A cast powers the world's best podcast. Here's a show that we record. When you picture the First World War, you probably think of Barb Wire, Artillery Fire, and Mud. What you probably don't think of?
Drag shows. Love letters passed between those in uniform. Queer lives hiding in plain sight. In our new series, we're looking at the stories that didn't make it into the official record.
Because they were too tender, too queer, or too dangerous to preserve. From Canadian soldiers performing in drag at the front. To forbidden love in the trenches. To nurses whose lifelong relationship was reduced to friendship.
History looked away, but we don't. From carbon, in imamily. And this is Lavender Rinks. Listen, wherever you get your podcasts.
A cast helps creators launch, grow, and monetize their podcasts everywhere. Acast.com. Welcome to Mini Music Monday. Come, come, my lady.
Come, come, my lady. You're my butterfly. My sugar. Baby.
Come, come, my lady. Come, come, my lady. I'll make your legs shake. You make me fucking crazy.
Sugar town. What in the world indeed? I can hear me like yapping in the background. And then Izzy saying, what in the world?
And I had no idea you were doing that. I was on the phone with my dad catching up about my family's family reunion they just had today. It was the 100th anniversary of the family farm in Wisconsin. So anyway, I was touching base back in Turtle Lake to see how it all went.
Because I was not there. Well, I was preparing this episode of Mini Music Monday. Excellent. And didn't I say we didn't agree that that song is perfect and should never be covered?
Or was that? Yeah, I don't know. Was that not a cover then? I know.
We were discussing today whether I should cover that song. But then we listened to it. And I'm like, no way. I'm not going to touch that.
It's absolutely perfect the way it is. It's perfection. Yeah. So let's not consider that a cover.
That's merely more of like a monologue where you're just simply like saying parts of the lyrics. If you remember, the last Mini Music Monday, I prefaced the whole episode with a little black crows quote because we'd been listening to the black crows in the car. Right, right. I've really been enjoying the Spotify playlists that we've been listening to.
Or actually, no, just you were like, let's listen to the black crows. I wanted to listen to Shake Your Money Maker. Yeah. And like start to finish.
Not a playlist. I just wanted to hear the album. You did. And I'd never heard it before.
And you know, I enjoyed it because I think Chris Robinson has a fantastic voice. Yeah. I agree. And so today we were trying to find the most ridiculous.
We were trying to come up with some fun mashup ideas for. We don't want to give it away. OK, OK. Oh, gosh, you guys.
I'm so excited. But I'm so excited. Sugar time. I won't give it away.
What? What? That's one. No, you can't give away.
She doesn't have. Absolutely not. Is he's in bed yelling at us, you guys? Geez.
She's no, absolutely not. Anyway, long story short, I'm not going to cover Sugar Town even though it would be great to do it because it's a fantastic song. Every single woman on the planet loves that song. Even when we say we don't, we love it.
Even when you say you don't. We can't. Like there's like maybe like this little. Didn't happen today with you.
Like you were like, wow, I love this song. I know. I had to officially admit it. I was like, oh, geez.
OK. Yeah. Well, you got me Sugar Town butterfly. You make my leg shake.
What a line. Geez. That. You guys, this is major news.
We have completed the Barlow Family General Tour featuring Lou Barlow solo. I did a really funny backyard show today in Pittsburgh. Yes. The Hills of Pittsburgh.
Oh, so hilly. There was so many funny things about it that I was I was sitting there during the show and I was like, this is actually the perfect ending. And I loved all the goofy things that happened. Yeah, I do edit with a dove.
There was a dove that everything that was that Lou was competing with because it was outside. It was in a backyard. Everything that he was competing with was so loud. It wasn't like, oh, a little tiny smattering of chatter or a little, you know, finch like, no, everything was like amplified like this dove that was near Lou.
It's a tree right above me. It was incredible. It was actually very beautiful. It was in C-sharp.
Yeah. I actually found out what note the dove was singing in C-sharp. I know the dove came and showed up and then it also rained. It rained the whole time.
Oh, gosh. It rained the entire performance. It was spitting rain. Oh.
And then and then and then and then and then what? You know, Izzy just trying to throw Taylor Swift into every episode. She's so greedy. Okay.
And there was a cicada like a really loud cicada. Okay. Can I just say that that was so loud that I actually didn't know that was a bug because I was convinced it was a bug zapper of my youth. So in Wisconsin, when I go visit my grandparents, my grandpa had tacked to a tree outside the house, this crazy electric like.
Bugs zapper thing. It was meant to like, you know, but I think it killed like everything. It's a bug zapper. Yeah.
And I mean, I would just lay in bed and I hear just like it was so loud. And so I was like, Oh, wow, that feels so retro. I haven't heard of bugs, apron so long, but it was a cicada. It was live bugs.
It was a cicada. Very loud. It actually landed. It was in the distance and then another one triggered another one.
They don't really fly around. They do know it yet. Sounds like a whole chorus of them just joined together and gave you what for during your concert. Izzy.
Izzy buns. We told you were told to be quiet. Little lady. We're doing our podcast.
I mean, don't you see how important this is? Oh my God. Song. Oh, mensing in three.
Oh. My blood ran hot. I turned the liquid. The day I held your hand in mine.
It happened so slowly. Then there wasn't any time. You held the air between us carefully. The season turned me high on the wheel.
I became what you believed me to be. I fell away, made me feel. Out my imagined life. The circle in my brain The pattern trap that holds me back But if you could love me, I could find A heart is wanting And this day may not allow Changes, planning Things that cannot happen now Change is happening right now Out of my magic life The circle in my brain The pattern trap that holds me back But if you could love me, I could find A heart is wanting That was Imagine Life by Lou Barlow It kinda, we just woke up We just woke up, it's very early We had to do this mini music Monday in two parts I don't think that's ever happened Last night after the song finished, we tried to finish the episode But for various reasons, we couldn't finish it We had to just go to sleep because it was midnight We had to get up and go back to Massachusetts from Pittsburgh It's quite a long drive, how long is it Adele?
I did, I looked it up I've been looking it up a lot because I've been following the weather There's a lot of rain, heavy, heavy rain on the east coast And so I'm going to take the route that avoids severe weather And one that says avoid, severe weather So it's about nine hours And it's only a 20 minute difference between the quote unquote Safeway And the quote unquote flooding way Yeah, so, yeah I don't want to say, but hopefully we get home Before it's too late tonight and get ourselves back to bed Man, I couldn't go to sleep last night I did, I did go to sleep and then I woke up like an hour later Oh, I... Because you're stressed about the drive The minute I finished my set last night, I started stressing about what I have to do And today, tomorrow, in the four days before I leave On the dinosaur genie tour, I have kind of a big project that I signed up for In their studio time, two full days in the studio A lot of improvisation, a lot of things that aren't really like quite sketched out for me yet It's exciting, but it's a secret right now, so to get you here Super exciting, but it's a secret and I have to... Yeah, it's a lot of work, but it's going to be good It's going to be good, it's going to work out, but boy, three o'clock in the morning when you wake up Nothing seems possible at that time I know And then I do these breathing exercises to relax myself and you're like, you gotta stop that I was like, it was right next to a bell and I'm doing my... Breathing so heavily right in my face, I tried it, it was like a...
It's a mellow... What I was doing was a mellow version of what I do, so I ended up actually just lying on the floor next to the door It was so loud, everyone, no fence loop, but honestly, two in the morning I thought you were asleep, you were breathing regularly, a lot of times I can do that breathing while you're sleeping I was not sleeping No, you made that known to me And so I beautifully got... I needed to do it, I needed to calm my... My mind was racing, I needed to reset, so...
I was worried though, because even though I told you to get out of the bed, because you were breathing so loud Or I mean stop breathing, so loud and just sleep next to me, but you needed to do... No, work that way, baby... You needed to do your breathing, but then I was like, is he in the bathroom right now, and like, is he not getting rest then? And so then I was there for worried about you, because it kept me up a little while longer I knew that, but I had to do my breathing, I was like, she's probably like fretting, because I'm not in the bed And here I am on the floor doing my deep breathing, fretting But interestingly, in the middle of the night last night, there were people singing all over this hotel Yeah, it sounded like churchy But some of it sounded almost like it sounded Muslim and some sounded Christian Oh, interesting.
It was really interesting, and there was a lot of... it was just human singing Humans, it was, well, not coming out of it, not coming out of a device I'm saying it was live people, not like the TV, not a radio What time was it, it was like 3 o'clock in the morning? Oh my god, it was so late, and I did hear people in the hallway pass too Well, these ladies next door were kind of partying, they were laughing and talking for quite a while And then when they quieted down, then I started to hear the singing We were at the Drury Inn in Pittsburgh near the airport I don't know what's going on or where these people are going, but it was interesting Did you see the women young? Mending music, Monday, concludes And that's it And that's it