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The band was on what seemed at the time a pretty routine little midwest jaunt. Our travels that Spring included visiting Gene Clark’s grave after our Columbia, Missouri show in the rain, a set at Chicago’s Hideout Inn and a hang with some old friends in Indianapolis.
By the time we got to Tulsa, home of Jesse and Dylan Aycock and (at that time) Lauren Barth, we were ready to ease into a homecoming show. We loaded into the Colony, Tulsa’s best-kept-secret. A hole in the wall, where the spirits of Cale, Leon, The Gap Band, and Roger Tillison all haunt the rafters. It’s where in-the-know outsiders like Clapton and Harrison once lurked, trying to learn from the local pickers by osmosis, which I confess was also my angle that night.
It was St. Patricks Day and I sat at the bar taking in the opener. Tulsa legend Don White’s picking fingers fell effortlessly behind the beat as his old buddy drummer tiptoed through a perfectly pocketed country shuffle. A feel they both could play backwards in their sleep while on quaaludes, they've done it so many nights.
By the time we hit the stage, the party was on, the hour was late and the room felt as warm and fuzzy as our amps did. On that tour we had a running joke where I’d introduce the band differently each night and on that night, I remember anointing us "The Dirty Minglers.” As we started our second song, I glanced up and saw a thin wizard looking geezer sitting in the back corner of the bar. Next to his shot and beer sat an old TEAC tape recorder with wood trim panels.
I knew it wasn’t Leon (RIP), but it could have easily been a buddy of his from the old days at his Church studio, across town. When we were all done, I hopped off stage to find him, but he had slipped out of the Colony and vanished into the chilly night.
It was all a part of the fever dream of that night in 2018, a feeling I had sought to find, found.
And then, a month ago, It found me back. I received a brown package with a cluster of commemorative Apollo moon landing postage stamps haphazardly glued to it. Inside was a bare cassette tape labeled simply “The Minglers.”
Today, I am lifted by this moment captured. Sure, the band was loose and the Wizard’s recording machine is a bit muddled, but there’s a certain spirit stored in the magnetic particles of this tape that feels real good to me right now. I hope you can feel it too.
credits
released June 19, 2020
Scott Hirsch: guitar, vocals
Lauren Barth: bass, vocals
Jesse Aycock: guitar and lap steel
Dylan Aycock: drums
Wizard: tapes
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