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.

You can get Natalie MacLean's new memoir Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much in paperback, ebook or audiobook from these retailers.

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. Recorded with some of the very best New Orleans players.

Lots of stories and new music. Also news of the next two projects they intend to present.

They start their next tour October 26th at Festival Place, Sherwood Park. October dates in Lloydminster, Daysland and Athabaska. - and April 5 at the Arden

(complete interview on Mulligan Stew Podcast)

We start the Mulligan Stew Podcast Stew remembering and celebrating the life and music of the late Kris Kristofferson.

From the Mulligan Stew archives we replay the Kris Kristofferson interview we did 2006 backstage at Calgary Folk Festival.

Answering media questions, including my own:

Kris talks about Johnny Cash, Willie and his sons, Hank Williams, movies, performing solo, the Nashville Underground, songwriters these days John Prine, Todd Snider, Shooter Jennings, and how nervous he gets singing for 12,000 people.

Please enjoy…honoured to bring you both artists!!

• Oct 3 Fanny Bay
• Oct 4 Comox
• Oct 5 Victoria
• Oct 6 Van
• October 10 Calgary
• October 11 Edmonton

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 himself to getting to “the bottom of myself“

He changed his mind about a lot of things.

” It turns out the truth does really set you free”

“I won’t be cheesy and say I feel like this is my first album, but it certainly feels like a new start”

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 Sold Out.

Discover the new sounds of Joel Plaskett, just like the old Joel Plaskett only quieter, more reflective.

I’ve been waiting many years to have Joel to myself. Just to exchange ideas and passions.

My timing couldn’t have been better. One Real Reveal was well worth the wait.

The other welcome guest is our pal Leeroy Stagger. Host of Dirty Windshields Radio Hour on CKUA Saturdays.

But before Leeroy joined us, he was a highly respected singer/songwriter and he continues to write, record and perform his very personal songs.

Leeroy has just released his latest album 3 am Revelations.

In it, Leeroy reflects the life around him. The road, family, social issues and seeking the answers to all his inner questions.

Just a heads up – 3 am Revelations rocks. Bangers like Watermelon Pink, Count to 10, These Days. Then finds balance with reflective gems like

It’s gonna be alright (someday), Alberta Stars, Life’s a Drag, etc.

It's good to have friends and partners like Leeroy Stagger. Great album Leeroy! You nailed it.

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 Black Keys heard him and they started recording together – with Dan as producer.

They’ve now done 4 albums together. Each one is bigger and better.

The latest is Black Bayou. There will be no more busking for Robert Finley. He’s 70 years old and an overnight sensation!!