The Midnight Citizen 219: “Trapped in Alabama” (6/28/20)
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Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night.
Show notes: Gary Puckett of the 60’s band, “Gary Puckett and the Union Gapâ€, is a perv; anti-vaccers and anti-maskers may be plants by mysterious organizations to keep us distracted; Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon; saw a guy in my neighborhood walking around like a dog, trying to sniff out some pot that he could buy; travelers from Alabama must self-quarantine in many states when they travel due to high infection rates; Music Break*; I went to my hometown of Moody, AL, where I lived from 1986-92, and sat in the dugout of my Little League baseball diamond (it was weird); Birmingham businesses that didn’t survive the pandemic; Video Street Video Store**; Tales from Viscauga, AL: this week, four friends on a camping trip solve the years-old mystery of a family’s disappearance.
Music Break: “East Texas Pines†by Miller and Sasser; “Ghost†by Forget the Whale; “Machinery†by Eddy.All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org.Â
Video Street Video Store: Action Park commercial (1984); “Deliverance†doc (1972)
Backing music for tonight’s episode: “Hendrixy Slow Blues Backing Jam Track†(YouTube); “Blues in A Minor Backing Track†(Gilad Perry); Petti Music Studios (CCO 1.0 Universal, attribution, non-commercial, share-alike).
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released June 2020 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.