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Blues Singer

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A touring blues singer speaks about his life on the road, including burning down a gas station and creating havoc in a hotel room. Turned minister, his church services thwarted by local ordinances, he murders the town’s mayor.

Series: Somewhere Out There
Show Type: Monologue
Cast: Joe Frank, and vocalist Judith Owen
Air Date: 01/12/1997
Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

Category: Somewhere Out There.

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Series: Somewhere Out There
Show Type: Monologue
Cast: Joe Frank, and vocalist Judith Owen
Air Date: 01/12/1997
Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Reviews of Joe’s Work

"Although commonly categorized as radio drama, Frank's work bears very little resemblance to the stagy artifice of plays performed over air. Frank wanders deeply into the unconscious, producing Dionysian stories with a fairy-tale intensity whose effect is often funny, disturbing and deeply memorable."

Salon

"[Joe Frank is] the most imaginative, literate monologist in radio today... If a microphone could capture the nether recesses of the modern psyche, it would sound like Frank's absurd comical excursions: Radio Vertigo."

The Village Voice

"Frank wanders deeply into the unconscious, producing Dionysian stories with a fairy-tale intensity whose effect is often funny, disturbing and deeply memorable."

Salon Magazine

"To me, he's what radio is really for... his show makes me think he's getting to some great truth... so completely captivating and just unlike anything else."

David Sedaris, writer

"[Joe Frank] is one of the great, original radio performers. He's created a sound and style for himself - a complete aesthetic that's entirely his own. I first heard him when I was 19 and it changed everything for me. His work demonstrated the intensity and emotion that the medium is capable of; ingenious…fantastic."

Ira Glass, This American Life

"Joe Frank is an invaluable warrior who stands in defense of our fears, our vanities and our forever-eroding sense of ourselves. He transforms the everyday banality of the human comedy into an inspired weirdness that feeds on pathos and irony, and feels a lot like revelation. Sartre would have called it nausea; Frank makes it art."

Spin Magazine

"I came upon Joe Frank's work by accident a number of years ago while driving to my home in the Napa Valley late at night. I couldn't believe the originality and sheer brilliance of what I was hearing. From that moment on I became a dedicated Joe Frank fan. Joe Frank's shows raise the most interesting and enduring questions in new and original ways and are consistently thought-provoking and very funny."

Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker

"The world of Joe Frank is a wildly entertaining surrealistic universe...hilarious, unsettling, zany, powerful, moving and perhaps the most unique, inventive and effective use of radio since Orson Welles convinced much of America there was a War of the Worlds."

The L.A. Weekly

"Mixing bizarre monologues, multi-sequenced dramatic vignettes and mock-solemn critiques, [Joe Frank's work] is both sophisticated and surreal. A sizable cult has been growing around Frank...a rare radio talent."

The Village Voice

"Frank [is] the apostle of radio noire... His free-form radio dramas... are sometimes moving, often funny, but always manage to confound the listeners' expectations. A maestro of verité, Frank exploits the power of radio..."

Rolling Stone

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Blues Singer

Series: Somewhere Out There

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank, and vocalist Judith Owen

Air Date: 01/12/1997

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Series: Somewhere Out There

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank, and vocalist Judith Owen

Air Date: 01/12/1997

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Blues Singer

Series: Somewhere Out There

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank, and vocalist Judith Owen

Air Date: 01/12/1997

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Product Description

Series: Somewhere Out There

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank, and vocalist Judith Owen

Air Date: 01/12/1997

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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