Steve Marriner is our special guest this week on Mulligan Stew.

We all  know Steve from the award-winning Monkey Junk and the very popular Manx Marriner Mainline.

He’s a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and becoming an in demand  producer. Hope Dies Last is his second solo album. His first was in 2006.

(He’s been just a tad busy see below)

Hope Dies Last  has 15 musicians in the credits..so it’s a true group effort. And signals great things ahead in his solo career.

If you remember our Greg Keelor solo album Episode #152 it was Greg who raved about working with guitarist Jimmy Bowskill. (Sheepdogs. Jim Cuddy)

Steve Marriner worked tirelessly with Jimmy Bowskill to get these songs sounding just right.

We found Steve on David Go Go’s   front veranda up Go Go Mountain in Nanaimo.  They were working on Dave’s next acoustic album.

Steve has been busy mixing 5  full  albums 

Alive in Italia – Paul Reddick

June – Crocky Teasdale

Storm comes rolling in – Brent Diabo (single)

Yet to be named – Dave Go Go

Yet to be named – Jake Chisholm

and Hope Dies Last.

Steve’s playing Wide Skies Festival in Lethbridge and Calgary Blues Festival in July 

– the Cloggeroo Festival in PEI in August.

– a solo set and with Colin James at The Big Blues Bender in Las Vegas in  September.

Add the future plans of Monkey Junk and Manx Marriner Mainline and you can see Steve Marriner is going to contribute greatly to shaping the future of Canadian music.

Have a listen and let the stories flow.  and Thanks to David Go Go for the house and the hustle.

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