FAR #126
Artist: Album (Label) *JR
1. Wendy Bird: Natural Wonder (Beaumont Classic) *JR
2. Bill Chambers: Drifting South (Whitewater)
3. Romantica: Control Alt Country Delete (self)
4. Meg Hutchinson: The Living Side (Red House)
5. James Keelaghan: House of Cards (Borealis)
6. Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle: Let’s Just Stay Here (Mint)
Episode #342
Sunday, January 3, 2010
2:00-4:00 pm central time
CJUM 101.5 UMFM in Winnipeg, Manitoba
www.umfm.com
We close the book on 2009 as KK joins me to cohost another 5 hour holiday marathon chock full of memories of music and events gone by.
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist
12 Noon
Reid Jamieson – Last Day of the Year – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Slaid Cleaves – One Good Year – Broke Down
Slaid Cleaves – New Year’s Day – Wishbones
Todd Snider – Happy New Year / All that Matters – Live with the Devil You Know at Grimey’s
NQ Arbuckle – Goodnight Irene on New Year’s Eve – The Last Supper in a Cheap Town – CDN
Daddy – I Don’t Like It – Rare & Unreleased vol. 1
12:30
Daddy – Nobody from Nowhere – For a Second Time
Jaxon Haldane – Drip Dry – Jaxon Haldane – CDN – WPG
Jackpine – Landscapes – Brand New Good Old Days – CDN – WPG
The Western States – Right of Return – Bye and Bye – CDN – WPG
Pieta Brown – Lovin’ You Still – Shimmer
The Pines – Meadows of Dawn – Tremolo
The Breakmen – Racing in the Street – When You Leave Town – CDN
Chatham County Line – Country Boy/City Boy – IV
1:00
Prescott – Good Guys – Lakeside Sessions – CDN
The Dustin Bentall Outfit – Take the Money – Six Shooter – CDN
Barney Bentall – Papa Henry’s Boy – The Inside Passage – CDN
Joshua Cockerill – Dance with You – The Trick with your Heart I’m Learning to Do – CDN
Ox – Prom Queen – Burnout – CDN
The Wheat Pool – Lefty – Hauntario – CDN
The Warped 45s – Why Have You Passed Me By Grim Reaper – 10 Day Poem for Saskatchewan – CDN
1:30
James Murdoch Band – Return Renewed – Wondering Where the Rush has Gone – CDN
The Deep Dark Woods – All the Money I Had Is Gone – Winter Hours – CDN
Share – Lights Overhead – Slumping in your Murals – CDN
Joel Plaskett – Sailors Eyes – Three – CDN
Great Lake Swimmers – She Comes to Me in Dreams – Lost Channels – CDN
Langhorne Slim – Back to the Wild – Be Set Free
2:00
Dave Rawlings Machine – To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High) – A Friend of a Friend
Fish & Bird – Lydia – Left Brain Blues – CDN
The Avett Brothers – Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise – I and Love and You
Justin Townes Earle – Mama’s Eyes – Midnight at the Movies
Ron Hawkins – Turned Around – 10 Kinds of Lonely – CDN
02:30 PM
John Wort Hannam – Pier 21 – Queen’s Hotel – CDN
Dust Poets – Big World – World at Large – CDN
Amelia Curran – Bye Bye Montreal – Hunter Hunter – CDN
Shannon McNally and Hot Sauce – Lonesome, Ornery and Mean – Coldwater
Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles – No One Will Ever Love You – The Stars Are Out
Novillero – Trans Am – CKUW Fundrive 2009: Uncovered – CDN – WPG
03:00 PM
Geoff Berner – Light Enough to Travel – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Mike Plume – Steel Belted Radio – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Brock Zeman & Dan Walsh – Ain’t Nothin’ – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Dan Mangan – So Much for Everyone – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
The Deep Dark Woods – Two Time Loser – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
Silver Creek – Indian Summer – recorded live on UMFM – CDN
03:30 PM
Madison Violet – Baby in the Black & White – No Fool for Trying – CDN
Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle – All Time Low – Let’s Just Stay Here – CDN
Romi Mayes – Just Like the Rest – Achin’ in yer Bones – CDN – WPG
Rose Cousins – White Daisies – The Send Off – CDN
Wendy Bird – Don’t Expect a Reply (Runaway Train) – Natural Wonder – CDN
Jim Bryson – Captain Finch – Live at the First Baptist Church – CDN
4:00
The Damnwells – 55 Pictures – One Last Century
Chris Carmichael – Pop Song – Chris Carmichael – CDN – WPG
Two Hours Traffic – Painted Halo – Territory – CDN
Bob Schneider – 40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet) – Lovely Creatures
Dala – Alive – Everyone Is Someone – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Brothers – Everything Is Real – CDN
4:30
Steven Bowers w/Christina Martin – Sleeping Dogs – Circadian Anthem – CDN
Hayes Carll – Waiting on the Stars to Fall – T for Texas T from Tennessee
Gurf Morlix – She’s a River – Last Exit to Happyland
It’s Valentine’s Day, and we here don’t take this goofy, made up, greeting card “holiday” too seriously, so we’re glad to play some of the dark & twisted love songs that we most enjoy. On a more serious note, tomorrow is the second anniversary of the death of the great Willie P. Bennett, and since you can’t buy his music anywhere (a crying shame!), we’ve got to do our best to get it out there and keep it heard. We’re glad to do so and we promise to never stop.
Hey, hey, the gang’s all here… well, for 2/3 of the show anyway. For the last half hour we ducked out to go to the Haiti relief fundraiser at WECC, but we left a present behind. Jeff came in on Monday to record an AMAZING live set with The Wooden Sky featuring conversation and the entire band playing live, in-studio!
Another busy week of upcoming shows in Winnipeg, featuring The Wooden Sky, Jason Plumb, John Wort Hannam, and Spring Breakup, among others. We previewed those, had a listen to some Winnipeg classics, paid a birthday tribute to one of our most devoted listeners, and we still had plenty of time for new music from the mailbag and beyond!
It’s KK & The Mudge in-studio this week as we play a wide variety of music, just the way we like it: some pop, some roots, some rock, all good.
We’re extremely lucky in Manitoba to have an incredible music industry featuring some of the best artists in the world. That’s in no small part thanks to the behind the scenes industry folk (and the horrendous weather!) at organizations like Manitoba Film & Sound. As great as that organization is, sometimes, they screw up. Big time. This Sunday is one example of that. The folks at Film & Sound put together an amazing showcase of Manitoba music, featuring steallar stars like The Weakerthans, Romi Mayes, JP Hoe, Paper Moon, and many, many more. What’s more, they’re putting it on for FREE this weekend at our wonderful concert hall. Sounds great, right? Well, they made one tragic mistake. They booked it on Sunday at 2 pm. I know, what were they thinking? No respect, I tell ya.
Well, I’m not one to sit and gripe about the foolishness of others. Instead, I’ll be the bigger man and give you the weekend off to go support our wonderful artists. This week we’re pre-taped so that I can go down to the concert hall with my picket sign bearing the TTBTGH logo. Maybe we’ll get Stu Reid to pick up a dozen eggs and join us.
But, I’m not one to leave you in silence or slack off and run some old show you’ve heard already. No sir. This week, I put together another one of those timeless classics (and by that, I mean that you might hear it again some Sunday when I do slack off and run some old show…). This one is a good one. As I said on Thursday, I might actually be jealous of folks who stay home and listen. I pulled out some old classics that we haven’t heard in a while. I even cobbled together a weak theme for the show. I won’t tell you what it is, but I will tell you that the music this week is AMAZING, and this is one show you won’t mind hearing again some time down the road.
This week Steve Earle brings his Townesaoke tour to Winnipeg. I’ve long said that I’d rather hear Steve Earle do his own songs and hear Townes do his own songs, so this week that’s exactly what we did. We also heard from Hayes Carll, James Keelaghan, Geoff Berner, and Rae Spoon who are all appearing in town soon. And, some new music that I’ve been dying to play (and a Fred Eaglesmith tangent it set me off on.)
The Mudge goes it alone this week with some previews of some great upcoming shows, and a sad, posthumous tribute to the late, great Paul Quarrington.
I’ve learned the hard way that sometimes, it is indeed best not to meet your heroes. With this in mind, for some reason, I’ve purposely avoided talking to one of the greatest songwriters in the world, even though I see him all over the place and have heard that he’s a humble, decent dude. This week, I took my chances and chatted with John K Samson of The Weakerthans, and found that he is every bit as decent as I’ve heard. Phew. He kicks off a preview of an incredibly busy week in local shows, featuring John & Christine & friends, Dala, Joe Pug, Cuff the Duke, Blue Rodeo, and more!