Playlists from Guest Appearances

Desmond Howl’s Canada Day Spectacular
July 1, 2004
2:00 – 6:30 pm central time

It’s Canada Day, up Canada way and the timing was right for a celebration. A celebration, of course, of the greatest nation on the planet, but also a celebration of some of the greatest music ever made. I’m indeed a proud Canadian, so perhaps I’m a little biased, but the truth remains that my favourite music of all tends to come from this country. No other country can boast such an impressive lineup of artists that I love dearly. So, what better way to celebrate Canada Day than by playing hours and hours of great Canadian music.

It was also a perfect time for a little bit of nostalgic reflection, as I celebrated my 3rd anniversary as a show host on UMFM (for trivia buffs, I had been a behind the scenes board operator for a few months before that). On July 2nd, 2001, I hosted the first of Desmond Howl’s Canada Day Spectaculars. As if that weren’t reason enough for a little look back at the past, I officially went “over the hill” this week, and turned 30. Yippee.

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Stompin' Tom Connors - Canada Day, up Canada way - Souvenirs: 25 of the Best - CDN
Rheostatics - Seven (aka Northern wish) - Music Inspired by the Group of 7 - CDN
Rheostatics - O Canada - CDN
Rheostatics - The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Melville - CDN
Rheostatics - King of the past - Whale Music - CDN
Rheostatics - When winter comes - Melville - CDN
Rheostatics - The ballad of Wendel Clark parts I and II - Greatest Hits - CDN
Rheostatics - Queer - Whale Music - CDN
Rheostatics - Saskatchewan - Melville - CDN

3:00pm - 4:00 pm

Rheostatics - The Royal Albert (Joey 2) - Double Live - CDN
Rheostatics - We went west - Night of the Shooting Stars - CDN
Farm Fresh - Treherne - Played Out (1994-1996) - CDN - WPG
Farm Fresh - Duck duck goose - Played Out (1994-1996) - CDN - WPG
Rheostatics & the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir - Everybody knows this is nowhere - Borrowed Tunes: A Tribute to Neil Young - CDN
Bourbon Tabernacle Choir - Becoming and forgetting - 1985-1995 - CDN
Chris Brown & Kate Fenner - Oklahoma tape deck - Geronimo - CDN
The Lowest of the Low - Bleed a little while tonight - Shakespeare My Butt - CDN
The Lowest of the Low - Black Monday - Hallucigenia - CDN
The Lowest of the Low - New Westminster taxi squad - Nothing Short of a Bullet - CDN
Ron Hawkins & the Rusty Nails - Crackstatic - Crackstatic - CDN

4:00pm - 5:00 pm

The New Meanies - Scenic anomaly - Three Seeds - CDN - WPG
The New Meanies - Caribou - Highways - CDN - WPG
Leaderhouse - Elephant song - Leaderhouse - CDN - WPG
Scott Nolan - Clint duty - Postcards - CDN - WPG
Veal - Cauchemar - Hot Loser - CDN
Veal - Spiderman - Tolt O' Whirl - CDN
Luke Doucet - Another woman - Aloha Manitoba - CDN
Weeping Tile - Westray - Eepee - CDN
Weeping Tile - Cold snap - Cold Snap - CDN
Weeping Tile - South of me - Valentino - CDN
Luther Wright & the Wrongs - Mother - Rebuild the Wall - CDN
Thomas Trio and the Red Albino - 142 Thru - Thomas Trio and the Red Albino - CDN
She Stole My Beer - Sparks off the guardrail - Sparks Off the Guardrail - CDN
Tuesday's Girl - So sarcastic - Go West: A Vital Collection of Western Canadian Music - CDN - WPG

5:00pm - 6:00pm

The Weakerthans - Pamphleteer - Left and Leaving - CDN - WPG
The Weakerthans - None of the above - Fallow - CDN - WPG
The Weakerthans - Reconstruction site - Reconstruction Site - CDN - WPG
The Weakerthans - Plea from a cat named Virtute - Reconstruction Site - CDN - WPG
Jim Bryson - Impaler - The Occasionals - CDN
Jim Bryson - Fleetwood - The North Side Benches - CDN
Ox - She shot me down - Dust Bowl Revival - CDN
Aaron Booth - Couldn't wait - Our Last Escape - CDN
Ox - Harvester - Dust Bowl Revival - CDN
Matt Mays - Lonely highway night - Matt Mays - CDN
The Guthries - Better part of an hour - Off Windmill - CDN
Blackie & the Rodeo Kings - White line - High or Hurtin' - CDN

6:00pm - 6:30pm

Blackie & the Rodeo Kings - Jackie Washington - BARK - CDN
Stephen Fearing - The longest road - The Assassin's Apprentice - CDN
David Gogo - Western coast - David Gogo - CDN
Nathan Wiley - Bottom dollar baby - Bottom Dollar - CDN
Stompin' Tom Connors - Bud the spud - Souvenirs: 25 of the Best - CDN

Christmas Dinner with Desmond Howl
December 25, 2003
 
John Jorgensen & Carlene Carter - A 55 Telecaster under my tree
Carlos Del Junco - Jingle bells
Chris Isaak - Rudolph the red nosed reindeer
Wilf Carter - Christmas time in Canada
Oh Susanna - It came upon a midnight clear
Emmylou Harris - Light of the stable
Shawn Colvin - Christmas time is here
Skydiggers - Good king Wenceslas
Stevie Wonder - The Christmas song
Rebecca Jenkins - I'll be home for Christmas
Oliver Schroer - Beheath the ice, they heard bells
Vince Guaraldi Trio - O Tanenbaum
Honky Tonk Confidential - Who gets the fruitcake this year?
Paul Kelly - Christmas must be tonight
Nat King Cole - The happiest Christmas tree
The Blind Boys of Alabama - Amazing Grace
Melissa McClelland & Lisa Winn - Oh Holy Night
John Berry - Little drummer boy

George Strait - There's a new kid in town
Elvis Presley - Santa Claus is back in town
Marty Stuart - Even Santa gets the blues
Taxi Chain - Cheer my baby up for Christmas
Johnny Cash - Christmas as I knew it
Raffi - Must be Santa
Leon Redbone - Christmas island
Eva Cassidy - It's not the presents
James King Band - Call collect on Christmas
Liona Boyd - Christmas overture
Shawn Colvin - Love came down at Christmas
Mahalia Jackson - Go tell it on the mountain
Fred Eaglesmith - Hallelujah
Mike Plume - Merry Christmas Santa Claus
Johnny Mathis - The first Noel
Holly Cole, Rebecca Jenkins, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Jane Siberry, Victoria Williams - Carol of the bells
Big Dave McLean - Santa come down
Anne Murray - Joy to the world
Barbara Streisand - The best gift

John Prine - Christmas in prison
David Keeble - Santa got me in the groove
George Strait - Merry Christmas Strait to you
52 Pickup - Christmas hot rod race
The Handsome Family - So much wine
Emmylou Harris - Christmas time's a coming
Stompin' Tom Connors - Jingle jangle aeroplane
Rosco Gordon - Merry Christmas everyone
Tom T Hall - Christmas is

Lyle Lovett - Christmas morning
Mary Gauthier - Christmas in paradise
Martin Tielli - River
Dave Bidini - Little black snow flake
Rheostatics - Christmas sprouts
Tyler Stewart - The night before Christmas on Queen St.
The Brothers Creeggan - Creeggan Christmas
Bob Snider - He's an old Nova Scotian
Chuck Brodsky - We are each other's angels
June Carter Cash - Wings of angels
Mike Plume - Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis
Rheostatics - Jesus was once a teenager too
Ken Whiteley - Powerful love
Oh Susanna - Go tell it on the mountain

Fred Eaglesmith - Hallelujah
Melissa McClelland & Lisa Winn - Oh holy night
Vance Gilbert - Icarus by night
David Francey - A winter song
Dee Carstensen - Angel
Ruth Moody - Winter swells
New Kids on the Block - Funky Funky Xmas
Sean Cullen - The Christmas monkey
 
Weird Al Yankovic - Christmas at ground zero
Brian Setzer - Orchestra Jingle Bells
New Kids on the Block - This one's for the children
Dave Brown's Cool Yule Explosion - Happiest Christmas tree
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas time is here
Arrogant Worms - Santa's gonna kick your ass
Arrogant Worms - Christmas is here
Mike Ireland & Holler - Merry Christmas from a bar
Slaid Cleaves - You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch
Bill Kurchen - Truckin' trees for Christmas
Country Dick Montana & Candye Kane - Let's put the X back in Christmas
Katherine Wheatley - Rita
Kevin Welch & The Fairfield Four - Life down here on Earth
Jim Bryson - Satellite
Jim Bryson - Without piano
Jim Bryson - Fleetwood

Folkus
Monday, July 28, 2003
4:00 - 5:30 pm central time

Folkus is a weekly folk and roots program hosted by John Prentice, Mondays 4:00 - 5:30 pm central. This week, John is off at the Calgary Folk Festival, so I'm filling in.

Regular host: John Prentice johnprentice@shaw.ca
 
Artist - Song title - Album Title - CDN=Canadian - WPG=Winnipeg artist
 
Kieran Kane - He never knew what hit him - Dead Reckoning
Rod Picott - Broke down - Tiger Tom Dixon's Blues
Chris Knight - Love and a .45 - Chris Knight
Fred Eaglesmith - Drive-in movie - Drive-in Movie - CDN
Mary Gauthier - Your sister cried - A Tribute to Fred Eaglesmith
Willie P Bennett - Willie's Diamond Joe - Tryin' to Start Out Clean - CDN
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings - Come on train - High or Hurtin' - CDN
Stephen Fearing - The Lucky ones - recorded live on UMFM April 13, 2003 (also on Kings of Love) - CDN
Bruce Cockburn - Open - You've Never Seen Everything - CDN
Billy Bragg & The Blokes - St. Monday - England, Half English
Mike Plume - The best job I ever had - Table For One - CDN
Robert Earl Keen - Not a drop of rain - Gravitational Forces
Jess Klein - Cloud song - Draw Them Near
The Jayhawks - Stumblin' thru the dark - Rainy Day Music
Luke Doucet - Mitzi's - Aloha Manitoba - CDN - WPG
Chris Brown & Kate Fenner - Trainwrecks - Geronimo - CDN
Ron Sexsmith - Right about now - Whereabouts - CDN
Luther Wright & The Wrongs - Mighty dark to travel - Guitar Pickin' Martyrs - CDN
Geoff Berner - Light enough to travel - recorded live on UMFM February 16, 2003 (also on Light Enough to Travel EP)