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    Posted: Mar 11 2015 at 10:59am
Heard this song the other day and couldn't help but think of our town...Middletown. I think it sums things up very well.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghVAH_WX-9I

Out Town by Iris Dement

And you know the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.
Up the street beside that red neon light,
That's where I met my baby on one hot summer night.
He was the tender and I ordered a beer,
It's been forty years and I'm still sitting here.
But you know the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.
It's here I had my babies and I had my first kiss.
I've walked down Main Street in the cold morning mist.
Over there is where I bought my first car.
It turned over once but then it never went far.
And I can see the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.
I buried my Mama and I buried my Pa.
They sleep up the street beside that pretty brick wall.
I bring them flowers about every day,
But hold on to your lover, but I just gotta cry when I think what they'd say.
If they could see how the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.
Now I sit on the porch and watch the lightning-bugs fly.
But I can't see too good, I got tears in my eyes.
I'm leaving tomorrow but I don't wanna go.
I love you, my town, you'll always live in my soul.
But I can see the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on, I gotta kiss you goodbye,
But I'll hold to my lover,
'Cause my heart's 'bout to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to my town, to my town.
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But....but....how can this be?

A few years ago, Gilleland and her city building people were singing the praises of Middletown on You Tube with their "My Town" rendition using a Four Tops hit song as the melody.(and wasting a crap load of taxpayer funded salary money for this nonsense to boot)

Is it possible that ALL of the people associated with and in the city building, including the dynamic "Mare" Mulligan, one of greatest "get 'er done" city managers we ever had in Gilleland and the always hilarious, high pitched, yet always offering a freelance rendition of the law, Legal Eagle Leslie Landen ALL be wrong here?

Cue the elongated pause........


YES THEY CAN.
I'm so proud of my hometown and what it has become. Recall 'em all. Let's start over.
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beautiful processor--man I love Iris!
we had her in the MU-H series a few years ago, and went to see her @ the 20th Century last year

https://youtu.be/m2fSSDIlY6c

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/m2fSSDIlY6c?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

IU can't get youtube to embad like that any more--how?
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She's one of my favorites too.
She was at the 20th Century last week. Great concert!
I just copied the link onto my post and it imbedded. I didn't do anything special.. on purpose...anyway
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always has been my favorite Iris tune:

https://youtu.be/PVx4ZvE3yhY
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That's a great tune. Thanks for sharing it.

I'm looking forward to her new CD. Should be out shortly.
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nothing going on here--maybe fact guy on spring break
so why not have an Iris Dement fest?

https://youtu.be/Ak6E6IL4PT4

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also--since no one has anything to do around here on a Saturday night
there is a cool show @ MU-M 7:30 featuring Irish fiddler/step dancer + the unique world music sounds of Carlos Nunez

support the cause, and a nice start to finishing the night @ the Music Club with outstanding blues guitarist Noah Wotherspoon

https://youtu.be/B8g1Fo8CAXE

https://youtu.be/fRb1h989_jk
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Another great tune. Happen to agree with all but the chorus.

Might as well branch out a bit and throw some John Prine into the mix. He is John and Iris...In Spite of ourselves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIlQsRQNIqU

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hey pro--I posted a different video of that toon at the bottom of my prior post--we t thinking too similar!

Don't forget April Verch/Carlos Nunez tonite 7:30 @ Finkleman MU-M
something cool and different--as usual

here is where I would like togo for the 50th ann of MU-M---3 videos
all alumni of the series--too folky?

https://youtu.be/Def5J2wQP9M

https://youtu.be/mCilGdfSPmE

https://youtu.be/HW_07a0zZlI

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I'm not sure what type of audience the series attracts and if these would work. I would go see Dave Rawlings, et al...but would probably pass on the Milk Carton Kids...nice in small doses, but would probably fall asleep after a bit :)

With the exception of Keb Mo, the series really hasn't had any blues people. What about Deborah Coleman?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zSr78QKCRo

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have looked at Robert Cray--Roy Rogers/Norton Buffalo--Elvin Bishop
blues never sold in Hamilton--Middietown might be different
have a shot for Keb Mo as an opener for John Hiatt
expensive show--hopefully both could still pull it off
whaddya think?

don't know Coleman
Carlos Nunez was excellent last Sat--small crowd

Rawlings/Welch are hard to nail down--short/few tours
Milk Carton Kids are killing it everywhere else

Taft stole my show of Thile/Fleck
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Saw Keb Mo at the Taft last month with his band. Very nice show. Saw him at Finkleman a few years ago by himself...good but not as good as with the band. If you could get him, with his band, and John Hiatt I think it would be a killer show.

Thought about you when I saw the Taft was going to have Fleck.

Any chance at Emmylou Harris?
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sorry--meant Taj Mahal opening for Keb Mo
series has had Kevin Moore(Keb Mo) 4 times
last 3 sell-outs
he is a very cool guy and very easy to work with, + he likes it here and is very well-received though I prefer him solo

Taft is now stealing all of our "go to" artists
Just beat us out on Rhiannon Gibbens, who crushed it here this year doing her new solo cd as a part of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Her new cd is a killer and making her a well-deserved headliner.

harder to get marketable artists--and even harder to sell tix for anything

which makes me wonder if a "for profit privately owned" Sorg Opera House has any chance....
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Puts you between the proverbial "rock and a hard spot". If you get marketable artists you can't sell the tickets for enough dollars. If you get second tier, then fewer people come. In addition to the Taft you're also in competition with the 20th Century Theater.

How about someone like Van Morrison? Not currently real marketable, but a large enough name to draw us old people out.

Could you get Greg Brown along with Iris Dement? It would be very interesting to see the two of them together and would be a different show than they one at the 20th Century.

Taj Mahal is a name from the past. Haven't thought about him for 20 years.

Sounds like you've got your work cut out for you. If I think of anyone I'll send them along, but most of the new or old or solid second tier acts I keep track of are more blues based than folk and you stated that they aren't real popular. Have you heard of the Gospel Hummingbirds? May go over well in Middletown. Wonderful group out of California.
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