When We Wake with Andrew Shaver23 Mai 2025

34. When We Wake with Dan Mangan

Dan Mangan is one of Canada’s most beloved singer-songwriters - a moniker he’s newly embracing. So much so, in fact, that he considered calling his new album Schminger Schmongwriter - a nod to Harry Nilsson’s classic 1971 LP Nilsson Schmilsson.

In the end, Dan went with Natural Light as an album title, and as you’ll hear in our chat, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours as an album reference, in that, he calls Natural Light his Rumours, AKA a modern classic.

And why not. The album is a thing of beauty.

Recorded over 6 days in a cabin in the woods with 3 of his best buds (Mike O’Brien, Jason Haberman, and Don Kerr), Natural Light wasn’t even supposed to happen.

With a recording session lined up in LA a few months later, the session in the woods with the buds was intended as more of a songwriting retreat in between lake jumps and egg scrambles.

Instead, the songs and their recordings “unfolded like a miracle” and, as you'll hear, Dan's never been prouder of an album.

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When We Wake with Andrew Shaver is written, hosted, edited, and produced by Andrew Shaver. The weekly radio broadcast is syndicated on 9 stations across Canada.

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