Episodes
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Jim Cuddy guests on Mulligan Stew Saturday.
He’s on stage Saturday with The Jim Cuddy Band at the National Art Center Ottawa and Wednesday next at Massey Hall.
Then Jim and Blue Rodeo partner Greg Keelor head for The Whistler Film Fest Dec 6-8
For the premier of their documentary Lost Together.2025 will be a celebration of Blue Rodeo's 40th anniversary.
Lots to talk about.
Complete interview on Mulligan Stew Podcast and terrydavidmulligan YouTube channel -
Lisa Ahier is known far and wide as the owner and chef at Sobo in Tofino. Sobo is the kind of dining and room you like so much, you send all your best friends there. It's the centre of the town. Locals meet there for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Lisa has moved on from Sobo and is now making notes for her third book and has become the darling of this years Top Chef competition. Five shows in and she's still there, the oldest competitor since they started years ago. We have lots to talk about - lean in, it's a hoot. https://www.instagram.com/lisaahier/
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Barney Bentall is bringing The Last Roundup through the West. Next Friday at Bella Hall in Calgary.
www.barneybentall.com
It’s the final tour of the Caribou Express. Over 20 years of seasonal touring, Barney and various members of Caribou Express raised Millions for charities all across Canada.
Especially, serious money for food banks late in the year when they really need it.
Barney gives us an update on the last lineup, the lives of his Express friends over the years and final thoughts on what lies ahead for the rocker and rancher. -
Look who's on a Roll - It's this week's guest, Author Luke Whittall Luke and his Sipster's Pocket Guides Books. In the third volume in the popular Sipster’s Pocket Guide series, wine expert and educator Luke Whittall presents his latest top 50 British Columbia wines under $50 (including many under $30) and along the way shares his thoughts on wine country and common misconceptions about certain grapes, and offers up tangents on everything from scented candles to middle children to jazz hands. With food and activity pairings that range from Thai noodles and pool noodles to classic rock and hootenannies, and an index of attitudes that lets you choose a wine based on your mood (come hither, dressed to kill, razzle-dazzle), the Sipster’s guides are equal parts freewheeling and focused. Divided into chapters on sparkling, white, rosé, red, and dessert wines, the latest volume of Sipster’s will snap you out of a catatonic funk in the liquor store and stick around for a quiet evening paging through a book—perhaps this book and perhaps there’s even a wine for that. Welcome to Volume 3, where a Viognier can be a lot like a bouncy castle, a red blend that is the icing on top of another layer of icing and also a wine that will upstage Taylor Swift and Kayne and an adventurous evening calls for a certain Trebianno (not the guy from Friends . . . but then again, maybe?). The Sipsters series are written in language anyone can understand. Words we all use and can remember a day later. Make no mistake, Luke knows his wines from the vineyards to the bottle. He just makes the journey much easier than it really is. We also start TRR with a conversation about vineyard damage & recovery, plus the coming discovery of BC Wines made with Washington grapes. So those damaged vineyards, wineries and wine-farming families can survive the next couple of years. And heads UP - The Sipster's Ontario Vol 2 is coming - just in time for Christmas. Then surely, the Luke Whittall film starring Ryan Reynolds. Www.sipsterswinepodcast.ca/books Luke Whittall Online: The Sipster's Wine Podcast - Sipsters Icons on Substack WWW. Books: "The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 More Must-Try BC Wines, Volume 3" 2024 (Touchwood Editions) "The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try Ontario Wines, Volume 1" 2023 (Touchwood Editions) "The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC Wines, Volume 2" 2023 (Touchwood Editions) "The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC Wines, Volume 1" 2021 (Touchwood Editions) "The Okanagan Wine Tour Guide" 6th Edition (with John Schreiner) 2020 (Touchwood Editions) "Valleys of Wine: A Taste of British Columbia's Wine History" 2019 (Whitecap Books)
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The full title of Natalie Maclean's memoir is Wine Witch on Fire Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation and Drinking Too Much. For all of you who bought and read Natalie's book Red, White and Drunk All Over and listened to her podcast Unreserved Wine Talk, this memoir is a completely different read. She discovers her husband of many years is leaving the relationship and at the same time, her wine rivals decide to tell the wine world that she's not nearly as accomplished as we think. Despite multiple awards for her writing and knowledge, Natalie has to rebuild her career, fight for her son and find an elusive second chance in a business that rarely gives you any. All of this drama is played out in a wine world where many women are taken for granted and rarely given credit for their skills. Yup - Wine Witch is a thriller. And it's funny, just in time for Christmas.
You can get Natalie MacLean's new memoir Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much in paperback, ebook or audiobook from these retailers.
She hosts the podcast, Unreserved Wine Talk, and offers popular online wine and food pairing classes at www.nataliemaclean.com. -
We meet Blue Moon Marquee - Al Cardinal and Jasmine Colette - on the stage at the Osbourne Bay Pub in Crofton, Vancouver Island.
That stage was the first place they met and then played together many times as Blue Moon Marquee.
They've come a long way since that stage. Juno Winners, sweeping the 2023 Maple Blues Awards and still winning awards including this week.
After a decade of stages and touring comes the 5th album New Orleans Sessions. Recorded in New Orleans in two days - Four hours each day. One track Trickster Coyote was a first take. Recorded with some of the very best New Orleans players.
Lots of stories and new music. Also news of the next two projects they intend to present.
They start their next tour October 26th at Festival Place, Sherwood Park. October dates in Lloydminster, Daysland and Athabaska. - and April 5 at the Arden
(complete interview on Mulligan Stew Podcast)
We start the Mulligan Stew Podcast Stew remembering and celebrating the life and music of the late Kris Kristofferson.
From the Mulligan Stew archives we replay the Kris Kristofferson interview we did 2006 backstage at Calgary Folk Festival.
Answering media questions, including my own:
Kris talks about Johnny Cash, Willie and his sons, Hank Williams, movies, performing solo, the Nashville Underground, songwriters these days John Prine, Todd Snider, Shooter Jennings, and how nervous he gets singing for 12,000 people.
Please enjoy…honoured to bring you both artists!!
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The Fretless guest on The Stew. Karrnnel Sawitsky and Trent Freeman - one-half of The Fretless join us.
Saturday in the first hour. Their album - Glass Wing is brilliant. With 3 songs cowritten and sung by Madeleine Roger. Classically trained, raised on rock, jazz, blues, folk and heritage roots, they take all those influences and combine them into a sound unlike any other group. They take 100 year old shanty's and reshape the song without losing the original melody so it can last another 100 years. In Glass Wing, they write all their own tunes. Three co-written with Madeleine Roger. There is such joy in hearing violins, violas and cellos driving the beat where normally the drums and bass would be. Impressive my friends. Very impressive. Have a listen to Pipe Dreams! The Queen Nancy - named after a car and a make-believe BC Ferry. Icarus - a Madeleine beauty Or the lead track Lost Lake. This marks a new chapter The Fretless. With Lights, sound and stage design created especially for this album, these songs and this tour. The Fretless Tour Oct 3 Fanny Bay Oct 4 Comox Oct 5 Victoria Oct 6 Van October 10 Calgary October 11 Edmonton -
This week we welcome Donovan Woods and his latest album Things were never good if They’re not good now.
Wonderful insight into his songwriting and his place in the music business.
The first time he played in Victoria, he couldn’t believe the audience knew the words to his songs.
And in the past year, he played in Australia and remembers an audience in Perth who sang the words louder than he could.
He has come a very long way has Donovan.
Struggling to find things to sing about or sing at all. A series of failures lead to an addiction counselling program and committed himself to getting to “the bottom of myself“
He changed his mind about a lot of things.
” It turns out the truth does really set you free”
“I won’t be cheesy and say I feel like this is my first album, but it certainly feels like a new start”
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Joel Plaskett's eleventh album—One Real Reveal is special for several reasons.
Joel sat down with a small Telefunken KM56 microphone and a 4-track recorder and recorded the tracks for One Real Reveal ON CASSETTE TAPE starting with the brilliant High Summer.
This album and its music is bare. Because it is, you’re forced to listen to the music and especially the lyrics. These are words and melodies that will still be the air in a concert hall.
IF you can get in.
Joel’s current tour out west is Sold Out. Fittingly, the tour ends at Massey Hall in Toronto.
It too will be Sold Out.
Discover the new sounds of Joel Plaskett, just like the old Joel Plaskett only quieter, more reflective.
I’ve been waiting many years to have Joel to myself. Just to exchange ideas and passions.
My timing couldn’t have been better. One Real Reveal was well worth the wait.
The other welcome guest is our pal Leeroy Stagger. Host of Dirty Windshields Radio Hour on CKUA Saturdays.
But before Leeroy joined us, he was a highly respected singer/songwriter and he continues to write, record and perform his very personal songs.
Leeroy has just released his latest album 3 am Revelations.
In it, Leeroy reflects the life around him. The road, family, social issues and seeking the answers to all his inner questions.
Just a heads up – 3 am Revelations rocks. Bangers like Watermelon Pink, Count to 10, These Days. Then finds balance with reflective gems like
It’s gonna be alright (someday), Alberta Stars, Life’s a Drag, etc.
It's good to have friends and partners like Leeroy Stagger. Great album Leeroy! You nailed it.
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Terry David Mulligan joins Blues lifer Robert Finley in the media tent at the Edmonton Folk Festival.
Robert spins the stories of how he went from losing most of his sight to becoming the hot new voice in the blues.
Inviting himself to do a cold walk-on at the Blues Festival in St Helena. It's quite a story he tells. The crowd loved him and that set things in motion.
The Music Maker Relief Foundation, a non-profit blues support system, heard him busking in the streets and offered to help.
Finley released his first album “Age Don’t Mean a Thing” in 2016.
Dan Auerbach
of the Black Keys heard him and they started recording together – with Dan as producer.
They’ve now done 4 albums together. Each one is bigger and better.
The latest is Black Bayou. There will be no more busking for Robert Finley. He’s 70 years old and an overnight sensation!!
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I’ve been waiting for new music from Winnipeg’s Madeleine Roger for four years.
That’s how long it's been since I discovered her voice, playing and gifted songwriting.
Maddy took a solo career detour through the stellar chops of The Fretless.
They needed an exceptional vocalist who understood and was comfortable with, classical music.
Madeleine needed a different “band” to shine with. Perfect!
So here we are in early September and both artists are releasing new albums.
Madeleine has just released NERVE a new album filled with tales of lost love and found freedoms.
Produced by Josh Kaufman (Anais Mitchell, Bonnie Light Horseman) Recorded in four days. They threw away the headphones and sat 8 feet apart..making music.
There are actually four extra songs waiting to be released.
I am here to state – in my opinion - an exceptional new star has risen – her name is Madeleine Roger.
Enjoy the complete interview and the music included.
www.madeleineroger.com
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The last time I had the privilege of interviewing Rhiannon Giddens it was in 2017 at Edmonton Folk Fest.
In the next five years, she became a World star.
For example:
In October 2017, Giddens was named one of the 2017 class of MacArthur "Genius" Fellows.
In 2017 and 2018, Giddens appeared in the fifth and sixth seasons of the CMT's
In January 2018, Giddens co-produced Songs of Our Native Daughters for Smithsonian Folkways.
in early 2018, the Nashville Ballet announced that Rhiannon Giddens has been commissioned to write the music for Lucy Negro, Redux. In 2019, Giddens released two studio albums: Songs of Our Native Daughters and There Is No Other with Italian musician Francesco Turrisi
Giddens earned an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for her lasting impact on the UNCG community and her work in music. In 2023, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music from Princeton University
In other words, the last 5-6 years have been a delightful blur.
Thus my first question was …what do you remember of the last 5 years?
If anyone is going to change music in her lifetime – it's Rhiannon Giddens!!
Enjoy.
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Colin's 21st album is called Chasing the Sun. Today, Aug 17 is his Birthday. Happy Day Colin
Co-produced by Colin Linden in his Pinhead Studios in Nashville.
Colin's coming to the Mulligan Stew Podcast with the complete story of how he and his friends wrote and created these outstanding songs.
Colin singing a Lucinda Williams song, Protection, with Lucinda in the studio doing harmony. Two tracks with blues harp legend Charlie Musselwhite, co-writing memorable songs with Tom Wilson, Terra Lightfoot, Thompson Wilson, Jesse Obrien and others. A great rhythm section of Darryl Jones (Stones) Charley Drayton (Keith Richards).
A splendid cover of Paul Butterfield's classic In My Own Dream. Also vocals by The McCrary Sisters and Ruby Amanfu
Colin Linden leading the all-star band and co-writing with Colin James.
It's their 6th album together.
Colin and I have been doing interviews for a long time but there are still events and moments in his life that need retelling.
For example, when the two Colins’ met on the Canadian Prairies Colin James was 13 and Colin Linden was 17. Both were into playing the blues.
A short time later Colin, still a teenager, got to play for Stevie Ray Vaughn. Stevie helped him take the next steps in his career.
This is the complete Interview.
His 2021 album Open Road won the JUNO Award for Best Blues Album and was nominated for Blues Foundation Best Blues Rock Album in 2023.
Catching the Sun may very well get the best reception yet.
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Terry talks with Rhiannon Giddens at the Edmonton Folk Music Fest in 2020
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Kevin Kane and The Hooper Brothers Chris and Tommy have been an original Canadian band for over 40 years.
The Grapes of Wrath.
Same three guys. Still making music.
This podcast is their first complete band interview in over 10 years.
Like many, I had presumed that the guys had moved on to solo efforts or other bands or other dreams.
When I saw that they were playing and selling out The Carleton in Halifax I started to dig and found – amazed – that they were in fact playing the Filberg Festival in Comox, Vancouver Island Aug 3.
Also Edmonton, The Maritimes, Vernon and The Dream Café in Penticton.
Bringing with them songs containing people's memories, whole lifetimes.
Peace of Mind
You may be right
These days
And the still brilliant…
All the thing’s I wasn’t.
Platinum records, multiple tours of Canada, the USA and Europe.
In 1992 they went separate ways only to rediscover the power of their friendship and music in 2010 at a festival in Surrey, BC.
The same three guys…Let’s celebrate The Grapes of Wrath. Enjoy the stories and the music.
Tour Dates:
www.grapesofwrath.ca
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The last two festival directors join us on The Summer Stew - Terry Wickham - Edmonton Aug 8-11 Many years later the musical leader at Edmonton Folk Festival. As you know, he's a natural storyteller and this year he's telling stories of the growing indigenous component of the festival. Also how it all started to grow within the fest, it involves the Chieftains. Terry talks about how he discovers artists, why certain artists strike a chord in him and how he had to keep a headliner booking secret for 7 months. The complete interview can be heard on the Mulligan Stew Podcast and the video on the terrydavidmulligan YouTube Channel. Jenna Klein Waller - Canmore Aug 3-5 It's year one for Jenna. She has stayed in touch with the other artistic directors. Learning even more as she went. The one thing the festival wanted to focus on was finding a younger audience. Jenna talks about the artists that her younger audience wants to see and hear.
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It's festival season. Full ON.
Everywhere you go someone is kicking off a festival.
We’re concentrating on the music festivals of Western Canada.
I couldn’t do them all…
Vancouver Island and Winnipeg festivals have started
This weekend our guests are – artistic directors Kerry Clark from the Calgary Folk Fest and Fiona Black from the Vancouver Folk Fest.
We finish our festival updates on July 20 with Jenna Klein Waller artistic director from Canmore Festival and Terry Wickham artistic director of Edmonton Folk Music Festival.
Check out the artist lineups at
www.calgaryfolkfest.com July 25-28
www.thefestival.bc.ca July 19-21
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It all started as a single interview about the Edmonton Folk Festival. We seemed to be talking about the “other“ festivals and could they survive the Covid years.
That conversation turned into the first group interview with the artistic directors of Calgary, Winnipeg, Canmore and Vancouver Folk Festivals.
It was fun and informative, so we’ve decided to make it a yearly gathering.
Here’s the guest lineup this year. They each bring with them stories of the artists they booked and why.
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Doug Cox – July 12-14 Vancouver Island Music Festival (Courtney)
Chris Frayer – July 11-14 Winnipeg Folk Festival
Fiona Black – July 19-21 Vancouver Folk Festival
Kerry Clark – July 25-28 Calgary Folk Festival
Jenna Klein Waller – Aug 3-5 Canmore Folk Festival
Terry Wickham – Aug 8-11 Edmonton Folk Festival
This week our interview guests are…
Artistic Directors of Vancouver Island Music Festival (Doug Cox) & Winnipeg Folk Festival (Chris Frayer)
Both festivals start next weekend. Next Saturday it’s Fiona Black from Vancouver FF and Kerry Clark from Calgary FF. Bringing insights into their artist guest list and special events.
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They are Canadian music royalty. Who better to have joined us on the Canada Day weekend than Greg Keelor and Jim Cuddy from Blue Rodeo?
AND Jim brings his 6th solo album All the World Fades Away.
There is much to talk about. In the first half of the Podcast Greg and Jim take us through Blue Rodeo's plans for their 40th year together in 2025.
Taking part in the Lightfoot celebration at Massey Hall. Being inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.. Then Greg bugs out and Jim and I talk about his 6th solo album with The Jim Cuddy band.
It's called All the world fades away and it’s a beauty.
Stories about his Father, our friend the late John Mann and his family, his early years on The Yukon, and his duet with Greg on the solo album. The dialogue between the two of them on the meaning of the song is WILD!
We talk tours and plans for the year. Comments about playing the Canmore and Edmonton Folk Festivals this summer. Our thanks to the boys...
Enjoy – Happy Canada Day
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Two remarkable guests this week
Celeigh Cardinal and her new album Boundless Possibilities and Bridget Kearney – Bassist and songwriter for Lake Street Dive
Both guests have albums that came out Friday.
Celeigh Cardinal has her latest dropping Friday - Boundless Possibilities.
Personally written songs that describe the feelings of losing her son's Father in a murder and the death of a friend by suicide. Also surviving the pain and loss and changing her life forever.
It's not your average album and certainly not your average interview. Open, bare and loving.
The second guest is Bridget Kearney. Bassist, vocalist and songwriter for Lake Street Dive. The album is Good Together and after 20 years together, they've decided to write songs and play together in the same room. It shows in the exceptional songs.
They appeared this week on Colbert and they're on tour. One of the dates is Madison Square Garden.
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