Colin James | Hidden Track Ep. 121
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For over 40 years, Canadian blues rock singer Colin James has cemented his double-platinum status with hits like "Five Long Years", "Voodoo Thing", and "Just Came Back". Now, the illustrious musician reflects on his journey with the debut of his book: Playing the Changes: A Musician's Memoir. In this episode of Hidden Track, Colin James delves into the inspiration and his process for bringing this memoir to life. He shares stories and gratitude for the mentors, heroes, and family who helped him along the way.
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Music Yukon Collaboration 2026 Part 2 | Hidden Track Ep. 120
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This episode wraps up our third annual collaboration with Music Yukon. This session of the Hidden Track podcast brings in two more artists from Canada’s north. Ryan McNally and Claire Ness & The Rubies are the featured artists for this edition of the podcast. First up is Ryan McNally. His distinctive brand of timeless roots-based music draws on his time growing up in a beautiful part of rural Southern Quebec. Then it is Claire Ness, a multi-talented artist who describes her genre of music as "country meets jazz cabaret" and "playfully original folk-blues nostalgia from a wild Yukon...
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Music Yukon Collaboration 2026 Part 1 | Hidden Track Ep. 119
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This episode marks the start of our third annual collaboration with Music Yukon, where we feature the talented Northern artists they support in heading down to perform as part of the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. We’re starting off strong with a two-part episode featuring two amazing Yukon-based acts! Up first is John from Dawson, whose fun brand of boom-bap hip-hop has made him a CKUA and Music Yukon favourite. He is joined by DJ PJ, a new partnership that has added experimental electronic and drum’n’bass elements to his sound. The two are set to release an album together this...
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Valerie June | Hidden Track Ep. 118
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Valerie June's music is grounded in blues, country, Appalachian folk, gospel, and other veins of earthy roots music; but at the same time, it reaches for the heavens. She's been deeply rooted in rural Tennessee her whole life, yet her music has also been informed by being based in Brooklyn for many years, and by travelling prolifically all across this world. As Valerie chronicles in "My Life Is a Country Song," a track from her acclaimed latest album Owls, Omens, and Oracles, she faced great hardship personally and professionally early in her life. Her latest record, her sixth, continues in...
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July Talk | Hidden Track Ep. 117
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How do you celebrate the 10th anniversary of an album that went gold, won a Juno Award, represents an artistic breakthrough, and seemingly foretold the deeply divided, disconnected world we inhabit today? Well, if you're the band July Talk, you take those songs on a cross-country tour, you record the whole album again, ten years later...and you release the secret second entire album that you recorded a decade ago, but never put out. Leah Fay Goldstein and Peter Dreimanis from July Talk join us for a very special Hidden Track Session, recorded live in CKUA's Studio A in Edmonton. CREDITS...
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Broken Social Scene | Hidden Track Ep. 116
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The band Broken Social Scene is a group that's all about creative friendships, inspiring and building upon each other's contributions, and collective joy through sharing music on as big a scale as possible. Their greatly anticipated new album Remember the Humans is the first in more than 20 years to feature the production work of Dave Newfeld. Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew took some time backstage to chat with CKUA's Grant Stovel, in a tiny dressing room before soundcheck, to reflect on the past, present, and future of one Canada's most beloved, renowned, and influential rock groups....
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Cat Clyde | Hidden Track Ep. 115
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This episode of the Hidden Track podcast features Cat Clyde, a singer, songwriter and guitar player who has been making music for about 10 years. CKUA’s Grant Stovel chats with this young artist on the stage of the Drumheller Legion during the Cold Bones Festival as she is about to release her 2026 album Mud Blood Bone. In this laid-back session, she gets into the music on the new album, being inspired by nature, books and musicians she loves, a certain dialogue-free 1980s movie about prehistoric human society, and the call of the open road. Don’t miss this candid...
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The East Pointers | Hidden Track Ep. 114
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Just like their music, a visit with East Pointers is always profound conversation — but feels just like a kitchen party! There were, initially, three East Pointers when this band started a dozen years ago. Tim Chaisson, his cousin Koady Chaisson, and their great friend Jake Charron, were the key members of the band. The band and their community suffered an unthinkable loss when Koady died unexpectedly and heartbreakingly in 2022. Amazingly, Jake and Tim have carried on in Koady's memory, and with his presence still very much being felt in what they do, onstage and in the recording...
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Jenn Grant | Hidden Track Ep. 113
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Cradled By the Waves is the title of Jenn Grant's wildly creative new stage show — a live multimedia expression of the music found on her latest album, Queen of the Strait. It's about family, life, death, art, relationships, nostalgia, home, love, heartbreak, and how, as she sings on the album's opening number called "Jim Cuddy Dress," “Nothing that's real ever fades." It's hard to decide whether Queen of the Strait is simply a brilliant album, or perhaps a musical version or a great short story collection, or an auditory interpretation of a visionary film. So it's...
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Katie Tupper | Hidden Track Ep. 112
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While she’s been releasing singles and EPs since the beginning of the 2020s, Katie Tupper has just released her debut record. She may be in her mid-20s, but Katie’s been an artist to watch for many years already. This full-length album provides her with the space to stretch her musical boundaries, build on her very personal approach to songcraft, and venture into some new sonic and groove territory. We caught up with this artist from Saskatoon just as her debut LP, Greyhound, is about to launch, and as she ramps up for a tour which will take her to the Broadway Theatre in her...
info_outlineThe band Broken Social Scene is a group that's all about creative friendships, inspiring and building upon each other's contributions, and collective joy through sharing music on as big a scale as possible.
Their greatly anticipated new album Remember the Humans is the first in more than 20 years to feature the production work of Dave Newfeld.
Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew took some time backstage to chat with CKUA's Grant Stovel, in a tiny dressing room before soundcheck, to reflect on the past, present, and future of one Canada's most beloved, renowned, and influential rock groups.
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Credits:
Executive Producer: Arianne Smith-Piquette
Senior Producers: Jasmine Vickaryous, Bronson Kashino
Associate Producer: Scott Zielsdorf
Host: Grant Stovel
Music: Doug Hoyer
Graphics: Tomas Spasiuk
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