Mulligan Stew March 4th 2023- 2 hours of fine music & remembering Richard Manuel!

Episode Notes

UNSPECIFIED – CIRCA 1976: Photo of Band (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Well, look at that – March. The first weekend in March.

What’s next?  Longer days and nights? New White wines for Spring?  Birds chortling in the trees?
YUP!!!

Well, let’s celebrate with 2 hours of hand-picked music.

NEW music from Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder, Van Morrison, Nathaniel Rateliff and NightSweats, Bob Dylan U2,

Allison Russell and Brandi Carlile.

Classic tracks from Mellencamp and Springsteen, John Fogerty, Colin James, Queen and Bowie, BB King and Eric Clapton, Toots, Bahamas, and Cedrick Burnside. Leslie Feist. Corb Lund and Jerry Rafferty!!

Live tracks from Tedeschi Trucks, Sheryl Crow, and Joan Osborne.

And we remember the life and songs of Richard Manuel of The Band.  Lost on this day in 1986.

“Richard Manuel’s is the first voice you hear on the first Band album Music from Big Pink. After a Robbie Robertson guitar intro that sounds as if it’s being fed through Garth Hudson’s Lowry organ at its most distorted, his aching baritone launches into the first reproachful line of `Tears of Rage`. As it arches over `arms`, you can’t help thinking of Ray Charles, the singer who more than any other shaped this unlikely white soul voice from Stratford, Ontario. And by the end of the first chorus you realize why, in an almost unspoken way, Manuel’s fellow Band vocalists Levon Helm and Rick Danko always looked upon him as the group’s `lead` singer.”
–Barney Hoskyns