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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.
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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.
Broadcast History
A shorter version was aired in All Things Considered April 14, 2006.
Timing and Cues
Swap Shop/Host Intro
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.
Intro and Outro
INTRO:For the past 65 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' their audio and asked him to write a song about the Swap Shop. Together, they produced this 'song story.'
OUTRO: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.
Musical Works
"Paperback Bible" was written for the story by Kurt Wagner and performed by wagner and his band Lambchop.
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Review of Swap Shop
Affectionate, embracing, but never cloying or condescending, this well-crafted documentary is a haunting reminder of how truly local radio has been stitching together the Republic for generations.
Beautifully constructed around an armature of original music by Kurt Wagner and the band Lambchop, "Swap Shop" could be scheduled to compliment discussions of American diversity and the shrinking world of corporate media, or as an understated and powerful snapshot of a particular slice of Americana. It also speaks to the complex relationship with the "small town" so many of us carry around with us.
Long before there was MySpace, there was "Swap Shop." Personally, I'm interested in the '72 El Camino driveshaft.