Daddy Was No Methodist | Sean of the South

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

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5.0 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A litter of puppies is born in a Methodist church, and Sean Dietrich delivers the tale of exactly how it happened. A story about messy miracles in sacred places—with clarinetist, Don Erdman and his Dixieland jazz band.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sean Dietrich, and you're listening to the Sean of the South podcast.
0:09.1	The idea behind this podcast is painfully simple.
0:12.4	We have one short song and one short story,
0:15.9	and you can turn this sucker off and pretend like it never happened.
0:21.7	With me today is Atlanta's best Dixieland jazz band,
0:25.1	Bill Rutan on the banjo, Al Johnson on tuba, stand Joseph on drums,
0:29.2	and Don Erdman on the clarinet.
0:33.6	We're in Atlanta today, and with me is Don Erdman,
0:40.5	Atlanta's own jazz clarinetist, and the founder of Hotlanta Dixieland Jazz. Don, how'd you start playing music? I was a young boy,
0:48.0	maybe 10 years old or so, and I discovered a saxophone in the attic that belonged to my uncle.
0:54.8	And it was such a beautiful-looking thing.
0:56.8	I was desperate to learn to play it.
0:59.8	But my parents said, no, I had to spend a year or two learning piano
1:04.4	before I could move on to the saxophone.
1:07.5	So I did that and did not enjoy my year or two with piano, but I finally got to the saxophone. So I did that and did not enjoy
1:10.9	my year or two with piano
1:12.7	but I finally got to the saxophone
1:14.9	and that was the beginning
1:16.9	of my musical career.
1:20.3	Don's going to play a tune for us. This is a
1:22.4	old standby, a favorite among
1:24.7	Baptist, Methodists, and even
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