Michael Perry's Voice Mail

Got a message the other day: “WPR tonight had your intro to Greg Brown, would love the transcript of that.” 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’s because they drew upon what I wrote about him in Truck: A Love Story and in a profile I wrote of him included in Danger: Man Working...

Howdy folks: Welcome to the third full episode of Michael Perry’s Voice Mail. Click the player above to listen. Included in today’s installment:  From his window Mike can see he never put the grill away, which sends him off on a tangent about men and meat. Also addressed: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom’s book THICK , eggplant, and sad corn on Instagram . In this episode’s  “Rou...

NOTE FROM MIKE:  We plan to release “Voice Mail” once per week to subscribers. The first few are free, and even after we go to a subscription model we’ll release some freebie extras now and then. We’ll also release some spur-of-the-moment posts (like this one) to subscribers. We’re new at this, so we welcome your comments. I was awake and worrying before dawn today so I headed to the little room a...

Howdy folks: Welcome to the second full episode of Michael Perry’s Voice Mail. Click the player above to listen. Included in today’s installment:  From his window Mike can see the last of the lilies and reveals his favorite plant name; a teenager picks the onions; what the sheriff found in our pole barn; and, in this episode’s  “Roughneck Rewind,”  Mike revisits and reflects on one of the most pop...

Howdy folks: Welcome to the first weekly episode of Michael Perry’s Voice Mail. Click the player above to listen. Included in today’s installment: From his window Mike can see his daughter’s hammock (her slumbers interrupted by a thunderstorm), state of the garden report (dang deer), HOT SHOWER NEWS, and in today’s “Roughneck Rewind,” Mike revisits and reflects on a piece he wrote in 2013. NOTE FR...