Episode Notes
Not your normal Mulligan Stew show.
It’s not often in a lifetime that your know you’re about to lose a friend but you can celebrate their career and achievements as an artist and person.
However The Tragically Hip are playing their final concert Saturday night in their hometown Kingston Ontario.
It’s the last one because, as we all well know, lead singer/writer/heart and soul of the group Gord Downey has been advised his battle with cancer is not winnable.
The boys chose to tour Canada one more time..to wild applause and buckets of tears.
I’m a guy who has made his living with words..To my astonishment, I find it almost impossible to form words about this tragedy..
I just get as teary as everyone else..I even reached out to a friend who knows the band very well..hoping his words would show the way.
So..I’ve left it to the only communication I can understand..The Music.
Six Hip tracks are featured throughout the show..they speak to all of us.
Please enjoy and remember the “the boys”….
Thank you Gord..Hope you can feel the love of an entire country.
~TDM
Playlist
| Track | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Mulligan Stew | Aug 20 2016 | |
| TD Mulligan – Host of Mulligan Stew | paylist www.mulliganstew.ca | |
| Pigeon Camera | The Tragically Hip | Fully Competely/Live at the Horse Shoe |
| Midnight Dream | Little Axe | Blues Lounge |
| The sky is crying (live) | Stevie Ray Vaughn | Live at Carnegie Hall |
| www.Canadahouse.com | Coming Up on The Stew – The Hip | |
| Highwater | Fabulous Thunderbirds | Highwater |
| Twist My Arm | The Tragically Hip | Fully Competely/Live at the Horse Shoe |
| Last of the Unplucked Gems (live) | The Tragically Hip | Road Apples |
| TD Mulligan Host of Mulligan Stew Year 20 | Saluting The Hip | |
| Ahead by a Century (live) | The Tragically Hip | Live between us |
| The celebrated walking blues | Taj Mahal | The Essential Taj Mahal |
| Mulligan Stew | www.coyotesbanff.com | |
| I ain’t Superstitous | Jeff Beck (and Rod Stewart) | Truth |
| Somebody’s Knocking | Eric Clapton | I still do |
| Mulligan Stew | PLAYLIST www.mulliganstew.ca | |
| Matadora | Danny Michel | Matadora |
| Jailer Jailer | The High Bar Gang | Someday the heartwill trouble the mind |
| Going to Brownsville | Ry Cooder | Ry Cooder |
| TD Mulligan – Hostof Mulligan Stew | Coming Up on The Stew – The Hip | |
| Conditional Discharge | Long John baldry | Best of Stony Plain Years |
| Don’t try to lay no Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll | Long John baldry | It Ain’t Easy |
| Dimples | Long John baldry | Best of Sony Plain Years |
| After it all | Cat Power | The Greatest |
| TDM Mulligan Stew Year 20 | ||
| Signs and Signifiers | JD McPherson | Signs and Signifiers |
| Red right Hand | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Best of |
| Can’t you hear me knocking | The Rolling Stones | Sticky Fingers |
| Mulligan Stew – with tdm | ||
| Inevitability of Death | The Tragically Hip | Day for Night |
| New Orleans is sinking (live) | The Tragically Hip | That night in Toronto |
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