Miller – That’s How I Got to Memphis – Your Love and Other Lies
Jerry Jeff Walker – Sangria Wine – Great Gonzos
Jesse Winchester – Love Is Hard, but Love Is Fair – Live from Mountain Stage
Bob Snider – Talk to Me Babe – Caterwaul & Doggerel – CDN
David Wilcox – Eye of the Hurricane – How Did You Find Me Here
Rod Picott – Tiger Tom Dixon’s Blues – Tiger Tom Dixon’s Blues
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Moe Berg – Here’s the Story – Summer’s Over – CDN
Eddi Reader – California – Angels & Electricity
David Myles – Cape Breton – On the Line – CDN
Nathan Wiley – Black Bones – Bottom Dollar – CDN
Rory McLeod – Black, Brown, White – Travelling Home