TTBTGH: Still looking for your feedback

Hi Friends,

I’ve been so overwhelmed by the great, thoughtful feedback I’ve received from the folks who have responded to my listener survey I mentioned earlier in the week. I really value your comments and suggestions, and will do my best to make the show as interesting and relevant to you, but I need to know what you like and what you want. The responses are surprising, enlightening, and oh so interesting. I’d love it if a few more of you took a moment to fill it out. I promise to get Best of CDs out to survey respondents first (ok, as part of the very first wave, anyway), and with any luck, that will be very soon, so get your responses in. I’m also going to put together a few CDs to give away to a couple of lucky folks who fill out the survey, so leave contact info if you want in on either of those deals. The survey can be done anonymously and all questions are optional.

If you have a few moments, please visit the following site:
http://www.tellthebandtogohome.com/survey.htm

Any feedback (even negative) is VERY helpful and MUCH appreciated. The goal is to give you more of what YOU want, so here’s your chance to speak up.

Thanks, now back to work on those CDs…

Steel Belted Radio – December 17, 2009

The Roots Rock Weirdoes get together for the last time in 2009 to play some old favourites, some best of 2009, and the two best Christmas songs of all.

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TTBTGH wants to hear from YOU!

The staff at TTBTGH is hard at work putting together this year’s Best of compilation, and that, as well as the end of a year and looking forward to a new one, has us looking back and wondering how we can make things even more useful and interesting for you, the listener. Before we put it all together, we’d love to hear your thoughts. Of course, you’re welcome to email or call us any old time, but we (who the heck is we… who am I trying to impress? I’m a one-man operation.) have also designed an easy survey that you can fill out anonymously if you like, so that we know what you would like on the show and what you think of the compilations.

If you have a few moments, please visit the following site:
http://www.tellthebandtogohome.com/survey.htm

Any feedback (even negative) is VERY helpful and MUCH appreciated. The goal is to give you more of what YOU want, so here’s your chance to speak up.

Thanks, we’ll (uh, I mean, I’ll) get back to you soon when the compilation is ready.

December 13, 2009

Christmas time’s a comin’, and that means that we have to do our best to prove that not all holiday music stinks. It also means that we have to work on our “best of” lists for the year, so we ran down some contenders. And, just before the year ends, we had to squeeze in our (almost) annual visit from local singer/songwriter/super guy, JP Hoe to chat about his upcoming Hoe Hoe Hoe Holiday show. He also, yet again, has some dazzling new songs to play.

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Steel Belted Radio – December 10, 2009

In between the usual hi jinx, we play some classics, look at some upcoming shows, and begin to discuss (or argue about, in our case) some of the best of 2009

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December 6, 2009

Special guest co-host Elysha joins us today for some extra fun & festivities. We played some fetive songs, some requests, some of our favourites, and whatever else came to mind. We also had the official phone-in poll to settle the debate about “Canada Day/Toronto,” no matter what that other guy says.

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FAR #124/last

FAR #124
Jeff Robson
Tell the Band to Go Home
CJUM 101.5 UMFM
Winnipeg, Manitoba
www.tellthebandtogohome.com

Artist: Album (Label) *JR

1. Rose Cousins: The Send Off (Old Farm Pony) *JR
2. Ron Hawkins: 10 Kinds of Lonely (self)
3. Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle: Let’s Just Stay Here (Mint)
4. Joshua Cockerill: The Trick with your Heart I’m Learning to Do (self)
5. Jory Nash: New Blue Day (self)
6. Lucero: 1372 Overton Park (Universal Republic)

November 29, 2009

Things are finally slowing down on the concert calendar, so not a lot to look forward to, but we did have a few fine shows to relive. That left us with some time for some classics, some new stuff, and a few we just plain felt like playing.

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Steel Belted Radio – November 26, 2009

A busy night with some very special, very exciting guests, live in-studio. First up is the wonderful artist behind one of this year’s most beautiful albums, Rose Cousins. Her voice and reputation have been well known to us, since she’s appeared on dozens of great albums that we love, but we’re finally getting to know how great she is on her own. She dropped by to chat and play us some of her gorgeous songs.

Next in was a hot, up-and-coming roots-rock combo from Ottawa called Silver Creek. They’re young boys with a heap of talent and they showed off some of their great songs.

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November 22, 2009

We’re on a roll with great guests as of late, and this week is certainly no exception. First up, a chat with probably the most important songwriter in my life, Ron Hawkins of The Lowest of the Low. He’s coming to town opening up for Billy Bragg, and he’s got a heck of a great new album to play for us, so we’ll chat about the past, present, and future. As if that weren’t enough, joining us live in studio is a band we’d never tell to go home, Sunparlour Players. They are without a doubt one of this country’s best live acts, and it won’t be long before they get the huge following they so rightly deserve. This week we’ll prove that we knew them “back when…”

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