This is a lightly revised “Roughneck Grace” column. I re-post it today for reasons as close as family. And because I’m grown weary of all the fearful bellowing. But above all because of a word I’ve lately taken to heart: Amplify. The conga line was no longer a line, but rather a fluid knot of nearly a…View post
Just found out James McMurtry will be in Wisconsin Dells and Milwaukee this weekend. If you’re anywhere near, I hope you’ll see him. It’s impossible for me to overstate the connection between Population: 485 and Too Long in the Wasteland. Night after night I sat up into the wee hours, hitting the keyboard with those songs playing over…View post
We always wonder if the silly ways we work make any sense, so this Tweet by Claire Vaye Watkins made me feel much better about myself, as I am currently doing a lot of this:
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If you’re within range of one of these stations tomorrow (Saturday, September 24th) 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 tells a story about cats…View post