Bob Dylan turns 85 on Sunday. Besides our other guest, Leeroy Stagger and his just-released album, Pilgrimage, in Hour Two it’s wall-to-wall Bob and the artists he influenced.
George Harrison
Joe Cocker and Leon Russell
Mavis Staples and Levon Helm
The Finale Cast of The Last Waltz.
We are ALL so lucky to be living in Bob’s time frame. We get to watch the albums and songs appear and take on a life of their own.
Best of all, Bob’s still cooking. Leading the way. Happy Birthday, Zimmy.
Sharing the second hour of this week’s Stew is our own Leeroy Stagger. He’s the host of Dirty Windshield Radio Hour Saturdays on CKUA Radio.
His latest album is about to be released. It’s called Pilgrimage.
Leeroy found inspiration by reading Alister McIntosh’s brilliant book “Soil and Soul.”
“I wanted to write on the Highland Clearances of the 1700s that pushed my ancestors from Scotland to Northern Ireland and ultimately Nova Scotia. The repercussions of colonialism that shake the branches of my family tree and sadly still ring out throughout my home country of Canada today.”
“it was always so strange to me that I felt more at home in Scotland than in my own country; it makes perfect sense to me now. There is a deep ancestral grief for where we once called home”
Key to these songs and the entire album is the partnership Leeroy entered into with East Coast legend Joel Plaskett. They played, wrote and produced together.
Joel suggested to Leeroy that they use his Tascam 388, an old 1/4″ 8-track machine. Joel convinced me on the magic, and I started to see the humanness of tape, in all of it’s warm and unpredictable glory”
“At this point, we have to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in. Digital isolation or a community forward offering of storytelling, of truth in the natural world, of something tangible and real; a bit of the old ways.”
Pilgrimage might just help us find it
Hour one starts with a donor suggestion for Larkin Poe followed by Hiss Golden Messenger, Whitehorse, old Stones and Fleetwood Mac, new Charlie Musselwhite, new Rodney Crowell, if I could speak to Leonard, followed by Leonard himself.
The full Leeroy interview is available on the Mulligan Stew Podcast. Leeroy gets rolling on the subject of community…and talks openly about hosting Dirty Windshields Radio Hour and how that community healed certain issues within him.
It’s quite a listen.
Thinking of Baba. Remembering Baba.
PLAYLIST:
| Mulligan Stew | Guest is Leeroy Stagger | and we salute Bob Dylan on his 85th |
| preachin’ blues | larkin poe | peach |
| spirit cat | hiss golden messenger | i’m people |
| year of The Snake | Whitehorse | all i want is all of it |
| got to get you into my life | Earth Wind and fire | greatest hits |
| The Stew with guest Leeroy Stagger | and a salute to Bob Dylan’s 85th bday | Up next – Billy Preston |
| That’s the way God planned it | billy preston | Music inspired by Billy Preston Documentary |
| chan chan | charlie musslewhite | continental drifter |
| medicine man | Keb Mo and Old Crow Med . Show | The Medicine Man |
| It will be mine | The Reckoners | where the hell am i ? |
| Deane House – River Cafe | A BobFest in hour two | and Leeroy Stagger Interview |
| Dust my blues (live) | Fleetwood Mac | Before the Beginning |
| parachute woman | The Rolling Stones | Beggar’s Banquet |
| Guest in Hour Two Leeroy Stagger | nd a salute to Bob Dylan’s 85th bday | TDMulligan |
| if I could speak to Leonard | Rodney Crowell | Then again.. |
| Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye (live) | Leonard Cohen | Live in London |
| Coming Up – Bob Dylan 85th Birthday | Leeroy Stagger – new album | Mulligan Stew CKUA |
| To make you feel my love | Bob Dylan | Time out of mind |
| Watching the river flow | Joe Cocker and Leon Russell | Luxury you can afford |
| Just like a woman | Bob Dylan | blonde on blonde |
| If not for you | George Harrison | All things must pass |
| Someday baby | Bob Dylan | Modern Times |
| You Got to serve somebody | Mavis Staples and Levon Helm | Carry me home |
| Happy 85th Birthday Bob | -Coming UP – Leeroy Stagger | Interview and Album |
| I shall be Released (live) | The Band | The Last Waltz |
| Leeroy Stagger Interview | New Album – Pilgrimage | The Stew – with Terry Mulligan |
| Swimming back to you | Leeroy Stagger | Pilgrimage |
| Leeroy Stagger | complete interview on mulligan stew podcast | Pilgrimage |
| Highlands Leaving | Leeroy Stagger | Pilgrimage |
| New Leeroy Stagger album | Pilgrimage | complete interview on MullStew Podcast |
| Fiddler’s Daughter | Leeroy Stagger | Pilgrimage |
| Leeroy Stagger Interview | Complete interview on mulligan stew podcast | Thank You Leeroy |
| Lost in the flood | Leeroy Stagger | Pilgrimage |
