Episode #663

UMFM’s annual Pledge-O-Rama is here! This is the time of year when we appeal to you, the listener, to help us keep alive and get better at what we do. We need your help to pay the bills and help us with special projects, like this year’s goal of enough money to buy a new transmitter for the station! But it’s not just all about the money, we’ve got prizes and incentives to give away, requests/dedications for our supporters, and a very special live guest, Jaxon Haldane, who dropped by to chat and play some songs!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Jaxon Haldane – Hectic – Hectic – CDN – WPG
The D. Rangers – Tryin’ to Start out Clean – Barbaric Cultural Practices – CDN – WPG

Jaxon Haldane interview

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Jaxon Haldane – Love, Lust, and Loneliness – live performance – CDN – WPG
Jaxon Haldane – One Vessel – live performance – CDN – WPG
Jaxon Haldane – Shame on Me – live performance – CDN – WPG
Jaxon Haldane – Crystal – live performance – CDN – WPG
Gordie Tentrees – Somebody’s Child – Less Is More – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Colleen Brown – Love You Baby – Foot in Heart – CDN
Colleen Brown – I Can’t Wrap My Heart Around It (w/Major Love) – Seasons Are Circling – CDN

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Crooked Still – Oh, Agamemnon (for Allan) – Still Crooked
Stephen Fearing – Beguiling Eyes (for Trish & Rob) – Out to Sea – CDN
The Brothers Cosmoline – Bramble (for Rob S.) – Songs of Work and Freedom – CDN
Scott Nolan – Forever Is a long Time (for Allison) – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
William Prince – Breathless (for Melissa) – Earthly Days – CDN – WPG

Episode #665

This is a special (for now) podcast only pre-recorded episode of the show! I’ve been thinking about this cool idea for a long time, and the time was finally right to put it all together. This one will surely air on UMFM at some point, but for now, enjoy it here, and only here!

My favourite kind of songs are the ones where a writer paints a picture and tells a story so vivid that I can see it and feel it. If you can transport me to another place in 3.5 minutes, you’re some kind of magician! So a lot of my very favourite songs are full of vivid scenes, characters, and tales, and this show is full of those! Sit back and spend some time with The Songwriters’ Storybook!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Paul Kelly – The Oldest Story In The Book – A to Z
Guy Clark – Let Him Roll – Old No. 1 & Texas Cookin’
Townes Van Zandt – Pancho and Lefty – Legend
James McMurtry – Ruby and Carlos – Just Us Kids
Lyle Lovett – Church – Joshua Judges Ruth
Eliza Gilkyson – Ballad Of Yvonne Johnson – Land Of Milk And Honey

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Willie P Bennett – Blackie And The Rodeo King – Blackie And The Rodeo King – CDN
Fred Eaglesmith & The Flying Squirrels – White Ash & Black Ash – Things Is Changin’ – CDN
Oh Susanna – Johnstown – Johnstown – CDN
Jaxon Haldane – Crystal – Down In Oklahoma – CDN – WPG
James Keelaghan – Kiri’s Piano – My Skies – CDN

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Del Barber – Yellowhead Road – Prairieography – CDN – WPG
Mike Lynch – Dawson City (extended version) – Real to Reel (The Upstairs Sessions) – CDN
Dan Bern – One Piece at a Time – Hoody
The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site – Reconstruction Site – CDN
Paul Kelly – They Thought I Was Asleep – Songs From The South: The Best Of Paul Kelly Vol 2 98-08
Richard Thompson – 1952 Vincent Black Lightning – Acoustic Classics
Said Cleaves – Lydia – Broke Down

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Rodney Crowell – I Wish It Would Rain – The Houston Kid
Luke Doucet – New York – Aloha, Manitoba – CDN
Rod Picott – Tiger Tom’s Dixon’s Blues – Tiger Tom’s Dixon’s Blues
Jesse DeNatale – The Bell – Soul Parade
The Lowest of The Low – Letter from Bilbao – Shakespeare My Butt… – CDN
Sarah Harmer – Basement Apt. – You Were Here – CDN
Rheostatics – Record Body Count – Melville – CDN

UMFM’s Pledge-O-Rama is only a week away, and this week we’ve got a special preview show, featuring some of the prizes available in exchange for your pledge, plus some of my favourite songs from the previous year, in advance of our annual, exclusive “Best of” compilations! We’ve also got a serious set of solid Steel Belted classics to cap things off!

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Artist – Title – Album

Neko Case – Buckets of Rain – Sweetheart 2005
Calexico – Love Will Tear Us Apart – Sweetheart 2005
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – High Wire (w/Raul Malo) – Kings and Kings
The Mavericks – (Waiting for) the World to End – Mono
Whitney Rose – Be My Baby (w/Raul Malo) – Heartbreaker of the Year
Paul Kelly – Righteous Woman – The Merri Soul Sessions
Mike June – Poor Man’s Bible – Poor Man’s Bible
Jon Dee Graham & William Harries Graham – Thoughts after Midnight – single
Brock Zeman – Little Details – Pulling your Sword out of the Devil’s Back
The Damnwells – Kentexas – The Damnwells
The Weakerthans – Plea from a Cat Named Virtute – Reconstruction Site
Greg Macpherson – First Class – Mr. Invitation
The Hold Steady – Spinners – Teeth Dreams
The Lowest of the Low – New Westminster Taxi Squad – Nothing Short of a Bullet
Blue Rodeo – Outskirts – Outskirts
Steve Earle – I Ain’t Ever Satisfied – Exit 0

Episode #662

It’s almost time for UMFM’s Pledge-O-Rama event, and each year we discuss the best of the previous year, and this year is no different, so this show is made up of items that you can take home with your pledge to UMFM’s fall fundraiser, as well as some of our favourite music of 2015! We do also have one concert coming up to preview, featuring a supergroup made up of some of Canada’s most renowned writers!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Down by the Henry Moore – Let’s Frolic Again – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Secret of a long lasting Love (with Nick Lowe) – Kings and Kings – CDN
Peter Katz – Story You Forgot – We Are the Reckoning – CDN
Jory Nash – Ain’t Coming Home – The Many Hats of – CDN
The 24th Street Wailers – Just Wait – Where Evil Grows – CDN
Lewis Melville – Nature’s Revenge – Songs of the Future – CDN

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Scott Nolan – Forever Is a Long Time – Silverhill – CDN – WPG
James McMurtry – These Things I’ve Come to Know – Complicated Game
Brock Zeman – Pulling your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – Pulling your Sword out of the Devil’s Back – CDN
Mike June – The Darkness – Poor Man’s Bible
John Moreland – You Don’t Care for Me Enough to Cry – High on Tulsa Heat
Jason Isbell – How to Forget – Something more than Free
William Prince – Earthly Days – Earthly Days – CDN – WPG

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Brady Enslen – Beautiful Things – Beautiful Things – CDN
Richard Inman – 30 Days – 30 Days – CDN – WPG
Gurf Morlix – Dirty Old Buffalo – Eatin’ at Me
Jerry Jeff Walker – Like a Coat from the Cold – Ridin’ High
Kris Kristofferson – Jesus Was a Capricorn – Jesus Was a Capricorn
Lee Hazlewood – Pour Man – Love and other Crimes

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Lunch at Allen’s – Try Walkin’ Away – More Lunch at Allen’s – CDN
Lunch at Allen’s – Little Lambs – Lunch at Allen’s – CDN
Marc Jordan – Marina del Rey – Mannequin – CDN
Murray McLauchlan – Farmer’s Song – Songs from the Street – CDN
Marc Jordan – I’m a Camera – Blue Desert – CDN
Ian Thomas – Levity – Levity – CDN
Ian Thomas – Painted Ladies – Looking Back – CDN

The bulk of today’s show is made up of new, new-to-me, and new-again music, plus one exciting show to look forward to and an annual ritual.

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Artist – Title – Album

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Live by the Song (with Rodney Crowell) – Kings and Kings
Buddy Miller – Just Someone I Used to Know (with Nikki Lane) – Camayo Sessions at Sea
Drive-By Truckers – Guns of Umpqua – American Band
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez – Who’s Gonna Build That Wall – single
Tom Russell – Who’s Gonna Build your Wall – Wounded Heart of America
Stephen Fearing – Blowhard Nation – single
Joe Purdy – Who Will Be Next? – Who Will Be Next?
LP – Muddy Waters – Death Valley
Liz Longley – Swing – Weightless
Amanda Shires – Pale Fire – My Piece of Land
Dar Williams – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – My Better Self
The Rockin’ Highliners – Don’t Jump Back – Oh My!
The Rockin’ Highliners – That’s My Life – What Were You Thinking?
The Rockin’ Highliners – Valentine – Chicks, Suits & Cadillacs
The Inbreds – Any Sense of Time – Kombinator
The Inbreds – North Window – It’s Sydney or the Bush
The Inbreds – Is It the Right Time? – Winning Hearts
Matthew Ryan – 3rd of October – East Autumn Grin

Episode #661

Today a lot of great new music and some big concerts to discuss… what else do you need?!

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

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Buick MacKane – John Conquest, You’ve Got enough Dandruff on your Collar to Bread a Veal Cutlet – The Pawn Shop Years
Jon Dee Graham – October – Swept Away
Jon Dee Graham – (Things Might Turn Out) Right – Knoxville Skyline
James McMurtry – Laredo – Big Sweet Life: The Songs of Jon Dee Graham

2:30 – 3:00 pm

James McMurtry – Choctaw Bingo – Saint Mary of the Woods
Drive-By Truckers – Surrender Under Protest – American Band
Butch Walker – East Coast Girl – Stay Gold
Nahko and Medicine for the People – San Quentin – HOKA
Buddy Miller – Wild Horses (w/Shawn Colvin) – Camayo Sessions at Sea

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Sheila Carabine – Little Girl – All In – CDN
Liz Longley – Weightless – Weightless
John Blek – Bleed You Dry – Cut the Light
John Blek – Kathleen – Cutting Room Floor
Corin Raymond – Trains and Boats and Buses – unreleased – CDN
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Howdoyoulikeitnow? – Instrumentality – CDN
Jaxon Haldane – Skinny Mona – Hectic – CDN – WPG

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Mayhemingways – CDs I Didn’t Sell – Mayhemingways – CDN
Mayhemingways – Small Town Crush – Mayhemingways – CDN
Mayhemingways – Hunter St. Blues – Hunter St. Blues – CDN
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Playing by Heart (w/Buddy Miller) – Kings and Kings – CDN
James McMurtry – No More Buffalo – It Had to Happen
James McMurtry – Holiday – Children Things