If you missed last weekend’s Tent Show Radio episode featuring WC Clark and the Blue Canvas Orchestra can now be heard online. During the monologue at intermission, Mike wonders if chickens ever get the blues.
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As folks who have received thank you notes from me can confirm, I have never quite nailed down the spelling of “privilege.”
Heading to Monroe, Wisconsin, Thursday. With songs and stories, and maybe pedal steel. Getting together later today to rehearse. It’ll be good to see my friends the Long Beds. Here’s info about the show.
Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). Today’s column (about parenting and phlegm) (sorry about that) (feeling much better now) was printed on sturdy newsprint this Sunday and can now be seen online here.
My father is a quiet, private man. He would never choose to have his son tell stories on him. But I do. Because he gave me memories like this.
What a joy to watch friends at work expressing things in the instant that I struggle to capture on the page. I especially like the one that begins about 3:13. Puts me in a lonely-sunny-afternoon-alongside-a-western-highway state of mind.
Whether he claims it on his resume or not, guy on the drums designed the covers and art and all else for the Headwinded and Tiny Pilot albums.
Guy on the keys, I knew him when alls he had was a Fisher Price xylophone.
Guy with the beard, no idea. I know he mostly always plows his own driveway.
If you’re within range of one of these stations tonight (Saturday, June 15th) we hope you’ll join Mike as he hosts another edition of Tent Show Radio from Big Top Chautauqua. Information on streaming the show here.
In this episode’s monologue – delivered from the backstage dressing room with the one lonely little lightbulb burnin’ – Mike wonders if chickens ever get the blues.
You can join the Tent Show Radio Facebook page here.
REMINDER: Most of this year’s previous Tent Show Radio episodes available for streaming anytime – just click here.
Sat in my car alongside a dead end road on a hill and joined host Steve Kraske to talk about Population 485 and Visiting Tom.
You can listen here (our part starts at about the 13:40 mark).
If you’re within range of one of these stations tomorrow (Saturday, June 15th) we hope you’ll join Mike as he hosts another edition of Tent Show Radio from Big Top Chautauqua. Information on streaming the show here.
In this episode’s monologue – delivered from the backstage dressing room with the one lonely little lightbulb burnin’ – Mike wonders if chickens ever get the blues.
You can join the Tent Show Radio Facebook page here.
REMINDER: Most of this year’s previous Tent Show Radio episodes available for streaming anytime – just click here.
While I can shop for bungee cords at the Farm & Fleet without anybody recognizing me, I have reached the point where I get enough emails and letters and Tweets and Facebook messages that I am unable to give each the personal response it deserves and as such today is one of those days I feel compelled to let you know I still read every single one and don’t take them for granted. Also: Your Facebook comments reveal you to be an above-average bunch of pithy quotationeers. You give me a lot of grins. The fact is, I’m self-employed in an endeavor requiring self-promotion and it will be so until the mortgage is paid off and the kids stop wrecking their shoes, but I take none of this for granted and there is heart at the heart of it. Thank you.
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