Today a heaping helping of great new music, as well as a couple of exciting shows to preview, including the long-awaited Winnipeg debut of Bidiniband! Author, newspaper columnist, songwriter, founding member of Rheostatics, and leader of Bidiniband joins us to chat.
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – MB = Manitoba Artist – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Sexsmith & Kerr – Lemonade Stand – Destination Unknown – CDN
The Kelele Brothers – Hang on to your Guiness, Man! – Escape from Bover County – CDN
Communism – Crapitalism – Get Down Get Together – CDN
Communism – Haunt Me – Get Down Get Together – CDN
Bidiniband – The Motherland – The Motherland – CDN
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Chuck Prophet – Bobby Fuller Died for your Sins – Bobby Fuller Died for your Sins
Shinyribs – Trouble, Trouble – I Got your Medicine
Steve Poltz – Hey God I’ll Trade you Donald Trump for Leonard Cohen – single – CDN
Loudon Wainwright III – I Had a Dream – single
Annabelle Chvostek – Like a Hurricane – Be the Media – CDN
Bidiniband – Desert Island Poem – The Land Is Wild – CDN
Bidiniband – The Fatherland – The Motherland – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Dave Bidini interview
Bidiniband – Hey Paul and Donna – In the Rock Hall – CDN
Bidiniband – Last of the Dead Wrong Things – In the Rock Hall – CDN
Son Volt – Back against the Wall – Notes of Blue
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Brigitte DeMeyer & Will Kimbrough – Broken Fences – Mockingbird Soul
Bill & Joel Plaskett – The Next Blue Sky – Solidarity – CDN
Scott Cook – Careful with my Heart – Further down the Line – CDN
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Come on Train – High or Hurtin’ – CDN
Blackie & the Rodeo Kigns – The Lucky Ones – Kings of Love – CDN
It’s Groundhog Day and that’s got us thinking about groundhogs, shadows, and sunshine! We’ve also got some exciting Sunset Saloon news and some great music from past Sunset Saloon guests in honour of the anniversary of The Day the Music Died. Speaking of deaths, yesterday was the anniversary of the death of the great Blaze Foley, so a trip through his catalogue as well.
Daniel Koulack & Karnnel Sawitsky – GroundHog (featuring Joey Landreth) – Fiddle And Banjo
Gordon Lightfoot – Shadows – Songbook
Chloe Albert – Sunny Day Song – Dedicated State
Blue Shadows – I Believe – On The Floor Of Heaven
John Bottomley – Fly With Your Shadow – Blackberry
NQ Arbuckle – Sun’s Hanging Low – The Last Supper In A Cheap Town
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet – I Know a Guy Named Larry – Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet – Reid’s Situation – Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet – Zombie Compromise – Savvy Show Stoppers
Mayhemingways – Drama Queen – Mayhemingways
Mayhemingways – Oldest Home Bum – Hunter St. Blues
Mayhemingways – Boone’s Tune-Boats Up The River – Hunter St. Blues
Bidiniband – Ladies of Montreal – single
Bidiniband – Earth (Revisited) – In the Rock Hall
Rheostatics – The Ballad Of Wendel Clark Parts I And II – Greatest Hits
Jonathan Byrd – Under the Belly of the Night – single
Jonathan Byrd – A Big Truck Brought It – You Can’t Outrun the Radio
Rob Vaarmeyer – Tantric Tobogganing – Back to Normal
Corin Raymond – The Law and the Lonesome – Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams
Corin Raymond – Under the Belly of the Night – Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams
Blaze Foley – Oval Room – Oval Room
Blaze Foley – Election Day – Live at the Austin Outhouse
Blaze Foley – Cosmic Doo Doo – Duct Tape Messiah
Gurf Morlix – Baby Can I Crawl Back To You? – Blaze Foley’s 113th Wet Dream
The political climate is getting downright disgusting down there, but luckily there are great artists who can make something beautiful out of a very bad situation. A bunch of those songs & stories today. We’ve also got a bunch of new music, an exciting show to preview, and we step on Skippy & Chelsea’s toes a bit by playing a few songs about time – this week’s theme on What’s the Narrative!
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – MB = Manitoba Artist – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Mary Gauthier – Can’t Find the Way – Between Daylight and Dark
Mary Gauthier – Mercy Now – Mercy Now
Jon Brooks – Mercy – Delicate Cages – CDN
Tom Russell – California Snow – Borderland
Tom Russell – Who’s Gonna Build your Wall? – Wounded Heart of America
Drive-By Truckers – Ramon Casiano – American Band
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Stephen Fearing – Blowhard Nation – Every Soul’s a Sailor – CDN
Scott Cook – If He Showed up now – live recording – CDN
Anais Mitchell – Why We Build the Wall – Hadestown
Imelda May – Black Tears – Life Love Flesh Blood
Whitehorse – Boys Like You – single – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Fred Eaglesmith – Twin City Mini – Standard – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Old Machine – Standard – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Miss Mary Jane – Standard – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Codeine – live recording – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Country Squall – Tryin’ to Start out Clean – CDN
Willie P Bennett – If You Have to Choose – Hobo’s Taunt – CDN
Stan Rogers – The Field Behind the Plow – Northwest Passage – CDN
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Mayhemingways – Wanderers – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Mayhemingways – Jenny Ran Away in the Mud – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Mayhemingways – Bowling Green – Mayhemingways – CDN
Mayhemingways – Sad, Single, and Sorry – Mayhemingways – CDN
Melissa Payne – Bring Me Back – High and Dry – CDN
Express and Company – Out by the Trees – Ontario – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – 4 O’Clock Stop – Shakespeare my Butt – CDN
Three O’Clock Train – Train of Dreams – Train of Dreams – CDN
B.B. King – Three O’Clock Blues – The Ultimate Collection
Tonight some brand new music from a Sunset Saloon past-performer leads us to dig into her catalogue and listen to some recent music from some other wonderful women! We’ve also got some nifty upcoming shows to preview!
Bridget Kearney – Wash Up – Won’t Let You Down
Lake Street Dive – Use Me Up – Bad Self Portraits
Joy Kills Sorrow – Such Great Heights – Wide Awake
The Fundies – Country Man – The Fundies
Abigail Lapell – Hostage Town – Hide nor Hair
Kayla Luky – Back to Dirt – Back to Dirt
Anne Janelle – Knocking at my Door – I Didn’t Want to Break It
Sheila Carabine – Bear – All In
Colleen Brown – Try It Again (w/Slow Leaves) – Seasons Are Circling
Slow Leaves – Nostalgia – Beauty Is so Common
Slow Leaves – Careless and Serene – Second Chances
JP Hoe – Nicest – The Dear John Letters
Del Barber – Love and Wine – Headwaters
Mayhemingways – Small Town Crush – Hunter St. Blues
Mayhemingways – CDs I Didn’t Sell – Mayhemingways
Kathleen Edwards – Human Touch – unreleased – CDN
Imelda May – Call Me – single
Abigail Lapell – Diamond Girl – Hide nor Hair – CDN
Alex Dezen – Holding on to You (Holding on to Me) – II
Alex Dezen – None of these Things – El Ganzo Sessions video
2:30 – 3:00 pm
The Damnwells – Lost – The Damnwells
The Damnwells – Kiss Catastrophe – Bastards of the Beat
Murray McLauchlan – Columbus – Gulliver’s Taxi – CDN
Murray McLauchlan – Dirty Boulevard – Gulliver’s Taxi – CDN
Murray McLauchlan – Farmer’s Song – Songs from the Street – CDN
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Down by the Henry Moore – Let’s Frolic Again – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Gurf Morlix – Move Someone – The Soul and the Heal
John Craigie – Broken – No Rain, No Rose
Nudie – If a Heart could Tell – Remember This – CDN
Abigail Lapell – Murder City – Hide nor Hair – CDN
Greg Trooper – Real Like That – Straight Down Rain
Greg Trooper – When my Tears Break through – Floating
Steve Earle – Little Sister (live) – Copperhead Road (Deluxe Edition)
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Greg Trooper – These Sunday Nights – The Williamsburg Affair
Greg Trooper – Ireland – Between a House and a hard Place Live at Pine Hill Farm
Lucy Kaplansky – The Heart – The Tide
Vince Gill – We Won’t Dance – When I Call your Name
Billy Bragg – Everywhere – Vol. 2
Brandi Carlile – Beginning to Feel the Years – The Firewatcher’s Daughter
Tonight some Steel Belted live guests as our old pal Slow Leaves, aka Grant Davidson, and our new pal Justin Lacroix drop by to chat about a very intriguing event where a bunch of great English songwriters get paired up with a bunch of great French songwriters for some exclusive songs. In honour of that event, we hear a bunch of great songs en Français!
Greg Trooper – So French – Between a House and a Hard Place
Rheostatics – Chanson les Ruelles – Melville
Del Barber & the No Regretskys – Mon Chandail de Hockey – The Puck Drops Here
Red Moon Road – Riviere – Sorrows and Glories
Whitehorse – Un Canadien Errant – The Road to Massey Hall
Whitehorse – Ephemere sons Repere – Ephemere sons Repere
Gazoline – L’amour veritable est aux rebelles – Brulensemble
Gazoline – Parfaite – Brulensemble
Michel Pagliaro – J’entends Frapper – Hit Parade
Post Secret – Partir Ensemble – If not for You
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Naufragee du Tendre (Shipwrecked) – Dancer with bruised Knees
Serena Ryder – Quand les Hommes vivront d’amour – If your Memory Serves you well
Gurf Morlix – Deeper Down – The Soul and the Heal
The Band of Heathens – Trouble Came Early – Duende
Justin Lacroix & Grant Davidson interview
Justin Lacroix – You Won’t Know ’til You Know – live performance
Slow Leaves – When We Were Young (?) – live performance
To get away from the dreadful and dreary weather, we’re taking a vacation today, and spending an hour in Australia to visit with a few friends from Down Under. On the way home, we’ll stop in on the East Coast and visit with Al Tuck, before rocking it on home with some loud & energetic classics!
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – MB = Manitoba Artist – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Kathleen Edwards – Money Talks – Live from the Bowery Ballroom – CDN
Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen – Meet Me in the Middle of the Air – Death’s Dateless Night
Paul Kelly – Careless – Careless
Paul Kelly & Uncle Bill – You Can’t Take It with You – Smoke
Bill Chambers – Theresa – Live at the Pub Tamworth
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Bill Chambers – Letter to Fred – Live at the Pub Tamworth
Bill Chambers – Drinkin’ too much – Cold Trail
Bill Chambers – Roll the Windows Down – Cold Trail
Kasey Chambers – Stalker – Bittersweet
Shane Nicholson – Broken Things – Bad Machines
Colin Hay – Waiting for my real Life to Begin – Going Somewhere
Colin Hay – Beautiful World – Going Somewhere
Little Birdy – Brother – Confetti
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Nathan – Australia – Stranger – CDN
Nudie – Stop Hittin’ on Louise – Behind that Big Red Curtain: A Tribute to Al Tuck – CDN
Al Tuck – Always on my Mind – Fair Country – CDN
The Silver Hearts – 9th & Hennepin (w/Al Tuck) – Play Rain Dogs – CDN
Al Tuck – Brother from another Mother – My Blues Away – CDN
Al Tuck – Talk (or Hold your Peace) – Food for the Moon – CDN
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Car Seat Headrest – Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales – Teens of Denial
The Warped 45s – Live Bait – Matador Sunset – CDN
Mike Plume Band – Rattle the Cage – Song & Dance, Man – CDN
Kathleen Edwards – 12 Bellevue – Failer – CDN
Jon Dee Graham – Laredo (Small Dark Something) – Hooray for the Moon
Matthew Ryan – Guilty – May Day
The political climate is getting downright disgusting down there, but luckily there are great artists who can make something beautiful out of a very bad situation. A bunch of those songs & stories today. We’ve also got a bunch of new music, an exciting show to preview, and we step on Skippy & Chelsea’s toes a bit by playing a few songs about time – this week’s theme on What’s the Narrative!
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – MB = Manitoba Artist – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Mary Gauthier – Can’t Find the Way – Between Daylight and Dark
Mary Gauthier – Mercy Now – Mercy Now
Jon Brooks – Mercy – Delicate Cages – CDN
Tom Russell – California Snow – Borderland
Tom Russell – Who’s Gonna Build your Wall? – Wounded Heart of America
Drive-By Truckers – Ramon Casiano – American Band
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Stephen Fearing – Blowhard Nation – Every Soul’s a Sailor – CDN
Scott Cook – If He Showed up now – live recording – CDN
Anais Mitchell – Why We Build the Wall – Hadestown
Imelda May – Black Tears – Life Love Flesh Blood
Whitehorse – Boys Like You – single – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Fred Eaglesmith – Twin City Mini – Standard – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Old Machine – Standard – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Miss Mary Jane – Standard – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith – Codeine – live recording – CDN
Willie P Bennett – Country Squall – Tryin’ to Start out Clean – CDN
Willie P Bennett – If You Have to Choose – Hobo’s Taunt – CDN
Stan Rogers – The Field Behind the Plow – Northwest Passage – CDN
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Mayhemingways – Wanderers – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Mayhemingways – Jenny Ran Away in the Mud – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Mayhemingways – Bowling Green – Mayhemingways – CDN
Mayhemingways – Sad, Single, and Sorry – Mayhemingways – CDN
Melissa Payne – Bring Me Back – High and Dry – CDN
Express and Company – Out by the Trees – Ontario – CDN
The Lowest of the Low – 4 O’Clock Stop – Shakespeare my Butt – CDN
Three O’Clock Train – Train of Dreams – Train of Dreams – CDN
B.B. King – Three O’Clock Blues – The Ultimate Collection
Today a bunch of new (and new to me) music, as well as a tribute to the great Greg Trooper who passed away recently.
Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – MB = Manitoba Artist – WPG=Winnipeg artist
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Kathleen Edwards – Human Touch – unreleased – CDN
Imelda May – Call Me – single
Abigail Lapell – Diamond Girl – Hide nor Hair – CDN
Alex Dezen – Holding on to You (Holding on to Me) – II
Alex Dezen – None of these Things – El Ganzo Sessions video
2:30 – 3:00 pm
The Damnwells – Lost – The Damnwells
The Damnwells – Kiss Catastrophe – Bastards of the Beat
Murray McLauchlan – Columbus – Gulliver’s Taxi – CDN
Murray McLauchlan – Dirty Boulevard – Gulliver’s Taxi – CDN
Murray McLauchlan – Farmer’s Song – Songs from the Street – CDN
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Down by the Henry Moore – Let’s Frolic Again – CDN
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Gurf Morlix – Move Someone – The Soul and the Heal
John Craigie – Broken – No Rain, No Rose
Nudie – If a Heart could Tell – Remember This – CDN
Abigail Lapell – Murder City – Hide nor Hair – CDN
Greg Trooper – Real Like That – Straight Down Rain
Greg Trooper – When my Tears Break through – Floating
Steve Earle – Little Sister (live) – Copperhead Road (Deluxe Edition)
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Greg Trooper – These Sunday Nights – The Williamsburg Affair
Greg Trooper – Ireland – Between a House and a hard Place Live at Pine Hill Farm
Lucy Kaplansky – The Heart – The Tide
Vince Gill – We Won’t Dance – When I Call your Name
Billy Bragg – Everywhere – Vol. 2
Brandi Carlile – Beginning to Feel the Years – The Firewatcher’s Daughter
Bidiniband will be doing a special early show at Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club on Saturday, February 18 where they’ll do a set of their music as well as a set backing up NHL legend Bryan Trottier! Tickets for that one are only $15 and are available online via Ticketfly OR I have an exclusive, limited supply of tickets that can be purchased for $15 cash with NO FEES. You just need to let me know how & when to get one in your hand or pick one up when Bidiniband plays The Sunset Saloon on Friday, February 17!
Holy Mackinaw! One really big and very excited nerd presents:
Bidiniband (www.rheostatics.ca/bidini)
at The Sunset Saloon (house concert in Westwood) Friday, February 17, 2017
8:00
Suggested donation $20-$25 (price flexible, all proceeds to this amazing band!)
If you wish, bring a drink for yourself, and/or a snack to share, but we’ve always got plenty of all of those on hand!
All are welcome (bring the kids, friends, family, people off the street, whatever)! Our house is family friendly (we’ve got 3 kids, a trampoline, and plenty of room, so feel free to bring the family), easy-going, friendly, and open to all! If you don’t know us yet, come on down and make some new friends!
The Sunset Saloon is a house concert venue in Westwood (near the YMCA on Portage.) We’re open to all. Feel free to pass along the event info, bring friends, bring your kids (our kids will thank you), or just come by yourself and make some new friends! Admission is by donation, which goes directly to the artists. Most folks pay $20, but these hard working guys wouldn’t turn down more.
Please RSVP for the address and more information!
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. In 1992 I had my great musical awakening. I’d loved music all my life, but it was entirely music that I heard on the radio and in parents’ & grandparents’ music collections. And although they are/were great people, they weren’t that cool. The music was good, but not that adventurous. And that’s all that I knew. I had no idea that there were other kinds of music out there.
And then I heard The Lowest of the Low and Rheostatics. And my life was forever changed. The Lowest of the Low was pretty easy to get into. I became a life-long fan in one night. But Rheostatics music is a little more challenging and very different from everything that I’d ever heard before. It confused me. But it intrigued me. I didn’t understand it at all, at first, but I knew that I wanted to. There was something in there that kept drawing me in, over and over again. Soon, I figured out that I was obsessed. But I don’t think I truly understood it until I saw the band live. Then I got it. And I got it in a big way!
Dave Bidini has been the driving force behind Rheostatics since he was just a kid in high school with big dreams. From 1987-2004 Rheostatics released 9 studio albums, and the tone, sound, and vision of those albums was all over the map. They made a children’s album, a soundtrack to Group of 7 paintings, and a bunch of amazing and diverse rock and roll. They played folk festivals, art galleries, concert halls and dingy bars across the country. They even did some really big shows with The Tragically Hip (and others.) They never got rich or famous, but they are revered among musicians, open-minded fans. In 2007, they called it quits. Or so they thought.
By the end of the initial Rheostatics run, Bidiniwas already gaining acclaim as an author and newspaper writer. His books are often about journeys (starting with his first book, On a Cold Road, about travelling with The Tragically Hip and the realities of touring in Canada) and often about sports, mostly hockey. He’s won awards and been a finalist on CBC’s Canada Reads competition. Bidini is the only Canadian to have been nominated for all three of Canada’s main entertainment awards, the Gemini Award for television work, the Genie Awards for film work and the Juno Awards for music.
But he certainly wasn’t done with music after Rheostatics were put to rest. He soon formed Bidiniband along with former Rheostatics drummer Don Kerr and two Manitobans, guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Paul Linklater and bassist Doug Friesen. They’ve released 3 albums of the same type of thundering, imaginative, interesting rock that he’d been known for with his other band.
Bidiniband has never toured extensively and has never played in Winnipeg. Until now!
Bidiniband will be doing a special early show at Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club on Saturday, February 18 where they’ll do a set of their music as well as a set backing up NHL legend Bryan Trottier! Tickets for that one are only $15 and are available online via Ticketfly OR I have an exclusive, limited supply of tickets that can be purchased for $15 cash with NO FEES. You just need to let me know how & when to get one in your hand or pick one up when Bidiniband plays The Sunset Saloon on Friday, February 17!
Word is getting out about this show, and it’s starting to fill up. With a full band setting up in the living room, SPACE AND SEATING ARE VERY LIMITED! We will fit in as many people as possible, but we may have to cut out some chairs to do it. So reserve your spot early and get there early if you want a seat!
Please, friends, this one is absolutely a dream come true. Heck, it’s a dream that I never even would have dared to dream or even imagine. I may cry or embarrass myself somehow. Actually, it’s almost guaranteed. Please come and see how it goes!
