July 14th Playlist!

I am looking forward to the Ness Creek music festival and this morning's show is dedicated to this awesome music festival. This is its 20th year! Happy Ness!

Artist - Song - Album (year of release, extra information)
* = Canadian

6:00-7:00am
Amelia Curran* - Ah, Me - Hunter, Hunter (2009)
Jason Collett* - Tiny Ocean of Tears - Motor Motel Love Songs (2003)
Heartstrings* - Songs about me Belle - self (2007, local)
Po' Girl* - Bad Luck Day Baby - self-titled (2003)
Jill Barber* - Oh my, my - Chances (2008)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Gone, gone, gone (done moved on) - Raising Sand (2007)
The Cars - My Best Friend's Girl - The Cars (1978)
Maybe Smith* - Treehouse Enthusiasts - Another Murder in the Morning (2009, local)
Death Cab for Cutie - - The Sound of Settling - Transatlanticism
Julie Doiron* - Nice to come home - I can wonder what you did with your day (2009)
Sarah Harmer* - One Match - Oh Little Fire (2010)
Cat Power - Lived in Bars - The Greatest
The Sadies* and Neko Case - Hold on, Hold on - In Concert Volume 1. (2006)
Liz Phair - Johnny Feelgood - whitechocolatespaceegg (1998)

7:00-8:00am
Band of Horses - On my way back home - Infinite Arms (2010)
Cat Empire - Waiting - Cinema (2010)
Metric* - Help, I'm alive - Plug in, Plug out (2009)
Crooked Creek* - Happy Song - Crooked Ness (1998, semi-local)
The Karpinka Brothers* - Roll down the windows - One brick at a time (2008, local)
The Deep Dark Woods* - Charlie's (is a comin' down) (2009, local)
Smokekiller* - Standing in Line - Side A (2003, local)
The New Pornographers* - Myriad Harbour - Challengers (2007)
Islands* - The Arm - Arm's way (2008)
Little Miss Higgins*n - Beautiful Sun - Across the Plains (2010, local)
The Sadies* - Why be so curious (Part 3) - Favourite Colours (2004)
Sloan* - Witch's Wand - Parallel Play (2008)
The Sheepdogs* - Crying - Big Stand (2008)

July 7th Playlist all about rain!

After so much rain this summer, it got me thinking about rain songs. Thanks to Facebook and my friends I put together these songs all about rain and water.

Artist - Song - Album (year of release, extra information)
* = Canadian

6:00-7:00am
Gordon Lightfoot* - In the Early Mornin' Rain
The Beatles - Rain
Hawksley Workman* - Rain - Treeful of Starling
Serena Ryder* - Melancholy Blue - Live
The Waifs - Sink or Swim - Sink or Swim
The Tragically Hip* - New Orleands is Sinking - Up to Here
Leonard Cohen* - Famous Blue Raincoat - Songs of Love and Hate
Sunparlour Players* - If the Creeks Don't Rise - Hymns for the Happy
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Who'll Stop the Rain
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have you Ever Seen the Rain
Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee
Wide Mouth Mason* - Midnight Rain

7:00-8:00am
Ruthie Foster - Another Rain Song - Stages
Ndidi Onukwulu* - Water - No, I Never
Bill Withers - Ain't no sunshine
Memphis Minnie - When the Levee Breaks
Little Miss Higgins* - Wash these Blues Away - Across the Plains (local)
Cascades - Rhythm of the Rain
Tegan and Sara* - Frozen - This Business of Art
Great Lake Swimmers* - When it Flows - Bodies and Minds
Bob Marley - I can see clearly now
Travis - Why does it always rain on me? - The man who
Rose Melberg* - Cast away the clouds - Cast away the clouds
Corb Lund* - The Truck got stuck
Basia Bulat* - If it rains - Heart of my own
Jack Johnson - Mudfootball - Brushfire Fairytales

June 30th Playlist!

It is the last day of June. How did that happen?!? I have no idea. Yet, here it is June 30th, the day after the big storm. I woke up in the middle of the night to lightning, wind, rain, and hail. What a tumultuous end to a tumultuous month, weather-wise, anyway! Hopefully the rain will chill out and we will get the summer that we want with lots of sunshine and heat. My garden needs it! This week's show is full of music, so here is the playlist...

Artist - Song - Album (year of release, extra information)
* = Canadian

6:00-7:00am
Julie Doiron* - Tailor - I can wonder what you did with your day (2009)
Amelia Curran* - You won't find me - War Brides (2008)
Jill Barber* - Never quit loving you - Chances (2008)
Metric* - Too little too late - Live it Out (2005)
Mother Mother* - Ghosting - O My Heart (2008)
Arcade Fire* - Haiti - Funeral (2004)
Band of Horses - Dilly - Infinte Arms (2010)
The Weakerthans* - Sun in an Empty Room - Reunion Tour (2007)
Sloan* - Pen Pals - Twice Removed (1994)
The New Pornographers* - Your Hands (Together) - Together (2010)
The Hidden Cameras* - Death of a Tune - Awoo (2006)
Tegan and Sara* - Relief Next to Me - The Con (2007)
The Unicorns* - I was born a Unicorn - Who will cut our hair when we're gone

7:00-8:00am
Liz Phair - Whipsmart - Whipsmart (1994)
Bella* - Go - Pretty Mess (2004)
Stars* - Fixed - The Five Ghosts (2010)
The Organ* - Love, love, love - Grab that Gun (2004)
Controller.Controller* - History - History (2004)
The Roots - The Next Movement - (Clean Album)
Buck 65* - 1957 - Situation (2007)
The Karpinka Brothers* - By your side (local, live on CFCR)
Little Miss Higgins* - Wash those blues away - Across the Plains (2010, local)
Blitzen Trapper - Laughing Lover - Destroyer of the Void (2010)
Deep Dark Woods* - Polly - Winter Hours (2009, local)
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - Give it Back - I learned the hard way (2010)
The Black Keys - She's long gone - Brothers (2010)

June 23rd Playlist!

The summer solstice has come and gone... it is officially summer! The sun gets up well before I do even when coming down to the station for the 6:00am start. Hopefully all you listeners and readers are having a wonderful summer thus far. My garden is loving the long days and the short rain showers. Without further ado, here is this week's playlist!

Artist - Song - Album (year of release, extra information)
* = Canadian

6:00-7:00am
Martha Wainwright* - This life - self-titled (2005)
Royal Wood* - Lady in White - The Waiting (2010)
Immaculate Machine* - No way out - Ones and zeros (2005)
The Shins - New Slang - Oh, Inverted World (2001)
Tegan and Sara* - Take me anywhere - So Jealous (2004)
Jenn Grant* - Parachutes - Echoes (2009)
Rose Cousins* - Celebrate - The Send Off (2009)
Tracy McNeil* - Headlong into Nothing - Room where she lives (2007)
The Fjords* - Breezy Day - Self-titled EP (2005)
Greg MacPherson* - First Class - Mr. Invitation (2010)
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Ativan Eyes - The Brutalist Bricks (2010)

7:00-8:00am
Sunparlour Players* - Hymns for the Happy - Hymns for the Happy (2006)
The Deep Dark Woods* - Charlie's (is a comin' down) (2009, local)
The Gruff* - Five Star - A trail of missing thoughts (2008)
Wintersleep* - New Inheritors - New Inheritors (2010)
The Weakerthans* - Sun in an empty room - Reunion Tour (2007)
Mother Mother* - Ghosting - O my heart (2008)
The Zolas* - The Great Collapse - Tic Toc Tic (2009)
Ingrid Gatin* - Tin Heart - Broken Tambourine (2009)
Mirah* - Sweepstakes Prize - you think it's like this but really it's like this
Band of Horses - Laredo - Infine Arms (2010)
The Sadies* - Another Year Again - Darker Circles (2010)
Blitzen Trapper - Furr - Furr (2008)

June 16th Playlist!

Last week's New Pornographers show has inspired me even more to listen to amazing music. I thought the show as amazing, despite some issues with sound and a crazy-packed house. The band looked they were genuinely having a really fun time rocking out to their biggest crowd in Saskatoon. This week's show is inspired by Carl Newman, Neko Case, Dan Bejar, Kathryn Calder, John Collins, Kurt Dahle, Todd Fancey, Blaine Thurier of The New Porgnographers!

Artist - Song - Album (year of release, extra information)
* = Canadian

6:00-7:00am
Van Morrison - Beside you - Astral Weeks (1968)
Rose Melberg* - Take some time - Cast away the clouds (2006)
The Zolas* - You're too Cool - Tic Toc Tic (2009)
The New Pornographers* - Myriad Harbour - Challengers (2007)
Be Good Tanyas* - Ootischemia - Hello love (2006)
Amelia Curran* - The Mistress - Hunter Hunter (2009)
Ingrid Gatin* - How did I get so - Broken Tambourine (2009)
Greg MacPherson* - First Class - Mr. Invitation (2010)
Sylvie* - Notes on Counters - Trees and Shade are our only fences (2008)
Bloc Party - Banquet - Silent Alarm (2005)

7:00-8:00am
Neil Young* - Alabama - Harvest (1968)
Corin Raymond* - Three thousand miles - Record Lonesome Night (2004)
Rose Cousins* - Edmonton - If you were for me (2006)
The Breeders - We're Gonna Rise - Mountain Battles (2008)
Plants and Animals* - Bye Bye Bye - Parc Avenue (2008)
Mother Mother* - Wrecking Ball - O my heart (2008)
Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll - Self-titled (1971)
The Hidden Cameras* - In the Na - In the na (2009)
The Shins - Mine's not a high horse - Chutes too Narrow
Serena Ryder* - Sing sing - Unlikely Emergency (2004)
Serena Ryder* - Just another day - Unlikely Emergency (2004)
Laura Cantrell - 14th street - Humming by the flowered vine (2005)
Jack Johnson - Better Together - In between dreams (2005)
Daniel, Fred, and Julie* - Runner - self (2009)

June 9th Playlist!

Wow, do I ever feel tired this morning! Alas, the music helps. Here is this week's plyalist:

Artist - Song - Album (year of release, extra information)
* = Canadian

6:00-7:00am
Kate Maki* - Strangest Dream - Confusion Unlimited
Sarah Harmer* - Uniform Grey - You were Here
Peter Elkas* - Sweet Nancy - Wall of Fire (2007)
Elliott Brood* - The Bridge - Ambassador (2005)
The Black Keys - All you ever Wanted - Attack and Release (2008)
Ladyhawk* - I don't always know what you're saying - Shots (2008)
Maybe Smith* - Hearts like Bears - Animals and Architects (2007, local)
Novillero* - A little tradition - A little tradition (2009)
Rae Spoon* - Come on forest fire, burn the disco down - Superior, you are inferior (2008)
Colleen Brown* - Fantastic Feeling - Foot in Heart (2010)
Lily Frost* - The City seems so far - Viridian Torch (2010)

7:00-8:00am
Po' Girl* - Unreleased (2008)
The Gruff* - The Make - A trail of missing thoughts (2008)
Christine Fellows* - Saturday night on Utopia Parkway - Nevertheless (2007)
Ingrid Gatin* - The Moon - Broken Tambourine (2009)
Royal Wood* - Waiting - The Waiting (2010)
Rose Cousins* - Celebrate - The Send Off (2009)
Wintersleep* - New Inheritors - New Inheritors (2010)
Tegan and Sara* - "Your Love" (2001, live)
The Waifs - When I Die - Sink or Swim (2000)
Corb Lund* - Horse Doctor, Come Quick - Losin' Lately Gambler (2009)
The New Pornographers* - Your Hands (Together) - Together (2010)
The Black Keys - She's Long Gone - Brothers (2010)
Jason Collett* - Love is Dirty Word - Rat a Tat tat (2009)
The Unicorns* - Jellybones - Who will cut our hair when we're gone (2002)

See you at The New Pornographers and The Mountain Goats show tonight!

June 2nd Playlist!

Last week I was once again at a birth where I attended as a doula. Lucky for you, though, I don't have any births for a while and will not be missing any Wednesdays for the next little while. Here is this week's playlist:

Artist - Song - Album (year of release, extra information)
* = Canadian

6:00-7:00am
Melissa Ferrick - Burn this Guitar - Listen Hard (2002)
The Black Keys - Your Touch - Magic Potion (2006)
Maria Dunn* - Shoes of a Man - From where I stand (1998)
The Gruff* - Commercial Drive - self-titled EP (2010)
Little Miss Higgins* - Velvet Barley Bed - Junction City (2007, local)
The Karpinka Brothers* - Roll Down the Windows - One Brick at a Time (2008)
Jenn Grant* - Dreamer - Orchestra for the Moon (2007)
Serena Ryder* - Little bit of Red - Is it ok (2008)
The Heartstrings* - Used to Fly - In a land far away that is fair (2009, local)
Rose Cousins* - Edmonton - In you were for me (2006)
The United Steel Workers of Montreal* - For love and Your Mother's Sake (2009)
Amelia Curran* - The Mistress - Hunter Hunter (2009)

7:00-8:00am
The Weakerthans* - Sun in an Empty Room - Reunion Tour (2007)
The Hidden Cameras* - In the Na - Origin: Orphan (2009)
Mother Mother* - Wrecking Ball - O my heart (2008)
The Decemberists - O Valencia! - The Crane Wife (2006)
The Karpinka Brothers* - By your Side (live on CFCR from June 1, local)
Ingrid Gatin* - How did I get So - Broken Tambourine (2009)
The Mountain Goats - Psalms 40:2 - The Life of the World to Come (2009)
The New Pornographers* - Crash Years - Together (2010)
Said the Whale* - Howe Sounds - Howe Sounds/Taking Abalonia (2008)
Royal Wood* - Lady in White - The Waiting (2010)
My Architects - Airborne - Grand Designs (2006)
Josh Ritter - You Don't Make it Easy Babe - Hello Starling (2003)