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-|data8 = Absurd Monologue, 1 hour
+|data8 = Absurd Monologue, 55 minutes
-|data4  = 1/12/[[1997]]
+|data4  = 1/12/[[:Category:1997|1997]]
 |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/blues-singer Blues Singer][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Blues%20Singer]
-|data6  = Joe Frank|]]
+|data6  = Joe Frank
-|data10 = [[Joe Frank Live - Women Police Officers]]
+|data10 = [[A Call In The Night (Remix)]]
-|data11 = [[Pathology]]
+|data11 = [[Philosophy]]
 |data2  = [[Somewhere Out There]]
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 ''There was a time I was a blues singer.''
-'''Blues Singer''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]].  It was originally broadcast on 01/12/[[1997]].
+'''Blues Singer''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]].  It was originally broadcast on 01/12/[[:Category:1997|1997]].
 == Synopsis ==
-Joe is a blues singer.  The music of daily life and car accidents. He accidentally kills a woman with a knife, burns down a store, and drowns a hotel manager.  "Life is . . ."  Joe is a preacher and the mayor tries to shut him down.  Nonsense verse against a rhythmic backdrop.  Looking in the mirror and seeing greatness.
+Joe tells us about being a blues singer: how he sang, played the
+guitar, the images and feelings that informed him.
-== Music ==
+:10: Joe recalls the cheap hotels he stayed in, the dives he played
-{{It Could Be Sweet (Portishead)}}
+in, the people in his audience.
-== Commentary ==
+:30: Joe remembers the time he was charged with murder.
-{{commentary}}
-=== [[User:Spblat|Spblat]] ===
+:20: Joe tells of the time he was in grocery store.  The clerk
-This has always been one of my favorites.  Lots of nice shocking stuff. "So I drowned him in the toilet." "She died of a heart attack while I was stabbing her."
+wouldn't take his groceries out to his truck, so Joe trashed the place
+and set the gas pumps on fire.
+:10: Joe recalls a party in his hotel room.  The manager asked him to
+quiet down.  Joe drowned him in the toilet.
+:50: Joe expatiates on what life is like.
+:20: Joe tells about being a Baptist minister.  His services were
+loud and wild.  The mayor visits, asks him to make them quieter.  When
+he won't the mayor offers him a new location in an old barn 3 miles
+out of town.  When he refuses his church burns down.  Joe kills the
+mayor with an axe, hops a train to Memphis.
+:30: Joe's been trimming his beard with a hole punch.  He dangles
+holy verses on strings run through the holes.  He asks why there is no
+justice or peace.  A voice is unsympathetic.
+:50: 'I have seen wine turn to water, fishes turn to loaves.  I have
+seen the auricle only to retreat to the ventricle.  I have seen the
+great ashtray at the end of the world&hellip;'<ref name=sleep>originally aired in
+[[Sleep]]</ref>
+:50: 'Bent by life's cares and woes I envy the lot of
+Eskimos.'<ref name=hell> originally aired in [[Road To Hell]]</ref>
+:00:<blockquote>'No.  Bent by life's cares and woes I wish that I had been born an Episcopalian.
+<br>'I wish I could dance and sing and not be shamed by the clumsiness of my feet.
+<br>'I remember how Maureen Best laughed when I asked her out for a date after class.
+<br>'My love is like the morning dew.  Her smile is like a golden shower.
+<br>'If the tinkling music of your laugh were not so annoying I'd still be on West 88th Street.
+<br>'I woke up this morning feeling so grim but I put my pants where my shirt should have been.'<ref name=goodbye>Joe sings this in [[Goodbye]]</ref>
+</blockquote>
+:50: Beachcombing in Bali
+:40:<blockquote>'You got that wild lookin think that make me want a shout
+<br>'come on baby why don't you pull it on out?
+<br>'You make me feel like an alligator.
+<br>'Let's do it now - forget about later.
+<br>'We'll go to a movie or maybe a bar.
+<br>'Come on baby just hop in my car.
+<br>'There's a flick on Broadway with some movie star -
+<br>'what's his name anyway.
+<br>'I read about him in the Enquirer: he was doing something to somebody.
+<br>'I know a little place called OJD's:
+<br>'they got fine burritos and smokin' black cheese,
+<br>'crisp fried chicken and collard greens,
+<br>'mashed potatoes and lima beans,
+<br>'a meatball sandwich, a pizza pie,
+<br>'pickle, tomatoes, and a turkey thigh.
+<br>'Hey, honey, get in the closet and close the door:
+<br>'I don't want to see you anymore.
+<br>'Let my fingers do the walking and let my eyeballs rest.
+<br>'We'll snuggle by the golf clubs you know I'm best.
+<br>'Hey baby what's that hangin off the wall?
+<br>'It sure smells funny and it's eight feet tall.
+<br>'I got me a gun but don't be afraid - I just have it for protection'<ref name=sleep /><ref name=goodbye />
+</blockquote>
+:20: Joe rides the rods like a hobo, tells us how great the hobo
+life is.<ref name=hell />
+:30: Joe tells us he sees a great man when he looks in the mirror,
+goes into detail.  He blames a conspiracy that kept him from achieving
+greatness.
+:50: Recalling his life as a blues singer Joe recalls all the
+substances he abused: whiskey, valium, amyl nitrate, Valium, rubbing
+alcohol, shoe polish, sterno, floor wax, kerosene&hellip; but he sang
+the blues beautifully.
+:40: He tried rehab.
+:30: Joe remembers when he had an apartment in Oregon.<ref name=dark>originally
+aired in [[In The Dark (Part 1)]]</ref>
+:00: Joe wants to be 'to be a rumpled pipe-smoking bachelor'.<ref name=dark />
+<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;">
+<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
+<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
+* Joe is a blues singer.
+* The music of daily life and car accidents.
+* He accidentally kills a woman with a knife, burns down a store, and drowns a hotel manager.
+* "Life is . . ."  Joe is a preacher and the mayor tries to shut him down.
+* Nonsense verse against a rhythmic backdrop.
+* "But I have grown a beard and am covered with weeds"
+* Looking in the mirror and seeing greatness.
+</div></div>
+== Music ==
+* [[Judith Owen]] vocalizes over "It Could Be Sweet"
+{{It Could Be Sweet (Portishead)}} [Intro]
+{{My God Can Do Anything (Luther Barnes - The Red Budd Gospel Choir)}} [15:27]
+== Additional credits ==
+The original broadcast credits state: "With vocalist [[Judith Owen]], guitarist [[James Harrah]]. Special thanks to [[David Rapkin]]. This program was recorded, edited, and mixed by Bob Carlson."
+== Footnotes ==
 [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
 [[Category:Narrative_Monologue]]
+[[Category:Somewhere Out There]]
+[[Category:1997]]
+[[Category:Judith Owen]]
+[[Category:James Harrah]]
+[[Category:Show]]
+[[Category:Show_by_date|19970112]]	{{Airdate|airdate=1997-01-12}}
+{{Series|series=Somewhere Out There}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}}