Episode #735

An exciting episode indeed, as we welcomed back to the studio one of my very favourite guests and songwriters of them all, Stephen Fearing, who dropped in to chat and sing a few songs. What a treat! We also had another exciting show to preview and some great new music.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Stephen Fearing – Love like Water – Every Soul’s a Sailor – CDN

Stephen Fearing interview

Stephen Fearing – Red Lights in the Rain – live performance – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Stephen Fearing – Blowhard Nation – live performance – CDN
Stephen Fearing – Every Soul’s a Sailor – live performance – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Scott Nolan – Fire Up – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
Scott Nolan – Rosie – No Bourbon & Bad Radio – CDN – WPG
Mayhemingways – Bad Old Days – Skip Land – CDN
Mayhemingways – Wanderers – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Loretta – Let’r Buck – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Ben de la Cour – Uncle Boudreaux Went to Texas – The High Cost of Living Strange
Mariel Buckley – Rose Coloured Frames – Driving in the Dark – CDN
Robby Hecht & Caroline Spence – Over You – single
Parker Millsap – Come Back when you can’t Stay – Other Arrangements
Harrow Fair – Told a Lie to my Heart – Call to Arms – CDN
David Francey – Lonely Road – The Broken Heart of Everything – CDN
The Landreth Bros. – Alone in the Dark – Undercover Bros. – CDN – WPG
Travis Linville – Wishes – Up Ahead

Episode #734

No jokes & no fools on today’s show, just great music through and through! We’ve got some exciting shows past & future to discuss, including a big guest on next week’s episode, some stellar listener suggestions, and a pile of new & new to me music.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Scott Nolan – Easter at the Waffle House – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
Stephen Fearing – The Assassin’s Apprentice – The Assassin’s Apprentice – CDN
Stephen Fearing – Blowhard Nation – Every Soul’s a Sailor – CDN
Martyn Joseph – Here Come the Young – unreleased
John Prine – God Only Knows – The Tree of Forgiveness

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Courtney Marie Andrews – Kindness of Strangers – May Your Kindness Remain
Bennett Wilson Poole – Ask Me Anything – Bennett Wilson Poole
Traveller – Hummingbird – Western Movies
The Vegabonds – Everything I Need – single
The Artisanals – Roll With It – Literally Anywhere
The Pollies – Lost – Not Here
Dylan Leblanc – Look How Far We’ve Come w/Rayland Baxter – Luck Mountain Sessions

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Skylar Bouchard – Montreal – Tired of the City – CDN – WPG
Carrie Rodriguez & Ben Kyle – If I Needed You – We Still Love Our Country
Lyle Lovett – Step Inside this House – Step Inside this House
Adela Diane – Ether & Wood – Cusp
The Black Lillies – Two Hearts Down – 100 Miles of Wreckage
Fred Eaglesmith – Freight Train – Official Bootleg Series Vol. 2 – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Ridley Bent & The Killer Tumbleweeds – Pretty Li’l Self – Ridley Bent & The Killer Tumbleweeds – CDN – WPG
Ridley Bent – Suicidewinder – Blam! – CDN – WPG
Omar & The Howlers – Hard Times in the Land of Plenty – Hard Times in the Land of Plenty
Jerry Miller – What a Little Moonlight Can Do (w/Eilen Jewell) – New Road Under my Wheels
Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Tonight I Think I’m Gonna Go Downtown – After Awhile
Greg Brown – Downtown – One Night

Episode #733

A long-awited visit by Quinton Blair, who stops by to chat and sing some great songs before tonight’s Honky Tonk Blues show at The West End Cultural Centre, as well as a bunch of requests & dedications and a pile of great new music!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Huey Lewis & The News – Honky Tonk Blues – Sports
Quinton Blair – Following Him Around – Cash Crop – CDN – MB
Little Miss Higgins – My Home, My Heart – My Home, My Heart – CDN – MB
Jess Reimer – 1500 Appeals – The Nightjar and the Garden – CDN – MB
Jaxon Haldane – Twenty-One – Hectic – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Quinton Blair – 300,000 KM – live performance – CDN – MB
Quinton Blair – Someday Soon – live performance – CDN – MB
Quinton Blair – After They’re Gone – live performance – CDN – MB
Quinton Blair – Blues Man – Blues Man – CDN – MB
Del Barber – Living with a Long Way to Go – Prairiography – CDN – WPG
Blake Berglund – Moose Mountain – Realms – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Ian Felice – In the Kingdom of Dreams – In the Kingdom of Dreams
Mipso – Coming Down the Mountain – Coming Down the Mountain
Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle – Officer Down – Let’s Just Stay Here – CDN
NQ Arbuckle – Cheap Town – Live at the Dakota – CDN
John Moreland – Nobody Gives a Damn About Songs Anymore – In the Throes
John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls – Low – Everything the Hard Way

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Bennett Wilson Poole – Soon Enough – Bennett Wilson Poole
Parker Millsap – Fine Line – Other Arrangements
Calexico – Music Box – The Thread that Keeps Us
The Young Novelists – Back to the Hard Times – In City & Country – CDN
Hannah Aldridge – Parchman – Razor Wire
Caroline Rose – Jeannie Becomes a Mom – LONER

Episode #732

Wow, what a weekend! A couple of amazing shows with the Cuddy crew kicked things off in fine form and required some reflection on the show today. We also had a big ol’ pile of new music, as well as a whole lot of music from some wonderful women in belated honour of International Women’s Day!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Luke Doucet – One Too Many – Broken (and other Rogue States) – CDN
The Devin Cuddy Band – Maggie’s Hardware Store – Amy’s Dream – CDN
Sam Polley and The Old Tomorrow – Rude Girl – EP in a Day – CDN
Bazil Donovan – Little ole Wine Drinker Me – Matinee – CDN
Colin Cripps – Your True Colours – Stormy Northern Days – CDN
Jim Cuddy – Water’s Running High – Skyscraper Soul – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Erin Costelo – Fighter – Down Below, the Status Quo – CDN
Major Love – So Good – Major Love EP – CDN
The Decemberists – Once in my Life – I’ll Be your Girl
Neko Case – Hell-On – Hell-On
Bob Schneider – Making It Up – Blood and Bones
Scenic Route to Alaska – All These Thoughts – Tough Luck – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Julie Miller – I Need You – Broken Things
Julie Miller – Out in the Rain – Broken Things
Kathleen Edwards – Westby – Failer – CDN
Christina Martin – You Come Home – Two Hearts – CDN
Eliza Gilkyson – Wonderland – Land of Milk and Honey
Eilen Jewel – Dusty Boxcar Wall – Letters from Sinners & Strangers
Eddi Reader – California – Angels & Electricity

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Bronwynne Brent – Heartbreaker – Stardust
Hannah Aldridge – Living on Lonely – Gold Rush
Anna Tivel – Illinois – Small Believer
Mary Gauthier – Camelot Motel – Filth & Fire
Mary Gauthier – Brothers – Rifles & Rosary Beads

Episode #731

This Friday marks the long-awaited return of Barney Bentall to Winnipeg, when he opens for Jim Cuddy. We were fortunate enough to chat with Barney once again today. We also heard a bunch of new music, talked about some interesting upcoming shows, paid tribute to a fallen great, and more!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Barney Bentall & the Legendary Hearts – Come Back to Me – Barney Bentall & the Legendary Hearts – CDN
Barney Bentall – The Miner – The Drifter and the Preacher – CDN
Barney Bentall – Won’t Change the World – The Drifter and the Preacher – CDN
Jim Cuddy – She Gets Down – The Light that Guides You Home – CDN
Jim Cuddy – Lonely When You Leave – Constellation – CDN
Skydiggers – The Air that I Breathe – Warmth of the Sun – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

John Prine – Knockin’ on your Screen Door – The Tree of Forgiveness
Matthew Ryan – Run Rabbit Run (Unadorned) – Run Rabbit Run EP
Tracy Grammer – Hole – Low Tide
Leeroy Stagger – Run Rabbit Run – Love Versus – CDN
Mike Edel – Finish Line – single – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Barney Bentall interview

Barney Bentall – The Ocean and You (A Song for John Mann) – The Drifter and the Preacher – CDN
Spirit of Canada: Friends of John Mann – Home for a Rest – single – CDN
Spirit of the West – Political – Labour Day – CDN
The Jeff Healey Band – My Little Girl – See the Light – CDN
Jeff Healey – My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now – Adventures in Jazzland – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Fred J. Eaglesmith and the Flying Squirrels – York Road – There Ain’t No Easy Road – CDN
Fred J. Eaglesmith and the Flying Squirrels – White Ash & Black Ash – Things Is Changin’ – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Sleeping in Clay – Sharpen the Plow – CDN
Andrew Neville & The Poor Choices – Flowers in the Dell – Let’r Buck – CDN
D. Rangers – Hold Back the Tears – Barbaric Cultural Practices – CDN
Mayhemingways – Better of You – Skip Land – CDN
Brock Zeman – 10 Year Fight – Pulling Your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN