Greg Brown, Butch Thompson Trio, Hot Rize, Peter Ostroushko, Claudia Schmidt, Nancy Spencer. Pop Wagner,
Sugarfoot rag (Hot Rize ) Just Ain't (Hot Rize ) Your light leads me on (Hot Rize ) Think of What You've Done (Hot Rize ) Once in a while (Butch Thompson Trio ) It's a Sin To Tell a Lie (Butch Thompson Trio ) Working man's blues (Hot Rize ) Beautiful dreamer ( Nancy Spencer , Pop Wagner ) Wabash cannonball ( Nancy Spencer , Pop Wagner ) Summertime ( Nancy Spencer , Pop Wagner ) Greensleeves ( Nancy Spencer , Pop Wagner ) Caron Corones ( Greg Brown ) Home for Thanksgiving ( Greg Brown ) Old friend ( Claudia Schmidt ) No regrets ( Claudia Schmidt ) Je pas c'est ( Pop Wagner ) Waltz in 3/4 time ( Peter Ostroushko )
American Horizontal Bullion Beds Bertha's Kitty Boutique Chatterbox Cafe Lake Wobegon Leonards Pastor Ingqvist Powdermilk Biscuits Quick-Fix Eucalyptus Hiccup Sticks Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery Sidetrack Tap United Pies
English teacher, Mr. Britt, drank a scotch and soda in the Sidetrack. His class voted him the most popular teacher. Ugh! He really wanted to be a poet. He took teaching to have something to fall back on. He never liked small towns. Bill, the barber, went on vacation and his 20-year old niece, Brenda, replaced him. The old guys often go in for conversation. Brenda thinks that everybody who drops in needs a haircut. You can eat off some heads. She gave Pastor Ingqvist a nice haircut and asked, 'What do you do?' He said, 'I'm a minister.' That satisfied her, but not David. It became his Sunday sermon. He remembered that he had to speak at the LW Leonards awards banquet. A funeral eulogy for an unpopular person, teaches you to talk to anyone. The Leonards lost 12 straight games. He didn't have time to write a speech so he told them about his basketball shot that gave the last game of the year to St. Anna's. We have fantasies about being winners. Instead he learned how bad that his teammates felt for him. GK remembers how angry everyone was with 'Wrong-Way' Ingqvist. Choosing between country and friends.
Margaret Haskins Durber poem. Department of Folk Songs: Bill Grogan's goat. Rida Ronka. Great Day. Long nail a-grinding. At the bar. Sandman. Next Thanksgiving.
1983.11.19 Berkshire Eagle / rebroadcast on November 19, 1988
Archival contributors: Frank Berto