Billy Kemp

The Place I Can’t Forget

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Greetings everyone from the edge of the Cumberland Plateau. All is well here. Sue and I went to an old time gathering yesterday at the Cedars of Lebanon State Park called Breaking Up Winter. It was well attended and featured some wonderful workshops, guest speakers and community. Sue went to a banjo workshop with Frank Evans, and I went to a wax cylinder recording demonstration with Martin Fisher.

Martin Fisher recording Jan Hammond on the mountain dulcimer. Photo by Billy Kemp
Earl White teaching “Marjorie’s Favorite.” photo by Sue Griffiths

When we got home I found out that a song I had co-written with Jeni Hankins, “Mr. Wilson, the Stonecutter,” had been chosen to be included in a radio show titled, The Place I Can’t Forget, for Jon Stein’s Hootenanny Cafe. The show will air on WTGB Sunday, March 3 at 9pm CT. The song comes from my 2017 release, Another Life.

If you can’t listen that evening it will also air on Bell Buckle Radio Show here in Middle Tennessee on Thursday and Friday, March 7 & 8 at 10pm ct.

The Hootenanny Cafe Radio Show curates themed shows, and this one is about memorable places. The place I grew up is one of those places, Paradise, Maryland.

The Paradise Pickers, Brian O’Doherty, Billy Kemp, Doug Kemp and Jack DiPietro in 1980 in front of The Paradise Tavern. Photo by Billy Rubie

Thanks for reading and thanks for listening.

Cheers,

Billy

2 responses to “The Place I Can’t Forget”

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    Ken Reinhardt

    Good Old Paradise MD. I bought a sweet 1984 burgundy Ford Taurus from “Paradise Motors”. The owner played saxophone in my Edmondson Heights Elementary band as a fifth grader. Years later he remembered a joke I had made when they received their brand new instruments from Menchy’s Music Company. To stress the awesomeness of these shiny saxophones as they were taking them out of the case and removing the plastic covers, I said, “These instruments have been untouched by human hands (and as they were assembling them) and they still haven’t.” My former student remembered my joke years later and probably knocked a few dollars off of the sale. Ha!
    Later,
    Ken

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      Billy Kemp

      That is funny…

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