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As you know,  I’ve had the honor and giddy pleasure of following Holger’s  2 hours of Natch’l Blues for 27 years.

The majesty of The Blues has a profound effect on The Stew. This week, for example, I started thinking about how new life was breathed into the blues by the British Invasion of the mid-’60s.  Blues artists who were ignored or taken for granted in America could find a new audience in Europe and especially the UK.

That new audience included teen-aged members of The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Led Zeppelin, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Jeff Beck., Rod Stewart, Steve Winwood, etc.  When those young Brits refashioned the blues into blues rock, the music world shifted into high gear and turned the volume up to 10.

America got its own music back.  It was reimagined and very exciting.

Back to Back Laverne Baker and The Animals doing See See Rider

Back to back Muddy Waters and The Stones.

Steve Winwood – Gimme Some Loving

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – Bobby Moore’s Searching for my baby

Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart – Willie Dixon’s  I ain’t Superstitious

Throw in some donor-requested Fats Domino / Wilbert Harrison and we’re Off and  Running.

New music from Courtney Barnett, Brandi Carlile, The Lumineers, Corb Lund,  The Fretless, and Dan Mangan!

And we finish with

Tower of Power, Gerry Garcia Band doing The Temptations, Cat Stevens, William Prince, Dylan, etc.

And our feature interview guest is Joey Landreth from The Bros. Landreth.

Joey and brother David grew up in a house in Winnipeg where their musician Father played Little Feat, The Byrds, CSN  etc.

Joey’s new solo album is called All that you dream and is a tribute to Lowell George and Little Feat.

The whole two hours has the jam to lift your spirits.  You in?

Write me – [email protected] 

OH…the Mulligan Stew Podcast is Billy Joel – 1988

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Ronnie Spector has left the stage. Gone but never forgotten.  Leaving Ronettes hits like…

• Be my baby
• (The best part of) Breakin’ Up
• Baby, I love you
• Timeless.

It’s where Brian Wilson went to cool school. Amy Winehouse was pure Ronnie. From the hair to the sound.

Huge, raw voice. With an attitude. But one of the nicest people you could ever want to meet.

We start The Stew with a track you may not have heard before.

It’s Ronnie Spector singing lead vocal on Billy Joel’s Say Goodbye to Hollywood with the E Street Band. The song and the singer helped to raise some cash so Bruce Springsteen could continue his climb to the top.

All the strings were pulled by Miami Steve van Zandt.  We start with the story than the song.

Check out the REST of The Stew in our playlist below…

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For me…2022 will be about trying to find “balance” in my life.

Between my love of what I do and the complete love of my growing family.

So, to start a brand new year, after two chaotic ones, you and I start with a playlist that’s balanced.

Between tracks and artists that made an impression on a lot of people and tracks that pull the heart.

Between music for meal prep and music to prime the New Years Pump.

I went back to the years playlists and the songs that jumped out at me made the list.

Thank you and be safe and enjoy your 2022.

-TDM

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The DAY has arrived.

That one day, when most of The World pauses for Christmas and the Holidays!

For many, it’s a religious time. For others, it’s a gathering of “the clan”. Family and dear friends. Unfortunately for some, it’s the loneliest day of the year.

So. How to create two hours of music that becomes a warm backdrop to all those listeners.  That was the assignment I gave myself.

The first hour features songs that give a sense of time and place. Some aren’t even Christmas songs but they speak to the feelings of the season.

HOUR TWO features a  lost episode of Christmas in the Round.

Its from the first Christmas at Roundhouse Radio in Vancouver’s East Side.

It’s a tribute to Christmas specials that Roy Forbes, Shari Ulrich and I did way back in our CBC Radio days.

The “gathering” included road warriors Barney Bentall, Craig Northey (Odds), Jim Byrnes, Shaun Verreault (Wide Mouth Mason) plus originals Roy Forbes and Shari Ulrich.

Trading songs and stories for an entire second hour of this Christmas Stew.

I hope you like this Christmas Day Christmas Stew. I was moved just putting it together.

Now, I’m going to see the one person I know who is alone and let him know he’s loved and surrounded by friends.

Maybe leave him a dram or two.

Is there someone you know is alone this Christmas?  I can only hope this music will lift your soul the way it did me.

Have a warm and wonderful  Christmas.  We will meet again on New Years Day.

Terry

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Wow – what a line up ..

We start with a birthday salute to Al Jackson, the legendary drummer of Booker T and the MG’s and every third hit to ever come out of Stax. Then he would drive across town and record with Al Green at Hi Records. He’s long gone now but the records he played on remain…

Steve Cropper – Funky Broadway

Aretha Franklin – Rock Steady

Hard to Handle – Otis Redding

Let’s stay together – Al Green

Knock on Wood – Eddie Floyd

Good to me – Mavis Staples

New music from

Robert Plant and Allison Krauss

Bahamas

Nathaniel Rateliff

Blue Rodeo

Jr. Gone Wild

Colin James

The Band

Steve Marriner

Leeroy Stagger guests to give us an update on the situation in his flooded studio. His friends have started a GoFundMe effort.

He could use our help!

Did I mention we will also be playing tracks by

Dylan

The Black Keys

Chrissie Hynde

George Harrison

Jimi Hendrix – it’s his birthday

Jon Batiste

John Mayall and Peter Green

Santana

Ann Peebles

Enjoy!!

The Mulligan Stew Podcast will feature Miami Steve van Zandt  Part 2. 

Steve kicks things off with an extended jam on The Big Bang

Steve and many music fans believe it was Feb 9, 1964, when The Beatles first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show but Steve also riffs on the Summer of 1965 when Bob Dylan released Subterranean Homesick Blues and he’ll tell you WHY that was the Real Big Bang.

Check out the pod on Spotify,  Google Play, and Apple Podcasts

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