Playlist for 26-June-2012

Summertime ... and the music is excellent! When you want good music, you know to turn the dial to 88.5fm (or the internet to www.cjsr.com). Here is what we heard today: Cookie Duster, When Flying Was Easy, Cut Me Focus; Fire Next Time, Hungry River Hymns, Start a Panzram Fire; Nam Shud, Cascadia, Marble Cardigan; Blinker the Star, We Draw Lines, We Draw Lines; Graham Guest, Relief, That's Evolution!; Chuckee & the Crawdaddies, Got Mojo2 - Grand River Blues (anthology), Grooveyard Shift; Cameo Blues, 10000 Hours, Penguin Walk; The 24th Street Wailers, Unshakeable, Howlin'; Camouflage Nights, Camouflage Nights, Head Out; Girls Would Kill, Girls Would Kill, In Litres; Grey Screen, Thrillogy, Was Before Now Gone; Johanna Sillanpaa, Make of Me, Make of Me; Faye Blais, On the Bright Side, Over the Mountains; Luke Michielsen, Meddle in the Natural Order, Marshland Crow; The Crackling, Ashen, Suicide is Painless; Brian Dunn, TVs and Radios, Slow Learner; Benôit Delbecq/Francois Houle, Because She Hoped, Because She Hoped; Jon McCaslin, Sunalta, Shuffle G; Shuffle Demons, Cluster Funk, He's the Drummer; Matthew Barber, Songs for the Haunted Hillbilly, Otherworldly Artistry; The Sea Hags, Gospel, Barefeet; Del Barber, Headwaters, Queen of July; Please take every opportunity to support LIVE music this summer - As I've said before, it's low fat, no cal and a lot of fun to dance to!

Playlist for 19-Jun-2012

Summer solstice is almost upon us - Just think of all the Canadian music we'll be able to pack in to the longest day of the year! Well, today we didn't do too badly - here's is what we heard: (listed in the order of Artist, CD title, Song Title;) Shane Philip, Life. Love. Music, Life Love Music; Bryce Jardine, The Kids Are Gone, Feathers & Tar; Amy Campbell, Letters Home, I'm on Fire; Ben Olson, With Nothing Framed, Overdue Deadlines; Jon Bryant, What Takes You, Be Still; Shuffle Demons, Cluster Funk, Fukushima; The Battle of Santiago, Full Colour, Southern Coast; Jennifer Scott & Brasileira, Sonho Meu, Agua De Beber; Anita Eccleston, Jazz EP, Summertime; Shane Philip, Live at Baker Studios, Triple Shot; The Dizzies, Three's a Crowd, Rest (Is It Normal?); Forty Hands Two Songs, Educated; Kelly & The Kelly Girls, Club Des Femmes, Lifeguards; Union of the Snake, How Did We Even Get Here (Anthology), Decades; Wintersleep, Hello Hum, In Came the Flood; Music Maul, Boxy, Mayhemic Dogs; Crystxl Swells, Harshside/Sludge Freaks, Harsh Flux; Graham Guest, Relief, Checkmate; The 24th Street Wailers, Unshakable, Trouble; Rocky Mountain Rebel Music, Vic Sound System, Man Down; Phatt Al, The Chillionare, Go Away (feat Dana Jean Phoenix); City Real & Wes Mackey, Good Morning Blues, Hell Hound (feat. Mad Child of Swollen Members); Brian Dunn, TVs and Radios, Radios; Thanks for listening - help keep the world a better place by spreading the music!!

Playlist for 12-June-2012

Wonderful sunny mornings and great Canadian music are one of my favourite combinations. Here's hoping you are also getting the sunshine! Today we heard: Charles Bradley, No Time for Dreamin', Since Our Last Goodbye; Cold Warp, Slimer, Dream Creepin'; Hinterland, Ban Echo, Time Beats Kicking; The Belushis, Shaker, #5 (No song list included on the CD); Ben Olson, With Nothing Framed, Hard Working People; Yellowteeth, Astral Gunk, Jaded Pilgrim; Veszel, Cigarettes, 9th Fret Delight; Stephen Hummel, Meld, Sunshine; Shout Out Out Out Out, Spanish Moss and Total Loss, Never the Same Way Twice; The Bitterweed Draw, Heart of the Old West, Northbound; Del Barber, Headwaters, Love and Wine; The Strumbellas, My Father and The Hunter, Underneath a Mountain; Matthew Barber, Songs for the Haunted Hillbilly, Travelling Museum; Paul Rushka Quintet, As It Happens, Evermore; Mike Essoudry's Mash Potato Mashers, Hooray!, Procrastination; Joel Miller, Swim, Afternoon Off; Christina Martin, Sleeping with a Stranger, Water It; Danielle French, Drive, Long Drive; Debbie Spence, Keeping Me Close, Lighthouse; From Birch to Yew, Whisper in the Trees, Company of Mine; Cameo Blues, 10000 Hours, Gasoline; Thanks for listening and thanks for supporting campus/community radio ... with your ears!!

Playlist for 05-June-2012

It's lovely to be back in Canada, where the music is always that much sweeter. Here is what we listened to this week: Grim Skunk, Set Fire!, Set Fire to the Nation; The Awesome Hots, Wayfaring Stranger, Wayfaring Stranger; The Utilities, Flint, Automatic Teller Machine; Parlovr (pronounced Parlour), Kook Soul, Amaze Me Jane; Brasstronaut, Mean Sun, Hymn for Huxley; The Marquee, White Room, Beating Drums; IZOL (International Zombies Of Love), IZOL, Laughing on Instinct; Ghibli, Rare Pleasures, The Crows Fly Back After the Storm; Toilet Water Ponies (of St. John New Brunswick), Night Waves Volume 3 (Anthology), Demons in the Fog; Maqlu, FutureGhosts, Saint Camilla; Rocky Mountain Rebel Music, Vic Sound System, She's Got the Drop; Pistol George Warren, Mindemoya, Be Your Dog; Linda McRae, Rough Edges & Ragged Hearts, Rough Edges & Ragged Hearts; Ian Tyson, Raven Singer, Saddle Bronc Girl; Del Barber, Headwaters, Hen House Manifesto; Del Barber, Headwaters, Soul of the Land That's Mine (**background); Cory Weeds, Up a Step, Straight No Filter; Bill King, Gloryland (Tales from the Old South), The Devil Has 666 Fingers; Mike Essoudry's Mash Potato Mashers, Hooray!, Tripple Tipple; Robyn Hayle, So Much for Good Behaviour, Your Very Last Mistake; Graham Guest, Relief, Horus; The Crackling, Ashen, Keep Me Drunk; I hope that I have sorted out the format for the playlist, to ensure you are able to reference it and make sense of it. Talk to you next week!! Stay happy!!

Playlist for 15-May-2012

Oh dear - I still have not figured out the formatting for this blog - Please bear with me and I will eventually get a grip on that. In the meantime, here is a list of all the Canadian musicians you want to check out this week: Jay Semko, Sending Love, Undeniably Love; Astral Gunk, S/T, Hedonism; The Dudes, Barbers Thieves and Bartenders, Rocky Mountain Living; Pete Van Dyk & the Second Hand Band, Live at the Casbah, Rattling Your Cage; Rome Romeo, Make Up Her Mind, Short Inventory; Mercy Years, Sit, I Blew Overboard; Sitdowntracy, Twenty Something Winters, Toothpick Race; The Racoon Wedding, Onondaga, European Giver; Jon McCaslin, Sunalta, Marmalade Margaret; Andrew Boniwell & the Uncertainty Principle, Boomerang, Lake Country; Juliann Kuchocki, Broken Compass, 15 Minutes; Juliann Kuchocki, Broken Compass, Bassdrumsaxbone; Indio Saravanja,, Little Child, Peace In My Time; Leeroy Stagger and His Band, Radiant Land, Capitalism (Must Die!); Morgan MacDonald, Back to the Wilderness, The Fences; Ocra, Ramshackle Day Parade 2012 (Anthology), 2029; Mistress Barbara, Many Shades of Grey, Words; Dennis Ellsworth, Dusk Dreams, Electric Stars; Del Barber, Headwaters, Waitress; Stone Iris, Illuminations, New End; Don't miss the special Put R in D for Dangle shows prepared just for you - next week (22 May) conversation with Linden MacIntyre and Minister Faust; the following week (29 May) conversation with Sarah Yates and Corin Raymond. The blog will not be updated for the next two weeks. Talk to you in June!!

Playlist for 08-May-2012

My apologies for the lack of formatting in the blog - I'm thinking things will improve as soon as I finish my Blogging 101 course. Here are the wonderful pieces we heard from the Canadian musicians: Teapot Hill, Night Night Rock, We Will Never Quit; Facts, Like a Living Being, Retro Ocean; North Lakes, Grand Prix, Vixen; Ocean Noise, Lost Horizon, Always Be Enough; Krief, Hundred Thousand Pieces, Perfect Bodies; No Witness, No Witness, M.O.O.B.; Melissa Bel, Distance, Over and Done With; Picture the Ocean, Picture the Ocean, Erehwon; Christine Leakey, Tapping Trees in a Trinket Box of Treasure, Gloom Chime; Bill King, Gloryland (Tales From the Old South), One Blue Sheet Hanging in the Wind; Roger Chong, Send a Little Love, Stranded in a Love Affair; ABTrio, Take No Prisoners, Straight No Chaser; Avi Granite's Verse, Snow Umbrella, Tricycle Dreams; Leeroy Stagger and His Band, Radiant Land, Dirty Windshields; Brock Tyler, You Can't Keep the Sun Down, On Saturday Maybe; Steve Gates, A Bee in Her Mouth, A Bee in Her Mouth; Canailles, Manger Du Bois, Bien-Être; Mistress Barbara, Many Shades of Grey, Walk On By; Johannes Welsch, Schizophonia, Spell; Del Barber, Headwaters, Right Side of the Wrong; Del Barber, Headwaters, The Waitress; Del Barber, Headwaters, Running on a Wire; The format of the list is as follows: name of the band followed by comma, then name of CD followed by comma, then title of the song followed by semi-colon; Have a great and musical week!!

Playlist for 01-May-2012

It's always good to mix it up, and this morning we had a good variety of music but we also had something not usual on Put R in D for Dangle ... interview with an artist. I just love surprises - hope you do to! Here's what we heard before, during and after the interview clips: Said the Whale, Little Mountain, Big-Wave Goodbye; Lioness, The Golden Killer, Golden Thorn; Chains of Love, Strange Grey Days, He's Leaving (with Me); Mon Electric Bijou, Terror at the Gates, Walking High Steel; Mon Electric Bijou, Terror at the Gates, Lucifer Rising; Beatles, White Album, Birthday; Lisa Dalbello, Dalbello, Tango; Old Mare, You Deserve More, Jealous Heart; The Left, Cycles, Last Cigarette; Zachary Lucky, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan; Bella Fleck and the Flecktones, Greatest Hits of the 20th Century, Stomping Grounds (live); Jayme Stone, Room of Wonders, Troll Kingdom Polska; Jayme Stone, Room of Wonders, Planasko Horo; Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko, Africa to Appalachia, Bibi; Jayme Stone, Room of Wonders, Moresca Nuziale; Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko, Africa to Appalachia, June Apple; Jayme Stone, Room of Wonders, Ways of the World; Conor Gains Band, Got Mojo2: Grand River Blues (anthology), Lazy Boy; Many thanks to all you listeners who keep CJSR alive, and many thanks to Jayme Stone for taking time to speak with me and all you wonderful CJSR listeners. Check out Jayme Stone's website (jaymestone.com) for dates of his upcoming tour - he'll be in Edmonton on the 8th of May at the New Haven Social Club.