EP 393 | Bruce Cockburn talks Past, Present, Future and Turning 81

May 31, 2026 0:38:30

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Welcome to the Mulligan Stew Podcast on the TDM YouTube Channel.

Several days ago, one of the planets ecological faces and voices, David Suzuki, celebrated his 90th Birthday. Totally engaged in our climate, the protection of nature and leadership in the construction of resilient housing. & communities. He’s admired world wide for his leadership in the David Suzuki Foundation.

Joining in the celebration were Bruce Cockburn, Chantal Kreviazuk, William Prince, Tanya Tagaq, Sarah McLachlan, Sam Roberts Band.

Speakers Rick Hansen, Al Gore, Jane Fonda, Strombo and surprise guest Neil Young.

Bruce and David have been friends many, many years. Bruce was the performer for the Suzuki Blue Dot Tour in 2024.

He’s hosted and performed at many Suzuki Foundations events. All, to somehow save the planet for and from Mankind.

Thank you David. Thank you Bruce. Thank you all!!

Here’s our conversation from August 2025

Bruce Cockburn returns to The TDM Podcast. Thoughts on Dylan at Newport, Bo Diddley, a possible covers album, his legacy, today’s headlines and turning 81.

Lots to talk about.

Grapes of Wrath on Mulligan stew with Terry David Mulligan

EP 392 | Exclusive Interview with The Grapes of Wrath-Revisited

May 25, 2026 0:37:49

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The Grapes of Wrath

(Originally posted July 27th 2024)

Kevin Kane and The Hooper Brothers, Chris and Tommy, have been an original Canadian band for over 40 years.

Same three guys. Still making music.

At the end of this conversation with Kevin Kane, Tom and Chris Hooper from 2 years ago, they announced that it was the first group interview in 10 years.

I hoped at the time that it would start a new ball rolling for the Grapes. Long time favourite band of mine. The harmonies, the construction of the songs and the lack of BS on stage. They were blessed with voices and songs that other bands envied. MuchMusic loved these guys. Every one of us played these songs.

At times they tour as all three, at times it’s just Tom and Kevin.

Grapes just played McPherson Playhouse in Victoria May 22 and a grand return to Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom with full band May 23. Good pals Limblifter opened for them.

July 9, they play The Hub Penticton.

July 12, Mateade on Salt Spring Island.

Sept 13 Barnside BC.

The boys tour Quebec and Ontario all of October.

Not bad for a band with gold and platinum albums, who broke up 1992 but started getting back together in the late 90’s and finally all back 2010.

I am so happy to see them playing and supporting each other.

Here’s the first interview they did in 10 years, that we recorded July 2024

Website is www.grapesofwrath.ca

Leeroy Stagger New Album Pilgrimage-Mulligan Stew podcast

Ep 391 | Leeroy Stagger. Pilgrimage – latest Album

May 23, 2026 0:53:33

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This week’s Mulligan Stew podcast features 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 Stagger

Leeroy found inspiration by reading Alastair 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 its 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.”

Leeroy Stagger -Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage might just help us find it

EP 390 | Randy Bachman Master Storyteller on The Guess Who & BTO

May 16, 2026 0:48:32

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We welcome a long time friend – Canadian music legend Randy Bachman (The Guess Who & BTO)

Once again, I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time and got to experience the lift off of the first Canadian artist to hit #1 in the USA.

Before they became world famous, they were another prairie band trying to get the bosses in Toronto to notice them.

I was at CJME and CKCK in Regina, and over one early 60’s summer, they spent the hot months playing at beach parties and small halls.

One after the other.

Then the hits started to roll, and I ended up going to London, UK, with them, to cover the story.

Except the story was a bust.

Poorly planned on the London end, they played a couple of tv shows and came home.

Then came These Eyes, American Woman and fame.

After the Guess Who split up, another set of musicians decided to take the name and run with it, for 13 years.

Legalities carried on for many years, but eventually Randy and Burrton Cummings..the two original guys, got the name back and that’s why the upcoming Guess Who Tour is called the ” taking it back tour.”

Taking it back tour dates

June 8 – Saddledome Calgary

June 10 – Rogers Place, Edmonton

Aug 23 PNE Freedom Mobile Arch

August 25 Memorial Arena Victoria

Ep 389 | Chris Wood – The Wood Brothers. New album Puff of Smoke

May 10, 2026 0:38:41

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Chris Wood – The Wood Brothers. New album Puff of Smoke

The complete interview

Big fan of Medeski. Martin and Wood.
Then followed the Wood Brothers through 9 albums.
The media and music fans painted the brothers as a Jam Band. They are anything but.
Jazz and roots/ blues driven with themes and lyrics that dive into human behaviour.
Almost all songs are wrapped in a sensual groove.
All songs written and created by an amazing trio. Chris’s brother Oliver and Jano Rix, who’ll play any instrument put in front of him.
New album – Puff of Smoke is the best yet.
The Brothers are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut album Ways not to Love.

Chris’s personal journey has taken him to a beautiful Wilder Wood farm on Pender Island, one of the jewels in the Gulf Islands on the West Coast of BC.
He and his biologist wife farm organic vegetables and sell them at the Pender Farm Market on the island.
A percentage of the brothers’ ticket sales goes to helping farmers. On both sides of the border.

I caught up with Chris in an airport heading for an opening tour gig in Scottsdale, Arizona.
In the complete interview on the Mulligan Stew Podcast, he finished the chat walking to the gate.
The Wood Brothers played the Hollywood Theatre in Vancouver on May 9.

www.thewoodbros.com

EP 389 | Robert Schwartzman and Colin Blunstone interview HUNG UP ON A DREAM: THE ZOMBIES DOCUMENTARY

April 13, 2026

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The Zombies Documentary on Mulligan Stew

60 years later, we welcome Colin Blunstone, Lead singer of The Zombies

How is it possible that an English band that was part of the British Invasion of the early ’60s is still being played and referenced in 2025?

The band was The Zombies.

The two leaders were songwriter and singer Rod Argent and lead singer Colin Blunstone.

They had three world hits. A fourth hit the charts after they had broken up.

Many years later, they were inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

I always loved the sound of the Zombies. A singular mix of rock, blues and very cool jazz. In a sea of sameness, Colin’s vocals were unmistakable.

Great harmonies lifted each song, and the arrangements were unlike anyone else in “The Invasion”.

Now, along comes Hung up on a dream, a documentary capturing their careers and lives. Directed by Robert Schwartzman.

EP 388 | Ron Sexsmith on Gordon Lightfoot

April 5, 2026 0:26:03

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EP 388 | Ron Sexsmith on Gordon Lightfoot

Ron Sexsmith is 19 albums into a singular career. His songwriting has been admired by his many peers. There’s only one voice like his – which is a blessing in a sea of wouldda/coulda/shoulda.

Photo by Kerry Vergeer

If you asked him to compare his songs with his idol Gordon Lightfoot, Ron will admit there are few artists as good as Gordon Lightfoot was but he continues to honour him.

This Wednesday and Thursday Ron performs at two sold out Lightfoot Memorial concerts at the National Music Center in Calgary. In Bell hall.

On this week’s Mulligan Stew Podcast Ron Sexsmith opens up about his admiration for Gord. A true storyteller, telling tales.

Ron Sexsmith honours Gord Lightfoot.

EP 387 | Mariel Buckley and Alan Doyle revisited

March 29, 2026

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Mariel Buckley and Alan Doyle revisited

For Example:

Last Oct 11, Mariel Buckley joined us from a motel room in New Mexico ( I think) as she was touring following the release of her latest album, Strange Trip Ahead.

On Saturday night, Mariel and the album won a Juno Award for the 2026 Contemporary Roots Album of the Year.

At 3 a.m., I was digging into the audio archives looking for this interview.

And I’ve been following the Coffee Walks that Alan Doyle has been doing on Facebook as he toured Canada. Alan takes a camera and walks around the towns and cities he’s playing in, looking for the best coffee, and through the walk finds the heart and soul of the city. When he got to Victoria and the end of the tour, it became apparent that we should repeat our Feb 10 interview covering the release of his latest EP, Already Dancing.

Alan heads for the USA next week but returns June 27 to headline one of the FIFA Fan Festival concerts in Vancouver. His latest book is The Smiling Land, in which he reveals how little he knows about Newfoundland and Labrador. It’s a wonderful read.

Please Enjoy both –

Terry David Mulligan interviewed by Leeroy Stagger - 30 years of Mulligan Stew

EP 386 | Leeroy Stagger interviews Terry for the 30th year of Mulligan Stew Radio on CKUA

March 21, 2026

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Enjoy this interview with Leeroy Stagger at his Langford Home Studio in March 2026. We talk about how I arrived at this place in life, my thoughts on current and future radio broadcasting, and much more. A huge thank you to all my listeners and followers, YOU are why I do what I do week after week.

Let me know your thoughts on this interview on my social channels

Terry

EP 386 | Becoming Led Zeppelin Documentary. The Filmmakers Guest on The Stew

March 16, 2026

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Special Guests are

Allison McGourtey- Producer
Bernard MacMahon. Director

Makers of Becoming Led Zeppelin

A documentary about the first 18 months of Led Zeppelin. Jimmy, Robert. John Paul and John Bonham.
Before it all exploded, and their lives got CRAZY.
And………it’s in IMAX.

The complete story can be heard on Mulligan Stew Podcast and tdm YouTube Channel.
Amazing filmmaking and storytelling.