Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Playlist for 29-Jan-13

It's a good thing we have so much awesome Canadian music to keep our blood flowing and our toes twitching to dance ... especially with the weather in such a freezing state.
Here's what we heard today:
The Stoves, Slippery's Club Hits Side 1 (Anthology), Can't Slow Down;
Great Bloomers, Distant Fires, Fear Will Make A Fool of You;
Bocephus King, Willie Dixon God Damn!, Willie Dixon God Damn!;
The Flowers of Hell, Odes, Super-Electric;
Whiskey Chiefs, Love You Miss You, Learn How to Listen;
Golden BC, Just Take It, Afraid to Wake Up;
The Damn Truth, Dear in the Headlight, Downtown;
Maqlu, Malfeasance, Lucky Paw;
A Tribe Called Red, Trapline EP, Unlimited Trap;
Notch 21, Cryptic Noise Machine, Test Your Destiny;
Daniel Romano, Come Cry With Me, Middle Child;
Corin Raymond, There Will Always Be a Small Time, There Will Always Be a Small Time;
The Sweet Lowdown, May, Drink It Down;
Myriad3, Tell, Mr. Awkward;
Erin Propp with Larry Roy, Courage My Love, The Frost;
Eugene Ripper, Fast Folk Underground III Quiet Light, Hammer Down;
Kat Danser, The Engadine Sessions: Come to the Mountain, Come to the Mountain;
Acres and Acres, Truth & Sky, Shake the Moon;
Mister Lucky, Coming Home, Angel;
The Happy Unfortunate, July Never Dies, Knew You;

We heard some totally wonderful Canadian Jazz compliments of Big Miller. We heard almost the entire album titled Phoenicia: Live from Calgary.

Don't forget ... dipping into unknown music is good for the heartbeat!!!

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Playlist for 15-January-2013

The winds of weather are blowing in some unusual January weather in Alberta. That's easy to cope with here at CJSR - where we are always blowing some unusual tunes over the air waves. Here is what I sent your way today:
Spookey Ruben, Mechanical Royalty, Super Poke;
Red Shag Carpet, Down Like a Lion, Fairweather Man;
Mac de Marco, 2, My Kind of Woman;
Great Bloomers, Distant Fires, Something;
Golden BC, Just Take It, The Idiots;
Red Ram, Slip Away, Candlewax Railroad;
Eccodek, Living Flor Live, Bodhichitta Dub;
Nick Teehan, youtube, Say Hello;
Rae Spoon, Superior You Are Inferior, Bones In a Museum;
The Eerie Green, The Eerie Green, Curious Thing;
Andy Shauf, The Bearer of Bad News, Hometown Hero;
Acres and Acres, All Nations, Money;
Keith William Miller, Poetry From the Glass Half Empty, The Lonely Cowboy;
The Brian Dickson Quartet featuring Jerry Bergonzi, Other Places, Rockin' At the Hillside;
Mark deJong, The Unknown, Appendix 'A';
Steve Kirby and the Northern Prairie Jazz Collective, Stepchild, Wicked Grin;
Elaquent, Parallel, Blueberry Muffins;
Thoroughbred Racing Pigeon, Peons, Pigeons;
Spell, Lull, Look Out;
The Battle of Santiago, Followed by Thousands, Opposite Forces;
The Able Kind, Something to Say, CarBar;

In the background today we heard some trés cool Quebecois folk from Jim Corcoran and Bertrand Gosselin in the form of vinyl. Title of the vinyl we heard is La Tête En Gigue, from the 70's.
Oh that we were all allowed windmills! Pretty sure we'd be generating enough power to keep the nation lighted all day!

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Playlist for 08-January-2013

Happy beginning of the New Year, and the New Era! It was great to be host to "The Original Dangle" on the show this morning, and always awesome to hear what she has to say about music. Here is what we played for you this first show of the year:
WhiskeyFace, Soothing Absence of Light, Acquainted Strangers;
Joel Plaskett, La De Da, Lying on a Beach;
Pete Turland, Cruisin', Twenty Flight Rock;
Torngat, La Petite Nicole, Afternoon Moon Pie;
Kyle Brenders Quartet, Offset, Sciatica;
The Lucas Sader Project, Apollo - A Tribute to Miles Davis Quintet, Apollo;
Kirk MacDonald Jazz Orchestra, Family Suite for Large Ensemble, Four Shades of Darkness;
Tanya Tagaq, Sinaa, Sila;
** Kenjegul Kuhatova, Bardic Divas, Taalailuu Eldin Birkyzy;
Les Breastfeeders, Les Matin de Grands Soirs, En Dansant Le Yah!;
Foggy Hogtown Boys, Golden West, It's Hard to Keep on Standing (When You Don't Have Far to Fall);
Rocktimus Crime, Glum Machine, track #4 [sorry no songlist included with CD];
** Mogwai, A Wrenched Virile Lore, San Pedro;
God's Pee, Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend, Strung Like Lights at Thee Printemps Erable;
The Fretless, Waterbound, The Northern Three;
The New Lightweights, What Keeps Us Together, Knew It All Along;
Car 87, Trapped, Paranoia;
Travor Alguire, Till Sorrow Begins To Call, Since When's Dying a Sin;

** indicates non-Canadian music, a rather rare item on Put R in D for Dangle

In the background today, we listened to some truly original Canadian jazz from an LP that arrived at the station in 1989. The band is Graeme Kirkland and the Wolves, and the title of the album is Sleep Alone!. Totally wonderful!

Thanks for tuning in and listening.