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Archive for September, 2011

We Took the Kids

To the City Museum in St. Louis last year on an outing with cousins and it was terrific. Wondered about who might have designed it, and how they managed to keep it open in the age of permits and litigation. Then today I read this.

Good background here as well but may be pay-walled.

Tractors, Chainsaws, Beer, Fire

It’s my dear friend Dean Bakopoulos, reading an essay about chainsaws and tractors and beer and fire…have a listen here.

Dean is one of the good guys. I have known few people who so effectively bridge the senseless gulf that too often yawns between calloused hands and academia. I also once stiffed him for the price of a hamburger and can never quite recall if we resolved that.

Billy’s Basement

Tonight, a break in the writing marathon in order to meet up with the Long Beds for rehearsal. We have a show over on the other side of the state Saturday. It’ll be good to hang with the Beds (and our guest Mary). Haven’t seen any of’em for a while and feel like a kid counting down the moments until a play date.

And a thank you to my wife and daughters, who weather and support me during extended work binges. They put in long hours with the non-shiny part of me.

Michael Perry and the Long Beds October 1

We’re happy to say that Mike and the band will be playing (Mike will sneak in a few stories, as well) in Ashippun, Wisconsin, this coming Saturday. This is an RSVP event. Click on poster to enlarge, and get more specific information here. Speaking in very general geographic terms, Ashippun is located in the triangle of space delineated by Fond du Lac, Madison, and Milwaukee.

Rumor has it (and weather permitting) we will be playing on the back of an International Harvester rig. That’s pretty much perfect.

We are also pleased and honored to announce that for this show the band will include our friend and guest guitarist Mary Cutrufello.

New Kathleen Edwards Music

Like pretty much everyone else I discovered Kathleen Edwards around 2003 when she released Failer, which is one of those albums that never quite made it into the box out there in the pole barn because every few months I’d have a need to hear it again.

Later, after I became a father to two daughters, I found myself listening to Kathleen Edwards from a new perspective, and I’m happy to say that both of my girls regularly request her music when they visit me up here in the typing lair. My wife is also a fan.

So the whole family is real happy that Kathleen Edwards has some new music forthcoming. We’ve been given a sneak-peek/listen here. I like when tough meets beautiful, and “Change the Sheets” is exactly that. And for the story of “Wapusk,” go here.

Also, I am not talking out of school if I tell you we think it’s neat that much of the recording of both of these songs was done just one short rooster-crow from our little farm.

Encore Tent Show Radio Tonight – Dave Mason Band and Blue Canvas Orchestra

If you’re within range of one of these stations tonight (Saturday, October 1st) 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.

The musical guests will be Dave Mason Band and Blue Canvas Orchestra, and in this episode’s monologue – delivered from the backstage dressing room with the one lonely little lightbulb burnin’ – Mike discusses why he and horses just don’t get along.

You can join the Tent Show Radio Facebook page here.

SET LIST

Blue Canvas Orchestra: Ballyhoo

Dave Mason Band: World In Changes Forty Thousand Headmen, Only You Know And I Know, Feeling Alright

Michael Perry: Monologue

Dave Mason Band: We Just Disagree, Baby What You Want Me To Do, All Along The Watchtower

Blue Canvas Orchestra: Hobo Blues