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To be broadcast Spring 2004 on KSER FM
Interview with outlaw, Clyde. Has always worked at the fringes of the American economy as well as several foreign ones - as Avon guy, pimp, Burmese tour guide (took tourists to visit rebels), etc.
Playlist:
Compared to What?, Les McCann, Eddie
Harris
Rockin' My Life away, Jerry Lee Lewis
Sweet Cocaine, Fred Neil
Goin' down Geneva, Van Morrison
The Boll Weevil Song, Brook Benton
Caravan, Duke Ellington
Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye,
Roberta Flack
Monsters of the Id, Mose Allison
To be broadcast Spring 2004 on KSER FM
Interview with outlaw, Clyde. Has always worked at the fringes of the American economy as well as several foreign ones - as Avon guy, pimp, Burmese tour guide (took tourists to visit rebels), etc.
Playlist:
Compared to What?, Les McCann, Eddie
Harris
Rockin' My Life away, Jerry Lee Lewis
Sweet Cocaine, Fred Neil
Goin' down Geneva, Van Morrison
The Boll Weevil Song, Brook Benton
Caravan, Duke Ellington
Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye,
Roberta Flack
Monsters of the Id, Mose Allison
More from Steve Hersch
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Piece Description
To be broadcast Spring 2004 on KSER FM Interview with outlaw, Clyde. Has always worked at the fringes of the American economy as well as several foreign ones - as Avon guy, pimp, Burmese tour guide (took tourists to visit rebels), etc. Playlist: Compared to What?, Les McCann, Eddie Harris Rockin' My Life away, Jerry Lee Lewis Sweet Cocaine, Fred Neil Goin' down Geneva, Van Morrison The Boll Weevil Song, Brook Benton Caravan, Duke Ellington Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye, Roberta Flack Monsters of the Id, Mose Allison
Broadcast History
To be broadcast Spring 2004 on KSER FM
Transcript
Play: Compared to What?
DC: This is the second of a two part program in which we continue our conversation with the outlaw, Clyde, not his given name. Many of the musicians who help steer this conversation have struggled with human and world affairs similar to Clyde?s. We just heard Les McCann and Eddie Harris making a few apt comparisons in Compared to What? When we last left Clyde, he was just leaving the army and comparing it to life in Los Angeles.
DC: You were in the army for 2 years, or??
C: Well, it was about 3 years and then I got out and then I just drifted, I went down and lived with some friends of mine that were trying to make it into acting down in L.A. and they were just completely crazy. I decided that wasn?t the kind of life I wanted to live (laughs), it was just bizarre?all sorts of drugs and sex and rock and roll?that sounds kind of good right now. (lau...
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Musical Works
Title: Compared to What?
Artist: Les McCann, Eddie Harris
Album: Swiss Movement
Label: Rhino/Atlantic
Year: 1996/1969
Length: 8:55
Title: Rockin' My Life away
Artist: Jerry Lee Lewis
Album: The Survivors
Label: Razor & Tie/Sony
Year: 1995/1982
Length: 2:55
Title: Sweet Cocaine
Artist: Fred Neil
Album: The Many Sides of Fred Neil
Label: EMI
Year: 1998
Length: 2:54
Title: Goin' down Geneva
Artist: Van Morrison
Album: Back on Top
Label: Virgin
Year: 1999
Length: 4:24
Title: The Boll Weevil Song
Artist: Brook Benton
Album: Greatest Songs
Label: Curb
Year: 1995
Length: 2:48
Title: Caravan
Artist: Duke Ellington
Album: The Duke
Label: Columbia/Sony
Year: 1937/1999
Length:
Title: That's No Way to Say Goodbye
Artist: Roberta Flack
Album: First Take
Label: Atlantic
Year: 1969
Length: 4:07
Title: Monsters of the Id
Artist: Mose Allison
Album: Allison Wonderland
Label: Rhino/Atlantic
Year: 1994/1970
Length: 4:53
Additional Files
- transcript (clydept2.doc)
- transcript (clydept2.doc)
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