Michael Perry's Voice Mail

Michael Perry's Voice Mail Episode #317: Them Ol' Trucks 1× 0:00 Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -9:51 -9:51 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Episode #317: Them Ol' Trucks ...and an open mic flashback. Howdy folks: Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 317. This one’s available to free and paid subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen.

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -8:56 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Ricky, brother John*, brother Jack*, and yer author. *Kinda their real names kinda not. But definitely my real brothers. Howdy folks: Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 310. This one’s available to free and paid subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen (and be sure to watch the related video in the marginalia section below). In this episode I acknowledge the ?spring?

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Ben and Mike in the desert. Howdy folks: Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 308. This one’s paid subscribers-only. Click the player above to listen. In today’s episode I report back from the Tucson Festival of Books (including a famous person sighting), update four projects I can’t talk about (yet), read about existentialism in a sauna, and pro…

Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 307. This one’s paid subscribers-only. Click the player above to listen. In today’s episode I reflect on the effect of John Steinbeck’s writing on my own, in particular teasing out a thread of thought on a passage from Travels With Charley. Also, in the marginalia section below, a…

Tom talks to the photographers as they set up the silo shot. Howdy folks: Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 306. This one’s paid subscribers-only. Click the player above to listen. In today’s episode I talk about why it ain’t spring and why the stairs are soggy, but mostly I revisit the day my photographer friends John Shimon and Julie Lindema…

Alabama view. Pine trees out of frame. I did more reading and writing than hunting. Howdy folks: Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 305. This one’s paid subscribers-only. Click the player above to listen. In today’s episode I begin by comparing Alabama pine trees to Wisconsin pine trees and then get sidetracked by Georgia pine trees and old sem…

Howdy folks: Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 304. This one’s available to free and paid subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen. In today’s episode I return to a piece I wrote about my daughter and the music of Lightnin’ Hopkins.

Hey folks a quick note on Episode #303, a listener commented that I got my Jay Farrar bands a little mixed up, and he was quite right. Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy were in Uncle Tupelo together, not Son Volt. Farrar went on to found Son Volt, Tweedy went on to found Wilco. I am pleased to report that not only was this listener correct, he was much more pol…

The image on the cover matches the sentiments of my critics. A CORRECTION, THANKS TO A POLITE LISTENER: Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy were in Uncle Tupelo together, not Son Volt. Farrar went on to found Son Volt, Tweedy went on to found Wilco. Howdy folks: Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 302. This one’s paid subscribers-only. Click the player …