Episode 18-32: The Secret Sisters

About This Episode

There are two ways of handling a dangerous, raging river: you can
surrender and let it carry you away, or you can swim against the
flow. For The Secret Sisters, there was a point after the release
of their last record when they could have chosen to do neither –
instead, sinking to the bottom as the weight of the world washed
away their dreams. They went from touring with Bob Dylan to
losing their label, purging their team, filing bankruptcy and
almost permanently trading harmonies for housecleaning. But
there’s a mythical pull to music that kept sisters Laura and
Lydia Rogers moving forward, and they came out with a biting and
beautiful third LP, produced by Brandi Carlile, You Don’t Own Me
Anymore.


Their first as New West signees, it’s a document of hardship and
redemption, of pushing forward when it would be so much easier to
drown in grief. And it’s a story about how passion and pure
artistry can be the strongest sort of salvation – how art is
left, like perfect grains of sand, when everything else has
washed away.


Big Top was happy to welcome The Secret Sisters to the tent in
2017, a magical performance featured in this episode.
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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