Roy Forbes, Holger Peterson, The Bros. Landreth and AV and the Inner City.
All of the interviews were done backstage at the Vancouver Island Music Festival of several weeks ago. In Courtney. Thank you, Doug Cox and Team.
Talking to Roy about performing his Thistles album after all those years, to Holger about some of the highlights of his years coming to the festival and interviewing Roy for the audience.
The Bros Landreth tells the tale of travelling to the Byron Bay Blues Fest in Australia to finally play with Bonnie Raitt. There was just one thing they wanted to do before that…go swimming in the surf. Things went sideways.
Ann Vriend and her Inner City Choir introduced themselves and their second jobs and left us with a song.
Holger was hosting and doing interviews.
The Bros. Landreth was playing various side stages and headlining Sunday
Rocking Roy was playing his Thistles album from his “Bim” Days. with a great band
Ann Vriend and Inner City, after a chat, left us with a cappella gospel song.
2 Donor Hours. The first says ” go for it” so we do.\
The second is in memory of a lost son and all the concerts they attended.
The Guests
Roy Forbes, Holger Peterson, The Bros. Landreth and AV and the Inner City.
All of the interviews were done backstage at the Vancouver Island Music Festival of several weeks ago. In Courtney. Thank you, Doug Cox and Team.
Talking to Roy about performing his Thistles album after all those years, to Holger about some of the highlights of his years coming to the festival and interviewing Roy for the audience. The Bros Landreth tells the tale of travelling to the Byron Bay Blues Fest in Australia to finally play with Bonnie Raitt. There was just one thing they wanted to do before that…go swimming in the surf. Things went sideways.
Ann Vriend and her Inner City Choir introduced themselves and their second jobs and left us with a song.
The Wedding – In our back garden. Two families becoming one.
Our son. Their daughter.
Holger was hosting and doing interviews.
The Bros. Landreth was playing various side stages and headlining Sunday
Rocking Roy was playing his Thistles album from his “Bim” Days. with a great band
Ann Vriend and Inner City, after a chat, left us with a cappella gospel song.
These are edited versions of much longer interviews. They will all be heard over the next 4-6 weeks.
Two Western Canadian Music Award Nominations for Breakout Artist and Roots Artist, Polaris nomination, Americana Festival in Nashville in September, Winnipeg Folk Festival, King Eddy gig with Tim, released a version of album Everywhere I Used to be (deluxe)Two new tracks – Prairie Town Dreams and Sad all the Time.
And she’s not done yet!!! Heading to the Edmonton Folk Festival as well.
Mariel brings tales of relationships, sadness, depression, small-town loneliness that can squeeze the life out of you. Not exactly feel-good songs but there is hope throughout. And a fight-back spirit.
She’s been a tad busy. 2 Western Canadian Music Award Nominations for Breakout Artist and Roots Artist, Polaris nomination, Americana Festival in Nashville in September, Winnipeg Folk Festival, King Eddy gig with brother Tim, released a version of album Everywhere I Used to be (deluxe).
Two new tracks – Prairie Town Dreams and Sad all the Time.
And she’s not done yet!!! Mariel is heading to the Edmonton Folk Fest Aug 10-13
Mariel brings tales of relationships, sadness, depression, small-town loneliness that can squeeze the life out of you. Not exactly feel-good songs but there is hope throughout. And a fight-back spirit. A Rise Up anthem.
Some of the stories are actually true.
The complete interview – a romp – can be heard on the Mulligan Stew Podcast and the video version on terrydavidmulligan YouTube Channel
Also – one donor requested Cuban music..so we included Mongo Santamaria, Alex Cuba & Jon Batiste.
Hour two donor requested memorable concerts I attended…
So a long segment features
Nathanial Rateliff – Fallon
Tedeschi Trucks – Beacon Theatre
Joe Cocker – Mad Dogs Live/Fillmore.
The Band. – The Last Waltz
New music from Dominique Fils-Aime, Art Bergmann, Clapton/Beck, Rufus Wainwright and Brandi Carlile, Jon Batiste.
The annual Cowichan Valley Wine Festival returns to its Whole Month of August setting.
It kicks off July 27 with Sunset Soirée from 6-9 PM at the gorgeous Campbell Commons at Brentwood College School in Mill Bay.
13 Cowichan wineries will be pouring some of their favourites plus some wines chosen especially for this event. Attending and tasting allow you to actually meet the maker of the wines. There’s nothing better than getting the real story behind the wines you’re tasting. Expect high end, new releases and a few surprises being poured.
This year the food program will be created by Mensch Kitchen and Catering .
Wineries pouring on the night will be Alderlea, Averill Creek, Blue Grouse, Cherry Point, Damali, Devino, Deol, Enrico, Rocky Creek, Unsworth, Venturi Schultze, Zanatta and Emandare.
August in the Cowichan Valley Aug 1 – 31. 12 wineries.
Wine Passport Program
Your map and tasting glass are your ticket to all 12 participating Cowichan Valley Wineries.
Everyone who purchases a ticket is automatically entered into draws. Accommodations, wine, tours, transportation and gift baskets.
Chef Kristian Eligh – Marilena Café and Raw Bar. Victoria
It felt like the longest opening of a new restaurant in many years.
It was, I think, 3-4 years ago I knew that Kristian and his family were moving back to Victoria with a plan to create a singular restaurant.
Then came years of COVID and post-Covid.
Finally, the day has arrived and Marilena Café and Raw Bar was just launched.
Kristian is a chefs chef.
From Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry to culinary director of Hawksworth Restaurant and now Top Table Group Executive Chef.
The Top Table Group includes Blue Water Café, Eliza, Cin Cin, Araxi, Il Caminetto, Bar Oso. Quite a line up and it doesn’t include their two New York City restaurants.
Marilena is two rooms in one. They’ve been described as “pockets of ambience”.
The Raw Bar, led by Chef Clark Park. The Café is the turf of one of the best managers Aaron Matsuzaki.
The wine directory is large. It’s overseen by the brilliant Shane Taylor
With thanks to Pete Townshend and The Who – lyric from My Generation 1966
Elton John.
The Eagles.
Aerosmith.
Foreigner.
All announcing the final tour of their careers.
Elton finished an epic final tour Saturday in Stockholm.
910 million. In ticket sales.
But before you wave Bub Bye to music heroes of the 70’s and 80’s, just know there are others out there still moving forward.
Sting. Clapton. U2. Steely Dan. Fleetwood Mac, McCartney and Ringo. Dylan. Joni. Neil, and The Rolling Stones.
Leading the charge and flying the flag is 73-year-old Bruce Springsteen.
Bruce is on tour and the other night at the end of a 3-hour set in London’s Hyde Park he told the 63,000 fans about the band he first played with when he was 15.
“Death is like you’re standing on the railway tracks with an oncoming train bearing down on you, but it brings a clarity of thought. It pushes you to seize the day, to savour, with urgency, the time and the people you have left”. And then he sang his final song Last Man Standing, a song about the passions of youth, the time in your life when “it’s all hellos” before they are outnumbered by “hard goodbyes”
Instead of trying desperately to be 25, as a much older version of himself, he sings about the years in between. What happened to the listener, the song and himself? Poignant, is a shared deep-felt emotion that will stay with many forever.
Having lived my life with their joyous noise I look forward to celebrating…
The Music – The Songs – The Memories with these songs and how the original lyrics have taken on new meaning. Especially Joni’s.
Bruce – Last Man Standing “When all our summers have come to an end /I’ll see you in my dreams”
We start this week with Doug Cox, the artistic director of the Vancouver Island Music Festival. Next weekend. July 14-16 in Courtney, BC This year the headliners are Sarah McLachlan, Rickie Lee Jones and The Bros. Landreth. Doug asked Roy Forbes to return to his BIM character and revisit the tracks from his Thistles Album.
Two legends are appearing. . Dave Alvin and Jimmy Dale Gilmore with The Guilty Ones. Here’s Doug Cox with backgrounds on all those artists and more events and artists. NEXT WEEK – The Artistic Directors of Folk Festivals in Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Canmore. Also Terry Wickham reveals his lineup for Edmonton Folk Fest
The second guests on our podcast are two bass playing legends – David Hood (Muscle Shoals ) and Leland Sklar. In 2019, at the very same Vancouver Island Music Festival two of the most famous bass players in popular music met for the very first time.
David Hood – from Muscle Shoals Alabama finally met Leland Sklar from Los Angeles. David Hood was part of the legendary studio musicians at FAME and Muscle Shoals Studios who shaped some of the most famous hits ever made. For Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Paul Simon, The Rolling Stones, and The Staple Singers. In LA, Leland Sklar has recorded over 2000 albums for artists including Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Warren Zevon, Randy Newman, Linda Ronstadt and many more.
They hold the unique distinction of being “makers of memories” through the music they helped to create. Great bass players are the glue that holds the band together. What makes bass players special? Memorable bass tracks? Did they follow each other’s careers? The key to surviving and thriving for all those sessions, all those artists and those albums? Honoured to finally meet these artists.
You can find this Summer Stew on the @CKUA – ON DEMAND / ckua.com.
Its up all week. Please Play at will!!!
The Summer Stews are one big groove burger, looser, lacking deadlines, and musically organic.
This week The Summer Stew starts and finishes 2 hours later with The Band.
The donor in the first hoursuggested Linda Ronstadt, Ella and Billy Holliday.
I got Linda in.
(Love Ella and Billy. Just have to find the right groove around them)
I played
Brian Wilson
Sam Phillips walked into Dewey Phillips radio studio in Memphis at 930pm on July 8, 1954, and handed him an acetate he’d just recorded at Sun Studios. Dewey played That’s all right for the first time and the phones went crazy. and so began the Elvis Presley music career.
Also, John Scofield, Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Jason Isbell and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Rickie Lee Jones, Joan Osborne, Bahamas, Teskey Bros, John Hiatt and Jerry Douglas, Brandi Carlile, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Rolling Stones Live. I play Billy F Gibbons. He plays a song the credits say he wrote called Crackin up – Cept he didn’t write it – Bo Diddley did. So I play Bo’s version as well.
Red Robinson was the first announcer to play rock music on the radio in Canada. He was 16 years old.
Imagine the lives he influenced. Loved by teens. Hated and hounded by parents and adults.
Red made no distinction between black and white artists: he just played the hits.
That drive and determination took him all the way to induction into the Rock Hall of Fame.
I’m told I did the last interviews with Red Robinson.
He was in a retirement home in Vancouver and living with his memories.
Red was directly responsible for the turning point in my career. He phoned me at CKCK in Regina and asked “Would you like to come home.? Back to the West Coast?
One of the happiest moments in my life.
We became friends and co-workers.
His timing was impeccable. He was the right guy. In the right place. At the right time
He got to play and then meet and interview
Elvis Presley
The Everly Brothers
Jerry Lee Lewis
Roy Orbison
James Brown
Bill Haley
Carl Perkins
Johnny Cash
Little Richard
Jackie Wilson
Fats Domino
Chuck Berry
Ray Charles
Rickie Nelson
Buddy Holly
Sam Cooke
Patsy Cline
Peggy Lee
And
The Beatles.
He Introduced The Beatles at their Vancouver Concert.
Started the careers of many many announcers. Me for one.
Changed the lives of millions of teens during the late ’50s and 60’s.
I have a number of interviews with Red…
The last two were Zoom interviews. The first didn’t go well. Red couldn’t hear the questions but the second and last in 2022 went much better.
This Podcast is both of those Zoom interviews back to back. The first was in March 2022 and the second October 2022.
I hope it tells some of the story of his life, the music he played, the lives he changed and his place in Canadian radio.
Red Robinson died this year. A sell-out crowd of fans and many friends filled The Commodore Ballroom to remember the man who singlehandedly brought rock and roll to Canadian airwaves. Millions of listeners truly loved him in and around Vancouver and Red was directly responsible for the first wild formative years of rock on radio North of the Border.
Red also introduced black artists to a generation who had never heard of them.
Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Red was directing traffic at the Rock Crossroads.
He was recognized for his place in music history by being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. (also called and hired me on the prairies and brought me back to Vancouver. Red changed my life.)
In the last two years of Red’s life, I decided to ask my friend to sit down on Zoom and allow me to ask questions about the artists he met and became friends with and the lives he changed in his audience.
Just think about it …Red got to interview and introduce
Elvis Presley
Roy Orbison
Fats Domino
Little Richard
Jerry Lee Lewis
Everly Brothers
Chuck Berry
Johnny Cash
Bill Haley
Buddy Holly
Ray Charles
Sam Cooke
Bo Diddley
James Brown
The Beatles
I interviewed him twice… March 2022 and October 2022.
I felt the first one was not his or my best and thus the follow-up.
Those were the last two interviews he did.
That’s Hour Two of The Stew– Hour One as donor-driven suggestions and requests. Connect Canadian artists who toured and recorded in the USA and American artists who chose to play live and record in Canada. Plus we play the best of us
