Greg Brown, Libba Cotten, Garrison Keillor, Lieberman Fogel & Bey, Kate MacKenzie, Peter Ostroushko, Mike Seeger. Stoney Lonesome,
Richard, Don't go to New Orleans ( Greg Brown , Kate MacKenzie ) Let's go to That Land (Stoney Lonesome ) Take My Place Inside Your Heart (Stoney Lonesome ) Tennessee Dog ( Mike Seeger ) Jaw Harp Song ( Mike Seeger ) Freight train ( Mike Seeger ) I'll Still be Lovin' You ( Greg Brown ) Between a Hard Place ( Greg Brown , Lieberman Fogel & Bey ) Hong Kong Blues (Lieberman Fogel & Bey ) Lying to Myself (Lieberman Fogel & Bey ) Love Potion #9 (Lieberman Fogel & Bey ) Dear Heavenly Father ( Mike Seeger ) Song of the Porch ( Garrison Keillor ) If I only Had a Match (Lieberman Fogel & Bey ) When Its Lamplighting Time in the Valley ( Greg Brown , Kate MacKenzie ) Uncle Ben (Stoney Lonesome )
Bertha's Kitty Boutique (Does my cat really need this? The Cat Cannon!) Boomer's (In Downtown St. Paul, Tall People's Night!) Downtown Seed and Nursery (Indoor gardening.) Father Emil Powdermilk Biscuits (Free speech: How do I look with 2 big string beans hanging out of my nose? The Naked Emporer.) White Out Non-Dairy Whitener
Sunday was the first warm day of spring. You could sit out in your back yard drinking coffee in your shirt sleeves. The first little green buds are showing. Higher life forms such as Catholics and Lutherans can survive in this kind of planet. In a planet with nothing but snow, it would be different and people might worship wood piles. both churches. Some people believe that they can worship nature outdoors. Fr. Emil calls this the Protestant fallacy. Fr. Emil went for a walk and found some of his wayward parishioners raking their front lawns. Mrs. Schwab is putting in her garden of big dramatic Las Vegas floor show flowers. She carries on the old show lawn tradition in the back yard. Mr. Schwab does the grass and she does the flowers. He has dug up all of the bricks and straightened them out. There are only two lawn chairs. There is a shrine to the BVM. The shell is half of a bath tub. Pretty soon their floor show will come to life and they will sit in the back yard with a pitcher of grape nectar. Gertrude will be in her print dress and Rudy will be in his Hawaiian luau shirt. The theme of the Junior Senior prom is "A Night in the Gardens of Spain." The gym will be all decorated and the kids will be all intense. They can look forward to having a garden like Gertrude and Rudy's.
Butch Thompson is in New Orleans, Red is attending his 4th great-grandchild, and Bill Evans is off around town. Upcoming North Eastern Tour in the next 3 weeks.
Orlando Sentinel Apr 24 1983
1983.04.25 Lafayette Journal / 1983.04.29 Orlando Sentinel
Archival contributors: Frank Berto, Ken Kuhl