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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

PEL Presents NEM#204: Tim and Sue Lee Learn Their Craft, from Windbreakers to Bark

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Tim began with The Windbreakers in Mississippi in 1982 and has released around 30 albums including solo albums starting in the late '80s plus albums with his wife Susan Bauer Lee (first on bass, then on drums) as The Tim Lee 3 and now Bark.

We discuss Bark's "Love Minus Action" from Loud (2023), "Magnolia Plates" by Tim Lee 3 from 33 ⅓ (2015), "Like Sand" from Tim's Crawdad (1998), and the title track from The Windbreakers' Run (1987, with lyrics by Sherry Cothren). We conclude by listening to "Dead Guy Story" from Concrete Dog (2006). Intro: "All That Stuff" by The Windbreakers from Terminal (1985). Learn more at bark-loud.com.

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0:00.0

This episode is sponsored by Factor Meals, America's Number One Ready to Eat meal kit.

0:04.0

You're listening to, It the Examit to Music a podcast about songs and songwriters.

0:17.0

My name is Mark Lintenmeyer.

0:18.6

My guests for episode 204 are Tim and Sue Lee.

0:23.2

They are married and they currently perform together as Bark.

0:27.5

Tim is perhaps best known as co-frontman for The Windbreakers out of Mississippi. You are right now hearing perhaps his biggest hit

0:34.8

all that stuff from Terminal 1985.

0:38.8

Tim recorded with the Minbreakers on and off throughout the 80s,

0:41.7

also participating in other collaborations like a beat

0:44.4

Temptation on the album with rain parades Matt Puyushi, one with Howard

0:48.4

Wolfing who is the fellow that booked this interview and recording a couple of

0:52.4

solo albums at the end of the decade

0:54.0

before going into semi-retirement returning in the late 90s early aoths with a new

0:59.0

batch of solo albums which morphed into the Tim Lee 3 when Susan Bauer Lee, his wife, decided to learn bass and started songwriting as well.

1:08.0

Sue then switched from bass to drums for

1:14.0

Tim. Today we'll discuss Love Minus Action from

1:18.0

Bark's new album Loud.

1:19.0

Magnolia Plates, a Sioux song from the Tim Lee Three from their album 33 and a third 2015

1:26.0

Like Sand from Tin's solo album Crawd released in 1998 the title track from

1:31.8

the windbreaker's Run in 1987 with lyrics by Sherry

1:35.9

Cothran the bass player for the windbreakers at the time. We conclude by

1:39.1

listening to Dead Guy's story which Tim and Sue wrote for Tim's album, Concrete Dog from 2006.

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