It’s a food pantry benefit, free admission, canned goods or plain ol’ financial donations welcome (they are able to stretch that dollar). Music and stories. Show details here: http://sneezingcow.com/event/michael-perry-plus-the-long-beds/
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Archive for November, 2011
Long Beds Live Tonight
Digital Clodhopper
The Clodhopper Monologues are now available in digital format (as well as good ol’ CD). Can be purchased and downloaded directly from Sneezing Cow main page (select “digital download” format in right-hand column dropdown menu) or from iTunes, CDBaby, and Amazon.
Double CD terrestrial version also available from many independent bookstores. If they don’t have it and would like to carry it, have’em drop us a line.
On the Moose This Morning, Boyceville Tomorrow
Will be shooting the breeze with Jay Moore on The Moose this morning. You can listen online here. I should be on just after 9 a.m. CST.
Tomorrow I’ll spend the day speaking with students in Boyceville, Wisconsin. Then tomorrow night the Long Beds and I will play a benefit show in the gymnatorium for the local food pantry. Admission free, financial or non-perishable food item donations encouraged. Time, location and other details here.
I’ve Got A Little Arm Trouble
The left one. Years of writing and now the past few years the left arm goes numb some and I’ve lost a little function in the fingers I use to make those sloppy chords of mine (cardiac ruled out, had it checked, for all you EMS’ers out there).
So. A little arm trouble. As in, ain’t nothin’.
Goin’ to Townes
Diffracted and distracted, dispurposed and dyspeptic, then Townes Van Zandt came on and the compass settled on point.
Short Days, Good Light
Darkness walks its black dog way too soon these days, but there is the mitigation of sun lain at low angles over harvested hillsides.
Encore Tent Show Radio Tonight – The Avett Brothers
If you’re within range of one of these stations tonight (Saturday, November 12th) 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 the Avett Brothers, and in this episode’s monologue – delivered from the backstage dressing room with the one lonely little lightbulb burnin’ – Mike discusses the joys of conducting business – including establishing the price of feeder hogs – in the middle of a road through a pickup truck window.
You can join the Tent Show Radio Facebook page here.
SET LIST:
Blue Canvas Orchestra: Ballyhoo, Half Past the Whippoorwill
Avett Brothers: Skin and Bones, January Wedding, Head Full of Doubt, At the Beach, Color Show
Michael Perry: Business Through a Pickup Truck Window
Avett Brothers: Murder in the City, Pretty, Slight Figure of Speech, I and Love and You, Where Have All the Average People Gone?
Blue Canvas Orchestra: Hobo Blues
Colors of Gratitude
I don’t do chest-thumping. Don’t have the desire, haven’t earned the right. But I am grateful, and thus these fresh colors snap in the wind over our farm today.*
*Yes. That is a big ol’ honkin’ flagpole. A story for another day (wrote it up for the next book but it was cut). Stands there thanks to my West Point grad Army vet father-in-law. Sa-lute.
Fed the pigs
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