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Music for Three Down Football…

Not so much the game but for the Saturday Night.
You know things will be jumping outside CKUA Radio on Jasper Ave. So we’ve
just decided to Go-with-the-Flow and play EVERYTHING.
If you like LIVE tracks here’s what’s coming UP
 
Live tracks from …
Paul Simon  Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Billy Joel   Piano Man
Leonard Cohen – Dance me to the end of Love
Ray Charles – The Right Time
The Wood Bros – Ophelia
Little Steven and the Disciples (with Bruce Springsteen) – 10th Ave Freeze
Out
John Mellencamp – Cherry Bomb
The Rolling Stones – I can’t turn you loose
Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul  (with Bruce Springsteen) – I don’t
want to go Home –
And Saturday night tracks from …
Van Morrison
Herbie Hancock with Sting
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Leon Bridges
David Gogo
Alabama Shakes
Dan Mangan
Joni Mitchell
Linda Ronstadt
kd lang and Tony Bennett
The Beatles
David Bowie and Mick Jagger
So.  Let’s review.
3 down football
Saturday night on  Grey Cup Weekend
2 hours of handpicked, killer music for your dining and dancing pleasure.
Add whatever you have on the BBQ and your favorite beverage.
Touchdown
-TDM

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Winnipeg.

It’s smack in the middle of the country.

Influences, whether it be The arts,  food or wine come from East and West.

So how is it, that Winnipeg and Manitoba consistently gift all of Canada with singers and songwriters?

Bands and artists?

All the way back to The Guess Who, Neil Young, BTO, The Weakerthans, Crash test Dummies and so many others.

We have three guests on this week’s Stew.  All three call Winnipeg home.

The Bros Landreth.  Sound like a  latter day Little Feat.

Joey and David. And their buds as supporting band.  Great playing and songwriting.

Joey has a new album coming out. Touring Alberta this week.

Saturday Calgary – Sunday Lethbridge – Tuesday Red Deer –  Wednesday Edmonton.

The Bros album comes out in the Spring.

Carly Dow – Two albums from Kick starter. The first was the very successful Ingrained.

Now comes Comet.

Filled with hooks,  poetry and an understanding of human nature.  Nature period.

Carly is, after all, an Environmental  Scientist.

One of Carly’s best friends is Madeleine Roger who also has a new album out.

Cottonwood was also a Kick-starter project.

Yes, she sounds like a young Joni Mitchell.  That’s just the way she’s built.

Speaking of building, her twin brother Lucas (Roger Roger) builds guitars. Madeleine builds beautiful Kayaks.

And exceptional music. Here is a voice for a generation.

Well done Winnipeg.

Check out the playlist below…

The Beatles demos from the White Album Super Deluxe.

New Los Lobos, Dan Mangan.

Eric Clapton Live, U2 , Whitehorse, Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, The Band and Staple Singers, Madeleine Peyroux, Kinks, Paul Simon.

Cheers

-TDM

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This is Remembrance Day Weekend..and so we begin with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band (Amazing Grace) and Shane Coyczan (Remember how we forgot/Remembrance Year)

Eric Clapton sings one of WW2’s greatest songs  “I’ll be seeing you” and The Hip finish with 50 Mission Cap.

And then..on into the heart of a Saturday night..

U2

Cat Stevens

Taj Mahal – Checking up on my baby Live

Dave Alvin does perhaps – perhaps the best ever cover of Highway 61 Revisited.

The Stones Live

kd lang

The Band

Leonard Cohen and Fats Domino bring it Live

And the last 30 minutes goes like this

New Dan Mangan

New Madeline Roger

New T Buckley

John Mayer does Tom Petty

So does Tom Petty

And we close with the big two

Joe Strummer and Joey Ramone

Leeroy Stagger and The Beatles

Never Forget

-TDM

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It’s been two years since Dan Mangan stepped of the music merry-go-round and
headed home.
He was seeking silence and family.
What he found were  diapers, dishwashers, lawns to mow and a surprising
workload from film and tv soundtracks and scoring.
So, he was as busy as always but at least he was at home and being a Dad and
Husband.
In those two years between film scoring jobs, he found the time and focus
to work on his next album.  He worked his ass off hoping to get it right.
Well, He Got It Right.

This is by-far, the best album he has released.  The writing is nuanced.
The vocals are pulled back and more a part of the texture of the songs
instead of riding on top.  Perhaps it’s part the creative team in the studio
with him and in part because of the film scoring influence.  Doesn’t matter.
He nailed it.
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Dan says there’s a line in the song Cold in the Summer that sums up
everything he feels about this album, these songs and his life.
“I don’t know where the gig is – I don’t know if it’s cool – But I still get
lost in it and I have more to lose”
On Mulligan Stew – Saturday 5-7 Mtn (4-6 Pacific)
The complete one-on-one  interview can be heard  by subscribing to the
Mulligan Stew Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Play Music

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CKUA Radio is donor supported. Has been for over 90 years
It’s time for the Fall Fundraiser.

This Saturday
It’s Allison Brock and myself in the Calgary studios  at the back of the
refurbished King Eddie Hotel and right across from the National Music
Centre.
Allison will co-host her Wide Cut Country from 10-noon Mtn (9-11 Pacific)
I’ll be riding shotgun and basically staying out of her way.

Then we re-connect Saturday 5-7PM for Mulligan Stew.
I host. Allison rides Side Saddle.

The music will be nothing but the best of the best.

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Welcome back to Mulligan Stew…Year 22.

Mulligan Stew / CKUA Radio  October 13^th  5-7  Mtn / 4-6 Pacific

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Three  Guests this week.

First is Jim Byrnes – longtime friend and keep of the blues.

He’s a singer/songwriter/actor and first chair storyteller.

Jim grew up in St Louis, Missouri listening to gospel, blues, and r&b.

Those influences stayed with him to this very day and they show themselves in his music.

Friday Jim is in Calgary at South wood

Saturday night in Edmonton at Parkview Community Centre.

TDM & David Gogo 2016

The second guest is also a long time friend and fine bluesman himself David Go Go

Crazy Dave is releasing his 15^th album called 17 Vultures.

It’s a mix of covers and blues standards.

He’s got a great band plus guests like Monkey Junk in studio with him.

We met and did the interview in front of The Modern Cafe in downtown Nanaimo.

The third guest is featured on Mulligan Stew PODCAST (Spotify, Google Play Music. Apple Podcasts)

He’s noted author Michael Barclay and he’s taken up the formidable challenge of capturing the life, times, music and stunning final tour of Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip.  Thus the interview we present is 50 minutes long and we still didn’t cover everything.

The book is called The Never-Ending Present:  The Story of Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip.

“ The story of The Tragically Hip is the story of Canadian Music. They taught us that there are no dress rehearsals, that the best time is always now, that we should be celebrating the next 150 years – and that we should embrace the never-ending present.”

FYI – the show starts with a wicked Ray Charles classic The Nighttime (is the right time) followed by Aretha, Levon Live, Molly Johnson, kd, Taj, Paul Simon, Tom Petty, Bruce, Wood Brothers, and new music,  Dangerous Heart  from Joey Landreth and Cold in the Summer  from Dan Mangan.

Have a great weekend…

TDM

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Depending on what you’re doing this Thanksgiving Weekend..you’ll be wanting some music for gathering, dining, dancing or just laying low.

Check!!

Live tracks from Tom Petty, Sting, Little Feat and Janis Joplin (Live in Calgary) and Van Morrison

New music from David GoGo, Lady Gaga, Dan Mangan, Amy van Keeken, Billy Gibbons. Colin James

And the REST?

Colin Linden, Leeroy Stagger, Howlin Wolf, Bob Dylan, Ann Vreind

Two special interview guests this week.

Alison Brock – Host of Wide Cut Country..with the final update on her Wide Cut Weekend – next weekend

And

The Fortunate Ones – Catherine Allan and Andrew O’Brian return for the second week..It’s the Best of the rest of the interview.

Saturday they are at The Arden.

Happy Thanksgiving

The podcast is The Bros Landreth..at the Edmonton Folk Festival

-TDM

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Welcome back to Mulligan Stew Year 22.

The last show of September has two guests.

In the first hour, it’s a drive through interview with The Fortunate Ones..who are touring The West for the next 10 days.

“drive-thru” being  a quick chat about their tour and also about their new album Hold Fast and  a song they wrote and released called

Steady As She Goes.  It’s about the Newfoundlanders who work in Alberta and their fellow islanders who flew in to fight the Fort Mac Fire.

Andrew and Catherine are in Vancouver Saturday at Rogue Folk Club. Then October 3 in Canmore at Communitea, October 4 at Esplanade in Medicine Hat,

Festival Hall in Calgary October 5 and The Arden in St Alberta October 6.

The rest of the interview – with backstage tales of touring with Alan Doyle – will be featured on next week’s Stew.

Our other feature guest is Kandace Springs..

Her new album Indigo is 13 tracks from a Memphis original. She grew up with a father who was a working musician in and around Memphis.

Maybe that’s why Indigo has R&B, Jazz ballads, Pop leanings with Breakdown and the hit single Don’t need the real thing.

Her album includes producers who’ve worked with Madonna, Amy Winehouse, Pink, Rihanna, Common and Erykah Badu.

From all of that, you can probably guess that she’s a one-of-a-kind artist.

You know who found her brilliant – Prince!  He heard her sing and immediately offered to mentor her going forward.

They began great friends and some of what Prince advised her is on display here.

Sexy funk for one.

Her voice reminds me of Sade..but her sense of music is closer to Stax than anything else.

I found it a fascinating talk with a performer who I believe will be a star very soon.

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Today’s show is dedicated to Nan Lord.  Nancy was a Long time supporter of CKUA and a “regular”  on Mulligan Stew.
Nan passed away recently and many of her friends and fans gathered at a service and at a celebration of life in Edmonton.
She had a long history with CKUA, which started back in the 1930s when she worked at the station and continued on after she left. Nancy, who was based in Edmonton, became a donor to CKUA in 1996 and made an annual contribution of a donated hour. Her children and relatives continue to support CKUA and one of our major donors, Mary Corbett, is Nancy’s niece.
http://edmontonjournal.remembering.ca/obituary/nancy-lord-1067690456
It was  Mary Corbett and Graeme Dales,  the donors of the second hour today, who have always reminded me many times over the years that Nan would dance to the music I played.  Did I mention Nan Lord was 102?
 
We should all live a life so full and rich.
 
So today all the tunes are for Nan..and her friends.  Also for Mary and Graeme.
 
Would Nan dance to David Harley’s Son – that funky gem from  Ridley Bent?  I’m thinking that guitar groove would get her out of her chair.
You know she would love Taj Mahal, Sting, Rodney Crowell, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, Tedeschi Trucks, BB King, Bobby Bland,
and Steven Fearing.
If Nan loved The Beatles then playing the last seven tracks on Abbey Road would make her smile.

There’s also a “mama” set
Hey mama  Nathaniel Rateliff
Hey Me Hey Mama – Ray Lamontagne
Hey mama – Barney Bentall
I played some classics on today’s Stew
Joni Mitchell, You turn me on I’m a radio
Poco – Rose of Cimmaron
Eagles – Chestnut Mare
Jimi Hendrix – Wait until Tomorrow
Help Me – Harry Manx
Rhiannon Giddens – She’s got You
Enjoy – It’s all for Nancy Lord.  Frankly, from this point on I’ll try and play a song for Nan on every show.
 
Tdm
Coming Up – Interviews with Colin James, The Fortunate Ones,  Brothers Landreth and Kandace Springs

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