Roy Blount Jr, Butch Thompson Trio, Garrison Keillor, Klezmer Conservatory Band. Kate MacKenzie, Stoney Lonesome,
Fats Waller Medley (Butch Thompson Trio ) Handful of keys (Butch Thompson Trio ) Blue turning gray (Butch Thompson Trio ) Let's break the good news (Butch Thompson Trio ) Oh lonesome me ( Kate MacKenzie , Stoney Lonesome ) I've been lonely ( Kate MacKenzie , Stoney Lonesome ) I'm going out to Boston ( Kate MacKenzie , Stoney Lonesome ) All the good times are past and gone ( Kate MacKenzie , Stoney Lonesome ) Fiddler's dream ( Kate MacKenzie , Stoney Lonesome ) Shenandoah breakdown ( Kate MacKenzie , Stoney Lonesome ) Rumanian dorna (Klezmer Conservatory Band ) I without you (Klezmer Conservatory Band ) The old gypsy (Klezmer Conservatory Band ) The guy song ( Garrison Keillor ) The phantom juke box ( Roy Blount Jr )
Bertha's Kitty Boutique Bob's Bank Chatterbox Cafe EdCo Computers Line Calculator Fearmonger's Shop Fritz Electronics Halsademder Salsa Company Powdermilk Biscuits Sidetrack Tap Yastremski Massachusetts
GK was cut off from the ordinary LW news so he had to make things up. GK left LW ·to become a brilliant person. GK used to dream that his family were not Scandinavians but Italians. They were really the Kiellorinis. LW was very boring for a teenager in the summer. Dreaming of being terribly ill. Visiting Uncle Al's farm in the summer to help out. Uncle Al gave him a gift. He let GK run the manure spreader, which was much better than feeling sorry for yourself.
Some cities are fascinated with themselves but not Boston. Interview with Roy Blount. Roy reads two of his food poems.
1983.04.03 Asbury Park Press / Berto: re-broadcast on May 28, 1988
Archival contributors: Frank Berto