Tell the Band to Go Home

I figure even once a year a grumpy curmudgeon like me can give in and do a show full of Christmas music. Don’t worry, there’s plenty of offbeat and off-colour songs mixed in, but also some of the all-time greatest Christmas songs.

We’ll be back to secular songs of misery and woe next week with a 4-hour special, 1-5 pm!

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

Benj Rowland & Melissa Payne – Fairytale of New York – live recording – CDN
Tom Waits – Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis – Blue Valentine
Steve Earle – Nothing but A Child – Copperhead Road
Oliver Schroer – Beneath the Ice, They Heard Bells – Stuck On A Cold Steel – CDN

David Myles – Santa Never Brings Me A Banjo – It’s Christmas – CDN
The Kinks – Father Christmas – Come Dancing with the Kinks (The Best of the Kinks 1977-1986)
Michael Johnston & His Gentlemen Collars – Dear Santa – Zunior Holiday Collection 2005 – CDN
Ridley Bent – All the Heat Is in the Whiskey – Rabbit on My Wheel – CDN – WPG
Dave Gunning – Daddy’s Beer – Christmas – CDN

John Prine – Christmas In Prison – Sweet Revenge
Mary Gauthier – Christmas In Paradise – Filth & Fire
Swank! – Santa Claus Is Out on Bail – Christmas Is Fun! – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Christmas in Hell – single – CDN
Paul Kelly – How to Make Gravy – Words & Music

The Chestnuts – Staying Home for Christmas – single
Warp Drive – Christmas Time (Is Religiously Complicated) – single
The Damnwells – Xmas Eve – demo
Harper Blynn – Christmas Ain’t No Good Without You – single

Chip Taylor – Merry F’n Christmas – The Little Prayers Trilogy
Butch Walker – Santa’Self (F*ck Your Christmas Party) – single
Cracker – Merry Christmas Emily – single
The Resentments – I Hate Christmas – The Resentments
Billy Joe Shaver – Merry Christmas To You – Freedom’s Child
Teddy Thompson – Boycotting Christmas – single

The Details – Strings & Ribbons (edit) – single – CDN – WPG
Off the Wagon – Kiss Me Christmas Eve – River City Christmas – CDN – WPG
Whitehorse – Merry Xmas, Baby (I Hope You Get What You Deserve) – A Whitehorse Winter Classic – CDN
Paper Moon – String of Blinking Lights – Broken Hearts Break Faster Every Day – CDN – WPG
The Teskey Brothers – Dreaming Of A Christmas With You – single

Hard to believe there’s only one more show after this one before Christmas, so we’ve upped the seasonal content today, but still have a good mix of new and new-to-me music to keep us from Christmas juggernaut territory.

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

Kathleen Edwards – It’s Christmastime (Let’s Just Survive) – single – CDN
Robert Earl Keen – Merry Christmas From The Family – No. 2 Live Dinner

Leeroy Stagger – Christmas Carol – Dystopian Weekends – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Christmas In the Year Of Austerity – Dystopian Weekends – CDN
Ryland Moranz – Where Are My Blue Eyes – XO, 1945 – CDN

Tom Waits – Bend Down The Branches – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Julia Jacklin – Baby Jesus is Nobody’s Baby Now – single
Bonny Light Horseman – Clementine – single
Courtney Marie Andrews – If I Told – Old Flowers

Steve Earle & The Dukes – Champagne Corolla – J.T.
Brett Eldredge – Sunday Drive – Sunday Drive
Last Year’s Man – No Eye on the Sparrow – Brave the Storm
Joshua Ray Walker – Voices – Glad You Made It
Frightened Rabbit – Roadless – Recorded Songs

Young Bob & the Peterboroughs – Hey America – single – CDN
The Jayhawks – What Would I Dreamer Do? – Johnny Cash: Forever Words Expanded
Hard Working Americans – Big Hearted Girl – Johnny Cash: Forever Words Expanded

Colleen Brown – What Do You Want For Christmas – Isolation Songs – CDN
Lunch At Allen’s – Spending My Christmas With You – A Lunch At Allen’s Christmas – Zuzu’s Petals – CDN
JP Hoe – Hoe Hoe Hoe – Brighten Up the Night – CDN – WPG
Lynn Miles – High Heels in the Snow – Winter – CDN

Brock Zeman – Pulling your Sword – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN
Mayhemingways – Small Town Crush – Mayhemingways EP – CDN
Christina Martin – Coming Back Home for Christmas – single – CDN

Mike Plume – Merry Xmas To My Ex-Miss – Back Home For Christmas – CDN
Mike Plume – More Than A Game (2014 Version) – single – CDN
John Blek & the Rats – Lord! Don’t Leave Me – Leave Your Love at the Door

It is December, and although this year doesn’t seem to hold a lot of joy, we’ll embrace the holiday spirit and let a few new festive tunes slip in to the show today and in the weeks to come. We’ve also got the long-awaited new all-star local compilation as well as a bunch of other great new songs and a lot of other good stuff for you today.

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

Paul Kelly – How to Make Gravy – Words and Music
Andrew Neville – Honky Tonk Shangri-La – We Still Gotta Lotta Livin’ To Do – CDN – WPG
D. Rangers – Man or a Fool – We Still Gotta Lotta Livin’ To Do – CDN – WPG
Del Barber w/ Grant Siemens – Meantime – We Still Gotta Lotta Livin’ To Do – CDN – WPG

John Blek – Like A Child – Digressions #2 Grounded
Serlin Greaves – The Needle and the Damage Done – single – CDN – WPG
Death Cab for Cutie – Flirted With You All My Life – The Georgia E.P.
Gregory Alan Isakov – Bullet Holes – Evening Machines
Slim Dunlap – Hate this Town – single
Mariel Buckley – No Surprise – single – CDN

The Oldest Forest – Put On A Fuckin Mask Stupid Part 2 – single – CDN – WPG
The Oldest Forest – Let’s Do The Foxtrot – single – CDN – WPG
The Oldest Forest – They Call Me Country – single – CDN – WPG

Skydiggers – Even When You Fall – Road Radio – CDN
Skydiggers – Good King Wenceslas – The Truth About Us – CDN
The Burning Hell – Better King Wenceslas – Mathias Kom’s Holy Hullabaloo – CDN

Liz Longley – One Missing – A Little Magic
Phoebe Bridgers – If We Make It Through December – If We Make It Through December EP
Boreal – Snow Falls Down – single – CDN
Calexico – Peace of Mind – Seasonal Shift
Rodney Crowell – Let’s Skip Christmas This Year – Christmas Everywhere
The Handsome Family – So Much Wine – In the Air

Nathan – John Paul’s Deliveries – Key Principles – CDN – WPG
The Wailin’ Jennys – One Voice – 40 Days – CDN – WPG
Oh Susanna & Michael Johnston – My Christmas Dreams – Decemberly – CDN
Allison Moorer – O Holy Night – Five Holiday Favorites

2020 has been an unmitigated disaster in almost every regard except for new music, which has been outstanding. Today we’re going to look at some of our favourites in hopes that you might add some music to your online shopping list or your own wish list, especially with the final Bandcamp Friday of the year coming up this week. These aren’t necessarily all of the best songs & albums of the year, just some of our standout favourites.

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

Kathleen Edwards – Glenfern – Total Freedom – CDN
Jim Bryson – Knights Of 1000 Sleeps ft. Caroline Brooks – single – CDN
Evangeline Gentle – Drop My Name – Evangeline Gentle – CDN
Ken Yates – Easy Way Out – Quiet Talkers – CDN
Graven – Real Rain – Years – CDN

Joe Nolan – Maybe We Didn’t Get Our Timing Right – Drifters – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Love Songs for the Long Game – single – CDN
Kennedy Road – Kennedy – A Little Fight Left Yet – CDN
Campbell Woods – For You – Keeper – CDN
John Prine – I Remember Everything – single

Sarah Harmer – St. Peter’s Bay – Are You Gone – CDN
Melissa Payne – Shake Me – Darker Than Your Dark – CDN

Icecream Hands – Thank You – No Weapon But Love
Jerry Joseph – Days of Heaven – The Beautiful Madness
Drive-By Truckers – The New OK – The New OK
Chuck Prophet – Marathon – The Land That Time Forgot
Our Man In The Field – I’ll Be Gone – The Company of Strangers

Scott Nolan – Ballad of a Stranger – single – CDN – WPG
William Prince – Old Souls – Reliever – CDN – WPG
Ben de la Cour – In God We Trust … All Others Pay Cash – Shadow Land – CDN

Sean Burns – Gasoline – It Takes Luck To Get The Best Of Me – CDN – WPG
Skinny Dyck – Dreamin’ – Get to Know Lonesome – CDN
Mike Plume – Younger Than We Are Today – Lonesome Stretch of Highway – CDN
Slow Leaves – Miss You – Shelf Life – CDN – WPG

A whole lot of cool covers today and the rest is brought to you by the letter B as we have a bunch of BROOD, a bit of Bruceness, and we visit with the Bobs I know!

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

Lowest of the Low – Black Monday – Hallucigenia – CDN
Rusty Cage – The Black Friday Song – Really Stupid Bad Songs That I Made
Casey Laforet – Put On A Fuckin Mask Stupid – single – CDN
Casey Laforet – Mr. Brownstone (Wild Turkey Version) – single – CDN
Elliott BROOD – Stay Out (acoustic) – single – CDN
Elliott BROOD – A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. – single – CDN

Steve Earle & The Dukes – Harlem River Blues – J.T.
John Anderson, Toby Keith, Buddy Miller & Tanya Tucker – Okie From Muskogee (Live) – Sing Me Back Home: The Music of Merle Haggard
Lauren Ruth Ward – Riders on the Storm – Happy Birthday Jim
Lissie – Wrecking Ball – Thank You to the Flowers
Molly Parden & Hollow Hum – Found out About You – Why Worry: A Collection of Covers
Molly Tuttle – She’s A Rainbow – …but i’d rather be with you
Dan Mangan – Losing My Religion – Thief – CDN

Matthew Ryan – Untitled Verses for Distances – Life Is Beautiful
Jennah Barry – Rocket – Holiday – CDN

NQ Arbuckle – Atlantic City – Live at Lincoln County Social Club – CDN
Martyn Joseph – One Step Up – Tires Rushing by in the Rain
Rose Cousins – If I Should Fall Behind – We Have Made a Spark – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – Human Touch (w/Bahamas) – single – CDN
Ruth Moody – Dancing in the Dark – These Wilder Things – CDN – WPG
Townes Van Zandt – Racing in the Streets – Roadsongs

Bob Schneider – Big Blue Sea – live recording
Bob Schneider – I Wish the Wind Would Blow Me – recorded live on UMFM
Bob Schneider – The Way Life Is Supposed to Be – I’m Good Now
Bob Schneider – Lake Michigan – single

Bob Snider – Talk to Me Babe – Caterwaul & Doggerel – CDN
Bobby Long – Who Have You Been Loving – A Winter Tale
Bobby Bare Jr. – Valentine – From the End of Your Leash
Lonesome Bob – Got Away With It – Things Change