Episode 18-17: Big Top Opry 2: The Outlaw Years

First radio air date: April 27, 2018
About This Episode

When Big Top's house band The Blue Canvas Orchestra pays homage
to the Grand Ole Opry what you get is one bang-up show: Big Top
Opry. In 2014 the dynamic team of Severin Behnen and Corey
Carlson put together our first Opry show which celebrated the
best of the Grand Ole Opry from the 30s, 40s and 50s. The live
show was so popular that they continued in 2017 with Big Top Opry
2: The Outlaw Years. That next installment of great country and
western music took us from the mid-60s through the early 80s with
music from Opry icons like Willie & Waylon, Dolly &
Loretta, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Glen Campbell, Charley Pride
and Tammy Wynette.


Hear the the Outlaw Years show in this episode of Tent Show
Radio. This show features the Blue Canvas Orchestra with Corey
Carlson and special guests Andy Dee, Randy Sabien, Joe Savage,
Danielle Diamond, Emily Belanger and Lizzie Herriott.
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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