Steel Belted Radio – Roots Rock Weirdoes

On this episode we revisit some solid Steel Belted classics before looking ahead to an amazing day of music this Saturday, where there are 3 shows well worth attending!

Artist – Title – Album

Steel Belted Classics:
NQ Arbuckle – Part of a Poem by Alden Knowlen Called Ypres 1916 – XOK
NQ Arbuckle – You Look like a Wreck – Live at the Dakota
Carolyn Mark – In Another Time – Come! Back! Special!
Leeroy Stagger – Dirty Windshields – Radiant Land
Sunparlour Players – Talk It to Death – Hymns for the Happy
Guy Clark – L.A. Freeway – Old No. 1
Townes Van Zandt – Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold – High, Low and in Between
John Prine – Pretty Good – John Prine
Steve Goodman – Men who Love Women who Love Men – The Steve Goodman Anthology: No big Surprise

Upcoming Concerts:
Post Script – If Not for You – If Not for You
Post Script – Impossible – If Not for You
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Come on Train – High or Hurtin’: The Songs of Willie P Bennett
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Lean on your Peers – Kings of Love
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – That’s what I Like – Let’s Frolic
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Sometimes It Comes so Easy – Let’s Frolic Again
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – If I Can’t Have You (w/Lucinda Williams) – Kings & Queens
The 24th Street Wailers – Where Evil Grows – Where Evil Grows
The 24th Street Wailers – Aim to Please – Wicked

Tonight, a whole pile of great new music and tributes to Stuart McLean and Willie P Bennett!

Artist – Title – Album

Leeroy Stagger – I Want It All – live recording
Leeroy Stagger – Love Versus – live recording
Leeroy Stagger – Enemy Inside – live recording
Ryland Moranz – Rocket – Hello New Old World
John Wort Hannam – Pretty Good – Brambles And Thorns
Scott Cook – Dogs and Kids – Further down the Line
Alex Dezen – I Had a Band – II
Tift Merritt – Dusty Old Man – Stitch of the World
Bonnie Whitmore – She’s a Hurricane – Fuck With Sad Girls
Chuck Prophet – Jesus Was a Social Drinker – Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins
Scott H. Biram – Crippled & Crazy – The Bad Testament
Old Crow Medicine Show – Black Haired Quebecoise – Best Of
Brigitte DeMeyer & Will Kimbrough – Rainy Day – Mockingbird Soul
Otis Gibbs – Wide Awake – Mount Renraw
Ted Hawkins – Long As I Can See The Light – The Next Hundred Years
Reid Jamieson – Hey Big Kid (an Ode to Vinyl Cafe’s Stuart McLean) – single
Whitehorse – Night Owls – Whitehorse
Willie P Bennett – Baby Come Turn out the Lights – Sharpen the Plow
Willie P Bennett – John Henry The Gambler – Live 1978

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.

Artist – Title – Album

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

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!

Artist – Title – Album

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

Our annual Steel Belted marathon, this time 4.5 hours of great music, including new music & 2016 favourites, the official list of the best concerts of 2016, a birthday tribute to the late Rick Danko, we spend some time with the blues and some classic country!

Artist – Title – Album

2016 musical highlights:
John Paul White – Simple Song – Southern Family
Brent Cobb – Down Home – Southern Family
Dylan Leblanc – Look how far we’ve Come – Cautionary Tale
John Blek – Little Sparrow – Cut the Light
Buddy Miller – Wild Horses (with Shawn Colvin) – Camayo Sessions at Sea

The best concerts of 2016:
The Vegabonds – Oh My Lord2 – What we’re Made of
Del Barber & the No Regretskys – Lights Go Out – The Puck Drops Here
Jaxon Haldane – Hectic – Hectic
Jim Bryson – The Depression Dance – Somewhere We Will Find our Place
James McMurtry – How’m I Gonna Find You Now? – Complicated Game
Jon Brooks – Gun Dealer – The Smiling and Beautiful Countryside
Lydia Loveless – Midwestern Guys – Real
Drive-By Truckers – Surrender Under Protest – American Band
Jonathan Byrd – Poor Johnny – You Can’t Outrun the Radio
Corin Raymond – The Law and the Lonesome – Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams
100 Mile House – Hidden Springs – Hiraeth
The Young Novelists – Always Make the Mistake – Made Us Strangers
Jon Langford & His Sadies – Are You an Entertainer? – Mayors of the Moon
Rheostatics – Shaved Head – Whale Music
Spirit of the West – D for Democracy (Scour the House) – Go Figure
Leeroy Stagger – Something Beautiful – Dream It all away
John Blek and the Rats – Wandering Child – Borders

Happy Birthday, Rick Danko:
The Band – It Makes no Difference – Northern Lights-Southern Cross
The Band – The Unfaithful Servant – The Band
The Band – Stage Fright – Stage Fright
The Band – Too Soon Gone – Jericho
Aretha Franklin – The Weight – Duane Allman: An Anthology
Ronnie Hawkins – Don’t Tell Me your Troubles – Duane Allman: An Anthology Volume II

Steel Belted Radio’s Got the Blues:
Derek & The Dominoes – Little Wing – Layla & other assorted Love Songs
B.B. King – Hummingbird – Why I Sing the Blues
Albert King – Born under a bad Sign – The Very Best of
Muddy Waters – Rollin’ Stone – The Best of
John Lee Hooker – One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer – The Best of 1965-1974
Howlin’ Wolf – Wang-Dang-Doodle – Howlin’ at Midnight
David Gogo – It’s my own Fault – David Gogo
Robben Ford and the Blue Line – The Brother (for Jimmie & Stevie) – Robben Ford and the Blue Line
Robben Ford and the Blue Line – Politician – Mystic Mile
Robben Ford and the Blue Line – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood – Handful of Blues
Maria Muldaur – Midnight at the Oasis – Maria Muldaur

A Trip to the Country:
Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy – Greatest Hits
John Denver – Thank God I’m a Country Boy – Back Home Again
Dwight Yoakam – Fast as You – This Time
Charlie Major – Nobody Gets too much Love – The Other Side
Jim Lauderdale – I Know Better Now – Hummingbird
George Strait – I Cross my Heart – Pure Country
Merle Haggard – Sing Me back Home – 16 Biggest Hits
Set #9
Merle Haggard – Mama Tried – 16 Biggest Hits
Waylon Jennings – Lonesome, On’ry and Mean – Lonesome, On’ry and Mean
Patsy Cline – Crazy – 12 Greatest Hits
Kris Kristofferson – To Beat the Devil – Kristofferson
Nanci Griffith – Trouble in the Fields – Country Gold
Zachary Lucky – South Colorado Murder Ballad – Everywhere a Man Can Be
Mary Chapin Carpenter – He Thinks He’ll Keep Her – Come On Come On
Radney Foster – Nobody Wins – Del Rio, TX 1959