Fun, Intentional or Not
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
From: Deborah Begel
Length: 00:03:43
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Fun can happen by mistake. All it takes is a wrong turn, a glimmer of promise, a tangy memory. It's like that with Saturday night too, when fun includes dancing at Buddy's. Two poems take Calling America listeners to a roadside juke joint and a river bank.
Yellow Rose Rising, Saturday Night
By Melanie Faith
Read by Stacy Jordan
Fishing by Mistake
By Phillip Wexler
Read by Phillip Retsky
Music: Standing Box bass by Dan Otero
This knotty pine nook is whirling
with rodeo riders and ranch hands,
oil rig runners and teachers and regular Joes
playing pool, cues poised over the back table...
--Yellow Rose Rising, Saturday Night By Melanie Faith
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Fun can happen by mistake. All it takes is a wrong turn, a glimmer of promise, a tangy memory. It's like that with Saturday night too, when fun includes dancing at Buddy's. Two poems take Calling America listeners to a roadside juke joint and a river bank.
Yellow Rose Rising, Saturday Night
By Melanie Faith
Read by Stacy Jordan
Fishing by Mistake
By Phillip Wexler
Read by Phillip Retsky
Music: Standing Box bass by Dan Otero
This knotty pine nook is whirling
with rodeo riders and ranch hands,
oil rig runners and teachers and regular Joes
playing pool, cues poised over the back table...
--Yellow Rose Rising, Saturday Night By Melanie Faith
Timing and Cues
No host needed. Modules stand alone.
In cue: Fishing by Mistake...
Out cue: Thanks for listening.
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Hans Anderson
Posted on June 09, 2009 at 10:29 AM | Permalink
Poetry!
I don't hear this kind of thing very often, but this is really good. I like the poems and the voices. A good poem is like a music-less song. Or the reverse maybe. A good song is just a poem set to music and repeated a few times.
For PD's, I was confused by the intro, which mixes several voices. I had to listen again to get it (an announcer is giving teasers, but as I said, I was too slow to pick it up the first time).