Monthly Archives: November 2013

This Week on TSR: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

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1st Airing: 6/1/13
2nd Airing: 11/30/13

Links
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
www.nittygritty.com

Michael Perry
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The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band founded in Long Beach, California in 1966. The band is often cited as instrumental to the progression of contemporary country and roots music.

The band’s successes include a cover version of Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Mr. Bojangles”. Albums include 1972’s Will the Circle Be Unbroken, featuring such traditional country artists Mother Maybelle Carter, Earl Scruggs, Roy Acuff, Doc Watson, Merle Travis, and Jimmy Martin. A follow-up album based on the same concept, Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two was released in 1989, was certified gold and won two Grammy Awards and had one of their albums named Album of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards.  In 2011 they released a 5 song E.P., “Live From The Big Top”.

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Backstage Monologue
In this episode’s monologue – delivered from the backstage dressing room with the one lonely little lightbulb burnin’ – Mike is inspired by an inspirational license plate holder—but not necessarily in the manner intended.

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This Week on TSR: Trampled By Turtles part 2

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1st Airing: 5/25/13
2nd Airing: 11/23/13

Links
Trampled By Turtles
www.trampledbyturtles.com

Michael Perry
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Trampled By Turtles is an American indie bluegrass band from Duluth, Minnesota. The band members have referenced inspirations such as Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, Nirvana and Ralph Stanley.  Their fifth release, Palomino, maintained a position in the Top 10 on the Billboard bluegrass charts for 52 straight weeks.  Their newest album, Stars and Satellites, was released on April 10, 2012 and debuted at number 32 on the Billboard 200 Chart and number 11 on the Alternative Chart.  This week’s episode is the first half of an outstanding 2 episode performance!

Beginning the week of Saturday May 25th on Wisconsin Public Radio and independent radio stations around the United States.

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Backstage Monologue
In this episode’s monologue – delivered from the backstage dressing room with the one lonely little lightbulb burnin’ – Mike talks about evil, evil chickens.

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This Week on TSR: Trampled By Turtles

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1st Airing: 5/18/13
2nd Airing: 11/16/13

Links
Trampled By Turtles
www.trampledbyturtles.com

Michael Perry
www.sneezingcow.com[/one_third]

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Trampled By Turtles is an American indie bluegrass band from Duluth, Minnesota. The band members have referenced inspirations such as Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, Nirvana and Ralph Stanley.  Their fifth release, Palomino, maintained a position in the Top 10 on the Billboard bluegrass charts for 52 straight weeks.  Their newest album, Stars and Satellites, was released on April 10, 2012 and debuted at number 32 on the Billboard 200 Chart and number 11 on the Alternative Chart.  Tonight’s episode is the first half of an outstanding 2 episode performance!

Beginning the week of 5/18/2013 on Wisconsin Public Radio and independent radio stations around the United States.

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Backstage Monologue
In this episode’s monologue – delivered from the backstage dressing room with the one lonely little lightbulb burnin’ – Mike visits a neighbor who just lost his wife of 60 years.

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This Week On TSR: Ruthie Foster

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1st Airing: 5/11/13
2nd Airing: 11/9/13

Links

Michael Perry
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Ruthie Foster is from Gause, Texas and comes from a family of gospel singers. Her debut was released in 1997 and she has performed in North America, Europe and Australia.  She has often been compared to Ella Fitzgerald  and Aretha Franklin.  Soulful and bluesy.

In December 2009 her CD, The Truth According to Ruthie Foster, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. In May 2010, at the Blues Music Awards, Foster was announced as Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year.  She has appeared with us at Big Top Chautauqua and on Tent Show Radio twice now and we lover her!

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Backstage Monologue
In this episode’s monologue – delivered from the backstage dressing room with the one lonely little lightbulb burnin’ – Mike shows you how not to buy a used car and where not to put the yogurt.

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This Week on TSR: The Long Beds

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The music of the Long Beds has been called everything from country folk to roughneck folk and folk-twang to good old Americana. The band prefers the description given by an audience member after a benefit concert in Perry’s old high school gym: “You sound just like Gordon Lightfoot… only zippier!”

Perry’s songs are a direct reflection of his life growing up in smalltown Wisconsin. Ranging from straight-up twang to churchly harmonies and populated by characters drawn straight from rural and small-town America, they launch from places like the overpass outside Perry’s beloved hometown of New Auburn, Wisconsin (population currently 562), a gospel service in a granary, and the kitchen floor of a woman about to drop a world of hurt on her drunken husband. “I was raised by farmers and preachers and tough country women, and I suppose my songs reflect that,” says Perry. “Then again, certain wisdoms are available only from whistlers, frauds, and sinners, so I try to slide them a line or two as well.”

Band members include backup vocalists and musicians Billy Krause on guitar and banjo, Chuck Roll on bass guitar, and autoharp, and Christopher Ramey on guitar and keyboard, and special guest Andy Dee on guitar and dobro.

Beginning the week of Saturday April 20th, 2013 on Wisconsin Public Radio at 7PM CST and independent radio stations around the country.  Get the Complete Schedule Here here.

[one_third]Backstage Monologue
In this episode’s monologue – delivered from the backstage dressing room with the one lonely little lightbulb burnin’ – Mike explains how he wound up in a band, and what critical advice he once received from a Grammy-winning musician.

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