Episode 20-1: Nicole Atkins, also featuring Joyann Parker

About This Episode

Tonight the Big Top Chautauqua makes way for two women of
power…the big note brassy blues of Joyanne Parker, and the
retro-current all-her-own-sounds of Nicole Atkins.


JOYANN PARKER


Armed with a guitar and a voice that manages to sound all bluesy
and brokenhearted and yet blasts like a locomotive wrapped in
brass, Joyann Parker sounds above all like she sings from deep in
the soul, wherever it resides.


NICOLE ATKINS


Born in New Jersey, and her earliest musical influences came from
her parents record stash—The Ronettes, Johnny Cash, The Beach
Boys, Cass Elliott—but since then she has built a repertoire
arising from other geographies and other genres over a career
that has seen her develop a distinctive voice blending everything
from belters to ballads. A self-starter from the day she started
teaching her self to play guitar at the age of 13, she’s a
testament to time, talent and tenacity, a performer who digs deep
within to create songs of strength and vulnerability, please
welcome Nicole Atkins.
About Michael Perry

Michael Perry is a New York Times bestselling author, humorist
and radio show host from New Auburn, Wisconsin.


Perry's bestselling memoirs include Population 485, Truck: A Love
Story, Coop, and Visiting Tom, and his latest, Montaigne in Barn
Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy. His first book for
young readers, The Scavengers, was published in 2014 and first
novel for adult readers, The Jesus Cow, was published in May of
2015.


Raised on a small Midwestern dairy farm, Perry put himself
through nursing school while working on a ranch in Wyoming, then
wandered into writing. He lives with his wife and two daughters
in rural Wisconsin, where he serves on the local volunteer fire
and rescue service and is an intermittent pig farmer. He hosts
the nationally-syndicated "Tent Show Radio," performs widely as a
humorist, and tours with his band the Long Beds (currently
recording their third album for Amble Down Records). He has
recorded three live humor albums including Never Stand Behind A
Sneezing Cow and The Clodhopper Monologues.


Learn more about Michael and where to get his publications at
www.sneezingcow.com.


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