The Midnight Banjo Show

  The origins and connotations of the term ‘Redneck’: https://daily.jstor.org/redneck-a-brief-history/ https://www.wvpublic.org/news/2015-05-18/do-you-know-where-the-word-redneck-comes-from-mine-wars-museum-opens-revives-lost-labor-history   About Country Pop: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/country-pop-music-guide#quiz-0   Taylor Swift: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Taylor-Swift https://theboot.com/important-debut-country-albums/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-reveals-her-favorite-song-and-the-first-song-she-learned-on-guitar.html/   Swift’s discography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift#Discography   Jon Pardi: https://www.countrythangdaily.com/jon-pardi-facts-you-didnt-know/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Pardi_discography https://www.golden1center.com/news/detail/jon-pardi-announces-the-aint-always-the-cowboy-tour-with-lainey-wilson...

  Chapter III: 'Pleased To Meet You!' The Show is over. That much is obvious: the banjo-hungry crowd who wouldn’t stop coercing you into more and more… now seems satiated with the amount of music provided, as though filled up on an exquisite but heavy dinner. You can tell they hardly have room for dessert, actually. In fact, some of them have already started dozing off on the spot, whether they be standing or sitting. You don’t know whether to take that as a compliment… But Samantha doesn’t give you any more time to think about that. Acting as an officer of the intuition police, she senses whenever you are on the brink of a breakthrough, and seizes you by the hand, literally or figuratively, to bring your attention to the here and now. The Present. And present you she does with her left hand, which you have learnt to obey without question by now, prompting you to place the banjo on the floor, its headstock leaning against the wall by the corner of the ‘stage’. Not ideal, but it...

  Here are the sources used when researching the subject matter of this episode: ROCK MUSIC About Rock Music: https://www.britannica.com/art/rock-music Rock Music Cross Reference:   https://musicaldictionary.com/what-is-rock-music/   TRACE ADKINS About Trace Adkins’ Grand Ole Opry Induction: https://theboot.com/trace-adkins-inducted-grand-ole-opry/ Trace Adkins Bio & Trivia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace_Adkins https://traceadkins.com/pages/about https://www.npr.org/transcripts/728603619 https://www.successafrica.info/julie-lauren-curtis-biography-of-trace-adkins-ex-wife/#:~:text=In%20February%201994%2C%20Julie%20fired,She%20took%20the . https://tasteofcountry.com/trace-adkins-things/#:~:text=He's%20a%20big%20fan%20of,Rolling%20Stones%20over%20the%20Beatles . https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/country-music-star-trace-adkins-to-serve-as-spokesperson-for-pilot-flying-j-the-driver-driven-company-139518753.html https://www.youtub...

                              Chapter 2: Enter the Banjo (Pt I)   If you had been given a few seconds to contemplate the scene, you would be now asking yourself what he meant by it. But don’t worry, you will get your answer either way: The painted lady- Samantha , she corrects your- turns her back against you in defiance (but you also feel a strange aura of protection emanating from that gesture) and faces the… audience. Yes, you already begin to think of them this way. The show is about to begin! She announces, to which the deafening silence responds by… leaving the room, succeeded by an enthusiastic cheer. At this very moment, all the patrons of the establishment, including the few little kids that are here, begin to bang their forks, spoons or any other form of cutlery they might have against their plates and/or glasses. Even those standing up try to contribute to the noise, by ...

Here are the sources used when researching the subject matter of this episode: ‘Johnny Tried’ by KCRW https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/lost-notes/johnny-tried-the-ballad-of-glen-sherley About Glen Sherley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Sherley https://www.kqed.org/news/11642653/songwriter-in-a-cage-meet-glen-sherley-johnny-cashs-friend-in-folsom https://www.fluxmagazine.com/glen-sherley-johnny-cash/ https://wpln.org/post/how-johnny-cash-tried-to-save-a-former-convict-with-god-and-nashville/ https://eu.thecalifornian.com/story/news/2018/05/11/convict-musician-inspired-johnny-cash-died-gonzales-40-years-ago/600653002/ About Johnny Cash https://theboot.com/johnny-cash-folsom-prison-concert/#:~:text=13%2C%201968%2C%20Johnny%20Cash%20played,law%2C%20mostly%20due%20to%20drugs . https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/music/folsom-prison-blues/meaning https://theboot.com/johnny-cash-prison-concerts-legacy/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/at-folsom-prison-johnny-cash-found-his-caus...

  Chapter 2: Enter the Banjo (Pt I) You panic! Your fingers, having sensed there is nothing there to hold onto or grab at, curl in disappointment and start to shake. It’s bad enough that it’s already the time of day –or night- by which you have already knocked down a couple- or a few. Now, you are completely unarmed, on top of it all. Free of weapons in unknown territory, but not at all free of worries. What if they decide to ambush you… NOW! What if they are behind it all! You could lose yourself on that tangent, but the painted lady in front of you does not leave you much room for it. The frame of her lips widens from side to side in what she probably hopes is a welcoming smile – it is so wide that you can’t help but think it’s almost sardonic- and beckons to you to step further into the cantina. Satisfied that your holsters are empty, she drops the hand holding the sign to the side of her hips- the sign dangling loosely from her hand- and she extends the arm that ...