Saturday is December 7. So…first Saturday on the holiday season but too early to be playing Christmas music. Right?
Holiday music seems to have a really short shelf life. Two weeks? Ten days? At least a week?
But once you set it in motion, it all seems to work—unless it’s just not for you.
There’s enough of us on air @CKUA to embrace the time of year and willingly share with anyone listening. I’m always looking for songs that don’t really mention Christmas but reflect the feeling the season brings. For example, River-Joni Mitchell.
The Dec 21 Stew will feature The Trans Canada Highwaymen in the first-ever Trans Canada Christmas.
Moe Berg (Pursuit of Happiness)
Steven Page (Barenaked Ladies and Steven Page Trio)
Craig Northey (Odds and Steven page Trio)
Chris Murphy (Sloan)
All four bring a song and a story. How they spend Christmas. Family traditions. Where they spend Holidays and why they picked the songs they did.
Next Friday- the Bros. Landreth release their next album for you, live. And we’ll be talking to The Bros. Saturday on The Christmas Stew. Also includes prime seasonal songs, including one from Dan Mangan that’s never been broadcast.
THIS Saturday – New music from The Band, Lucinda Williams, The Sheepdogs, Lucas Roger & Madeleine Roger each with their own music, and The Harpoonist.
We salute Tom Waits (his birthday) Sam Cooke (his birthday) and Otis Redding who recorded Dock of the Bay Dec 7 1967 – three days before he died in a small plane crash.
Barney Bentall, LeeRoy Stagger, U2 and John Lennon (assassinated Dec 8, 1980 )
A great Mike Farris track, Talking heads, Tedeschi Trucks, Nathaniel Rateliff, The Meters, Toots and the Maytals and a classic from Grand Funk.
And we start with the donor suggested Stevie Ray Vaughn.
PLAYLIST:
| Mulligan Stew | Terry Mulligan | The Stew Year 29 |
| Life by the drop | Stevie Ray Vaughn | The Essential SRV |
| Up on cripple creek (live) | The Band | Second Coming Chicago 83 |
| Mercy Now | Mike Farris | Shine for all the people |
| while my guitar gently weeps | Lucinda Williams | Sings the Beatles at Abbey Road |
| Heartless | Nathaniel Rateliff and NS | South of here |
| Your Host from The Coast | TDMulligan | Coming Up- Robert Plant & Allison Krause |
| Please read the letter | R Plant – A Krauss | Raising Sand |
| The Stew | Playlist Mulliganstewdotca | @tdmulligan |
| All the World fades away | Jim Cuddy | All the world fades away |
| Mulligan Stew | Trans Canada Christmas Dec 21 | Coming Up – Sam Cooke & Otis Redding |
| Part of me | Tedeschi Trucks Band | Made up Mind |
| Once in a lifetime | Talking Heads | Remain in Light |
| Deane House – River Cafe | NEXT WEEK – New Bros. Landreth | Coming Up – New Sheepdogs |
| Jeroboam | The Sheepdogs | Jeroboam |
| Cissy Strut | The Meters | Best of |
| Hour Two of Mulligan Stew | Coming Up – A tribute to Tom Waits | Its his Birthday |
| 16 shells from a 30.6 | Tom Waits | Swordfish Trombone |
| Jersey Girl (live) | Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | B.S. The Live Series (Jersey sessions) |
| Heart of a Saturday Night | Tom Waits | Heart of a Sat Night |
| Dec 21 Trans Canada Christmas | with T.C. Highwaymen | songs and stories of Christmas |
| Apology | Lucas Roger | Finite Light |
| Something to live for | Barney Bentall and Legendary Hearts | BB and legendary hearts |
| Watermelon Pink | LeeRoy Stagger | 3am Revelations |
| Pipe Dream | The Fretless and Madeleine Roger | Glasswing |
| Coyotes Banff | Open for the Season – special menu | coyotesbanffdotcom |
| One | U2 | Achtung Baby |
| Watching the Wheels | John Lennon and Yoko Ono | Double Fantasy |
| Dec 21 Trans Canada Christmas | Moe , Chris, Craig and Steven | The Trans Canada Highwaymen |
| Trucker Speed | The Harpoonist | Did we come here to dance |
| Knock of Wood | Toots and the Maytals | Toots in Memphis |
| Some kind of wonderful | Grand Funk Railroad | 30 years of Funk |
| Next Week – New Bros. Landreth | TDMulligan | The Stew – Year 29 |
| Can’t Catch Me | Trans Canada Highwaymen | Explosive hits Vol 1 |
