It's Monday you bastards And so it's Monday And I'm getting this done late because it's just then one of those kind of days one of those days when I you know I got in the corner of my studio here, and I'm all excited about it You know how we do everything digital you know everything in our lives. We do digital. Oh, by the way, my name is Michael crows This is the daily grateful and everything is digital except you know what? Analog forces us to focus You know what you're not gonna focus in you know what I got right down here in the corner I have I have a record album.
Let me grab it Yeah, we all have what we all have record albums, but this is a special record album White Springs bluegrass festival best live bluegrass recording dot dot dot ever it says in the back of it It says I need to put my readers on gosh. I'm getting old as hell But we've got we got to figure this out this album was recorded live at the festival campground at the Stephen Foster Memorial Folk Festival May 4th through 6 1962 recorded and mixed by Blair Muni studio 70 Tampa, Florida Produced and directed by Ben Brown and Peter Lombardi album design and photographs by Adolf Ruttkins special. Thanks to Dave Bell me Jim Gunning Christine Brown Donnie Maylar the memorial gate staff and the cooperative musicians who recorded But are not appearing on this album and this is God. Oh, man I Here's what I know about this album.
Here is how here is what I know about this album And not only do I have the album here in my studio and very few people have this album I would bet no more than I think I think there were 500 of these things pressed and the albums made and I don't think you could find one of these things if you tried I'm gonna go on eBay when I'm done recording this and I'm gonna try Because I'm very interested in seeing if this works out my audio interface. Just made a funny noise We'll see if that's on the recording, but anyway This has a white springs lullaby by Dave Bell me and it has Johnson mule by Sonny bluegrass It's traditional and all that not only do I have the record right here in my in my hands I've also got on the floor right behind me each and around I have the master tapes I have the master tapes for this album this whole damn album. I'm right there. They're right there on the floor now I don't have tape.
I don't have a real real tape deck play them on But you know who does have one? My son Kyle's mother-in-law as one and I'm going to email her and ask her if I can send this to her and have her play There the thing so I've got two copies of the album She can have one of the copies of the albums and let me know if there's anything different on the real to real This was financed by a guy by the name of Michael O. Plunkett, which I've talked about Michael Plunkett on the on this show before and He put that thing together or he paid for it and a bunch of bunch of headplays No a bunch of natural people went up there and went to that festival a whole bunch of people my buddy Stan Notland went up there. Just John Conyers went up there I just a bunch of people.
I know went up there that I did not go and It was in white Springs white Springs by the way came around back into my life several years later when I did the radio show on the on the people's radio network, which was headquartered out of the Telford Hotel in White Springs and the address for the Telford Hotel according to Chuck Carter who owned the network was number three River Street That's not the name of the street He just changed it He thought if he could just say it's the name of the street Everybody would think that's the name of the street and then he got Blinky our former our former technical guy Who's now in the great beyond to make a street sign that said River Street and take down the other one They had the original name of the street on it and stick that on here. Nobody bothered him Nobody but that's just way it was and it'd be real interesting to see if it's on a map someplace as As River Street and if the historic this is assignment for you assignment assignment Look up the Telford Hotel in White Springs, Florida and see what address it has If it's three River Street, then Chuck Carter was successful at doing At doing exactly what he was so good at doing was which was declaring Declaring it done and it was done He didn't know stinking government, but anyway, that was he and my creates scarcity, which this which creates value I don't know how much value this album is you know, it's not any other room It's right in in my closet in the other room the two virgins album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono try and find that in a record store Now, I've got it. You know what else is in my other room the Buffy St. Marie Album that got banned and when I bought the Buffy St.
Marie album I bought the Buffy St. Marie album because I saw Buffy St. Marie perform at the Miami Pop Festival in 1968 And I always wanted one of her records and then I don't know a couple years later I was at the sounds of music record shop in Clearwater, Florida at the Sunshine Mall Which no longer exists and I said I'm looking for a Buffy St. Marie album and they I bought a Buffy St Marie album paid $2.60 for it and I didn't even notice it But as it turns out, this became a collector's item because one of her boobs was sticking out I didn't even notice it.
I was so into the music. I I and I usually look for things like that Analog slows you down in a good way. You know what I love. You know, I absolutely love I love books And I love books I'm sitting here right now with a book that I found in my closet that I'm taking to the VFW tomorrow and Dunedin Fort Riley, Kansas 9th Infantry Infantry Division 1966 and when I opened the book up, there's some there's some papers in there There's a funeral notice for a lady and there is oh gosh look at what I found and I don't know how I got this This was in my closet.
I have no memory how this came into my life Absolutely zero memory how this came into my life, but this is a discharge From the Department of Army and this is to certify that Robert L. Benson 9742 private company H 167th Infantry was separated from military service of the United States of America by honorable discharge on 17 May 1919 at Camp Shipley, Mississippi given by the Department of the Army in Washington, D.C And this is a copy of it It has a embossed stamp on it that was made in 1948 by the Order of the Secretary of the Armor Army Edward F. Whittle major general the adjunct general and This certificate was authorized by an active comm of Congress dated July 1st of July 1902 and Then yeah, it has the title and all of that and it has form 48 and this is number zero one two five two This is history. I have this.
I'm donating this to the local VFW I'm I think it needs to be in their library and not at my house, but that's analog I like that when I'm reading I have fewer distractions and I get more clarity as a matter of fact this evening One of the reasons I was late doing this is I found a book I found this book when I was cleaning out my closet But I found another book that I bought in 2020 And it says the name of the title of the book is you're going to die and the author. It's a short book It's like 40 pages 50 pages. I read the whole thing and it doesn't say anything bad You can live your best life and you can you know, it says, you know The average squirrel lives this long the average person lives 79 years But you can live longer if you take care of yourself He goes into great things and he talks about the quality of life not necessarily the amount of life We have if the average person lives 79 years. I got four left.
Oh God. I've four left But I'm healthy and who knows things are still working. It could be okay. I don't know I was all over the place on this podcast tonight Talking about analog analog is more resilient.
It feels more like people. I like it ink smudges margin notes Scratches on vinyl. I don't like scratches on my mind In perfection's remind us of something real that happened and one carries a foot press. Yeah, that's right Hey, I hope you're having a terrific week already My car broke again.
So the mechanic has come back tomorrow. Life goes on. It's always an adventure. Love you all very much We'll see you next time