A year ago, Dan Mangan asked the players in his road band to join him at a cottage to demo the songs for Natural Light.   These players would likely not be in studio when he rerecorded the songs. However, after recording the first...

Celebrating Bob Dylan’s 84th Birthday and our guest  Let’s kick off Summer. #whaddayasay? It’s our 2025 Bob Fest.  I think many of us  take Bob Dylan for granted. No matter what generation, he’s been a part of our lives. Remarkably, he’s not slowing down....

Most music fans know Kevin Hearn as the pianist and songwriter for Barenaked Ladies. Few would know that Kevin was the band leader for Lou Reed for 7 emotional years. Or that he fought a battle with leukemia for many years, even while touring...

I’m thinking that every CKUA fundraising host has the same wonderful chore this week. I went back over the saved donor sheets that we all filed away and got caught up with the music and artists asked for. Many included “in memory of” mentions. So that’s...