SneezingCow.com » headwinded http://sneezingcow.com Home of Michael Perry - Author, Humorist, Singer/Songwriter, Amateur Pig Farmer Fri, 25 May 2012 10:00:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Long Beds on the Radio http://sneezingcow.com/2010/09/29/long-beds-on-the-radio/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=long-beds-on-the-radio http://sneezingcow.com/2010/09/29/long-beds-on-the-radio/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:41:06 +0000 MikePerry http://sneezingcow.com/?p=5964 Continue reading →]]> Between 7:30 p.m. CST and midnight tonight, there will emanate from a tower in the tall pines of northern Wisconsin the sound of WOJB‘s “Folkways” program which this time around will include some music by the Long Beds and our labelmates Cranes and Crows.  You can listen here.

]]> 0 Between the Books and the Music http://sneezingcow.com/2010/06/13/between-the-books-and-the-music/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=between-the-books-and-the-music http://sneezingcow.com/2010/06/13/between-the-books-and-the-music/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:01:40 +0000 alissa http://sneezingcow.com/?p=5015 Continue reading →]]> Sometimes people ask me if the books and the music are connected.  Sometimes, yep.  Amble Down Records compiled the following summary describing the connections from the Tiny Pilot album:

- The opening verse of “Edge of Town” is set on the highway overpasses described on pages 99-104 of Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time (HarperPerennial).

- The album’s title song, “Tiny Pilot,” was written in memory of Perry’s nephew Jake, as described in Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting (released in paperback as Coop: A Family, A Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg).

- “If They Give You Wings” is a song drawn directly from scenes in “Branding God,” the essay found on page 256 of Perry’s book, Off Main Street (HarperPerennial).  The song lyrics also include a Dylan Thomas sample.

- “Harry Was Right” (bonus song available on physical CD version of album only as track #14) is a song set in a real-life bar called The Joynt.  Perry’s readers will recognize the bar and its denizens from Chapter 13 of Truck: A Love Story (HarperPerennial) and may especially enjoy singing along with the bridge, which is a direct quote from the book: No…light…beer!

- Perry wrote the first verse of “Indiana” while driving from Michigan to Illinois on his Coop hardcover tour.  The song makes specific reference to “Seven A.M.,” the Edward Hopper painting that anchors Chapter 8 (beginning on p. 138) of Truck: A Love Story (HarperPerennial).

- The lyrics of “Cissy Moan” invoke Oxford, Mississippi (home of Square Books) and the writers Larry Brown, Barry Hannah, and William Faulkner.  The main character of the song is caught stealing books at “Lemuria” in reference to the actual bookstore in Jackson, Mississippi.

Printable .pdf here.

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