In the spectrum of popular music in Canada, which is as wide as the country, Tom Cochrane falls somewhere between an electrified Gordon Lightfoot and a solo Gordon Downie.
Between the universal prose of Leonard Cohen and the blood passion of Tom Wilson.
Three times we went to the war torn fields and roads of Africa for World Vision and became life long friends. That’s what seeing men, woman and children dead or dying will do to you. You seek humanity. Tom’s got humanity in spades.
He came back from the first trip under a heavy dark load and sought out the only thing that he knew would lift him up. Music. He wrote a song called Life is a Highway. It became an anthem for millions. All lifted up by his music.
Tom Cochrane is heading back West now. The tour is called Duo.
Friday night in Medicine hat, Saturday night in Edmonton (Expo Centre)
Then to the coast and a complete tour of Vancouver Island.
Jeremy Dutcher has the smarts., look, feel and sound of a star in the making.
The Polaris Prize and Juno Award Winner has released his first album in 5 years. Motewolonywok is out now.
Jeremy just finished a tour through the West. He’s now headed to a Nov 8 date at Nat Arts Center in Ottawa and Dec 9 at Massey Hall.
The new album marks the first time Jeremy has written and sung in English.
We talk about his creative process and translating indigenous stories into poetry and lyrics.
His voice is pure and as he says in the interview “my life is an open book“
We have the new Beatles single Now and Then– their last over a 61-year span. It’s being released as a single. The B Side is their first-ever release Love Me Do.
New music from Amythyst Kiah, Norah Jones, The Rolling Stones, Bahamas, William Prince, Dominique Fils-Aime,.
Also Tom Waits, Blackie, Diana Krall, Eric Burdon, Delbert McClinton AND we celebrate the debut of The Last Waltz this weekend in 1971 plus the Pink Floyd debut in USA.
The Mulligan Stew Podcast will be the complete Jeremy Dutcher. The second interview is with Susan Tedeschi about the 25th anniversary of Just Won’t Burn. Her breakthrough early solo album earned a Grammy Nomination and led to her meeting with Derek Trucks and romance.
Both artists are in one Mulligan Stew Podcast.
Upcoming Podcast and Stew guests – Tom Cochrane and Trans Canada Highwaymen.
Barney Bentall is a quick 2-3 minutes. Tom Wilson is slightly longer. (As befitting a member of the Order of Canada.)
Both have dates in Calgary and Edmonton over the next couple of weeks.
Tom with a trio including his son Thompson.
Barney is touring with Cariboo Express. (18-19 years now)
Raising funds this time for
Classroom Champions
And CASA Mental Health
They’ve raised over 5 million dollars. A lot of it is for food banks who are hit hard heading into year-end.
Cariboo Express includes
Matt Masters
Dustin Bentall
Ridley Bent
Geoffrey Kelly -spirit/west
Simon Kendall – Doug/Slugs
Almost 15 members in total.
Every show has a surprise guest. (In Calgary it’s William Prince)
Buffy’s documentary Carry It On has been nominated for an International Emmy Award. Only one from Canada. She’s stopped touring. Reflects on her life shown on screen and surprisingly what was left out. Awards Nov 20.
Susan Tedeschi has rereleased her 25-year-old second solo album Just Won’t Burn.
She remembers that back then there were really only two female solo artists trying to break through in the blues. She and Bonnie Raitt.
The album includes original tracks, outtakes and newer versions of original songs done live by Tedeschi Trucks Band. She was also awarded recognition from the Smithsonian Institute.
The complete interviews with Buffy and Tom will be found on Mulligan Stew Podcast and the TerryDavidMulligan YouTube Channel
Thank you
PLAYLIST:
Mulligan Stew – Four Guests
Buffy. Tom Wilson. Barney Bentall and Susan Tedeschi
with TDMulligan
Must be a better world
B B King – Dr John
Deuces Wild
Joy in my Life (live)
John Fogerty
Joy in my life
Tura Lura Lura (live)
The Band with Van Morrison
The Last Waltz
Hit the road Jack
Ray Charles
True Genius
Gone at Last
Paul Simon (P Snow. Jessie Dixon)
Still crazy after all these years
Deane House – River Cafe
Coming UP – first interview with Buffy
TDMulligan
Keep me in your heart
Warren Zevon
The Wind
Sip the Wine
Rick Danko Band
Sip the Wine
TDMulligan
NEXT – Buffy talks about her documentary
Carry it on
Buffy Ste Marie Interview
About her documentary
Carry it on
Power in the Blood
Buffy Ste Marie
Power in the Blood
Buffy Interview
complete interview on Mulligan Stew Podcast
and tdm YouTube Channel
Carry It On
Buffy Ste Marie
Medicine Songs
Buffy Ste Marie
Talking about her documentary
Carry It On
Universal Soldier
Buffy Ste Marie
It’s my way
It’s a Hard Rain Going to Fall
Leon Russell
Leon Russell and the Shelter People (Bonus Tracks)
Mulligan Stew
Guests in Hour 2 Barney, Tom Wilson and Susan Tedeschi
We passionately join the power of A Day To Remember.
On Saturdays Stew.
Flat out. In a long and wild career, It’s the best music Art has ever created.
After losing the love of his life after 31 years of marriage and then being honoured with The Order of Canada he returned to the only thing he knew – creating and recording music.
With the support of Russell Broom Art poured his heart into these songs, on a very personal journey from grief to hope.
Shadow Walk is brilliant. Juno brilliant.
We talk to Russell about the Art that started the recording sessions and the Art that emerged months later.
The first guest is singer/songwriter/composer Marc Jordan.
He and his love Amy Sky were show-stopping guests on the 2023 CKUA Juno Couch.
Then, they were singing songs from their nominated album He Sang. She Sang.
Now Marc returns to The Stew with his latest solo gem, Waiting for the Sun to Rise.
Marc continues his journey through his jazz-influenced songbook..getting cooler and more focused by the year.
Tracks like Rio Grande (with Randy Brecker), and Tears for Fears’ Everybody Wants to Rule the World. And the standout Coltrane Plays the Blues.
A small suggestion when listening to Marc Jordan play and sing. The songs invite you to – LEAN IN.
Jordan and Sky are both national UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors for Canada.
Complete interview on Mulligan Stew Podcast. The video version on the TDM YouTube
There’s a second guest on this week’s Stew. A brief visit with Anna McGarrigle (from the much-loved duo Kate and Anna McGarrigle)
In 1975 Anna wrote an amazing song called Complainte Pour Ste Catherine.. Initially as a B side for a single about Henri Richard and the Habs.
It was then rerecorded for their first self-titled album and became one of those rare songs that just stays with the listener no matter what age. It also became a hit.
It’s now the centrepiece for a National Film Board animated short The Girl in the Red Beret.
Not so much about Ste. Catherine Street in Montreal but underneath it in the subway.
The song is sung by Kate’s daughter Martha Wainwright and Anna’s daughter Lily Lanken.
The screenings take place on Tuesday, Sept 26 at the Edmonton International Film Festival and Sunday the 24th at Calgary International Film Festival.
In Edmonton Sept 26 : Muttart Theatre at the Stanley Milner at 12:10 (Lunchbox series)
In Calgary Sunday 4 PM at Eau Claire 1(Radiant Jewels Shorts)
Crash the Time Machine The Odds 7th album has been released. The basic Odds lineup of Craig Northey, Pat Steward, Murray Atkinson and Doug Elliott are joined by the 5th Odd – Steven Page.
This is songwriting at a very high level, then taken even higher by players who are truly gifted.
I’m so glad that these guys got back together again after a hiatus from 2000-2007.
You can hear multiple influences in each and every track.
They’ve backed Warren Zevon, they wrote and played the soundtrack for Kids in the Hall Film Brain Candy and their TV series Death Comes to town, toured with and played with The Tragically Hip and Barenaked Ladies, wrote music for Corner Gas.
Crash the Time Machine deals with religion, the days we’re all living in and several songs in memory of their friend Spirit of the West leader/writer John Mann.
The song is Somehow in a Dream. The Waterboys are mentioned. As Craig tells us ..
“John told me that in his last hours, he’d like to have someone play “Whole of the Moon”
We also salute BB King on his birthday and remember Motown songwriter Norman Whitfield, who along with his writing partner Barret Strong, left a remarkable legacy of memorable hits.
Ain’t to proud to beg – War – I’m Losing You – Poppa was a Rolling Stone, Ain’t too proud to beg. and many more. We play Heard it through the Grapevine.
And a special segment on bassist Richard Davis who passed away Sept 6 at 93.
The man played on over 600 albums. From Miles Davis and Duke Ellington to Bruce Springsteen,
Laura Nyro and Van Morrison ( he’s the bass player on Astral Weeks)
New music from Wide Mouth Mason, Bros. Landreth, and Rolling Stones. Cannonball Adderley brings Roebuck “Pops” Staples to the Stew.
The Sept 9 Mulligan Stew has a special guest – Ariel Posen.
He’s just achieving liftoff in his career but there’s absolutely no denying he has a profile arc heading up.
A session guitarist in Winnipeg (I saw him as the second guitarist in Bros. Landreth. If Ariel is playing beside Joey Landreth and more than holding his own, you know he is good)
He began his career quietly showcasing new guitars online for the companies making them.
He had no idea the effect he was having on the guitar and music fans of the world, especially in Europe.
So. when he finally decided to start his solo career and released his first album How Long (2019) Ariel was gobsmacked to find a ready and willing audience in Europe and across Canada, then in the USA.
Then came Headway, Mile End, Mile End 2, Familiar Ground, the Downtown EP and just now Reasons Why.
He’s touring Canada
Sept 26th in Calgary
Sept 27 in Edmonton
Sept 28 in Saskatoon
Sept 29 Winnipeg (home town)
BUT FIRST – On Sept 23 he performs at the 2023 Eric Clapton Crossroads Festival in LA.
Also invited by Eric are The Bros. Landreth. Also from Winnipeg.
As I said on The Stew, we’re playing two hours of music!
For those in their hammocks, out on the water, in the water, popping corks, beating egg whites OR doing absolutely nothing.
Susan Tedeschi starts this week’s Stew with a track from her solo album Wait for Me (25th Anniversary edition)
New music from William Prince/Mike Farris/Old Crow Medicine Show/Marc Jordan/ Tom Wilson & Iskwe/ Jesse Roper/Rhiannon Giddens
Classic tracks from Sept 2
1964 – The Rolling Stones record Little Red Rooster. In Mono and then we play perhaps the best version of Rooster they did live with Eric Clapton on Flashpoint (Steel Wheels Tour)
Live tracks from Tom Petty, Tower of Power, Van Morrison, The Eagles, Jackie Venson, and Sting!
Jimi recorded All along the Watchtower Sept 2, 1968. Dylan is impressed.
Also tracks from Nicolette Larson, Ray Lamontagne, Stevie Ray and Jimmy Vaughn, The Black Crowes, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Etta James (for Pat)
Interviews coming with
Art Bergmann
Ariel Posen – Next Week
Colleen Rennison
Craig Northey – Odds/Steve Paige Trio
Russell Broom
Marc Jordan and
Susan Tedeschi
PLAYLIST:
Mulligan Stew
Terry David Mulligan
playlist mulliganstew.ca
The feeling that music brings
Susan Tedeschi
Wait for me
Strong Enough
Ray Lamontagne
Monovision
Rhumba Girl
Nicolette Larson
Nicolette
When you miss someone
Wm Prince
Stand in the Joy
The Stew
TDMulligan
NEXT – Live – from Tower of Power & new Mike Farris
Bumped into Russell Broom at EFMF. We talked Art Bergmann and his next album. What brings you here? Says I Playing with Jill Barber. Says Russ
And that’s how Jill and I ended up sharing a freshly poured Big Rock and a wonderful interview in the green room.
Jill covers thoughts and emotions on her home and Homemaker, her latest album.
This Summer Stew starts and ends with Bob Dylan and his album Rough and Rowdy Ways. He’s just announced an R & R Ways tour. It includes two nights at Massey Hall Oct 26/27 with the next night in Montreal.
New Music from Mike Farris/Dolly Parton (with Paul and Ringo), Eric Clapton, Valerie June and Bill Frisell, Jesse Roper, Robert Finley, and Iris Dement.
The complete interview – over a cold beer – starts a two-part Mulligan Stew Podcast.
FYI. Tasting Room Radio is an hour special with winemakers and locals on the fires that raged through the hills of West Kelowna.
It ends with a message that they’re “open for business”. Farming is tough enough. To have roads closed during the high tourist season is hard to survive.
How can we help?
If you’re buying wine soon please buy BC from your favorite winery. It all helps.
Speaking of the recent wine country fires, the interviews we did with locals and winemaking friends for Tasting Room Radio will be Part Two of this week’sMulligan Stew Podcast
Crash the Time Machine The Odds 7th album has been released. The basic Odds lineup of Craig Northey, Pat Steward, Murray Atkinson and Doug Elliott are joined by the 5th Odd – Steven Page.
