From earlier in the season recorded live on October 14th at the picture of Minnesota with our guests Preservation Hall Jazz Band. And. Royal Academy of radio actors Tim Russell Fred Newman and Richard Price is with our House Richard. Shawn Watkins and. Life from here is supported by haired boy own independent client's financial interest 1st since 1990. S. More information and back home matching homeowners are background checks professional for a variety of home projects for minor repairs to remodel homeowners can read reviews compare prices book appointments online at Home Advisor. Thank you thank you. Thank you so much we're going to start this show on a slightly different note than usual I know that this isn't why you're here you you tune into our show for things like music and comedy but on a week like this I think we need to take a moment to acknowledge that the Cubs are back in the n.f.l. C.s. . Yeah yeah. Picking things off out in Los Angeles against the Dodgers this very evening and you know the Chink's anything but I really think this could be the year that my cup is finally and their 345 day World Series drought. I missed you know it's only been a week I really miss you how was your week besides alarming. So tired they are all crazy which is why I'm so glad you're here wherever you're version of here is our version of here's the Fitzgerald Theater in a rainy St Paul Minnesota and it's an absolutely beautiful evening to be indoors. Being in the Twin Cities when it's raining always makes me think of the great Minneapolis based Jayhawks and their spectacular all year. How much ox peeps are here I'm excited about that I think of I think of I mean all of their their incredible catalogue but but particularly on a night like tonight they're spectacular record rainy day music which is chock full of courses that feel like they were written I think for us tonight for instance. And it is written. Yes that is a good chorus. And it is written that people cannot live on bread alone but on every chorus that comes from the mouths of the Jayhawks. There's another beauty from the same the same record. Ok All together now. Thank you Jay ox and speaking of happy times my wife our 2 year old son and I were walking home from a restaurant this past Monday night when our little boy said the 1st of 2 things that determined what this week's song of the week would be about. Right I co-wrote this week's song with a 2 year old. He's deeply smitten with our neighborhoods how we direct actions and at one point signal not a particularly garish blow up ghost slash Frankenstein combo saying how did the ghost because these are scary I like them. Ghostly ghostly s. His own term that's his own term is out of the blue ghosty Coasties he made a 2nd contribution to the writing process right before he went to sleep that same night I was upstairs sensibly working on the song of the week but more just worried about everything going on when my equally worried wife called up to me Honey C'mere 1st 2nd I did and was subsequently treated by our little boy to an impromptu rendition of his come does Sun did it did. Which made us both feel a lot more hopeful. Out of the mouths of babes my friends here's a new song called Calvin and the ghost Yes. You search for. Comes. Of all welcome back to my sock Yes the game show where you went by not talking we've got a few categories on the board Brian let's get to it. Take history for a 1000 and you just spoke that will cost you a ceremony pick up a $1000.00 each for not talking but you still have control of the board Brian make your choice. $500.00 to run for keeping that most shocking well done Ok Sarah your up tell us where to go nothing. About Sarah. Something Ok what are you pointing out I can tell this is just dead air right now you're telling us. Oh sorry sir that will cost you big time $500.00 wiped off your score why did you talk I don't know you made it seem like if there is another $500.00 us judge going to get a ruling on that's all good Ok let's move on to our. Miley apparently you had a run in with the famous actual star. You can talk if you want this is an interview yes I did I got in a little fender bender with Bruce sorry you're just trot you just said I I didn't you can't if you want to lose the game. Part of the game your little point. So there's no interview portion you're doing stop that rule of the game is. Ok are you talking is bad stuff I know all right at the end of the 2nd round Bryant has $2000.00 Sarah has $500.00 and Molly has negative $3500.00 want to stay real quiet as we enter the final. Ok during the commercial break all 3 contestants were given water laced with poisonous about him up the death adder one of the most venomous snakes known to humans the antivenom will only be available if they say give me the antivenom. Religious The idea of animal or Tonight's grand prize a trip to Barbados if you intend on of course talking is just about the worst thing you can do in the final round of Brian and Sarah I'm afraid you're disqualified and it looks like my way will be our champion if you let the poison from the defender immobilizer tongue and throat muscles making it impossible to speak what a smart smart move. Can't bring yourself to talk I sure she is really all the time we have for today tonight and tomorrow for. So many more active companies for a number. Fred Newman it gives me very great pleasure to introduce to you the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. emailed you I met you believe I even met you. To carry. This resolution to tell them I want to. Let them have a baby Charlie I am a saxophone will also bring sex from Brandon on the trumpet a man right now on trombone Kyle on the keys Walter on drums and much more from them later in the show we also have with us this evening we're privileged This is Margaret Glaspie to my last. How are you doing Margaret I'm really good how are you Chris I'm I'm very well except I realise I just made a major for trying to engage you in conversation while you're. Right there I'm always curious about the tuning of a solid body instrument Margarets a great electric guitar player you don't have to cover for the tuning. Ok. You're at Ok. Margaret last. Right into Margaret right in. Time for another installment of 1st draft so famous song in the fall of 1973 Harry cheap and debuted the 1st version of his popular folk song catch in the cradle. And the cat's in the cradle and the dog is in the cradle the fishes in the cradle and the ferrets in the cradle and stars in the cradle and the turtles you know I put all of those critters in that cradle Fred I really wish I had a son. This is Ben 1st draft of a famous song. Miss Rachel price is with us this evening. You were with us last October I was almost exactly a year ago almost exactly a year ago then in a much different context as as the lead singer Yes Lake Street died indeed which you still are I still am yes you're in the studio right now yeah we're making a new record I mean this literal 2nd in the studio right now I'm standing on the stage with yeah. It's a nice phrase Yeah this is getting. A lot of and I love it so you but you've also been doing a bunch of standards lately but also your whole life also my whole life yeah I grew up I started out singing jazz that was like my 1st love that's how I fell in love with singing your of your folks wonder standards to yeah my folks my my grandpa you know it's all in the family Ok Yeah Ok Well give us one of those. Love you bring him home. It's too. Late to live with. Him. Oh no you won't. Gets heaven why are you doing it. When. It's too. Late. To. Love me oh I was. Just playing your. Love. When we hear news. It's sad news to tell. Tell. Long was. Voted for. This Rachel was. Going to have a. Discussion of our shows brought us always by fast fiddle tunes are safe there and fun fast a ups research shows that fiddle tunes promote heart health. So don't forget to pick a fiddle today and play it fast this week's tune comes to us from the Bay Area pretty hard to tell us about this. From the great guitar player got Nygaard Scott Nygaard hero of mine a hero of yours by the way also coming from the Bay Area this pretty hoss. The 2 1st one's called Molly once called. Hi everybody will get right back to live from here on 89.3 k p c c In just a moment but John Raby here to tell you about our Sunday night schedule lots of great stuff coming up after live from here at 8 o'clock on Ask me another Ground control to Major trivia astronaut Chris Hadfield is going to tell us about 5 months in space give us tips on playing space guitar and he will play a game about winter sports because Olympics that's 8 o'clock ask me another 9 o'clock on the spot. Lended table the editor of blown up and is going to slice and dice sandwich making going to hear about home restaurants in Cuba and America's Test Kitchen is going to teach us how to make a veggie cloth concentrate it's coming up and maybe she. Paul Minnesota. I'm so excited about this to my right is George Saunders. In my opinion George can you well you just shut your ears real quick that's our good. Credit in my opinion one of the greatest living novelists I mean writers this is your 1st novel it is I was introduced to your work by my wife actually she gave me a copy of The 10th of December which I subsequently just drooled all over I think that is such an incredible piece of work just what I had in mind. But so tell us a little bit about about what's happening here we're going to do a reading So we're going to do a reading from my novel Lincoln in the bardo and that book is based on this story I heard years ago and the story was that when Lincoln was president his beloved son Willie passed away and newspapers at the time reported that Lincoln was so grief stricken that he'd actually gone into the crypt on several occasions to somehow interact with the body so the book just takes place on that night when when Lincoln entered into the crypt Oh my goodness and it's narrated in a fairly strange way it is because you know you 1st have that great detail write a book about Lincoln alone in a graveyard at night and then you're kind of like whoa who's narrating this thing you know so your 1st thought is Lincoln and then you find yourself typing you know 4 score and 7 minutes ago I hit Enter yon graveyard and that's no good and then I will says and agree out alone at night and I thought grave digger. That like a grave digger practicing or something or you know is a. Book about a perfect rectangle one of my best you know. To find that you know I literally just one who's an engraver and I thought will go so the book is narrated by this kind of Greek chorus of these unhappy spirits who are stuck in this song called the Bardo and what is what is the bardo Well Bardot is it is a Tibetan word that means just transitional state so we're in a bottle right now between birth and death and there's another one of the book that goes from the minute you die to you know whatever happens next. Like purgatory it is but I was raised Catholic and to me purgatory is like the d.m.v. You know like. You know. You die and then you go sit on a hard bench until the end of days you know. But this this at least my interpretation of Barto is a little more negotiable so if you're in there and you have a revelation about your life or sometimes even if you just admit the fact that you're dead then it's possible to pass on to the next the next on so in the section we're going to read Lincoln has just been to the crypt and kind of shocking himself you know he's held the son's body. Kind of feels a little strange about it goes to leave the graveyard but his grief is so heavy that he actually can't quite get out so he country boy that he was he sits down and some long grass and he's just kind of thinking and into ghosts that just witness this event in the crypt show up and try to kind of lure him back to the crypt for a more gentle goodbye so one of the conventions of this world is that if a ghost Koach you PI's the same space as a living being that goes he actually has access to that living beings thought stream so you can read a person's mind so if there was a ghost in the Fitzgerald and it occupied the space where you're sitting sir for example it would read your mind so just be careful. So we're just going to you know will section feeling Ok so right Ok the little section from that part of the book All right settle in you know Here's a reading from Lincoln in the bardo. We found a gentleman as had been described to us near Belling weather husband father shipwreck sitting cross-legged and defeated in a patch of tall grass now as we approach to lifted head from hands and heaved a great side he might have been in that moment a sculpture on the theme of loss chalet Mr Foreman said I hesitated the referent would not approve I sent the reverend is not here he said in order to occupy the greatest percentage of the gentleman's volume I lowered myself into his lap as a sack cross-legged just as he was sitting the 2 now comprised one sitting man Mr Valma is greater girth somewhat overflowing the gentleman it was quite something quite something in their Bevan's come in I called out this is not to be missed and I went in assuming the same cross-legged posture and the 3 of us were one so to speak. And. There was a touch of Purdy about the fellow Yes like stepping into a some a barn late at night or a musty plains office or some bright candle still burns vast windswept new sad spacious curious doom minded ambitious back slightly out. Right boot chafing the recent entry of the youthful Mr Bevan's now cause the gentleman a mild thought swerve back to a scene from his own wild youth the soft spoken but retrograde last 30 cheeks kind I was leading him shyly down a muddy path nettles accruing honors way green skirt as in his mind at the time a touch of shame rose up having to do with his sense that this girl was not really fair game I He was more beast the lady eed did not even know how to read becoming aware of that which she was remembering the man's face reddened which could feel it reddening at the thought that he was in the midst of this tragic circumstance remembering such a sordid incident and he heard Leigh directed his our mind elsewhere so as to leave this inappropriate thought that high and. Tried to see his boy's face couldn't tried to hear the boy's laugh couldn't attempted to recall some particular incident involving the boy and hope this mine 1st time we fitted him for his suit thus thought the gentleman this did the trick 1st time we fitted him for he looked down at the trousers and then up at me mased as if to say Father I am wearing grown up pants shirtless barefoot pale around belly like an old man's Then the little cough Shirton buttoning it up good by a little belly we are insured in you now. Ensuring I do not believe that as even a word father I tie the little tie spun around for a look we have dressed up a while savage looks like I said he made the groundling face his hair stuck straight up his cheeks were red racing around that store just previous he'd knocked over a rack of socks the tailor complicit brought out the little jacket with much pomp then the shy boys smile as I slid the jacket on him say he said Don't I look fine father then no thought at all for a while yet we just looked about us their trees black against the dark blue sky little jacket little jacket little jacket this phrase sounded in our head that the star flickered off the not same one he's wearing back in there now. Same little jacket but he was wearing it as I so want to not to be true broke in pale broken thing why will it not work what magic word made it work who is the keeper of that word what did it profit him to switch this one off. What a contraption it is how did it ever run what spark ran a grand little machine set up just so receiving the spark it jumped to life what put out that spark what a sin it would be who would dare ruin such a marvel hence his murder anathema God forbid I should ever commit such a grievous something than troubling us with Rand one hand roughly over our face as if attempting to suppress a notion just a rise in this effort not proving successful the notion washed over us. The. Young Willie Lincoln was laid to rest on the day that the casualty lists from the union victory at Fort Donaldson were publicly posted an event that caused a great shock among the public the cost in life being on precedented thus far in the war from setting the record straight man was an evasion by Jason to. More than a 1000 troops on both sides were killed and 3 times that number wounded it was a most bloody fight a young soldier told his father so devastating to his company that despite the victory he remained sad lonely and down hearted only 7 the $85.00 men in his unit survived. From Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin. The dead lay as they had fallen in every conceivable shape some grasping their guns as though in the act of firing while others with a cartridge in their icy grasp were in the act of loading some of the countenances war appeal. Full glad smile while on others rested a fiendish look of hate it looked as though each countenance was the exact counterpart of the thoughts that were passing through the mind when the death messenger laid them low. From the Civil War years Account of Corporal Lucius w. Barber. And mother had swept through the frozen dead and hurt where they live we found one still kicking among them and was able to bring him back still alive not even knowing which side he was on so burned was easy and naked except for one leg of his pants I never did hear how he made out but it did not look hopeful for that poor devil from letters of an Illinois soldier account of private Edward Gates We found 2 little fellows holding hands couldn't been more than 1415 pace as if they had decided to pass through that dock poet altogether from unpublished civil war correspondence with Andrew stark by permission of his family. How many did you tend to make surf or use done one minute there was a little night on the bridge with a fishpole And where is that lawyer now and who is it called him hither in that noticed he saw down. That was going name he saw. Abraham Lincoln from country letters to President Lincoln letter from Robert hands worthy those burro Maryland all those boys he is just one and the weight of it about to kill me have export of this grief some 3000 times so far to date a mountain a voice someone's voice must keep on with it. You may not have the heart for it's one thing to pull the lever one blind to the result but Here lies one dear example of what I accomplished by the orders I may not have the heart for what am I doing what am I doing here everything nonsense now those mourners came up hands extended Suns intact wearing on their faces in for sadness mass to hide any sign of their happiness which which went on they could not hide how alive they yet were with it with their happiness at the potential of their still living sons until lately I was one of them strolling whistling through the slaughter house able to laugh and dream and hope because it had not yet happened to me to us horrible trap at one's birth that is sprung some last day must arrive when you will need to get out of this body bad enough then we bring a baby here the terms of the trap are compounded that baby also must depart all pleasures should be tainted by that knowledge but hopeful dear sweet forget Lord what is this all of this walking about trying smiling bowing joking this sitting down at table pressing of shirts tying of ties shining of shoes planning of trips singing of songs in the bath when he is to be left out here is a person to nod dance reason walk discuss as before the parade passes he can't rise and join am I to run after it take my place lift knees high wave a flag blow a horn. Was he