Episode #83 - Mike Carbonneau (Strummystick)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 ā¢ 599 Ratings
šļø 19 April 2018
ā±ļø 61 minutes
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Summary
Mike Carbonneau loves to play music on the trail. He is a sectionĀ hiker who fell in love with hiking in his 50s. SinceĀ then, he has been taking on large sections as he makes his way towards a completion of the Appalachian Trail. He has combined this love of hiking with a love of music,Ā organizing several trips to the trail with a group of like-minded young musicians. Mike usually uses a strumstickĀ to entertain folks and three of his recordings are scattered throughout today's show.
If you'd like to see Mike play, you can find him on YouTube with his A.T. version of "Wagon Wheels" at Trail Days in Damascus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-XRI7aSnscĀ
Also on YouTube, you can follow Mike's adventure on the Long Trail with a slide show accompanied by Mike on his strumstick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae-r6YCtH8E&t=85s
For those of you interested in carrying an instrument on the trail, check out this Facebook post by Mike.
Jarrod Ross shared his experiences on the Lost Coast Trail, an exotic wilderness north of San Francisco.
Make sure you check out our other shows at HikingRadioNetwork.com and, while you're online, see what Trailtopia can do to kick your food choices on the trail up a notch or two.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we taught the walk with shows by hikers about hikers for everybody. You may be wondering what that is all about. |
| 0:42.8 | When I first heard it, so did I. |
| 0:44.7 | Don't worry, all will soon be revealed. |
| 0:47.3 | Welcome to a slightly musical edition of Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, sponsored by our friends at Trautopia. |
| 0:55.1 | Episode number 83's guest is Mike Carbono or Strummy Stick. |
| 0:59.9 | That was Mike. |
| 1:01.0 | I bet something you thought it was me, didn't you? |
| 1:02.8 | Go on, hold up, you thought it was me. |
| 1:05.1 | But no, it was Mike. |
| 1:06.5 | And I invited him onto the show when he sent me some clips of him playing that |
| 1:09.6 | twangy sounding instrument, which, it turns out, is called a strumstick. |
| 1:14.4 | For our interview, he sent me three specially recorded songs. |
| 1:18.3 | You've just heard the first, the second will play at some point in our interview in the background. |
| 1:23.6 | And I'll be finishing the show today with his version, indeed an AT version, written by him of the old Chrome Medicine show's Wagon Wheel, originally written by Bob Dylan. |
| 1:34.4 | I must admit, that's my favourite one. |
| 1:37.5 | My wife's Dulcet Tones will return to introduce the show next week. |
| 1:42.5 | After Mike, we're going to hear from from Jared Ross about the exotically named |
| 1:46.7 | Lost Coast Trail, a hike that sounds just as good as its name. Jared is also starting a podcast |
| 1:54.0 | and it will tell us about that as well after he enthralls us with the Lost Coast Trail. |
| 2:00.2 | Before we get on to these goodies, let's have a bit of lunch. |
| 2:03.8 | What do you say? |
| 2:04.8 | How about those days, when you struggle through the morning, probably got 10 miles under your belt, |
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