Episode #725

My very favourite co-host, young Jeremy drops by to keep the old man company on today’s show, and what a show it is, with new music, some cool covers, and lots of interesting tangents.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Mayhemingways – Frances the Truck Driver – Skip Land – CDN
Lisa Leblanc – Ace of Spades – Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen? – CDN
Bun E. Carlos – Let the Mystery Be (featuring Xeno) – Greetings from Bunezuela
Colleen Brown & David Celia – Stop Dragging my Heart Around (bonus track) – Seasons are Circling – CDN
The LYNNeS – Heartbreak Song on the Radio – Heartbreak Song on the Radio – CDN
Anna Mitchell – Radio Waves – Anna Mitchell
Skydiggers – Radio Waves – Road Radio – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Blackie & the Rodeo Kings – Song on the Radio – BARK – CDN
Amelia Curran – Song on the Radio – They Promised You Mercy – CDN
Bob Snider – Darn Folksinger – Catterwaul & Doggerel – CDN
Iris DeMent – Wasteland of the Free – The Way I Should
Greg Brown – ‘cept You & Me Babe – Covenant
Bo Ramsey – Desert Flower – In the Weeds
Lucinda Williams – Out of Touch – Essence

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Mary Gauthier – Bullet Holes in the Sky – Bullet Holes in the Sky
Nora Jane Struthers – Grass – Champion
Bahamas – No Depression – Earthtones – CDN
Calexico – Under the Wheels – The Thread that Keeps Us
The King Heat Ensemble – Ten Years – Songs

3:30 – 3:45

Glen Hansard – Wheels on Fire – Between Two Shores
Hannah Aldridge – Gold Rush – Gold Rush
Jess Klein – If There’s a God – Learning Faith
Tom “Twisty” Fodey – Four Walls – Twisty Sings Twisty – CDN – WPG

Episode #724

On this episode, we’ve got a lot of new (and new-to-me) music, some timely tunes, and lots of requests & dedications courtesy of our wonderful listeners!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Blackie & the Rodeo Kings – Driftin’ Snow – live recording – CDN
Jeffrey Martin – Long Gone Now – One Go Around
Jeffrey Martin – Golden Thread – One Go Around
Jim Bryson – Hold the World – single – CDN
Anna Mitchell – It Pours – Anna Mitchell
TUNS – When You’re Ready – single – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Danny Michel – Midnight Train – New Coat of Paint (Volume 2) – CDN
Spirit of Canada – Home For A Rest – single – CDN
Sprit of the West – D for Democracy – Go Figure – CDN
Sprit of the West – Profiteers – Labour Day – CDN
Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain – May Your Kindness Remain
Lydia Loveless – I Would Die 4 U – Boy Crazy and Single(s)

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Alex Dezen – Shut Up – \\\
Figure Walking – Singapore – The Big Other – CDN – WPG
Greg Macpherson – First Class – Mr. Invitation – CDN – WPG
Ben Kweller – Homeward Bound – Changing Horses
Steph Cameron – Sing for Me – Daybreak Over Jackson Street – CDN
Ben de la Cour – Hold On – Midnight in Havana
The Warped 45s – Hurdle River Crossing – Matador Sunset – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Lyle Lovett – If I Had a Boat – Pontiac
John Hiatt – The River Knows Your Name – Walk On
John Gorka – Always Going Home – Out of the Valley
Scott Nolan – Swing Low – unreleased – CDN – WPG
Matt Epp – Room at the Top – Rubber + Chrome – CDN
Hiss Golden Messenger – Harder Rain – Hallelujah Anyhow

Episode #723

It’s a good thing that I’m so slow making a “Best of” list each year (when I actually do), because I’m constantly finding new music from years past and re-evaluating the choices. This week I discovered two albums worthy of a spot right near the top of the list, and spun some music from those as well as some more worthy contenders. We also had some great requests & suggestions from listeners.

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

D Rangers – New Year’s Blues – The Paw-Paw Patch – CDN – WPG
Emisunshine – Ninety Miles – Ragged Dreams
Anna Tivel – Alleyway – Small Believer
Anna Tivel – Illinois – Small Believer
Hannah Aldridge – Living on Lonely – Gold Rush

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Hannah Aldridge – I Know too Much – Gold Rush
Matt Patershuk – Sometimes You’ve Got to Do Bad Things to Do Good – Same as I Ever Have Been – CDN
Rob Lutes – Walk in the Dark – Walk in the Dark – CDN
Scott Cook – Careful with my Heart – Further Down the Line – CDN
Phoebe Bridgers – Funeral – Stranger in the Alps
Twain – Dear Mexico (Thank You for Joyce) – Rare Feeling
Sean McConnell – Nothing on You (featuring Lori McKenna) – Undone

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Carolyn Mark – Fireworks (w/NQ Arbuckle) – Just Married: An Album of Duets – CDN
John Moreland – You Don’t Care for Me Enough to Cry – High on Tulsa Heat
John Moreland – Nobody Gives a Damn About Songs Anymore – In the Throes
Richard Laviolette – Taking the Long Way Home – Taking the Long Way Home – CDN
Eric Westbury – My Kind of People (Are Getting Hard to Find) – Atomic Wilderness – CDN
Gurf Morlix – Right Now – The Soul & The Heal

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Richie Healy – Cloak Me In Quiet – The Perilous Tree
Son Volt – Promise the World – Notes of Blue
The Secret Sisters – Carry Me – You Don’t Own Me Anymore
Skinny Dyck & Friends – New Pair of Shoes (Leeroy Stagger & Mariel Buckley) – Twenty One-Nighters – CDN
Major Love – Tear It Down – single – CDN
Colleen Brown – Fight! Fight! Fight! – Dirt – CDN

Episode #722

It’s time for another of our legendary marathons where we ring out the old year and look forward to the new. As always, we’ve got tributes to two of the greatest and most important songwriters of all time, who coincidentally died on the same day – Jan. 1, as well as an extensive look back at some of the best and most interesting albums and events of the year, and discuss some things to look forward to in the new year!

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

12:00 – 12:30 pm

Reid Jamieson – Last Day of the Year – The Unavoidable Truth – CDN
Reid Jamieson – I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry – Vinyl Cafe Demos April 2008 – CDN
Social Distortion – Alone and Foresaken – Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
Girls Guns & Glory – Move It on Over – Tribute to Hank Williams LIVE
The Handsome Family – Lost Highway – Scattered
The Supersuckers – All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down) – Holdin’ the Bag
Hank Williams – Cold, Cold Heart – The Ultimate Collection
Guy Clark – Hank Williams Said It Best – Dublin Blues

12:30 – 1:00 pm

Hank Williams Jr. – If You Don’t Like Hank Williams – Kris Kristofferson: Singer/Songwriter
Johnny Cash – The Night Hank Williams Came to Town (w/Waylon Jennings) – Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town
Waylon Jennings – Are You Sure Hank Done It this Way? – Dreaming My Dreams
Jerry Jeff Walker – I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight – Live at Gruene Hall
Eleven Hundred Springs – Hank Williams Wouldn’t Make It Now in Nashville, Tennessee – Bandwagon
Townes Van Zandt – Pancho & Lefty (Alternate 1972 Mix Without Strings And Horns) – Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971 – 1972
Townes Van Zandt – Kathleen – Our Mother the Mountain
Townes Van Zandt – Talkin’ Karate Blues – Austin City Limits 1976

1:00 – 1:30 pm

Shannon Lyon – Buckskin Stallion Blues – Sorrow & Solitude – CDN
Shannon Lyon – If I Needed You – Riding the Range – The songs of Townes Van Zandt – CDN
Danny and the Champions of the World – For the Sake of the Song – Riding the Range – The songs of Townes Van Zandt
Lindi Ortega – Waitin’ Around to Die – ’til the Going Gets Gone – CDN
Kate Maki – I’ll Be Here in the Morning – Introducing Townes Van Zandt Via The Great Unknown – CDN
Great Lake Swimmers – Our Mother the Mountain – Introducing Townes Van Zandt Via The Great Unknown – CDN

1:30 – 2:00 pm

Jinder – Townes’ Blues – Nine Cents from Benelux
Barney Bentall – The Ocean and You (a Song for John Mann) – The Drifter and the Preacher – CDN
Troy Kokol – Jim Cuddy – Lonely Ghost – CDN
Jim Cuddy – While I Was Waiting – Constellation – CDN
Blair Packham – Enough Is Never Enough – Unpopular Pop – CDN
Steven Page – The Work at Hand – Heal Thyself Pt. 1: Instinct – CDN
Flagship Romance – Caught Up – Tales from the Self-Help Section

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Leeroy Stagger – Living in the Future – Love Versus – CDN
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – White Man’s World – The Nashville Sound
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Atlantic City – Live from Welcome to 1979
Lydia Loveless – Boy Crazy – Live from the Documentary Who Is Lydia Loveless?
Robert Finley – Real Love Is Like Hard Time – Goin’ Platinum!

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Paul Kelly – My Man’s Got a Cold (w/Vika Bull) – Life Is Fine
Sunny Sweeny – Bottle by My Bed – Trophy
Kasey Chambers – Ain’t No Little Girl – Dragonfly
John Murry – Wrong Man – A Short History of Decay
Terra Lightfoot – Norma Gale – New Mistakes – CDN
Oh Susanna – My Old Vancouver – A Girl in Teen City – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Angeleena Presley – Bless Your Heart – Wrangled
Whitney Rose – Trucker’s Funeral – Rule 62 – CDN
Sam Outlaw – Tenderheart – Tenderheart
Romantica – Lonely Star – Shadowlands
Daddy – Rock ‘n’ Roll, Part 3 – Let’s Do This

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Daddy – When Disney Takes Jerusalem – Let’s Do This
Dylan Ireland – Downtown Habit – Every Other Night – CDN
Kayla Howran – Country Radio – Spare Parts – CDN
Ha Ha Tonka – Everything – Heart-Shaped Mountain
Larissa Tandy – The River – The Grip – CDN
John Baumann – Here I Come – Proving Grounds
James McMurtry – State of the Union – single

4:00 – 4:30 pm

The Trashmen – Surfin’ Bird – Surfin’ Bird/Bird Dance Beat
NQ Arbuckle – XOK – XOK – CDN
King Creosote – My Favourite Girl – Thrawn
Peter Bruntnell – Yuri Gagarin – Nos da Comrade

4:30 – 5:00 pm

Adam Levy & Anthony da Costa – The Springs – Neighbors
Brandi Carlile – That Year – Give Up the Ghost
David Corley – Take Me Down Some – Zero Moon
The Stephen Stanley Band – 40 Endings – Jimmy & the Moon – CDN
Charlie Whitten – Who’ll Take My Place – Hey Love
Jim Bryson – Mary New Year’s Eve – Instant Holiday Album – CDN