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The Kitchen Sisters Present

2 – Tennessee Williams: The Pennyland Recordings

The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia

Society & Culture

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2014

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In 1947 Tennessee Williams and his lover Pancho stepped into a recording booth at a penny arcade in New Orleans and recorded 8 cardboard discs. Lost in a trunk under a friends bed for some 50 years, The Kitchen Sisters unearth these forgotten Pennyland Recordings and tell the story of Tennessee’s fugitive waves.

Fugitive Waves is produced by The Kitchen Sisters in collaboration with Tom Corwin and mixed by Jim McKee

Transcript

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Radio Tophia, welcome to the Kitchen Sisters Presently.

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We're the Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nicki Silva.

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thousand donors after the holidays we'll share a digital zine with everyone who

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Visit radiotopia.fm slash donate and add your name to the list of listeners who support independent podcasts.

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Thanks so much. Radiotopia.

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FM slash donate. I think the strange the craze the queer will have their holiday this year.

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I think for just a little while there will be pity for the wild.

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I think in places known as gay and clubs and cabarets and bars,

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Chiro will serenade chir roll with frantic drums and spare guitars.

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About 14 years ago, I was a failing musician driving through the darkness of Northern Ohio.

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