Tom Cochrane is starting his Mad Mad World 25th anniversary tour this week in the West.
That’s the album that gave us Life is a Highway. And many fans for Tom.
26 years ago Tom and I had traveled to Malawi, Ethiopia, Mozambique and other African nations on behalf of World Vision.
He guests on Saturdays Stew and we have lots to talk about.
Tom and I have always talked..we’ve developed a shorthand over the years.
There was a moment in the skies over Africa in a small prop plane in the middle of a violent storm, where be both looked at each other and said “ we may not get through this”.
Tom was in the co-pilot seat..I thought that was a good sign.
Those kinds of things pull you together.
We both came back to Canada changed humans.
You can’t walk through camps where people die in front of you and not be changed.
Thankfully, when you leave the tents where the life or death battle takes place…you’re greeted by the cured, the healed and the just plain lucky.
They sing, they dance, they celebrate being alive.
It shows itself in Tom’s music
Tour Dates:
PLAYLIST:
| Welcome to The Stew | with Terry David Mulligan | |
| Neva | Delbert McClinton | Prick of the Litter |
| Can’t get next to you | Al Green | Best of |
| You don’t see it | The Duhks | Fast paced World |
| The Waiting (live) | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | Pack up the Plantation |
| www.canadahouse.com | Tonights guest – Tom Cochrane. In an Hour | |
| Got to move (live) | Fleetwood Mac | Boston Blues |
| Sixteen Tons (live) | ZZ Top with Jeff Beck | Greatest hits from around The World |
| Lovely Rita | The Beatles | Sgt Pepper |
| Mulligan Stew with tdm | Tom Cochrane Interview in an hour | Aretha next |
| Think | Aretha Franklin | Something to believe in |
| Didn’t it rain | Amy Helm | Didn’t it rain |
| Can’t get my act together | Ron Sexsmith | Carosel One |
| Crawl | bare naked ladies | Grinning Streak |
| TD Mulligan – Mulligan Stew | Coming UP – Jimi and The Stones | |
| Wait until tomorrow | Jimi Hendrix | Best of |
| Sympathy for the Devil (live) | The Rolling Stones | Hyde Park Live |
| Hour Two of Mulligan Stew | Tom Cochrane Interview in 30 minutes | |
| Gangster of Love | Stevie “Guitar” Miller | Sailor |
| You’re so fine | Stevie “Guitar” Miller | Sailor |
| No regrets | Tom Cochrane | Mad Mad World |
| Chest fever | The Band | Music from Big Pink |
| www.coyotesbanff.com | Tom Cochrane in 10 | |
| Can I get a Witness | Son Real | The Name |
| Don’t make them like they used to | The harpoonist and the axe murderer | Real Fine Mess |
| TD Mulligan – Mulligan Stew | ||
| Baby Ran | 54 40 | La Difference A History Unplugged |
| Mulligan Stew – Year 21 | Tom Cochrane NEXT | |
| Tom Cochrane Interview | Mad Mad World Tour | |
| Emotional Truth | Tom Cochrane | Mad Mad World |
| Tom Cochrane Interview | Mad Mad World Tour | |
| Life is a Highway (live) | Tom Cochrane | Mad Mad World Deluxe |
| Tom Cochrane Interview | ||
| Human Race (acoustic) | Tom Cochrane | Songs of a Circling Spirit |