Dec 29, 2019
About This Episode
Tonight the Big Top Chautauqua makes way for two women of
power…the big note brassy blues of Joyanne Parker, and the
retro-current all-her-own-sounds of Nicole Atkins.
JOYANN PARKER
Armed with a guitar and a voice that manages to sound all bluesy
and brokenhearted and yet blasts like a locomotive wrapped in
brass, Joyann Parker sounds above all like she sings from deep in
the soul, wherever it resides.
NICOLE ATKINS
Born in New Jersey, and her earliest musical influences came
from her parents record stash—The Ronettes, Johnny Cash, The Beach
Boys, Cass Elliott—but since then she has built a repertoire
arising from other geographies and other genres over a career that
has seen her develop a distinctive voice blending everything from
belters to ballads. A self-starter from the day she started
teaching her self to play guitar at the age of 13, she’s a
testament to time, talent and tenacity, a performer who digs deep
within to create songs of strength and vulnerability, please
welcome Nicole Atkins.
About Michael Perry
Michael Perry is a New York Times
bestselling author, humorist and radio show host from New Auburn,
Wisconsin.
Perry's bestselling memoirs include
Population 485, Truck: A Love Story, Coop, and Visiting Tom, and
his latest, Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through
Philosophy. His first book for young readers, The Scavengers, was
published in 2014 and first novel for adult readers, The Jesus Cow,
was published in May of 2015.
Raised on a small Midwestern dairy
farm, Perry put himself through nursing school while working on a
ranch in Wyoming, then wandered into writing. He lives with his
wife and two daughters in rural Wisconsin, where he serves on the
local volunteer fire and rescue service and is an intermittent pig
farmer. He hosts the nationally-syndicated "Tent Show Radio,"
performs widely as a humorist, and tours with his band the Long
Beds (currently recording their third album for Amble Down
Records). He has recorded three live humor albums including Never
Stand Behind A Sneezing Cow and The Clodhopper Monologues.
Learn more about Michael and where
to get his publications at www.sneezingcow.com.
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