les - new - raise the roof w/ jw hannam the fretless watchhouse not mandolin orange & folk art covers of new order sex pistols joy division hank willams jesse winchester tony orlando elvis creedence & joe jackson

Playlist:

• John Wort Hannam - wonderful things
• Doug Hoyer - here with you
• Julian Taylor - over the moon
• Leith Ross - i'd have to think about it
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - searching for my love
• watchhouse - wondrous love
• Mick Flannery & Susan O'Neill - these are the days
• The Rails - something is slipping my mind
• The Small Glories - oh my love
• over the moon - darcy farrow
• The Fretless - earthly days
• shaye zadravec - biloxi
• Jesse Winchester - candida
• Tom Phillips - ohio
• roy forbes - i'm so lonesome i could cry
• june tabor & oysterband - love will tear us apart
• The Polyjesters - is she really going out with him
• lick the tins - can't help falling in love
• Iron And Wine - love vigilantes
• battlefield band - bad moon rising/the rising moon reel
• simon ritchie - anarchy in the uk
• the phil beer band - no surrender
• james gordon - we are broken but we'll mend
• East Pointers - what we leave behind

Bruce. New releases. Remembering Koady Chiasson and Vince Fontaine. Songs for Blue Monday and Martin Luther King Day. And more.

Playlist:

• The Four of Cups - Les Coureurs de Bois
• Shawn Colvin - Wichita Skyline
• The East Pointers - The Stubborn Mule
• Richard Wood - Canty Jeanie Munroe/Miss Lexie Smith/Eugene Stratton/Isle of Skye/Saratoga Hornpipe
• Eagle & Hawk - Sundancer
• The Fretless, featuring Celeigh Cardinal - Earthly Days
• Bebe Bucksin - Soulshine
• Joe Vickers - Artery Of The Continent
• Rory Block - I'm Down In The Dumps
• Joe Nolan - When I'm Feeling Down
• Frazey Ford - The Kids Are Having None Of It
• Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome
• Sierra Ferrell - The Sea
• Robin Hatch, featuring Laura Bates - Airplane
• Quantic & Nidia Góngora - El Avion

les - some of the works that caught my ear in 2021 - a crappy year for most things but a good year for musical creativity

Playlist:

• the brother brothers - the road runner song
• The Felice Brothers - to do list
• Jr. Gone Wild - dodge
• Jesse Cox - threshing floor
• Danny Michel - whole of the moon
• Joy Oladokun - sunday
• amythyst kiah - firewater
• Allison Russell - all of the women
• Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - ok indicts
• Laura Niquay - kirano (nous)
• Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi - waterbound
• Richard Thompson - tinker's rhapsody
• alan doyle - back to the harbour
• over the moon - chinook waltz
• Mike Tod - motherless children
• Lucky Sonne - good clean energy
• Doug Hoyer - getting older
• Orit Shimoni - maybe tomorow
• Bebe Buckskin - mid air
• T. Buckley - frame by frame
• Donovan Woods - next year
• Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem - julian of norwich
• The McDades - nomadic mood & caroline's reel

Bruce. A seasonal song. Some of the best releases of 2021. Remembrance of thinbgs and people past. And more.

Playlist:

• Bukkene Bruse - For Such Generous Gifts
• Ian Tamblyn - Knock On Wood - Winter Piece
• Shannon Lay - shores
• Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Viscosity
• Merle Haggard - If We Make It Through December
• Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers - Roses In The Snow
• Tony Rice - Urge For Going
• J.D. Crowe & the New South - Tennessee Blues
• Mike Tod - Shady Grove
• Della Mae - A Few Old Memories
• Nanci Griffith - From Clare To Here
• The McDades - Willie Reilly
• The Chieftains - The Wind That Shakes The Barley/The Reel With The Beryle
• Le Vent du Nord - L'Attente
• Allison Russell - Persephone
• Angelique Kidjo - Flying High
• Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita - No One Knows
• Omar Khorshid - Taqasim Sanat Alfein

Bruce. A selection of new releases and seasonal /Christmas songs.

Playlist:

• Maddox Bros. & Rose - Jingle Bells
• The Waterboys - Winter Blows
• Jesse Cox - Good Times
• John Wort Hannam - Wonderful Things
• T. Buckley - My First Guitar
• Mick Flannery & Susan O'Neill - These Are The Days
• Doug Hoyer - We Used To Have Fun
• Emmylou Harris - Christmas Times A-Coming
• The Good Lovelies - Song For A Winter Night
• The Boys Of The Lough - A Midwinter Waltz
• Cristina Pato, Yo-Yo Ma & Friends - Panxolina: A Galician Carol
• Auri - Kakitei (i) Berns Nomira
• Alasdair Roberts & Friends - Song Composed in December
• The McDades - Nomadic Mood & Caroline's Reel
• Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Alash Ensemble - What Child Is This/Dyngyldai
• Sultans of String - Himalyan Sleigh Ride
• Khöömei Beat - Chovullanyg Khizi Tolu
• Monsieur Doumani - Poulia

les - merry christmas and solstice -the story of jesus mary and joseph and some musings on the season plus kirsty and shane sing like angels

Playlist:

• Beau Dommage - 23 décembre
• Jethro Tull - ring out solstice bells
• the wyrd sisters - solstice carol
• steel rail - darkest night
• sam baker - panhandle winter
• the good lovelies - song for a winter's night
• david francey - border line
• the coal creek boys - snow
• james keelaghan - get to you
• Ron Hynes - be there christmas eve
• Blue Rodeo - home to you this christmas
• chris de burgh - a spaceman came travelling
• dave barnes - mary and joseph
• Lennie Gallant - the innkeeper
• Bruce Cockburn - mary had a baby
• Gretchen Peters - waitin' on mary
• Rufus Wainwright - spotlight on christmaa
• Leeroy Stagger - christmas (in the year of austerity)
• the skydiggers - church bells ringing (christmas in the city)
• The Pogues - fairy tale of new york
• Lennie Gallant - christmas day on planet earth (feat. black umfolosi)
• The Jellyman's Daughter - i believe in father christmas
• Ron Sexsmith - maybe this christmas
• terry mcdade with the mcdades - what child is this

les - new - ringlefinch, doug hoyer, t buckley, leith ross, bebe buckskin, mike tod, - old - fairport , joni & bruce natalie merchant wailn' jennys, the unthanks

christy moore & bellowhead

Playlist:

• Doug Hoyer - tomorrow's gonna be different from today
• Jesse Cox - tough love
• t buckley - after you got back
• Leith Ross - monogamy
• jane & kyle - side of the road
• Mick Flannery & Susan O'Neill - lonely wins
• Bùmarang - single girl
• suzy ungerleider - baby blues
• Bebe Buckskin - baby blue
• Big Little Lions - never mind the weather
• the lynnes - cold front
• Bruce Cockburn - the coldest night of the year
• Joni Mitchell - river
• Mike Tod - shady grove
• the unthanks - madam
• natalie merchant - learning the game
• The Wailin' Jennys - loves me like a rock
• ringlefinch - edward gory's gory stories
• Christy Moore - 16 fisherman raving
• bellowhead - let her run
• fairport convention - matty groves

Bruce. A selection of new releases. Music from the African continent., fiddle tunes, Mike Tod and David Mallett. And more

Playlist:

• Jesse Cox - Mollykins
• Fred Eaglesmith - Shoulder To The Plow
• Del Barber - Everyday Life
• Mike Tod - Garden Song
• David Mallett - Ballad Of The St. Anne's Reel
• April Verch - Durang's Hornpipe
• Broadside Hacks feat. Yorkston/Thorne/Khan - The Jealous Woman (A Bhean Iadach)
• The McDades - The Oak, Ivy and Ash
• Davide Ambrogio - A San Rocco
• Aaron Wylder - Half asleep by 9 most nights
• Bela Fleck, featuring Bryan Sutton, Edgar Meyer, Sam Bush & Stuart Duncan - Vertigo
• Comorian - The Devil Doesn't Eat Fire, He Eats Papaya
• Tri Continental - Fiderana
• Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita - Drops of Sunrise
• Omar Khorshid - Leilet Hob

les - new jr gone wild robert plant alison krauss the mcdades matt patershuk bebe buckskin and john k samson

Playlist:

• james gordon - when i stayed home
• John K Samson - fantasy baseball at the end of the world
• Charlotte Cornfield - headlines
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - quattro (world drifts in)
• Della Mae - the end
• The McDades - the lonely road
• Mariel Buckley - hunrded cities
• Bria - fruits of my labour
• Leeroy Stagger - more love than money
• Jr. Gone Wild - five million songs
• Madison Violet - lauralee
• Matt Patershuk - sunny
• Del Barber - juanita
• Emily Triggs - highway girl
• Tom Phillips & The D.T.s - i'm undone
• j r shore - m.s. st Louis
• chuck brodsky - warsaw in may
• Orit Shimoni - all comes round again
• Geoff Berner - would you hide me
• Bebe Buckskin - with a little help from my friends
• The East Pointers - party wave

Bruce. A selection of new releases. Songs from Gordon Lightfoot, Gretchen Peters, Jr. Gone Wild, and more.

Playlist:

• Charlotte Cornfield - Headlines
• Bebe Buckskin - Alley Cat
• The McDades - Sundown
• Gordon Lightfoot - Me and Bobby McGee
• Gretchen Peters - The Cruel Mother
• Fara - Bright Grey
• Finny McConnell - A Pair of Brown Eyes
• Elizabeth Cook - Sunday Morning
• Jane Hawley & Aunt Betty's Band - Wind Cries Mary
• Ellen McIlwaine, Taj Mahal - Bid You Goodnight
• Jr. Gone Wild - Poet's Highway
• Della Mae - A Few Old Memories
• The Ebony Hillbillies - Liza Jane
• Scott Cook - Shady Grove
• The Wandering Volhynians - Pick You Up
• Canadian Brass - Thoughts On A Rainy Afternoon
• Zenjungle & Valiska - Overdue