1 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: Double Elvis, Rhode Island, July nineteen sixty five. 2 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 2: The Newport Folk Festival is in full swing. It's been 3 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 2: a hell of a year in the US of A. 4 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,079 Speaker 2: That weekend, LBJ doubled the draft. The country was going 5 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 2: to war with Vietnam. Looming prospect of war plus the 6 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 2: ongoing and foundational traumatic fight for civil rights had the 7 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:37,319 Speaker 2: audience feeling the weight of history on its shoulders. Enter 8 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 2: stage left Dylan. The folks were hoping for a repeat 9 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 2: performance of We Shall Overcome in a moment to link 10 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 2: arms and singing solidarity against a military industrial complex. Dylan, however, 11 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 2: had other things on his mind. Electricity was calling to 12 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 2: him and his Fender strat. What happens next is the 13 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 2: stuff of rock and roll. Myth rose boot off stage 14 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 2: and Pete Seeger is looking for an axe. However, upon 15 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,759 Speaker 2: closer historical review, we see it wasn't that simple. Sure, 16 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 2: some purists were pissed off at this open genre defiance, 17 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 2: but the folks drawn to the Ocean State that day 18 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:21,559 Speaker 2: weren't strictly booing electricity. They were booing for something else. 19 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 3: Entirely. 20 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 2: She came from Providence, the one in Rhode Island where 21 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 2: the old worlds shadows hang heavy in the air. She 22 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 2: packed her hopes and her dreams like a refugee, just 23 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 2: as her father came across the sea the Last Resort Eagles. 24 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 2: Welcome back, friends to season two of Sound of Our Town. 25 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 2: You wanted more, Frankly, so did I. So thank you 26 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 2: for listening and supporting this show. You got us to 27 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 2: this moment season two. I hope while you've waited, life 28 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 2: has treated you well. You've got your steps in and 29 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 2: you've seen lots of live music. Hopefully you've had some 30 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 2: time to ears and boots to some Season one stops 31 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 2: like Tulsa, La Phoenix, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, or Asbury Park. 32 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 2: If you've caught some live music in any of these places, 33 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 2: leave us a review and tell us where you went, 34 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 2: what you heard, and what I missed. And right now 35 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 2: we turn our gaze to the largest city within the 36 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 2: smallest state of America, Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of 37 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 2: the ocean state, forty minutes north of Newport, a place 38 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 2: that is constantly reimagining itself and marching to the beat 39 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 2: of its own roving alien drum troop. For real, that's 40 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 2: a real thing that happens in Providence. The state is small, 41 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 2: the city is smaller. How small well, Houston, Texas was 42 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 2: one of our stops in Season one, and that city 43 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 2: is bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island. But 44 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 2: I hope someone has told you that size does not matter. 45 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 2: There's something truly divine about this little city. Founded in 46 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 2: sixteen thirty six by a renegade preacher, Roger Williams, fled 47 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 2: his uptight Puritan brethren in Massachusetts Bay Colony and headed south. 48 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 2: He wanted more out of life, more religious and political freedom, 49 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 2: more separation of church and state. Thus Providence was founded. 50 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 2: Williams learned to speak there against it, and was actually 51 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 2: friendly with the natives, at least for a while. 52 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 3: That made him a radical. 53 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 2: Indeed, that live and let live attitude is an ethos 54 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 2: that has permeated down the generations, and Providence has been 55 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 2: providing a quick escape for Bostonians getting their style cramped 56 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 2: ever since, especially if that style involved lack of access 57 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 2: to strip clubs. Other important things to note about Providence 58 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 2: it was a big mob town. New York had the 59 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 2: Five Families, Boston had Whitey Bulger, and Providence had patriarcha 60 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 2: the city was so small that it was completely wrapped 61 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 2: in the mob economy. Organized crime was daily life, honest mobsters, 62 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 2: cricket cops and all the twice elected mayor was elected 63 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 2: for the second time while also being a convicted felon. 64 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 2: That can happen in America now the mob stuff, which 65 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 2: is a thing of the past. Mostly I think, I 66 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 2: don't know. This isn't a true crime podcast, but new government, 67 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 2: new demographics in a new down city. Revitalization has providence 68 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 2: spilling over with amazing restaurants and nightclubs in some very 69 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 2: solid music venues. The music community is tight and the 70 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 2: scene as diverse and supportive, and frankly, it's still very 71 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 2: weird in that in this ultra pasteurized, digitally homogenized instant 72 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 2: talk AI filtered life is a beautiful thing that has given. 73 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 4: Us talking heads Tavares, deer To, Freddie Scott, Claudia Lanier, 74 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,679 Speaker 4: Jeffrey Osborne, Duke Robolog Room Full of Blues, Berney Swain, 75 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 4: The Silk, Slow Anthem Air Music, a deer Hunter, Wendy Carlos, 76 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 4: Bill Conti, Blue Cantrell, John b John Almont, Chance Emerson, 77 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 4: Nick Dwayne Lightning, Bolt, Scarce, Thank God for science, the 78 00:04:53,680 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 4: young adults, Smarty Blue and brown Bird. A friend told 79 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 4: me that Providence is a place of cultural. 80 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 3: Creators, not consumers. 81 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 2: It's got one of the best art and design schools 82 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 2: in Risdy and one of the best culinary schools in 83 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 2: Johnson and Wales. Add in the brains at Brown and 84 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 2: this town is full of makers making more a hefty 85 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,359 Speaker 2: scoop of do it yourself, and the music scene is 86 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 2: no different. In fact, the history of the scene here 87 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 2: is in the poetry of a thousand vacant warehouses. 88 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 3: Once upon a time, Providence was a. 89 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 2: Big port city, and it had all the things that 90 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 2: come with that, like excellent seafood and a lot of 91 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 2: people from all over making their living from the water. 92 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 2: Post World War two saw Providence adrift as an industrial 93 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 2: giant's abandoned ship jobs vanished and left a labyrinth of 94 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 2: brick warehouses behind. But there is beauty in the breakdown. 95 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 2: The artist is the fairy godmother to the vacant warehouse. 96 00:05:55,279 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 2: The rent is cheap, the square footage vast, the ceilings lofty, neighbors, 97 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 2: non existence, make as much fracking noise as you want. 98 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 3: No one will call the cops. 99 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 2: A prime location for the right source of people to 100 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 2: bloom an entire honeycomb of artistic activities so deep that 101 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 2: by the nineties famous art collector is formed and Providence 102 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 2: was one of the most dynamic underground art scenes on 103 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 2: the East Coast. And in these derelict buildings, noise rock 104 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 2: was cradled so could grow up quickly to terrorize the 105 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 2: ears of the crowds that would come in droves to 106 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 2: see bands like Lightning Bolt, Arab on the radio and Locust. 107 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 2: In the early two thousands, a hacked job of urban 108 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 2: improvement saw a section of the mills turned. 109 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 3: Into a strip mall. 110 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 2: So, with the help of the Hippis Rockefeller child who 111 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 2: is a risky graduate and noise rock officionado artists galvanized 112 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 2: to start a collective buying and restoring these spaces, then 113 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 2: teaching the youth to do the same, creating more galleries, 114 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 2: venues and studios that are now award winning soulful spaces. 115 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 2: You want a town that has saved its sound, then 116 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 2: we need to visit Providence, Rhode Island. Sound of Our 117 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 2: Town is a podcast about the music that shaped the 118 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 2: city you are touching down in. It is about being 119 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 2: present to hear and experience its best music happening right 120 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 2: now in what sounds and places have shaped the city's culture. 121 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 2: In this season two of Sound of Our Town, I'll 122 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 2: introduce you to the real places and sonic stories echoing 123 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 2: in a particular city, so that your travel is enriched 124 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 2: with music, so that our troubles are forced to contend 125 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 2: with beats in harmony and songs. I'm your host, Will Day. 126 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 2: I'm an independent DIY songwriter and touring artist. I've been 127 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 2: doing this for a little bit, and this show is 128 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 2: a reminder of how important live music is to our existence, 129 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 2: this abiding ritual of getting together in a room to listen, 130 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 2: and why that matters. So I'm reading this book called 131 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 2: The Science of Awe. Talks about how the basic need 132 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 2: for awe is wired into our brains and our bodies, 133 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 2: how that feeling of awe takes us out of our 134 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 2: nagging ego brains and into the vast mystery that is 135 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 2: the strange trip of being human. And one of the 136 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 2: most direct pathways to awe is through the sonic medium music. 137 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 2: The shivers you get at hearing in epic solo, or 138 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 2: tears that fall listening to a voice drenched and emotion 139 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 2: in a room full of bodies vibrating on the same 140 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 2: wave that's awe. And in every city in America there 141 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 2: are authentic portals that are open and willing to offer 142 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 2: you a path towards mystical neurochemical transcendence. One potential portal 143 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 2: is our first stop. Located in downtown Providence a skew. 144 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 2: It's a funky welcome upon walking down from street level 145 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 2: into a room that has it all. Big wooden pylons 146 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 2: in a classic mill brick interior splashed with the work 147 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 2: of local artists hold the place up. 148 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 3: There's comfy couches. 149 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 2: A pool table in a board game shelf. Owners John 150 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 2: and win Song keep regulars on their toes with music, comedy, 151 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 2: and poetry. Open mics at the start of the week, 152 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,839 Speaker 2: disco dance parties on Wednesday, in the occasional burlesque and 153 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 2: variety show. Thursday through Sunday is live music. You'll catch 154 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 2: a mix of Americana folks, singer songwriter, blues musicians, and 155 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 2: rock and roll varieties. Here John Allmark, local jazz hero 156 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 2: and trumpet player who has played with the likes of 157 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 2: Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin hits a ski with his 158 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 2: band Autocrats once a month with standing room only Funk Night. 159 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:43,439 Speaker 2: Providence loves to dance on Friday nights after the live 160 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 2: music has ended. DJ Venom takes over. After the party 161 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 2: is the after party and more booties descend upon a 162 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 2: skew from all over town to shake it. Venom spins 163 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 2: retro eighties and nineties. Them Nights are Bowie and Cure Knights, 164 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 2: all sweaty and liberating excuse to vide the pandemic. To 165 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 2: make it to its fifth year anniversary, this small and 166 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 2: cozy room is already a huge part of pvd's multiple 167 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 2: sonic personalities. It's my favorite place to play in town, 168 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 2: and it always feels like an extension of the DIY 169 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 2: get it Done spirit of the Warehouse legends. When you're 170 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,559 Speaker 2: having a panic attack, you're supposed to stop and listen 171 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 2: to five things you can hear. At first, your frantic 172 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 2: mind will hear nothing except the pounding of your head. 173 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 2: Take a breath. Suddenly you start to hear the wind, 174 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 2: the birds, the trees, the spaces. 175 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,319 Speaker 3: There's a band out of Providence that reminds. 176 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 2: Me of that, The Low Anthem. 177 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:49,679 Speaker 3: When both starting out in New England. 178 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 2: I would open up for them in Providence, and they 179 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 2: would open up for me in Boston. Sometimes the Boston 180 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 2: audiences didn't know how to handle the Low Anthem's subtleties. 181 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 2: On a few occasions, I had to be the guy 182 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 2: that shushed the crowd. A couple of years in the 183 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 2: Low Anthem blew up quietly, though critical darlings rave reviews 184 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:09,079 Speaker 2: from Rolling Stone. 185 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 3: Touring with Iron and Wine. 186 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 2: Around twenty ten, Jeff Prostowski, one of the founders of 187 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 2: the band, wandered into a down on its luck but 188 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 2: stunning theater in downtown Providence, the Columbus Theater, built. 189 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 3: In nineteen twenty six. 190 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 2: To step into Columbus Theater is to be Marty McFly 191 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 2: stumbling into another century. Marble floors and mirrors, thick red drapes, 192 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 2: frescoes and a retro candy counter, and a lobby decked 193 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 2: out with gold paint. When I pulled up to the 194 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 2: Columbus to see my name on the marquis for the 195 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 2: first time, I felt connected to a feeling that has 196 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 2: echoed through the hearts of countless performers since electricity first 197 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 2: lit up a sidewalk. Duke Ellington grace this place. Jeff 198 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 2: was awestruck and in love. She offers to start paying 199 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 2: rent to the owner to host shows. The low anthem 200 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 2: uses their success to help give this theater back to 201 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 2: the community. And now the Columbus is buzzing sold out 202 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 2: shows with national acts downstairs in a recording studio, in 203 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 2: the most luscious listening room upstairs with local and regional acts. 204 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 2: Places like the Columbus Theater exude the magic and energy 205 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 2: put into it by its owners and caretakers. Now, to 206 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 2: keep this gem alive from the nineteen sixties until today 207 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:28,079 Speaker 2: was no easy feat. John Barbarian, a gentleman Brown graduate 208 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 2: and a classically trained opera singer in New York City, 209 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:33,679 Speaker 2: moved back to Providence to help his father run the 210 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 2: vaudeville turn movie theater, but attendance was low. He tried 211 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 2: booking opera concerts and the recitals, but when big movie 212 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 2: plexues moved into town, it was not enough to keep 213 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 2: the lights on. John, who loved this place with his 214 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 2: heart and soul, decided one fateful night in the nineteen 215 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 2: seventies to take a risk and show a film that 216 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 2: had the tagline banned in Denmark. The theater about to 217 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 2: go out of business, saw seven hundred people show up. 218 00:12:58,520 --> 00:12:59,559 Speaker 3: It was a porno flick. 219 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 2: Barbarian was a musician who really didn't want to run 220 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 2: a porn theater, but hey, it's a pile of rubble, 221 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 2: or it's porn. He kept the Columbus open via dirty 222 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,959 Speaker 2: movies and random shows throughout the years until Jeff walked in. 223 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 2: These days you can catch non banned movies, comedians and 224 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 2: national acts like Bill Callahan, Wanta Jackson, John c Riley, 225 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 2: Bonnie Prince, Billy Amy Mann and Father John Misty Upstairs, 226 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 2: a host of local and traveling singer songwriters of the 227 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 2: choieter Fair but not too quiet. This vaudeville turned porn 228 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:34,479 Speaker 2: theater turned national performing arts venue is evidence of Providence, 229 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 2: showing us again that spaces that surround us in sonic 230 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 2: textures can be sacred places forever waiting for you. Now, 231 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 2: if you've listened to Season one, you know that I 232 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 2: have a soft spot for a dive in the No 233 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 2: cover venue. The Brits have their pubs, the French have 234 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 2: their cafes, and we have our dives. Like all things 235 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 2: in in nature, it takes time to grow such a space. 236 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 2: The absence of frills, allergic to trends, and I could 237 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 2: not recommend more a little green cinder block building just 238 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 2: down the street from a Skew in the Jewelry District. 239 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 2: Our no cover spot in Providence is Nick Andese in 240 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 2: a world that is constantly changing. Nick Andese is the 241 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 2: classic neighborhood joint. It's been an anchor and down city 242 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 2: since Stephanie Finisia opened it in nineteen ninety six. An 243 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 2: eclectic smattering of pool tables and demographics, political types and 244 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 2: punk rock types, hipsters, rockers coming back from gigs, college kids, weirdos, 245 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 2: townies and tourists, music aficionados, all amongst the pool tables 246 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 2: that are in orbit around the juke box. It's the 247 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 2: live music, though, that is free seven nights a week, 248 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 2: country blues, bluegrass, rock, singer songwriters and funk. During the 249 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 2: warmer months they have shows out back in the parking 250 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 2: lot because there's an actual stage there. You can find 251 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 2: a residency here too. 252 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 3: In the house. 253 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 2: Band on Tuesdays is Marty Ballou and Friends, but you 254 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 2: can catch acts like Cody Nilsen, Legends, Tim Gearon and 255 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 2: Chris Cody. Ginny and the gin Boys are Otis and 256 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 2: the free wheelers cruising through on any given night. There's 257 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 2: barely a web presence. This is a dive, there's no script. 258 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 2: Their Facebook page actually has the best insight on the calendar. 259 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 2: Or just be grateful it's free and trust the mystery 260 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 2: and curation and may be yourself and what you bring 261 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,239 Speaker 2: to that dive, and also bring cash. 262 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 3: Be the hero. The street lights. 263 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 2: Will come on as you bust out of nick andese 264 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 2: into a night's still young. Providence is a city made 265 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 2: for walking, time, for your ears, to recharge to the 266 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 2: song of the city, and to take a moment to 267 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 2: reflect on life's big questions. 268 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 3: Who are we, where are we going? And is Providence rock? 269 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 2: The city had a reputation for being rough around the edges, 270 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 2: and the music scene was no different. Noise Rock came 271 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 2: to life in these warehouses. Providence has taken some licks 272 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 2: a place where recessions happen in success, where the mob 273 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 2: was hassling everyone, the scene was underground, and the general 274 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 2: mood was pissed. Of course, that people wanted to turn 275 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 2: up loud and in a motwhile soaking in the decibels, 276 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 2: to scream in unison, gaze at the shoes or thrash 277 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 2: around in a marsh pit with strangers and leave saying 278 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 2: thank you. And by now you've walked around a bit 279 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 2: off the beaten path from downtown. In surprise, you're at 280 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 2: a warehouse. So back to my important question, does Providence rock? 281 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 2: The answer is to come get your face melted at Dusk. 282 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 2: Venues and Providence have been known to open and close quickly, 283 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 2: but Dusk is an elder statesman at thirteen years old. 284 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 2: It's run by the owner, Rick Sunderland, and the head 285 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 2: bartender and booker, Danielle tell you she is also incidentally 286 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 2: the winner of a Bartender of the Year in twenty 287 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 2: twenty two in Motif magazine, which is Where Island's premier 288 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 2: art and music zine. So in addition to killer programming, 289 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 2: shfore your drink that will take you places, Dusk is 290 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 2: small enough to have an intimate feel, with a vibe 291 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 2: dark enough to shed the day. Bands stickers with heavy 292 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 2: metal fonts decorate the walls, and yes, you can catch 293 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 2: perfect metal and goth shows here that will leave your 294 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,199 Speaker 2: ears ringing. But in the spirit of a city that 295 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 2: defies easy definition, within a state that Dylan brought more 296 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 2: to a folk fest, the best metal and garage rock 297 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 2: club in town also hosts one of the coolest DJ 298 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 2: dance parties around period. It's called Soul Power. One venue, 299 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 2: Two different ways to get your face melted. How anti 300 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 2: provincial shirts cling to soaked skins, small crowds reboot their 301 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 2: lungs with a cigarette breakoutside. Meanwhile, DJ Ti Jesso, who 302 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 2: is a fixture in the music scene, brings in his 303 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 2: big screen in vast record collection to help the citizens 304 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 2: of Providence let loose and lose control of their bodies 305 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 2: by transcending together hypnosis, biosmosis via funk, Boogaloo and Soul 306 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 2: Like So Much a PVD. No matter what is going 307 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 2: on in the city from ten to two on second Fridays, 308 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:01,679 Speaker 2: everyone meets up at dusk to get melted at Soul Power. 309 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 2: The festival schedule in the Ocean State is so heavy 310 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 2: you'll wish you could clone yourself to imbibe at all. 311 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 2: But because we're still human for now and I don't 312 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 2: want to give you fomo, let's stick to the musts. 313 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 2: Two of the most famous festivals in America, Newport Folk 314 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 2: and Jazz Fest, are a forty five minute drive south 315 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 2: of PFD. Jazz critic glennar and Feather put it best 316 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 2: when he said, the nineteen fifty four debut of the 317 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 2: Newport Jazz Festival initiated the festival era in American music, 318 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 2: and it has never been the same since. The vibe, 319 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 2: the Mount everest of cool that was achieved in a 320 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,360 Speaker 2: multi day extravaganza was something that only a deep concentration 321 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:52,879 Speaker 2: of American jazz greats could establish. From talking Count Basie, 322 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:57,160 Speaker 2: Eli Fitzgerald, Thonius Monk, Dave Brubeck in the Great Miles Davis, 323 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 2: this is pure awe. Two years later, building office success 324 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:04,880 Speaker 2: in the wild popular folk scene, the Newport Folk Fest 325 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 2: debuted you know the place where the hippies boo Dylan 326 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 2: off stage where Joni goes to be reborn in twenty 327 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 2: twenty two. Both festivals today are a modern who's who 328 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 2: of music with a lot more genre bending allowed. Folk 329 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,920 Speaker 2: at the end of July and jazz the first weekend 330 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 2: in August. A coveted and supremely scarce ticket. Now in 331 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,959 Speaker 2: PVD proper, it is the Day Trill Festival, the brainchild 332 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 2: of organizers and sea makers Sabrina Chadri and Jason Almada. 333 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 2: Their production company Stay Silent PVD, which I would equate 334 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 2: to Providence's very own rock Nation, was born of a 335 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:47,159 Speaker 2: necessity to create spaces full of love, music, art and 336 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 2: culture for the black and brown communities of Provenance. The 337 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 2: city is extremely diverse, but still culturally segregated by neighborhood. 338 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 2: There are huge communities of Dominican, Portuguese, Haitian and Cape 339 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 2: Verdean folks. In realizing the lack of melan and then 340 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,919 Speaker 2: the music scene offerings, chaud Renal Media set out to 341 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 2: fix that. With each event they hosted, they raised up 342 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 2: the hip hop culture and the R and B scene 343 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 2: of Providence through pop up shows, hip hop brunches, and 344 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,199 Speaker 2: DJ dance parties and special events all over town. This 345 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 2: coalesced into their very first festival, a day rave. 346 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 3: Called day Trill. 347 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 2: Starting ten years ago with thirty people in the parking 348 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 2: lot of fet Music, it has ballooned into four thousand 349 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 2: people today. It's a day and night full of love, 350 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 2: carefully curated R and B and hip hop that is 351 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 2: the place to be the problem is that twenty twenty 352 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,400 Speaker 2: three festival has already come to pass, so you're gonna 353 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:41,159 Speaker 2: have to get on the stay. Silent Milling list to 354 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 2: see what's up when you come to town. Our next 355 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,199 Speaker 2: stop will perhaps be one of the oldest clubs that 356 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,040 Speaker 2: sound of our town has yet to wander into. He 357 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 2: arrived at a Vatican like landmark of down City PVD, 358 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 2: the Strand Theater. It first opened its doors in nineteen 359 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 2: fifteen as a movie theater with two thousand seats. The 360 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 2: chairs were filled up into the nineteen seventies. When tastes 361 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 2: changed and well Downtown was ghosted after sundown, the manager's 362 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 2: office took a page out of the Columbus Theater's book 363 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,479 Speaker 2: and pivoted towards X rated movies. You got to give 364 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 2: it to Roger Williams. No Puritans and Providence. After its 365 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 2: skin flick years, this lovely historic gem almost got the 366 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 2: paved paradise and put up a parking lot treatment. But 367 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,679 Speaker 2: the Strand survived by the passion of art and was 368 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,400 Speaker 2: born again when Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel took over in two 369 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 2: thousand and four. Proprietor Rick Luvo's club had lived in 370 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 2: a few locations across town. It was always getting gentrified 371 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 2: out of the neighborhood. Originally, he says, he opened up 372 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 2: music venue because he really just wanted to place to 373 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,640 Speaker 2: play R and B Records, first Friends, and somehow convinced 374 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,919 Speaker 2: Bo Diddley to come play. The Heartbreak quickly became a 375 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 2: blues hotspot for local favorites like Room full of Blues, 376 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 2: Wild Turkey, the young Adults and schemers, and sure enough 377 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 2: he did get Bo Diddley for nine sold out nights 378 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 2: in a row. After that coup, the star power ramped up. 379 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 2: Names like James Brown, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis, 380 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 2: Muddy Waters, Iggy Pop, the Pretenders, the Go Gos, Stevie 381 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 2: Ray Vaughan. They all started coming by after the Heartbreak 382 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 2: second displacement due to the fates that be deciding more 383 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 2: condos should go up, the stars aligned. In two thousand 384 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 2: and three, Rick and Company took over the Strand Building 385 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 2: and with this new grandiose space and the chops and 386 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 2: knack for attracting talent, the tour buses came rolling in, 387 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 2: buses carrying Wilco, Justin Bieber, Flaming Lips, White Stripes, Avid Brothers, 388 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 2: Marilyn Manson, Oasis Radio, had Beck, the White Stripes, Woo Tank, 389 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 2: Lan Casey Musgraves. 390 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:46,360 Speaker 3: I made my point in. 391 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 2: Twenty seventeen, Rick brought in some shareholders. Lupos finally hung 392 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 2: up its hat in the space closed doors for renovations, 393 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,679 Speaker 2: relaunching two months later as the Strand we know today, 394 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 2: but with a new stage, dressing room, sound system, lights, backroom, 395 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:05,359 Speaker 2: VIP areas, and additional balcony seating. Providence is an incredibly 396 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 2: diverse city. In the Strand's more racial and ethnically diverse 397 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 2: calendar is selling out shows by bringing in stars of 398 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 2: hip hop, Latin and R and B music like into 399 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 2: Cable Mora Elemi and Essilabonamaro. Today the Strand is buzzing 400 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 2: along and its caretakers attract all the different cultural sectors 401 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 2: of Providence. In our wide world of live music, there 402 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 2: are a million things siphoning our attention every minute. The news, 403 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 2: the bills, the feeds, all clouding out the synapses until 404 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 2: you can't remember the time you last had an actual thought. 405 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 2: Sometimes what you desperately need is a change of scenery, 406 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 2: a new view to sue the frantic mind so that 407 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 2: the muse can start whispering in your ear again, such 408 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:58,879 Speaker 2: as the power of a great majestic library and the 409 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 2: ethnium Improvidence, or the Ath, as regulars call it, is 410 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 2: a portal. So imagine you're an orphaned child in a 411 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,399 Speaker 2: steampunk novel and you find out that you have a 412 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:15,159 Speaker 2: mysterious aunt who has a magic library that comes to 413 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 2: life at midnight. It is named after Athena, the Greek 414 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 2: goddess of wisdom. It opened its doors in eighteen thirty six. 415 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 2: Edgar Allan Poe wooed his lady, Providence poet and cult 416 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 2: figure Sarah Whitman, in an ill fated romance in these 417 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 2: very halls. HP Lovecraft loved it here, and it's easy 418 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 2: to see why. It is a quiet exclamation point to 419 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 2: all those surreal qualities of Providence. And if you are 420 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 2: a bookworm, then the main reading room is mecca. And 421 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 2: if you have been severed from the delights of reading, 422 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 2: then the main reading Room will provide you a rebirth, 423 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 2: a hand reaching through time, beckoning you to join generations 424 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 2: of dream and words. The Ath occasionally has music, but 425 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 2: really it serves as the silence between the notes, the 426 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 2: same silence that makes a song so indelible, or visit 427 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 2: to Providence so memorable. Now you're already listening to a 428 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 2: podcast to prepare for PVD, so it can't hurt to 429 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 2: suggest another podcast. Just please don't fall in love with 430 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 2: it like you've fallen in love with this one. If 431 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 2: you're a Sopranos fan and want to immerse yourself in 432 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 2: the maze that was the history of crime and corruption 433 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 2: and providence of your then the award winning Crime Town 434 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 2: further develops the awe of this town. Described as morbidly 435 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 2: fascinating and laugh out loud surreal. It takes twenty six 436 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 2: episodes to get through the insanity of it all. The 437 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 2: mayor of Providence at the time that the show came 438 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 2: out called it terrible for the city. Yet here we 439 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,400 Speaker 2: are celebrating Providence. 440 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 3: Now. 441 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 2: To get a hype for Newport, check out the gorgeous 442 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 2: black and white doc Festival. 443 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 3: Filmmaker Murray Lerner brought his camera to the Newport. 444 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 2: From nineteen sixty three to nineteen sixty six. He did 445 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 2: it to capture the pulsating energy and cultural zeitgeist that 446 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 2: was a Newport folk Fest at its peak. It features 447 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,679 Speaker 2: performances and snapshop interviews of legends running around that weekend, 448 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 2: like Joan Biaz, Bob Dylan Howland, Wolf, Johnny Cash, the 449 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 2: Staples singers Pete seeger Sonhouse and Peter Paul and Mary 450 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,640 Speaker 2: Again just to name a few. I feel like, I say, 451 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 2: just to name a few a lot in this show. 452 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,880 Speaker 2: In this film, you can feel the love and respect 453 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 2: with the great American musical tradition emanating off of each frame, 454 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,679 Speaker 2: which makes this intimate record of a pivotal time in 455 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:50,639 Speaker 2: music and culture so riveting to watch. There's still so 456 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,640 Speaker 2: much I haven't told you about Providence. But honestly, after 457 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,919 Speaker 2: all this time I've spent with Providence, I feel like 458 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 2: there's still so much. 459 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 3: It hasn't told me. 460 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 2: When I was brushing up on this that scouring the 461 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 2: details and dates to share with you, I kept getting 462 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,120 Speaker 2: further away. I had to ask some of my local friends, 463 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 2: am I slow? Or does everyone keep their mouth shut 464 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:15,640 Speaker 2: around Providence? I was met with knowing smiles. Providence kind 465 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 2: of doesn't want you to know how great it is. 466 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 2: Is it a holdover from the underground warehouse culture scene 467 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,880 Speaker 2: where everything was on the dls the cops wouldn't break 468 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 2: up the party. Is it part of the legacy of 469 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 2: being a mob city where you kept your success to yourself. 470 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 2: So a man with a very thick neck doesn't show 471 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 2: up looking for protection money. Is it post puritanical guilt 472 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 2: or or is it everybody just too busy doing something 473 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 2: instead of talking about it. 474 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe it's all the above. 475 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,359 Speaker 2: I also think it's very telling that there is a 476 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 2: musical exodus from Boston to Providence. A lot of my 477 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 2: friends and fellow players have taken refuge in the twenty 478 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 2: five percent cheaper, ultra livable art supporting off the radar 479 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 2: big city. The rent in Boston and New York is insane, 480 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 2: and the pay has not risen with the tides. It 481 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 2: makes a person ask himself, why not Providence? So I 482 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 2: know Providence loves to dance. It loves to make music, 483 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 2: It loves to make spaces in moments meaningful. It loves 484 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 2: to make period. It loves kink. I didn't even get 485 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 2: to tell you about that. But maybe there's some things 486 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 2: better left for you to discover yourself. The show is 487 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 2: a breadcrumb. It's the start of your journey. Providence isn't judgmental, 488 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 2: and it's not here to impress you. It will be 489 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 2: delighted to see you, but it isn't going to beg 490 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 2: for your attention. It is always up for trying something new. 491 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,880 Speaker 2: That is the founding spirit of Rhode Island and maybe 492 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 2: the frequency of energy that infected Bob Dylan that night 493 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 2: too when he walked on stage, alienated his audience, evolving 494 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 2: into his next form. And by the way, according to 495 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 2: the legend Al Cooper, who played on stage with Dylan 496 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 2: that day, the people weren't bluing his electric guitar. Dylan 497 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 2: and band played only five songs at Infamous Day three 498 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:01,160 Speaker 2: were acoustic. They were upset with a short set and 499 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 2: bad sound. They were booing because they wanted more and 500 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 2: one more thing. Just a few weeks ago, I was 501 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 2: standing in the back of a skew post set watching 502 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 2: my friend Rhet Miller play the same Red Miller who 503 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 2: helped us close out season one, and I was filled 504 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 2: with a sense of gratitude and awe for that connection 505 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 2: with a place, with other musicians with an audience. Because 506 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 2: that's what music does. It gathers strangers in a room 507 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 2: and through some mystical process of sound and feeling, the 508 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 2: distance between us all merges in rhythms of the body 509 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 2: and heart synchronize, and even if just for a moment, 510 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 2: live music can make you feel like you're part of 511 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 2: something larger, something communal, and it can usher in that 512 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 2: sense of awe and from Buskers to Beyonce, this is 513 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 2: why musicians do what they do, chasing that feeling. Seven 514 00:29:55,320 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 2: nights a week, somewhere in a town near you, you 515 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 2: have been listening to Sound of Our Town. This was 516 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 2: episode one. We're coming at you with twelve episodes. This 517 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 2: second season, we got eleven more to go. They're coming 518 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 2: out every other Thursday. Wherever you listen to your podcasts, 519 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 2: and that is why I need your help right now 520 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 2: to follow this show. Wherever you listen to your podcasts 521 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 2: and leave a review, it's your reviews and follows that 522 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 2: allow us to spread the word and get to more 523 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 2: places and cover more venues. If you want to chat 524 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 2: with me about that make suggestions, hit me up on 525 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 2: Instagram at Will Daily Official. You can also hit up 526 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 2: Double Elvis on Instagram or Twitter at Double Elvis FM and. 527 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 3: At Will Daily d A I L. E. Y. 528 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 2: Sound of Our Town is a production of Double Elvis 529 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 2: and iHeartRadio. The show is executively produced by Jake Brennan 530 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 2: and Brady Sadler for Double Elvis Production assistants by Matt Boden. 531 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 2: The show is created, written, hosted, and scored by me 532 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,960 Speaker 2: Will Daily. This episode was written by Samantha Ferrell. Music 533 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 2: for this episode was composed and performed by me Will Daily. 534 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 2: You can check out my music just by spelling my 535 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 2: name correctly anywhere you listen to music. I'm on Spotify, Apple, 536 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 2: band Camp, and always will Daily dot com. Special thank 537 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 2: you in this episode to Alan Pennyman and Michael Panico. 538 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,800 Speaker 3: All Right, my friends, thank you for listening. 539 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 2: Don't forget to do that following and reviewing stuff, and. 540 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 3: I'll see you in two weeks. Thank you for your 541 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 3: ears