July 15, 2023 -- Classic Rebroadcast

[dwarnold]

This week’s classic show travels back to February 14, 1997, (But I think it really is October 18, 1997) for a show from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota. Bluegrass stalwarts The Del McCoury Band make their first appearance on our show and heat up the Fitz with “Baltimore Johnny” and “Love is a Long Road”; guitar hero Leo Kottke puts on a veritable six-string clinic, including his tune “Regards from Chuck Pink” and The Byrds’ “Eight Miles High”; and the Cowboys, Dusty and Lefty, find themselves imprisoned, accused of rustling forty-three hundred head of longhorns. Plus: music from The Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band and a word from Swanson’s Self Storage and our other sponsors. In Lake Wobegon, Earl Dickmeyer builds The World’s Largest Pile of Burlap Bags, which attracts international acclaim.

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[dwarnold]

Del McCoury Band

The Del McCoury Band is led by Del McCoury, who’s been playing bluegrass for more than six decades. McCoury spent most of his youth in York County, Pennsylvania, and learned music from his mother, Hazel, a church organist who also played guitar, piano, and harmonica. In his teenage years, he and his older brother played together in a church quartet. That led Del to a job picking banjo for a local bluegrass band that played on a Pennsylvania radio station, which led to appearances in the late ’50s and early ’60s with groups like the Blue Ridge Ramblers and the Virginia Playboys. It wasn’t long before he met Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass, who asked McCoury to play in his band, The Blue Grass Boys. McCoury played guitar and sang lead vocals with The Blue Grass Boys and traveled with them for a year before quitting the band and getting married. McCoury ended up back in Pennsylvania, working at a sawmill and playing music on weekends. As his boys got older, they began playing with their dad in his band. Ronnie joined the band in 1981 and Rob followed in 1987. In the early ’90s, this five-person band was formed. The Del McCoury Band was named Entertainers of the Year nine times by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), and in won a Grammy Award for their 2013 album, The Streets Of Baltimore.


Leo Kottke

With his quick wit and astounding virtuosity, guitarist Leo Kottke has amassed a huge and loyal following since making his debut album in 1969: 12-String Blues, recorded live at the Scholar coffeehouse in Minneapolis. Then came major-label releases Mudlark and the seminal 6- and 12-String Guitar, which has been reissued on CD three times since it first came out in the early 1970s. Among his dozens of albums are Try and Stop Me and Sixty-Six Steps, a collaboration with Phish bassist Mike Gordon.


HERE’S WHAT SUE SCOTT HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS SHOW:

“It’s so much fun to hear my buddy Tom Keith’s voice in this show from October of 1997! Tom was a sound-effects wizard, absolutely, but an incredibly funny and talented actor, too! His character choices and sense of timing never ceased to make me laugh out loud. In the sketch ‘Underwear,’ Garrison’s Carson has just learned that he has been relieved of his duties as a public radio underwear model. He has to give up his mansion on the hill along with his loyal butler, Nigel. Tom’s Nigel is spot on! During the sketch, ‘Force Ten Wake-Up System,’ we hear some of Tom’s classic sound effects. What a treat to revisit this master talent who left us way too soon.”

[dwarnold]

A note from Rich Dworsky:

This week's repeat show features the original lineup of the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band - a unique band assembled by Garrison in 1993, featuring an assortment of players from different backgrounds. Greg Hippen, on bass, is a fine classical player who also delves into jazz and fusion. Drummer Arnie Kinsella specializes in jazz from the 1920s and '30s. Guitarist Pat Donohue is a master fingerpicker, playing blues and country blues in the styles of Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Gary Davis, and Chet Atkins. Andy Stein, who plays the rare combination of violin and saxophone, is thoroughly immersed in the jazz of the '20s and '30s, and specializes in the style of the great violinist Joe Venuti. I rounded out the group, playing piano, Hammond organ, and synthesizer. I have a classical background, played in jazz and rock bands, composed and conducted for theater, and worked for decades in the studio, where one has to play every imaginable style. I would also write original works for the band, keeping in mind what each player would bring to the table. We rarely used the band's official name and usually shortened it to "The Shoe Band" or just "The Shoes." It even became a verb: If we wanted to take a piece of music and put a foot-stomping, two-beat, raucous, bluesy groove to it, we'd just say, "Let's Shoe it."

[dwarnold]

A rough rundown based on what I could determine.. will see

October 18, 1997

00:00 LOGO
00:14 Tishomingo--opening credits
02:07 Good to be with you
06:30 UNDERWEAR script
15:20 SWANEE RIVER (Minnesota lyrics)
18:27 applause 18:35 GK intro Del McCoury Band
20:12 THE COLD HARD FACTS
22:51 applause--Del intros the boys
24:10 BLACKJACK COUNTY CHAINS
27:33 applause--segue to next tune
27:59 LOVE IS A LONG ROAD
30:25 applause--GK thanks Del segue to script
31:11 COWBOYS
39:45 applause--actor credits/segue to tune
40:09 LULU'S BACK IN TOWN
42:41 applause
42:54 GK intro Leo Kottke
44:03 REGARDS FOR CHUCK PINK
47:41 applause--Leo segue to next tune
48:20 EIGHT MILES HIGH
52:08 applause--GK back announce
52:30 THE STORY OF BOB
59:49 APPLAUSE, BACK ANNOUNCE, SEGUE TO INTERMISSION
100:20 AIR MAIL SPECIAL
104:16 WELCOME BACK TO SECOND HALF..
104:42 GREETINGS
107:20 Coming up in this half of the show....
107:59 TELL MY MA
110:26 applause--segue to next spot
110:40 FORCE TEN WAKE UP SYSTEM
113:09 applause--GK talk to Del McCoury
115:04 BLUE DARLIN'
118:59 applause--Del intro next tune
119:16 BALTIMORE JOHNNY
122:36 applause
123:04 MONOLOGUE--World's Largest Pile of Burlap Bags
147:38 ACROSS THE STREET
150:41 applause
151:02 SWANSON'S SELF-STORAGE
152:27 applause--GK talk to Pat Donohue
153:21 CHOPSTICKS
155:31 applause--GK segue
155:47 CREDITS
157:37 BAND PLAYOFF--TELL ME MA

[doctork]

Good afternoon. I'm tuned in and listening online. Yesterday we headed over to Orcas Island to visit friends, had a great time, perfect day, and now we are back home and I am happy to sit still in one place.

Enjoy the show, attend to computer and desk work.

[jspnrvr]

Hey, folks. I made it, as well.

[dwarnold]

Hello folks... glad we could all come together and have this meeting. How's things going? Anyone got updates on travel plans?

[doctork]

Hi Jay. Are you affected by the terrible heat "all over the south"? We are 82 and sunny so I am sitting under the AC.

Yesterday when we were over at Barry and Jannise's place on Orcas, they live right on the water, lots of breezes so I was nice despite the heat and sun. Believe me, for the PNW, temps over 78 are HOT. If we wanted that weather we would not live here!

[doctork]

Hey DW! I'm heading down to Lacey (near Olympia, south of Tacoma, quite a long ways from B'ham) on Thursday to have lunch with APHC friends. I'll just drive down I-5, so maybe it's not really a trip. And a trip to Orcas Island, was quite an endeavor - highway, carr on the ferry, then drive around the island to Barry's place. Then reverse. Life revolves around the ferry schedule if one lives on a San Juan Island. Me, I like "living in America."

Between the 50th reunion the first week in June, then Esalen and the film making workshop the last week in June, we don't have real travel planned until the Wedding in upstate NY in September.

[jspnrvr]

Yeah, it's hotter than little blue blazes. In Florida, of course, the humidity boosts the misery. Makes it hard to do anything outside. Just walking behind a mower or other mild yard work is extra undesirable.

[doctork]

And I love Del McCoury and the band - they are still touring! This very weekend they are near my alma mater. Those Appalachian Americana musicians (OK so he was born in NY, don't matter, his mom was from NC and they are really Appalachian at heart!

Del celebrated his 80th birthday playing at MerleFest a few years ago. I was there for his concert!

[jspnrvr]

And still figuring on the Sizemore-Sheppard reunion the last weekend of July, in KY.

[dwarnold]

This past week i worked on installation of a security system in an auto parts warehouse... indoor and outdoor cameras.. pulling several hundred feet of high speed internet cable and two long runs of fibre optic cable. Each day my clothes were completely soaked through.. I stopped to drink water but still lost 6 or so pounds of water each day... I had to shower at home just to be able to stand myself!! One day we had a typical Florida thunderstorm which blew down a rather tall but dead pine tree that the red-headed woodpeckers really loved and nested in. It didn't do any damage but it was laying in the next door neighbor's yard so I got out yesterday and chain-sawed until the blade was worn out.. but got the tree out of their yard. When cutting I discovered a dead woodpecker inside a cavity.. not sure if it died of natural causes or from the fall. Really made me afraid every time I see clear cutting for new housing, roads etc... how many birds are killed or displaced.. I try to remember at least they can fly and there are still lots of trees in North Florida, but hundreds of acres every year are being lost..

[dwarnold]

Jul 15, 2023 17:24:02 GMT -5 jspnrvr said:

And still figuring on the Sizemore-Sheppard reunion the last weekend of July, in KY.

Hope you get a break on the hot weather up there. I am retreating to the North Carolina mountains the 2nd week of August. Interested to see how the new permit for parking in the Great Smokey Mountains Park is working out. Gonna stick my toes in some cold river water too! The wife is excited to get a break from the heat and such too!

[doctork]

"They always say 'It's not the heat, it's the humidity'" and subsequently whoever "they" is then claim Arizona is OK because it is "a dry heat." Maybe it is, but it is still too hot when it is 110 day after day, whether dry or humid.

Common Sense says to me, do not live permanently in an oven or a sauna.

And Leo Kottke coming up! He was in nearby Mt Vernon two nights ago and I really wanted to go see him, but just didn't have the energy, especially not to go to a concert Thursday night in Mt Vernon, then the ferry trip to Orcas on Friday. A person must know their own limits.

[doctork]

Jul 15, 2023 17:21:49 GMT -5 jspnrvr said:

Yeah, it's hotter than little blue blazes. In Florida, of course, the humidity boosts the misery. Makes it hard to do anything outside. Just walking behind a mower or other mild yard work is extra undesirable.

Wy doesn't someone create a Roomba like implement to mow the lawn, just as such implements can vacuum the floors for us.

[jspnrvr]

Jul 15, 2023 17:31:26 GMT -5 dwarnold said:

Jul 15, 2023 17:24:02 GMT -5 jspnrvr said:

And still figuring on the Sizemore-Sheppard reunion the last weekend of July, in KY.

Hope you get a break on the hot weather up there. I am retreating to the North Carolina mountains the 2nd week of August. Interested to see how the new permit for parking in the Great Smokey Mountains Park is working out. Gonna stick my toes in some cold river water too! The wife is excited to get a break from the heat and such too!

Well, from the sound of KY Facebook entries a person really has to pace themselves, even just puttering in flower beds.

[dwarnold]

Jul 15, 2023 17:35:48 GMT -5 doctork said:

Jul 15, 2023 17:21:49 GMT -5 jspnrvr said:

Yeah, it's hotter than little blue blazes. In Florida, of course, the humidity boosts the misery. Makes it hard to do anything outside. Just walking behind a mower or other mild yard work is extra undesirable.

Wy doesn't someone create a Roomba like implement to mow the lawn, just as such implements can vacuum the floors for us.

I've seen jokesters who figure out how to put a self propelled mower on a long leash and start it off in a tight circle and the lawn mower goes round and round a pole cutting the lawn in a circle till it gets to the middle, not sure how to keep it going on a tight circle though.. too many variables

[jspnrvr]

Well, there's a hell of a lot of variables when I have hold of the mower.

[doctork]

That sounds like those farmers who water their crops with long-armed sprinklers rotating about a central point. Looks very cool from Up In The Air if you grab a window seat on the plane.

[dwarnold]

The album that Leo played from at this show had the only song he ever got nominated for a Grammy for... I wonder if instrumentals have won many Grammy's over the years?

[jspnrvr]

This music reminds me; I have someone in IL I haven't been in touch with for a while. We used to hit the old Leo Kottke and John Prine pretty hard when we were partying. That was college days.

[doctork]

The good old days... And we still have John's music; Leo still playing for us. Dead & Company winding up their final tour" in San Francsico this weekend, back where they started from.

[jspnrvr]

Thunder starting to rumble here.

[jspnrvr]

Jul 15, 2023 17:55:51 GMT -5 doctork said:

The good old days... And we still have John's music; Leo still playing for us. Dead & Company winding up their final tour" in San Francsico this weekend, back where they started from.

Wow, final tour for the Dead. Elton John did a final tour. Well, that's one thing about listening to old-time and Mountain music. There's always someone to pass the torch to. The music has been around for a long-time.

[dwarnold]

I made a keto lasagna tonight... with eggplant, onions, mushrooms, squash on the inside and a little beef meat balls on the side. Made my own sauce from tomatoes from my garden and some peppers and squash as well. The keto noodles came out ok, but I did not have any tapioca starch so had to substitute. Taste pretty good though as it came out.

[jspnrvr]

Jul 15, 2023 18:06:12 GMT -5 dwarnold said:

I made a keto lasagna tonight... with eggplant, onions, mushrooms, squash on the inside and a little beef meat balls on the side. Made my own sauce from tomatoes from my garden and some peppers and squash as well. The keto noodles came out ok, but I did not have any tapioca starch so had to substitute. Taste pretty good though as it came out.

That's good; a garden that is productive. and someone who knows how to cook from scratch! You might want a big sweet 'tater patch. That'll produce a bit more long-term food supply.

[doctork]

There have been numerous "farewell tours" for various versions of the Dead, and many versions of the Dead will still continue on. I am dubious it is really "the last tour." That said, I seriously considered seeing them at the Gorge July 7 -8 but it was way too hot, beyond reasonable consideration for me. So - never mind.

However, I really did see the "last tour" of the Rolling Stones in August 2019, when they did a really big stadium performance at Lumen Field (Seahawks territory) even though I "don't do stadium concerts." But this time I did, and glad of it - Mick was amazing, doing 2 & 1/2 hours non-stop just a few weeks post-op from his heart valve surgery; Charlie Watts died shortly thereafter; and it was my last big event prior to the Covid Shutdown. Although we did squeeze in the Cowboy Poetry Gathering end of January 2020. We'd just had the first US Covid death occurring at the hospital I referred too and I knew the curtain was about to come down.

Not so sure the very last Dead curtain is really down.

[dwarnold]

Jul 15, 2023 18:10:52 GMT -5 jspnrvr said:

Jul 15, 2023 18:06:12 GMT -5 dwarnold said:

I made a keto lasagna tonight... with eggplant, onions, mushrooms, squash on the inside and a little beef meat balls on the side. Made my own sauce from tomatoes from my garden and some peppers and squash as well. The keto noodles came out ok, but I did not have any tapioca starch so had to substitute. Taste pretty good though as it came out.

That's good; a garden that is productive. and someone who knows how to cook from scratch! You might want a big sweet 'tater patch. That'll produce a bit more long-term food supply.

You know we had a huge sweet potato harvest two seasons ago... but unlike the good old days, we just don't have a root cellar with the right temperature to maintain them for the long term. We opted for a dark closet that is not used very often, but we still had a bunch just dry up and go bad over time. We wrapped them in paper like the interweb told us to do, but ... I'm open to suggestions on how to keep home grown ones for 6 months or more.

[doctork]

Jul 15, 2023 18:06:12 GMT -5 dwarnold said:

I made a keto lasagna tonight... with eggplant, onions, mushrooms, squash on the inside and a little beef meat balls on the side. Made my own sauce from tomatoes from my garden and some peppers and squash as well. The keto noodles came out ok, but I did not have any tapioca starch so had to substitute. Taste pretty good though as it came out.

I have lost track of all these special diets. "Keto" is the one with no (or very few) carbs? So what is in those keto noodles?

I limit my carbs but love bread way too much to eliminate carbs. However, even just aiming to keep them under 60 - 70 grams/meal two or three times a day has resulted in considerable weight loss and I wasn't even really trying to lose weight, just eat healthier and improve blood sugar.

I don't understand why most people would want to eat more protein - the American diet is already very heavy in protein. The physiological requirement is usually only 1 - 2 grams protein/kg body weight. For the "average 70 kg person" (about 155 pounds) that would be only 1 - 2 ounces of protein per day. You get that much in a small hamburger!