WEBVTT 00:00:41.122 --> 00:00:47.999 - The idea behind this series is a pretty simple one. It's to give Bloomington's best performers a chance 00:00:47.999 --> 00:00:54.809 - to do their stuff in a real comfortable environment. I can't think of two performers to do that better 00:00:54.809 --> 00:01:01.950 - with than Jan Henshaw and Bob Lucas. I think that's Bob's car right now. Welcome to Back Porch Bloomington. 00:01:17.794 --> 00:01:27.865 - of living the way I've been. Gotta get back to my roots again. Clapboard house in a good used car. Take 00:01:27.865 --> 00:01:37.840 - me back where the plain folks are. Smith and Jones and Johnson and Brown, a couple long names that you 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:39.486 - can't pronounce. 00:01:39.586 --> 00:01:45.241 - Welcome it back to the neighborhood Where the casserole dish and the neighbor cook Folks next door, 00:01:45.241 --> 00:01:51.009 - the kids grown up Inviting me down to the Polish court Drink a little beer, maybe play a little cards 00:01:51.009 --> 00:01:53.214 - Take me back where the plain folks are 00:02:02.434 --> 00:02:08.684 - 12 on Friday night, Saturday morning head outside. Take the shutter, say mow the lawn, as they wash 00:02:08.684 --> 00:02:15.059 - the car with the radio on. Head inside round 6-0, sold for a home-cooked dinner, then a TV show. Back 00:02:15.059 --> 00:02:19.934 - on the road port, stare at the stars, take me back where the plane folks are. 00:02:33.570 --> 00:02:42.080 - Let's think of what I've learned. Open them up and the calendar turns. Folks grow older, they move away. 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:50.346 - Think about facts from day to day. So when I'm tired of the life I've led, since I'm living inside my 00:02:50.346 --> 00:02:58.774 - head, you find me talking about a brand new start. Take me back where the plain folks are. Take me back 00:02:58.774 --> 00:03:01.854 - where the plain folks are. Thank you. 00:03:02.530 --> 00:03:09.365 - The name of this tune is The Have Mores Live Next Door. It's about the capitalist struggle. And if this 00:03:09.365 --> 00:03:14.622 - gets on videotape and Channel 3, they'll be in trouble all over again, I guess. 00:03:30.370 --> 00:03:39.894 - My position on the outskirts of town In a total spill level with the grass growing round At my nose 00:03:39.894 --> 00:03:49.038 - or the grindstone, my feet on the ground Because the handfuls live next door One job, two cars, 00:03:49.038 --> 00:03:51.038 - three kids, one wife 00:03:51.234 --> 00:04:00.553 - These are the numbers I've chosen in life. Some people take chances while others make stride because 00:04:00.553 --> 00:04:10.150 - half moles live next door. Oh, don't knock it till you try it. Don't hock it till you buy it. This game 00:04:10.150 --> 00:04:19.838 - is played by rules. And the first one you learn with the money you earn. This game ain't played by fool. 00:04:20.386 --> 00:04:29.443 - So I look over my shoulder, and what do I see? It's a healthy consumer, and it's gaining on me. I could 00:04:29.443 --> 00:04:37.630 - spend my whole lifetime on the price to be free, because I have more slip next door. Take it! 00:04:54.146 --> 00:05:04.157 - Don't knock it till you try it Don't knock it till you buy it This game is played by rules And the first 00:05:04.157 --> 00:05:13.406 - one you learn With the money you earn This game ain't played by fools So I look over my shoulder 00:05:13.730 --> 00:05:22.438 - And what do I see? It's a healthy consumer and it's gaining on me. I could spend my whole lifetime on 00:05:22.438 --> 00:05:27.390 - the price to be free because I have more sleep next door. 00:05:44.994 --> 00:05:53.935 - Don't knock it till you try it. Don't hock it till you buy it. This game is played by rules. And the 00:05:53.935 --> 00:05:57.918 - first one you learn with the money you earn. 00:05:58.082 --> 00:06:08.237 - This game ain't played by fools. So I will take my position on the outskirts of town. In a total spill 00:06:08.237 --> 00:06:18.392 - level with the grass growing round. Have my nose on the grindstone, my feet on the ground. Because the 00:06:18.392 --> 00:06:27.166 - half moles live next door. The half moles live next door. The half moles live next door. 00:06:38.178 --> 00:07:05.534 - Thank you. Thank you. This song is entitled, Wind Up as Mr. Jones. 00:07:11.074 --> 00:07:23.241 - Nothing special, just one house and a load of houses in another town. You step inside and what you'll 00:07:23.241 --> 00:07:34.334 - see is pretty much what you expected it to be. Go looking for answers, wind up as Mr. Jones. 00:07:42.338 --> 00:07:51.906 - You want a guru, but you've never found him. You want a life that keeps you constantly astounded. You 00:07:51.906 --> 00:08:01.379 - have a vision, bathing white light. Why, it's just your neighbor digging worms up with a flashlight. 00:08:01.379 --> 00:08:05.694 - No looking for answers. Wind up as Mr. Jones. 00:08:41.634 --> 00:08:49.698 - It's an old story. Got a degree from a good school. Got a job in New York City. Formed a two-carer home 00:08:49.698 --> 00:08:56.987 - with someone conventionally pretty. Every year, climbed another rung up the corporate ladder. 00:08:56.987 --> 00:09:04.819 - Reached the top. Look around and said, hey, what the hell's the matter here? No looking for answers. 00:09:04.819 --> 00:09:05.982 - Wind up as Mr. 00:09:14.946 --> 00:09:44.830 - Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, our guests for this evening, Ms. Jan Henshaw, Mr. Bob Lucas, 00:09:57.474 --> 00:10:15.198 - to hear on our back porch, isn't it? Well, I'm Bob. I'm the Bob part. Hi. The Jan part's coming up soon. 00:10:27.650 --> 00:10:38.944 - I was kind of wondering about, gee, that was a really big sound. And this is going to be a lot smaller 00:10:38.944 --> 00:10:50.237 - sound. But I want you guys to know that I want you guys to kibitz and have fun. Don't let these lights 00:10:50.237 --> 00:10:56.926 - fool you. This is still just a honky tonk. Got my good side. 00:11:05.698 --> 00:11:10.558 - Sorry to have to tune, but this is an old band. 00:11:55.522 --> 00:12:02.686 - The huckleberry pickin' boys got drunk and Susie got a-lickin' Some got drunk, some got boozy I went 00:12:02.686 --> 00:12:08.574 - home with black-eyed Susie Hey, hey, don't go home Hey, hey, black-eyed Susie, hey 00:12:25.826 --> 00:12:36.042 - working nine vacations. Hey, hey, ho ho. Hey, hey, black-eyed Susie, hey. All I need to make me happy 00:12:36.042 --> 00:12:46.257 - is two little boys to call me Pappy. One named Sam, one named Davey, one love biscuit, the other love 00:12:46.257 --> 00:12:51.966 - gravy. Hey, hey, ho ho. Hey, hey, black-eyed Susie, hey. 00:13:43.234 --> 00:13:53.572 - Listen to the peepers. They sing so sweetly and seem to say, oh, wake, you drowsy sleepers. Come with 00:13:53.572 --> 00:14:03.911 - us, fill the air. The singing is everywhere. There's nobody listening. Come with us, fill the air. We 00:14:03.911 --> 00:14:11.006 - lied to the thoughts you were and sat the night listening, listening. 00:15:18.466 --> 00:15:29.987 - as cool and smooth as Christmas candy. We sing our song and have no fear. The tune is very handy. It 00:15:29.987 --> 00:15:42.078 - comes from the ageless sea. We know all the harmonies and sing this night nighty. We sing in the nursery. 00:16:21.186 --> 00:16:29.004 - Learning to play the fiddle is a great thing to do alone. It's the kind of thing that if you have a 00:16:29.004 --> 00:16:37.448 - good friend and you want to keep them, ask them to leave when you start to play the fiddle. I was fortunate 00:16:37.448 --> 00:16:45.501 - enough to be living out in the woods when I was learning to play the fiddle. And I would just take off 00:16:45.501 --> 00:16:49.566 - and find a tree that looked like it could stand it. 00:16:50.306 --> 00:17:01.536 - A big tree. So here's a tune that I made up so I could learn how to play the fiddle. And like most tunes 00:17:01.536 --> 00:17:12.553 - that I make up, eventually I start to sing along with them, because instruments are just sort of tools 00:17:12.553 --> 00:17:16.510 - for me to sing with. So that's that. 00:19:28.642 --> 00:19:54.334 - country song I wrote. Like an angry cloud the dust is flying can't see the road 00:19:58.306 --> 00:20:13.905 - got in your eyes and now you're crying thought we were in love but we were just kicking up dust kicking 00:20:13.905 --> 00:20:26.654 - up dust thought we were in love but we were just kicking up dust she's lost some way 00:20:36.002 --> 00:20:50.115 - Yes, I knew my heart would burst Thought we were in love But we were just Kicking up dust Kicking up 00:20:50.115 --> 00:21:04.926 - dust Thought we were in love But we were just Kicking up dust Kicking up dust I just can't go on this way 00:21:05.570 --> 00:21:21.035 - Kicking up dust, I just can't go on. If God is love, Lord, tell me what is lust. Kicking up dust, with 00:21:21.035 --> 00:21:32.446 - kicking up dust. Thought we were in love, but we were just kicking up dust. 00:21:37.410 --> 00:21:50.894 - Somewhere along that road I traveled the woods trying to pull that load I guess I knew my heart would 00:21:50.894 --> 00:22:04.510 - burst Thought we were in love but we were dust Kicking up dust Kicking up dust Thought we were in love 00:22:07.202 --> 00:22:20.478 - I just can't go on this way. I just can't go on this way. 00:22:36.194 --> 00:22:48.681 - Kicking up dust Thought we were in love But we were just Kicking up dust Oh, we're kicking up dust now 00:22:48.681 --> 00:22:58.622 - Kicking up dust now Oh, we're kicking up dust now Kicking up dust Kicking up dust 00:23:11.138 --> 00:23:28.369 - This song is about a love affair that began down at the Woolworth store. It's called Love at the Five 00:23:28.369 --> 00:23:36.478 - and Dine. See, it can happen anywhere, anytime. 00:23:56.994 --> 00:24:08.675 - 16 years, hazel eyes and chestnut hair, she made the Woolworth counter shine. And daddy was a sweet 00:24:08.675 --> 00:24:20.590 - romancer and a darn good dancer. They'd waltz the aisles of the five and nine. And they'd sing, dance 00:24:20.590 --> 00:24:26.430 - a little closer to me, dance a little closer now. 00:24:27.202 --> 00:24:44.966 - Dance a little closer tonight Dance a little closer to me Cause it's closing time And love's on sale 00:24:44.966 --> 00:24:56.222 - tonight At this five and dime Now Eddie played the steel guitar 00:24:57.538 --> 00:25:09.734 - Mama cried because he played in bars and kept young Rita out late at night. So they married in Abilene, 00:25:09.734 --> 00:25:22.047 - lost a child in Tennessee, but still that love survived. They'd sing, dance a little closer to me, dance 00:25:22.047 --> 00:25:24.510 - a little closer now. 00:25:25.346 --> 00:25:37.241 - Dance a little closer tonight. Dance a little closer to me. Cause it's closing time and love's on sale 00:25:37.241 --> 00:25:48.789 - tonight at the spa and dine. And then a guy in Eddie's band took a shine to Rita's hands. So he ran 00:25:48.789 --> 00:25:52.254 - off with the bass man's wife. 00:25:56.130 --> 00:26:08.858 - came back that June singing a different tune and sporting Miss Rita by his side and he sang dance a 00:26:08.858 --> 00:26:21.713 - little closer to me dance a little closer now dance a little closer tonight dance a little closer to 00:26:21.713 --> 00:26:25.150 - me cause it's closing time 00:26:57.474 --> 00:27:08.772 - with a traveling band till arthritis took his hands now he sells insurance on the side Rita's got a 00:27:08.772 --> 00:27:20.521 - house to keep dime store novels and a love so sweet at night they dance with the radio on and they sing 00:27:20.521 --> 00:27:26.622 - dance a little closer to me dance a little closer now 00:27:27.874 --> 00:27:41.576 - Dance a little closer tonight. Dance a little closer to me. Cause it's closing time and love's on sale 00:27:41.576 --> 00:27:53.150 - tonight at this five and nine. Dance a little closer to me. Dance a little closer now. 00:27:58.850 --> 00:28:09.701 - a little closer to me cause it's closing time and love's on sale tonight at this five and dime yes love's 00:28:09.701 --> 00:28:12.670 - on sale tonight at this five 00:28:54.178 --> 00:29:08.875 - I cannot stay, here labor is in vain. I'll leave the mountains of my birth to seek the fertile plain. 00:29:08.875 --> 00:29:14.782 - I'm going to the West, you say you will. 00:29:23.970 --> 00:29:36.798 - Say you will not go with me no matter what I say. I'm going to the west. Let's try that again. 00:30:38.594 --> 00:30:43.998 - Going to the West. Do you say you say? 00:31:38.242 --> 00:31:51.230 - Blossoms are blooming and music fills the air. I'm going to the West. They say you will 00:33:06.466 --> 00:33:14.360 - I just got back from Virginia. And you know, you see the signs for different towns along the way, and 00:33:14.360 --> 00:33:22.796 - they're usually pretty amusing. And there was one sign, and it's spelled, two words, it's spelled B-U-E-N-A, 00:33:22.796 --> 00:33:30.922 - V-I-S-T-A, Buena Vista. And that's what they say, Buena Vista. So this song is very Buena. And it starts 00:33:30.922 --> 00:33:36.030 - right out with a chorus. A lovely Agnes, so won't you go with me? 00:33:36.642 --> 00:33:46.011 - in style. And we'll cross Lake Michigan so blue and so wild. We'll cross over Lake Michigan till we 00:33:46.011 --> 00:33:55.568 - come to the shore. And our orchards will blossom for our babies as they're born. Okay, let's try that 00:33:55.568 --> 00:34:02.782 - now. Now you've had a chance to learn it. Lovely Agnes, so won't you go with 00:34:08.130 --> 00:34:18.329 - So blue and so wild. We'll cross over Lake Michigan till we come to the shore. And our orchards will 00:34:18.329 --> 00:34:21.662 - blossom for our babies is there. 00:34:48.290 --> 00:34:58.100 - warm in your arms. Lovely Agnes, won't you go with me? We'll be married in style and we'll cross Lake 00:34:58.100 --> 00:35:03.966 - Michigan so blue and so wild. We'll cross over Lake Michigan 00:35:37.442 --> 00:35:47.418 - strong willed and kind. Oh lovely Agnes, won't you go with me? We'll be married in style and we'll cross 00:35:47.418 --> 00:35:56.920 - Lake Michigan so blue and so wild. We'll cross over Lake Michigan till we come to the shore and our 00:35:56.920 --> 00:35:59.390 - orchards will blossom for 00:36:09.154 --> 00:36:18.190 - have gone and passed like the fruit on the tree. And her children have children with babes on their 00:36:18.190 --> 00:36:27.498 - knees. And they gather in the summertime by the Crystal Lake shore to greet lovely Agnes, now 12 years 00:36:27.498 --> 00:36:36.896 - and four store. Oh, lovely Agnes, won't you go with me? We'll be married in style. And we'll cross Lake 00:36:36.896 --> 00:36:38.974 - Michigan, so blue-eyed 00:36:39.234 --> 00:36:49.488 - We'll cross over Lake Michigan till we come to the shore. And our orchards will blossom for our babies 00:36:49.488 --> 00:36:59.443 - as they're born. Oh, lovely Agnes, won't you go with me? We'll be married in style. And we'll cross 00:36:59.443 --> 00:37:08.702 - Lake Michigan so blue and so wild. We'll cross over Lake Michigan till we come to the shore. 00:37:11.202 --> 00:37:14.174 - Awesome for our babies. 00:39:13.026 --> 00:39:20.702 - still the one for me and my heart is gonna be with 00:40:38.530 --> 00:40:50.676 - And then it goes out to my good friend, Evan, because he always likes traditional ballads. It's words 00:40:50.676 --> 00:41:02.584 - written by Richard Frenia, which were put to a traditional Irish melody. As gentle tides go rolling 00:41:02.584 --> 00:41:05.918 - by, along the salty stride, 00:41:13.666 --> 00:41:20.382 - together. And often do. 00:42:44.290 --> 00:42:51.550 - drive the stallion down. The roses bleed both 00:43:24.258 --> 00:43:36.605 - Thank you. Thanks, Tom. This is a song I wrote about a Civil War time love letter that I saw written 00:43:36.605 --> 00:43:50.174 - by a soldier named John to his sweetheart, Eleanor, who was waiting for him back here in the hills of Indiana. 00:43:52.002 --> 00:44:01.988 - based on a real letter that a friend of mine's grandmother found in the attic. Very beautifully written. 00:44:01.988 --> 00:44:11.784 - Anybody know Bob Herring? His grandma found this in the attic. And I still have a copy of it somewhere 00:44:11.784 --> 00:44:19.678 - at home. It's beautiful to look at and very beautiful manuscript. Civil War. Yeah. 00:44:20.514 --> 00:44:26.282 - And he had written little poems in it and drawn pictures and just talking about his life as a soldier 00:44:26.282 --> 00:44:32.050 - and how everybody was real sick and tired and all they wanted was to be back home. And as I read this 00:44:32.050 --> 00:44:37.761 - letter, I started thinking, too, about the soldiers when they're out there. They've been gone such a 00:44:37.761 --> 00:44:43.642 - long time that they might be wondering if their sweethearts are going to be there waiting for them when 00:44:43.642 --> 00:44:48.222 - they get back. So the letter inspired me to write this song called Dear Eleanor. 00:45:12.802 --> 00:45:25.966 - Dear Eleanor, I take pen in hand to write a few lines from this battle scarred land. In this ragged 00:45:25.966 --> 00:45:40.446 - old tent, I lie here alone without you, my dearest of friends. My dear, I have a fever. My health, it is bad. 00:45:42.210 --> 00:45:54.118 - Sickness has gripped all the men here in camp. Still, I think it would cure me to see thy sweet face. 00:45:54.118 --> 00:46:05.910 - But thou art a lifetime away. Will you still love me when I'm back from the war? Will you throw your 00:46:05.910 --> 00:46:08.478 - arms round me like so 00:46:37.634 --> 00:46:49.772 - the hills that I left. And in my daydreams I see thy sweet self. And I think of those pleasures that 00:46:49.772 --> 00:47:02.030 - once we have known, the happiest times of my life. Will you still love me when I'm back from the war? 00:47:02.030 --> 00:47:07.198 - Will you throw your arms around me like so 00:47:46.370 --> 00:47:58.933 - dreams I see the earth. Though many long hours have passed since we met, though my hope turns to joy 00:47:58.933 --> 00:48:10.750 - and grief turns to tears, I'll dream though my heartstrings may break. Will you still love me? 00:48:53.474 --> 00:49:04.541 - Thank you for the big band. Thank you very much. Last time we were with Jan was down the street and 00:49:04.541 --> 00:49:16.050 - she did a number of tunes with the band. We wanted to save one so we could play it for you. And I ought 00:49:16.050 --> 00:49:21.694 - to mention too before I forget, 28th of June here, 00:49:21.986 --> 00:49:27.652 - Uh, we're going to have Kathy and Kathy, Kathy's viagra, Kathy Norton, and Art Heckman. Uh, so it's 00:49:27.652 --> 00:49:33.374 - going to be a good show. Come back and join us. Tuesday night. This is a song written by Holly Dunn. 00:57:03.618 --> 00:57:12.546 - Bob Lucas. Comb your hair, paint and powder. You act proud and I'll act proud. You sing loud and I'll 00:57:12.546 --> 00:57:21.473 - sing louder. Tonight we're setting the woods on fire. You're my girl and I'm your fella. Dress up and 00:57:21.473 --> 00:57:29.438 - hand your crop a yellow. I'll look swell but you'll look swell. Setting the woods on fire. 00:57:35.586 --> 00:57:44.022 - They're gonna show the folks a brand-new dance that never has been done. I don't care who thinks we're 00:57:44.022 --> 00:57:51.966 - silly. You bet they'll think I'll be deli. We'll order up two bowls of chili. Send the words on. 00:58:37.058 --> 00:58:45.490 - We'll sit in the woods on fire. We'll sit close to one another. Up one street and down another. Now 00:58:45.490 --> 00:58:50.718 - we'll have a time, old brother, sitting in the woods on fire. 00:59:20.098 --> 00:59:30.927 - Show the folks a brand new dance that never, never, never, never has been done. Clap your hands, I'll 00:59:30.927 --> 00:59:41.543 - start a bowing. We'll do all the laws allowing. Tomorrow I'll be right back plowing. Sittin' on the 00:59:41.543 --> 00:59:45.790 - woods. Sittin' the woods on fire. Mama! 00:59:53.986 --> 01:00:22.814 - Thank you. One, two, one, two, three. Let me be stoned. Let me be stoned. 01:00:25.314 --> 01:00:42.231 - Let me stand as sturdy as a rock. No matter what hard knocks life has in store for me. God, I might 01:00:42.231 --> 01:00:52.382 - face those times alone. Let me be stoned. Let me be stoned. 01:00:54.850 --> 01:01:09.116 - Well, let me be stoned When I'm walking through this world with eyes and ears And all I see and hear 01:01:09.116 --> 01:01:22.110 - is what I can buy right now Oh, if it's something I don't already own Then let me be stoned 01:01:25.794 --> 01:01:37.111 - The stranger's voice is giving. The friendly voice says thanks. I'm underpaid at my weekly wage. I'm 01:01:37.111 --> 01:01:48.652 - holding a drone at my bank. Now the man by the name of Uncle Sam is trying to hit me for a loan. Lord, 01:01:48.652 --> 01:01:53.470 - when it's time to squeeze that final drop, 01:01:54.850 --> 01:01:58.366 - Let me be stoned 01:02:38.754 --> 01:02:56.880 - Let me be stoned. Let me be stoned. So I don't participate in what they say is the greatest chance that 01:02:56.880 --> 01:03:06.814 - man has ever known. Go on. Let that raging river keep on 01:03:47.746 --> 01:03:58.415 - Here we go. The stranger's voice is gimme. The family voice is thanks. I'm underpaid at my real wage. 01:03:58.415 --> 01:04:06.782 - I am overgrown at my bank. Now the man by the name of Uncle Sam, he's trying to