It’s a day to recognize and celebrate Canada’s Indigenous nations and their cultural leaders.  It’s also Pride Month.

Frankly, I’m convinced that both these days are part of CKUA every day.  Every show. Every host. Every day of the year, we celebrate Indigenous and Pride artists and projects.

The Stew playlist includes: 

Julian Taylor-Allison Russell

Susan Aglukark

Celeigh Cardinal

Adrian Sutherland

Amanda Rheaume

Wm Prince

Burnstick

Frazey Ford

Midnight Shine

Reuben and Bullhorn Singers.

Tom Wilson and Blackie & the Rodeo Kings

New Van Morrison, Honeybear, The Band, Leeroy Stagger, Blue Rodeo, Bonnie Raitt twice, Ray Charles, Taj, Seth Walker, Los Lobos.

Classics from Jon Batiste, Brian Wilson.

And it’s Ray Davies’ birthday (1944) so we play The Kinks – Because We Must!

Plus we remember John Lee  Hooker who passed June 21 (2001)  At  83 years old – left us,  in his sleep.

And Joni Mitchell released Blue on June 21, 1971. Acknowledged as Joni’s finest album and one of the best albums ever released by anyone in popular music.

 Six months earlier, in October 1970, in Vancouver,  at the first-ever Greenpeace Concert, I was honored to be the MC/Host for the evening.

This is a photo by Alan Katowitz.

Backstage at the PNE Coliseum.  Joni Mitchel, James Taylor, Phil Oakes,  Elliott Roberts and a bearded yours truly,  going over the set list.

Mulligan Stew – 2 Hours of Hand Picked Tunes.	Terry David Mulligan	Saluting Indigenous Nations & Pride Month
Hit the road Jack	Ray Charles	True Genius
If it wasn’t for Ray	Van Morrison	Remembering Now
It take a lot to laugh	Taj Mahal	Bob Dylan All Blues’d Up
Take me to the River	Seth Walker	Why the Worry
Cryin’	Celeigh Cardinal	single
Here comes love	Bonnie Raitt	Just Like That
Deane House – River Cafe	The Stew	TDMulligan
Roll your daddy Right (live)	John Lee Hooker	Live in Houston
Killers in the Room	Burnstick	single
One of these days	Amanda Rheaume	The Truth World
Never too late (acoustic)	Donovan Frankenreiter	single
The Spark	William Prince	Reliever
The Stew – TDMulligan	Coming Up – Bruce Springsteen-Frazey Ford	Los Lobos-LeeRoy Stagger
Precious	Adrian Sutherland	Precocious Diamonds
September Fields	Frazey Ford	Indian Ocean
Hour Two of The Stew	15 different artists in one hour	Terry Mulligan
Do I love you	Bruce Springsteen	Only the strong survive
I was wrong	Honeybear, The Band	single
The Neighbourhood	Los Lobos	Just another band from east LA
Heart of gold	Midnight Shine	High Road
Blue Skies	Leeroy Stagger	3am Revelations
Terry Mulligan	The Stew	Next – Jon Batiste & new Van the Man
It’s all right	Jon Baliste	Soul – soundtrack
Stomping Ground	Van Morrison	Remembering Now
Pathways	Julian Taylor – Allison Russell	Pathways
Four strong winds	Blue Rodeo	35th anniversary Stoney Plain
Coyotes Banff	Kinks – Bonnie Raitt – Joni NEXT	The Stew
Victoria	The Kinks	Kinda Kinks
O Siem	Susan Anglukark	This Child
Angel from Montgomery (live)	Bonnie Raitt and John Prine	Tribute to Steve Goodman
In my Room (live)	Brian Wilson	Live at Ryman Long Promised Road
Thanks for listening	Thank you donors	Enjoy the longest day of the year
A case of you	Joni Mitchell	Blue
Turn off the lights	Reuben and Bull Horn Singers	All these roads

Two wonderful donors join us.

The first in Canmore would like to remember The Band at The Last Waltz and, in particular, Garth Hudson.

He’s waited almost 20 years to round up the next generation of Swampers and record at FAME  Studios in Muscle Shoals.

Wow – was it worth the wait?  Mike Farris lives and sings The Sound of Muscle Shoals.

The same sound that came from Etta, Aretha, Boz, Paul Simon, Wilson Pickett, Neil Young, Percy Sledge, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, The Staple Singers and many more.

But first, Mike had to clean up his life, and he talks about hitting rock bottom.

That’s when his wife said, “We’re going to do something different this time.  We’ll start by talking about the whys.

Why, when you start getting successful,  you self-destruct?” Mike said, “That scared the hell out of me.”

Mike is 10 years clean no,w and he’s riding the Slow Train to Muscle Shoals.

The Mulligan Stew Podcast, with all of Mike’s stories is a great listen and the video version on the terry david mulligan YouTube Channel is really engaging. Mike opens right up.

How is it possible that an English band that was part of the British Invasion of the early ’60s is still being played and referenced in 2025?

The band was The Zombies.

The two leaders were songwriter and singer Rod Argent and lead singer Colin Blunstone.

They had three world hits. A fourth hit the charts after they had broken up.

Many years later, they were inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

I always loved the sound of the Zombies. A singular mix of rock, blues and very cool jazz. In a sea of sameness, Colin’s vocals were unmistakable.

Great harmonies lifted each song, and the arrangements were unlike anyone else in “The Invasion”.

Now, along comes Hung up on a dream,  a documentary capturing their careers and lives. Directed by Robert Schwartzman.

Both will be joining us in the second hour.

The complete interview can be found on the Mulligan Stew Podcast and the video version on the Terry David Mulligan You Tube channel.

Upcoming interviews include Mike Farris (The Sound of Muscle Shoals)

Tami Neilson – Neon Cowgirl

Two films –

Are we done now?

Count me in

 and more.

A great mix of artists this week…including a feature on hits made the Muscle Shoals Sound.

Includes Mike Farris, The Staple Singers, Paul Simon, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan.

New music from Kathleen Edwards, Seth Walker, Steve Marriner, Dan Mangan and Rodney Crowell.

Donor suggestions for Corb Lund, Los Lobos (doing The Dead). Chris Stapleton, early Elvis and Jim Cuddy Band.

Enjoy!!!!!

Let’s kick off Summer. #whaddayasay?

I think many of us  take Bob Dylan for granted. No matter what generation, he’s been a part of our lives.

Remarkably, he’s not slowing down. For example, Sunday night Bob is  headlining with Willie Nelson at The Gorge. In a vineyard overlooking The Colorado River. The stage is in Washington. The other side of The Gorge is Oregon.

It’s the 2025 edition of Farm Aid. This time, the farmers grow grapes.

He gets around, does Bob.

We’ll play some of his greatest songs. Some by Bob and some by artists influenced by Bob.

Name your favourite artist or song. Somewhere along the way, Bob Dylan influenced the song or the songwriter.

So…do not take the man for granted.  We are the very lucky humans who lived as he made his music.

We met over coffee on the streets of Victoria to talk about Songs from The Gang – A Celebration of Joel Plaskett.  A #1 LP on the CKUA Top 30.

His music friends recorded covers of his songs and kept it a secret for a year.

Anyone who knows the music business will admit that is a minor miracle.

Joel’s stories just spilled out – one after the other.

The complete interview can be heard on the Mulligan Stew Podcast and the video version on the tdm YouTube Channel.

Most music fans know Kevin Hearn as the pianist and songwriter for Barenaked Ladies.

Few would know that Kevin was the band leader for Lou Reed for 7 emotional years.

Or that he fought a battle with leukemia for many years, even while touring with BNL.

Gord Downie knew all those stories when he asked Kevin Hearn and Kevin Drew to help him prepare for live performances of his final music project – Secret Path!

Because he had just been down his own darkened path, Kevin Hearn was able to bring comfort and strength to the recording of Gord’s final songs.

Kevin takes us through those moments, including Gord’s last words to him, about his friendship with Lou Reed and then takes us on another journey – this time to Jamaica.

Kevin’s new solo album is called Portland Parish. Recorded in three locations. A small jungle cottage, the legendary Trident Hotel and the long-abandoned Trident Castle.

Kevin plays originals, covers (Lou Reed and Sun Ra Arkestra) on a collection of creaking pianos weathered by time and nature. If you listen closely, you can hear chirping frogs and dogs barking in the distance. Several of the pianos were damaged and barely playable.

Kevin says “the idea was to seek out semi-abandoned pianos in spaces said to be haunted and improvise.”

The complete interview can be heard on the Mulligan Stew Podcast and seen on the Terry David Mulligan YouTube Channel.

In hour one, we celebrate one of the greats in modern music – Taj Mahal. Saturday, he turns 82.

New music from Dan Mangan, Honey Bear, the Band, Brandi Carlile, Keiran Kane, Little Feat, Willie Nelson, Mumford and Son, The Wood Bros.

Thanks for any and all mentions!!

I’m thinking that every CKUA fundraising host has the same wonderful chore this week.

I went back over the saved donor sheets that we all filed away and got caught up with the music and artists asked for.

Many included “in memory of” mentions.

So that’s what’s coming this Saturday – Mother’s Day Weekend.

Los Lobos/Diana Krall/Little Village/Bahamas/Al Green/Nathaniel Rateliff/Leonard Cohen/Bahamas/Bros. Landreth/ U2/Susan Tedeschi/Sam & Dave/Blue Rodeo/Savage Garden/Steve Earle/Terra Lightfoot/Van Morrison/

Play birthday tracks from Sly Dunbar/Bono/Donovan

And head into Saturday Night with Listen Here – with an amazing groove from Eddie Harris

Coming Up in the next couple of weeks – Interviews and new albums from

Kevin Hearn (BNLadies) and Joel Plaskett – (Songs from The Gang)

Check out the Playlist – and celebrate the Mother’s past, present and future!!!

Matt Andersen is one of CKUA’s favourite artists. On the air and certainly with the audience.

Matt is releasing his 11^th solo studio album The Hammer and The Rose April 25th.

I was delighted with all of that information until I got to”the date” April 25.   

As you may  know,  that’s the first Friday for the CKUA Spring fundraiser.

I asked Matt’s team if I could move the Stew interview to this Saturday – and they approved!!

This album, about the relationship between the head and the heart, presents a different Matt.

A slightly quieter Matt,  so you can hear the texture and grain of his voice.

Great songs too.

Co-writing the title track with Steve Dawson

Co-writing with Tom and Thompson Wilson, Terra Lightfoot and Jesse O’Brien.

Co-writing The Cobbler with producer/drummer Jason Van Tassel –  as a tribute to, and in memory of,  their Fathers.

Includes a fine cover of JJ Cale’s Magnolia.

With  Afie Jurvanen on guitar and vocals.

The complete interview will be dropped on the Mulligan Stew Podcast and the video version on the Terry David Mulligan YouTube Channel.

We’re playing Patti Smith’s Because the Night (Bruce Springsteen) which was released April 19^th  1978. From her album Easter.

Levon Helm  – who passed on April 19,  2012

The Animals – House of the Rising Sun – so we can salute the birthday of one of the greatest, Alan Price. On keyboards.

Also, Chuck Berry and Roll Over Beethoven – recorded at Chess Records, April 19,  1956

Lots of New Stuff:  Terra Lightfoot, Jesse Roper, Dan Mangan, Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Mumford and Sons, Bahamas.

Elton John & Brandi Carlile/ Dan Mangan/Jackson Browne live

Allison Russell & Annie Lennox/ Elle King

Ricky Byrd/Leif Vollebekk/Van Morrison

Live tracks from

Jackson Browne, Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton,

The Allman Bros, Joni Mitchell and Joni Jam, 

Classics from

the first Fleetwood Mac,  Bob Dylan, Foo Fighters, Albert King, Staples Singers,

Tom Petty, The Kinks, Little Feat, Bob Marley, The Tragically Hip,

Corb Lund and Ian Tyson, Luther Allison…and Lynyrd Skynyrd dude!