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The Wavelength
Monday July 21st, 2025 with Joe Reilly
The Best of Bluesfest 2025 and some other great music

I just spent almost every waking moment of the last two weeks (and maybe several days before July 10th as well!) working on Ottawa Bluesfest, helping to manage media relations for the festival. That included setting up artist interviews, managing media and photograhers on site and talking to the media about Bluesfest. It's a great gig and exhausting too! And when I'm not running around leBreton Flats doing this work, I do get to watch exceptional live concerts from fantastic vantage points... so I'm pretty spoiled! This year was no different, as I got to see a lot of great performances and I'll share music by those artists and some anecdotes with you from this year's festival. Thanks to all the staff I work with and the amazing volunteers who do so much for Bluesfest every year. Hope you enjoy the mix of tunes!
I Guess Time Just Makes Fools Of Us All
Father John Misty - Mahashmashana
She Cleans Up
Father John Misty - Live At The Copenhagen Opera House
Screamland
Father John Misty - Live At The Copenhagen Opera House
Bom Bom Bom
Melbourne Ska Orchestra - The Ballad of Monte Loco New
Get Smart!
Melbourne Ska Orchestra - Melbourne Ska Orchestra
The Strigoi
The Budos Band - VII
Overlander
The Budos Band - VII
Wakin On A Pretty Day
Kurt Vile - Wakin' On A Pretty Daze
Papa's In The Pen
JW Jones - Everything Now Canadian
Never The Same
Andy Maize and Michael Timmins - Townies Canadian
Hurricane Girl
Sue Foley - Canadian
Trudoo
Fantastic Negrito - White Jesus Black Problems
Work Song
Hozier - Hozier
Strawberry Blonde
Ron Sexsmith - Other Songs Canadian
Secret Heart
Ron Sexsmith - Ron Sexsmith Canadian
Gold In Them Hills
Ron Sexsmith - Cobblestone Runway Canadian
Pendulums
Sarah Harmer - All Of Our Names Canadian
Lodestar
Sarah Harmer - You Were Here Canadian
Billie Toppy
Men I Trust - Single Canadian
Head On
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic
Pretend You Remember Me
Tom Morello - Pretend You Remember Me (single) New
The Ghost of Tom Joad (featuring Tom Morello)
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - The 25th Anniversary Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame Concert
The next song by Claude Munson is only heard as part of the On Demand version of the show. It had to be edited from the FM broadcast due to the 2 hour time limit of the Wavelength.
Get It While It's Good
Claude Munson - Boxing Day Weekend Canadian
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