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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.
The complete interviews can be seen on the terrydavidmulligan YouTube Channel -
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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For years, there have been multiple wine competitions no matter what country or region.
The BC wine industry is no exception.
The latest wine awards are The BC Top 50 wines and Wine of the Year as part of the 2024 Okanagan Spring Wine Festival, which is on now.
Friday night the results were announced at the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre and then hundreds descended on the trade floor to do their own judging.
Kimberly Hundertmark, the GM of The Wine Fests said on Tasting Room Radio last week that wineries were asked to send their very best releases.
We have two guests and dear friends on this Podcast. Both are wine stars and both were judges at this event
DJ Kearney. A Global wine authority, educator and Director of Wine at Terminal City Club. Black Belt.
Rhys Pender – Master of Wine. Co-owner of Little Farm Wine in Cawston and owner of Wine Plus. World's greatest fisherman.
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I’ve had the distinct pleasure to host and produce Tasting Room Radio for 17 years.
Most weeks we consider featuring some of those stories on the podcast but music, arts and music history seem to carry the day.
These two interviews deserve to be featured because they tell the story of the current state of the BC wine industry.
The Okanagan has been burned by summer fires and choked by summer smoke, blocked by road closures at the peak of the summer season, deep frozen by two successive winters and disappointingly shunned by liquor governing bodies in Alberta.
All the while the BC wine industry is making better and better wines. So it all feels like three steps forward and two back
Kimberly Hundertmark, the GM of Okanagan Wine Festivals brings great news. Right now, they are kicking off the Spring Wine Festival all over the Okanagan Valley. It’s an amazing collection of events. Huge gatherings like 2024 BC Top 50 and the Wine of the Year. The TASTE series, carefully curated in locations North and South, the Naramata Bench this Sunday, June 2 and the District Wine Village in Oliver Sat-Sun June 8/9 and Saturday, June 8th at the Summer Sips at Spirit Ridge Osoyoos. Kimberly brings all the news and tips for making plans.
The complete list of events can be found at www.thewinefestivals.com
John Skinner is the co-owner/co-founder of Painted Rock Estate Winery, on the Skaha Bench in Okanagan Falls.
If you go to their website www.paintedrock.ca have a look at the wines and also the awards those wines have won over the years.
Pages and pages of awards and outstanding reviews.
John’s comments about his wines and two new releases – Rose and Chardonnay can be found on Tasting Room Radio. www.tastingroomradio.com
These comments by John are about the state of the BC wine industry – the good and not-so-good.
Above all, it’s John’s belief in BC Wine. He shows leadership and well-thought-out decision-making.
If you’re interested in supporting the BC wine industry – and I truly hope you are – then John brings clarity and commitment to all of us.
John Skinner reminds us that most of these wineries are owned by small farming families.
“support the little wineries first. Find your favourites and support them when you can”
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Wonderful article from Charles P. Pierce Esquire Magazine May 25
Let's get the whole gang together: Davey Moore, Hattie Carroll, Hollis Brown, Einstein disguised as Robin Hood, the motorcycle black Madonna two-wheeled gypsy queen, Ma Rainey, and Beethoven, John the Baptist, the Commander In Chief, Louis The King, Napoleon in rags, Lucille, Johanna, Sweet Marie, John Wesley Harding, St. Augustine, the joker, the thief, Big Jim, Lily, Rosemary, and most of all, the Jack of Hearts, Rubin Carter, Isis, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Blackjack Davey, Charlie Patton. All of them. Play me a song, Mr. Wolfman Jack, because if you want to remember, you better write down the names.
Bob Dylan turned 83 on Friday. All of him did. All of them did. All the personae, the entire kaleidoscope of masks, the false fronts and head fakes, and, finally, the last, and in many ways, best of them all. The travelling storyteller, the seanchai as the people in the old country would call him. Out on the endless tour, up the endless highway. I think of him and I think of Turlough O'Carolan, the legendary blind Irish harper who would travel the countryside, composing his songs on the spot for whomever would give him food and drink. Go back further. Go back to Homer. Sing to him, O muse. When Dylan dropped "Murder Most Foul," virtually out of a clear blue sky, blessing us with it as consolation for the years when America had gone so terribly wrong, it was Homer of whom I thought, poet and historian both, protector of the shadowland between myth and reality, chronicler of what Greil Marcus called "the old, weird America," a phrase I wish I'd written.
He'll be around all summer, travelling with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp and a whole clutch of other artists in something called the Outlaw Music Festival Tour. It's a high-priced extravaganza but, in a very real way, he's just on the road, heading for another joint. Move along, brother Bob. The highway, as you taught us, is for gamblers, and we take what we have gathered from coincidence.
Here’s a collection of comments and reflections from Dylan's artistic partners and others just sharing the same spaces with Bob. Interviews I’ve done over the years to be added to when Dylan turns 85.
Interviews with
David Bowie
Robbie Robertson
Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks
The Avett Brothers
Barney Bentall and Steve Dawson
Greg Keelor (Blue Rodeo)
And Colin Linden (Blackie and the Rodeo Kings)
Wine and Dine – Tofino June i/2.
The second story takes place next weekend June 1 and 2 in one of Earth’s most beautiful places - Tofino, British Columbia. The western edge of Canada on Vancouver island. The community includes surfing, golfing, fishing, underwater adventures and an unusual gathering of chefs. It is where they come to learn how to create seafood dishes and cook with what the forest and oceans give them – and surf their minds out.
It's the second annual Wine and Dine gathering on the front lawns of Best Western Plus Tin Wis Resort.
All of the details can be found at www.tofinowinedine.com
Our guests are the organizers and founders of Tofino Wine & dine
Ronnie Lee and Ryan Orr.
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We know Ottawa-born Sue Foley from the blues albums she’s created and released. Plus Multiple blues awards on both sides of the border.
Her new album is One Guitar Woman. A tribute to the female pioneers of guitar.This was/is a very personal journey for Sue. She’s studied the many women who played guitar before her and left their legacy to study and pass on.
Female singers and players like Memphis Minnie, Elizabeth Cotten, Maybelle Carter, Sister Rosetta Tharp, Geeshe Wiley, Lydia Mendoza etc.
Many tales and tunes are connected to the album.Four-time Blues Foundation Traditional Female Artist award winner, Sue Foley’s new album One Guitar Woman is a heartfelt tribute to the female pioneers of the guitar - including Memphis Minnie, Lydia Mendoza, Maybelle Carter, Ida Presti, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The album showcases the dexterity of Foley’s acoustic nylon string guitar skills as she expands on her blues playing into other genres like Piedmont fingerpicking, traditional country, the Carter Scratch, flamenco and classical.
“From the time I decided to be a professional guitar player, I’ve always looked for female role models. These are the women who were expressing themselves through the instrument as far back as the 1920’s, at the inception of radio and recorded music. They are the trailblazers and visionaries whose footsteps I walk in,”
Sue Foley.
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When Ron Carter's name comes up, one of the first things people write or say is – he’s played bass and cello on over 2500 albums.
That’s impressive and awe-inspiring. Totally agree.
When I hear the name Ron Carter I think of the bassist who played in Miles Davis’ second band, alongside Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams & George Coleman.
“The List” of bands and recordings would include Wayne Shorter, Blue Note recordings with Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Horace Silver, and 100’s of others.
I talked to Ron about his recordings in popular music. Roberta Flack, Eddie Harris, Aretha, Billy Joel, Bette Midler, Erykah Badu, A tribe called Quest, Phoebe Snow, The Rascals, Gil Scott-Heron, Carlos Santana.
Ron has taught music for many years at esteemed colleges and schools, his current documentary is Finding the Right Notes, also the name of his bio book.
Ron Carter turns 87 years old today – Saturday, May 4 !! we wish him WELL.
Enjoy the conversation – I sure did.
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Afie Jurvanen – more famously known as Bahamas!
A fascinating artist and human. Never satisfied to remain in the same groove or attitude. What’s constant is his ability to create memorable songs, surrounded by sonic texture that is his territory alone.
You know it's him as soon as you hear the song.
He’ll be doing summer festivals and supporting his album Bootcut - a heavily inspired classic Country record which has recently seen his catalogue surpass a billion streams. He was awarded a pile of gold/platinum/double platinum singles while attending the JUNOs this year. . Rolling Stone covered Bootcut saying that a Canadian indie rock kid made one of Nashville’s most Country records of the year: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bahamas-bootcut-country-music-album-nashville-1234826097/
Oh..and he was featured on The Bachelor and released an album on Valentine's day called Repackaged Love Songs.
And best of all, he’s guesting on Mulligan Stew Saturday 4 Pacific / 5 Mtn at CKUA RADIO ckua.com
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Adrian is a Traditional Knowledge Keeper for the James Bay Cree of Attawapiskat First Nation. It may explain why he is such a fine songwriter and storyteller. As a singer, he's been described by producer Colin Linden as "open" sonically and spiritually. Adrian and Colin worked together on his first album When the Magic Hits. Although "together" doesn't quite describe their situation. Colin was in his home studio in Nashville and Adrian was in the frozen Far North in James Bay working in an old shipping container that he had turned into a studio. For Precious Diamonds, Adrian went south to Colin's studio in Nashville and the resulting album is now out, many months later. Adrian takes us through a number of songs he wrote and sung. His battle finding his place in the music world. His pride in recording two songs in his native Mushkegowuk Cree. As a surprise to Adrian, I had Colin Linden in the Zoom waiting room and he popped out at just the right time to congratulate his friend. Adrian brought many stories and spoke his truth.
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