This week is an exciting episode for the growth of Appalachian vibes. Appalachian Vibes was officially picked up by Radio IQ/NPR in southwest and central Virginia! Welcome new listeners! If you're new to the show, the way it works-we receive artist nominations from listeners and musicians about YOUR favorite, inspiring musicians (you can make a nomination by going to appalachianvibes.net on the main page there's a button to fill out a contact form).
This week we repeated Fanoplane from Season 2 Episode 1 because lets face it, is there really a better first week on NPR than featuring Bob Boilen (creator of All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts) as well as Ted Zook, a classical guitarist with their experimental improv ensemble, Fanoplane. For more information: tedzook@hotmail.com
Nickie Calhoun was my second guest. She's a self professed wanderer and down tempo singer-songwriter. Her most recent album is called 'Heart of Slate'
Listen to Nickie on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/01BdhZM0oPcoZUW9U7zUuz?si=17dME059T0S1BAnwKCUNIw&nd=1
My last guest is an Appalachian writer and musician. We did something a little different and featured a story of his called, Cell Phone.
Cell Phone by Will Henson (from Will Henson & the Willies)
So the last 48 hours of my life have been a psychotic roller coaster.Monday night I got off the phone with my mechanic who's been working on my car for the last 8 months…. My phone has been dying and running out of juice for the last week so any info I needed to give or receive has been done quickly and frantically… Before I went to sleep I plugged it in and laid it on top of the laptop at the foot of my bed… Oftentimes I will stretch my legs and somehow kick it or pull it to where it drops on the floor with a loud crash and it is almost always laying on the floor the next morning…
Well this must have happened in the middle of the night cuz I heard it and of course it woke me up, a couple of hours later I got up and looked down but this time it was nowhere to be seen…a five-minute search started turning into a 20-minute search which started turning into a 40-minute search… It had vanished…. I mean there was no logical place for it to go it only had a foot to slide in any direction… I was starting to get pissed… No this can't be one of those days where all I do is futilely look for something that has vanished… But about three or four hours later after looking in ridiculous place s it just was not there… And a horrific conclusion was starting to creep in…
There's a woman I had been dating that I have finally had to put on block… That was about a month ago…I was convinced she had come into the room in the middle of the night and had taken it…. My bloodstream was Frozen with ice water… Not only was she going to see a thousand pictures of nude females of all shapes and sizes… There were so many other things she was going to have access to… And each new revelation brought a fresh wave of horror in my brain… She was going to see text messages, phone calls, phone numbers of every person I have been in contact with for the last 2 years…. She was going to have free access to my bank account…. She could post anything she wanted to in my name on my Facebook page…. Upon hearing about my fears my roommate said there is absolutely no fucking way anybody's going to break into this house… And I knew that… I knew that and I am mediately was relieved…
And with a fresh wave of confidence and calm I bounded my way back into my room and began searching for the phone again…. Nothing…. Still vanished… The phone charger cord still dangling off the side; there is only one spot the phone should be in lest it grow legs and run somewhere else in the room… My mind was back in the Frozenvault of the reality and possibility that yes
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