Swap Shop

Summary:

A "music story" about a radio classified show that's been on the air on Tennessee for sixty years.

Website:

http://www.lambchop.net/

Tones:

Amusing, Intriguing, Melancholic

Language:

English

Description:

Swap Shop/Host Intro & Back announce

For the past 60 years, people in northwest Tennessee have tuned their radios each day at noon to a program called the Swap Shop. For twenty minutes each weekday, listeners write or call-in to buy, sell or trade anything from a piece of plywood to a ten acre farm.

Independent producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister were driving through Tennessee when they first heard the Swap Shop. They noticed a certain lyrical quality to the voices of folks who called in. So they sent Nashville-based musician Kurt Wagner and his band ?Lambchop? some excerpts and asked him to write a song about the Swap Shop. Together, they produced this 'music story.'

Tape 12:00

In: fades up on tape

Out: music resolves

Back announce:

Our story on the Swap Shop was produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister for Long Haul Productions in association with Chicago Public Radio. Music and lyrics were written and performed by Kurt Wagner of the band Lambchop.

New to PRX?

Learn More | Sign Up