Mulligan Stew May 23rd 2026-A Bob Fest and Leeroy Stagger Interview in Hour Two

Bob Dylan turns 85 on Sunday. Besides our other guest, Leeroy Stagger and his just-released album, Pilgrimage, in Hour Two  it’s wall-to-wall Bob and the artists he influenced.

George Harrison

Joe Cocker and Leon Russell

Mavis Staples and Levon Helm

The Finale Cast of The Last Waltz.

We are ALL so lucky to be living in Bob’s time frame.  We get to watch the albums and songs appear and take on a life of their own.

Best of all, Bob’s still cooking. Leading the way. Happy Birthday, Zimmy.

Sharing the second hour of this week’s Stew is our own Leeroy Stagger. He’s the host of Dirty Windshield Radio Hour Saturdays on CKUA Radio.

His latest album is about to be released. It’s called Pilgrimage.

Leeroy found inspiration by reading Alister McIntosh’s brilliant  book “Soil and Soul.”

“I wanted to write on the Highland Clearances of the 1700s that pushed my ancestors from Scotland to Northern Ireland and ultimately Nova Scotia. The repercussions of colonialism that  shake the branches of my family tree and sadly still ring  out throughout my home country of Canada today.”

Key to these songs and the entire album is the partnership Leeroy entered into with East Coast legend Joel Plaskett. They played, wrote and produced together.

Joel suggested to Leeroy that they use his  Tascam 388, an old 1/4″ 8-track machine. Joel convinced me on the magic, and I  started to see the humanness of  tape, in all of it’s warm and unpredictable glory”

“At this point, we have to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in. Digital isolation or a community forward offering of storytelling, of truth in the natural world, of something tangible and real; a bit of the old ways.”

Hour one starts with a donor suggestion for Larkin Poe followed by Hiss Golden Messenger, Whitehorse, old Stones and Fleetwood Mac, new Charlie Musselwhite, new Rodney Crowell, if I could speak to Leonard, followed by Leonard himself.