Episode 19-28: The New Standards, also featuring Yazmin

About This Episode

The New Standards are three friends, musicians and raconteurs who
have been performing together since 2005 in clubs and theaters
everywhere, from Shanghai to New York City. They've released half
a dozen CDs and populated Youtube with a number of popular
videos. In their original state, they take the form of an unusual
trio (stand up bass, piano and vibraphone), but of-late have been
the soul and creative core of a hydra-headed, funny,
freewheeling, nutty yet very moving "Variety Show".


This episode also features a performance by Yazmin Bowers. Yazmin
has lived a life of music from day one, having grown up with
musician parents. Her career has taken her many places from
recording her 'Solo' EP at Fantasy Studio in Berkeley, California
to opening for Nanci Griffith. Over the years, Cuban music has
played a big roll in her life. Songwriting has always been the
common thread for her and earned her recognition as the 2010 Lake
Superior Big Top Chautauqua Songwriter of the Year. Whether
pounding out Cuban tumbaos or singing a soft, heart-wrenching
ballad, Yazmin's music comes straight from the soul.
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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