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Thursday Special Blend
Thursday April 13th, 2023 with Jeff Larocque
Exclusive interview with Stephen Fearing in Hour One. SOCAN Slam Semi-Finals in the final half hour.

Reach Jeff by email: jeff@ckcufm.com VOTE for your SOCAN SLAM favourites by leaving a comment on this show page. Voting closes Midnight EST, Sunday, April 16th.
Early Morning Rain
Stephen Fearing & The Sentimentals - Vejpoesi Canadian New
Here, There And Everywhere (sample)
The Beatles - Revolver
Gold On The River
Stephen Fearing & The Sentimentals - Vejpoesi Canadian New
Cut Down a Tree (sample)
Smokey & the Mirror & The Sentimentals - The Denmark Project
Red Lights In The Rain
Stephen Fearing & The Sentimentals - Vejpoesi Canadian New
Lots of great info about Stephen Fearing here: https://stephenfearing.ca/
Stephen Fearing & The Sentimentals - Road Poems Tour Info and Ticket Link: https://stephenfearing.ca/tour/
Hour One Point Five - SOCAN SLAM Semi-Final Match-Ups below.
Eye of the Tiger (background/intro)
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger (Single)
Invader
Danielle Allard - Invader Canadian New
High Above (KeX/1 Remix)
Church of Trees - High Above (KeX/1 Remix) (Single) Canadian
Phosphenes
Area Resident - Phosphene Canadian New
A Cosmonaut's Lament
Tin Constellations - A Cosmonaut's Lament Canadian New
Paint It All In Blue
John Allaire and the Fi-Delities - Paint It All In Blue Canadian
8 of Hearts
Blinker The Star - Love Oblast Canadian New
Bungle In The Jungle (faded for BBC News)
Jethro Tull - War Child
Remember to VOTE for your SOCAN SLAM Semi-Final favourites by leaving a comment here on the show page!
Comments will be counted as votes up until midnight EST, Sunday, April 16, 2023.
SOCAN SLAM is an exclusive Thursday Special Blend contest - meant in good fun to celebrate local music!
Congrats to Ryan Bresee - Winner of the King's Own Barbershop complimentary haircut or shave. Send us pictures Ryan!!
Interactive CKCU
Chops
Great track by Area Resident! But I gotta say TIN CONSTELLATIONS!

9:22 AM, April 13th, 2023
Alison
Tin Constellations!

9:32 AM, April 13th, 2023
Brent
I dig the Area Resident track but gotta go with Tin Constellations - that’s a hit!

9:42 AM, April 13th, 2023
Shannon
Tin Constellations

9:45 AM, April 13th, 2023
Babs
Tin Constellations.

9:52 AM, April 13th, 2023
Dave
Tin Constellations - definitely!

9:53 AM, April 13th, 2023
Killer
Tin Constellations

10:59 AM, April 13th, 2023
Slo' Tom
Love the Tin Cons!!!

11:00 AM, April 13th, 2023
Andy R
Gotta go with TC... galactic joy! It's all about the time and the spaces in-between.

12:29 PM, April 13th, 2023
BeeMandinga!
Most definitely Tin Rock-stellations fo' sho'!!!

1:13 PM, April 13th, 2023
Kim
Tin Constellations!! Love these guys!!

1:14 PM, April 13th, 2023
Jeff Larocque (host)
Wow. Thank you for voting!!

2:13 PM, April 13th, 2023
Derek
Tin Constellations for sure!

2:34 PM, April 13th, 2023
Area Resident
I WON!!!

6:03 PM, April 13th, 2023
Carol
Tom Constrllations

6:50 PM, April 13th, 2023
Donovan
Tin Constellations care about the people's plight

7:14 PM, April 13th, 2023
Sarah
Tin Constellations are the best band since sliced bread

7:15 PM, April 13th, 2023
Miranda
Tin Constellations

7:44 PM, April 13th, 2023
Brendan
Tin Constellations

7:54 PM, April 13th, 2023
Seana
Tin Constellations

7:57 PM, April 13th, 2023
Jenn
Tin constellations

8:01 PM, April 13th, 2023
Ryan
Tin Constellations, 100%

11:41 PM, April 13th, 2023
Danielle Allard
Thanks for all you for Jeff! Means a lot to see my track there!

10:04 AM, April 14th, 2023
Jeff Larocque
Invader is a great concept album Danielle!

6:42 PM, April 14th, 2023
Justin Mellor
John Allaire. The legend.

8:37 PM, April 15th, 2023
Dennis Seebach
Didn’t know this is where we were supposed to vote. John Allaire. Amazing album.

8:38 PM, April 15th, 2023
C-Lo
AREA RESIDENT

11:27 PM, April 15th, 2023
Violet
Love the TCs!!

10:34 AM, April 16th, 2023
Franco
Agreed, Jeff! Invader is an amazing album, and the title song is a journey on itself, beautiful in every way!

1:40 PM, April 16th, 2023
Bernard Frazer
I vote for Danielle Allard

4:15 PM, April 16th, 2023
Dan Shields
Playing John Allaire on vinyl right now. He has my vote.

6:50 PM, April 16th, 2023