Tell the Band to Go Home

2024 was another banner year for music even though a lot of our usual favourites didn’t release new albums. This allowed for some new discoveries and unusual selections. This week’s show looks at some of the many highlights of they year. Here are some of the releases that really caught my ear this year!

I’d love to know what resonated with you this year! Please leave a comment, visit the contact page, or find me on social media and let me know what you liked & didn’t like this year!

This is one of our standby series of pre-recorded episodes that are meant to be timeless, so we can pop them into the schedule again some time when I can’t be at the studio live, so enjoy this one now and again!

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

Sean Burns – Someday Soon – single – CDN – WPG

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Empty Trainload of Sky – Woodland
Bonny Light Horseman – I Know You Know – Keep Me on your Mind/See you Free
Hurray for the Riff Raff – Alibi – The Past Is Still Alive
Sierra Ferrell – American Dreaming – Trail of Flowers
Adrienne Lenker – Free Treasure – Bright Future
Waxahatchee – Right Back to It – Tigers Blood

Stephanie Lambring – Hospital Parking – Hypocrite
Lynne Hanson – Can’t Let Go – Just a Poet – CDN
Terra Spencer – Twenty Years In – Sunset – CDN
Wonder Women of Country – Another Broken Heart – Willis, Carper, Leigh

Zach Bryan – Memphis: The Blues (w/John Moreland) – The Great American Bar Scene
John Moreland – Blue Dream Carolina – Visitor
Corb Lund – Redneck Rehab – El Viejo – CDN

Leaf Rapids – Starling to a Starling – Velvet Paintings – CDN – WPG
Major Love – Mountain Standard Time – Live Laugh Major Love – CDN
Jadea Kelly – Waiting for You (w/Zoe Sky Jordan) – Weather Girl – CDN
Sarah Burton – Might As Well Be Loved – Swoonville USA – CDN
Anna Tivel – Altogether Alone – Living Thing

MJ Lenderman – She’s Leaving You – Manning Fireworks
Richard Laviolette – Carter and Cash – All Wild Things Are Shy – CDN
Micah Schnabel – 4 Vignettes from an American Strip Mall – The Clown Watches the Clock
Skinny Dyck – Baby Oh Well – Easygoing – CDN
Mike June – Ghosts and Demons – Modern American Folk Music

Leeroy Stagger – Count to Ten – 3 AM Revelations – CDN
Ryland Moranz – When I’m Gone – Better/Worse – CDN
Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms – He’s Gone – Gold in your Pocket
John Blek – Country Mile – Cheer Up

The Damnwells – Falling Out of Love – Bad at Beautiful
American Aquarium – Cherokee Purples – The Fear of Standing Still
The Howl & The Hum – All Your Friends Hate Me – Same Mistake Twice
Peter Bruntnell – Out of the Pines – Houdini and the Sucker Punch
Chuck Prophet – Red Sky Night – Wake the Dead

Jeff Crosby – Joke’s on Me – Another Petal Falls off the Rose
Blake Berglund – Awakening Fist – What’s Left of the Right – CDN
Jim Bryson – Who’s There – Combinations 1+1 – CDN
David Myles – Break Free – Devil Talking – CDN
Paul Kelly – All Those Smiling Faces – Fever Longing Still

Ruth Moody – Already Free – Wanderer – CDN – WPG
Liv Greene – Wild Geese – Deep Feeler
Benjamin Tod – Tramp Like Me – Shooting Star
Jeremie Albino – So Many Ways to Say I Love You – Our Time in the Sun – CDN

Nostalgic bands, new discoveries, another packed week of live music, requests, and a pile of Christmas classics that we just couldn’t go a year without hearing! Here’s hoping that you and the ones you love have a great Christmas, if that’s your thing, and that you enjoy some peaceful down time even if it isn’t! Thanks for listening and encouraging me to keep making this silly show for so many years!

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

Paul Kelly – How to Make Gravy – live recording

The Gourds – Gin and Juice – Shinebox
The Gourds – Lower 48 – Blood of the Ram

Songs: Ohia – Just Be Simple – Magnolia Electric Co.
Songs: Ohia – I’ve Been Riding With the Ghost – Magnolia Electric Co.
Neil Young – Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Pt. I) – Freedom – CDN
Lowest of the Low – Black Monday – Hallucigenia – CDN

The New Meanies – Scenic Anomaly – Three Seeds – CDN – WPG
The New Meanies – Sliding Door – Highways – CDN – WPG

D. Rangers – We Stay High & Lonesome – We Stay High and Lonesome – CDN – WPG
D. Rangers – New Year’s Blues – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
D. Rangers – Tight Knit Seams – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
Novillero – Art Of Carrying On – Aim Right for the Holes in Their Lives – CDN – WPG
Novillero – Daydreams & Distractions – A Little Tradition – CDN – WPG
Bloc Parents – Bad Blood – EP – CDN – WPG
Leaf Rapids – Fast Romantics – Velvet Paintings – CDN – WPG

Sean Burns – Drinkin’ Me Six Foot Under – Lost Country – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Harold’s Super Service – Music for Taverns, Bars, And Honky Tonks – CDN – WPG

The Barr Brothers – You Would Have to Lose Your Mind – Queens of the Breakers – CDN
The Barr Brothers – Dear Mrs. Claus – single – CDN

Neko Case – Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis – New Coat of Paint — Waits Tribute
The Handsome Family – So Much Wine – In the Air
The Pogues – Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) – If I Should Fall from Grace with God
Robert Earl Keen – Merry Christmas From The Family – #2 Live Dinner
Kathleen Edwards – It’s Christmastime (Let’s Just Survive) – A Dualtone Christmas – CDN

Leon Redbone – Christmas Island – Christmas Island
George Strait – Merry Christmas Strait To You – Merry Christmas Strait To You
Emmylou Harris – Christmas Time’s a-Comin’ – Light of the Stable
Darlene Love – A Marshmallow World – A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Steve Earle – Nothing But A Child – Copperhead Road
John Prine – Christmas In Prison – Sweet Revenge
Skydiggers – Good King Wenceslas – Still Restless The Lost Tapes – CDN
Joni Mitchell – River – Blue – CDN
Oliver Schoer – Beneath The Ice, They Heard Bells – Stuck On A Cold Steel Pole – CDN

New music, timely tunes, a big week for live music, and birthday celebrations for Steve Forbert and our longtime listener and dear friend Barb Reimer!

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

Hidden Agenda Deluxe & Oh Susanna – The River – Angels in the Snow

Hidden Agenda Deluxe & Oh Susanna – Christmas Time in Washington – Angels in the Snow
Hidden Agenda Deluxe & Oh Susanna – After the Holidays – Angels in the Snow
Hidden Agenda Deluxe – The Grinch In Me (feat. BJ Baartmans, Iain Matthews & Mike Roelofs) – single

The Damnwells – Xmas Eve – single
Son of Dave – The Kids Are Coming Home For Christmas – single – CDN
Liz Longley – Happy, Happy New Year – single
Willow Avalon – Save A Little Christmas – single

Steve Forbert – In The Bleak Midwinter – single
Steve Forbert – Goin’ Down to Laurel – Alive on Arrival
Steve Forbert – I’m In Love With You – Jack Rabbit Slim
Steve Forbert – Song For Katrina – Little Stevie Orbit
Steve Forbert – So Good to Feel Good Again – Mission Of The Crossroad Palms

Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms – He’s Gone – Gold In Your Pocket

Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms – He’s Gone – Gold In Your Pocket
Shawn Hess – A Tear For You – Wild Onion
Sentimental Family Band – Drink Smoke Cuss and Cry – Sweethearts Only
Sentimental Family Band – Record Stack – Sweethearts Only

Kathleen Edwards – Sweetness Follows – Covers – CDN
Julia Jacklin – Good Guy (feat. Faye Webster) – single
Pieta Brown – Drifter (Paradise Outlaw Drifters) – Paradise Outlaw (10th Anniversary Edition)
Willow Avalon – Something We Regret – single

JP Hoe – Brighten Up The Night – Brighten Up the Night – CDN – WPG
Red Moon Road – A Simple Kind of Christmas – A Simple Kind of Christmas – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns – Jesus Didn’t Like It Down On Yonge Street – single – CDN – WPG
Sean Burns – Someday Soon – single – CDN – WPG
Greg MacPherson – Windy – Balanced on a Pin – CDN – WPG
Greg MacPherson – Hotel Motel – Night Flares – CDN – WPG

Emmylou Harris – Barbara Allen – Songcatcher
Johnny Cash – Ballad Of Barbara – Live from Austin, TX
Jon Dee Graham – Ballad of Barbara and Steve – Knoxville Skyline
Melwood Cutlery – Barbie And The Bees – Campfire – CDN
Jim Lauderdale – Sandy Ford (Barbara Lee) – Headed For The Hills

Leaf Rapids – Healing Feeling (on SBFRR Oct. 23, 2014) – recorded live on UMFM – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – Little Dreamer – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
Orit Shimoni – Winnipeg – single – CDN – WPG
Christina Martin – Remember Me – Remember Me EP – CDN

Kris Kristofferson – For The Good Times – Kristofferson
Sean Burns & Lost Country – My Old Self – Music for Taverns, Bars, And Honky Tonks – CDN – WPG
Linda McRae – When Love is a Game – Shadow Trails – CDN
Emily Burgess & The Emburys – Excuses – Never-Ending Fling – CDN
MAYHEMINGWAYS – Small Town Crush – MAYHEMINGWAYS – CDN

Timely tunes, new music, Bandcamp buys, classics & covers, and a look way ahead at a recently announced show taking place in March featuring a great band called The Sentimentals!

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

Skydiggers – Even When You Fall – Road Radio – CDN

Paul MacLeod – December – Gauge – CDN
Malcolm Holcombe – Words Of December – Pitiful Blues
Blue Shadows – If We Make It Through December – On The Floor Of Heaven (Deluxe Re-issue) – CDN
Hannah White – Christmas Tree (We thank you for your service) – single
Scott Cook – Christmas On the Mekong – single – CDN
Micah Schnabel & Vanessa Jean Speckman – Omaha – Miracle On Comm Ave 8

Stephen Fearing – Bring This Song – The Empathist – CDN
Humbird – Forgiveness – Astrovan: The Love Song Vignettes
Willi Carlisle – A Horse Named Bill – The Magnola Sessions
Sam Fender – Me And the Dog – Wild Long Lie

The Howl & The Hum – Echo – Same Mistake Twice
The Howl & The Hum – All Your Friends Hate Me (Acoustic) – Same Mistake Twice (Acoustic)
Mike Lynch – Used to dream I was a cowboy – Used to Dream I was a Cowboy – CDN
Mike Lynch – 50 Beer (Mike’s Birthday Song) – Used to Dream I was a Cowboy – CDN

Shawn William Clarke – Forest City (Companion Version) – Ten Years Ago: A Companion – CDN
Shawn William Clarke – Tall Trees – Softer Scissors – CDN
Shawna Caspi – Lay Low Shadow – Hurricane Coming – CDN
BJ Baartmans – Hotel (feat. Wild Verband) – single
Kyle McKearney – Tomorrow – single – CDN
Jadea Kelly – Waiting for You (feat. Zoe Sky Jordan) – Weather Girl – CDN

Fred Eaglesmith – Time To Get A Gun – Lipstick, Lies And Gasoline – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – The Highway Callin’ – Fred J Eaglesmith – CDN
Zachary Lucky – Water in the Fuel – The Wind – CDN
Lyle Lovett – If I Had A Boat – Pontiac

Guy Clark – Step Inside My House – Truly Handmade, Vol. 1
Jimmy LaFave – Walk Away Renée – Austin Skyline
Neko Case – Buckets of Rain – Sweetheart: Love Songs

Stephen Fearing – The Bells of Morning – Blue Line – CDN
Stephen Fearing & The Sentimentals – Someone Else’s Shoes – Vejpoesi – CDN

Anthony Da Costa & The Sentimentals – Sins Of Your Father – live recording
Anthony Da Costa & The Sentimentals – Go Steady – live recording

Jonathan Byrd & The Sentimentals – On the Edge – Mother Tongue
Ana Egge & The Sentimentals – Take off My Dress – Say That Now – CDN
The Sentimentals – Come Friday (feat. Sarah MacDougall) – Come Friday
Heather Styka – Michigan or Minnesota (feat. The Sentimentals) – North
Vanessa Peters – Pacific Street – With the Sentimentals

Smokey & the Mirror & The Sentimentals – Lights of Nebraska – The Denmark Project
Matt Harlan & The Sentimentals – Bow And Be Simple – Bow and Be Simple
M.C. Hansen – My East Nashville Dream (For Carina) – With Any Luck
Jonathan Byrd & The Sentimentals – Under the Belly of the Night – single

For the first 15 years of this program, I made an annual compilation of some of my favourite songs released during the year. I revisit those often but haven’t ever really used them as the topic for a whole episode, until now. With that in mind, I went through each of the compilations and pulled out a couple of songs, then imagined what subsequent compilations might have included, for a Best of the Best of compilations, which in turn kind of serves as a very best of Tell the Band to Go Home!

This is one of our standby series of pre-recorded episodes that are meant to be timeless, so we can pop them into the schedule again some time when I can’t be at the studio live, so enjoy this one now and again!

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

Paper Moon – Your Attitude Towards Cuttlefish – Somebody Needs a Timeout – CDN – WPG

Patty Griffin – Making Pies – 1000 Kisses
Danny Michel – Perfect – Tales from the Invisible Man – CDN
Jim Bryson – Feel Much Better – The North Side Benches – CDN

Eliza Gilkyson – Wonderland – Land of Milk and Honey
Peter Mulvey – Shirt – Kitchen Radio
Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell – Second Option – Begonias
Lynn Miles – Never Coming Back – Love Sweet Love – CDN

Leeroy Stagger & The Sinking Hearts – Carol – Depression River – CDN
D. Rangers – Trois Rivieres – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
Nathan – Let Them Look – Key Principles – CDN – WPG
The Weakerthans – Night Windows – Reunion Tour – CDN – WPG

Christina Martin – You Come Home – Two Hearts – CDN
The Hold Steady – Stay Positive – Stay Positive

NQ Arbuckle And Carolyn Mark – Officer Down – Let’s Just Stay Here – CDN
Wendy Bird – Deliver Me – Natural Wonder – CDN
The Beauties – Hearts Are Down – The Beauties – CDN
Del Barber – Miles and Years – Love Songs for the Last 20 – CDN – WPG

The Warped 45s – Live Bait – Matador Sunset – CDN
Imaginary Cities – Hummingbird – Temporary Resident – CDN – WPG
JP Hoe – Nothing’s Gonna Harm You – Mannequin – CDN – WPG
Drew Nelson – Dust – Tilt-A-Whirl

Scott Nolan – Lay Down – North/South – CDN – WPG
Express and Company – Carry Me Along – Ontario – CDN
Joe Nolan – Autumn Sky – Tornado – CDN
Shannon Lyon – The Lights Behind – The Lights Behind – CDN
Brock Zeman – Pulling your Sword – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN

The Damnwells – Lost – The Damnwells
Ben De La Cour – Down To The Water’s Edge – Midnight in Havana
Mayhemingways – Hunter St. Blues – Hunter St. Blues – CDN

Terra Lightfoot – Paradise – New Mistakes – CDN
The Artisanals – Angel 42 (Radio Edit) – single
Evangeline Gentle – The Strongest People Have Tender Hearts – Evangeline Gentle – CDN
Sean Burns – Gasoline – It Takes Luck To Get The Best Of Me – CDN – WPG

John R. Miller – Shenandoah Shakedown – Depreciated
S.G. Goodman – Work Until I Die – Teeth Marks
Amos the Kid – What Did You Do – Enough as it Was – CDN – WPG
Anna Tivel – Altogether Alone – Living Thing

John Blek & the Rats – Cities Keep Changing – Leave Your Love At The Door
Jonathan Byrd – Poor Johnny – You Can’t Outrun the Radio