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August 13, 2016      

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This show was a REBROADCAST
The Original Performance Date was 2011-07-02

This week: another season finale rebroadcast, as we look back to July 2011 and a show at the Koussevitzky Music Shed at Tanglewood, the gem of the Berkshires up in Lenox, Massachusetts. Our future host Chris Thile and his Nickel Creek bandmate Sara Watkins team up for the Everly Brothers' "You're the One I Love," and then show off a few tricks individually, Chris on the Bill Monroe classic "Rabbit in the Log," and Sara on Ron Wood's "Mystifies Me." Plus: Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele blow the roof off the Shed with "This Will Be an Everlasting Love," Christine DiGiallonardo adds her voice to a few songs and duets with Garrison, Dusty and Lefty stumble upon a Singer Songwriter competition held in a bathroom (the acoustics are really good!), and the gents of The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band deliver an instrumental take on "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." In Lake Wobegon: Memories of the winter Great Aunt Cooter went berserk can help keep you cool during a summer heatwave. Read notes from Sara Watkins and Fred Newman about this week's rebroadcast Sara Watkins:
This show was so much fun to be a part of. I remember teaching this Everly Brothers song "You're The One I Love" to Chris Thile backstage. I always love singing with Chris and it was really fun to dig in on this one with him. Another song I sang that day is one my friend Benmont Tench showed me years ago - a Ron Wood song called "Mystifies Me."
Fred Newman:
Normally, one thinks of the sound of a venue in terms of how well the audience hears the performers. But as a sound guy and comedy performer, I pay great attention to how well we, the performers, can hear the audience - it so affects our timing. The audience paces us. We instinctively ride the laughter, pausing ever so slightly to let it cascade and build. Tanglewood is unique to us, with an explosive audience laugh that erupts immediately from the audience of 3,000 or so that hug the stage under the metal shed followed by a delayed roll of a louder laugh that builds and washes up from a crowd of 10,000+ that spreads over the broad, open-air lawn. It's an amazing sound, like no other we encounter. It feels like the crash of a great ocean wave, followed by a deep, thunderous rush of wind, all made of laughter. When I first was on stage there 15 years ago, I was told to "surf the crash, not the roar." It's a complete surfer's rush to play in those warm oceans of laughter at Tanglewood.