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Friends and Dependents

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Today’s guest post comes from Jacque.

Most of the regulars here on the the Trail know that I have been a Social Worker for most of my career. I’ve worked in a number of settings, including one of Minnesota’s Chemical Dependency Treatment Centers. This center treated adolescents and young adults ages 14-25 years. In this population substances, both legal and illegal, were never the only dependency. There were young gamblers, porn addicts, Mountain Dew Junkies, cigarette smokers, and the most common dependency of all–male or female romances, gay or straight, depending on orientation. We would often talk to the kids about being “Male Dependent” or “Female Dependent.” These youngsters did not want to be alone and would embark on constant romances, dependencies, that rarely ended well.

The term Male Dependent took a funny twist in my own life after Dale departed from Radio Heartland two years ago. After this occurred I realized I had been “Dale Dependent” for 35 years. What a shock to have that empty space in the morning air waves where funny parodies, eclectic Americana music, and Dale (and previously Jim Ed) once presided over dedications, entertained and comforted me through the years. They developed the show that challenged my intellect and my emotions for so many years that I never developed any other taste for the morning routine. In my family alone Lou and I celebrated birthdays for each other, my son’s birthdays, and our wedding (May 29, 1993) with dedications that Dale and Jim Ed faithfully executed.

From May 18, 1990 to November of the same year I was treated for breast cancer with surgery and chemotherapy. The end of the treatment became terribly difficult as my body responded to the treatment as if it were systematic poisoning, which indeed it was. The veins in my hands where they inserted the IV’s collapsed. Lou asked for encouraging dedications of music that motivated me to endure the last few treatments that caused my body, especially my feet to swell and my hair to become straw-like and sparse. TLGMS became part of my treatment team, whether DC and JEP knew it or not.

It appears that the management of MPR never realized the depths to which a show like TLGMS bonded its listeners to both the on-air personalities and the format. A venue such as The Morning Show builds loyalty because it softens and deepens life’s struggles with humor and the balm of music. For those who listened and participated it was an experience of community. That MPR allowed this to develop over the years was a gift to Minnesota. But when Dale’s tenure there ended I was lost for a source of music and parody.

The Trail Baboon became my Late Great Morning Show Anonymous group to treat my Dale Dependency. Instead of “Rise and Shine Baboons!” maybe I should sign on as, “Hi. I’m Jacque and I’m Dale Dependent.” Then you can all respond with a hearty, “Hi, Jacque!” The development of the blog, though, has been a delight that has also come to challenge me intellectually and emotionally. Now I might even send MPR a thank you note for taking the action that caused this to develop. I’ve learned a lot about any number of trivial subjects (i.e. Haiku), as well as having written some posts. I’ve also made friends with TLGMS and reading in common. Baboon Book Club and the friendships growing there is a garden planted by TLGMS. I always knew those other listeners must love to read like I love to read.

Because of the beloved Trail Baboon, we all get to continue to enjoy Dale’s flights of fancy. However, I am still struggling to find a source of music that fits as well as TLGMS and the Keepers collections. I entertain an on-going fantasy that Dale will produce a weekly podcast with some music and parody, for which I would gladly pay. So this leads to the question for the day. Dale I hope you will answer it, too. I always wondered where you found the delightful music.

What is your source of finding new music to enjoy?

96 thoughts on “Friends and Dependents”

  1. jacque,
    we all develop ritauls and the morning show was a favorite. i was very sad to see it go but i was sad to see it moved from the classical music channel to the headbanger channel in college lanf wher dale and jim ed were no longer allowed to play classical because it might turn off the new target audience. dont get me started on the petty jealousy that bill kling must have harbored for the morning show. how could those two guys get callers to call in 100 at a time? how come none of outr other shows can do that except garrison? lets put dale on hd radio and claim no one listens to him then we can fire him. i hope bill klings news efforts get copied by fox and he is left out int he cold.
    fo my music i have discovered xm radio. channel 801 on you laptop xm radio is the bob dylan radio hour. they used to run it wher 1 episode a day ran and then re ran and then reran and i woul get a kick out of how many times i would listen without turning the channel just because he picked good tunes. a while back they changed the format and now everyhour it changes so he picks a theme like dale and jim ed did and spins the records that tie into the theme. its called theme time radio hour and bob is a collector of music trivia that he sprinkles throughout the show along with some interesting humor. xm radio is about 400 for a lifetime membership and an additional 25 a year to play it on the computer at hme or work. they also have bob edwards who i think is one of the best interviewers around and other jazz, blues, folk, broadway and frank sinatra channels i listen to. i get car talk american life and what do you know there as well as on mpr so now mpr is redundant and not the only game in town. steves folk alley is a good one too.
    i am dependant on black tea and subwa sandwichs and birkys and white wine in the evening and snappy patter in the morning and i am ok with these addictions. they make the world go round.

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    2. I’m also a fan of Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour. He does a great show. There are also programs hosted by Lou Reed, David Johansen, Dave Marsh and Marky Ramone that I like a lot, and I mentioned Vin Scelsa’s show in my own comment. If we’re talking about addictions, satellite radio is one of mine. My husband got it for me back when Sirius was first coming out and I couldn’t make it through the day without it now. Terrestrial radio (in South Florida, anyway) is lousy. Satellite has fantastic personalities and programming. It’s worth every penny of the cost.

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  2. Our children keep us updated with music that they think we will enjoy. Daughter gave me this Sharon Jones CD for Christmas a couple of years ago. Son is the new music editor for City Pages in MPLS and downloads tunes for us whenever he visits. He scored us some tickets to see Charles Bradley.

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  3. Thanks for an excellent and touching article, Jacque. Like you, my life was immeasurably enriched by TLGMS. We took advantage of the dedication service, too. I remember thinking, decades ago, “I couldn’t bear to get up in the morning without Dale and Jim Ed to help.” Then I realized that the day would inevitably come when that show wouldn’t be there. That’s just the nature of radio. I somehow survived the loss the The Far Side and the loss of Calvin and Hobbes, and I have “lost” Garrison about four times. So I have been trying for years to brace myself psychologically for the loss of TLGMS.

    To answer your question, I have replaced TLGMS in my life with three things: Trail Baboon, Radio Heartland and Folk Alley.

    TB is pretty obvious. In many ways, it is more nourishing than TLGMS. We all know how much we have benefited (in so many crazy ways) from it. I don’t thank Bill Kling for that. I thank Dale and the exceptional folks who sustain the chatter.

    Radio Heartland is a good source of music that resembles the music we learned to love. When Mike Pengra is not there, I get bugged by the lack of a human being. But it is okay when it is just Jasper. On my computer system, Radio Heartland is annoyingly unstable. It crashes over and over. But it is a great source of music. As I type this, RH is playing one of my most exciting recent discoveries: Gretchen Peters.

    The folk source I count on is Folk Alley. You can Google it and be listening to a great stream of folk music in less than a minute. Folk Alley is extremely stable. and the DJs are excellent. Folk Alley tapes shows, and you sometimes hear a show that you’ve heard before. But it is hard to beat Folk Alley for folk music. Right now (as I posted yesterday) they have a link to a simply wonderful new album that you can enjoy (all songs, all the way) called “Kin.” Kin is a collaboration of Mary Karr and Rodney Crowell, and it features the talents of some of the best folkies in the business. You can listen as much as you want through Monday, June 4. Lucinda Williams sings a fantastic heartbreaking song, “God, I’m Missing You.”

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    1. It seems like a slow morning . . . typical enough for such a gorgeous Saturday in June. If you are interested in Gretchen Peters, here she is. I think she is amazingly literate and smart, plus she is unsurpassed as a storyteller:

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  4. RIse and Shine Baboons!

    And Happy Two Year Anniversary to Dale and the Babooners! Having the Trail as a virtual playground is just a joy. I’ve been playing with this term within my own head for two years now. It was fun to make a public joke out of it.

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  5. Good morning. My relationship to TLGMS was very similar to yours, Jacque. I became even more aware of Dale and Tom Kieth’s great talent when the show ended and when I saw what Dale was able to do to try to stay on the air. I don’t know why MPR would not want to keep him on the air.

    I did learn about some music that I wouldn’t have found on my own by listening to TLGMS. However, listening to a wide variety of music has always been one of my favorite things and I do have some other ways to find new artists. Of course, as Steve said, Radio Heartland is still on the air and I listen to it on my computer.

    There are some good music shows on KFAI that I also listen to from time to time on my computer. I read the music reviews in various papers and I keep an eye on the shows that play at the Cedar and some other places in the Twin Cities and attend some of those shows. Also, my son-in-law, Zack Kline, is a very talented musician, and he helps me keep informed about music. Another radio music show I really like is American Routes which is usually on MPR on Saturday nights following Garrison and which has been added to Radio Heartland.

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  6. Thanks for all the nice compliments, Jacque. The “secret” of the Morning Show wasn’t very much of a secret, really. Be there. Be ready. Be nice. Have fun. Take care of the little things and make the listeners feel important. That’s a strategy that could lead to immediate failure on a lot of stations but for the public radio audience during our prime years it was just right.
    When lamenting the loss of TLGMS, one shouldn’t overlook the considerable contributions of the producers who supported us – Nora McGillivray, Silvester Vicic and Mike Pengra. They were wise and loyal and were more culturally and musically astute than your genial hosts, though people always assumed we were the knowledgable ones. The reason the show’s musical palate was so varied was not that we were experts in all those genres – quite the opposite. Tom and I didn’t have many strongly held musical opinions, and I don’t recall ever having a conversation with him about music that lasted more than thirty seconds. For each of us there was 1) some stuff we liked, 2) a few things we didn’t like, and 3) everything else. We’d play types 1 and 3, but not type 2 unless the other guy chose it or somebody asked. It’s just a song. No big deal.
    Finding music was easy. It arrived in the mail. We were at a big radio station, so record labels and local artists were always sending things to the office. The challenge was deciding what NOT to play. We were like bears standing in the middle of an onrushing stream … a lot of things flew past us but every now and then a tasty fish would jump right into your mouth. Rarely did we go out to buy music for the show.
    So I guess the answer to your question about where did we find all the delightful music is this – the music found us. Just like this blog and all the talkative baboons. Where do they come from? I don’t know – they just show up, and I’m extremely grateful for that!

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    1. You are very modest, Dale. I think that what you did on The Morning Show was remarkable in many ways. Showing good taste in music even if you were not a specialist in this area was part of what you did. I guess you did get some help on picking out music, but you also made good use of those helpers.

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    2. I remember a little tongue in cheek pamphlet that was one of the membership gifts early one year – showed a diagram of how DC and JEP chose the music – a brick coming through the window depicted the “wild card” aspect… all I can remember now. Dale, am I making this up?

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      1. No, BiR, you remember it well. It was our Morning Program User’s Guide – I think I still have a couple!

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    3. There was a classical DJ who did the afternoon drive-time show for awhile in the late 80s /early 90s (Eric….I forget his last name…wonderful voice, Canadian as I recall). Sylvester Vicic was his producer – and while he could never seem to get Silvester to actually comment on-air, he wove him into the show. It was wonderful (and I kinda developed a school-girl crush on the Silent Silvester – or at least the character Eric had created of him). Really showed, too, the importance of a good producer in having a good show. I still wish, 20 years later, that I had that show to listen to on my drive home from work.

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      1. Absolutely. Nora, Silvester, and Mike undoubtedly contributed a great deal, not just to TLGMS but MPR in general. I was sad to see first Nora go, and then Silvester.

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  7. Like Steve, I get ideas for new music from Radio Heartland. I have always depended on MPR for new classical music. Son has started to get music for me, like Mumford and Sons, a group I also recently heard on RH. Today is my dad’s 91st birthday. He plans to celebrate at the grocery store with coffee and cake for his friends in their Last Man Club, and any of their wives who are still alive, and other friends and well-wishers. He is not the oldest guy in the group.

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      1. They are all veterans of the Second World War, and the last one gets a real nice bottle of Bourbon Whiskey. They all have personalized coffee cups that they keep in a display shelf in the grocery store, and whenever one dies they turn his cup upside down. They meet for coffee every day.

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        3. They are sort of a mutual aid society-those who can drive transport those who can’t, and they check on each other if someone doesn’t show up.

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    3. Nice! Having relations that make it happily into their 90s is a very cool thing. My great-grandmother danced at my wedding when she was 90. I’m still very happy about that, 20 years later. 🙂

      Also, Mumford and Sons are quite good. New album from them this fall, so I’ve heard.

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  8. “The Morning Show builds loyalty because it softens and deepens life’s struggles with humor and the balm of music.” Perfectly articulated, Jacque.

    Radio Heartland, American Routes, and Austin City Limits are my go-to sources. All ya’ll on the trail have great offerings. Linda has lalapalooza of a collection and she and I have a swapped a few titles. My son frequently sends me LPs. They aren’t new artists – just albums he knows I don’t have and figures I’ll like. I always do.

    Headed to IA today to help open the cabin. I’m taking bleach and toilet bowl cleaner. Who doesn’t love that job!

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  9. Jaque’s blog and Steve’s recent recommendations suggest to me that maybe the Baboons should think about establishing a permanent and accessible parking spot for musical recommendations. We are obviously as curious, eclectic and avid about music as about food- why not a sidebar along the lines of Kitchen Congress? I can foresee such a sidebar taking on a life of its own, but with some limits applied it could be a great place to discover new music (and old music too).

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    2. I think that’s a terrific idea, bill, but one that’s an additional burden on Dale unless we can find a way of doing it ourselves. But, you’re right, that would be a terrific resource.

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      1. What PJ said – I always love sharing music recommendations with others and find so many great tunes that way. But certainly I wouldn’t want to complicate things for Dale either.

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      2. This is a good idea and it needn’t be a burden for me. Just set up your own WordPress blog to focus more closely on the music and I’ll link to it!

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    4. If it is too much to ask of Dale, we could set up our own little thing like Anna did with BBC and the password I always forget. You can do that on Google sites, too.

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  10. I’ve reached the point where searching out new music doesn’t interest me all that much. My detachment with radio stems from the way it is weighted so heavily on music that is about two years old or newer. I don’t mind hearing the new stuff, most of it is not bad, but my brain resonates with the old and familiar. Radio stations, of course, care even less about me than I do about them – and sadly, I include MPR when I say that – since ears that have been around as long as mine are not valuable to them.

    CD’s and iTunes for me, and whatever Donna sends me. 🙂

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    1. Checking in from Duluth here to say I also am not much of a radio listener. I get stuck in a music rut (listening to my favorite two singers exclusively for a month is not unusual), and am trying to fight that, but I just don’t have the patience to listen to all the songs on the radio that I don’t like to get to the couple songs an hour I do like. I liked a lot of the music on TLGMS but when there was a song I didn’t like (that was more the exception rather than the rule), the personal touch and the banter/talk that went with it made it easy to put up with the few songs I didn’t like. The secret of TLGMS – “Be there. Be ready. Be nice. Have fun. Take care of the little things and make the listeners feel important” – which Dale claims is not that big of a deal really was a big deal because nowadays those things are rare and becoming rarer. And as Linda says, “ears that have been around as long as mine are not valuable to them.”

      To answer the question, Steve has been very kind to share some CDs with me that have helped get me out of my music-listening rut. My preferred method of listening to music is on my (cheap) MP3 player, but unfortunately it is maxed out (2GB), so I’m thinking of getting a new one with more storage so I can continue to add new favorites to all my old favorites. I’m lucky enough that I can play my mp3 player in my car, so when i’m on a longish drive, i just set it on “all tracks” and i’m good for the entire trip.

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      1. It’s amazing how good music makes a long trip seem shorter. One reason why I don’t take long trips in my car, the radio doesn’t work. Have never figured out why.

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  11. Snorting tea at “Hi. I’m Jacque and I’m Dale Dependent.” I’m satisfied with RH, partly because I have that HD radio in my kitchen, esp. in the morning when Mike P is on. I do need a rig for the car.

    This place has been amazing this past year – or however long ago we really started embedding with YouTube. I’m starting to mentally set aside about a half hour daily just to listen to the music y’all provide.

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  12. I use all of the resources listed above. In addition, I make a point out of checking out the artists who appear at the Ginkgo Coffeehouse, and occasionally I read The Rolling Stone. From time to time, dumb luck has me stumbling on a terrific “new” to me artist, sometimes in a genre I don’t normally listen to. Such was the case when I first heard Dessa a year or so ago on TPT; she just blew me away with her verbal agility.

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    1. Your post reminds me PJ that I also have picked up a few new musicians by watching TPT’s “MN Originals.” My tastes are different from those of whoever chooses the featured musicians, but it was MN Originals that introduced me to Dessa and to Davina and the Vagabonds.

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  13. My name is Anna and I am Dale Dependent. I now get my new music from…um…I really haven’t picked up much new in the last couple of years. I admit I switch to The Current from time to time during the week – there are a few DJs I find I have some overlap with my musical interests (Barb Abney and Mary Lucia come to mind), and while I also readily admit when something gets played I’m not fond of I switch away to RH or 99.5, a dose of 89.3 does me good from time to time (especially on a bad day when I need to see what Mary Lucia has up her sleeve for the 4pm “no apologies” track). I miss the camaraderie of TLGMS and the balm of the music and banter in the morning (and all the birthday dedications – though we did squeeze a couple good ones in for Daughter before it all ended), but with time and Trail Baboon for therapy, I will get through it. 🙂

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  14. Wonderful post, Jacque! I appreciate the opportunity to read about your story, and about the role that Dale and his work on TLGMS and the Trail have played in your life. I have lived my life in Florida and I am a relative newcomer here on the Trail. I don’t have the shared history that the rest of y’all have, so a post like this allows me to get to know you better. And although I wasn’t among the audience when Dale was on the air, I understand completely what you mean about finding some relief and comfort through his show. Certain personalities and routines can become vital parts of your life and can have a significant effect on you. While I didn’t have the pleasure of listening to Dale’s show, I do have fond memories of the radio hosts I grew up with, whether they helmed music, talk or sports programs. When we in South Florida recently lost Jim Mandich to cancer, it broke my heart. He had been the radio voice of our Miami Dolphins for years and I miss his presence enormously. Last season was our first without him, and as I listened to the games I realized how “Jim dependent” I had been!

    Sorry for the babble, but on to your question – finally. 🙂 I am a music junkie and I find new music all over the place, though it is via online sources more often than not these days. I do still have a favorite radio program that is regularly introducing me to great music I may not have heard otherwise, and that is Vin Scelsa’s Idiot’s Delight. Scelsa is a legendary New York DJ and his show runs live on Sirius/XM satellite radio twice a week (Wednesday and Thursday afternoon from noon to 2, on Sirius channel 29 or XM channel 50 if anyone’s interested).

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    1. Man, you have some wild stuff happening politically, in Florida! That legislation to cripple voter registration was right out of Jim Crow. I sometimes wish you’d move to MN, but it seems that FLA badly needs people like you.

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      1. You ain’t kidding, Steve. This last couple of weeks have been off the wall in Florida news and politics, and that’s coming from someone who’s lived here for more than 40 years and has seen my share of southern-fried crazy. Florida does need all the sane people it can get, but that doesn’t mean I won’t take off to Canada or someplace one day when I just can’t take it anymore.

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    2. So glad you are with us Chris. There is a new CD out with a MP3 download of Tom Keith’s work on PHC. The download it bits from TLGMS which gives a wonderful sample of what we were once priveleged to have in our listening lives. Really fun.

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      1. Thanks, Jacque, I’ve really enjoyed checking in and sharing a little back-and-forth with all y’all! This is one of the only 2 online spots I’ve been to where I sense a real community type of vibe. Even though I’m not part of the community geographically, it’s nice to read the perspectives that you folks all have. There are some very lovely, talented and interesting people posting here! And geography is fairly irrelevant in cases like this – the other online “community” I’m part of is a forum for fans of a British band that I adore (they’re called Elbow. I know, you’ve never heard of them. Nobody has. It’s cool.), and I am one of only a few Yanks there. Everyone else on that site is from the UK, Ireland or Europe, but I’ve “known” them for years and even managed to meet a bunch of them last year when I went to Manchester to see an Elbow concert there. It was an awesome experience,and I am pen pals with several of those folks now. Internet communities can be really cool!

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        1. I’ve heard of Elbow…they get air time on the Current (an alt-indie station on MPR which you will either really like or really not, it was the last home of TLGMS before it became the Dale-only show on Radio Heartland). If you like Elbow, you might want to listen to the online stream from the Current…these fine folks also introduced me to the Ting Tings, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Adele, Rufus Wainwright, Bettye Lavette, Michael Franti, the Pipettes, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Brother Ali, Dessa…

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        2. Sounds like a great station, Anna. Alt-indie is right up my street! Will have to check that out online, for sure. Thanks for the recommendation!

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      2. Oh, that’s excellent! I’m sorry I didn’t realize there had been some Elbow history here…I must admit I’ve not had the opportunity to go through the extensive archives here yet! I love this band dearly, so any recognition on this side of the pond is a rare and wonderful thing to see. They are already mega-successful in the UK and are providing the BBC with the theme tune they will use during their coverage of the Olympic Games in London this summer. Here’s a link to some info about that, and a video that includes a taste of the theme:
        http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17894190

        And because I’m like a damn Jehovah’s Witness with this band, here’s my favorite Elbow song.

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        1. we may have discussed them before but i missed it. they are great. i will check further.into it and pass them on to my kids who are the music vessels around my house.

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  15. Always the excellent therapist, Jacque has me pegged as Dale dependent. While I always enjoyed the music on TLGMS I would have been just as happy to listen to the guys. The music that always spoke to me the most was the clever and often older parts of the repertoire. I have replaced this part with Pandora and construction of my own station. It takes some work-every time I add choral pieces Pandora starts suggesting Christmas music. Happy anniversary to Dale-the heart of the Trail and to all the baboon s hanging around!

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  16. OT and very belatedly but here’s the 2012 Lake Harriet Bandshell music link, Steve. The other date I quoted you a few days ago for Davina was 2011 schedule which is still posted on line for some unknown reason. This year she’s playing next week on June 10th. Sorry about that!

    http://www.breadandpickle.com/events/list

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  17. Good Morning–

    I stream Radio Heartland frequently and when in the cars or tractors I listen to the Current or a local public radio station that tends to play classic rock: KRPR 89.9. (I absolutely detest commercials; radio or TV).
    And this blog; I’ve learned things from you. I’d never heard of Dessa until watching her commencement speech that was posted here. She’ll be in Rochester at a free stage in a couple weeks.
    Davina and the Vagabonds, who I learned from here, will also be on a free stage in August.

    Heard this on The Current the other day:

    (Let’s see if that embedding works. Steve, the Democratic convention is in Rochester this weekend; see if that helps me here…)

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    1. OK, well, it is a group called ‘First Aid Kit’ and a song called ‘Blue’. Two sisters from Sweden.

      I don’t always catch the lyrics to a song but this one caught my ear.

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  18. No one here has mentioned Trampled by Turtles, the blue grass band from Duluth currently hitting the big time or close to it. And I’ll have to hit ‘post comment’ before knowing if I’m embedding the smart way.

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        2. “Well, den, I reck’n I did dream it, Huck; but dog my cats ef it ain’t de powerfullest dream I ever see. En I hain’t ever had no dream b’fo’ dat’s tired me like dis one. Huck Finn via google

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  19. For those of you who like Gypsy Jazz a la Django Rheinhart, another regionally local group worth being aware of is the Clearwater Hot Club, featuring Sam Miltich, a phenomenal young guitarist. Gary Schulte is on the violin here and I don’t know if he is permanently playing with the CHC or a guest. Gary shows up with just about every gypsy jazz group in the region sooner or later.

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    1. …and do you you all know about Melody Gardot? Since I never listen to the music stations, I don’t know who is generally known and who is not…

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      1. WP will not let me create a new post. I have waited patiently for a 1/2 an hour. It is allowing me to post here. I hope it lets me embed…

        Jacque, great post. I’m still in recovery. By now I should be in better shape but there are so many music triggers!

        I jot down songs and musicians when listening to RH, friends’ FB suggestions, and I explore YouTube. One of my favorite music suppliers is the library. Thanks to Hennepin County Library, I can listen to Jennifer Warnes singing Ballad Of The Runaway Horse over and over.

        I look forward to the music on this blog and reserve time for what I call mini Morning Shows; then I listen to the blog “playlist.” Of course it is minus the set-up and the banter and the atmosphere. Can trigger nostalgia…for Dale and Jim Ed and the good old days.

        Just heard that Caryl P Weiss has passed away:

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        1. She’s quite young and her story is remarkable (you can find it at her website). I think her delivery and phrasing is exceptionally sophisticated.

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        2. Bill, I checked her out, remarkable story. Was wondering about the sunglasses, so checked to see if there was a reason for them, and apparently there is.

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  22. Today was Danish Day! It was celebrated in grand style with a lot of Danish traditions; everything from Danish foods to Danish music. One of the highlights of today’s celebration was a Danish folk music trio “Fiolministeriet.” Couldn’t find anything by them on youtube, and I actually could find very little authentic Danish folk music, so this will have to do (with a nod to Anna and her Norwegian heritage). I love this stuff!

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  23. I find new music on Radio Heartland’s HD radio broadcast like many others here, and I keep an ear on folk music programs from Wisconsin and Iowa public radio as well. For more contemporary rock ‘n roll I tune in the Current. There’s also an online radio program from Sing Out! that produces an hour’s worth of folk music weekly that I catch when I can.

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