Last Saturday Singer/Songwriter, Educator, Social Activist, Mother, and leader Buffy Saint-Marie celebrated her 80th Birthday.
She had some cake she made the night before and called us from her home in Hawaii.
This is the complete interview
(Keep your ears open for chickens and roosters in the yard and about 15 minutes in a huge rainstorm pounds the roof. She does live in a rainforest after all)
Because we have known each other over so many years, I went all the way back to her birth. She was abandoned as a baby and adopted by a family who gave her love and education. Buffy explains that she doesn’t really know her real birthday date but it didn’t let her stop becoming a legend.
Original photography by Jack Robinson. www.robinsonarchive.com
She was told at 6 years old in school that “there were no more Indians around. All Gone. Maybe some in Arizona”. We talk about what has changed for young native students. If anything.
Buffy has always lived a life looking at ”the long view”. In our talk, she explains what that means and how well it served her. She likes “busy”. Busy is good.
She’s won a Grammy, An Oscar, received an Order of Canada, spent 5 glorious years educating on Sesame Street, and has received countless honors.
Our yearly Pinot Noir Geek Out – with 15 top experts and a Pinot Blind Tasting!
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Bordeaux is made by man, Pinot Noir by God.
Pinot Noir may not be the most planted grape in the World but no other varietal even comes close to the dialogue that takes place between winemakers and wine fans about the place of Pinot in today’s wine world.
Whether they love Pinot Noir or not, wine people all have an opinion on this grape. Described as “the diva of the wine world”, it takes a really focused winemaker and farmer to grow, harvest, and cellar this beauty.
The payoff is spectacular.
Notes and flavors of Clove, Cherry, Mushroom, Floral, Soil, Tea, Vanilla, blackberry, and plum. Lush and lengthy.
High acidity and lower tannin make Pinot Noir perfectly paired with pork, mushrooms, duck, and chicken.
I’ve been doing Pinot Noir interviews for 15 years and I’m still learning from the many stories being told.
I’ve gone back into the Tasting Room Radio files to share some of the stories and people who’ve stayed with me over the years.
Christina Coletta – Okanagan Crush Pad/Haywire (Summerland)
Chris Turyk – Unsworth (Cowichan Valley)
JAK Meyer – Meyer Family Vineyards (OK Falls/Skaha)
David Patterson – Tantalus Vineyards (South East Kelowna)
Kurtis Kolt – Wine Educator – Judge – Sommelier (Vancouver)
Vikram Vij – Chef – Author (Vancouver)
This pinot noir special concludes with a Blind Tasting of 2018 Pinots
It was organized by John Glavina – the owner of Giant Head Winery in Summerland. John wanted to include several of his pinots to discover how they stood up to the competition. (He didn’t tell anyone that his wines were in the mix)
Tasting on the day were two of the very best wine minds. Great guys.
John Schreiner – The Dean of Canadian wine writers (15 books in total) Master Blogger.
TDM. John Schreiner. Brent Gushowaty
Brent Gushowaty – A Pinot specialist. Founder of bcpinotnoir.com
I was delighted to be judging in such fine company.
The discussion went on for several hours and I’ve done my best to edit the prime points down into a segment of the show.
I couldn’t get all the comments on the blind wines when revealed but we did talk about the top two and several others not in the room.
The Pinot Noir poured on the day were…
2018 Giant Head Estate Winery Flagship Pinot Noir
2018 Fox and Archer – Brent G. choice
2019 Canyonview Wines Brand – CVW – Pinot Noir
2018 Spearhead- Saddle Block Vineyard
2018 Lake Breeze Aura
2018 giant head Pinot Noir Reserve
The segment is memorable just to hear the conversation between John Schreiner and Brent Gushowaty.
I thank John Glavina for the invitation for myself and the microphone plus John & Brent for the Pinot Masterclass. I also thank Harbour Air for the beautiful trip over and back.
This Fathers Day gathering took place June 2020. It was so informative and fun that we decided to repeat it this year. Yes there’s talk about lockdown but what that chat reveals is the joy both guys found in “watching the seasons change” and that included their children growing up. They have a revealing discussion between themselves about their children following in their footsteps and the mine field of giving those children advice.
It still rings true.
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OK. Its Fathers Day weekend.
It’s also Summer Solstice
I always hear a phrase…. “I’m in the family business”
Now, that works if your family are Store Owners, or Office Workers, Doctors. Nurses. Teachers. Farmers etc.
We have two guests today who are friends and fathers.
Jim Cuddy from Blue Rodeo and The Jim Cuddy Band.
Barney Bentall. Leader of Cariboo Express. High Bar Gang. BYU and his own solo career.
How has the family dynamic changed when their sons and daughters follow them in the music business.
Share the stage. Maybe even write songs together. (maybe being the key word)
And how do family members like being the subject of songs they hear on the radio?
I was excited to get these two pals together and exchange life experiences.
Saturday June 18 Barney plays the Beaumont Blues & Roots Fest. New album Cosmic Dreamer
Jim and Blue Rodeo play the PNE Aug 21
We connected on Zoom and you can find the complete conversation below:
Guest is a long-time friend Joe Keithley (also known by his D.O.A hardcore punk stage name Joe Shithead)
One of the very few punk artists who didn’t bring their stage characters into their real world.
Joe on stage was wild, pissed off, and very much in your face.
Off stage, he was just a great guy from Burnaby. A regular Joe.
Joe founded D.O.A
Founded Sudden Death Records
Rock Against Racism
Harmony for all – gathering used instruments for Burnaby residents who don’t have access to them.
D.O.A is celebrating the 40th anniversary of their LP Hardcore 81
And Director Scott Crawford is shooting a documentary on Joe and DOA called Something Better Change (named after DOA’s first album)
He’s already shot and released Creem: America’s only rock and roll magazine and Salad Days. Both were outstanding.
Many of Joe’s former bandmates are long gone but he’s continued to grow and learn to such an extent that he’s now a twice-elected Burnaby City Councillor and Joe’s just gearing up for another run for office. Knocking on doors is his specialty.
I think he mentions 13,000 during one campaign.
Here’s the best part – he’s still making music with DOA..getting in a tour of Ontario, Quebec, and BC’s interior before the election.
To quote Dan Aykroyd “ is it a floor wax or a shampoo”
Can a guy be a hard-core punker and a politician???
January he was diagnosed with cancer. February he passed away. A number of his friends and family donated towards an hour to honor Brad’s memory.
In his obituary, his wife Lorene wrote that in Brad’s memory donations could be made to CKUA radio.
Brad posted on Facebook that he wanted consideration of three songs. (for Lorene)
Charlie Parker loves me Marc Jordan
Blue Alert Madeleine Peyroux
My one and only love Chris Botti & Paula Cole
I added
I got a feeling – Norah Jones
A song for you – Ray Charles.
Another board member Bruce McFarlane (and Janice Heard) donated the second hour.
They’ll be just finishing a tour of Scotland (whisky, golf, hiking, etc) and listening in Glasgow.
They asked for two songs.
Beautiful Boy John Lennon for their new Grandson Henry
And John Mellencamp’s Jack and Diane (Play that and dedicate it to “all those who are still living their lives with no holds barred and are thrilled by it”
OH..and I get the Festival Radio bug…and play artists from
We celebrate the birthday of Chester Burnett (Howlin’ Wolf)
2 Ray Charles songs – honoring Ray, who passed away June 10, 2004
Steely Dan/James Taylor/Sting/Norah Jones/Tedeschi Trucks Band/Whitehorse/Larkin Poe/Little Feat/ Amy Helm/ Bruno Mars and we finish with a salute to Frank Beard Drummer for ZZ Top celebrating his birthday Saturday Im Bad Im nationwide..
Van Wine Fest Part Two (plus 2 very special guests)
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Walking into the Vancouver Wine Festival at the Convention Centre, as an interviewer, is like working the field at an All-Star Game.
Familiar wine star faces and voices are everywhere.
I think I did a dozen interviews and these are the last three. However, I needed one more, So I decided to re-run one of my all time favourite interviews.
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From our coverage of the 2019 VanWineFest on Tasting Room Radio we present California wine royalty.
Gena Gallo and her winemaking husband Jean Charles Boisset.
Not just talking about their wines but about surviving cancer, raising their twin daughters and their love of Vancouver and the wine fest.
Gina Gallo, Vice President, Winemaking – Estate Wines. E. & J. Gallowww.gallo.com
Gina Gallo, JC Boisset, TDM
Gina Gallo developed a deep respect for the land early on. After studying winemaking at the University of California at Davis, Gallo became an apprentice winemaker at E. & J. Gallo Winery, under the careful guidance of her grandfather Julio. Today, as the winemaker behind the Gallo Signature Series, she carves out specific blocks on Gallo’s most sought-after vineyards to hand-craft limited batches of wine.
Jean-Charles Boisset was born into the world of wine in Vougeot, Burgundy, France. Under his leadership, the Boisset Collection operates 24 wineries in California, France, and Canada. Decanter magazine has included him on its “Power List” of the 50 most important people in the wine world each year of its publication since 2007.
His many honours include Meininger’s International Wine Entrepreneur of the Year, “Innovator of the Year” from Wine Enthusiast Magazine and the first-ever French-American Partnership Award from the French America Foundation.
Susan Tedeschi co-partner with Derek Trucks in life and music is our guest this week.
Tedeschi Trucks Band has created “one of those albums” that will become the standard by which all other such albums are created.
It’s an amazing story and we are thrilled to have Susan share it with us . It’s our complete 30-minute interview – with the tracks from the first album.
The concept behind I Am The Moon, the GRAMMY-winning band’s fifth studio recording, was suggested by TTB vocalist Mike Mattison in May 2020, two months after the band was forced off the road by the pandemic.
The 12th-century poem Layla & Majnun by Persian poet, Nizami Ganjavi, was the title inspiration for Eric Clapton’s 1970 double-LP with Derek and the Dominos, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs – an influential album for Tedeschi Trucks Band . Interestingly, Ganjavi’s source material resonated with Mattison and the rest of the band in an altogether different way. Finding complex themes and storylines that inspired their creative process, they forged a new, modern interpretation of the vast 100-page poem.
I Am The Moon was written collectively and collaboratively, with band members contributing their own unique perspectives on the work. By January 2021 the band was recording at Tedeschi and Trucks’ home studio, Swamp Raga, in Jacksonville, FL, with Derek behind the soundboard as producer and long-time studio engineer, Bobby Tis, in charge of recording and mixing.
Operatic in scope, Tedeschi Trucks Band explores romantic relationships, collective struggle, faith, and the human experience on I Am The Moon.
“It’s amazing,” Trucks says, “because we wrote most of this music in a pretty short time span. There are even chord changes that mirror other tunes on the albums – themes and variations, lyrical allusions, that pop back up.” He continues: “You always want to do something bigger and thematic. This is the first time it happened naturally.”
The decision to sequence and release I Am The Moon in four distinct episodes came “when we started thinking of records we love,” Derek says, citing Axis: Bold as Love, the 1967 LP by the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
“It’s 36 minutes long. That’s the way to digest a record.”
With that approach in mind, TTB will also present I Am The Moon: The Film, immersive visual companions to each album. The corresponding films will debut three days prior to each audio release, offering fans an early opportunity to digest each album in its entirety as a communal listening and viewing experience via the band’s YouTube channel.
TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND – I AM THE MOON: ALBUM + FILM RELEASE DATES:
I Am The Moon: I. Crescent
Film Premiere: May 31
Album Release: June 3
I Am The Moon: II. Ascension
Film Premiere: June 28
Album Release: July 1
I Am The Moon: III. The Fall
Film Premiere: July 26
Album Release: July 29
I Am The Moon: IV. Farewell
Film Premiere: August 23
Album Release: August 26
I Am The Moon – All Vinyl Configurations: individual LPs + the 4-LP Deluxe Box available September 9.
Tedeschi Trucks Band tour:
June 24 – Jacksonville, FL – Daily’s Place Amphitheater
June 25 – Mobile, AL – Mobile Civic Center
June 26 – Tuscaloosa, AL – Tuscaloosa Amphitheater
June 28 – Indianapolis, IN – The Amphitheater at White River State Park
June 29 – Detroit, MI – Fox Theatre
July 1 – Canandaigua, NY – Constellation Brands – Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center
July 2 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
July 3 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
July 6 – New Haven, CT – Westville Music Bowl
July 8 – Philadelphia, PA – The Mann Center
July 9 – Essex Junction, VT – Midway Lawn at Champlain Valley Expo
July 10 – Patchogue, NY – Great South Bay Music Festival
July 12 – Lewiston, NY – ArtPark
July 13 – Cincinnati, OH – PNC Pavilion at Riverbend
July 15 – 16 – Atlanta, GA – Fox Theatre
July 19 – Vienna, VA – Wolf Trap
July 20 – Richmond, VA – Virginia Credit Union LIVE!
July 21 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park
July 23 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion
July 24 – Huber Heights, OH – Rose Music Center at The Heights
July 26 – Aurora, IL – RiverEdge Park
July 27 – St. Louis, MO – Fabulous Fox Theatre
July 29 – 30 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
August 18 – San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Amphitheater
August 19 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre
August 20 – Berkeley, CA – The Greek Theatre
August 23 – Sacramento, CA – Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
August 24 – Eugene, OR – Cuthbert Amphitheater
August 26 – Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheater
August 27 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater
August 28 – Reno, NV – Grand Sierra Resort & Casino
August 31 – Boise, ID – Outlaw Field at the Idaho Botanical Garden
September 1 – Bonner, MT – Kettlehouse Amphitheater
September 3 – Moorhead, MN – Bluestem Center for the Arts Amphitheater
October 17 – Copenhagen, DK – Amager Bio
October 18 – Copenhagen, DK – Amager Bio
October 20 – Randers, DK – Vaerket
October 21 – Oslo, NO – Sentrum Scene
October 22 – Stockholm, SE – Cirkus
October 25 – Berlin, DE – Verti Music Hall
October 26 – Hamburg, DE – Edel-optics.de Arena
October 27 – Prague, CZ – Forum Karlin
October 30 – Rotterdam, NL – RTM Stage
November 2 – Dublin, IE – The Helix
November 4 – London, UK – The London Palladium
November 5 – London, UK – The London Palladium
November 6 – London, UK – The London Palladium
November 9 – Manchester, UK – Manchester Academy
November 10 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy Glasgow
November 12 – Paris, FR – Le Trianon
November 13 – Paris, FR – Le Trianon
November 15 – Paris, FR – Bataclan
I’ve spent a lot of time attempting to describe who he is and what he does.
-Winnipeg born now Montreal. Became the go-to guy for guitar work. ..precise vocal harmonies – and very interesting songs.
I still can’t explain what he does with the guitar, that is until you hear him play. WOW.
He came to prominence with The Bros. Landreth then went solo.
Latest EP is Downtown. Releases Mid July but we have several tracks for you.
Anyway. Because I can’t do the man and his playing justice I’ll leave you with some quotes from his last tour in the UK 2020.
Possibly the best guitar solo I’ve heard in 12 years of owning a music venue! Keep Watching!
2,420,174 views Feb 5, 2020, Canadian guitarist, singer, producer Ariel Posen played at Fat Lil’s in Witney, UK on Tuesday 4th February 2020. I knew he’d be good because he used to be in Brothers Landreth, but didn’t expect to hear this incredible, dynamic solo. Combining slide techniques, finger picking, dissonance and a fuzz tone to die for. It builds and builds. I was totally blown away! And I think it is possibly the best (to my taste) I’ve heard in all the years of owning the club
I’ve been playing guitar for 15 years and not once have I ever played one of those notes. What a pro.
This kind of style is the future of rock. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good ole CCR riff. However, today’s scene can barely keep up with consistently putting out new and original content. These are the kinds of brave and avant-garde performances that will be shaping the guitarists of tomorrow. This dude HAS IT
That’s a modern-day Jimi Hendrix experience right there! Thanks for sharing
Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and
Scott Thompson are Kids in the Hall.
Many people consider KITH the funniest sketch comedy show ever to appear on TV and Film. The other half are fans of the absurdist genius of Monty Python etc.
The Kids mixed that absurdist humor with irony.
The winner is us – the audience.
KITH are “older”!
The youngest kid is 59-year-old Dave Foley.
However, what keeps them funny and relevant is the high wire that they walk.
The Kids embrace risk and even make fun of that possible failure waiting to happen.
The guests this week are Bruce McCulloch and Scott Thompson
One of the things we talk about in this Zoom Interview is how lucky they were to not only find each but discover that they all viewed the planet and the people on it as flawed and great subjects for funny. Why are they so good? Well, they’ve been making us laugh – at ourselves – since 1984.
After 27 years of No Kids. No Hall. They’re back with a series on Prime Video/Amazon and a fascinating documentary “Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks”
