Podcasts about blue ribbons

Send us a textIt's finally here, the start of the Blue Ribbons 2025 campaign! Listen as the coaches and the president of the Blue Ribbons talk about the return of the Red/Blue intersquad scrimmage game which, this year, will pit brother vs brother and Price vs Price.

Self-mutilate this, fluid boy, because we're talking Blue Ribbons and hack jobs in David Nutter's teenybopper version of The Stepford Wives in 1998's Disturbing Behavior! Join us as we go all in on this film's extremely troubled production (seriously, it's bad!) before diving into the plot of this extended episode of The X-Files. Plus, mathematics vs. moments, peckerheads, some well-earned praise for Nick Stahl and test screening after test screening after test screening (after test screening). Questions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on BlueSky, Instagram, Youtube, Letterboxd, Facebook, or join the Facebook Group or brand new Horror Queers Discord to get in touch with other listeners. > Trace: @tracedthurman > Joe: @joelipsett (BlueSky) / @bstolemyremote (Instagram)  Be sure to support the boys on Patreon!   Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's guest is Drew Cavalier, a bridge player and member of Huntsville DBC. In 2022, Drew won the Wernher Open Paris with Christian Jolly, who Drew describes as one of the smartest people he's ever met. We discuss his bridge mentors and partners, the highs and lows of competitive bridge, and some of Drew's most memorable hands.  Drew also played in a speedball-format game with Owen Lien, another podcast guest, and had an extremely impressive score. You can listen to that episode here: https://www.thesettingtrick.com/https/thesettingtricklibsyncom/episode-81-owen-lien-does-it-all-in-bridge  Subscribers to The Setting Trick email list check your email or to subscribe click here: https://www.thesettingtrick.com/  Episode Highlights: 4:00 – How Drew ended up playing with Disa Eythorsdottir at sectionals 9:09 – Drew has been lucky with mentors 19:02 – Drew's disaster Imp Pairs hand. Learn more about the Imp Pairs format: https://www.bridgewebs.com/wncunit171/ImpPairs.pdf  23:10 – “This is the most important moment of my bridge career.” 30:10 – Dan Lev and Drew Cavalier played in Vegas recently. They led on Blue Ribbons on their first day, but they did not make it to day three. Drew speaks highly of Dan as a partner. 36:32 – Drew's long term goal is winning a long-form knockout. 38:40 – The first time Drew and Christian Jolly played together, and “the only thing” Drew ever taught Jolly. 42:33 – One of Drew's favorite bridge hands 45:44 – “When we won the Wernher, we discussed the system for fifteen minutes beforehand.” 46:55 – Drew's experience at The Gold Coast Congress, and why he loves Australia. 50:55 – Bridge overseas and language barriers 56:49 – Why it's important to have a growth mindset in bridge

We have several weeks until Spring and Spring Training, but Bill Morgan with the Green Bay Blue Ribbons baseball joins the show to discuss the new year and new season. The Blue Ribbons are a semi-pro baseball team participating in both the Wisconsin State League and the Northeastern Wisconsin Baseball League. Made up predominately of college-age players, the Blue Ribbons play their home games at historic Joannes Stadium on Green Bay's east side. Bill also shares some history of the team and also Joannes stadium. Then the director of the "Green and Gold Movie," Anders Lindwall, calls in to discuss the movie. Anders says that the movie is his heartfelt tribute to rural America's strength and perseverance. The movie stars Craig T. Nelson, and at its core, the movie is a tribute to the unsung heroes who shape communities and preserve traditions through kindness and hard work. Maino and the Mayor is a part of the Civic Media radio network and airs Monday through Friday from 6-9 am on WGBW in Green Bay and on WISS in Appleton/Oshkosh. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows to see the entire broadcast lineup. Follow the show on Facebook and X to keep up with Maino and the Mayor! Guests: Bill Morgan, Anders Lindwall

Distracted at school? Lashing out at home? The solution to your teen's problems is just a ferry ride away in Cradle Bay, where one unregulated doctor and a gang of Blue Ribbons are standing by to shove a white-hot microchip into your eyeball!! That's right, we're talking X-Files grunge, Tarantino monologues, and 1998's DISTURBING BEHAVIOR with writer and “This Ends At Prom” podcast co-host Harmony Colangelo!! Along the way, we delve into the tug-of-war between what the film wants to say and what the movie actually says about teen angst and rebellion, the competing sci-fi teen scream flicks of 1998, discuss why parents just don't understand, and why no one considered an intolerance to horny thoughts to a be a behavior-modification dealbreaker during R&D!! Listen today… it's RAZOR!! Listen to Harmony and BJ on This Ends At Prom here!! Part of the BLEAV Network. Get even more episodes exclusively on Patreon! Artwork by Josh Hollis: joshhollis.com Kill By Kill theme by Revenge Body. For the full-length version and more great music, head to revengebodymemphis.bandcamp.com today! Our linker.ee Click here to visit our TeePublic shop for killer merch! Join the conversation about any episode on the Facebook Group! Follow us on IG @killbykillpodcast!! Join us on Threads or even Bluesky Check out Gena's Substack called Gena Watches Things!! Check out the films we've covered & what might come soon on Letterboxd!

For the first time ever, the Green Bay Blue Ribbons have won the 2024 NEWBL regular season title. PA announcer Nick Witwer sits down with pitching coach Bret Whiffen, veteran player Griffin Summers, and rookie Blue Ribbons player Brady LaViolette to discuss how it feels to be champions and what potential championships could soon be coming next!*Note this podcast was recorded prior to the Christmas in July game on July 24th*

We dive into the world of state, county and agricultural fairs with Marla Calico to learn about their history, impact and why roast beef sundaes are all the rage at fairgrounds across the country. Plus, we head to the Iowa State Fair to meet the woman who carves cows out of butter and the kids striving to create the world's ugliest cake. We also get a crash course in wine from sommelier André Hueston Mack and we make Eggplant and Tahini Dip. Get this week's recipe for Eggplant and Tahini Dip here.We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotipsListen to Milk Street Radio on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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PA announcer Nick Witwer got the chance to sit down with the coaching staff to review the first half of the season and discuss the team's standing in both the Northeastern Wisconsin Baseball League and the Wisconsin State Baseball League as the Blue Ribbons continue to work towards a potential playoff berth.

Ribbons fans, relive this year's 2024 Hall of Fame ceremony. Hear from team president Ken Leo and from 2024 Blue Ribbons Hall of Fame class members Troy Cota, Mark Zeratsky, and Mark Hinske.

Bienvenidos a Salud Financiera. Un programa en directo diario dónde puedes aprender y preguntar sobre finanzas personales y mercados financieros. En este episodio #122 lo dedicaremos a la historia del juicio entre Otnisuka y Blue Ribbons por el lanzamiento de las zapatillas NikeResponderemos a los usuarios dudas sobre- Diferencias entre ETFs y Fondos indexados- Asesores de Fondos de Inversión en EspañaNo te pierdas nada de nuestra comunidad: https://linktr.ee/misaludfinanciera - Curso de ETFs disponible en https://go.hotmart.com/U91482169Y- Curso de Fondos disponible en https://hotmart.com/es/marketplace/productos/de-cero-a-inversor-en-fondos/O93564337ICronología del Episodio00:00 Introducción01:50 El juicio entre Otnisuka y Blue Ribbon19:02 Diferencias prácticas entre Fondos Indexados y ETFs29:25 Asesores de fondos de inversión en EspañaEnlaces de interéshttps://www.cnmv.es/DocPortal/Legislacion/Guias-Tecnicas/Guiatecnica_2020_3.pdfhttps://fundspeople.com/es/insights/esta-en-realidad-el-etf-en-desventaja-fiscal-frente-al-fondo-de-inversion-en-espana/

Hello friends. Nice of you to join us. In this movie, a high school student moves to a town that is located on an island, and befriends a long-haired guy, Powder, and a thoroughly sultry girl (who, in any real high school, would be one of the most popular girls). I apologize. Back to the task at hand. This student falls in with the wrong crowd, and even though the best students in school, the Blue Ribbons, try and bring him onto the good side, he ruins everything by befriending a stuttering old codger in the basement, and complete chaos ensues. Make sure you save all of your fluids, and join us as we discuss Disturbing Behavior!Support the Show.

The 2024 season is here and so is a new episode of the FerDaRibbs Podcast as we usher in a new era of Green Bay Blue Ribbons baseball! On this episode, Blue Ribbons PA announcer Nick Witwer sat down with first-year manager Haydon Price to discuss his outlook for the team this season.

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Joining Alex on this week's episode of the Alex McFarland Show, are special guests, Jenny Kaiser and Rabbi Eli Sneiderman. In Part 2 of Standing Up Against Anti-Semitism, they discuss how the events of October 7th just illustrated how selective and politically correct many people are about whether they will or will not stand up against the terrorism against Israel and the right for Israel to exist.  Practical calls to action are shared to help us all get involved in standing against anti-semitism and supporting Israel.Scriptures:  Psalm 122:6Practical Calls to Action:PrayerBe a friend.Get an Israeli flag and fly it.Vote - Think about where our leaders stand on Israel before voting.Lobby state elected officials to help support Israel and Jews. Make it known that there are still hostages being held in Gaza that need to be freed.Shalom Greensboro - Ways to get involved are on the website.Combat Anti-Semitism - Great politicians and community activists that won't stand up for any hate or racism.Jewish Federations - Helping local Jewish federations and how to support Israel.Project Menorah - Initiative to put menorah's in windows and doorways.Blue Ribbons for Israel - Get Jewish pins and ribbons to wear to help support Israel.Alex McFarlandAsk Alex Online alex@alexmcfarland.com booking@alexmcfarland.comThe 21 Toughest Questions Your Kids Will Ask About ChristianityTruth & Liberty CoalitionFamily Research CouncilFamily Policy AllianceDonateTruth for New GenerationsWomen of the ShoahGreensboro Jewish FederationTNG - PO Box 10231 Greensboro, NC 274081-877-937-4631 (1-877-YES-GOD1)

The Fifth Day of Christmas! The Chanticleer International Book Awards have 25 divisions. Will you be one of the top contenders? Also, learn a new interpretation of the 5 Gold Rings! (Is it birds? It might be birds...)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from The Counselor's Couch.  It is the height of the holiday season, and you can feel the stress building.   The traffic, the crowds, the music and the EXPECTATIONS.  Don't get us wrong, we love the Silver Bells, White Christmas, Blue Ribbons all Wrapped in Red music of the Holidays.  Have you ever considered how it may be establishing some subconscious expectations for "the perfect holiday"?  Does such a thing even exist?  NO.  The stress experienced during the holidays is often attributed to the expectations placed on us and the Holiday itself.  Are the expectations realistic?  Join Calvin, as he unpacks the emotional impact expectations of a perfect holiday have us.  Take your Holiday back from the fears and stress.  Acceptance is the key to navigating this season.  A perfect holiday does not exist but we can have a joyful one and embrace it with gratitude. Thanks for listening and if you have enjoyed The Counselor's Couch, then let us know. Take a moment and leave a quick review of this episode or any episode on Apple Podcasts. Your review really does make a difference and they help us know if we are heading in the right direction.Comments, questions or topics of interest can be emailed to: calvin@calvincwilliamslpc.comShare an episode with a friend or family member and remember "You are not alone and You are of Value".

Intro Song –  Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith & Bob Stroger, “Clever Mama”, Keepin' It Together, Kenny won Percussionist of the Year, Bob won Bass Guitarist of the Year

 First Set - Albums
 John Primer, “You Mean So Much To Me”, Hard Times, Traditional Blues Album, & Live Blues Album for  Teardrops for Magic Slim
 Annika Chambers & Paul DesLauriers, “We Got The Blues”, Good Trouble, Soul Blues Album Taj Mahal, “Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby”, Savoy, Contemporary Blues Album & Male Blues Artist
 Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia, “Fool Never Learns”, Blood Brothers, Rock Blues Album, Mike: Producer of The Year

 Second Set – Albums
 Charlie Musselwhite, “Drifting From Town To Town”, Mississippi Son, Acoustic Blues Album, and Harmonica Player of the Year 
Bob Corritore  & Friends, “You're Gonna Be Sorry (Barbara Lynn)”, Bob Corritore & Friends - Women In Blues Showcase, Historical or Vintage Recording
 Lady J Huston, “Mean Stud Lover's Blues”, Groove Me Baby, New Artist Debut Album

 Third Set – Bands
 Cash Box Kings, “Down On The South Side”, Oscar's Motel, Blues Band 
 Shemekia Copeland, “Uncivil War”, Uncivil War, Female Blues Artist, and Vocalist of the Year
 Dylan Triplett, “Junkyard Dog”, Who Is He?, Sean Costello Rising Star Award

 Fourth Set - Instrumentalists Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, “Something In The Dirt”, Live In London, Electric Guitarist of the Year
 Rory Block, “Big Road Blues”, Blues Women Anthology Vol. 1, Acoustic Guitarist of the Year
 Sonny Landreth, “Swamp Stomp”, Louisiana Swamp Stomp, Slide Guitarist of the Year
 Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne, “That Raggedy Shack”, Inspired By The Blues, Keyboard Player of the Year
 Vanessa Collier, “Superbad”, Heart On The Line, Horn Player of the Year

She treats these portly porkers like her own kids. An Ohio farmer dishes on what it takes to snag that blue ribbon.   Guests: Marsha Steel, Kenneth Glander, and Nick Black.   Presented by The Ohio State Fair and produced by Wessler Media.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The FerDaRibbs Podcast is back for the 2023 Blue Ribbons season. In the first episode of the year, PA announcer Nick Witwer sits down for a quick Q+A with Manager Anthony Sottile with an appearance from Assistant Manager Haydon Price. Are you ready for another season of Blue Ribbons Baseball? Join us at the Jo all summer long.

On today's episode, we're heading over to Cradle Bay, making a pit stop over at the Yogurt Shoppe, and trying to outrun these crazy Blue Ribbons, while we revisit the teen sci-fi classic, Disturbing Behavior (1998). This movie was written by Scott Rosenberg and directed by David Nutter.This movie stars James Marsden (Sugar and Spice, X-Men), Katie Holmes (Dawson's Creek, Teaching Ms. Tingle), Nick Stahl (The Man Without A Face, Sin City), Bruce Greenwood (Double Jeopardy, I, Robot) and William Sadler (Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey, Die Hard 2).This movie has such a wild post production history and will go down as one of the worst examples of studio interference ruining an otherwise decent film. If you're into some late 90s teen horror, strap yourself in, because we're taking a ride. Intro/Outro Music: "Phantom Fun" by Jonathan BoyleShow E-Mail: cultcinemacircle@gmail.comFollow Cult Cinema Circle on Instagram, Twitter, and Letterboxd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Drew and Badway try to figure out what's going on in Cradle Bay, Washington during 1998's teen thriller Disturbing Behavior. The guys discuss the prospect of the New Kid In School rejecting potential friends, “Punk Rock” Katie Holmes, what Nick Stahl, Edward Furlong and Giovanni Ribisi have in common, and why Badway was a good candidate to join the Blue Ribbons. --- Subscribe & Follow Us: Spotify Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Twitter Facebook Instagram YouTube

In today's episode, we sat down with author Kay Fenton Smith. Kay co-wrote the book “Baking Blue Ribbons: Stories and Recipes from the Iowa State Fair Food Competitions” with Carol McGarvey. The book highlights the history, stories, and recipes from the very first Iowa State Fair up through present day. Kay will be at the library on Sunday, December 11 speaking about her book and giving guests a taste of the book's blue-ribbon donuts!

We dive into the world of state, county and agricultural fairs with Marla Calico to learn about their history, impact and why roast beef sundaes are all the rage at fairgrounds across the country. Plus, we head to the Iowa State Fair to meet the woman who carves cows out of butter and the kids striving to create the world's ugliest cake. We also get a crash course in wine from sommelier André Hueston Mack and we make Eggplant and Tahini Dip. Get this week's recipe for Eggplant and Tahini Dip here.We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotipsListen to Milk Street Radio on: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Iowa State Fair time, and the latest episode of the DMPL Podcast is sure to make you hungry to head to the fairgrounds. Kay Fenton Smith is the author of Baking Blue Ribbons: Stories and Recipes from the Iowa State Fair Food Competitions. Smith and host Aaron Gernes talk about what happens during the food competitions, popular foods throughout history, and some of her favorite recipes in the book.   Show Notes Baking Blue Ribbons at the Library Blue Ribbon Foundation Elwell Family Food Center  

Gilmore Girls S5 E14 "Say Something"/Buffy S5 E14 "Crush"Lorelai and Spike both struggle to get the person they love to respond the way they'd like. And both Spike and Rory try pushing bourbon in an attempt to solve these problems. Both Rory and Buffy find themselves hanging out with their blonde bad boys, but can't quite tell if they're on a date or not. The people of Stars Hollow have donned ribbons to indicate which side of a breakup they're on, and maybe so has Willow? Spike and Sookie quickly modify the endings of stories in order to make the leading ladies happy. And Bryan shares a bit about his high school locker.Want more content? Sing up for our Patreon! Now through the end of June 2022, get 15% off (2 months free) when you sign up for an annual membership! We've got 3 different tiers of bonus content, including early access to extended episode previews, monthly outtakes, monthly watch parties, and of course, our weekly Angel video reviews! patreon.com/bryanandstaceyBe sure to take advantage of our wine partnership with Winc! 4 bottles of wine, custom-selected for your palate, for just $29.95 plus free shipping! Order now by clicking here to take their short quiz and get started! And be sure to use promo code "gilmoreslayer" at checkout.If available, any current/better deals may be applied by using our link above.Disclaimer: We are Winc affiliates. If you make a purchase, we may receive a commission, at no extra cost to you, that will go towards growing our podcast and producing more content.Introduction - 0:00Gilmore Girls S5 E14: Say Something - 5:11Meanwhile on Charmed - 45:01Buffy S5 E14: Crush - 47:25The Winner - 1:18:47Don't forget to follow us on social media for more Buffy/Gilmore content as well as other comedy content.YouTube:Bryan & StaceyInstagram:@gilmoreslayer@bryanandstacey@BMofunny@staceykulowTikTok:@gilmoreslayer@bryan.and.staceyTwitter:@gilmoreslayer@bryanandstacey@BMofunny@staceykulowFacebook:Bryan & StaceyBuffy the Gilmore SlayerCheck out bryanandstacey.com to find out what else we've been up to, or email us at: bryanandstaceyreviews@gmail.comTheme song written and performed by Louie Aronowitz @louiearonowitzSupport the show

Amber Johnston, aka "Heritage Mom" (@heritagemomblog on Instagram) is an expert when it comes to Charlotte Mason and providing a life-giving home. Her website, Heritagemom.com, is a treasure trove of information. In this episode we discuss the tried and true tenets of the Charlotte Mason philosophy on education that have withstood the test of time over the last century. Who knew educational philosophy could be so interesting? :)  Find out more about Amber at www.heritagemom.com Pre-order her brand new book, A Place to Belong, here: https://amzn.to/3rn00Op

Esta semana, tono otoñal-crepuscular en Islas de Robinson. Canciones entre 1966 y 1970 para una sesión de especial extrañeza. Suenan: ASTRUD GILBERTO - "I WILL WAIT FOR YOU" ("LOOK TO THE RAINBOW", 1966) / JACQUES BREL - "L'AGE IDIOT" - "CES GENS-LÁ" ("CES GENS-LÁ", 1966) / JUDY COLLINS - "PIRATE JENNY" ("IN MY LIFE", 1966) / NINA SIMONE - "KEEPER OF THE FLAME" ("HIGH PRIESTESS OF SOUL", 1967) / FABRIZIO DE ANDRÉ - "BALLATA DEGLI IMPICCATI" ("TUTTI MORIMO A STENTO", 1968) / BILL FAY - "THE SUN IS BORED" ("BILL FAY", 1970) / DAVID ACKLES - "BLUE RIBBONS" ("DAVID ACKLES", 1968) / FRANK SINATRA - "FOR A WHILE" ("WATERTOWN", 1970) / THE FOUR SEASONS - "GENUINE IMITATION LIFE" ("THE GENUINE IMITATION LIFE GAZETTE", 1969) / BOBBIE GENTRY - "REFRACTIONS" ("THE DELTA SWEETE", 1968) / THE EVERLY BROTHERS - "LIVING TOO CLOSE TO THE GROUND" ("ROOTS", 1968) / TIM HARDIN - "IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN" ("TIM HARDIN 1", 1966) / SCOTT WALKER - "SUCH A SMALL LOVE" ("SCOTT", 1967) / Escuchar audio

Episode one hundred and twenty-eight of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds, and the start of LA folk-rock. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "I Got You Babe" by Sonny and Cher. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Erratum The version of this originally uploaded got the date of the Dylan tour filmed for Don't Look Back wrong. I edited out the half-sentence in question when this was pointed out to me very shortly after uploading. Resources As usual, I've created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode (with the exception of the early Gene Clark demo snippet, which I've not been able to find a longer version of). For information on Dylan and the song, I've mostly used these books: Bob Dylan: All The Songs by Phillipe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon is a song-by-song look at every song Dylan ever wrote, as is Revolution in the Air, by Clinton Heylin. Heylin also wrote the most comprehensive and accurate biography of Dylan, Behind the Shades. I've also used Robert Shelton's No Direction Home, which is less accurate, but which is written by someone who knew Dylan. While for the Byrds, I relied mostly on Timeless Flight Revisited by Johnny Rogan, with some information from Chris Hillman's autobiography. This three-CD set is a reasonable way of getting most of the Byrds' important recordings, while this contains the pre-Byrds recordings the group members did with Jim Dickson. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Today we're going to take a look at one of the pivotal recordings in folk-rock music, a track which, though it was not by any means the first folk-rock record, came to define the subgenre in the minds of the listening public, and which by bringing together the disparate threads of influence from Bob Dylan, the Searchers, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys, manages to be arguably the record that defines early 1965. We're going to look at "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Mr. Tambourine Man"] Folk-rock as a genre was something that was bound to happen sooner rather than later. We've already seen how many of the British R&B bands that were becoming popular in the US were influenced by folk music, with records like "House of the Rising Sun" taking traditional folk songs and repurposing them for a rock idiom. And as soon as British bands started to have a big influence on American music, that would have to inspire a reassessment by American musicians of their own folk music. Because of course, while the British bands were inspired by rock and roll, they were all also coming from a skiffle tradition which saw Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Big Bill Broonzy, and the rest as being the people to emulate, and that would show up in their music. Most of the British bands came from the bluesier end of the folk tradition -- with the exception of the Liverpool bands, who pretty much all liked their Black music on the poppy side and their roots music to be more in a country vein -- but they were still all playing music which showed the clear influence of country and folk as well as blues. And that influence was particularly obvious to those American musicians who were suddenly interested in becoming rock and roll stars, but who had previously been folkies. Musicians like Gene Clark. Gene Clark was born in Missouri, and had formed a rock and roll group in his teens called Joe Meyers and the Sharks. According to many biographies, the Sharks put out a record of Clark's song "Blue Ribbons", but as far as I've been able to tell, this was Clark embellishing things a great deal -- the only evidence of this song that anyone has been able to find is a home recording from this time, of which a few seconds were used in a documentary on Clark: [Excerpt: Gene Clark, "Blue Ribbons"] After his period in the Sharks, Clark became a folk singer, starting out in a group called the Surf Riders. But in August 1963 he was spotted by the New Christy Minstrels, a fourteen-piece ultra-commercial folk group who had just released a big hit single, "Green Green", with a lead sung by one of their members, Barry McGuire: [Excerpt: The New Christy Minstrels, "Green Green"] Clark was hired to replace a departing member, and joined the group, who as well as McGuire at that time also included Larry Ramos, who would later go on to join The Association and sing joint lead on their big hit "Never My Love": [Excerpt: The Association, "Never My Love"] Clark was only in the New Christy Minstrels for a few months, but he appeared on several of their albums -- they recorded four albums during the months he was with the group, but there's some debate as to whether he appeared on all of them, as he may have missed some recording sessions when he had a cold. Clark didn't get much opportunity to sing lead on the records, but he was more prominent in live performances, and can be seen and heard in the many TV appearances the group did in late 1963: [Excerpt: The New Christy Minstrels, "Julianne"] But Clark was not a good fit for the group -- he didn't put himself forward very much, which meant he didn't get many lead vocals, which meant in turn that he seemed not to be pulling his weight. But the thing that really changed his mind came in late 1963, on tour in Canada, when he heard this: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "She Loves You"] Clark knew instantly that that was the kind of music he wanted to be making, and when "I Want to Hold Your Hand" came out in the US soon afterwards, it was the impetus that Clark needed in order to quit the group and move to California. There he visited the Troubadour club in Los Angeles, and saw another performer who had been in an ultra-commercial folk group until he had been bitten by the Beatle bug -- Roger McGuinn. One note here -- Roger McGuinn at this point used his birth name, but he changed it for religious reasons in 1967.  I've been unable to find out his views on his old name -- whether he considers it closer to a trans person's deadname which would be disrespectful to mention, or to something like Reg Dwight becoming Elton John or David Jones becoming David Bowie. As I presume everyone listening to this has access to a search engine and can find out his birth name if at all interested, I'll be using "Roger McGuinn" throughout this episode, and any other episodes that deal with him, at least until I find out for certain how he feels about the use of that name. McGuinn had grown up in Chicago, and become obsessed with the guitar after seeing Elvis on TV in 1956, but as rockabilly had waned in popularity he had moved into folk music, taking lessons from Frank Hamilton, a musician who had played in a group with Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and who would later go on to join a 1960s lineup of the Weavers. Hamilton taught McGuinn Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie songs, and taught him how to play the banjo. Hamilton also gave McGuinn an enthusiasm for the twelve-string guitar, an instrument that had been popular among folk musicians like Lead Belly, but which had largely fallen out of fashion. McGuinn became a regular in the audience at the Gate of Horn, a folk club owned by Albert Grossman, who would later become Bob Dylan's manager, and watched performers like Odetta and Josh White. He also built up his own small repertoire of songs by people like Ewan MacColl, which he would perform at coffee shops. At one of those coffee shops he was seen by a member of the Limeliters, one of the many Kingston Trio-alike groups that had come up during the folk boom. The Limeliters were after a guitarist to back them, and offered McGuinn the job. He turned it down at first, as he was still in school, but as it turned out the job was still open when he graduated, and so young McGuinn found himself straight out of school playing the Hollywood Bowl on a bill including Eartha Kitt. McGuinn only played with the Limeliters for six weeks, but in that short time he ended up playing on a top five album, as he was with them at the Ash Grove when they recorded their live album Tonight in Person: [Excerpt: The Limeliters, "Madeira, M'Dear"] After being sacked by the Limeliters, McGuinn spent a short while playing the clubs around LA, before being hired by another commercial folk group, the Chad Mitchell Trio, who like the Limeliters before them needed an accompanist. McGuinn wasn't particularly happy working with the trio, who in his telling regarded themselves as the stars and McGuinn very much as the hired help. He also didn't respect them as musicians, and thought they were little to do with folk music as he understood the term. Despite this, McGuinn stayed with the Chad Mitchell Trio for two and a half years, and played on two albums with them -- Mighty Day on Campus, and Live at the Bitter End: [Excerpt: The Chad Mitchell Trio, "The John Birch Society" ] McGuinn stuck it out with the Chad Mitchell trio until his twentieth birthday, and he was just about to accept an offer to join the New Christy Minstrels himself when he got a better one. Bobby Darin was in the audience at a Chad Mitchell Trio show, and approached McGuinn afterwards. Darin had started out in the music business as a songwriter, working with his friend Don Kirshner, but had had some success in the late fifties and early sixties as one of the interchangeable teen idol Bobbies who would appear on American Bandstand, with records like "Dream Lover" and "Splish Splash": [Excerpt: Bobby Darin, "Splish Splash"] But Darin had always been more musically adventurous than most of his contemporaries, and with his hit version of "Mack the Knife" he had successfully moved into the adult cabaret market. And like other singers breaking into that market, like Sam Cooke, he had decided to incorporate folk music into his act. He would do his big-band set, then there would be a fifteen-minute set of folk songs, backed just by guitar and stand-up bass. Darin wanted McGuinn to be his guitarist and backing vocalist for these folk sets, and offered to double what the Chad Mitchell Trio was paying him. Darin wasn't just impressed with McGuinn's musicianship -- he also liked his showmanship, which came mostly from McGuinn being bored and mildly disgusted with the music he was playing on stage. He would pull faces behind the Chad Mitchell Trio's back, the audience would laugh, and the trio would think the laughter was for them. For a while, McGuinn was happy playing with Darin, who he later talked about as being a mentor. But then Darin had some vocal problems and had to take some time off the road. However, he didn't drop McGuinn altogether -- rather, he gave him a job in the Brill Building, writing songs for Darin's publishing company. One of the songs he wrote there was "Beach Ball", co-written with Frank Gari. A knock-off of "Da Doo Ron Ron", retooled as a beach party song, the recording released as by the City Surfers apparently features McGuinn, Gari, Darin on drums and Terry Melcher on piano: [Excerpt: The City Surfers, "Beach Ball"] That wasn't a hit, but a cover version by Jimmy Hannan was a local hit in Melbourne, Australia: [Excerpt: Jimmy Hannan “Beach Ball”] That record is mostly notable for its backing vocalists, three brothers who would soon go on to become famous as the Bee Gees. Darin soon advised McGuinn that if he really wanted to become successful, he should become a rock and roll singer, and so McGuinn left Darin's employ and struck out as a solo performer, playing folk songs with a rock backbeat around Greenwich Village, before joining a Beatles tribute act playing clubs around New York. He was given further encouragement by Dion DiMucci, another late-fifties singer who like Darin was trying to make the transition to playing for adult crowds. DiMucci had been lead singer of Dion and the Belmonts, but had had more success as a solo act with records like "The Wanderer": [Excerpt: Dion, "The Wanderer"] Dion was insistent that McGuinn had something -- that he wasn't just imitating the Beatles, as he thought, but that he was doing something a little more original. Encouraged by Dion, McGuinn made his way west to LA, where he was playing the Troubadour supporting Roger Miller, when Gene Clark walked in. Clark saw McGuinn as a kindred spirit -- another folkie who'd had his musical world revolutionised by the Beatles -- and suggested that the two become a duo, performing in the style of Peter and Gordon, the British duo who'd recently had a big hit with "World Without Love", a song written for them by Paul McCartney: [Excerpt: Peter and Gordon, "World Without Love"] The duo act didn't last long though, because they were soon joined by a third singer, David Crosby. Crosby had grown up in LA -- his father, Floyd Crosby, was an award-winning cinematographer, who had won an Oscar for his work on Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, and a Golden Globe for High Noon, but is now best known for his wonderfully lurid work on a whole series of films starring Vincent Price, including The Pit and the Pendulum, House of Usher, Tales of Terror, and Comedy of Terrors. Like many children of privilege, David had been a spoiled child, and he had taken to burglary for kicks, and had impregnated a schoolfriend and then run off rather than take responsibility for the child. Travelling across the US as a way to escape the consequences of his actions, he had spent some time hanging out with musicians like Fred Neil, Paul Kantner, and Travis Edmondson, the latter of whom had recorded a version of Crosby's first song, "Cross the Plains": [Excerpt: Travis Edmondson, "Cross the Plains"] Edmondson had also introduced Crosby to cannabis, and Crosby soon took to smoking everything he could, even once smoking aspirin to see if he could get high from that. When he'd run out of money, Crosby, like Clark and McGuinn, had joined an ultra-commercial folk group. In Crosby's case it was Les Baxter's Balladeers, put together by the bandleader who was better known for his exotica recordings. While Crosby was in the Balladeers, they were recorded for an album called "Jack Linkletter Presents A Folk Festival", a compilation of live recordings hosted by the host of Hootenanny: [Excerpt: Les Baxter's Balladeers, "Ride Up"] It's possible that Crosby got the job with Baxter through his father's connections -- Baxter did the music for many films made by Roger Corman, the producer and director of those Vincent Price films. Either way, Crosby didn't last long in the Balladeers. After he left the group, he started performing solo sets, playing folk music but with a jazz tinge to it -- Crosby was already interested in pushing the boundaries of what chords and melodies could be used in folk. Crosby didn't go down particularly well with the folk-club crowds, but he did impress one man. Jim Dickson had got into the music industry more or less by accident -- he had seen the comedian Lord Buckley, a white man who did satirical routines in a hipsterish argot that owed more than a little to Black slang, and had been impressed by him. He had recorded Buckley with his own money, and had put out Buckley's first album Hipsters, Flipsters and Finger Poppin' Daddies, Knock Me Your Lobes on his own label, before selling the rights of the album to Elektra records: [Excerpt: Lord Buckley, "Friends, Romans, Countrymen"] Dickson had gone on to become a freelance producer, often getting his records put out by Elektra, making both jazz records with people like Red Mitchell: [Excerpt: Red Mitchell, "Jim's Blues"] And country, folk, and bluegrass records, with people like the Dillards, whose first few albums he produced: [Excerpt: The Dillards, "Duelling Banjos"] Dickson had also recently started up a publishing company, Tickson Music, with a partner, and the first song they had published had been written by a friend of Crosby's, Dino Valenti, with whom at one point Crosby had shared a houseboat: [Excerpt: Dino Valenti, "Get Together"] Unfortunately for Dickson, before that song became a big hit for the Youngbloods, he had had to sell the rights to it, to the Kingston Trio's managers, as Valenti had been arrested and needed bail money, and it was the only way to raise the funds required. Dickson liked Crosby's performance, and became his manager. Dickson had access to a recording studio, and started recording Crosby singing traditional songs and songs to which Dickson owned the copyright -- at this point Crosby wasn't writing much, and so Dickson got him to record material like "Get Together": [Excerpt: David Crosby, "Get Together"] Unfortunately for Crosby, Dickson's initial idea, to get him signed to Warner Brothers records as a solo artist using those recordings, didn't work out. But Gene Clark had seen Crosby perform live and thought he was impressive. He told McGuinn about him, and the three men soon hit it off -- they were able to sing three-part harmony together as soon as they met. ( This is one characteristic of Crosby that acquaintances often note -- he's a natural harmony singer, and is able to fit his voice into pre-existing groups of other singers very easily, and make it sound natural). Crosby introduced the pair to Dickson, who had a brainwave. These were folkies, but they didn't really sing like folkies -- they'd grown up on rock and roll, and they were all listening to the Beatles now. There was a gap in the market, between the Beatles and Peter, Paul, and Mary, for something with harmonies, a soft sound, and a social conscience, but a rock and roll beat. Something that was intelligent, but still fun, and which could appeal to the screaming teenage girls and to the college kids who were listening to Dylan. In Crosby, McGuinn, and Clark, Dickson thought he had found the people who could do just that. The group named themselves The Jet Set -- a name thought up by McGuinn, who loved flying and everything about the air, and which they also thought gave them a certain sophistication -- and their first demo recording, with all three of them on twelve-string guitars, shows the direction they were going in. "The Only Girl I Adore", written by McGuinn and Clark, has what I can only assume is the group trying for Liverpool accents and failing miserably, and call and response and "yeah yeah" vocals that are clearly meant to evoke the Beatles. It actually does a remarkably good job of evoking some of Paul McCartney's melodic style -- but the rhythm guitar is pure Don Everly: [Excerpt: The Jet Set, "The Only Girl I Adore"] The Jet Set jettisoned their folk instruments for good after watching A Hard Day's Night -- Roger McGuinn traded in his banjo and got an electric twelve-string Rickenbacker just like the one that George Harrison played, and they went all-in on the British Invasion sound, copying the Beatles but also the Searchers, whose jangly sound was perfect for the Rickenbacker, and who had the same kind of solid harmony sound the Jet Set were going for. Of course, if you're going to try to sound like the Beatles and the Searchers, you need a drummer, and McGuinn and Crosby were both acquainted with a young man who had been born Michael Dick, but who had understandably changed his name to Michael Clarke. He was only eighteen, and wasn't a particularly good drummer, but he did have one huge advantage, which is that he looked exactly like Brian Jones. So the Jet Set now had a full lineup -- Roger McGuinn on lead guitar, Gene Clark on rhythm guitar, David Crosby was learning bass, and Michael Clarke on drums. But that wasn't the lineup on their first recordings. Crosby was finding it difficult to learn the bass, and Michael Clarke wasn't yet very proficient on drums, so for what became their first record Dickson decided to bring in a professional rhythm section, hiring two of the Wrecking Crew, bass player Ray Pohlman and drummer Earl Palmer, to back the three singers, with McGuinn and Gene Clark on guitars: [Excerpt: The Beefeaters, "Please Let Me Love You"] That was put out on a one-single deal with Elektra Records, and Jim Dickson made the deal under the condition that it couldn't be released under the group's real name -- he wanted to test what kind of potential they had without spoiling their reputation. So instead of being put out as by the Jet Set, it was put out as by the Beefeaters -- the kind of fake British name that a lot of American bands were using at the time, to try and make themselves seem like they might be British. The record did nothing, but nobody was expecting it to do much, so they weren't particularly bothered. And anyway, there was another problem to deal with. David Crosby had been finding it difficult to play bass and sing -- this was one reason that he only sang, and didn't play, on the Beefeaters single. His bass playing was wooden and rigid, and he wasn't getting better. So it was decided that Crosby would just sing, and not play anything at all. As a result, the group needed a new bass player, and Dickson knew someone who he thought would fit the bill, despite him not being a bass player. Chris Hillman had become a professional musician in his teens, playing mandolin in a bluegrass group called the Scottsville Squirrel Barkers, who made one album of bluegrass standards for sale through supermarkets: [Excerpt: The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers, "Shady Grove"] Hillman had moved on to a group called the Golden State Boys, which featured two brothers, Vern and Rex Gosdin. The Golden State Boys had been signed to a management contract by Dickson, who had renamed the group the Hillmen after their mandolin player -- Hillman was very much in the background in the group, and Dickson believed that he would be given a little more confidence if he was pushed to the front. The Hillmen had recorded one album, which wasn't released until many years later, and which had featured Hillman singing lead on the Bob Dylan song "When the Ship Comes In": [Excerpt: The Hillmen, "When the Ship Comes In"] Hillman had gone on from there to join a bluegrass group managed by Randy Sparks, the same person who was in charge of the New Christy Minstrels, and who specialised in putting out ultra-commercialised versions of roots music for pop audiences. But Dickson knew that Hillman didn't like playing with that group, and would be interested in doing something very different, so even though Hillman didn't play bass, Dickson invited him to join the group. There was almost another lineup change at this point, as well. McGuinn and Gene Clark were getting sick of David Crosby's attitude -- Crosby was the most technically knowledgeable musician in the group, but was at this point not much of a songwriter. He was not at all shy about pointing out what he considered flaws in the songs that McGuinn and Clark were writing, but he wasn't producing anything better himself. Eventually McGuinn and Clark decided to kick Crosby out of the group altogether, but they reconsidered when Dickson told them that if Crosby went he was going too. As far as Dickson was concerned, the group needed Crosby's vocals, and that was an end of the matter. Crosby was back in the group, and all was forgotten. But there was another problem related to Crosby, as the Jet Set found out when they played their first gig, an unannounced spot at the Troubadour. The group had perfected their image, with their Beatles suits and pose of studied cool, but Crosby had never performed without an instrument before. He spent the gig prancing around the stage, trying to act like a rock star, wiggling his bottom in what he thought was a suggestive manner. It wasn't, and the audience found it hilarious. Crosby, who took himself very seriously at this point in time, felt humiliated, and decided that he needed to get an instrument to play. Obviously he couldn't go back to playing bass, so he did the only thing that seemed possible -- he started undermining Gene Clark's confidence as a player, telling him he was playing behind the beat. Clark -- who was actually a perfectly reasonable rhythm player -- was non-confrontational by nature and believed Crosby's criticisms. Soon he *was* playing behind the beat, because his confidence had been shaken. Crosby took over the rhythm guitar role, and from that point on it would be Gene Clark, not David Crosby, who would have to go on stage without an instrument. The Jet Set were still not getting very many gigs, but they were constantly in the studio, working on material. The most notable song they recorded in this period is "You Showed Me", a song written by Gene Clark and McGuinn, which would not see release at the time but which would later become a hit for both the Turtles and the Lightning Seeds: [Excerpt: The Jet Set, "You Showed Me"] Clark in particular was flourishing as a songwriter, and becoming a genuine talent. But Jim Dickson thought that the song that had the best chance of being the Jet Set's breakout hit wasn't one that they were writing themselves, but one that he'd heard Bob Dylan perform in concert, but which Dylan had not yet released himself. In 1964, Dylan was writing far more material than he could reasonably record, even given the fact that his albums at this point often took little more time to record than to listen to. One song he'd written but not yet put out on an album was "Mr. Tambourine Man". Dylan had written the song in April 1964, and started performing it live as early as May, when he was on a UK tour that would later be memorialised in D.A. Pennebaker's film Don't Look Back. That performance was later released in 2014 for copyright extension purposes on vinyl, in a limited run of a hundred copies. I *believe* this recording is from that: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Mr. Tambourine Man (live Royal Festival Hall 1964)"] Jim Dickson remembered the song after seeing Dylan perform it live, and started pushing Witmark Music, Dylan's publishers, to send him a demo of the song. Dylan had recorded several demos, and the one that Witmark sent over was a version that was recorded with Ramblin' Jack Elliot singing harmony, recorded for Dylan's album Another Side of Bob Dylan, but left off the album as Elliot had been off key at points: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan and Ramblin' Jack Elliot, "Mr. Tambourine Man" (from Bootleg Series vol 7)] There have been all sorts of hypotheses about what "Mr. Tambourine Man" is really about. Robert Shelton, for example, suspects the song is inspired by Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater. de Quincey uses a term for opium, "the dark idol", which is supposedly a translation of the Latin phrase "mater tenebrarum", which actually means "mother of darkness" (or mother of death or mother of gloom). Shelton believes that Dylan probably liked the sound of "mater tenebrarum" and turned it into "Mister Tambourine Man". Others have tried to find links to the Pied Piper of Hamelin, or claimed that Mr. Tambourine Man is actually Jesus. Dylan, on the other hand, had a much more prosaic explanation -- that Mr. Tambourine Man was a friend of his named Bruce Langhorne, who was prominent in the Greenwich Village folk scene. As well as being a guitarist, Langhorne was also a percussionist, and played a large Turkish frame drum, several feet in diameter, which looked and sounded quite like a massively oversized tambourine. Dylan got that image in his head and wrote a song about it. Sometimes a tambourine is just a tambourine. (Also, in a neat little coincidence, Dylan has acknowledged that he took the phrase “jingle jangle” from a routine by Jim Dickson's old client, Lord Buckley.) Dickson was convinced that "Mr. Tambourine Man" would be a massive hit, but the group didn't like it. Gene Clark, who was at this point the group's only lead singer, didn't think it fit his voice or had anything in common with the songs he was writing. Roger McGuinn was nervous about doing a Dylan song, because he'd played at the same Greenwich Village clubs as Dylan when both were starting out -- he had felt a rivalry with Dylan then, and wasn't entirely comfortable with inviting comparisons with someone who had grown so much as an artist while McGuinn was still very much at the beginning of his career. And David Crosby simply didn't think that such a long, wordy, song had a chance of being a hit. So Dickson started to manipulate the group. First, since Clark didn't like singing the song, he gave the lead to McGuinn. The song now had one champion in the band, and McGuinn was also a good choice as he had a hypothesis that there was a space for a vocal sound that split the difference between John Lennon and Bob Dylan, and was trying to make himself sound like that -- not realising that Lennon himself was busily working on making his voice more Dylanesque at the same time. But that still wasn't enough -- even after Dickson worked with the group to cut the song down so it was only two choruses and one verse, and so came in under two minutes, rather than the five minutes that Dylan's original version lasted, Crosby in particular was still agitating that the group should just drop the song. So Dickson decided to bring in Dylan himself. Dickson was acquainted with Dylan, and told him that he was managing a Beatles-style group who were doing one of Dylan's songs, and invited him to come along to a rehearsal. Dylan came, partly out of politeness, but also because Dylan was as aware as anyone of the commercial realities of the music business. Dylan was making most of his money at this point as a songwriter, from having other people perform his songs, and he was well aware that the Beatles had changed what hit records sounded like. If the kids were listening to beat groups instead of to Peter, Paul, and Mary, then Dylan's continued commercial success relied on him getting beat groups to perform his songs. So he agreed to come and hear Jim Dickson's beat group, and see what he thought of what they were doing with his song. Of course, once the group realised that Dylan was going to be coming to listen to them, they decided that they had better actually work on their arrangement of the song. They came up with something that featured McGuinn's Searchers-style twelve-string playing, the group's trademark harmonies, and a rather incongruous-sounding marching beat: [Excerpt: The Jet Set, "Mr. Tambourine Man (early version)"] Dylan heard their performance, and was impressed, telling them "You can DANCE to it!" Dylan went on a charm offensive with the group, winning all of them round except Crosby -- but even Crosby stopped arguing the point, realising he'd lost. "Mr. Tambourine Man" was now a regular part of their repertoire. But they still didn't have a record deal, until one came from an unexpected direction. The group were playing their demos to a local promoter, Benny Shapiro, when Shapiro's teenage daughter came in to the room, excited because the music sounded so much like the Beatles. Shapiro later joked about this to the great jazz trumpet player Miles Davis, and Davis told his record label about this new group, and suddenly they were being signed to Columbia Records. "Mr. Tambourine Man" was going to be their first single, but before that they had to do something about the group's name, as Columbia pointed out that there was already a British group called the Jet Set. The group discussed this over Thanksgiving turkey, and the fact that they were eating a bird reminded Gene Clark of a song by the group's friend Dino Valenti, "Birdses": [Excerpt: Dino Valenti, "Birdses"] Clark suggested "The Birdses", but the group agreed it wasn't quite right -- though McGuinn, who was obsessed with aviation, did like the idea of a name that was associated with flight. Dickson's business partner Eddie Tickner suggested that they just call themselves "The Birds", but the group saw a problem with that, too -- "bird" being English slang for "girl", they worried that if they called themselves that people might think they were gay. So how about messing with the vowels, the same way the Beatles had changed the spelling of their name? They thought about Burds with a "u" and Berds with an "e", before McGuinn hit on Byrds with a y, which appealed to him because of Admiral Byrd, an explorer and pioneering aviator. They all agreed that the name was perfect -- it began with a "b", just like Beatles and Beach Boys, it was a pun like the Beatles, and it signified flight, which was important to McGuinn. As the group entered 1965, another major event happened in McGuinn's life -- the one that would lead to him changing his name. A while earlier, McGuinn had met a friend in Greenwich Village and had offered him a joint. The friend had refused, saying that he had something better than dope. McGuinn was intrigued to try this "something better" and went along with his friend to what turned out to be a religious meeting, of the new religious movement Subud, a group which believes, among other things, that there are seven levels of existence from gross matter to pure spirit, and which often encourages members to change their names. McGuinn was someone who was very much looking for meaning in his life -- around this time he also became a devotee of the self-help writer Norman Vincent Peale thanks to his mother sending him a copy of Peale's book on positive thinking -- and so he agreed to give the organisation a go. Subud involves a form of meditation called the laithan, and on his third attempt at doing this meditation, McGuinn had experienced what he believed was contact with God -- an intense hallucinatory experience which changed his life forever. McGuinn was initiated into Subud ten days before going into the studio to record "Mr. Tambourine Man", and according to his self-description, whatever Bob Dylan thought the song was about, he was singing to God when he sang it -- in earlier interviews he said he was singing to Allah, but now he's a born-again Christian he tends to use "God". The group had been assigned by CBS to Terry Melcher, mostly because he was the only staff producer they had on the West Coast who had any idea at all about rock and roll music, and Melcher immediately started to mould the group into his idea of what a pop group should be. For their first single, Melcher decided that he wasn't going to use the group, other than McGuinn, for anything other than vocals. Michael Clarke in particular was still a very shaky drummer (and would never be the best on his instrument) while Hillman and Crosby were adequate but not anything special on bass and guitar. Melcher knew that the group's sound depended on McGuinn's electric twelve-string sound, so he kept that, but other than that the Byrds' only contribution to the A-side was McGuinn, Crosby, and Clark on vocals. Everything else was supplied by members of the Wrecking Crew -- Jerry Cole on guitar, Larry Knechtel on bass, Leon Russell on electric piano, and Hal Blaine on drums: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Mr. Tambourine Man"] Indeed, not everyone who performed at the session is even clearly audible on the recording. Both Gene Clark and Leon Russell were actually mixed out by Melcher -- both of them are audible, Clark more than Russell, but only because of leakage onto other people's microphones. The final arrangement was a mix of influences. McGuinn's twelve-string sound was clearly inspired by the Searchers, and the part he's playing is allegedly influenced by Bach, though I've never seen any noticeable resemblance to anything Bach ever wrote. The overall sound was an attempt to sound like the Beatles, while Melcher always said that the arrangement and feel of the track was inspired by "Don't Worry Baby" by the Beach Boys. This is particularly noticeable in the bass part -- compare the part on the Beach Boys record: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Don't Worry Baby (instrumental mix with backing vocals)"] to the tag on the Byrds record: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Mr. Tambourine Man"] Five days before the Byrds recorded their single, Bob Dylan had finally recorded his own version of the song, with the tambourine man himself, Bruce Langhorne, playing guitar, and it was released three weeks before the Byrds' version, as an album track on Dylan's Bringing it All Back Home: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Mr. Tambourine Man"] Dylan's album would become one of the most important of his career, as we'll discuss in a couple of weeks, when we next look at Dylan. But it also provided an additional publicity boost for the Byrds, and as a result their record quickly went to number one in both the UK and America, becoming the first record of a Dylan song to go to number one on any chart. Dylan's place in the new pop order was now secured; the Byrds had shown that American artists could compete with the British Invasion on its own terms -- that the new wave of guitar bands still had a place for Americans; and folk-rock was soon identified as the next big commercial trend. And over the next few weeks we'll see how all those things played out throughout the mid sixties.

Season 1 Finale!!! It's time to celebrate and a have a good time. And that's exactly what the residents of Walnut Grove are planning with Founder's Day: A whole day of games, contests and Blue Ribbons. Regular Blue Ribbons, not Pabst Blue Ribbons. There is something for everyone at Founder's Day. Meanwhile, Charles is having a little bit of rivalry with Jim Tyler, former Bull of the Woods, who is helping out at Hanson's Mill while Mr. Edwards is on a supply run. Charles has his youth, work ethic and great attitude to get things done. Jim Taylor has years of experience as a logger and makes it known he could sure use the help of a real Logger and not a Farmer pretending to be one. It isn't long before these two men are feeling the tension. Tension so thick you could cut it with a crosscut saw. Will Charles be able to put this bull of the woods out to pasture? Will Jim Tyler prove he's got what it takes to be the best around? Who is going to win the most Blue Ribbons to take back home?

Adam is an entrepreneur, a martial artist, a coach, a mentor, and a student of life. His energy and grind will motivate you. • Todd keeps receiving Blue Ribbons due to last week's episode. (Pabst Blue Ribbons.) • Ross breaks the first rule of the Lauxdown. • Todd calls Adam the one time Dana White of the Riverbend. •Adam takes over.... He talks finance, fighting, personal health, Huck's Slurpees, motivators, personal struggles, real estate,...

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Kristen Mullins from Slice Pie Company has been all over the place - on MSN, USA Today, on Startup Stage, Cary Magazine 2020 Movers and Shakers, winning Blue Ribbons at the NC State Fair...just everywhere.  On today's show, find out how it all started, and what inspired Kristen to leave her comfortable life of being in Corporate America and take a risk on herself. Also, Kristen has recently been knocked down - with the pandemic and then the downtown Raleigh riots that damaged her popup shops - so how has she stayed positive through all of that?The Donald Thompson Podcast is hosted by Walk West CEO, mentor, investor, and Diversity and Inclusion Consultant Donald Thompson.Music for this episode provided by Jensen Reed from his song, “You Can't Stop Me”.The Donald Thompson Podcast is edited and produced by Earfluence. For more on how to engage your community or build your personal brand through podcasting, visit Earfluence.com. High Octane Leadership is hosted by The Diversity Movement CEO and executive coach Donald Thompson and is a production of Earfluence. Order UNDERESTIMATED: A CEO'S UNLIKELY PATH TO SUCCESS, by Donald Thompson.

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In this week's "Worcester Culture Watch" podcast, Victor Infante and Bill Shaner find something they actually like without reservation: Trolleys! Alas, the positive vibes fade as they also talk about the next looming fight over sex ed in Worcester schools. Then, Victor and Richard Duckett discuss the most recent Worcester Arts Council Grants, the Greater Worcester Community Foundation Awards and the state's Culture Rx Initiative. All this, and music by The Blue Ribbons! 

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Albertastan.ca - 029 - GWNN Week Ending June 22nd, 2009 Drake wins an NBA title while we Kick some ass with the YEG student climate strike.  Saskatchewans anti-carbon tax narrative falls to shit: scientist say!  Numbers on Canadian corpora  tion tax dodging!  Saving money with a national pharmacare plan!  Alberta is Number one… in child marriage! Even more confirmation Coverup Cooper should just stay in his creepy-crypt!  UCP ignores funding inquiries from Calgary Board of Education because, Blue Ribbons! B.C. Chief says the National Energy Board consultations were joke!  The UCP takes a steamy shit on democracy and organized labor after they blow up plans for a Super-lab! Visit Climate.strike.yeg on Instagram. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatchewan-carbon-tax-study-economist-1.5167566 https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cra-corporate-taxes-1.5179489 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pharmacare-hoskins-recommendations-final-report-1.5171517 https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/alberta-leads-canada-in-child-marriage-rate https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/michael-cooper-goat-herder-cultures-1.5179039 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/the-shooters-manifesto-was-designed-to-troll/585058/ https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/public-schools-could-lose-200-teachers-100-ed-assistants-as-province-stays-silent-on-funding https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/trans-mountain-approval-frustrating-says-b-c-chief-with-unresolved-concerns-about-pipeline-project-1.5180271 https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/union-taking-government-to-court-as-kenney-plugs-ears-in-labour-debate

“William James, the father of American psychology, said that the deepest desire in human beings is the craving to be appreciated.”   Today’s intention is: I HAVE TODAY to make a difference in the world.   This week on I HAVE TODAY with Diane Forster, we’re speaking with the incredible Helice “Sparky” Bridges, the founder of Blue Ribbons Worldwide. In 1980, Sparky started a movement to revitalize the human spirit, one school, one family, and one community at a time. Her dream is to reach 1 billion people with the message, "who I am makes a difference." She is a woman of grace and compassion, who is humorous, wise, and unconditionally loving. Listen in to hear the story of the Blue Ribbons, and learn more about how to take a small step to be a part of making a radical difference in the lives of the people you come in contact with each day.   “I thought, well, maybe if I tell people that I love them and honor them and cheer them on for their dreams, something good will happen… I created the Blue Ribbon and it caught on. Thirty-five thousand people were honored in the first three months. Today, fifty million.”   Each week, I give you three takeaways, three key statements for you to apply to your life TODAY. In this episode, we discuss Three Reasons Why Who You Are Makes a Difference: You are gifted, unique, talented special, so extraordinary. Everyone has a valuable, important story. Your story matters. You are meant to be visible, seen, and appreciated.   “I want to just invite you to find people that you can speak to, encourage, and empower and say I love and appreciate you and value your uniqueness. And say, you can do it, I believe in you.”   Here's a way to apply the concepts from this episode in a fun, powerful, transformative way. It's called a mantra meditation. Your subconscious mind can keep you stuck. The most effective way to create more love, money, success, and happiness in your life is to tell your subconscious a different story, the story of what you really want with no limitations. So sit back and relax. Let the words do all the work for you. Then pay attention to the miracles that start showing up in your life. Trust and enjoy this process.   I Have Today to love my life. Something really good is going to happen to me today. I can feel it. Miracles big and small. I notice them all. Yes, yes, yes. Thank you. I love the word love. I love the feeling of love. I love everything that love represents. I am so grateful for the love in my life. I am especially grateful for my love of self. I understand now more than ever before. And I'll never forget it that the love for me is the most important that there is. Loving myself completely is the reason I am here. I understand now that it's a miracle that I'm here. God does not make mistakes. There are no mistakes when it comes to being born and being on this journey. How lucky am I to have this opportunity to be alive, to experience life? What a joy it is. And I love all my perfect imperfection. There's nothing wrong with me. There's nothing I need to change. There's nothing that needs to be different than it is. I'm a work in progress and I'm a work of art. And I love everything about me from the inside out, top to bottom, all of it. I am so blessed to have this life and I love myself. I love my creativity. I love my brilliance. I love my grace. I love my skills. I love everything about me. I love that every day I get to learn something new. Each day is a chance for me to learn, grow and expand, and I love that. I love the fact that I'm never done. We're never done. We're always a work in progress. I get that now and I understand it. And because of that, I'm so much more easy on myself and forgiving of myself and understanding of it. The deep, rich, new found love I have for myself expands every single day. And because of that, I am so capable of loving others and accepting them just as they are. I can see that we're all just works in progress. And I approach my life with so much more gratitude and appreciation for myself and for others. I'm so grateful to have them in my life and to love them unconditionally without any expectation of anyone being any different from who they are. It makes romantic relationships so much easier when you understand that we're each doing the best we can from where we are. And that the love we're all seeking comes from within. It's an inside job. And I'm so grateful that I know this now. I deeply love my family and my friends, my colleagues, my communities, everyone in my life. I offer them, unconditional love because I have unconditional love for myself. I love and accept myself just as I am. And that love grows and expands each and every day. And so it is. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.   “End bullying, eradicate violence, avert teen suicide, empower and support and enhance self-worth and make dreams come true. We do that with the power of acknowledgment in a minute or less.”   Some Topics we talk about in this episode:   Introduction - 0:43 The Story of the Blue Ribbon - 5:06 How Can You Play a Part in Making a Big Difference - 14:54 A Story About the Impact of the Blue Ribbon - 19:23 Three Reasons Why You Matter So Much - 22:55 Sparky and Chicken Soup for the Soul - 27:04 Receiving Love to Give Love - 29:31 How Sparky Lives the I HAVE TODAY Way - 34:08 Wrap-up and Takeaways - 36:10   How to get involved Help Grandma Sparky reach her dream of honoring 1 billion individuals. Visit blueribbons.org to learn more about this movement, read testimonials, and order ribbons to honor friends, family, co-workers, children, etc. For a FREE 15-minute coaching session with Sparky, email her at sparky@blueribbons.org.   If you liked this episode, be sure to subscribe and leave a quick review on iTunes. It would mean the world to hear your feedback and we’d love for you to help us spread the word!

This week's review is the Very Good Bagel, Easy-ish Too from Alexandra Stafford and both our hosts are roundly pleased with the results! The bake along this week is a Sweet Potato Pie inspired by Patti LaBelle from the food blog What's Gaby Cooking. Neither of our hosts has ever made a sweet potato pie (although they've certainly clocked in some time eating them!) so they're both pretty excited about this recipe. Listen to the show to find out listeners' favorite recipe from the first 100 episodes, and Andrea and Stefin's picks for their Season Two Blue Ribbons (Hint: It's a Royal Blue Ribbon for both our hosts this time!). And you won't want to miss a sweet tribute from the duo's very first bake-along listener, Vickie. You can read the complete show notes here. Bake along with Stefin and Andrea in their baking Facebook group, Preheated. You can find links to recipes on their baking website www.preheatedpodcast.com, or follow the hosts on Twitter and Instagram, using handle preheatedpod. Join the fun!

Prince Harry's Caramel Banana Cake from Episode 77 made a special appearance at the World's Biggest Coffee Morning, which looks like such a fun and worthwhile event. A review of the Pumpkin Cookie with Caramel Frosting from food blogger Lauren at Tastes Better from Scratch has Stefin raving about this recipe from top to toe, and rating it 'divinely delicious.' Find out if it will take top honors in October's Blue Ribbon ceremony! You can read the full show notes here. Bake along with Stefin and Andrea in their baking Facebook group, Preheated. You can find links to recipes on their baking website www.preheatedpodcast.com, or follow the hosts on Twitter and Instagram, using handle preheatedpod. Join the fun!

We have an accidental shooting involving a former football coach, which Alabama schools won Blue Ribbons from the Department of Education, and was there foul play at the state fair? For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In this special edition of Waiting To Dry, Sergio hangs out with artists Za Vue and Anton Pavlenko while camping in Maryhill, Washington for the Pacific Northwest Plein Air event. They get into camping near an active wildfire, the importance of swimming during a plein air event, brag about our camp food, how Anton damaged another painter’s painting, getting probed, Chewy the Camping Cat, and what makes them choose which events they do. Sergio talks to Za and Anton about their unique painting styles, and we discuss representational vs. abstract in plein air, staying humble after winning awards, plans for a competition-free paintout, and lots of Tech-Talk™ about cold wax medium. They talk about their impromptu trip to the Seattle Art Fair and what they liked/ridiculed, and find out Anton and Za’s Top 5 Dead Or Alive! Sergio wraps it up with a brand new segment for the show!

It's the fifth Monday of July, so Stefin and Andrea are up with a short and sweet bonus episode. Stefin thanks listener Laurin for her recommendation of Nigella Lawson's No-Churn Salted Caramel Ice Cream recipe, which she has now memorized, and Andrea shares that she can make a key ingredient, dulce de leche, in her Instant Pot! Stefin also shares several other no-churn delights from Good Housekeeping UK and Waitrose Food. Then it's on to a review of The View from Great Island's Lemon Crunch Bars, which Andrea loved "more than life itself!" Both hosts were enraptured by the zesty, creamy, sweet and tart filling, crunchy gingerbread crust, and the fact that the dessert not only was cool, but looked cool too! With such glowing reviews, do you wonder which of the July recipes will win their coveted Blue Ribbons?In August, your Preheated hosts will be taking a few weeks of vacation, but never fear: They've prepared several Quick Bite episodes (covering everything from homemade jam to grilled desserts) to see you through the dog days of summer. Summer is also a great time to listen to any of the 85+ episodes you may have missed, and introduce a friend to the show and Facebook community. Full-length episodes will resume on September 3. Bake along with Stefin and Andrea in their baking Facebook group, Preheated. You can find links to recipes on their baking website www.preheatedpodcast.com, as well as on their Pinterest page. You can also follow the hosts on Twitter and Instagram, using handle preheatedpod. Join the fun!

Our first story arc condensed into one episode. This is a good place to start if you want to begin listening to the show! ------- Art by Jake Morrison: http://jakemorrisonart.com/ Music by John Hoffman: https://soundcloud.com/hoffy-music

Hear us talk about new shit and share stories with Ryan Tarbutton. A new segment called "5 minutes with Mikolai" and we call Kevin's mom to see whats in their couch. Hear Ryan's band, Derailed here on spotify. https://open.spotify.com/artist/1KdSyjr4_A

Our boys snap back to reality, but reality tries to snap back. ------- Art by Jake Morrison: http://jakemorrisonart.com/ Music by John Hoffman: https://soundcloud.com/hoffy-music

Our very first episode of Two Blue Ribbons. We suck. We’re not sorry. It will be better next time.

Huck Fin, Henry, and Fang get to the bottom of what's going on here, but who's on top?! ------- Art by Jake Morrison: http://jakemorrisonart.com/ Music by John Hoffman: https://soundcloud.com/hoffy-music

Sometimes you eat things from the frozen section, sometimes the things from the frozen section eat you! ------- Art by Jake Morrison: http://jakemorrisonart.com/ Music by John Hoffman: https://soundcloud.com/hoffy-music

Our heroes take a nap and then get lost in a space Walmart. ------- Art by Jake Morrison: http://jakemorrisonart.com/ Music by John Hoffman: https://soundcloud.com/hoffy-music

Huck, Fang, and Henry taste death, but are too busy laughing to notice. ------- Art by Jake Morrison: http://jakemorrisonart.com/ Music by John Hoffman: https://soundcloud.com/hoffy-music

The boys wake up on a beach, eat soup, and make some fluorescent friends. ------- Art by Jake Morrison: http://jakemorrisonart.com/ Music by John Hoffman: https://soundcloud.com/hoffy-music

Baking bonus time! January has five Mondays, so Andrea and Stefin are up with a sweet bonus episode. After discussing "functional food" trends in Episode 60, the hosts are seeing the them everywhere -- including their beloved Waitrose grocery-store newspaper and app. (Can you guess which host uses paper and which is digital?) 2018 is shaping up to be a busy year in London, with the royal wedding of Prince Harry to American actress Meghan Markle in May, as well as Stefin's hometown NFL team the Seattle Seahawks playing a game in the UK in October. Will Stefin get an invite to the wedding, and/or host a "boot"gate for the big game? Stay tuned! Next up, the duo discuss a Tale of Two Bundts -- Andrea attempted to convert the Contest Winning Moist Chocolate Cake to a gluten-free mini version with ... er ... interesting results. Stefin, however, thinks the recipe (as written) is a new TNT ("tried 'n' true"). Are you ready to celebrate National Hot Chocolate Day on January 31? You will be after listening to the hosts' tips for enjoying the seasonal beverage hot, cold or even frozen. Finally, the duo each award a coveted Preheated Blue Ribbon to the dessert they most enjoyed making this month. Will Classic Cream Puffs, Peanut Butter Pie, London Fog Shortbread or Contest Winning Moist Chocolate Cake take top honors?Bake along with Stefin and Andrea in their baking Facebook group, Preheated. You can find links to recipes on their baking website, www.preheatedpodcast.com. Join the fun!

Huck, Fang, and Henry ignore intergalactic common sense and go with a drug dealer to a second location. ------- Art by Jake Morrison: http://jakemorrisonart.com/ Music by John Hoffman: https://soundcloud.com/hoffy-music

The Pembroke is attacked by gigantic electrical space spiders, and the boys get a taste of ship combat. ------- Art by Jake Morrison: http://jakemorrisonart.com/ Music by John Hoffman: https://soundcloud.com/hoffy-music

Henry, Huck, and Fang rescue a survivor of a vicious space spider attack. Is this Toad friend or foe, and what was he doing in this cave in the first place? ------- Art by Jake Morrison: http://jakemorrisonart.com/ Music by John Hoffman: https://soundcloud.com/hoffy-music

Meet Huck the Shark, Fang the Platypus, and Henry the Husky. Desperate for money in a run down corner of the galaxy, they take a job mining crystals for a mining company called Blue Ribbon Logistics. A distress call leads them to big trouble and even bigger mysteries. ------- Art by Jake Morrison: http://jakemorrisonart.com/ Music by John Hoffman: https://soundcloud.com/hoffy-music  

Da Steve Clark flytter til Cradle Bay opdager han hurtigt, at der er et eller andet galt. Skolens populære elever er alle samlet i en gruppe, kalder The Blue Ribbons. De opfører sig nærmest som om de er hjernevaskede. Og der er flere og flere elever, der slutter sig til deres rækker. Men de kan da ikke være hjernevaskede i virkeligheden, vel? http://www.ikassenshow.dk/2017/10/i-kassen-365-disturbing-behavior-1998.html

A conversation with Justin Thomas, family and consumer science agent with University of Tennessee Extension and host of "Blue Ribbons & Boots," a podcast for Extension agents by Extension agents, https://www.spreaker.com/user/utextensionbradleycounty

Long before the Black Lives Matter movement swept the U.S., Dallas’ police chief tried to diffuse the anger and mistrust between minority communities and police. His reforms made an impact. The number of people killed in confrontations with police fell, just as crime fell. But Dallas was still torn apart by racial hate last summer, leaving five officers dead and the city in shock. It fell on the police chief to bring people back together in the aftermath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Long before the Black Lives Matter movement swept the U.S., Dallas’ police chief tried to diffuse the anger and mistrust between minority communities and police. His reforms made an impact. The number of people killed in confrontations with police fell, just as crime fell. But Dallas was still torn apart by racial hate last summer, leaving five officers dead and the city in shock. It fell on the police chief to bring people back together in the aftermath.

Emily Thompson joins Glenn for a packed show featuring: the news with BarnManager.com's Jennifer Blumenthal, Amanda Flint with a training tip for improving your jumpers' balance, Tara Dee on health and wellness for equestrians and Annie Dotoli talks about her formula for developing well rounded horsemen and horsewomen. Listen in...

Tonight's special guest is Daphne Young from Phoenix, Arizona, VP of Communications and Prevention Education at one of NAASCA's favorite non profit organizations, Childhelp, America's largest, longest running national nonprofit dedicated to the intervention, treatment and prevention of child abuse. She is the creator/researcher/writer of "Childhelp Speak Up Be Safe for Athletes" fighting abuse in youth athletics. Debuted in WA DC by Senators Jon Kyl and Dianne Feinstein, this lifesaving program is funded by Olympic consultants the Foundation for Global Sports Development. Chief among Childhelp's many meaningful services is an International child abuse HOTLINE at: 1-800-4-A-CHILD. Serving the United States, its territories, and Canada, the Hotline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with professional crisis counselors who, through interpreters, can provide assistance in 170 languages. The Hotline offers crisis intervention, information, literature, and referrals to thousands of emergency, social service, and support resources. All calls are anonymous and confidential. The Hotline has received more than 2 million calls since it began in 1982. These calls come from children at risk for abuse, distressed parents and concerned individuals and is also a valuable resource for those who are mandated by law to report suspected abuse. For their many other services, see the web site at: www.Childhelp.org. NAASCA promotes the use of the 24 hr / 365 day International Childhelp HOTLINE regularly, including when we distribute our Blue Ribbons -- 1-800-4-A-CHILD

Episode #4 - Ellaraine LockieThis is our podcast featuring discussions with upcoming and notable figures in the small press community including printers, publishers, bloggers and, of course, poets and writers.In this episode, Mike speaks with poet Ellaraine Lockie.Ellaraine's first love in literature is poetry, but she is also an avid traveler, essayist, workshop instructor and nonfiction book author. In addition to numerous awards and nominations for her writing, Ellaraine shares her love of the craft with up and coming poets through her work as a judge and sponsor of poetry contests, participation in mentoring programs, and through teaching workshops on poetry and the creative process in libraries, schools, community programs and writing groups.Ellaraine's work can be found through a number of resellers and publishers:non-fictionAll Because of a Button: Folklore, Fact and Fiction (Amazon Link)The Gourmet Paper Maker (Amazon Link)poetryFinishing Lines - (Snark Publishing)Blue Ribbons at the Country Fair - (PWJ Press)Bear's Paw Poems - (SCW Publications)The following titles are out of print, but can still be found on the Internet through select resellers:Midlife Muse (Poetry Forum)Coloring Outside the Lines (Plowman Press)Crossing the Center Line (Sweet Annie Press)(This interview was originally recorded as a Skype to landline call in February 2007.)Producer's Note: You may notice the episode numbering is out of sequence. Recorded over a year ago, this discussion with Ellaraine Lockie was intended to be released as episode 4 of Across the Mic shortly after it was conducted. When Jack Hosley of Wander Radio offered an interview for the show in January, I jumped at the chance to bring it to you, but decided that, out of respect for Ellaraine, I would release the interview with Nathan Lowell as episode 5.Please leave feedback on this show by writing esccast AT gmail.com, calling our ESC!Cast hotline at (815)981-4224 or clicking the "Call Me" button to have GrandCentral connect you for free.The music in this episode, Lonesome Trails Part Two, was provided by Rob Potter. You can find more of Rob's music at www.3fmmusic.com.Subscribe to our Podcast Feed orDownload the show here! Play Now: ATM_004_20080316 (1:03'57 29.3mb 64kbps)