Report #45

Another episode recorded during my "Winter Solstice Home Tour." From apartment 510 of the New Amadore. It was in apartments 406 and 410 that I wrote my novel A Handful of Dust as well as many of the poems that found their way into the chapbook Saginaw Songs. Another book could be written just about this building and all the wonderful people who've lived there over the years. A friend used to call it the "ghetto dorm." In this episode I call it a "fortress of cool in the heart of the Cathedral District." It's both and more. The poem of this week's episode is from that chapbook and was also published in The MacGuffin. It's called "Demolition of the Symon's Building."

Music for this week is “Stringin’ the Jug” by Gene Ammons featuring Sonny Stitt who grew up in Saginaw. It from the album The All-Star Session  and features Ammons and Stitt on tenor sax, Junior Mace and Duke Jordan on piano, and Jo Jones on drums.

Listen to the episode here:

Report #45 

(Many thanks to all my friends in Saginaw and Bay City for a great Solstice visit. I had wonderful shows at La Belle Epoque and Bemos Bar, great times at the Red Eye, Ewald's and White's, and reconnected with some of the best people in the universe. I'm about to hop on a plane back to the Grizfork. Be well all.)