Episode #184: "I'm With the Band"

<p>Howdy folks:</p><p>Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 184. <strong>This one’s available to free and paid subscribers alike</strong>. Click the player above to listen.</p><p>In today’s episode I talk about how a writer winds up with a band and how the writer’s wife has one very important rule about that and how being in a band has become one of my dearest joys, even as I know that my main job is still to write words meant to make their own music. Other details include how members of my band have won Grammys, played on <em>The Tonight Show</em>, and can invoke the Ottoman Empire. Whereas I know four or five chords and two rhythms.</p><p>This episode’s marginalia is kinda stretching the definition of marginalia but seems suitable to the occasion. </p><p>The band in question and I will be playing in Minneapolis very soon. <a target="_blank" href="https://dice.fm/event/ybb3x-michael-perry-and-the-long-beds-w-molly-brandt-12th-nov-icehouse-minneapolis-tickets?pid=8cf74b3b&#38;_branch_match_id=1231376219320759719&#38;_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXz8nMy9ZLyUxO1UvL1XdOTTWwNDQ3M0hJtrQvyEyxtUhOMzdJMk4CAK455WYuAAAA">Details here</a>.</p><p>Long Beds <a target="_blank" href="https://sneezingcow.com/store/#store-audio">music here</a>. </p><p>And here we are gettin’ after it:</p><p>Above all, thank you. This little podcast continues to grow, and has turned into a nice way to share news and stories and behind-the-scenes bits we don’t put out there on the other socials (that’s what my kids call it—the “socials”).</p><p>If you’d like to receive all episodes, click on the button below (it says “Subscribe Now” but you won’t actually be subscribed until you review your options and confirm):</p><p>Okey-doke. Thanks, folks. Photos below. You maybe figured that out.</p><p>See y’down the road,Mike</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://michaelperry.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campai