30-Minute Music Hour

♪ It's the 30-Minute Music Hour. I'm Andy Moore. From Madison,

Wisconsin

Wrenclaw! (cheers and applause) (performing "Lonesome Town") ♪ I'm going down to lonesome town ♪ Maybe I'll just hang around ♪ I don't mind old lonesome town ♪ Cuz I don't mind being alone ♪ I'm going down to lonesome town ♪ Maybe I'll just hang around ♪ I don't mind old lonesome town ♪ Cuz I don't mind being alone ♪ Walking down that empty street ♪ No need to talk to the people you meet ♪ Nobody's home nobody to call the hand writing's on the wall ♪ Well our little town used to ♪ Buzz like a Homlite chainsaw ♪ Well I used to be a cop but nobody broke the law ♪ Well we used to have a school ♪ And we used to have a mill downtown ♪ Well not anymore ♪ Well nobody's hanging around ♪ Well everybody left everybody's leaving ♪ Everybody's moving away ♪ Where they gonna go what they gotta do ♪ They got no reason to stay Yeah! ♪ I'm going down to lonesome town ♪ Maybe I'll just hang around ♪ I don't mind old lonesome town ♪ Cuz I don't mind being alone ♪ ♪ ♪ Well everybody left everybody's leaving ♪ Everybody's moving away ♪ Where they gonna go what they gotta do ♪ They got no reason to stay ♪ I got books to read I got a garden to weed ♪ Gonna take a walk in the woods ♪ Down to the creek with my bamboo stick ♪ Gotta catch a mess of trout if I could ♪ Well I go and see Rudy and his wife Louise ♪ They got goats that always give me cheese ♪ Brews his own beer makes his own wine ♪ Plays a fiddle while he shoots the breeze ♪ Well I'm going down to lonesome town ♪ Maybe I'll just hang around ♪ I don't mind old lonesome town ♪ Cuz I don't mind being alone ♪ ♪ ♪ Everybody left everybody's leaving ♪ Everybody's moving away ♪ Where they gonna go what they gotta do ♪ They got no reason to stay ♪ They got books to read I got a garden to weed ♪ Gonna take a walk in the woods ♪ Down to the Creek with my bamboo stick ♪ Gotta catch a mess of trout if I could ♪ Well I go and see Rudy and his wife Louise ♪ They got goats that always give me cheese

goat bleating

Wisconsin

♪ Brews his own beer makes his own wine ♪ Plays a fiddle while he shoots the breeze ♪ Well I'm going down to lonesome town ♪ Maybe I'll just hang around ♪ I don't mind old lonesome town ♪ Cuz I don't mind being alone ♪ I'm going down to lonesome town ♪ Maybe I'll just hang around ♪ I don't mind old lonesome town ♪ Cuz I don't mind being alone ♪ Well I'm going down to lonesome town ♪ Maybe I'll just hang around ♪ I don't mind old lonesome town ♪ Cuz I don't mind being alone ♪ Well I don't mind old lonesome town ♪ Cuz I don't mind being alone ♪ Well I don't mind old lonesome town ♪ Cuz I don't mind being alone (cheers and applause) Hey, all right, written by my dear ol' daddy, Willie Walkner, from Two Rivers, Wisconski. ♪ ♪ (performing "Claudine") ♪ Waiting tables waiting on a break ♪ Waiting like a coiled up cobra snake ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ Looking in the mirror looking at her watch ♪ Looking at a rich man's empty scotch ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ Singing in the shower singing in the rain ♪ Singing's only way she can ease that pain ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ Working all week trying to pay the bills ♪ Looking like the road's always going uphill ♪ Waiting in the backstage all alone ♪ Well she's waiting for her chance ♪ At the microphone ♪ Closing up the restaurant closing down the till ♪ She's closing up a purse full of hundred dollar bills ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ And I love my Claudine ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ Well she's packing up the marquee ♪ Burning up the van ♪ Went and burnt up her apron ♪ In a garbage can ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ And I love my Claudine ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ Well they're fighting that fire ♪ Fighting all night night ♪ Claudine's fighting off the glare ♪ From the front stage lights ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ And I love my Claudine ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Working all week trying to pay the bills ♪ Looking like the road's always going uphill ♪ Waiting in the backstage all alone ♪ Well she's finally got a chance ♪ at the microphone ♪ Singing in the shower ♪ Singing in the rain ♪ Singing in a palace in the south of Spain ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ And I love my Claudine ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ Call me Mr. Claudine ♪ That's my Claudine ♪ Well I love my Claudine ♪ Gotta give me some of that ♪ Clau... ♪...dine (vocalizing) ♪ ♪ (cheers and applause) Thank you, Claudine!

Thanks. (performing "One More Morning") ♪ ♪ ♪ Cinder block sat a reject ♪ Stuck at the bar ♪ Spendin' all my time ♪ Wondering where you are ♪ And I snuggled with the pine trees ♪ Wrestled with God ♪ Locked horns over a deal that ♪ Led me right back to the bar ♪ And there's only one more morning ♪ In the weekend ♪ One more chance ♪ To make you stay ♪ And I know that you're in love ♪ With another wanderin' man ♪ You should know my love stays with you ♪ ♪ ♪ And if you should go down ♪ Bless this kiss ♪ Bless your indecision ♪ Such that I must have missed ♪ Your simple plans for nothin' ♪ Your simple plans for gold ♪ You can't be plannin' to have two warm beds ♪ By the time you get old ♪ And there's only one more morning ♪ In the weekend ♪ One more chance ♪ To make you stay ♪ And I know that you're in love ♪ With another wanderin' man ♪ You should know ♪ My love stays with you ♪ You should know ♪ I'm better than him (instrumental break) ♪ ♪ ♪ And there's only one more morning ♪ In the weekend ♪ One more chance ♪ To make you stay ♪ And I know that you're in love ♪ With another wanderin' man ♪ You should know ♪ My love stays with you ♪ You should know ♪ My love stays with you ♪ You should know ♪ I'm better than him ♪ ♪ (cheers and applause) Thank you. Dan's just going to switch guitars quickly for slide action. Thanks for being here, everybody!

And, crowd, you look good. (cheers and applause) Disregard that crying baby. We're doing great, home audience. (performing "Rockwood") ♪ ♪ One, two.

One, two, three, four. (twanging of slide guitar) ♪ ♪ ♪ Grainy photographs on ♪ The stained walls of her mind ♪ Fragments of dreams ♪ Remnants of lost time ♪ Bruises, whispers ♪ And side-long glances ♪ No afterthoughts ♪ No second chances ♪ Down in Rockwood ♪ Down in Rockwood ♪ Staring like a shotgun ♪ Voice like a razor blade ♪ Fog is drifting ♪ And the sun burns through them shades ♪ Bitter pills ♪ And cold well water ♪ Sins of the son ♪ Reflection on the daughter ♪ Down in Rockwood ♪ Down in Rockwood ♪ You know you can set your watch ♪ To the evening train ♪ Down in Rockwood ♪ Can't hear the cries ♪ No one complains ♪ Down in Rockwood ♪ Where's all the children? ♪ Where're their smiling faces? ♪ Hiding from the demons ♪ In them hiding places ♪ Down in Rockwood ♪ ♪ (cheers and applause) - Thank you.

It's about my mom's hometown. Jacob wrote this next tune. Hi. ♪ ♪ Ready?

(drumming) (performing "Whiskey Woman") ♪ ♪ ♪ She's got my mother's kind of sense of humor ♪ I can smell it on her breath tonight ♪ I don't care if she went out ♪ I'm a sucker for the party life ♪ I can see that flask in her back pocket ♪ I can smell it on her clothes tonight ♪ I don't care if she's been drinking ♪ I'm a sucker for the drinking life ♪ Oh, whiskey woman ♪ You fill my glass up with Jim Beam ♪ Oh, whiskey woman ♪ You'll make a drunkard out of me ♪ ♪ ♪ She's got my father's kind of sense of humor ♪ I can smell it on her breath tonight ♪ I don't care if she's been drinking ♪ I'm a sucker for the drinking life ♪ Oh, whiskey woman ♪ You fill my glass up with Jim Beam ♪ Oh, whiskey woman ♪ You'll make a drunkard out of me ♪ Oh, whiskey woman ♪ You fill my glass up with Jim Beam ♪ Oh, whiskey woman ♪ You'll make a drunkard out of me ♪ You'll make a drunkard ♪ Out of me (cheers and applause) Thank you. It's about a girl who loves whiskey. (performing "Friends & Enemies") ♪ ♪ ♪ There's a building across the street ♪ From every bar ♪ In every Wisconsin town ♪

About 7

30 Sunday morning ♪ The people start to gather around ♪ Well they all start to mill around ♪ The women wearing pretty dresses ♪ The men, they're wearing fancy suits ♪ Me, I'm sitting across the street ♪ Wearing blue jeans and cowboy boots ♪ My heels digging in the floor like roots ♪ Like roots ♪ I'm my own worst enemy ♪ I'm my own best friend ♪ Three of us been hanging out ♪ All alone together again ♪ I've made some silly choices ♪ But in the end ♪ I sit here drinking with my worst enemy ♪ And he's acting like he's my best friend ♪ I know sometimes you say something stupid ♪ You know you're not supposed to say ♪ Catch myself doing that very thing ♪ About six or seven times a day ♪ Saying something ♪ That I shouldn't say ♪ To you ♪ Hell, I'm not all bad ♪ You know, I got redeeming qualities ♪ I can't think of any right off hand ♪ But if you give me a moment please ♪ I'll list those qualities ♪ Hey, I just said please ♪ I'm my own worst enemy ♪ I'm my own best friend ♪ Three of us been hanging out ♪ All alone together again ♪ I know I've made some silly choices ♪ But in the end ♪ I sit there drinking with my worst enemy ♪ And he's acting like he's my best friend ♪ There's a greasy mirror ♪ Across the bar ♪ After years of inspection, well, ♪ My buddies must be vampires or something ♪ Because I've never seen their reflection ♪ Somehow it escaped my detection ♪ Some Sunday when you're done with church ♪ Come join us across the street ♪ I got a couple of real good buddies ♪ I'd really like you to meet ♪ We'll all get to talking ♪ And have us a couple of beers ♪ You'll start laughing at the dirty jokes ♪ Like we've all been friends for years ♪ Then we'll have us a couple more beers ♪ And a pickled egg ♪ I'm my own worst enemy ♪ I'm my own best friend ♪ Three of us are hanging out ♪ All alone together again ♪ I know I've made some silly choices ♪ But in the end ♪ I sit here drinking with my worst enemy ♪ And he's acting like he's my best friend ♪ I'm my own worst enemy ♪ Yeah, I'm my own best friend ♪ Three of us been hanging out ♪ All alone together again ♪ I know I'm a sinning man ♪ Well, for that I'll atone ♪ But the three of us sharing a bar stool ♪ Is better than drinking alone ♪ The three of us sharing a barstool ♪ Is better than drinking alone (cheers and applause) Thank you very much!

We're Wrenclaw

Josh, Danny Plourde, got Jacob, Kelby, Vince... I'm Dan Walkner. Thank you. (cheers and applause)