Michael Perry's Voice Mail Episode 006 Greg Brown

Got a message the other day: &#8220;WPR tonight had your intro to Greg Brown, would love the transcript of that.&#8221;<br/><br/>The transcript is below. I was introducing Mr. Brown for his final appearance at the Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua. If some of my words sound familiar it&#8217;s because they drew upon what I wrote about him in <a href="https://sneezingcow.com/product/truck-paperback/">Truck: A Love Story</a> and in a profile I wrote of him included in <a href="https://sneezingcow.com/product/danger-man-working-writing-heart-gut-poison-ivy-patch/">Danger: Man Working</a>.<br/><br/>If you&#8217;d like to hear the intro delivered live as well as Part One of the concert, <a href="http://tentshowradio.org/?p=3139">click here</a>. Part Two is <a href="http://tentshowradio.org/?p=3141">here</a>.<br/><br/>NOTE FROM MIKE:&#160;We release &#8220;Voice Mail&#8221; once per week to subscribers. We also release a few oddments like this free into the wild. For subscription options, click on the button below (it says &#8220;Subscribe Now&#8221; but you won&#8217;t actually be subscribed until you confirm):<br/><br/>For all of Mike&#8217;s books, audiobooks, music and recorded humor, plus Sneezing Cow t-shirts, stickers, can koozies and other merchandise designed to keep ink in the printer and gas in the van, please visit the&#160;<a href="https://sneezingcow.com/store/">SneezingCow webstore</a>.<br/><br/>To let someone else know about Mike&#8217;s Voice Mail, please hit the &#8220;share&#8221; button.<br/><br/>TRANSCRIPT OF INTRO:<br/><br/>Sometime in 2006 a magazine called No Depression sent me to Iowa City, Iowa, to interview Greg Brown. And I met Greg Brown in downtown Iowa City, we sat on a park bench, that&#8217;s where I conducted the interview.<br/><br/>For the first five minutes of the interview I kept gettin&#8217; distracted because every once in a while this strange vibration would pass through the park bench. It felt like when you&#8217;re in New York City and a subway car goes underneath. And I though