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Live from the Edmonton Folk Fest today… Check out my videos from the stage!
 

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I’ve lost my July. It was over by the car keys and now it’s just – Gone!
That’s 31 days I’ll never get back.
I know where August is..it’s right in front of us and I’m ready to hit the
road.
The August 4th Stew celebrates a long weekend, a beautiful last month of
Summer and my sister’s birthday.
Maureen, this is your gift. (again)

We start with the reunion of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young at Neil’s annual
Bridge School concert.
Over 8 minutes of a sublime Déjà vu.
Followed by The Band doing Buddy Holly and Little Richard doing Johnny Cash.
Both rock.
What follows is pure long weekend music
Aaron Neville AND Mavis Staples (she’s in Kaslo)
Frazey Ford, Jill Barber, The Doobies, Taj, Tedeschi Trucks, Colin James and
James Brown..both live.
You also get a Saturday night with Ray Charles Live at Newport, Shuggie
Otis, Steve Winwood, Justin Townes Earle, Chicago and Summertime (live) with
Gene Harris.
Happy Birthday Sis and Hey! all of you have a great August.
NEXT WEEK.. The Stew is Live at Edmonton Folk festival

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Ok, listen. It’s festival season. 
Stages everywhere are filled with great music. 
So this Saturday on Mulligan Stew we have our own festival. 
The What The f…k happened to July?” Festival. 
Playing music to recover those days gone by…

Any show that starts with “This is a Man’s World” LIVE has infinite possibilities.

Fyi – the next track is James Brown’s Please Please Please but as done by Dave and Phil Alvin…and we’re off and running!

Highlights include a double shot of David Byrne – as himself and as Talking Heads.

I particularly like The Stone Set with

Amy Helm – Roll the Stone

Leon Russell – Roll away the Stone

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – I’d have to be a stone.

The donor for hour two asked for specific Canadian artists..thus:

Neil Young – Live at Massey Hall..introduces a “new” song called Old Man.  Neil explains that he was writing about the manager that came with Ranch he had purchased.

“I think he’s around 70 now”…So, this is 1971 when Neil was a young man.  Neil today is 72 and he has become the old man he wrote about all those years ago.

Chilliwack – Fly at Night Live

Sam Roberts – Detroit 67 Live

Spirit of Canada (Barney/Doyle/BNLadies/Sarah/Colin James/Byrnes/Cuddy) – Live at The Commodore singing Home for a Rest for John Mann. The song was recorded and shot in the Men’s Washroom at The Commodore.  Please find GoFundMe/John Mann

The Stew ends with a rush of “everything”

Early Leeroy Stagger

Romi Mayes

Panic at the Disco

A mini “Midnight” set with Eric Clapton and Gregg Allman

And we finish with The Birthday Boy – Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones – Angie

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Saturday night at 9 PM The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer play the main stage at Taste of Edmonton. That concert will be also broadcast Live on CKUA Radio.

To celebrate, we’ve asked Shawn  “The Harp” Hall to pick up the phone backstage and fill us in on what the night holds and what’s next for them.

Love these guys. Plus Shawn’s an Island neighbor and I think owes me a beer.

The playlist below is your Saturday night roadmap.

Starting with Ry Cooder  Live.

Lyle Lovett/Aretha/Coldplay/Jann Arden/Otis etc

New music from

Lake Street Dive

Walk off the Earth

Colin James

Joey Landreth

AND…

For the donor and you ..a set of 60’s hits..memories for a grad class that has partied at  Sylvan Lake since the 60’s.

The Byrds            Mr Tamborine Man

Cream                   Badge

Beach Boys         God only knows

The Beatles        I need you

Marvin Gaye      I heard it through the grapevine

Bob Dylan            Like a rolling stone

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Gurvinder Bhatia is a wine friend of mine..Lives in Edmonton

He is the wine editor for Quench Magazine plus the wine columnist for Global TV.

Once a year he takes many hours to listen to the artists appearing at the annual Interstellar Rodeo that takes place next weekend (July 20-21-22)

Then he pairs wine with the artist..which the audience can taste as they play.

It’s a brilliant crossroads of art and pleasure.

The Stew would like to provide, as a public service..an opportunity to practice this weekend.

We’ll play Feist, The Mavericks, Alejandro Escovedo and Courtney Barnett and Gurvinder will tell you why he chooses the wine to go with them.

Try this at home..it’s fun.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Anonymous/AP/REX/Shutterstock (6571574a)
Singer Prince is shown in concert in 1985
Prince, USA

We also have a solid playlist, which includes two special songs..

First is Prince..just Prince and a piano from 1983..but it’s a Prince that’s full gospel mode with Mary, don’t you weep..

And then there’s Alejandro Escovedo’s new single Sonica USA which has created quite a stir in the USA.

Another artist speaking out against social and political conditions south of us.

If you’re in Calgary Have a great final Stampede weekend.

Cheers – tdm

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The donor for the first hour is The Canmore Folk Festival…Year 41. The longest-running festival in Alberta.

Our guest is Artistic Director Sue Panning.

We get all the good info for you.  We talk and play tracks from  performers and special artists..like

Buffy Ste. Marie

Ruthie Foster

Coco Love Alcorn

Joey Landreth

Sue brings info on

Tarps

Kids..

Tickets..

Other performers 

AND she spends quality minutes talking about Andy and Tom’s appearances on Friday August 3.  Andy hosts Celtic Show..and Tom plays the role of Dick Clark..hosting the street dance with The Mammals.

Second guest is the wonderful Frazey Ford.

We’ve played her as a member of The Be-Good Tanyas and now as a solid solo singer/songwriter.

Her last album Indian Ocean with its astonishing single September Fields created a worldwide audience for her music.

She now has fans all over the World..and with her signing to Canada’s Arts and Crafts record label..it appears her roll is going to continue.

We talk about protest songs,  the social movement Families belong Together, her new singles which are not on the new album..covers of songs by D’Angelo and George Clinton and Funkadelic .

Tour dates

This Saturday at the Khatsahlano Street Festival in Vancouver. (Kitsilano)

Next Sunday July 15 in Victoria (with Brian Wilson and Bahamas)

And August 1^st at Wide Skies Music and Arts Festival in Lethbridge

The complete interview can be heard on our Podcast  Mulligan Stew (Music. Film. Food. Wine)

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We have a Birthday thing going on this week.

Its Canada’s Birthday on Sunday

It’s my Birthday on Saturday

Eric Ludwig, the donor for the first hour also had a birthday June 13^th..and he suggested we dig up some “June Babies”

We got birthdays this month with

• The Clash
• The Stones
• Ray Davies (Kinks)
• Derek Trucks
• Eddie Floyd
• Boz Scaggs
• Howling Wolf
• Four Top and Supremes
• Paul McCartney
• Chris Isaac
• Curtis Mayfield

Hour Two’s Donor asked for some “contemporary Banjo”

Played Banjo by Leonard Cohen

Silver Dagger from High Bar GANG

Honky Tonk Women from Taj Mahal

Live tracks from

• Herbie Hancock and Tedeschi Trucks
• Eddie Floyd
• Joe Cocker
• Bob Dylan
• The Red Devils
• Roy Orbison

New U2..Old Zep..Older Bowie..Killer Beatles..John Fogerty with Dawes.

Have a great Canada Day weekend…careful out there.

-TDM

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Please consider checking out the Mulligan Stew Podcast (music.film.food.wine)

This week it’s a backstage interview with Rhiannon Giddens..  onward

How best to celebrate the Summer Solstice?

Eat. Drink. Sleep. or

None-of-the-above.

What we have on Saturday’s Mulligan Stew is the soundtrack to None-of-the-Above.  It’s our specialty

We start with a suggestion from one of our donors Bruce McFarlane..who wanted to hear Bob Dylan’s  (I’ll be)Your Baby Tonight by The Co-Dependants.

Billy Cowsill sings it like he wrote it.

That kicked off a string of Bob’s songs done by

Etta James  Serve Somebody

The Byrds  Chimes of Freedom (live)

Emmylou Harris  Every grain of sand

Rosanne Cash The girl from the North Country

And Bob himself Beyond here lies nothing

There’s some Good Vibrations from the Beach Boys..new Frazey Ford and a great new Paul McCartney single.

Live tracks from Little Feat, Dave Mathews, Chris and Rich Robinson, Eric Clapton and Eric’s good friend Steve Winwood..who tweeted this week that his album Roll with it was released 30 years ago.

So..we went to Steve’s Greatest Hits Live and played

I‘m a Man

Back in the High Life again

Roll with it

That’s 20 minutes of music right there.

Stay with us for the entire two hours and you’ll also hear Pusherman from Curtis Mayfield, Carry Fire from Robert Plant, Randy Newman, The Beatles and  Harry Manx.

The whole playlist is waiting for you below.

NEXT week – It’s the Birthday Show!

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No Interviews.  No specials.  No Features.Just two solid hours of Saturday night/Fathers Day Weekend tunes.
For example Hour One 
Mavis Staples
Lee Ann Womack
Bob Dylan
New Lake Street Dive
Colin James (live)
Dire Straits
Blue rodeo
Peter Gabriel
And new Frazey Ford.
Hour Two is all about “places”
Songs about places and a sense of place:
Eric Clapton (SF)
Tedeschi-Trucks (Harlem)
The Band (Atlantic City)
Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash (North Country)
The Beach Boys (California)
Chuck Berry (Memphis)
Fats /Domino (New Orleans)
Neko Case (Kansas City)
Paul McCartney (Kansas City)
Chris Stapleton (Memphis)
Randy Newman (LA)
Lou Reed (NYC)
The Ad-libs (NYC)
Matt Anderson (Alberta )
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The current Podcast is Robbie Robertson of The Band.

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