Ep. 361 Today's Peep Celebrates My Mother's Birthday- A Son's Playlist: How My Mother's Records Tuned My Life To Music & Memory, Beehive Hairdos and 40 Grand Country Dance Contests
A cloudy night, a quiet studio, and a birthday that turns a microphone into a family album. We open a window onto Sacramento in the 70s—dance contests at 40 Grand Country, Channel 40 weekends, and a beehive hairdo that could out-sing the neon. From Tammy Wynette’s D-I-V-O-R-C-E to Charley Pride’s shadowed story-songs, the soundtrack of a single mom becomes a map of grit and grace, raising six kids with a console stereo and an electric frying pan that knew its way around perfect chicken.We follow the grooves that taught me how to listen: Vaughn Monroe’s lunch-pail baritone, Bert Kaempfert’s…
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