It’s mushroom season in the forests and fields of BC’s West Coast. It’s called foraging.

Small groups of Shroomheads are roaming all over the place. The payoff is their inclusion in amazing seasonal dishes.

This week I did the studio version of foraging.

Dug deep and reconnected with The Wailin’ Jenny’s, Junior Wells, Stevie Ray playing Guitar Shorty’s Thangs I used to do live at Carnegie Hall.

Jackson Browne, Huey Lewis and Tower of Power – together. Dr. John & BB King, The Wallflowers,

The Stones. And yes, we remember three  icons

We remember  Shane MacGowan. Playing The Pogues and Joe Strummer live in London Dirty Old Town

And honouring Otis Redding,  who died Dec 10, 1967, along with most of his band in a small plane crash while on tour. Booker T Jones returns to The Stew to tell the tale of how they felt at Stax Records and how he and Steve Cropper got Dock of the Bay finished and released., FYI Booker T is bringing his big Stax Revue to the Edmonton Blues Fest Aug 16

Tickets and the full line up released on Friday, Dec 8

Rick Danko  (The Band) died in his sleep Dec 10 1999. Playing Rick’s heartbreaking vocals on It makes no difference from The Last Waltz.

New music from Celeigh Cardinal, Trans Canada Highwaymen, Fall Out Boy, Amos Lee, Corb Lund, CB Green, Doobies, Mick Fleetwood – Song for Lahaina,

Start with the wild voice of Kelley Hunt.

Our guest is Matt Layzell from The Matinee. They have released a new album Change of Scene

They’ve been friends making music for 15 years. This feels like the album that really pays off on  all the hard work.

Produced by Steve Dawson who brought  into the studio Allison Russell and The McCrary Sisters.

The complete interview can be heard on the Mulligan Stew podcast and the Terry David Mulligan youtube channel

Next week we’ll have their new Christmas single –  Last Christmas

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