
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 ![]() |
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 ![]() |
Never The Same Andy Maize and Michael Timmins - Townies ![]() |
Hurricane Girl Sue Foley - ![]() |
Trudoo Fantastic Negrito - White Jesus Black Problems |
Work Song Hozier - Hozier |
Strawberry Blonde Ron Sexsmith - Other Songs ![]() |
Secret Heart Ron Sexsmith - Ron Sexsmith ![]() |
Gold In Them Hills Ron Sexsmith - Cobblestone Runway ![]() |
Pendulums Sarah Harmer - All Of Our Names ![]() |
Lodestar Sarah Harmer - You Were Here ![]() |
Billie Toppy Men I Trust - Single ![]() |
Head On The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic |
Pretend You Remember Me Tom Morello - Pretend You Remember Me (single) ![]() |
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 ![]() |