EP 325 | The Last Roundup with Barney Bentall
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Barney Bentall is bringing The Last Roundup through the West. Next Friday at Bella Hall in Calgary. It’s the final tour of the Caribou Express. Over 20 years of seasonal touring, Barney and various members of Caribou Express raised Millions for charities all across Canada. Especially, serious money for food banks late in the year when they really need it. Barney gives us an update on the last lineup, the lives of his Express friends over the years and final thoughts on what lies ahead for the rocker and rancher. www.barneybentall.com
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EP 324 | Author Luke Whittall and his Sipster's Pocket Guides Books
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Look who's on a Roll - It's this week's guest, Author Luke Whittall Luke and his Sipster's Pocket Guides Books. In the third volume in the popular Sipster’s Pocket Guide series, wine expert and educator Luke Whittall presents his latest top 50 British Columbia wines under $50 (including many under $30) and along the way shares his thoughts on wine country and common misconceptions about certain grapes, and offers up tangents on everything from scented candles to middle children to jazz hands. With food and activity pairings that range from Thai noodles...
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EP 323 | Natalie MacLean - Wine Witch on Fire
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The full title of Natalie Maclean's memoir is Wine Witch on Fire Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation and Drinking Too Much. For all of you who bought and read Natalie's book Red, White and Drunk All Over and listened to her podcast Unreserved Wine Talk, this memoir is a completely different read. She discovers her husband of many years is leaving the relationship and at the same time, her wine rivals decide to tell the wine world that she's not nearly as accomplished as we think. Despite multiple awards for her writing and knowledge,...
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EP 322 | Kris Kristofferson interview 2006-(New Orleans sessions) Blue Moon Marquee
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We meet Blue Moon Marquee - Al Cardinal and Jasmine Colette - on the stage at the Osbourne Bay Pub in Crofton, Vancouver Island. That stage was the first place they met and then played together many times as Blue Moon Marquee. They've come a long way since that stage. Juno Winners, sweeping the 2023 Maple Blues Awards and still winning awards including this week. After a decade of stages and touring comes the 5th album New Orleans Sessions. Recorded in New Orleans in two days - Four hours each day. One track Trickster Coyote was a first take....
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Ep 321 | The Fretless - With new album Glass Wing
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The Fretless guest on The Stew. Karrnnel Sawitsky and Trent Freeman - one-half of The Fretless join us. Saturday in the first hour. Their album - Glass Wing is brilliant. With 3 songs cowritten and sung by Madeleine Roger. Classically trained, raised on rock, jazz, blues, folk and heritage roots, they take all those influences and combine them into a sound unlike any other group. They take 100 year old shanty's and reshape the song without losing the original melody so it can last another 100 years. In Glass Wing, they write all their own tunes. Three co-written...
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EP 320 | Donovan Woods and his latest album 'Things Were Never Good if They’re Not Good Now'
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This week we welcome Donovan Woods and his latest album Things were never good if They’re not good now. Wonderful insight into his songwriting and his place in the music business. The first time he played in Victoria, he couldn’t believe the audience knew the words to his songs. And in the past year, he played in Australia and remembers an audience in Perth who sang the words louder than he could. He has come a very long way has Donovan. Struggling to find things to sing about or sing at all. A series of failures lead to an addiction counselling program and committed...
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EP 319 | 2 Guests, Joel Plaskett and Leeroy Stagger both with New albums!
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Joel Plaskett's eleventh album—One Real Reveal is special for several reasons. Joel sat down with a small Telefunken KM56 microphone and a 4-track recorder and recorded the tracks for One Real Reveal ON CASSETTE TAPE starting with the brilliant High Summer. This album and its music is bare. Because it is, you’re forced to listen to the music and especially the lyrics. These are words and melodies that will still be the air in a concert hall. IF you can get in. Joel’s current tour out west is Sold Out. Fittingly, the tour ends at Massey Hall in Toronto. It too will be...
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EP 318 | Blues Master Robert Finley interview at Edmonton Folk Festival
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Terry David Mulligan joins Blues lifer Robert Finley in the media tent at the Edmonton Folk Festival. Robert spins the stories of how he went from losing most of his sight to becoming the hot new voice in the blues. Inviting himself to do a cold walk-on at the Blues Festival in St Helena. It's quite a story he tells. The crowd loved him and that set things in motion. The Music Maker Relief Foundation, a non-profit blues support system, heard him busking in the streets and offered to help. Finley released his first album “Age Don’t Mean a Thing” in 2016. Dan Auerbach of the...
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EP 317 | Madeleine Roger Interview and new Album 'Nerve'
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I’ve been waiting for new music from Winnipeg’s Madeleine Roger for four years. That’s how long it's been since I discovered her voice, playing and gifted songwriting. Maddy took a solo career detour through the stellar chops of The Fretless. They needed an exceptional vocalist who understood and was comfortable with, classical music. Madeleine needed a different “band” to shine with. Perfect! So here we are in early September and both artists are releasing new albums. Madeleine has just released NERVE a new album filled with tales of lost love and found freedoms. Produced by...
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EP 316 | Rhiannon Giddens Interview 2024
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The last time I had the privilege of interviewing Rhiannon Giddens it was in 2017 at Edmonton Folk Fest. In the next five years, she became a World star. For example: In October 2017, Giddens was named one of the 2017 class of . In 2017 and 2018, Giddens appeared in the and seasons of the 's In January 2018, Giddens co-produced for . in early 2018, the Nashville Ballet announced that Rhiannon Giddens has been commissioned to write the music for Lucy Negro, Redux. In 2019, Giddens released two studio albums: Songs of Our Native...
info_outlineThe last time I had the privilege of interviewing Rhiannon Giddens it was in 2017 at Edmonton Folk Fest.
In the next five years, she became a World star.
For example:
In October 2017, Giddens was named one of the 2017 class of MacArthur "Genius" Fellows.
In 2017 and 2018, Giddens appeared in the fifth and sixth seasons of the CMT's
In January 2018, Giddens co-produced Songs of Our Native Daughters for Smithsonian Folkways.
in early 2018, the Nashville Ballet announced that Rhiannon Giddens has been commissioned to write the music for Lucy Negro, Redux. In 2019, Giddens released two studio albums: Songs of Our Native Daughters and There Is No Other with Italian musician Francesco Turrisi
Giddens earned an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for her lasting impact on the UNCG community and her work in music. In 2023, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music from Princeton University
In other words, the last 5-6 years have been a delightful blur.
Thus my first question was …what do you remember of the last 5 years?
If anyone is going to change music in her lifetime – it's Rhiannon Giddens!!
Enjoy.