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Sugar Camp 65 - May 22, 2013
Feeling The Pinch
Guests: Robert Priest & David Bradstreet
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The Playlist:1 ROBERT PRIEST: Nowhere Anywhere
2 ROBERT PRIEST: Feeling The Pinch
3 THE DEFAYDS: Soapnthepope
4 THE BOINKS: Robot Odor
5 ROBERT PRIEST: Free Ontario
6 ROBERT PRIEST: My Father's Hands
7 ROBERT PRIEST & DAVID BRADSTREET: The Bomb In Reverse
8 ROBERT PRIEST & DAVID BRADSTREET: Bonne Chance Marie
9 ROBERT PRIEST & DAVID BRADSTREET: Turntable Heart
10 ROBERT PRIEST: Elijah Harper Eagle Feather
11 ROBERT PRIEST: The Common Stink
Sugar Camp 64 - May 15, 2013
Three Dogs Ate It
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The Playlist:1 LA BOTTINE SOURIANTE: Cette bouteille-là
2 JACK SCOTT: What in the World's Come Over You
3 DAVID MYLES: Change My Mind
4 THE UGLY DUCKLINGS: She Ain't No Use To Me
5 KENSINGTON MARKET: Coming Home Soon
6 THE SADIES: Tiger Tiger
7 DAN WALSH: If
8 BIRD, BREIT, CORYELL & QUARRINGTON: Portly Pear
9 LES CHAUFFEURS À PIEDS: Six-Huit des étoiles / reel des gais lurons
10 KOBO TOWN: Mr. Monday
11 DARK FOR DARK: Little Birds
12 BRUCE COCKBURN: Going To The Country
13 ASHLEY CONDON: Going To The Country
14 DAVID FRANCEY: Blue Skies
15 THOM SWIFT: 200 Miles
Sugar Camp 63 - May 8, 2013
18 Great Canadian Songs
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The Playlist:1 KATHERINE WHEATLEY: Hallelujah
2 HUMPHREY AND THE DUMPTRUCKS: Friend of the Devil
3 BRUCE COCKBURN: Peggy's Kitchen Wall
4 KLAATU: Anus From Uranus
5 HANK SNOW: Blossoms in the Springtime
6 MAC BEATTIE & THE OTTAWA VALLEY MELODIERS: Log Drivers Song
7 DAVID FRANCEY: Satellite
8 BARRY NESBITT AND THE HIGHLANDERS: Bluebells of Scotland
9 JUNE EIKHARD & HER TANTRAMAR RAMBLERS: Sputnik Breakdown
10 THE KEATNIKS: That's My Girl
11 KEITH GLASS: Blue, Blue, Blue
12 BOB REGAN & LUCILLE STARR: Eeny Meeny Miney Moe
13 DON NORMAN & THE OTHER FOUR: Your Place In My Heart
14 TIM HUS: Flin Flon
15 ROMI MAYES: Somethin' Goin' On
16 APRIL VERCH: Big Eared Mule
17 APRIL VERCH: The Only One
18 THE LAST WORDS: Give Me Time
Sugar Camp 62 - May 1, 2013
Broken Tambourines
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The Playlist:1 QRISTINA & QUINN BACHAND: Mountain Road
2 CROOKED BROTHERS: Up The Mountain
3 THOM SWIFT: 200 Miles
4 MATT PATERSHUK & THE DIRTY PLAID ORCHESTRA: Mill Town
5 JORGE MIGUEL: Rumba Tangos
6 ELIANA CUEVAS: Estrellita
7 INGRID GATIN: Broken Tambourine
8 MORLOVE: Old Tomorrow
9 MAX WOOLAVER BAND: Once Outside Of Time
10 LILY FROST: Poetry
11 THE JD EDWARDS BAND: Morning Sparrow
12 SAIDAH BABA TALIBAH: Bang It Back
13 JAKE CHISHOLM: Let's Do It Again
14 PETER KARP & SUE FOLEY: Beyond The Crossroads
15 PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: Long Gone Out West Blues
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Sugar Camp 61 - April 24, 2013
Between Hurricanes
Guest: Stephen Fearing
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The Playlist:1 STEPHEN FEARING: Wheel of Love
2 STEPHEN FEARING: Out To Sea
3 STEPHEN FEARING: Wailing Wall
4 STEPHEN FEARING: When My Baby Calls My Name
5 STEPHEN FEARING: As The Crow Flies
6 STEPHEN FEARING: Industrial Lullaby
7 STEPHEN FEARING: This Guitar
8 STEPHEN FEARING: Just in time to Say Goodbye
9 BLACKIE & THE RODEO KINGS w SERENA RYDER: Black Sheep
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click pic for playlist pageSugar Camp 59 - April 10, 2013
My Nova Scotia Home
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M3u files1 WINSTON 'SCOTTY' FITZGERALD: Champion Jig / Menzie Jig
2 HANK SNOW: My Nova Scotia Home
3 WILF CARTER: When It's Apple Blossom Time In Annopolis Valley
4 FRASER NEWCOMBE: Hank Snow and the Battery Radio
5 RON SCOTT: White Rose
6 EDDY M: Rockin' At The Seagull Club
7 SLAINTE MHATH: Va
8 MARY JANE LAMOND & WENDY MacISAAC: The Soldier's Song
9 JP CORMIER: Tulloch Gorum (aka Broken Fingers)
10 LAURA SMITH: Magdalen McGillivray
11 WALLY MacAULEY: Atlantic Sunrise
12 NATALIE MacMASTER: The Appropriate Dipstick
13 McGINTY: Mary Mack
14 THOM SWIFT: Blue Sky Day
15 MO KENNEY: Sucker
16 JENNIFER ROLAND: My Sister Karmie
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click pic for playlist pageSugar Camp 58 - April 3, 2013
Riding West on Dundas, Humming
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M3u filesThe Playlist:1 CORIN RAYMOND: Riding West on Dundas
2 THE COMMAND SISTERS: Sky
3 RALPH BOYD JOHNSON: Cleaning House
4 TERESA DOYLE: Gone Down River
5 PAT TEMPLE: Stone Boat
6 LENKA LICHTENBERG: Arum Dem Fayer / Around The Fire
7 OLIVER SCHROER: Horseshoes & Rainbows
8 THE REMBETIKA HIPSTERS: Snakes at the Euxine
9 BRIGA: Vihor
10 SARAH JANE SCOUTEN: Twenty Dollar Bill
11 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Goin' Back Up North
12 COMPASS ROSE: North 47
13 RONNIE HAYWARD & HIS TRIO: I Had Enough Of That City
14 SARAH BURTON: Round Me Up
15 KEVIN BREIT & THE UPPER YORK MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA: Big Bill Broonzy
16 BOB WISEMAN: Robert Dziekanski At The Vancouver Airport
17 RUBY DRAKE: Money Shot
Sugar Camp 57 - March 27, 2013
From the Studio Floor
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M3u filesThe Playlist:1 DAVID NEWBERRY: Easter
2 BELLE STARR: Pull Me Down
3 MICHELLE McADOREY: Leave The Main Road
4 IAN TAMBLYN: Bluebells of Gigha
5 CINDY CHURCH: This Cold War With You
6 BEGINNERS GUIDE TO ENDINGS: I Found Out
7 JADEA KELLY: Lone Wolf
8 STEPHEN FEARING: Don't You Wish Your Bread was Dough
9 BEN CAPLAN: Southbound
10 BRIGA: Night @ Officer's Club
11 HARRY MANX: All Fall Down
12 ANNABELLE CHVOSTEK: G20 Song
13 SAGAPOOL: De Cordes Et De Bois
14 ROB LUTES: Take It Nice
Sugar Camp 56 - March 20, 2013
The Truth of Mendelson Joe
live & in good health on the phone
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M3u filesThe Playlist:1 MENDELSON JOE: I Am Canuckian
2 MENDELSON JOE: Deemo Crassy
3 MENDELSON JOE: You And Me
4 MENDELSON JOE: Humans Bug Me
5 MENDELSON JOE: I'm A Folkie
6 McKENNA MENDELSON MAINLINE: Better Watch Out
7 MENDELSON JOE: Instra-Mental
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Tom Connors
1936 - 2013March 18, 2013
Special 2 hr Stompin' Tom Tribute Special
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M3u filesThe Playlist:1. STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Happy Roving Cowboy
2. STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Luke’s Guitar – BudSTEVE FOOTE: Interview
3. STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: The Log Train
4. STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Reversing Falls Darling - Bud
5. STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Algoma Central - ArseneaultLEON GALLANT: Interview
6. LEON GALLANT & MIKE PENDERGAST: Song of the Irish Moss
ERIC WILSON Interview
7. STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Tribute to Wilf Carter
8. STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: These Men with Broken Hearts – Roads of LIfeBIG JOHN LITTLE: Interview
9. STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Movin On To Rouyn
TOM: Interviewed on lack of radio airplay
10 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom - Ballad
11. STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Saint John BluesFOR LENA
12 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Lena Katheleen
TOM: Interview about awards
OSSIE BRANSCOMBE: Interview
13 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Bush of Buctouche (The Doot Song)
DAVE GUNNING: Interview
14 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Gumboot Clogeroo
15 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: A Damn Fine Song For A Miner (Muck n' Slushers)TIMBO HADLEY: Interview
16 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Little Wawa
17 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Take me Back to Old AlbertaTIM HUS: Interview
18 TIM HUS: My Hockey Mum
19 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: I am the Wind
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Tom Connors
1936 - 2013Sugar Camp 55 - March 13, 2013
Tam Tom & Max
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M3u filesThe Playlist:1 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Move Along
2 TAM KEARNEY & FRIENDS OF FIDDLER'S GREEN: Keltie Clippie
3 TAM KEARNEY & FRIENDS OF FIDDLER'S GREEN: The SS Shieldhall
4 MAX FERGUSON: Frankenstein
5 RICK AVERY & JUDY GREENHILL: My Father's Ole Sou'wester
6 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Coal Boat Song
7 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: The Gumboot Clogeroo
8 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Bush of Buctouche
9 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: A Damn Good Song For A Miner
10 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: The Bridge Came Tumbling Down
11 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: The Rattlin Cannonball
12 STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS: Sudbury Saturday Night
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Sugar Camp 54 - March 6, 2013
Traveling Night Dreams
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M3u filesThe Playlist:1. JARON FREEMAN-FOX: Auctioneering Everything
2. BIRDS OF CHICAGO: Come Morning
3. PAUL REDDICK: Dancing In A Dream
4. SARAH JANE SCOUTEN: My Goddam Country
5. MAZ: La Course
6. RUSTY FORD: Where'd I Put My Brain Today?
7. MO KENNEY: Eden
8. JAY AYMAR: Overtime
9. BELLE PLAINE: Maybe Winter
10 MICHAEL OCCHIPINTI & SHINE ON: Whatever Get's You Through The Night
11 THE CLAYTONES: Out On The Road Tonight
12 THE WILDERNESS OF MANITOBA: Northern Drives
13 STEPHANIE CADMAN: Home Waltz
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Sugar Camp 53 - February 27, 2013
Play On
Guest: Pamela Morgan
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M3u filesThe Playlist:1. EMILE BENOIT: Christina's Dream / Tootsie Wootsie
2. FIGGY DUFF: Emile's Reels
3. ANITA BEST & PAMELA MORGAN: Suil a Gra
4. PAMELA MORGAIN: Play On
5. PAMELA MORGAIN: A Woman's Touch
6. PAMELA MORGAIN: My Bucket
7. PAMELA MORGAIN: Early Spring
8. PAMELA MORGAIN: The Green Shores of Fogo
9. PAMELA MORGAIN: The Rose And The Briar
10 PAMELA MORGAIN: Loving Arms
Sugar Camp
44 - December 19, 2012
A Last
Christmas with Stompin' Tom
His
Last Interview
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Sugar Camp
27 - August 23, 2012
Timmins
100
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Featuring the following artists:
Jerry
Cole - The Shaftmen - The Fallen Leaves
Stevedore
Steve - Sons of Maxwell - Grievous Angels
the
blackflies - Bob May - Gordon Murray Lapierre
Frank
Mahovlich - Steve Paul Simms - Buddy MacMaster
The
Rankin Family
&
Dr.
Stompin' Tom Connors
Marcel and Steve, 1978
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Featuring the following artists:
Isadore
Soucy - Belzebuth - Philippe Gagnon
Gordon
Lightfoot - Dick Nolan - Roy Taylor
Tex
Lecor - Dominique Tremblay and Philippe Gagnon - Garalou
Alan
Gerber - John Reischman & the Jaybirds - Aime Gagnon
Robert
David - La Bottine Souriante
&
Dr.
Stompin' Tom Eh!
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Featuring the following artists:
Rick
Fielding - Mac Beattie - Reg Hill
And
Barney
McAfferey
on
The Great North Wind
October
19, 1992
Barney was one of those guys that brought sunshine to the greatest depths of darkness. Wherever he went, he was a happy man, and happiness rained out of his accordion. I met him, for the first time, at Harbourfront Centre, as he was involved with an accordion themed weekend called The Big Squeeze. At sound check he started playing a Mac Beattie song 'The Lake Dore Waltz'. Then we became friends. He visited me if, and when, he was in Toronto; slept at our place a couple of times and left the distinct scent of the barn from his farm up in Wilno, in the Ottawa Valley.
His story is
unique, and brought to life on-air, as both he and I got on so well, that
it pours out through the speakers. He's got his accordion and his songs
and his stories and his humour. He had been a member of The Wilno Express
and recorded two LPs. He was one of the founders of the Killaloe community
radio station and did several shows a week there for a while. He was a
photographer of nudes in nudist camps (strickly professional, of course).
A clown. A jester. He jammed with Lenny Breau. Was a member of the Catholic
Worker Movement. And he thanks everyone who's ever helped him in a song.
...
...
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Featuring the music
of
The Four MCs - The
Crew Cuts - The Diamonds
The Four Lads - The
Arthur Godfrey Talent Show -
The Nobles - The Two-Tones
Things pan out in the most
unusal ways sometimes. Like when a friend of mine was going out with a
girl who's dad once sang on the Arthur Godfrey Show out of New York, and
had a 78 recording of it! As a young man he got into a vocal singing quartet
and like Canadian Legends, The Crewcuts and The Four Lads, they made their
way to New York City. But alas, the story detours here coz the MC Quartet
only ever made one side of music (as their own), an Art Snider production
called Boom A De Boom, cashing in on the success of Sh-Boom. (The other
side of their record was the boys backing up Miss Toronto:
MARILYN REDDICK w The MC'S QUARTET: Santa's Dream
So I was joined by an original
MC Quartetter: Ken MacRae, who tells us all one needs to know to appreciate
the greatness of the vocal quartet phenominon. Still gets dozens of hits
per month.
Featuring the music of
The Hain't old Time
Stringband - Taylor Mitchell - Jon Brooks
Laura Bird - T Nile
- Cori Brewster
And
Dr. Stompin' Tom Connors
This has to be the NUMBER ONE HEARTBREAKER OF ALL TIME show. I interviewed this intelligent, mature 18 year old rookie who had just released her first CD. She was so full of life, excited by her new opportunities, her summer tour, the people she was meeting in the biz. Her honesty was what shined the most. She performed three songs, live, and we played a couple off the album. It would be the one and only program of its kind.
Five months later Taylor
Mitchell was pronounced dead after a coyote attack in the security of a
well trodden trail through one of Canada's premier National Parks in Cape
Breton. She was on her first tour, playing coffee houses and folk clubs
through Atlantic Canada. Everyone was so bewildered. The news began to
seep across national lines: the British music mag MOJO wrote a short eulogy
to her. I was dumbstruck when I heard the news and then I noticed that
I was getting thousands of downloads of this particular show. And it hasn't
let up since. I get about 100 downloads a month by just having it here.
But it's a show that I, personally, cannot listen to without wanting to
cry. It's just too close to the bone for my liking. But she was wonderful.
Paul and I have been best of buds for over 3 decades. He's turned me on to a lot of great music. He shares some of it with us on this program. This picture was not staged: we were actually at Senor Lyon's cottage, up in Bala, which is right beside the train track that I recorded that fantastic train that I used to use to end my Back To The Sugar Camp shows with. You'd swear that some of those trains feel like they're coming right through the place. And one of the ideas I got for BTSC was to have pies for you all, each week. Lovely pies. I also taped his wood stove, which I used to use on the program. Lots of stuff in my life has manifest because of my association with Paul Lyon.
This was a wonderful show filled with great music that Paul has grown to love. Here's the playlist:
JEAN CARIGNAN: The Hangman's Reel (Trad)DJANGO REINHARDT: Minor Swing (D Reinhardt / S Grappelli)
THE BAND: Whispering Pines (R Manuel / JR Robertson)
ROBERT JR. LOCKWOOD: Ramblin' On My Mind (R Johnson)
THE GRIEVOUS ANGELS: Red Deer to Margaree (C Angus)
BUDDY HOLLY: Maybe Baby (N Petty / B Holly)
DUKE ELLINGTON & JOHN COLTRANE: In A Sentimental Mood (D Ellington)
ART HODES: Plain Ol' Blues (A Hodes)
MILTY TANNIS: The Milty Beats (Milty)
AIMÉ GAGNON: Reel de la seigneurie (Trad)
LOUIS ARMSTRONG: West End Blues (K Oliver)
THE RHEOSTATICS: Helpless (N Young)
STEVEDORE STEVE: Log Drive on the Pickerel (S Foote)
It's not that often that a Canadian astronaut comes asking to play live music on my programs. But it did happen once!
I met Air Canada pilot Dave Hadfield (of Barrie, ON) at a gig promoting outdoor adventures. He was singing songs about float planes and DC3s, so I was interested. Turns out he is Chris Hadfield's brother. So I invited Dave onto my Great North Wind program. Afterwards, 3 quarters in jest, I said that Chris was always welcome to come and perform on my show. Little did I realize that I was making things happen - and quick!
Two weeks later, Dave phones: "Steve, are you still intersted in having Chris on your show?" Well, yahhh! So I got to spend the better part of an hour interviewing him and getting him to play songs that he and his brother have written. (Dave was on the show too.)
You do realize, don't you, that Chris Hadfield
had the first guitar in outer space, and was the first person to play a
guitar off this planet, and that he sung for a TV audience his 'Canadian
Tire, Last Bastian of Men' song. It's all here folks. And so is talk
about space and 2001 and what it's like to work in space.....really neat
stuff.
What's so special about these guys? They were
Canadian recording pioneers and one of the first Trans-Canadian All-Star
band whom he called 'His Cornhuskers'. Lead by George Wade, a fiddler who
could call a good square dance, the band included some of the best Canadian
musicians, inlcuding a teen-aged Jean Carignan. They played big ballrooms
at the major hotels of the day, and it is said that after witnessing the
finesse and professionalism of such a band, the great Don Messer decided
to put a band together like Wade's.
The band recorded in the mid-30s for RCA Victor,
26 sides of music.
On this program I was joined by Canadian fiddle
sensation, the late Graham Townsend, who filled in many gaps of the George
Wade story. Graham's dad, Fred, was a Bernardo child, and was brought over
to Canada from the United Kingdom and given to a traveling circus act.
It was there that Fred learned to play the harmonica and call a square
dance. Fred actually made one recording with George Wade and His Cornhuskers.
Oddly enough, Fred became good friends with Messer and that was how Graham
was brought to the great masters attention. Messer recorded 9 year old
Graham's composition, 'The Princess Elizabeth Two-Step' in 1951. Really:
this was a great show. Graham provided the music (on a cassette) from his
own collection of George Wade 78s.
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