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Post by dwarnold on Oct 23, 2021 13:32:40 GMT -5
Good evening all, www.prairiehome.org/shows/58317.htmlA few tricks and a few treats as we get set to celebrate October with a repeat from 1996 featuring Marcia Ball, Cephas and Wiggins, the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band, and our acting company. Highlights include “Power of Love” and “La Ti Da” from Marcia Ball, “Backwater Blues” from Cephas and Wiggins, “Bringing Mary Home” and “A Little Kiss Each Morning” by the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band — plus Cafe Boeuf, Mel’s Diner, Ghosts, Famous Celebrities, and Rhubarb, featuring the full acting company. All this plus the latest News from your favorite small town: Lake Wobegon. Almost immediately after guitarist/vocalist John Cephas joined forces with harmonicist/vocalist Phil Wiggins in 1978, the blues community took them to heart. Critics and fans proclaimed Cephas and Wiggins as the new champions of the East Coast Piedmont style of blues, a style first popularized by artists like Blind Boy Fuller, Rev. Gary Davis, Blind Willie McTell, and Blind Blake. They performed for people all over the world, from clubs for only a handful of people to major blues festivals in front of thousands to a 1997 inaugural party for President Clinton. Born in Orange, Texas, in 1949 to a family whose female members all played piano, Marcia Ball grew up in the small town of Vinton, Louisiana, right across the border from Texas. She began taking piano lessons at age five, playing old Tin Pan Alley tunes from her grandmother’s collection. From her aunt, she heard more modern and popular music. But it wasn’t until she was 13 that Marcia discovered the blues when she heard Irma Thomas deliver a soulful and spirited performance. “She just blew me away; she caught me totally unaware,” says Ball. “Once I started my own band, the first stuff I was doing was Irma’s.” Marcia Ball — called a “powerhouse” by the New York Times — is an eight-time Blues Music Award winner and a 2010 inductee into the Gulf Coast Music Hall of Fame. |
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Post by dwarnold on Oct 23, 2021 13:33:11 GMT -5
October 26, 1996
00:00 LOGO
00:11 TISHOMINGO
01:53 GK TALKS ABOUT GOLDEN OCTOBER DAYS
05:19 FAMOUS CELEBRITIES: HALLOWEEN
11:18 APPLAUSE
11:41 KETCHUP: PUBLIC RADIO STATION
13:36 APPLAUSE
13:57 BRINGING MARY HOME
17:15 GHOSTS
25:57 AT THE JAZZ BAND BALL
28:18 APPLAUSE
28:39 BOOK TOUR
30:44 APPLAUSE--GK INTRODUCES CEPHAS AND WIGGINS
31:42 BURN YOUR BRIDGES
34:15 APPLAUSE
34:28 JOHN CEPHAS INTRODUCES NEXT SONG
35:11 BACKWATER BLUES
40:04 APPLAUSE
40:37 RHUBARB: AD AGENCY
44:33 APPLAUSE
44:48 CAFE BOEUF: DINNER IS A WORK OF ART
46:30 APPLAUSE--GK INTRODUCES MARCIA BALL
47:25 LA DI DA
52:06 APPLAUSE
52:53 BLUE HOUSE
56:24 APPLAUSE
57:09 newT
101:54 APPLAUSE
102:16 SWING THAT MUSIC
105:50 APPLAUSE--WELCOME BACK
106:10 MEL'S BUFFET
108:56 GREETINGS
112:14 A LITTLE KISS EACH MORNING--GK TALKS TO HIS AUNT JEAN
116:30 APPLAUSE
116:48 GK TALKS TO CEPHAS AND WIGGINS
118:17 PIGMEAT
121:33 APPLAUSE
122:09 HOW LONG?
125:10 APPLAUSE
125:33 MONOLOGUE: HALLOWEEN 148:16 I'LL FOLLOW THE SUN
150:04 APPLAUSE
150:47 GK TALKS WITH MARCIA
151:12 THE POWER OF LOVE
156:06 APPLAUSE -- CREDITS
157:18 LET IT ROLL
158:18 THAT'S OUR SHOW!
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Post by doctork on Oct 23, 2021 17:02:15 GMT -5
OK, here I am tuned in for Marcia Ball and then some North Carolina Piedmont Blues.
Speaking of Carolina, I noticed that GK has resumed touring and has a concert scheduled in Hickory NC pretty soon, as well as quite a few other places, some of them beginning to be real auditorium-size. He just really wants to be on stage, not sit still at home, despite all his declarations of loving his isolated writer's life.
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Post by jspnrvr on Oct 23, 2021 17:04:09 GMT -5
It's showtime! Thanks, dw, for the rundown.
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Post by jspnrvr on Oct 23, 2021 17:04:41 GMT -5
Well, doc, howdy-do!
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Post by doctork on Oct 23, 2021 17:06:12 GMT -5
Yup, thanks for the rundown dw.
Hi Jay.
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Post by jspnrvr on Oct 23, 2021 17:13:46 GMT -5
So, is your costume ready, doc? Going T or T this year?
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Post by dwarnold on Oct 23, 2021 17:16:36 GMT -5
Greetings folks... just got plugged in myself. There was a nice article in one of the major newspapers about GK making a "comeback" of sorts after falling during the "me-too" period. There was some interesting stuff I wasn't aware of in the article and overall nicely balanced. Mentioned that Al Franken was trying to get back on the road as well. A friend passed along a review of GK's one-man show in a small Virginia venue, from several attendees (on Facebook) and there were only nice comments from folks.
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Post by doctork on Oct 23, 2021 17:16:48 GMT -5
No, I'm scheduled for the Tom Paxton/John McCutcheon concert at the Birchmere in Alexandria.
Our street here is not really suited for T or T anyway - edge of a hill, the driveways leading to front doors are very steep. The EMT's have declared ours "the steepest driveway in B'ham."
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Post by doctork on Oct 23, 2021 17:18:58 GMT -5
Greetings folks... just got plugged in myself. There was a nice article in one of the major newspapers about GK making a "comeback" of sorts after falling during the "me-too" period. There was some interesting stuff I wasn't aware of in the article and overall nicely balanced. Mentioned that Al Franken was trying to get back on the road as well. A friend passed along a review of GK's one-man show in a small Virginia venue, from several attendees (on Facebook) and there were only nice comments from folks. That's what I have heard too - see my comment above about Hickory. Do you recall where you read the review? GK has several venues is VA/NC scheduled now, Oct-Nov. I think maybe I saw NOLA and Atlanta too, as I take notice of places I might actually go. |
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Post by dwarnold on Oct 23, 2021 17:21:46 GMT -5
I've been trying to get a read on if my grandkids are going T on their street this year or not... so I could tag along  . They have a trunk or treat at church earlier that day.. but they have usually gone around the neighborhood because many of the neighbors really decorate up the outdoors. But it is a school night... |
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Post by dwarnold on Oct 23, 2021 17:23:09 GMT -5
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Post by dwarnold on Oct 23, 2021 17:29:17 GMT -5
No, I'm scheduled for the Tom Paxton/John McCutcheon concert at the Birchmere in Alexandria. Our street here is not really suited for T or T anyway - edge of a hill, the driveways leading to front doors are very steep. The EMT's have declared ours "the steepest driveway in B'ham." SO Doc are you going to visit your North Carolina property when you head east for the concert? I miss those fall colors of the NC mountains. |
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Post by doctork on Oct 23, 2021 17:34:17 GMT -5
We were just at the NC house 3 weeks ago, on both ends of our east coast visit which included NoVa and Richmond as well as Charlotte and home. Hence I just say "I'm scheduled" as I am not sure I feel up to another cross-country trip.
Certainly if I knew anyone who wanted my two tix to the two shows (I also bought Nitty Gritty Dirt Band tix for Friday the 29th), I'd definitely cancel my trip. It's a long haul for a short slide.
I used to see all those old blues players - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, Rev. Gary Davis - in Greenwich Village and elsewhere when I lived in NYC as a teen-ager.
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Post by doctork on Oct 23, 2021 17:35:32 GMT -5
PS - Now I really want to move back to NC. I have applications pending for jobs in both NC and WA.
It would be a next year kinda thing.
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Post by doctork on Oct 23, 2021 17:53:14 GMT -5
Thanks for the link dw. It seemed fair, though my overall opinion is that GK got caught up in the #MeToo sweep, but any claims against him were exaggerated or overdone, plus he is sufficiently socially inept enough to exceed appropriate boundaries.
In my personal experience, any inappropriate touching or propositions that I didn't want were fairly easily rebuffed. And decades ago when female medical students were a rarity, such challenges were not rare. So it causes me to have a bias of "Why did you put up with it if you didn't care for it?"
As a female medical student, intern, or resident, a woman couldn't be in a more vulnerable position - literally one's entire career at stake.
I love Marcia Ball and Irma Thomas! I was sad to leave my friends when we moved from NYC to NOLA, but there was a big big bonus - back then, Irma, Marcia, Dr. John and many others were local bands who would play at school dances and local bars (and NOLA was a place where I recall no questions ever of whether I was of age - which was only 18 anyway in Louisiana.
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Post by jspnrvr on Oct 23, 2021 17:55:42 GMT -5
I've been gone the last few minutes reading the article. I've kind of wondered how much of a "comeback" GK would want at his age, of live performances anyway. |
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Post by dwarnold on Oct 23, 2021 17:59:59 GMT -5
Thanks for the link dw. It seemed fair, though my overall opinion is that GK got caught up in the #MeToo sweep, but any claims against him were exaggerated or overdone, plus he is sufficiently socially inept enough to exceed appropriate boundaries. In my personal experience, any inappropriate touching or propositions that I didn't want were fairly easily rebuffed. And decades ago when female medical students were a rarity, such challenges were not rare. So it causes me to have a bias of "Why did you put up with it if you didn't care for it?" As a female medical student, intern, or resident, a woman couldn't be in a more vulnerable position - literally one's entire career at stake. I love Marcia Ball and Irma Thomas! I was sad to leave my friends when we moved from NYC to NOLA, but there was a big big bonus - back then, Irma, Marcia, Dr. John and many others were local bands who would play at school dances and local bars (and NOLA was a place where I recall no questions ever of whether I was of age - which was only 18 anyway in Louisiana. Times have changed in so many ways... why do we feel as if today's youth must be overly protected when their parents and grandparents seemed to have survived ... to a very large extent... absent so many societal boundaries, legal requirements, and general separation of the life lesson teaching opportunities.. I sometimes feel as if I were the kind of boss that might easily have been accused of being too kind, too understanding, too accomodating but I never put employees in an uncomfortable position, it was genuine concern for their well being that motivated me.. glad I am not in the office environment anymore. |
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Post by jspnrvr on Oct 23, 2021 18:14:26 GMT -5
Well, dw, I don't blame you for being happy out of the office. Things were more free swinging in the "estrogen rich" atmosphere I worked in, especially in the hospital days. Nurses can be pretty down and dirty, mostly for stress relief. I'm just glad I don't have that much stress anymore.
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Post by doctork on Oct 23, 2021 18:14:32 GMT -5
Some of it is actual bad behavior, some of it is the 24/7 news cycle - the various overly-abundant media sources must fill up with "news." Now everything is writ large because we hear the same story over and over, everywhere - internet, TV, radio, maybe even newspapers. Even 20 - 25 years ago, there was the evening TV news, the drive-time radio news, and a daily newspaper; maybe you'd read the Hollywood gossip stories in a weekly magazine like People.
Then there is the political polarization - and everything is political, everything is somebody else's fault, nothing is "my" fault. At least in the media. In reality, most people are going about their lives the same as always, but the small fringe get all the publicity.
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Post by doctork on Oct 23, 2021 18:17:43 GMT -5
Well, dw, I don't blame you for being happy out of the office. Things were more free swinging in the "estrogen rich" atmosphere I worked in, especially in the hospital days. Nurses can be pretty down and dirty, mostly for stress relief. I'm just glad I don't have that much stress anymore. One good thing about temp jobs - I don't stay any place I don't like. And temp jobs have been a good preview of whether I might want to take a job "permanently." Also - I still love my work. It is obvious to me that I am a born healer, but surprisingly it took me half-way through college to recognize that. |
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Post by doctork on Oct 23, 2021 18:19:03 GMT -5
I love the Blue Ridge Mountains, but I like the Piedmont too, rolling hills between mountains and flatlands. I do not tolerate the hot, humid flat areas very well.
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Post by dwarnold on Oct 23, 2021 18:20:13 GMT -5
Well, dw, I don't blame you for being happy out of the office. Things were more free swinging in the "estrogen rich" atmosphere I worked in, especially in the hospital days. Nurses can be pretty down and dirty, mostly for stress relief. I'm just glad I don't have that much stress anymore. One good thing about temp jobs - I don't stay any place I don't like. And temp jobs have been a good preview of whether I might want to take a job "permanently." Also - I still love my work. It is obvious to me that I am a born healer, but surprisingly it took me half-way through college to recognize that. I know a dentist that retired from his practice a few years back... I recently heard he had opened a new place... and I cannot imagine it was because he needed the money! THere are some folks who really do need to have something to do and it seems that many medical professionals are especially likely to stay on board as long as physically possible. |
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Post by doctork on Oct 23, 2021 18:38:12 GMT -5
One-third of practicing physicians are over 50, and about 20% of those over age 65 are still practicing. It is something one can continue well into "old age."
One factor is the length of training - one cannot start earning money in practice until 30 years of age or older, so we have lost 8 - 15 years of earning $$ compared to other college grads who began their careers at 21 or 22 fresh out of school.
Also - most of one's practice need not be "same old, same old," especially in primary care where there is such a very wide spectrum of potential activity. Experience counts for a whole lot in medicine, as the learning is, of necessity, continuous. And then there is the glaring need - there is demand for primary care everywhere and I like serving the underserved (poor, rural, inner city, etc) and many doctors don't, so I work where I am really needed, not just in wealthy suburbs with doctors out the wazoo.
Since, for me personally, my life has been full of wonderful adventures despite a demanding career, I do not have a whole lot on my bucket list that I have postponed until retirement. I have always been a high energy person so slowing down as I've gotten older still leaves me a lot of reserve.
I'd still be plenty busy with something even if not practicing medicine, but I love practicing medicine, being a family doctor. That is very rewarding.
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Post by doctork on Oct 23, 2021 18:41:10 GMT -5
PS - that dentist is admirable, I am not sure how he managed to do that. Start-up costs for opening a new dental office are very high - lots of expensive equipment. Much more than one needs in primary care. But then, I think their malpractice costs are much lower, so it is easier for them to be in private practice part-time or even full-time, as a start-up. I need employment through a locums because the malpractice cost is untenable for a solo private practice doc.
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Post by dwarnold on Oct 23, 2021 18:42:07 GMT -5
One-third of practicing physicians are over 50, and about 20% of those over age 65 are still practicing. It is something one can continue well into "old age." One factor is the length of training - one cannot start earning money in practice until 30 years of age or older, so we have lost 8 - 15 years of earning $$ compared to other college grads who began their careers at 21 or 22 fresh out of school. Also - most of one's practice need not be "same old, same old," especially in primary care where there is such a very wide spectrum of potential activity. Experience counts for a whole lot in medicine, as the learning is, of necessity, continuous. And then there is the glaring need - there is demand for primary care everywhere and I like serving the underserved (poor, rural, inner city, etc) and many doctors don't, so I work where I am really needed, not just in wealthy suburbs with doctors out the wazoo. Since, for me personally, my life has been full of wonderful adventures despite a demanding career, I do not have a whole lot on my bucket list that I have postponed until retirement. I have always been a high energy person so slowing down as I've gotten older still leaves me a lot of reserve. I'd still be plenty busy with something even if not practicing medicine, but I love practicing medicine, being a family doctor. That is very rewarding. Sounds like you would be an excellent Doctor to have!! |
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Post by dwarnold on Oct 23, 2021 18:53:32 GMT -5
Grim news from LW tonight.
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Post by doctork on Oct 23, 2021 18:54:23 GMT -5
//Sounds like you would be an excellent Doctor to have!!//
That seems to be what my patients say.
Occasionally there are managers who may feel differently, such as the time this summer when I refused to write a fraudulent letter certifying that an obese patient with multiple complex chronic ailments(whom I had never seen/examined) was "low risk" for cosmetic surgery. But as I said, if I don't like a job, I leave. Fortunately most managers aren't like that, if for no other reason than that is illegal.
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Post by doctork on Oct 23, 2021 18:56:27 GMT -5
Grim news from LW tonight. It's not always good news at Lake Wobegone. I haven't read his memoir, but per that WaPo link/article, there was bad news for some of its characters. And thanks for the compliment! |
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Post by doctork on Oct 23, 2021 18:58:27 GMT -5
Ah, I do miss the Shoe Band, featuring Pat, singing/playing this tune, and so many others.
Y'all have a great week.
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. They have a trunk or treat at church earlier that day.. but they have usually gone around the neighborhood because many of the neighbors really decorate up the outdoors. But it is a school night...