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Keillor learned to harmonize when he was a boy singing hymns with his family, and he does a lot of singing on the show. Butch Thompson, who plays clarinet and barroom piano, and Peter Ostroushko, who plays fiddle, guitar and mandolin, are regulars on the show, and Atkins, Emmylou Harris, Scottish Folk Singer Jean Redpath, Fiddler Johnny Gimble and a great many others are irregulars. Keillor's tastes are dizzyingly eclectic, though he cherishes what he calls "an irrational distaste for banjos and a normal dislike of operatic sopranos...
...ears have become accustomed to hearing every space filled up, and they're throwing everything in. More is there to make you think less. I'm trying to find a balance. You know the old Sun Records, the way they would sound with just the upright bass and guitar and snare drum? That's the sound I love the best. My sound is basically backbeat and Stratocaster guitar or an old Martin guitar. Playing with a synthesizer is not really as much fun as playing with an instrument. I guess those machines are for people who are more inclined...
...work for, like, 24 or 30 hours, 14 hours at a time, then readjust after that. Then I do it again four or five days later. Sometimes I'll be able to hear the melody and everything right in my head, sometimes I'll play on the guitar or piano or something, and some kind of thing will come. Other times I'll just go into the studio and play riffs with other people and then later on listen to the tapes and see what that wants to be. I don't know. My songs...
...cafeteria stairs of Quincy House to get yourself yet another typical brain break meal of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. They are a distinctly un-preppy, counter-Harvard-culture (un-Harvard might not be specific enough) set of musicians, who hang out by the mailboxes either with an acoustic guitar in hand, a drumstick behind each ear, or a plastic pick, pinched between two pierced lips...
Under red-lights more typical of Amsterdam than Cambridge, Avi Varma accompanied by his acoustic guitar and harmonica, performed several songs—or, perhaps more accurately put, a couple variations of the same song. The limited range of notes and identical beat of each song made the Amerherst College student’s performance the musical equivalent of an Ec10 lecture— exciting material made monotonous and boring...