Mulligan Stew April 19th 2024- Matt Andersen – Brings his 11th solo studio album The Hammer and The Rose.

Matt Andersen is one of CKUA’s favourite artists. On the air and certainly with the audience.

Matt is releasing his 11^th solo studio album The Hammer and The Rose April 25th.

I was delighted with all of that information until I got to”the date” April 25.   

As you may  know,  that’s the first Friday for the CKUA Spring fundraiser.

I asked Matt’s team if I could move the Stew interview to this Saturday – and they approved!!

This album, about the relationship between the head and the heart, presents a different Matt.

A slightly quieter Matt,  so you can hear the texture and grain of his voice.

Great songs too.

Co-writing the title track with Steve Dawson

Co-writing with Tom and Thompson Wilson, Terra Lightfoot and Jesse O’Brien.

Co-writing The Cobbler with producer/drummer Jason Van Tassel –  as a tribute to, and in memory of,  their Fathers.

Includes a fine cover of JJ Cale’s Magnolia.

With  Afie Jurvanen on guitar and vocals.

The complete interview will be dropped on the Mulligan Stew Podcast and the video version on the Terry David Mulligan YouTube Channel.

We’re playing Patti Smith’s Because the Night (Bruce Springsteen) which was released April 19^th  1978. From her album Easter.

Levon Helm  – who passed on April 19,  2012

The Animals – House of the Rising Sun – so we can salute the birthday of one of the greatest, Alan Price. On keyboards.

Also, Chuck Berry and Roll Over Beethoven – recorded at Chess Records, April 19,  1956

Lots of New Stuff:  Terra Lightfoot, Jesse Roper, Dan Mangan, Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Mumford and Sons, Bahamas.