Episode #1093

Normally the weekend I’d roll out the annual Canada Day spectacular, but instead a freewheeling (or “freeballing,” if you ask a gym teacher) episode featuring birthdays, new music, a full preview of this year’s exciting and eagerly anticipated Static Roots Festival, and a bunch of great classics!

If you’re looking for great Canadian music, check out last week’s Six Shooter Records retrospective: https://tellthebandtogohome.com/2025/06/22/podcast-june-22-2025-six-shooter-records-retrospective/

or last year’s All Canadian Bangers II: https://tellthebandtogohome.com/2024/07/01/podcast-june-30-2024-all-canadian-bangers-ii/

or the first All Canadian Bangers: https://tellthebandtogohome.com/2023/07/03/podcast-july-2-2023-all-canadian-bangers/

Static Roots Festival: staticrootsfestival.com

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

Jason Collett – Love Song to Canada – To Wit To Woo – CDN

Colin Hay – Overkill – Man at Work
Colin Hay – Beautiful World – Going Somewhere
Colin Hay – Waiting For My Real Life To Begin – Going Somewhere

Chuck Prophet – Pin a Rose on Me – Age of Miracles
The Damnwells – Newborn History – Bastards Of The Beat
Chris Isaak – Somebody’s Crying – Forever Blue

James McMurtry – Laredo (Small Dark Something) – The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy
Yukon Blonde – Adore You – Friendship & Rock ‘n’ Roll – CDN
Katie Pruitt – Backseat Driver – single
The Accidentals – Better Than Me – Time Out 3
Ron Sexsmith – Cigarette And Cocktail – Hangover Terrace – CDN

Dom Glynn & his Sunday Best – Singing to Survive – single
Savannah Gardner – Wildfire – Recovering Good Girl

Todd Day Wait – Time Will Let You Know – Letters From The Road
The Southern Fold – Before the Fall – single
Bobbie – I need you more than I want you – The Sacred in the Ordinary
Peter Bruntnell – Out of the Pines – Houdini and the Sucker Punch
Bywater Call – Colours – Shepherd – CDN

Embla and the Karidotters – Resting Bitch Face – Off Leash
Hayley Reardon – Child of a Giver (feat. Arnau Figueres & Pau Figueres) – Live at Starseed Studios
Pert Near Sandstone – Can’t Hardly Wait – single
Michele Stodart – These Bones – Invitation
Pearl Charles – Does This Song Sound Familiar? (7″ Version) – single
Uncle Lucius – Bertha – Live from Ear Studio
The Godfathers – Bring On The Sunshine – Alpha Beta Gamma Delta PLUS

John K. Samson – Fantasy Baseball at the End of the World – single – CDN – WPG
John K. Samson – When I Write My Master’s Thesis – Provincial – CDN – WPG
Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – Wild Folk – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN
Tuns – Lonely Life – Tuns – CDN
Steven Page – The Work at Hand – Heal Thyself Pt. 1: Instinct – CDN
Odds – It Falls Apart – Bedbugs – CDN
Trans-Canada Highwaymen – Lovin’ You Ain’t Easy – Explosive Hits Vol.1 – CDN

Brock Zeman – Push Them Stones – Me Then You – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – 105 – Lipstick Lies & Gasoline – CDN
Blackie and The Rodeo Kings – Stoned – BARK – CDN
Gillian Welch – The Way It Goes – The Harrow & The Harvest
Ian Noe – Letter to Madeline – Between the Country
Jeffrey Martin – Edge of Lost – single

Episode #1092

Independent Canadian record label Six Shooter Records celebrated its 25th anniversary this week. I’m pretty sure that no other source has provided as much great material for this show over the 22+ years that it’s been on the air. The label has helped to release and promote some amazing music that wouldn’t have been given a chance elsewhere and has given opportunities to a lot of talented artists. Today’s show is a highlight reel picking out some of my many favourites that have been released by and on the label over the years.

Six Shooter Records: sixshooterrecords.com
25th Anniversary re-releases and commemorative merchandise: store.sixshooterrecords.com/collections/silver-series

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

Luke Doucet – Outlaws – Aloha, Manitoba – CDN

Martin Tielli – I’ll Never Tear You Apart – We Didn’t Even Suspect He Was the Poppy Salesman – CDN
Christine Fellows – A Day in the Road – The Last One Standing – CDN – WPG
NQ Arbuckle – In Another Time – Hanging the Battle-Scarred Pinata – CDN

Veal – I Hate Your Lipstick – The Embattled Hearts – CDN
Martin Tielli – Beauty On – Operation Infinite Joy – CDN
Justin Rutledge – Too Sober to Sleep – No Never Alone – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Sun’s Hanging Low – The Last Supper in a Cheap Town – CDN

Captain Tractor – Big American Headliner – North of the Yellowhead – CDN
Elliott BROOD – President 35 – Ambassador – CDN
Elliott BROOD – Miss You Now – Mountain Meadows – CDN

Wendy McNeill – Such a Common Bird – The Wonder Show – CDN
Christine Fellows – Face Down. Feet First. – Paper Anniversary – CDN – WPG
Royal Wood – Juliet – A Good Enough Day – CDN
Justin Rutledge – Greenwich Time – Man Descending – CDN

NQ Arbuckle – Marco Polo – XOK – CDN
Luke Doucet And The White Falcon – Blood’s Too Rich – Blood’s Too Rich – CDN
Melissa McClelland – Victoria Day (May Flowers) – Victoria Day – CDN
Whitehorse – Emerald Isle – Whitehorse – CDN
Whitehorse – Devil’s Got a Gun – The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss – CDN

The Beauties – Without You – The Beauties – CDN
Jason Plumb & The Willing – Wide Open – Wide Open Music: Songs for Saskatchewan – CDN
Harlan Pepper – Great Lakes – Young and Old – CDN
The Dead South – Banjo Odyssey – Good Company – CDN

Amelia Curran – The Mistress – Hunter Hunter – CDN
Jenn Grant – I’ve Got Your Fire – The Beautiful Wild – CDN
Good Lovelies – Waiting for You – Burn The Plan – CDN

Joe Nolan – Autumn Sky – Tornado – CDN
Del Barber – Everything Is Not Enough – Headwaters – CDN – WPG
Danny Michel – Click Click – Matadora – CDN
C and C Surf Factory – Dirty Skirty – Garage City – CDN

Sam Outlaw – Ghost Town – Angeleno
Whitney Rose – Better to My Baby – Rule 62 – CDN
Boy Golden – The Year That Clayton Delaney Died – Church of Better Daze – CDN – WPG
William Prince – When You Miss Someone – Stand in the Joy – CDN – WPG

Rheostatics – Rearview – Here Come the Wolves – CDN
The Violet Archers – Animal Song (feat. Sarah Harmer) – Animal Song – CDN

Episode #1091

New music, a busy week of big upcoming shows, and a feature focusing on the mysterious California-based A.V.R.A. Records, which is re-releasing some incredible underappreciated Canadian music!

Sean Burns & Lost Country: tickets

Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs w/Shannon McNally: info
Shannon McNally 4:00 Feature

Dan Bern/Orit Shimoni: Night 1 / Night 2
A.V.R.A.: avra-records.com
A.V.R.A. on YouTube: youtube.com/@AVRArecords/playlists

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

Del Barber – Country Girl – Prairieography – CDN – WPG

Ruby Plume – What’s This Really About – single – CDN
Molly Tuttle – That’s Gonna Leave a Mark – So Long Little Miss Sunshine
Julianna Riolino – On a Bluebird’s Wing – single – CDN
Malin Pettersen – Number and a Street (Studio Version) – single
S.G. Goodman – Michael Told Me – Planting by the Signs
Hannah White – Fine Day – single

Kashus Culpepper & Sierra Ferrell – Broken Wing Bird – single
Salt Tree – Answers – single
Murder By Death – Searcher – Egg & Dart
Joshua Ray Walker – I Hope I Have Fun Dying – Tropicana
Josh Ritter – You Won’t Dig My Grave – I Believe in You, My Honeydew

Branson Anderson – Who Loves Ya – King of Lonely
Ron Sexsmith – Don’t Lose Sight – Hangover Terrace – CDN
Amanda Shires – Parking Lot Pirouette – To the Sunset

Sean Burns – Cup of Tea – Rocket Ships and Lemon Trees – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns – Before She Made Me Crawl – Lost Country – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Have You Seen That Train – Music for Taverns, Bars, And Honky Tonks – CDN – WPG

Dan Bern – Talkin’ Canada Blues – live recording
Dan Bern – Jerusalem – Dan Bern
Dan Bern – Fascist – Dan Bern Live in Los Angeles

Dan Bern – Thunder Road – Light of Day: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen
Dan Bern – One Piece at a Time – Hoody

Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs – Heart of the Heartland – single
Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs – So Alive – Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits

Blue Northern – Too Late to Turn Back – Blue Northern – CDN
Blue Northern – Vagabond – Blue Northern – CDN

Blue Northern – Rebecca – Tango! – CDN
Blue Northern – Get Away – Tango! – CDN

Blue Northern – Sound on Sound – Sound on Sound – CDN
Blue Northern – Can’t Go Home – Sound on Sound – CDN

The Six – Coming to Collect – The Six – CDN – WPG
Jeffrey Hatcher & The Big Beat – My Elizabeth – Trying Must Count for Something – CDN – WPG
Jeffrey Hatcher & The Big Beat – Man Who Would Be King – Cross Our Hearts – CDN – WPG
The Blue Shadows – (Born to Be) Riding Only Down – Lucky to Me – CDN
The Blue Shadows – Deliver Me – On the Floor of Heaven – CDN
The Blue Shadows – A Paper and a Promise – A Little Bit Blue – The Studio Extras – CDN

The Razorbacks – Lower Beverly – Go to Town – CDN
The Razorbacks – My Generation – Live a Little – CDN
The Razorbacks – Not Fade Away – Early Rarities and Unreleased Gems – CDN

Episode #1090

Today a chat with the good professor Devin Latimer all about this year’s Trout Forest Music Festival lineup, some new music, and we feature the talented Whynot Jansveld, former member of one of the greatest bands you almost certainly never heard (but certainly should have), Harper Blynn, and now a hired gun playing alongside a long list of stars and currently touring with The Wallflowers!

Trout Forest info & tickets: troutfest.com

Whynot Jansveld: whytunes.com

A truly underappreciated gem from Harper Blynn: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/get-it-out/1067077394

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

Greg Macpherson – Wide Turn – Maintenance – CDN – WPG

Rachael Kilgour – My Father Loved Me – My Father Loved Me – CDN
Jadea Kelly – Waiting for You (feat. Zoe Sky Jordan) – Weather Girl – CDN
Shawna Caspi – Lay Low Shadow – Hurricane Coming – CDN
LLUX – Stay – The Drive – CDN

Washboard Hank – Chompy the Headbiteroffer – Sweet Mysteries of Life – CDN
Zachary Lucky – Water in the Fuel – The Wind – CDN
Dirty Catfish Brass Band – These Eyes – Big Shiny Brass – CDN – WPG
Field Guide – Life I Wanted – single – CDN – WPG

Ken Pomeroy – Flannel Cowboy – Cruel Joke
Ken Pomeroy – Christmas Lights in April – Christmas Lights in April
Pony Gold – Big in the City – single – CDN
Suzie Ungerleider – College Street – Among the Evergreens – CDN

Joe Nolan – Too Much Time to kill (feat. Sara Watkins) – Luv in the New World – CDN
Branson Anderson – Truckee – single – CDN
Benjamin Dakota Rogers – Coyote – This Ol’ Way – CDN
Verlon Thompson – The Guitar – Full Session | Paste

John Craigie – One Headlight – Leave the Fire Behind
The Mastersons – Crash Test – Birds Fly South
The Mastersons – I Found You – Good Luck Charm
Alex Dezen – Everything’s Great (Everything’s Terrible) – Alex Dezen II

The Damnwells – No One Listens to the Band Anymore – No One Listens to the Band Anymore

Harper Blynn – Loneliest Generation – Loneliest Generation
Harper Blynn – Bound to Break – Harper Blynn

Harper Blynn – Halo – single
Harper Blynn – Psycho Killer – single
Harper Blynn – Sucker – Busy Hands
Harper Blynn – Go – Get It Out

Crash Test Dummies – Triple Master Blaster – Puss ‘n’ boots – CDN – WPG
Fee Waybill – Don’t Want To Pull The Trigger – FEE WAYBILL RIDES AGAIN
Kate Hudson – The Nineties – Glorious
Richard Marx – Maybe – Songwriter
The Weepies – Be My Honeypie – Be My Thrill
Kathleen Edwards – The Logical Song – Covers – CDN
The Wallflowers – Darlin’ Hold On – Exit Wounds
Whynot Jansveld – Helicopter – single

Episode #1089

Timely tunes, new music, nostalgia, classics, and a 4:00 feature showcasing some of the many, many recordings that my old friend Tannis Slimmon has made and appeared on. She’s been a part of iconic classics, up and comers, and obscure recordings, and we tried to dive into a good cross section of it all as we prepare for a rare and long-awaited return to the province where she was born. She’s coming for 3 shows next weekend in the area with her trio Boreal. I hope to see you out at one or more of them!

Boreal: borealsongs.ca
Shows & tickets: borealsongs.ca/tour
Tannis: tannis.ca

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

The Inbreds – Russ – Hilario – CDN

Vivat Virtute – All My Ex-Boyfriends Are You – June First – CDN – WPG
Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell – Waiting On June – Begonias
The Decemberists – June Hymn – The King Is Dead
D. Rangers – June Off Of Drinkin’ – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG

Morgan Wade – The Party Is Over – The Party Is Over (recovered)
Sunny Sweeney – Diamonds and Divorce Decrees – Rhinestone Requiem
Joy Oladokun – Dear Maria – May
Anderson East – Chasing You – Worthy
Ferris & Sylvester – Still Crazy After All These Years – single
David Lowery – Wrote a Song Called Take the Skinheads Bowling – Fathers, Sons and Brothers

Camper Van Beethoven – Take the Skinheads Bowling – Telephone Free Landslide Victory
Camper Van Beethoven – Sweethearts – Key Lime Pie
Cracker – Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now) – Cracker

Hep Cat Talk – Katepwa – demo – CDN – WPG
Kings Of The Moon – Drive So Far – Kings Of The Moon – CDN – WPG
Duck Shot Hunter – Under The Sky – Yum – CDN – WPG
Danny Michel – Lighthouse (The Wedding Song) – Ghost Town – CDN

Mike Lynch – Used to Dream I Was a Cowboy – Used to Dream I Was a Cowboy – CDN
Rodney Crowell – Taking Flight (feat. Ashley McBryde) – Airline Highway
Will Kimbrough & SongwritingWith:Soldiers – At Ease – single

Todd Snider – Beer Run – New Connection
Robert Earl Keen – The Road Goes On Forever – West Textures
Fred Eaglesmith – Alcohol And Pills – Lipstick, Lies And Gasoline – CDN
David Wiffen – White Lines – Coast to Coast Fever – CDN
Stan Rogers – The Field Behind The Plow – Northwest Passage – CDN
Greg Brown – Laughing River – Dream Café
Iris DeMent – Let the Mystery Be – Infamous Angel

Tannis Slimmon – What To Do – Oak Lake – CDN – MB
Tannis Slimmon – Around Him – Lucky Blue – CDN – MB
Tannis Slimmon – In and Out of Harmony – In and Out of Harmony – CDN – MB
The Bird Sisters – Why Can’t You Read My Mind – Different Stories – CDN

Boreal – Gotta Go – Winter’s Welcome – CDN
Boreal – Warm Hands – Winterbirds – CDN
Katherine Wheatley – Rita – Stuck On A Cold Steel Pole – CDN

Tannis Slimmon – Can’t See Through – Sixty Second Songs – CDN – MB
Tannis Slimmon – In the Future – Songs of the Future by The Tomorrow Collective – CDN – MB
Tannis Slimmon – It’s Quite A Job – Work Songs – CDN – MB

Barenaked Ladies – If I Had $1,000,000 – Gordon – CDN
Rheostatics – Palomar – Whale Music – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Restless Wind – Heartstrings – CDN
David Francey – Long Long Road – So Say We All – CDN
Sam Turton – Yes Indeed – At Home – CDN