This week marks the return of super awesome singer songwriter Christina Martin to the show. Christina’s new single is called “Stay With Me”, now available wherever you get your music.

Always a great chat with Miss Martin – this time around we cover the making of her new video for the single, the focus she’s placing on making her music more accessible to her fans with disabilities, how she accidentally met Patty Griffin, the lost art of being a pen pal, and how we’re going to get rich together.         

Martin’s playlist: 

Patti Griffin – When It Don’t Come Easy

Tori Amos – Baker Baker

Tina Turner – Simply The Best

Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You 

Seela – Hard Times Hit

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Canadian 80s New Wave legends Martha Johnson and Mark Gane of Martha & The Muffins join me on No Sleep ’til Sudbury this week to chat about their new record, called Marthology: In and Outtakes.  

Martha and Mark are wonderful people with great stories. Topics discussed include The Wizard of Oz, seeing The Beatles live, how limitations create style, the time Chris Isaak wrote a song in a closet during a party, and the fascinating reason the chorus of “Echo Beach” is heard only at the end of the song.   

Martha’s playlist:

Laura Mvula – Green Garden

Bob Marley – Waiting in Vain

The Beach Boys – God Only Knows

Judy Garland – Over the Rainbow

The Beatles – Eight Days A Week

Mark’s playlist:

The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows

Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Steve Reich – Music For 18 Musicians

Jo Stafford – The Nearness of You

King Crimson – 21st Century Schizoid Man

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My guest on NSTS this week is Evan Denley, an up-and-coming Canadian folk rock singer-songwriter who’s been described as Bob Dylan meeting Dallas Green at a Neil Young show.

Evan’s second release of 2021, “Coming Undone”, was written in response to a culmination of two things – the breakup of his former band The Yonge Collective, and the threat of the oncoming pandemic. His new video for “Building Walls” is also available on YouTube. 

Denley’s playlist:

Lukas Nelson and the Promise of the Real – Entirely Different Stars

Boygenius – Salt in the Wound

John Mayer – Gravity

Hozier – Foreigner’s God

Father John Misty – Please Don’t Die

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