We had already done this interview before the Couch was a thing.
And we didn’t get to talk during our Juno special because we were busy with other guests.
The focus here is Dan’s new album Being Somewhere.
This interview is more music driven than the Podcast.
Dan also openly reveals the vocal health issues he’s been dealing with.
“I managed to put all of the stress in my body, into my jaw. I’m dealing with it now. There’s a softer touch to the vocal delivery”
Complete interview on Mulligan Stew Podcast and tdm YouTube channel.
We’ll celebrate Elton John’s Birthday – with a deep track.
And we promise to lift your heart with
David Lindley, Leon Russell, Phoebe Snow and Dr John with Aaron Neville.
New music from Taj Mahal, William Prince, Ron Sexsmith, and Madeleine Roger and The Fretless.
Also in hour two new music from The Wood Bros, and a classic from John Hiatt, Aretha and the closer is all 12 minutes of Loan me a Dime from Boz Scaggs at Muscle Shoals with a young Duane Allman on guitar.
I did my first interview with Dan Mangan years ago on a hot and dusty day at the Calgary Folk Festival. Had never met him or heard him perform.
He was one of half a dozen interviews I was scheduled to do. I started with the lame opening of…
Please tell our at-home audience your real name.
“I’m Dan. Dan MAN-GAN”
I was hooked. My kind of guy.
Dan Mangan
Many years later, The Dusty Dan of the folk festival has become a winner of 2 Juno Awards. Each tour has gathered more and more fans around the World.
EP’s, albums, tours, festivals, film scoring, co-creating Side Door Access, and full-on family guy.
Now comes the latest project! A beautifully crafted concert documentary by Amazing Factory called, All Together Now, recorded at his homecoming concert in 2019 at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver.
It’s unlike any other concert film you might have seen. There’s a sense of truth, honesty, and clarity in every song. Pure MAN-GAN.
And best of all I still see “the guy” behind the songs. Dusty Dan.
The final interview from the 2021 Calgary folk music festival.
Dan Mangan – artist, entrepreneur, father, husband, and surprisingly a great middle-distance swimming champion.
Two time Juno winner
Dan’s most recent album was More or Less. (2018)
After many years of small venue performances, Dan co-founded Side Door Access with Laura Simpson.
“We believe artists deserve more control and fewer gatekeepers, and that an empowered arts community will produce the most interesting, diverse and daring ecosystem of expression”
What started out as a local support system for artists (and audience) was completely re-arranged to bring music to all of us during the pandemic. Everyone involved at Side Door was swept along by a flood of requests and opportunities. Including Dan Mangan.
Now he’s seeing light at the end of the Covid tunnel and can start to pick up the remnants of his music and performing career.
When we talked a couple of weeks ago, Dan was getting ready to engage in his first public performance in many months at the Calgary Folk Music Festival.
Dan and I cover some of the above and more. You can look forward to a steady flow of songs and albums to come from Dan in the next year and a half.
“We are a team of artists & technologists passionately building an efficient, friendly and transparent marketplace where anybody can perform, host, or curate shows for their communities”
And then this –
“Although our company was originally for in-person shows only, we quickly expanded to the online sphere, once gatherings became unsafe. Our job is to help artists, curators, festivals, and venues keep creating shows and help audiences find them.
When faced with a crisis, it is always art that helps us through. Whether it offers comfort, community, understanding, solace, distraction, or perspective, art has always been something humanity employs to make it through pain and suffering. We are committed to supporting the creators in safe and innovative ways to connect to their audience.”
Laura Simpson Co-Founder & CEO
Laura’s founding partner is Dan Mangan, a singular artist who knows about endless road trips, rooms full of strangers, and surviving the hard road.
SideDoor started several years ago as a way for emerging artists to play stages in towns, cities, regions, and provinces.
The stages were storefronts, backyards, front rooms, porches, tennis courts, and actual stages.
Forward to 2019 and a World epidemic that changed everyone’s life.
Dan tells the story of where he was and how Sidedoor Access became “The Thing”
Here’s the story of how Dan, Laura, and Sidedoor became a sensation and changed their lives. Again.
Singer/Songwriter Dan Mangan shared a “movement – an idea” with me on Mulligan Stew Radio. Jan 6, the first show of 2018.
“We are building a platform where artists can earn a living by trimming the overhead of touring. We help you find magical small spaces with dedicated hosts and attentive audiences.
We want to help create human, tactile experiences offline. Music, Speakers, Dance, Theatre, Comedy – you name it.”
Two years later and thanks, in part to a worldwide pandemic, it has become a sensation.
Yes, artists can still play barns, basements, backyards, stores, coffee shops, libraries, etc
But now they can broadcast from HOME…and feel/see the audience
And best of all make a living
Here’s the latest from Dan Mangan…on the Side Door Story, his career, family, COVID 19, and the moment when he realized that his life was about to change.
Dan Mangan catches up with Terry to talk about ‘resurrecting’ his music career while starting a new family and a new business. Dan reflects on a banner year of his career, which included his recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! That appearance happened during a nine-day stretch of hiccups. Dan also talks about building his new artist venue platform Side Door and playing one of the biggest stages of his career at Edmonton Folk Music Festival.
The interview guest for this week’s Stew is singer/songwriter Dan Mangan.
He takes us back to a time between albums. After Club Meds ran its course, Dan decided to step away from the music business rat race, welcoming a second child and become a full time Dad.
In 2017 he felt it was time to return to writing and performing. Problem was, he wasn’t sure the songs would be there or that the music business, getting younger every month, was ready to welcome him back.
The result was a long road back, new co-writers and musicians, new studio, new label Arts and Crafts and a fine new album More or Less.
His fans welcomed him back with sold out shows and he found a whole new gaggle of fans with each performance.
We’ll talk about the blur of the past year, starting with his appearance on The Jimmy Kimmel show , festivals all over the world including his main stage appearance at this year’s Edmonton Folk Music Festival in front of upwards of 25,000 people.
Dan is currently touring Europe – again! It includes a gig at Union Chapel in London October 1st.
Not bad for a Dad from East Van.
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OH…there rest of the show??
New music from
Brittany Howard
Nick Lariviere
Tedeschi Trucks – Shame Live for 12 minutes
The Band – new version of Rag mama Rag
Something – a demo from The Beatles Abbey Road Deluxe Edition
Fresh off his recent JUNO nomination, singer-songwriter Dan Mangan joins Terry for a chat about his new career direction. The pair discusses audience reaction to his new album ‘More or Less’, his recent turn scoring films, and how time has changed his relationship with his early hit songs. The podcast features two tracks from Dan’s new record ‘More or Less’.