Tell the Band to Go Home

Every once in a while, it’s fun to go digging through the CD library, the archives, and my failing memory banks in search of musical treasure that I haven’t heard & played in a while. This episode is made up of 3 hours of great songs that don’t come up in the rotation all that often, so they definitely deserve a refresher and another listen.

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

Colin Hay – Waiting For My Real Life To Begin – Going Somewhere

Chris Trapper – Skin – The Few & The Far Between
Vance Gilbert – Times Two – Fugitives
Martin Sexton – Glory Bound – Black Sheep

Madison Violet – Crying – No Fool For Trying – CDN
Meaghan Smith – I Know – The Cricket’s Orchestra – CDN
Catherine MacLellan – Stealin – Silhouette – CDN

Gene MacLellan – The Call – Gene MacLellan – CDN
David Wiffen – Mr. Wiffen – David Wiffen – CDN
Ron Hynes – No Kathleen – Cryer’s Paradise – CDN
Stan Rogers – The Field Behind The Plow – Northwest Passage – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Music In Your Eyes – Tryin’ To Start Out Clean – CDN

Melwood Cutlery – Ballad of the Moonlight Lady – Campfire – CDN
Jesse Winchester – A Showman’s Life – A Touch On The Rainy Side

Sam Larkin – Mirabeau Bridge – Ransom – CDN
James Keelaghan – Hillcrest Mine – Small Rebellions – CDN
Ken Whiteley – Let Me Fly – Acoustic Eclectic – CDN
Lewis Melville – Red – Noah’s Work – CDN
Wyckham Porteous – Deep Into The Water – 3AM – CDN
Bourne & Macleod – Ole Buffalo – Dance & Celebrate – CDN

Tannis Slimmon – Around Him – Lucky Blue – CDN – MB
The Wailin’ Jennys – Begin – Firecracker – CDN – WPG
Lisa Winn – Mean Shot Garden – Out From Under – CDN

Dan Kershaw – All Her Love – Groovy Mondays – CDN
Watertown – That’s What Love Is For – One Phoebe Street – CDN
Radiogram – Slide – Unbetween – CDN
Sunparlour Players – Robbers Lullaby – Hymns for the Happy – CDN
Steven Bowers – Beothuk Words – Beothuk Words – CDN

The John Henrys – Little One – White Linen – CDN
The Jayhawks – Waiting For The Sun – Hollywood Town Hall
Son Volt – Windfall – Trace
Sean Rowe – Downwind – The Salesman and the Shark
Peter Case – Travellin’ Light – The Man With The Blue Post Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar
Iain Matthews – Back Of The Bus – Skeleton Keys

David Wilcox – Ecstasy – The Collected Works 1977-1993 – CDN
David Wilcox – Eye of The Hurricane – How Did You Find Me Here
Jim Henry – Baby’s Coming Home – Jacksonville
5 Chinese Brothers – Paul Cezanne – Singer Songwriter Beggarman Thief
Peter Mulvey – Charlie – Kitchen Radio

Ani DiFranco – Not a Pretty Girl – Not A Pretty Girl
Dar Williams – It’s Alright – Promised Land
Eilen Jewell – Dusty Boxcar Wall – Letters from Sinners and Strangers
Patty Griffin – Change – Flaming Red

New music, upcoming shows, a preview to next weekend’s Trout Forest Music Festival, and a 4:00 Feature paying tribute to Winnipeg music VIP Gilles Fournier, with our thoughts and support after the loss of his wife, Carolyn Basha. Carolyn worked right here at the University of Manitoba raising funds to support the university. Her legacy will live on with the Carolyn Basha Scholarship in Music, which you can support here: https://give.umanitoba.ca/donationform

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

Geoff Berner – Super Subtle Folk Song – Canadiana Grotesquica – CDN

Sean Burns – NYC – It Takes Luck To Get The Best Of Me – CDN – WPG
Robert Earl Keen – Corpus Christi Bay – A Bigger Piece Of Sky
Tom Waits – (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night – The Heart Of Saturday Night
John Prine & Kelsey Waldon – Love At The Five & Dime – More than a Whisper: Celebrating the Music of Nanci Griffith
Marty Stuart – Farmer’s Blues (w/Merle Haggard) – Country Music

American Aquarium – Southern Roots (feat. Katie Pruitt) – The Fear of Standing Still
Jeff Crosby – Joke’s On Me – Another Petal Falls Off of the Rose
Jenny Don’t and the Spurs – Flyin’ High – single
Sierra Ferrell – Dollar Bill Bar (Alternate Version) – single

Chuck Prophet – Wake The Dead (feat. ¿Qiensave?) – Wake The Dead
Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets – Different Kind of Blue – Indoor Safari

Todd Snider – Alcohol and Pills – Aimless Records Presents: East Nashville Skyline (Purple Version)
T. Buckley – Dust Down a Country Road – single – CDN
Susto – Don’t Look Back in Anger – Live From Codfish Hollow
Paul Kelly – Taught by Experts – Fever Longing Still

Kasey Chambers – Backbone (The Desert Child) – Backbone
Terra Spencer – Real Love (feat. Ian Sherwood) – Sunset – CDN
Christina Martin – Stay with Me (Live) – single – CDN

Ryland Moranz – When I’m Gone – Better/Worse – CDN
Evangeline Gentle – Gay Bar – live recording – CDN
Leaf Rapids – Night Shift – Velvet Paintings – CDN – WPG

Federal Lights – We Were Found in the Fog – We Were Found in the Fog – CDN – WPG
Valdy & Gary Fjellgaard – The Boys Of Rhythm – Contenders – CDN

Ego Spank – Band Intro – Bootleg – CDN – WPG
Ego Spank – The Goof – Bootleg – CDN – WPG
Scrüj MacDuhk – The Rambling Irishman – The Road To Canso – CDN – WPG
The TurtleDuhks – Skyworld – True Lover – CDN

Scott Nolan – Girl from West Virginia – Postcards – CDN – WPG
Greg Macpherson – The Song – The Year of the Record Break – CDN
The Small Glories – Had I Paid – Wondrous Traveler – CDN – WPG
James Keelaghan – Canadian Railroad Trilogy – Beautiful: A Tribute To Gordon Lightfoot – CDN

John K. Samson – The Last And – Provincial – CDN – WPG
Christine Fellows – Certainty – Femmes de Chez Nous – CDN – WPG
The New Lightweights – Waiting – What Keeps Us Together – CDN – WPG
Twilight Hotel – Scrapbook – Bethune – CDN – WPG

Richard Moody – Gone – Woodcuts – CDN – WPG

Pre-recorded today because we still can’t access the studio due to work going on at the university. Pre-recorded episodes sometimes allow me to explore a theme that I’ve been thinking about and spin some artists and songs that you don’t normally hear on the show. Today’s show contains a lot of stuff outside of the usual folky singer/songwriter fare. I’m pretty sure that some of you will hate some of it, but I bet if you give it a chance, you might just hear something you adore.

Today’s show is an exploration of one offs and one hit wonders. These aren’t your typical one hit wonders, these are either bands & artists that only released one project or an album or song that stands out in a band/artist’s catalogue as being a bigger “hit” than the rest. It’s very subjective and totally for fun and in no way meant as any kind of an insult to any of the bands/artists! After all, as the opening number tells us, one hit wonders have achieved something that very few do! These aren’t major hits destined for hits compilations, they’re beloved favourites that I enjoy revisiting over and over again. I hope that you will too!

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

Blair Packham – One-Hit Wonder – Could’ve Been King – CDN

Kings Of The Moon – Procrastination – Kings Of The Moon – CDN – WPG
The New Meanies – Letting Time Pass – Three Seeds – CDN – WPG
The Details – Always, Always, Always, Never. – Draw a Distance. Draw a Border. – CDN – WPG
Paper Moon – Your attitude towards cuttlefish – Somebody Needs A Timeout – CDN – WPG
The Paperbacks – Local Celebrities – An Episode of Sparrows – CDN – WPG
Jim Bryson And The Weakerthans – Metal Girls – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN
Middle Of Nowhere – Hang on to Me – Middle Of Nowhere – CDN – WPG
Rusty Robot – Ice Cream Truck – single – CDN – WPG

Michael Johnston – The Country North of Peterborough (Featuring Andy Maize) – Curious Heart – CDN
Andy Sheppard – Until Next Time – Andy Sheppard – CDN
Chris Neufeld – Waterwheel – Colorado Low – CDN – WPG
Lindy – Witness – Suspension Of Disbelief – CDN – WPG
Leaderhouse – Elephant Song – Leaderhouse – CDN – WPG

The Monkey Bunch – Boris The Spider (with Danny Michel) – Power To The Little People – CDN
Starling – Everything In The World – Sustainer – CDN
Jason Plumb – Back at Me – Under & Over – CDN
Liam Titcomb – Love Don’t Let Me Down – CICADA – CDN
The Philosopher Kings – Coupe De Ville – Borrowed Tunes: A Tribute To Neil Young – CDN
The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir/Rheostatics – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – 1985-1995 – CDN

Joshua Cockerill – Dance With You – The Trick With Your Heart I’m Learning To Do – CDN
Dave McEathron – I Will – Abandoned Companions & the Abandoned Companions Companion Piece – CDN
Brady Enslen – Beautiful Things – Beautiful Things – CDN
Andrew Combs – Please, Please, Please – Worried Man
Middle Brother – Daydreaming – Middle Brother

Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell – Second Option – Begonias
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson – Rattlin’ Bones – Rattlin’ Bones
The Cash Brothers – Night Shift Guru – How Was Tomorrow – CDN

Wild Moccasins – Desired Effect – Look Together
Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous – More Adventurous
Grace Potter And The Nocturnals – Never Go Back – The Lion The Beast The Beat
Noisettes – Never Forget You – Wild Young Hearts
The Flaming Lips – Fight Test – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Keane – Somewhere Only We Know – Hopes And Fears
Scouting For Girls – Elvis Ain’t Dead – Scouting For Girls

Sweet Thing – Over You – Sweet Thing – CDN
Paolo Nutini – New Shoes – These Streets
Ben Arnold – House Of Cards – Calico
Rah Rah – Prairie Girl – The Poet’s Dead – CDN

Cedar Park – What She Tells Me (feat. NQ Arbuckle) – Way Back Home – CDN
The Beauties – Without You – The Beauties – CDN
Bobby Bare Jr.’s Young Criminals Starvation League – Valentine – From The End of Your Leash
Mike Dunn – Faith Healer – Hard Luck Soft Rock

Another incredible Static Roots Festival has come and gone and once again, it was an amazing weekend of peace, love, and rock ‘n’ roll! There were so many highlights this year, and so many new artists and bits of information to learn about. Today’s show is kind of debrief, with highlights, memories, and a lot of musical tangents to explore. This one is a little different than your usual singer/songwriter fare, but Static Roots and Tell the Band to Go Home are all about diverse music and ideas, so hopefully you’ll enjoy my indulgence. Static Roots returns in Oberahausen, Germany, on July 11-12, 2025. I’ll be there!

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

Peter A. Toal – Static Roots – single

Ole Kirkeng – Bare Minimum – live recording
Louien – If I Could only Fly – live recording
Louien – Heart and Mind Alike – None of My Words

Chris Cacavas – Burn The Maps – Burn The Maps
Green On Red – Hair of the Dog – Gas Food Lodging
Giant Sand – 1 Helvakowboy Song – Glum
The Dream Syndicate – The Way In – These Times
Mazzy Star – Hair and Skin – Flowers In December
Chris Cacavas & Junkyard Love – I Love Lyle Lovett – Dwarf Star

David Newbould – Powderfinger – Live In Germany – CDN
Suzie Ungerleider – Pumpkins – My Name is Suzie Ungerleider – CDN

Shannon Lyon – Naive – Wandered – CDN
Shannon Lyon – Someday Mourning – Safe Inside – CDN
BJ Baartmans – Old Habits Die Hard – Ghostwriter
High Fidelity – Shine a Light on Me – Come Rain Or Shine
Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party – Whatever It Takes – Old Town – CDN

The Sadies – Tell Her What I Said – Darker Circles – CDN
Richmond Fontaine – Postcard Written With a Broken Hand – Post to Wire
Richmond Fontaine – Post to Wire – Post to Wire
The Delines – My Blood Bleeds The Darkest Blue – The Lost Duets

The Damnations – Wanna Be Your Mama – Where It Lands
The Gourds – Raining in Port Arthur – Stadium Blitzer
Freddy Trujillo – I Didn’t Cross the Border, The Border Crossed Me – I Never Threw a Shadow at It
Alejandro Escovedo – Rio Navidad – The Crossing

David Keenan – Radiate a Smile – single
Louis Brennan – Black Limousine – single
Hannah White & The Nordic Connections – Walk Beside Me (feat. Tim O’Brien) – single
Hannah White – Nobody Minds – single

Evangeline Gentle – The Strongest People Have Tender Hearts – Evangeline Gentle – CDN
Jim Bryson – The Wishes Pile Up [w Evangeline Gentle] – live recording – CDN
Joe Nolan – Looking For Your Heart – Rootsy House Session – CDN

John Blek – Country Mile – Cheer Up
Bella White – Nobody Dies Anymore – Five for Silver – CDN
Noah Derksen – Through It All – single – CDN – WPG
Jeremie Albino – Rolling Down The 405 – Our Time in the Sun – CDN
Mali Velasquez – Medicine – I’m Green

It’s time once again to play Namedropper, where each and every song is either about another song or songwriter, or mentions one or more of them! See if you can keep score at home and pick out all of the mentions; there’s a lot of them!

This show is a continuation of a theme I started in 2018. If you missed that first episode, revisit it HERE

Even after 5 hours of these so far, I’ve got a whole pile more, so I’ll surely revisit this topic again in the future, so if you’ve got other suggestions, let me know!

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!

Mike Plume Band – Steel Belted Radio – Steel Belted Radio – CDN

Todd Snider – Vinyl Records – New Connection
Brent Cobb – When Country Came Back to Town – Southern Star
Ags Connolly – When Country Was Proud – How About Now
Joey Frendo – Old-Fashioned Country Singer – Old-Fashioned Country Singer

Waylon Jennings – Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way – Dreaming My Dreams
Guy Clark – Hank Williams Said It Best – Dublin Blues
Sunny Sweeney – I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight – Trophy
Eleven Hundred Springs – Hank Williams Wouldn’t Make It Now in Nashville Tennessee – Bandwagon
Johnny Cash – The Night Hank Williams Came To Town (& Waylon Jennings) – The Legend: Family & Friends
Fred Eaglesmith – Alcohol & Pills – Lipstick Lies & Gasoline – CDN

Geoff Berner – Phoney Drawl – live recording – CDN
Bill Chambers – Letter To Fred – Drifting South
Fred Eaglesmith – Mrs. Hank Williams – Milly’s Cafe – CDN

Scott Nolan – Drive Day – Canadian Amplifier: Official Bootleg Series Vol.2 – CDN – WPG
Corb Lund – It’s Hard To Keep A White Shirt Clean – Losin’ Lately Gambler – CDN
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Jackie Washington – Bark – CDN
Adam Baldwin – Bonnie Raitt – Adam Baldwin EP – CDN
Luke Doucet And The White Falcon – The Ballad Of Ian Curtis – Steel City Trawler – CDN
Colleen Brown – Randy Newman – Direction – CDN

Kathleen Edwards – I Make The Dough, You Get The Glory – Asking For Flowers – CDN
Allison Moorer – Bad Weather – Blood
Evangeline Gentle – So It Goes – Evangeline Gentle – CDN
Hailey Whitters – Mellencamp – I’m In Love
Lucinda Williams – Lake Charles – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lydia Loveless – Steve Earle – Indestructible Machine
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers – Dwight Yoakam – Sidelong
Elizabeth Cook – Times Are Tough in Rock N’ Roll – Balls
Emma-Lee – What Would Tom Petty Do? – single – CDN

Danny Michel – Lifeboat – Khlebnikov – CDN
Skydiggers – All of Our Dreaming – Brother’s Keeper – songs with Paul – CDN
Barney Bentall – The Ocean and You ( A song for John Mann) – The Drifter and the Preacher – CDN
Leeroy Stagger – Ventura (For Neal Casal) – Dystopian Weekends – CDN
Ron Hynes – Godspeed (Requiem for Gene MacLellan) – Face to the Gale – CDN
Cris Cuddy – The Night the Lights Blew Out (In St. John’s Newfoundland) – Dream On – CDN

Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle – Officer Down – Let’s Just Stay Here – CDN
Drive-By Truckers – Danko/Manuel – The Dirty South
The Cash Brothers – Nebraska – How Was Tomorrow – CDN
John Hiatt – Slow Turning – Slow Turning

The Hold Steady – Constructive Summer – Stay Positive
The Lowest of The Low – …And Then The Riot – Sordid Fiction – CDN
Alejandro Escovedo – Chelsea Hotel ’78 – Real Animal
Chuck Prophet – Bad Year for Rock and Roll – Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins
Rheostatics – Me And Stupid – Introducing Happiness – CDN