One could grow closer to him over time (I did not) but Mother was Mother. Two siblings preceded me, three followed, and this descent bound us to our mother - we came out of her body - whereas our father, though contributing his fluid, was an onlooker. Spending some time at Mayo, much of it ordinary, waiting, listening, doing as told, but some of it primal, such as the CAT scan in which I lay on a narrow platform, hands over my head, and was conveyed into a narrow tunnel in the dark and lay there, which made me imagine the vaginal tunnel that I descended from.
In Boom Town, we are invited to catch up as Garrison gets caught up with all of those beautifully flawed human beings that populate and promulgate their mythical town where all the women are finally accounted for, all the men are self-realized or died trying, and all the children are still way above average.” -Martin Sheen Then, of course, it is imperative that you do so-and we are fortunate indeed to tag along and share in the final chapter of the most fascinating and compelling characters ever conjured from the most vivid imagination of America’s greatest storyteller! “You can’t go home again unless you’re Garrison Keillor and home is Lake Wobegon. But at the same time, he’s got our number that way he’s always had it. Keillor’s speaking to us with encouragement and empathy about the American life. He is restored by the humor and grace of his old girlfriend Arlene and a visit from his wife, Giselle, who arrives from New York for a big love scene in an old lake cabin. Meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals of five classmates, including a couple whom he disliked, and he finds a wave of narcissism crashing on the rocks of Lutheran stoicism. Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millennial entrepreneurship-AuntMildred’s.com Gourmet Meatloaf, for example, or Universal Fire, makers of artisanal firewood seasoned with sea salt. **Available in Hardcover, Audiobook, and eReader formats** In Garrison Keillor’s newest novel, Boom Town, we return to Lake Wobegon, famous from decades of monologues on the classic radio show A Prairie Home Companion. The Village Voice described Butch’s music as “beguiling piano Americana from an interpreter who knows that Bix was more than an impressionist and Fats was more than a buffoon.” He also joined the touring company of the off-Broadway hit Jelly Roll! The Music and the Man, playing several runs with that show in New York and other cities through 1997. He served as a development consultant on the 1992 Broadway hit Jelly’s Last Jam, which starred Gregory Hines. If Garrison was going to sing, I usually couldn’t go wrong with E major.”īy the late ’90s, Thompson was known as a leading authority on early jazz.
Sometimes I’d go onstage without remembering what key something was in. More than once I remember saying I couldn’t get there by showtime, and being told to show up as soon as I could. Margaret or somebody would call me and ask if I was busy on Saturday. By 1980, the show was nationally syndicated, and the Butch Thompson Trio was the house band, a position the group held for the next six years.įrom the early days on APHC, Butch remembers, “It was pretty casual back then. In 1974, he joined the staff as the house pianist of public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion.
He picked up the clarinet in high school and led his first jazz group, “Shirt Thompson and His Sleeves,” as a senior.Īfter high school, he joined the Hall Brothers New Orleans Jazz Band of Minneapolis, and at 18 made his first visit to New Orleans, where he became one of the few non-New Orleanians to perform at Preservation Hall during the 1960s and ’70s. Croix, a small Minnesota river town, Butch Thompson was playing Christmas carols on his mother’s upright piano by age three, and began formal lessons at six.
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