Tonight we recap some huge Sunset Saloon news, spin a pile of great new music, and set ourselves up for a weekend road trip.

Artist – Title – Album

Rueben deGroot – (So Long) Charlotte – Rocket Surgery
Rocket Surgery – Ain’t Thinking About That Right Now – Live At The Toucan
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Goodbye Blue Sky – Rebuild The Wall
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – The Parking Lot Song – Hearts and Lonely Hunters
Tony Furtado – Astoria – The Bell
Tony Furtado – These Chains – These Chains
William Prince – Earthly Days – Earthly Days
Stephen Fearing – Blowhard Nation – Every Soul’s a Sailor
Joe Purdy – Maybe We’ll All Get Along Someday – Who Will Be Next?
Joe Purdy – Who Will Be Next? – Who Will Be Next?
C.R. Avery – Hollywood Movie Blues – All the Angels didn’t Scare Me
Lisa LeBlanc – City Slickers and Country Boys – Why You Wann Leave, Runaway Queen?
Aoife O’Donovan – Boulder to Birmingham – Man In A Neon Coat: Live From Cambridge
Jon Dee Graham – Dan Stuart’s Blues – Knoxville Skyline
Dan Stuart – The Greatest – Can o’ Worms
Mike June – Jon Dee’s Blues – Poor Man’s Bible
Lydia Loveless – Midwestern Guys – Real
Drive-By Truckers – Filthy and Fried – American Band
Drive-By Truckers – The Righteous Path – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark

A bit of an abbreviated episode tonight as we head down to see Lynn Hanson at Times Change(d.) Some of her music, of course, as well as some stellar new releases and a solid set of rockin’ good times to end things off!

Artist – Title – Album

Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen – Hard Times – Death’s Dateless Night
Mandolin Orange – Lonesome Whistle – Blindfaller
Matt the Electrician – Old Town Rock ‘n’ Roll – Highway Prayer: A tribute to Adam Carroll
Anthony Da Costa – Talking to You – Da Costa
BJ Barham – Reidsville – Rockingham
John Blek – Little Sparrow – Cut the Light
Lynne Hanson – Good Intentions – River of Sand
Lynne Hanson – River of Sand – River of Sand
Lynne Hanson – Heaven or Hell – recorded live on UMFM
The Hold Steady – Your Little Hoodrat Friend – Separation Sunday
The Replacements – I Hate Music – The Complete Studio Albums: 1981-1990
July Talk – Headsick – July Talk
Adam Baldwin – Tarred and Feathered – Adam Baldwin
Dustin Bentall & The Smokes – Every Chord that Rings – You Are an Island

We kick things off with a three-fer-Thursday where we heard 3 songs from 3 great artists with eagerly-awaited brand new music, then we talk upcoming shows and end things off with a female set designed to lead into Venus Envy, which follows us!

Alex Dezen – Randolph Tonight – II
Alex Dezen – A Little less like Hell – Alex Dezen
Alex Dezen – California – California b/w Iowa (That’s Who We Are)
John K Samson – Postdoc Blues – Winter Wheat
John K Samson – When I Write my Master’s Thesis – Provincial
The Weakerthans – Night Windows – Reunion Tour
Jaxon Haldane – Twenty One – Hectic
Jaxon Haldane – Hectic – Hectic
Jaxon Haldane – They Don’t Build Shit to Last – Hectic
Scott Cook and the Long Weekends – I Live Down Here (with Raghu Lokanathan) – Go Long
Wax Mannequin – Volcano God – Festival Man
Supersuckers – Listen Up – Get It Together!
Chris Isaak – Go Walking Down There – Forever Blue
Chris Stapleton – Parachute – Traveller
Lindi Ortega – I Want You – Tin Star
Lissie – When I’m Alone – Catching a Tiger
Little Green Cars – My Love Took Me Down to the River to Silence Me – Absolute Zero
Chloe Albert – Where Did I Go Wrong? – Dream Catcher

Summer may be working its way toward fall, but we’re determined to enjoy every last minute, so a celebration of the season to kick things off, before we talk about upcoming shows and drop some big news about an unexpected shakeup in one of Canada’s biggest and best bands!

Artist – Title – Album

Chuck Prophet – Summertime Thing – No Other Love
Radiogram – Summer Song Summer – All the Way Home
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood – Summer Wine – Nancy & Lee
The Mavericks – Summertime (When I’m with You) – Mono
Kathleen Edwards – Summerlong – Back to Me
Two Hours Traffic – Stuck for the Summer – Little Jabs
Chris Stapleton – Tennessee Whiskey – Traveller
Lindi Ortega – Jimmy Dean – Little Red Boots
The New Meanies – Scenic Anomaly – Three Seeds
Ray Ullenboom – Back to Berlin – March 2013 demo
Crooked Brothers – Organs on Demand – Thank You I’m Sorry
Red Moon Road – Beauty in these broken Bones – Sorrows and Glories
Greg Macpherson – Motel Hotel – Fireball
Shotgun Jimmie – Too Many Flowers – Transistor Sister
Slow Leaves – Life of a better Man – Beauty Is so Common
Blue Rodeo – Glad to Be Alive – Palace of Gold
Blue Rodeo – Tell Me Again – In Our Nature
Bob Egan – Comin’ Down Hard – Bob Egan

I don’t know what it is, but over the course of the next week there are 6 days where there are painful concert conflicts. We’ll weigh all of the matches on this episode and decide where we should be, if we can!

Artist – Title – Album

Sturgill Simpson – Life Ain’t Fair and the World Is Mean – High Top Mountain
Jim Bryson – Impaler – The Occasionals
Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – Metal Girls – The Falcon Lake Incident
Jim Bryson – Breathe – Somewhere We Will Find Our Place
The 24th Street Wailers – Rock Step – Where Evil Grows
The Small Glories – Had I Paid – Wondrous Traveler
Slow Leaves – Neighborhood Watch – Beauty Is So Common
Rheostatics – One More Colour – Introducing Happiness
Martin Tielli and Jane Siberry – A Long Time Love Song – Kick At The Darkness (Songs Of Bruce Cockburn)
Jane Siberry – The Waitress – A Collection 1984-1989
The Wailin’ Jennys – Calling All Angels – Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House
K D lang And The Siss Boom Bang – Perfect Word – Sing It Loud
Serena Ryder – Blown Like The Wind At Night – Is It O.K.
Whitehorse – Emerald Isle – Whitehorse
Wintersleep – New Inheritors – New Inheritors
Weird Al Yankovic – You Don’t Love Me Anymore – The Essential Weird Al Yankovic
Jaxon Haldane – Talking Hit N’ Run Blues – Down In Oklahoma
Jaxon Haldane – Bald Headed Sally v2 – 2015 album outtake
Red Moon Road – Hypothetical Girl – Red Moon Road

Tonight a chat with one of our all-time favourites, Josh Finlayson of Skydiggers about their new album and the upcoming Interstellar Rodeo, as well as a pile of other exciting shows coming up!

Artist – Title – Album

Skydiggers – The World Turns All Around Her – Here without You: The Songs of Gene Clark

Josh Finlayson/Skydiggers interview

Skydiggers – 8 Miles High – Here without You: The Songs of Gene Clark
Skydiggers – See You Again – Bittersweet Harmony
Skydiggers – Hasty Mart – City of Sirens
The Tragically Hip – In a World Possessed by the Human Mind – Man Machine Poem
The Tragically Hip – Nautical Disaster – Day for Night
Martin Tielli – Bobcaygeon – unreleased
The 24th Street Wailers – Aim to Please – Wicked
The 24th Street Wailers – Cursed – Where Evil Grows
Turnpike Troubadours – Diamonds and Gasoline – Diamonds and Gasoline
Jim Bryson – Soupy Sales – The Occasionals
Jim Bryson – Feel Much Better – The North Side Benches
Jim Bryson and the Weakerthans – Wild Folk – The Falcon Lake Incident
Jim Bryson – The Depression Dance – Somewhere we will Find our Place

We’ve got plenty of shows past and future to discuss, as well as a new fundraising campaign that I’m excited to support!

Artist – Title – Album

Robbie Fulks – Roots Rock Weirdoes – The Very Best Of
The Sadies – American Pageant (with Jon Langford) – In Concert Volume One
The Tallest Man on Earth – Burden of Tomorrow – The Wild Hunt
The Lowest of the Low – Bloodline – Shakespeare My Butt
The Lowest of the Low – New Westminster Taxi Squad – Nothing Short of a Bullet
The Lowest of the Low – The Dogs of February – Hallucigenia
The Grapes of Wrath – Good to See You – High Road
The Grapes of Wrath – Mexico – High Road
Leeroy Stagger & The Wildflowers – I Believe in Love – live recording
Brock Zeman – Little Details – Pulling your Sword out of the Devil’s Back
Brock Zeman – Push them Stones – Me then You
Brock Zeman – Picture of You – $100 Difference
William Prince – 7 – single
Danny Michel – Fireworks – In the Belly of a Whale
The JD Edwards Band – This House Will Stand – Roads and Roads
The Sweet Alibi – I’ll Wait – We’ve Got to
JP Hoe – Nothing’s Gonna Harm You – Mannequin

There’s no summer break for great new music, it just keeps on coming, so we’ve got a lot of it to share today, as well as a musical map of my summer travels to festivals and fun spots east and west (and east again)!

William Prince – 7 – single
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – Midnight Rider – single
Oh Pep! – Seven Babies – Stadium Cake
Bun E Carlos – Let The Mystery Be (feat. Xeno) – Greetings from Bunezuela!
John Prine – Who’s Gonna Take The Garbage Out (feat. Iris Dement) – For Better, or Worse
Al Tuck – Feeling Single, Seeing Double – Fair Country
High Bar Gang – Long Lonesome Highway Blues – Someday The Heart Will Trouble The Mind
James Gordon – Moon In The Man – Sunny Jim
Shannon Lyon – I Might Just Stay Home – My Throat Is Sore
Kev Corbett – Sorrow On My Mind – On the River Off the Lake
Karen Savoca – I Shook The Tree – I Shook The Tree
Sussex – Ginger – Parade Day
NQ Arbuckle – Ontario, Michigan – XOK
Lyle Lovett And His Large Band – Up In Indiana – It’s Not Big It’s Large
Tom Waits – Chicago – Bad as Me
Whitehorse – Wisconsin – The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss
Ben Kyle – Minneapolis – Ben Kyle
Chris Knight – North Dakota – A Pretty Good Guy
Del Barber – Home To Manitoba – Love Songs For The Last 20
Rheostatics – Saskatchewan – Melville
Elliott BROOD – Oh, Alberta – Tin Type
Jason Collett – Winnipeg Winds – Rat A Tat Tat
Jim Bryson – Ontario – Somewhere We Will Find Our Place

Pre-recorded. Tonight we’ve got some stellar new music, an exciting show coming up not too far away, and a preview of the big festival going on this weekend!

Artist – Title – Album

Bun E Carlos – I Don’t Mind (feat. Alex Dezen) – Greetings from Bunezuela!
Bun E Carlos – I Love You No More (feat. Alex Dezen) – Greetings from Bunezuela!
Bun E Carlos – Tell Me (feat. Alejandro Escovedo) – Greetings from Bunezuela!
Austin Lucas – Ain’t We Free (feat. John Moreland) – Between the Moon & the Midwest
Austin Lucas – Wrong Side of the Dream (feat. Lydia Loveless) – Between the Moon & the Midwest
Darrell Scott – Loretta – Couchville Sessions
Jimmy LaFave – Out On The Weekend – Trail Five
Jimmy LaFave – On a Bus to St. Cloud – Favorites 1992-2001
Gretchen Peters – When You Comin’ home (feat. Jimmy La Fave) – Blackbirds
Jon Brooks – Mimico – Ours and the Shepherds
Sussex – Truth and Lies – Parade Day
Jeffrey Foucault – Slow Talker – Salt as Wolves
Rita Coolidge – Born Under A Bad Sign – Delta Lady
The Jayhawks – Waiting For The Sun – Hollywood Town Hall
The Jayhawks – I’d Run Away – Tomorrow The Green Grass
The Jayhawks – Save It For A Rainy Day – Rainy Day Music
Great Speckled Bird – Long Long Time To Get Old – Great Speckled Bird
Ian Tyson – Navajo Rug – Cowboyography
Jill Barber, Matthew Barber – Summer Wages – The Family Album
Del Barber – Big Smoke – Prairieography

There’s nothing I love more than sharing great Canadian music, and on the day before Canada Day, you’d better believe that we’re going to do exactly that. Tonight, it’s a 100% roots rockin’ hit dance party, with just a few of our absolute favourites, including a look at the upcoming return of our namesake artist, Mike Plume!

Artist – Title – Album

Rheostatics – When Winter Comes – Melville
The Lowest of the Low – Bleed a little While Tonight – Shakespeare my Butt
The Weakerthans – Aside – Left & Leaving
The New Meanies – Three Seeds – Three Seeds
Matt Mays – Where am I Going? – Matt Mays
Kathleen Edwards – 12 Bellevue – Failer
Jim Bryson – Soupy Sales – The Occasionals
John Bottomley – Klee Wyck – Blackberry
NQ Arbuckle – Huntsville Affair – Not Alone
Luke Doucet – Blood’s too Rich – Blood’s too Rich
Mike Plume Band – Wind at my Back – Song & Dance, Man
Mike Plume Band – Walkin’ By – Fools for the Radio
Mike Plume Band – The Eldorado and the 12:15 – Songs from a Northern Town
Cuff the Duke – I Really Want to Help You – Cuff the Duke
Blue Rodeo – Heart Like Mine – Outskirts
Skydiggers – What Do You See? – Road Radio
The Cash Brothers – Night Shift Guru – How Was Tomorrow?
Fred Eaglesmith – Rodeo Boy – 50 Odd Dollars
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Sometimes It Comes so Easy – Let’s Frolic Again