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EP 97 | Frazey Ford- U KIN B THE SUN

March 4, 2020 Mulligan Stew Podcast

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“Don’t be fooled by the glittery jumpsuit. Frazey Ford is out for blood.” – NPR

 

Frazey Ford releases U kin b The Sun. It’s stunning.
Currently the Number 1 album on the CKUA Top 30. For the second week in a row
Or maybe it’s three. Frazey Ford is a blur.

One of her messages is…
Get out of the way
You’ve had your day 
And it’s no longer how we gon’ play
The kids are having none of it.
From: The kids are having none of it. 
 
This is the complete podcast interview. With tracks 
Azad
Golden 
Purple and Brown

 

Mulligan Stew Feb 29th 2020- Special Guest – Gord Sinclair of The Hip

February 28, 2020 Mulligan Stew

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Special guest Gord Sinclair. Bassist, singer, and songwriter for The Tragically Hip. On Friday the 28th he releases Taxi Dancers the first solo lp following the death of Gord Downie and the end of The Hip  (more below)

Playlist kicks off with two great artists who will be touring  together this summer  John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett.

They kick off a set from 1987 a special year for our donor.  Set also includes Tom Petty. Rosanne Cash and U2.

Then we launch into a  Guitar Special featuring Clapton live. Derek Trucks. Bonnie Raitt. Chuck Berry. Jimmy Vaughn   Plus special tracks from Rosanne Cash with  Bruce Springsteen   And Johnny Cash himself.

FYI.

From Gord Sinclair’s Taxi Dancers we play

Change of Heart.

Never Coming Back.

It’s already too late.

In The Next Life.

Gord takes us through his final days with Gord Downie and his hopes for a solo career. And whether he expects The Hip fans to come check him out?

PLAYLIST:

This is Mulligan Stew Special Guest – Gord Sinclair of The Hip Feb 29 2020
Thing called love John Hiatt Bring the Family
She’s no lady Lyle Lovett Pontiac
Let me Up Tom Petty Let me up (I’ve had enough)
www.deanehouse.com Special Guest – Gord Sinclair of The Hip
Runaway train Rosanne Cash Kings record shop
Where the streets have no name U2 Joshua Tree
Have a little Faith in me John Hiatt Bring the Family
This is Mulligan Stew with tdm Special Guest – Gord Sinclair of The Hip Coming UP – all guitars
Guitar Duet Stomp Jeff Healy Last call
Rollin and Tumblin (live) Eric Clapton Live at MTV Unplugged
I wish I knew (how it would feel to be free) Derek Trucks Band Songlines
Walking Blues Bonnie Riatt Bonnie Riatt
Bye Bye Johnny Chuck Berry Chess Chuck Berry Compilation
Mulligan Stew – Year 25 Coming up – The Cash Family www.mulliganstew.ca
One piece at a time Johnny Cash Best of
Sea of Heartbreak Rosanne Cash and Bruce Springsteen The List
www.mulliganstew.ca
No one to talk to Jimmy Vaughn Baby, please come home
Next – Bob Dylan Live www.mulliganstew.ca
Are you ready (live) Bob Dylan Trouble no more
Highway 61 Dave Alvin Hghway 61
Baby, what you want me to do Whitehorse Northern South Vol 2
www.coyotesbanff.com Next Week – Frazey Ford
I am all that i need/arroyo secco/thumbprint scar Fleet Foxes Crack Up
Gamblin Man Miss Tess Miss Tess
www.mulliganstew.ca NEXT – Gord Sinclair – New solo LP
Gord Sinclair Interview Full Interview on Mulligan Stew Podcast
Change of Heart Gord Sinclair Taxi Dancers
Gord Sinclair Interview Full Interview on Mulligan Stew Podcast
It’s already too late Gord Sinclair Taxi Dancers
Gord Sinclair Interview Full Interview on Mulligan Stew Podcast
in the next life Gord Sinclair Taxi Dancers
Next Week – Frazey Ford www.mulliganstew.ca

 

February 29th, 2020- Top Drop 2019- Victoria

February 28, 2020 Tasting Room Radio 01:05:37

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TOP DROP / FIRST TIME IN VICTORIA

The press release came in loud and clear.

For the very first time Top Drop was coming to Victoria.

Frankly, that’s all I needed to know.

I’ve been happily covering this small wildly successful wine gathering for
Six Years but Top Drop in Victoria is a whole other event. Why? Because
Victoria is a great wine town.

TOP DROP is Vancouver based so they needed a Victoria Host. Turns out the
Vessel crew have been watching this independent, craft wine festival seed
and grow in Vancouver, and spread to Calgary in 2018. This was their year to
launch it in Victoria for ONE DAY .

Victoria International Marina

Top Drop is an opportunity to celebrate authenticity in farming, terroir
and wine, with winery principals from around the globe.

Mirroring Top Drop Vancouver and Calgary’s flagship experience, the public
event is a walk around, grazing-style tasting where attendees enjoy sips
and stories from the principals of international and local wineries. There
has never before been a wine tasting of this scope and caliber in Victoria.

For me and TRR, the voice and face of Top Drop has always been Kurtis Kolt.
Wine educator and Wine writer for the Georgia Straight.

Kurtis and TD

Because of the foul weather, Kurtis and his partners were delayed in
Vancouver and could not attend while I was there.

Once again Kurtis Kolt and his partner Jeff Curry and a sensational team
have convinced some of the very best winemakers to pour at Top Drop.

What they have in common is craft and care!

In Kurtis’ column in the Georgia Straight he said this:

“Each year, our process begins the same. Our team casts out a wide net to
British Columbia-based importers and wineries, asking for winery
applications to participate in the event. First and foremost, Top Drop
wineries must fit with our general philosophy: that wines, indeed, express
terroir or offer a sense of place.

Whether we’re talking vines grown in mineral-rich soils or under
cool-climate growing conditions bringing bright acidity or in sun-drenched
regions offering generous, opulent fruit and so on, we want those elements
to be notable in the glass and for them to have arrived there authentically,
rather than via heavy-handed additions in the winery.

Sustainable farming is also key. There is a high priority on those who
employ these methods while farming their own fruit or who work with growers
who fit the mold.”

Winemaking Guests in Victoria:

(Check them out – Winners All!!)

Ross Borland Managing Partner/Vessel Liquor Victoria www.vesselliquor.com

Mitch Renaud Asst manager Vessel Liquor Victoria www.vesselliquor.com

Rhys Pender (MW) Little Farm/Similkameen Valley
http://www.littlefarmwinery.ca/

Angus Thomson Urlar/ Gladstone NZ http://www.urlar.co.nz/

Kelsey Rufiange – Echo Bay/OK Falls www.echobayvineyard.ca

Grant Biggs – Kitsch wines/Kelowna www.kitschwines.ca

Tyler Knight = Lightening Rock/Summerland www.lightningrockwinery.com

Larry Gerelus – Stags Hollow/OK Falls www.stagshollowwinery.com

Michael Shindler – A Sunday in August/Similkameen Valley
www.asundayinaugust.com

Dan Wright – Unsworth/Cowichan Valley www.unsworthvineyards.com

https://topdrop.ca/

STORIES WE’RE WORKING ON:

Mescal Master in Oaxaca

Orofino. Row Fourteen. Road 13, The Hatch. Unsworth.

Locals Only

Parksville Uncorked and Untapped.

What’s up with Ned Bell

Discovering Sheringham  and Lumette Distilled

 

EP 96 | Gord Sinclair- Taxi Dancers

February 28, 2020 Mulligan Stew Podcast

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Special guest Gord Sinclair. Bassist, singer, and songwriter for The Tragically Hip. On Friday the 28th he releases Taxi Dancers the first solo lp following the death of Gord Downie and the end of The Hip. Terry talks about the new album Taxi Dancers and what life is like post Tragically Hip and the emotional journey he underwent to create the album.

EP 95 | Andy Shauf-Neon Skyline

February 22, 2020 Mulligan Stew Podcast

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Andy Shauf’s new album The Neon Skyline ..is presented in full storytelling concept.

The interconnected songs were all written, performed, arranged and produced by Andy, and follow a simple plot: the narrator goes to his neighborhood dive, finds out his ex is back in town, and she eventually shows up.

Some of his characters can be found in his last album The Party.  All are sympathetic people who share countless inside jokes, shots, and life-or-death musings when the night gets hazy.

It just happens to be one of the best albums I’ve heard in quite a while.  The delight in the songs may not reveal themselves on first listen but the second time..the puzzle starts to show itself.

Please enjoy this chat with a true star in the making…if he wants to go down that road.

Mulligan Stew Feb 22 2020- Andy Shauf – The Neon Skyline

February 22, 2020 Mulligan Stew

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For those music fans who discovered the seductive narrative of  Andy Shauf through his last album The Party, just know that he’s hooked up with three of the party-goers and headed for The Skyline Bar in Parkdale, Toronto.

There’s his buddy Charlie, Rose the bartender and  Judy.

Oh!  His ex is in the bar as well.

You just don’t hear concept albums and certainly not concept songwriting and production at this level.

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Amy van Keeken, who knows a thing or two about songwriting wrote me a note ..

“The Neon Skyline is so good. Listening to the whole album start to finish

in one go (like people used to do) adds a deeper level of meaning to the songs and the narrative.  It’s brilliant”

 

Andy’s buddies Foxwarren are up for a Juno Award March 15 but Andy will be in Bourdeaux on tour.

I’ve asked Andy to leave his acceptance speech with us in our chat.

The rest of our two-hour show features handpicked Saturday night music.

JJ Cale

Linda Ronstadt

Steve Miller band

a double shot of Led Zeppelin.

Ry Cooder

Frazey Ford

Bruce Springsteen..

J Geils Band

Muddy Waters – Live in Chicago

Leon Russell

Next WEEK – Gord Sinclair – Formerly of  the Tragically Hip

  TWO WEEKs  Frazey Ford- New album U Kin  B The Sun

PLAYLIST:

The Stew Feb 22 2020 Mulligan Stew – Special Guest is Andy Shauf Playlist www.mulliganstew.ca
Call me the breeze JJ Cale Naturally
Miss Ann Delaney and Bonnie To Bonnie from Delaney
I put a spell on you CCR CCR
My blue tears Linda Ronstadt Get Closer
www.deanehouse.com Coming UP – All Vinyl Bruuuuce
The Tower Savvie Night Eyes
Jailer Jailer High Bar Gang Someday the heart will trouble the mind
Mulligan Stew – Year 25 Coming UP – Steve Miller, Led Zep and Paul Simon playlist mulliganstew.ca
Lucky man Steve Miller Band Sailor
Gangster of Love Steve Miller Band Sailor
You’re so fine Steve Miller Band Sailor
The After Life Paul Simon So beautiful So what
Poor Tom Led Zeppelin Coda
www.mulliganstew.ca Special Guest Andy Shauf NEXT – New/Old Zep
Sunshine Woman Led Zeppelin The Complete BBC Sessions
Where’s my love Sam Bush Storyman
Coming Up in 30 minutes Andy Shauf www.mulliganstew.ca
Mercy Mercy Me Marvin Gaye Greatest Hits
Mulligan Stew – Year 25 Andy Shauf brings new music and local dates Coming Up a double shot of Springsteen – on Vinyl
Raise your hand (live) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 75/85
Cadillac Ranch (live) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 75/85
Wait (Live) J Geils Band Anthology
www.coyotesbanff.com TDM Coming UP – Andy Shauf
Long Distance Call (live) Muddy Waters Fathers and Sons
Duke of Earl Gene Daniels Best of
School is out Ry Cooder Showtime
masters of war leon russell Leon Russell
Playlist www.mulliganstew.ca NEXT – Andy Shauf Neon Skyline
Andy Shauf Interview Neon Skyline
Neon Skyline Andy Shauf Neon Skyline
Andy Shauf Interview Neon Skyline
Living Room Andy Shauf Neon Skyline
Andy Shauf Interview Neon Skyline
Dust Kids Andy Shauf Neon Skyline
Andy Shauf Interview Neon Skyline
Things I do andy shauf Neon Skyline
Money Can’t buy Frazey Ford U kin b the Sun
no pareticular placxe to go Chuck Berry greatest hits

 

February 22nd, 2020 -VANWINEFEST  – ALL STAR ARCHIVES

February 22, 2020 Tasting Room Radio 00:54:45

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VANWINEFEST  – ALL STAR ARCHIVES

THE SHOW

 We’ve been happily  covering the annual Vancouver International Wine Festival for 12 years.

This year the events start Feb 22 with the Bacchanalia Gala and Auction  and ends with the Vintners Brunch March 1.

This one hour special will feature some of the highlight interviews from years past.

In the grand tasting room, we set up a large round table, fill it with a forest of microphones  and invite as many winemakers and principals as possible over the course of one afternoon.  Once you set it in motion, it’s always a fantastic blur.

We’ll go  as far back  as 2010 an feature a conversation  with  Anthony von Mandl introducing us to Marchesi Piero Antinori . Two visionary giants surrounded by rivers of people walking around us.

Special.

We end the hour  with two very special people.

Gina Gallo – Gallo Family

And her husband Jean Charles Boisset..Raymond. Boisset Collection

Gina Gallo, Jean Boisset

Here’s the complete line-up filled with winemakers, owners and friends. Rarely do all these wine educators and experts get together like this.  Enjoy!

Seg 1

Harry Hertscheg – Exec Director VanwineFest

Chris Gaze – founding artistic director  Bard on the beach  2017

Kurtis Kolt – educator. Georgia straight wine column.  2016 (Italy)

DJ Kearney – Wine educator – consultant – judge

DJ-Kearney

Deanna van Mulligen –  wine diva.. writer..judge –

Rhys Pender – Master of wine  -cofounder of Little Farm Similkameen

Anthony von Mandl  owner/founder Mission Hill  2010

Marchesi Piero  Antinori – Antinori  Italy

Segment 2

DJ Kearney  2017

Harry McWatters – Time..McWatters. Evolve.   co-founder of wine in Canada.  2017

Ray Signorello – losing his Napa winery buildings  To fire  2018

Seg 3

Ann Sperling – 2017 (Canada)

Daenna van Mulligen – The Wine Diva

Howard  Soon –  still at Sandhill and about to get Order of Canada

Sandra Oldfield – still at Tinhorn Creek

Jon Bonne – Keynote – new California  wine  2019

Charles Smith – Walla Walla . Before he became CHARLES SMITH   2014

Charles Smith

Seg 4

Gina Gallo – Family member and leader  2019

Her Husband

Jean Charles Boisset   – winemaker & visionary.    Raymond.  Boisset Collection.  Buena Vista  family vineyards  in Burgundy

STORIES WE’RE WORKING ON:

Top Drop Victoria

Untapped Parksville

A day with a Mescal Master in Oaxaca.

Locals Only 2020

Cider Festival

OK Falls 2020 releases.

Mulligan Stew Feb 15th 2010-The Bard & The Beatles

February 16, 2020 Mulligan Stew

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For centuries scholars have debated whether William Shakespeare actually wrote the plays attributed to him. How about  John Lennon, George Harrison  or Paul McCartney?

Opening tonight at The Citadel in Edmonton, director Daryl Cloran weaves  two dozen Beatles’ songs into the text of As You Like It, set in 1960s Vancouver and “the wild Okanagan.“

 

PLAYLIST:

Mulligan Stew Feb 15 2020
The Stew Year 25 with terrydavidmulligan www.mulliganstew.ca
woody and dutch. Slow train to Peking rickie lee jones pirates
maggie may rod stewart every picture tells a story
you don’t know how it feels Tom Oetty Wildflowers
life by the drop stevie ray vaughn archives
www.deanehouse.com Coming UP – TT Band. Stones. Mavis.New Blackie
do i look worried? tedeschi trucks band made up mind
unloved jann arden and jackson browne living under June
www.mulliganstew.ca NEXT – Stones do Dylan Live
like a rolling stone (live) the rolling stones totally stripped live
we get by mavis staples and ben harper we get by
gotta get up harry nilsson nilsson schmilsson
www.mulliganstew.ca Mulligan Stew Podcast – The Bard and The Beatles
light you up Emily Triggs middletown
good luck kid joseph good luck kid
cold 100 blackie and the rodeo kings kings of this town
Kansas City willie nelson milk cow blues
www.mulliganstew.ca NEXT – music from The Irishman
Mulligan Stew Year 25 www.mulliganstew.ca
i hear you knockin smiley lewis i hear you knockin
the fat man fats domino the fat man
honky tonk parts 1 & 2 bill doggett greatest hits
sleepwalk santo and johnny greatest hits
in the still of the night the five satins greatest hits
Mulligan Stew – CKUA Radio with terrydavidmulligan
mean old world N. Mississippi all stars and guests up and rolling
the groan bruce cockburn crowing ignites
NEXT The Bard and The Beatles Opening Night www.mulliganstew.ca As you like it
Daryl Cloren – Artistic Director The Citadel Shakespear’s As You Like It
Fool on the Hill The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
Daryl Cloren – Artistic Director The Citadel Shakespear’s As You Like It Opening Tonight
We can work it out The Beatles #1’s
Daryl Cloren – Artistic Director The Citadel Shakespear’s As You Like It Opening Tonight
I am the Walrus The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
Daryl Cloren – Artistic Director The Citadel Shakespear’s As You Like It
Hey. Youve got to hide your love away The Beatles Help
www.coyotesbanff.com www.mulliganstew.ca
I’m ready Jeff Healey Cover to Cover
She came in through the bathroom window Joe Cocker Joe Cocker

 

EP 94 | Daryl Cloran Shakespeare and the Beatles

February 15, 2020 Mulligan Stew Podcast

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William Shakespeare’s As you like it has been called his Romantic Comedy (RomCom).

It’s got laughs,   love and rejection, women dressed as men, men dressed as wrestlers.

And Director Daryl Cloran was challenged to weave  the magic of The Beatles into the dialogue.

Instead of soliloquies..we get I am the Walrus.

25  Beatles songs, William Shakespeare AND wrestling.  Let’s go.

Opens tonight at The Citadel in Edmonton

“As You Like” by RMTC and Citadel performed at the John Hirsch Mainstage as part of the master playwrights festival.

“As You Like It” cleverly blends Shakespeare’s gift with language and 25 Beatles songs performed live, including She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Let It Be and Here Comes the Sun. Will you love it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

“Like it? I loved it. This one’s a hit.” –  Georgia Straight

“You’d have to be a real nowhere man not to be on your feet and singing along.” -Vancouver Sun

Tickets for the first week are nearly sold out. Book yours, and make sure to arrive early for the pre-show Superstar Wrestling match!

“As You Like It” runs from Feb 15 – Mar 15, 2020 at Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre.

Music begins at 7:05 p.m. Wrestling begins at 7:15 p.m.
More info at www.citadeltheatre.com

EP 92 | Colin Linden and Tom Wilson

February 9, 2020 Mulligan Stew Podcast

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Although they each have successful solo careers, Colin Linden,  Tom Wilson, and road warrior  Stephen Fearing together are Blackie and The Rodeo Kings.

In 2020 the boys celebrate being together and making music for 25 years.

How did they kick off 2020?

Jan 4 they played The  Ryman Theatre, home of The Grand Ol’ Opry.

Stephen Fearing packed his bags and went touring his solo album  The Unconquerable Past!

Colin won a Grammy for Keb Mo’s Oklahoma,  which Colin co-produced in his home studio in Nashville.
Just days ago  Tom Wilson gets a Juno nomination for Lee Harvey Osmond.

And Blackie releases King of this Town.

The coming tour may take the entire year!

What started off in  1996 as a one-off tribute album in celebration of the music of Willie P Bennett has evolved into 25 years of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings.

Quite simply one of Canada’s finest bands.  Ever!!

Enjoy the stories!