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Happy Birthday 1971

1971 was a great year for music and classic albums. The last 30 minutes of The Stew will salute just a handful of the landmark releases.

Many still play well..some really need to be re-discovered.

Rod Stewart – Every picture tells a story

Elton John – Madman Across the Water

Dave Edmonds – Rockpile

The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers

Marvin Gate – What’s goin’ on

Janis Joplin – Pearl

Bill Withers – Just as I am

PK – please don’t yell if YOUR favorite is not on this list – there WILL be others all year long.

As for the rest of The Stew on this Super Bowl Weekend

StevieRayVaughn/LindiOrtega/MichaelFranti/Toots/JamesBrown/AmyWinehouse/TheHip/Coldplay/BlackKeys/BenHarper&CharlieMusslewhite/LittleFeat/JimByrnes/VanMorrisonLive.

Double shots of

The Byrds

Page/Plant/Zep

Harry Manx (and Kevin Breit)

Play the Music

Play Ball

The Mulligan Stew Podcast features an interview with Shawn Edwards. Film critic and writer, who founded The Celebration of Black Cinema in LA.

It was a fantastic year for black filmmakers and films.

Shawn takes us through the year of black cinema and who the event honored.

(Delroy Lindo/John Legend, Tessa Thompson,  Leslie Odom Jr. Chadwick Boseman, Andra Day, and more)

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Heading back to the donor request list.

A – Because they’re  DONORS

B – Because the lists and stories  are fantastic

Corb Lund/Joel Plaskett/Ronnie Lane and Slim Chance/The Who/Trombone Shorty/Eliza Gilkyson/The Beatles/Branford Marsalis and Eric Clapton (Live)/Paul Simon (Live)

We Kick off with

Lightning Hopkins

CCR

Son of Dave (new)

Daniel Lanois (new)

Jon Batiste (new)

Cultura Profetica (new)

Serena Ryder (new)

Selwyn Birchwood (new)

And some classics

Dire Straits – Communique

Tom Cochrane – Big League

Robbie Robertson and Van Morrison – I hear you paint houses

Bonnie Raitt – Fearless Love

Crescent City Gold – Hang Tough

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Another week of headlines and deadlines. What it needs is MUSIC

Last week I mentioned on-air if the audience wrote me some requests, 3 tracks, and why those choices, I’d do my best to include some in The Stew.

The response was immediate and great fun.

I think there’s 8 total this week and really good choices for Steve Earle, Tom Petty Live, The Band Live, Mike Plume Band, Aaron Neville, Black Keys, Dr. John, Janis Joplin Live.  More to come next week.  Did I mention this was fun?

Our donors asked for new Springsteen plus  Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks (stop dragging) and Fresh  Canadian voices.  So I played Ruby Waters, CoCo Love Alcorn, Bebe Buckskin, Mariel Buckley (with Bros Landreth)

Saturday night music from Jr Wells, Clapton Unplugged, and the last 7 tracks of Abbey Road/The Beatles.

And a heads up –  The Mulligan Stew Podcast is a spirited and warm exchange with Order of Canada inductee Art Bergmann and a short conversation with  The  Director of the film documentary MLK/FBI Sam Pollard.

Please consider celebrating the legacy of Dr.  Martin Luther King Jr.

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All time is history. However…right now we appear to be living through a very historical time. For all the wrong reasons.

A Covid 19 pandemic systematically stealing lives.

Angry revolts in the streets of America. Divided friends and families.

Dark and lonely days my friends.

It’s a lot to ask music to heal these days but heal it can.  That’s asking a lot of artists who are going through their own hell.

But try we must. heal we must.

Let’s try on Saturday night…One tune at a time including one very special song from John Fogerty.

It’s called Weeping in the Promised land.

John wrote the title down 25 years ago and only now has it become a record.

John couldn’t figure what the song wanted to say until 2020.  Then it came to him.

Just John Fogerty at a piano and an unseen choir.  Powerful stuff friends…

(the video below is a slightly different version of the one I’m going to play)

Along the way we’re going to celebrate famous birthdays on this Day Jan 9

Dave Mathews  – 1967

Jimmy Page – 1944

Joan Baez – 1941

Roy Head – 1941

We’ll also play tunes by Lou Reed – who married a cocktail waitress named Betty in 1973. For a couple of days.

The Beatles whose album Beatles 65 went from #98 to #1 in a week in 1965

The Rolling Stones – because the heart and soul of that band Mr. Charlie Watts first sat down at the  Stones drum kit in 1963.

Throw in some Bob Dylan – Crossing the Rubicon

The Band and The Staple Singers

Leeroy Stagger

BB King and Van Morrison

BB King and Eric Clapton

Steve Earle

Ray Charles

Chrissie Hynde

Onward my friends – there’s a new day coming

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 12 Interview Guests – One for Each Month

On New Year’s Day CKUA Radio revealed their Top 100 Albums of 2020.

https://ckua.com/read/top-100-albums-of-2020/

(Music that got us through)

When I saw who was on the list – I saw friends who had agreed to guest on Mulligan Stew throughout the year.

So……I’m very happy to tell you that our  guests are

Frazey Ford

William Prince

Margo Price

Ron Sexsmith

Roy Forbes

Andy Shauf

Mike Plume

Corb Lund

Nathaniel Rateliff

Bahamas

Elvis Costello

Tami Neilson

It will be my pleasure to host the feature interview with Frazey Ford and tell her she was  #1 for 2020.

Plus we finish with tracks from

Bruce Springsteen (who did not make the list – um Hellooooo?)

And

The man who released the BEST album of 2020 – Rough and Rowdy Ways – Bob Dylan!!

HAVE A GREAT 2021 – Onward My Friends

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What does one do with a Boxing Day on radio.?

Unlike Christmas, there are very few Boxing Day songs, films, there’s no Boxing Day Santa..no freakin Elves.

The party is OVER.

Throw another log on the fire.

Sleep. Nap. Repeat!

And listen to the BOXING DAY STEW ON CKUA Radio.

We are one week away from announcing the CKUA Top 100 albums of 2020.

( Jan 1^st pretty much all day – the #1 artist will be announced around 5:50 PM on New Years Day.)

Then next Saturday, Jan 2 I will have that artist on Mulligan Stew for a surprise interview.

So this week I was thinking about memorable interviews and albums that should be considered..

We’ll go back and hear short comments from…

Colin Linden about Blackie and the Rodeo Kings King of this town.

The War and Treaty and their album Hearts Town.

Kurt Vile – singing with John Prine on Speed Sound Lonely KV (ep)

Eric Burton – Writer/Singer/Busker for Black Pumas

Check out the playlist below – IT’S A BOXING DAY BLOWOUT!!

From Albert King to Springsteen Live and  Ry Cooder. Mavis/Buddy Miller/New McCartney/Charlie Hunter and Electric Butter.

Hozier. New Bros. Landreth. Margo Price. Bahamas.

And classics from

Led Zeppelin

Stones

Van Morrison

Otis Redding

Sam Cooke

Wilson Pickett

Howling Wolf with Clapton and The Stones.

Happy New Year from The Stew CREW

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