PODCAST · arts
Mulligan Stew
by Terry David Mulligan
Terry David Mulligan, Canadian Broadcaster, Interviewer and podcaster
Episodes
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EP 405 | An Interview with Canadian Guitar Legend Amos Garrett
Amos Garrett. Guitarist, singer, trombonist, born in Detroit on 26 Nov 1941. Amos played lead guitar 1968-70 for Ian and Sylvia (appearing on their groundbreaking country-rock LP, Great Speckled Bird). Moving to Woodstock, NY, in 1970, Amos toured and/or recorded with Maria Muldaur, Paul...
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EP 404 | Secondhand Dream Car and Colin James. New memoir: Playing the Changes
We have a total of 10 Guests. Nine of them come from the hot-rising Edmonton band Second Hand Dream Car. For the first time, all 9 members showed up to talk. We talked about the history of "horn bands". Everyone from Tower of Power to Tedeschi Trucks Band. And this Friday they're releasing their...
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EP 403 | Steve Dawson and the Volcano Brothers-New Album
I lovingly think of Steve Dawson as the Swiss Army Knife of music. Player.Producer. Writer. Arranger. Mentor. Creator. Recording engineer. Specializes in guitar and pedal steel. Touring band member for Allison Russell's Birds of Chicago and Matt Anderson. First noticed Steve as half of Zubot and...
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EP 402 | Harry Manx-New album 'Falling Upwards'
Friday, brilliant Gulf Islands string specialist Harry Manx released his 22nd album, Falling Upwards. The song titles give hints at what Harry's been creating. Songs about Healing – Step Softly Traditional Gospel – God's gonna cut you down (with Kevin Breit) Love with a groove – Find Your Love...
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EP 401 | Keb 'Mo' on Mulligan Stew-New album 'The Breakdown'
Keb' Mo's newest album is a stripped-down record that features just his voice, acoustic guitar, and some special guests. It's been described as an optimistic album, which is remarkable, considering its release after the artist faced a life-changing illness. The five-time Grammy winner, known for...
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EP 400 | The Summerland Fires – an informed discussion
It's fire season in BC. In the very heart of the prime tourist months, Summerland and surrounding areas have been ablaze. Almost 12,000 people, locals and tourists, have been evacuated from Summerland. On Friday, the main highway through Summerland reopened with limited hours. (7 am to 7 PM) The...
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EP 399 | Rhiannon Giddens, 2 interviews – Edmonton Folk Music Festival
"I started singing at an ungodly age, standing in my crib and warbling at passing family members. I didn't really think of it as a career until I went to the School of Science and Math and realized that I never wanted to do another algorithm. So I went to Oberlin Conservatory and did... The post…
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EP 398 | The Skydiggers – Celebrate 40 years together by going back!!
Our guests are Skydiggers co-founders Andy Maise and Josh Finlayson. They've just released their next album, West Montrose. Produced by Jimmy Bowskill in his studio. West Montrose is what they called the band before Skydiggers. (for you trivia fans, one rejected name was Crowded Trousers.) The…
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EP 397 | Valerie June, Coming our way!
An artist who blends Americana, folk, gospel, soul, and blues to create something she calls "organic moonshine roots music," June grew up in western Tennessee, a part of the world where different musical traditions meet, something that is reflected in her special sound. She was raised in a…
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EP 397 | Valerie June, Coming our way!
An artist who blends Americana, folk, gospel, soul, and blues to create something she calls "organic moonshine roots music," June grew up in western Tennessee, a part of the world where different musical traditions meet, something that is reflected in her special sound. She was raised in a…
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EP 395 | Blue Moon Marquee, New Album'Get your feathers Ready'
AW Cardinal and Jasmine Colette continue to create very new and very different music. The last album was recorded over several days in New Orleans. The new album, Get Your Feathers Ready, was a meeting of Coast Salish and Treaty 6 in Maskwacis, Alberta. One day of rehearsal with AW, Jas, and the...
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Ep 393 | Terry Wickham Producer/Artistic Director of Edmonton Folk Festival
Our guest is Terry Wickham. Terry Wickham, producer and creative director of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, spends his entire year searching for just the right artists to showcase on the stages of his folk festival. Terry has been producing the festival for 38 of its 47 years. Right off the…
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Ep 391 | Leeroy Stagger Pilgrimage - latest Album
This week's Mulligan Stew podcast features our own Leeroy Stagger. He's the host of Dirty Windshield Radio Hour on 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...
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Ep 391 | Leeroy Stagger Pilgrimage - latest Album
This week's Mulligan Stew podcast features our own Leeroy Stagger. He's the host of Dirty Windshield Radio Hour on 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...
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EP 390 | Randy Bachman on The Guess Who & BTO
Once again, I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time and got to experience the lift off of the first Canadian artist to hit #1 in the USA. Before they became world famous, they were another prairie band trying to get the bosses in Toronto to notice them. I was at CJME and CKCK in...
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EP 389 | Chris Wood - The Wood Brothers. New album Puff of Smoke
Big fan of Medeski. Martin and Wood. Then followed the Wood Brothers through 9 albums. The media and music fans painted the brothers as a Jam Band. They are anything but. Jazz and roots/ blues driven with themes and lyrics that dive into human behaviour. Almost all songs are wrapped in a sensual...
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Ep 388 | Ron Sexsmith on Gordon Lightfoot
Ron Sexsmith has 19 albums in a singular career. His songwriting has been admired by his many peers. There's only one voice like his - which is a blessing in a sea of wouldda/coulda/shoulda. Photo by Kerry Vergeer[/caption] If you asked him to compare his songs with his idol Gordon Lightfoot, Ron...
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Ep 387 | Mariel Buckley and Alan Doyle Revisited
Last Oct 11, Mariel Buckley joined us from a motel room in New Mexico ( I think) as she was touring following the release of her latest album, Strange Trip Ahead. On Saturday night, Mariel and the album won a Juno Award for the 2026 Contemporary Roots Album of the Year. At 3 a.m., I was digging...
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Ep 385 | Jeff Guignard - Wine BC and Brad Royale - Sommelier Concorde Group Calgary
Guests - Jeff Guignard, CEO, Wine BC Brad Royale - Corp Sommelier Concorde Entertainment Group Both Jeff and Brad are fully into wine. The growing and pouring. We'll talk about Alberta's tax/no tax on BC wines. The state of Canadian wines and both have lots to recommend at the ongoing 2026...
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EP 384 | The Bros. Landreth bring Dog Ear (with Bonnie Raitt)
The amazing story and success of Winnipeg's David and Joey Landreth continue with the release of their 9th studio album, Dog Ear. The brothers join us from home base as they prepare for a full European tour and select key American dates this year. The new album deals with finding a balance…
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EP 383 | John Candy A life in comedy – Authour and guest Paul Myers
From his humble beginnings in sketch comedy with the Toronto branch of Second City to his rise to fame in SCTV and Hollywood film classics like Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Great Outdoors, and Uncle Buck, John Candy captivated audiences with his self-deprecating humour, emotional warmth…
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EP 382 | Harry Hertscheg Executive Director Vancouver Wine Festival March 7-14
Harry Hertscheg pours another glass. It's a blend uniquely Harry The 47th annual Festival. March 7/14- on opening the room is filled with information, numbers and a hint of Nardwuar. The palate is full. Surprising with stories of Bacchanalia (Mar 7), The Soul of Napa (MAR 9), The mid-palate is...
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EP 380 | Blue Moon Marquee, New Album'Get your feathers Ready'
AW Cardinal and Jasmine Colette continue to create very new and very different music. The last album was recorded over several days in New Orleans. The new album, Get Your Feathers Ready, was a meeting of Coast Salish and Treaty 6 in Maskwacis, Alberta. One day of rehearsal with AW, Jas, and the...
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EP 379 | Nardwuar becomes first 'human serviette' appointed to Order of Canada!
The Vancouver personality, born John Ruskin, is among 80 appointees announced on Wednesday, Unlike most of them, the 57-year-old will be inducted under his stage name, "Nardwuar, the Human Serviette," a rare exception for one of Canada's highest honours that meets the spirit of his off-the-wall...
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EP 378 | A very personal reconnect with Sarah McLachlan. Lilith / Fumbling / Motherhood / Thailand and first new album in 11 years Better Broken
We've all been in the right place at the right time. For me, one of those times was to be hosting and producing MuchWest in Vancouver when Sarah McLachlan moved from Halifax to Vancouver to begin what would become an amazing career. Sarah ended up on the West Coast because in Halifax, her home…
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EP 376 | Master Storyteller Alan Doyle presents his latest book & journey The Smiling Land
The Smiling Land is a celebration of Alan's Newfoundland, in its legendary past and brilliant future. The music, the bays, towns, villages, and 12-hour ferry rides to get you halfway to where you're going. Alan is the tour guide, something he's actually done! Besides the reader, along for the...
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EP 376 | Master Storyteller Alan Doyle presents his latest book & journey The Smiling Land
The Smiling Land is a celebration of Alan's Newfoundland, in its legendary past and brilliant future. The music, the bays, towns, villages, and 12-hour ferry rides to get you halfway to where you're going. Alan is the tour guide, something he's actually done! Besides the reader, along for the...
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EP 376 | Master Storyteller Alan Doyle presents his latest book & journey The Smiling Land
The Smiling Land is a celebration of Alan's Newfoundland, in its legendary past and brilliant future. The music, the bays, towns, villages, and 12-hour ferry rides to get you halfway to where you're going. Alan is the tour guide, something he's actually done! Besides the reader, along for the...
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EP 375 | Vancouver's Biggest Non-Alc Wine, Beer, Spirit & Cocktail Tasting! Free Spirit Vancouver
No/Lo spirits, wine, cider, and beer have been "trending" for many years now. The search for wine and beer replacements has always been there. A number of producers began to find results after they made their wine and beer, then stripped the alcohol out and substituted the taste with other...
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EP 374 | Forty Years of Blue Rodeo With Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor
How do you celebrate a 40-year music career? If you're Blue Rodeo, you tour Canada in 40 dates, and the last two are in Massey Hall. We're showcasing Blue Rodeo with separate one-on-one interviews with co-founders and co-writers/singers Greg Keelor and Jim Cuddy. , Blue Rodeo and the guys have...
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EP 373 | The Bros. Landreth bring Dog Ear with Bonnie Raitt
The amazing story and success of Winnipeg's David and Joey Landreth continues with the release of their 9th studio album, Dog Ear. The brothers join us from home base as they prepare for a full European tour and select key American dates this year. The new album deals with finding a balance…
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EP 371 | After 5 years away from his career, Royal Wood returns with Dear John
Following a celebrated national headline tour and a wonderful run supporting the legendary Bonnie Raitt, Dear John sees Royal Wood collaborating with five-time Grammy-winning Mixer Ryan Freeland (Bonnie Raitt, Ray LaMontagne). Royal describes Dear John as a "letter to a younger Royal". The album...
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EP 370 | Juno Winner Aysanabee heads west on The Way We're Born Tour
Juno Winner Aysanabee headlines his first national tour. Two-time JUNO Award-winning Oji-Cree artist Aysanabee has been riding a powerful wave for over three years, and this fall he's bringing it coast to coast. Following the release of his June release album Edge Of The Earth on Ishkōdé Records,...
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EP 369 | Bahamas New Album 'My Second Last Album'
Afie Jurvanen (aka Bahamas) has announced My Second Last Album, his seventh studio release and the follow-up to Bootcut. The record arrived everywhere on October 24, 2025 and finds Afie back in Nova Scotia, trading Nashville's storied studios for the coastal quiet of a backyard shed. Recorded at...
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EP 368 | Mariel Buckley releases New Album Strange Trip Ahead /Complete Canadian tour with Matt Anderson
Americana singer-songwriter Mariel Buckley announces her just-released album – Strange Trip Ahead, out Friday, October 17, 2025, via Birthday Cake Records. It finds Mariel venturing into new sonic ground for her, embracing an indie-rock song box that leans away from her country and Americana…
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EP 367 | Terra Lightfoot Guests. New Album 'Home Front'
A long-distance pal returns to The podcast. Sensational Singer- Prolific Songwriter - Road Warrior. Terra Lightfoot Terra Lightfoot has a well-earned reputation as a tireless live performer, with a tour history mapped across the globe and awards testifying to every mile logged along the way. To...
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Ep 366 | Ben Immanuel 'Are We Done Now?'
Award-winning writer/director/actor Ben Immanuel's feature film Are We Done Now? was released for VOD in Canada on September 30. The film makes its U.S. Premiere at the SOHO International Film Festival from October 7-14. Are We Done Now, starring Gabrielle Miller with Favour Onwuka, Natalie…
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EP 365 | Introducing Jeff Guignard. New CEO-President of Wine Growers of BC
Not only is he outspoken and focused, Jeff also spent 10 years in Ottawa. He knows well which doors to knock on or kick down. Jeff has been traveling to the various wine growing regions of BC and learning firsthand the challenges brought by climate and dealing with Crafted in BC wines. We'll talk...
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EP 363 | Nigel, Derek, David and Marty Back with Spinal Tap 2 - The End Continues
Forty-one years after the release of the groundbreaking mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, the now-estranged bandmates David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer) are forced to reunite for one final concert. Spinal Tap II: The End…
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EP 362 | Madeleine Roger Deluxe (Extended)
Maddy reveals how the acoustic versions of four songs from Nerve were included on the just-released NERVE (extended) album. Because they were about relationships and breakups, Madeleine wanted them to sound like they were recorded at a campfire. Warmer and less Conflicted. (my words, not hers)...
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EP 361 | Ron Sexsmith with 18th album 'Hangover Terrace'
Our guest this week is songwriter, storyteller and singer with a one-of-a kind voice, Ron Sexsmith. I think the older I get, the clearer those memories become—and the more precious," Friday of this week he released his 18th album Hangover Terrace. It's a wonderfully complex album born during…
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EP 359 | It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley Interview with Documentary Director Amy Berg
Amy Berg, the director of the just-released documentary It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley. Jeff was, quite simply, one of the most engaging and brilliant performers. Blessed with a voice that could mimic singers such as Robert Plant and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. His single album Grace is still…
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EP 357 | Honeybear, the band - Release album I was Wrong
The guests are Ian Beaty and Colin Brumelle Singers and songwriters leading the soul and R&B sounds of Honeybear, the Band. New album I Was Wrong. Vancouver-based based but they're creating music that could easily have come from Memphis, New Orleans or Muscle Shoals. See and hear it for yourself:...
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EP 357 | Honeybear, the band - Release album I was Wrong
The guests are Ian Beaty and Colin Brumelle Singers and songwriters leading the soul and R&B sounds of Honeybear, the Band. New album I Was Wrong. Vancouver-based based but they're creating music that could easily have come from Memphis, New Orleans or Muscle Shoals. See and hear it for yourself:...
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EP 356 | Here comes Tami Neilson/Neon Cowgirl
NEON COWGIRL "The Neon Cowgirl-towering over Broadway like the patron saint of heartbreak in downtown Nashville as she smiles coyly over her shoulder in red cowboy boots-watched me grow up. Basking in her glow, I walked wide-eyed into the Ryman Auditorium as a 16 year-old, clutching my ticket....
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EP 355 | Western Folk Festival Artistic Directors Cage Match 2025
It's Festival Season. One of the very best times of the year. Sun, relaxed lifestyle, friends, family and FESTIVALS. Jazz, blues, rock, roots, pop, French. Everything !! Especially Folk! There are many folk festivals where you'll see and hear all of those artists. The barriers are well down. If...
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EP 355 | Western Folk Festival Artistic Directors Cage Match 2025
It's Festival Season. One of the very best times of the year. Sun, relaxed lifestyle, friends, family and FESTIVALS. Jazz, blues, rock, roots, pop, French. Everything !! Especially Folk! There are many folk festivals where you'll see and hear all of those artists. The barriers are well down. If...
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Count Me In Documentary on drumming and drummers-Interview Director Mark Lo
Mark Lo (Director/Producer) has worked in film and TV for more than 20 years. First, as a music agent and supervisor, collaborating with composers and artists to bring music to picture and then as an Executive Music Producer Mark recently produced and directed the feature music documentary Count…
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