Howdy folks:
Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 224. This one’s available to free and paid subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen.
In this episode a thought about the magic of radio leads me back to revisit a time when I wrote about truckers and trucker radio. And I mention that the band and I are going to play a benefit for a unique local radio station. Join us if yer in the area!
Oh, and a clarification: In today’s episode I mention 1997 and 2007 in a way that might be confusing. The main piece was written in 1997…the 2007 reference pertains to an explanatory addendum in Off Main Street. Either way, time flies like a brakeless truck down Wolf Creek Pass.
Thank you,Mike
Info on the WHYS concert including the Long Beds.
Dave Nemo talking about trucker songs.
Long Beds trucking song.
Interview I did with Long Haul Paul (slung some guitar).
The source of this episode’s marginalia is the same book as last week, which I found thanks to a listener/reader recommendation: First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process, available from BookShop.org and Amazon. (Law requires me to let you know we catch a little commission if you order through those links. Are we good, law?)
MARGINALIA
I keep dipping into First We Read, Then We Write. It’s one of those you can read that way. A chapter when time allows.
Unlike Emerson above, I’ve never been good at keeping journals. Partly because I’m not that disciplined, and partly because when I did keep journals and went back to read them, they rendered me profoundly maudlin. I do keep reams and reams of jotted oddments, and physical object and pictures that trigger my memories and sprout stories. But there is also a chuckle for me in the above passage, as after 30 years of freelancing, I deeply appreciate the “cash value of an idea.”
My finest mentors were those who told me what didn’t work.
I often wish I was more organized. More disciplined in my approach. But it’s those tangents that yield up the rich stuff…
