In this week’s episode of Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music, it’s the annual Canada Day Show, ahead of the July 1 holiday.

“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.”

– Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy

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Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music Playlist for June 28, 2025

HOUR ONE:

• “The Canadian Dream” – Sam Roberts Band
  
• “Baseball” – Sara Dufour
  
• “Red Future” – Snotty Nose Rez Kids
• “The Cobbler” – Matt Andersen
• “Consistency” – Tanika Charles
• “No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature” – The Guess Who
• “Dopamine” – Jon Vinyl
• “Canadian” – Billy Raffoul
  
• “Mhepo” – Munya Mataruse
• “Total Cinema” – Ken Yates
• “Girls Like You” – Sofia Camara
  
• “Yellow” – Tegan & Sara
• “Human Nature” – Sloan
• “Rolodex” – Logan Richard
  

• “Better Broken” – Sarah McLachlan
  
• “Home” – Aysanabee
• “Listen2Me” – foxwarren
• “Poets” – Tragically Hip
• “Eleanor Rigby” – Oscar Peterson
  
• “Life Is A Highway” – Tom Cochrane
  
• “Walking In Sunshine” – Brandon Isaac
  
• “Nothing Is Perfect” – Metric
  
• “My People” – AHI
  
• “The Night Loves Us” – Alan Doyle
• Qujannamiik” – The Jerry Cans
• “Pour que tu m’aimes encore” – Celine Dion
• “Acadian Driftwood” – The Band

Listen to Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music every Saturday from 2-4 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET and streaming on-demand at wdet.org.

On this week’s episode of Acoustic Café, Jensen McRae joins us in the studio for songs from her second release, “I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!” Starting her career just before the pandemic, Jensen is now reflecting on life and love in her late 20s.

Also featured, some songs from the COVID Summer of 2020, and in-studio archives from The Head & The Heart in 2013, Nilufer Yanya in 2018 and Kathleen Edwards in 2002!

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Acoustic Café Playlist for June 29, 2025

• “Million Dollar Intro” – Ani DiFranco
• “Back At The Start” – Patty Griffin
• “Fly” – Patty Griffin
• “Sioux Falls” – Wild Horses
• “The Darkness Gets The Best Of You” – The Devil Makes Three
• “Human Touch” – Kathleen Edwards
• “Mercury” – Kathleen Edwards (2003 in-studio performance)
• “Savannah” – Jensen McRae (in-studio guest)
• “Novelty” – Jensen McRae (in-studio guest)
• “My Darling My Dear” – Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’
• “Eggs In The Morning” – aron!
• “Punisher” – Phoebe Bridgers (June, 2020)
• “That’s The Way The World Goes Round” – Norah Jones (June 2020)
• “A Bus Ain’t A Home” – Luke Tyler Shelton
• “Living And Dying And In Between” – CAAMP
• “Rushmere” – Mumford & Sons
• “Butchered Tongue” – Hozier
• “Chase Me” – Nilufer Yanya (2022 in-studio performance)
• “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” – I’m With Her
• “Robin’s Egg” – Iron & Wine + I’m With Her
• “After The Setting Sun” – The Head And The Heart
• “Let’s Be Still” – “After The Setting Sun” – The Head And The Heart (2013 in-studio performance)
•  “Dopamine” – Jon Vinyl
• “Let Me Be Wrong” – Jensen McRae (in-studio guest)
• “Praying For Your Downfall” – Jensen McRae (in-studio guest)

On this week’s episode of Acoustic Café, it’s back to The Leon Loft for another session with The Devil Makes Three! The band recently released their first album in about seven years, titled “Spirits,” and played some of the new tunes at The Loft back in May.

Also featured, a new collection of Elliott Smith covers is on the way, The White Stripes‘ acoustic classic, performances from Jill Sobule, Cowboy Junkies, Mon Rovia and more.

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Acoustic Café Playlist for June 22, 2025

• “Million Dollar Intro” – Ani DiFranco
• “And She Was” – David Byrne & Caetano Veloso
• “Little Ghost” – The White Stripes
• “Lost In Translation” – Uwade
• “Wild And Clear And Blue”  – I’m With Her
• “Rake” – Cowboy Junkies (2023 in-studio performance)
• “I Kissed A Girl” – Jill Sobule
• “Que Sera Sera” – Jill Sobule (1997 in-studio performance)
• “Half As High” – The Devil Makes Three (in-studio guests)
• “Ghosts Are Real” – The Devil Makes Three (in-studio guests)
• “4+20” – The Wandering Hearts
• “S P E Y S I D E” – Bon Iver
• “Cold War” – Olive Klug
• “Rust” – Mon Rovia (2025 in-studio performance)
• “Room On The Porch” – Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo w/Ruby Amanfu
• “Green Green Rocky Road” – Muireann Bradley
• “But Not For Me” – Grant Perez
• “Do What Feeds Your Soul” – Kyshona (2022 in-studio performance)
• “Tomorrow Tomorrow” – Brad Mehldau & Daniel Rossen
• “Shadow In The Frame” – Daniel Rossen (2023 in-studio performance)
• “Independence Day” – Elliott Smith
• “No Champagne (6 AM)” – Cautious Clay
•  “Holding On” – The Devil Makes Three (in-studio guests)
• “Spirits” –The Devil Makes Three (in-studio guests)
• “The Devil Wins” – The Devil Makes Three (in-studio guests)

In this week’s episode ofRob Reinhart’s Essential Music, upcoming shows and new music from David Byrne, Chris Thile and Jason Isbell… a new tune from Detroit’s own JR JR, a Detroit Cobras classic, acoustic Prince and much more!

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Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music Playlist for June 21, 2025

HOUR ONE:

• “Do Your Thing” – Isaac Hayes
  
• “Everybody Laughs” – David Byrne
  
• “Hemingway” – girl in red
• “What Was That” – Lorde
• “Cry On” – The Detroit Cobras
• “People” – Galactic & Irma Thomas
• “Miss You” – Jose James
  
• “Day One” – Bon Iver
  
• “The Kind That Lasts” – The Doobie Brothers
• “Stevie & Sly” – Young Gun Silver Fox
• “Free” – Prince
  
• “Murder By Numbers” – Christian McBride w/Sting, Andy Summers
  

• “Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground” – Chris Thile (Acoustic Cafe performance)
  
• “Spit On A Stranger” – Nickel Creek
• “Robin’s Egg” – Iron & Wine + I’m With Her
• “Shake Shake” – Jon Muq
• “Half As High” – The Devil Makes Three (Acoustic Cafe performance)
• “Yesterday’s Another Day” – Mobley
  
• “Rock The Bells” – LL Cool J
  
• “Songbird” – Waylon Jennings
  
• “Don’t Stop” – The Mighty Rootsmen
  
• “Kid Fears” – Jason Isbell w/Brandi Carlile and Julien Baker
• “One Fine Morning” – Lighthouse (next week, The Canada Day Show!)
  

Listen to Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music every Saturday from 2-4 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET and streaming on-demand at wdet.org.

In this week’s episode of Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music, a few songs from “Get Behind Me Satan,” The White Stripes album released in June 2005. A new vinyl re-issue is coming on June 27, 2025.

Also, some other notable June album releases from 1975, ’85, 2020, 2000 and much more!

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Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music Playlist for June 7, 2025

HOUR ONE:

• “Move On Up” – Curtis Mayfield
• “The Makings Of You” – Curtis Mayfield
  
• “Mahal” – Glass Beams
• “N’dini” – Nickodermus
• “Wax & Strings” – Shannon & The Clams
• “Cold Heart” – Nilufer Yanya
• “The Denial Twist” – The White Stripes (released 20 years ago today!)
• “School Boy Crush” – AWB (released 50 years ago this month)
• “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – Diana Ross (released 55 years ago this month)
• “Round Here” – Counting Crows
• “Sally When The Wine Runs Out” – Role Model
• “Save Your Soul” – Kathleen Edwards (at The Ark next Friday 6/13)
  
• “D.M.S.R.” – Prince (born today, 1958)

• “My Doorbell” – The White Stripes (released 20 years ago today!)
• “Attack Me With Your Love” – Cameo (released 40 years ago this month)
• “Queen Of The Underground” – Jack Spivey
• “How Long Will It Take” – Tanika Charles
• “Kyoto” – Phoebe Bridgers (released 5 years ago this month)
• “I’m Alive” – Norah Jones (released 5 years ago this month)
• “Nights On Broadway” – Bee Gees (released 50 years ago this month)
• “Little Ghost” – The White Stripes (released 20 years ago today!)
• “Anxious All The Time” – Ryan Allen
• “That’s Gonna Leave A Mark” – Molly Tuttle
• “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number” – Aaliyah
• “When I’m Sixty-Four” – The Beatles

Listen to Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music every Saturday from 2-4 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET and streaming on-demand at wdet.org.

On this week’s episode of Acoustic Café, we take a look back at the year so far, with performances and interview clips from each of our in-studio guests, from The War and Treaty to Lady Blackbird, Katie Gavin to John Moreland, social commentary from Crys Matthews and Amythyst Kiah and much more. It’s our first Words & Music Show of 2025!

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Acoustic Café Playlist for June 1, 2025

• “Million Dollar Intro” – Ani DiFranco
• “Sweet Abbey Girl” – Katie Gavin (2025 in-studio performance)
• “Boom” – Sierra Hull (2025 in-studio performance)
• “Universal Fire” – Jeffrey Foucault (2025 in-studio performance)
• “Crooked The Road”  – Mon Rovia (2025 in-studio performance)
• “The More You Say…” – John Moreland (2025 in-studio performance)
• “S P A C E” – Amythyst Kiah (2025 in-studio performance)
• “High Seas” – Drew & Ellie Holcomb (2025 in-studio performance)
• “Extrano” – Alisa Amador (2025 in-studio performance)
• “Tangled Up In You” – The Altons (2025 in-studio performance)
• “A Place In The Sky” – Uwade
• “Out Of The Cold” – Amos Lee (2011 in-studio performance)
• “Like Jesus Would” – Crys Matthews (2025 in-studio performance)
• “Offering” – Wilder Woods (2025 in-studio performance)
• “Broken” – Jill Marsono (USASC winner, 2024)
• “Like A Woman” – Lady Blackbird (2025 in-studio performance)
• “Southern Star” – Leif Vollebekk (2025 in-studio performance)
• “Lesson” – Joy Clark (2025 in-studio performance)
• “Lioness” – ZZ Ward (2025 in-studio performance)
• “Just A Bird” – Blind Pilot (2025 in-studio performance)
• “Pablo Picasso” – Matt Nathanson (2025 in-studio performance)
•  “Beautiful Day” – Keyon Harrold (2024 in-studio performance)
• “I’d Do Anything” – Anderson East (2025 in-studio preview performance)
• “Home” – The War & Treaty (2025 in-studio performance)

In this week’s episode of Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music, a new album from Daniel and Josh, better know as JR JR!

Also, a couple new tracks from Jose James‘ tribute to his birth year (1978), an interesting new treatment for Elliott Smith, Cautious Clay and Ledisi with new albums and much more!

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Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music Playlist for May 31, 2025

HOUR ONE:

• “Promises (9 AM)” – Cautious Clay
  
• “One Thing” – Lola Young
• “Inside Out” – Jose James
• “Radio” – Jenna Pascale
• “Free My Mind” – JR JR
  
• “Wicked Game” – HAUSER
  
• “I Like It I Like It” – Moses Sumney + Hayley Williams
• “Title Of This Song” – Moses Sumney
• “Darling” – Whitney
• Rumors And Lies” – Kalystaa
• “Tomorrow Tomorrow” – Brad Mehldau + Daniel Rossen
  
• “Repo Man” – Bruce Springsteen
  

• “Fame” – Dennis Coffey
• “BLKWMN” – Ledisi
• “Afterlife” – Alex G
• “Oh Boy” – John Prine
• “The Best Song in The World” – JR JR
• “Ancient Light” – I’m With Her
  
• “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” – I’m With Her
• “Rise Of The Tiger” – Jose James
• “Room On The Porch” – Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ w/Ruby Amanfu
  
• “Love Interrupted” – Jack White w/Ruby Amanfu
• “Aftertaste” – Katie Gavin (Acoustic Cafe in-studio performance)
• “Devil I Know” – Kylee Phillips
• “Twisting By The Pool” – Dire Straits

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In this week’s episode of Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music, lots of Detroit legends at Movement, plus up and coming artists as well.

Also, Bruce steps up, new Richard Ashcroft (and the song he used), a 25-year-old Eminem classic, new Cautious Clay, Jose James, Detroit’s Kate Hinote Trio and Dave Boutette and much more!

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Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music Playlist for May 24, 2025

HOUR ONE:

• “Love Warrior” – Jeff Mills (Movement 2025)
  
• “Music People” – Moodymann (Movement 2025)
• “All You Children” – Jamie XX (Movement 2025)
• “Broken – Ela Minis (Movement 2025)
• “Love And Affection” – Joan Armatrading
• “Lover” – Richard Ashcroft
  
• “Sky Bound” – Aani
• “Land Of Hopes And Dreams” – Bruce Springsteen, May 14, 2025
  
• “Steppin'” – Amp Fiddler w/Dames Brown
  
• “I’m Old Fashioned” – Sarah Kang, Takahiro
  

• “Black Water” – Octave One (Movement 2025)
• “The Truth” – Carl Craig (Movement 2025)
• “Hold It” – Adlai (Movement 2025)
• “The Realm” – Charlotte de Witte (Movement 2025)
• “Stan” – Eminem (released this week in 2000)
• “Thank You” – Dido (Acoustic Cafe in-studio performance, 1999)
  
• “Pretty Little Baby (Spanish version)” – Connie Francis
• “No Rain, No Flowers” – The Black Keys
  
• “Truth Or Consequences” – Dave & Kristi
• “Love Comes A Flower” – Kate Hinote Trio
• “I Am What I Am” – Lady Blackbird (Acoustic Café in-studio performance, 2025)

Listen to Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music every Saturday from 2-4 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET and streaming on-demand at wdet.org.

On this week’s episode of Acoustic Café, Lady Blackbird and producer Chris Seefried join us this week to talk about the amazing emergence of Marley Munroe, becoming Lady Blackbird in 2021!

Also this week, cool archived performances from Amos Lee, The Altons and recent late greats Mike Peters (The Alarm) and Jill Sobule.

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Acoustic Café Playlist for May 25, 2025

• “Million Dollar Intro” – Ani DiFranco
• “Begin Again” – Maya Delilah
• “Sleeping At The Wheel” – Trousdale
• “Strength” – Mike Peters (1998 in-studio performance)
  
• “Where Is Bobby Gentry” – Jill Sobule (2014 in-studio performance)
• “Stuff That Works” — Willie Nelson
• “Like A Woman” – Lady Blackbird (Acoustic Café in-studio guest)
• “I Am What I Am” – Lady Blackbird (Acoustic Café in-studio guest)
• “Where It Belongs” – Mumford & Sons
• “Bullseye” – Lucy Dacus
• “A Place In The Sky” – Uwade
• “Out Of The Cold” – Amos Lee (2011 in-studio performance)
• “Now You’re Here” – Debo Ray
• “At The End Of The Day” – Lucius
• “Get Even” – Sons Of The East
• “Beautiful Day” — Black Violin & Lalah Hathaway
• “Lost Highway” – Kacey Musgraves
  
• “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” – Muireann Bradley
  
• “Bluebird” – Lana Del Ray
  
• “BLKWMN” – Ledisi
  
• “Show You Love” – The Altons (2025 in-studio performance)
•  “Just Around The Corner” – Low Stars (2007 in-studio performance)
• “Blackbird” – Lady Blackbird (Acoustic Café in-studio guest)
• “Man On A Boat” – Lady Blackbird (Acoustic Café in-studio guest)