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AUDIO CLIPS / RADIO INTERVIEWS
As I've been traveling around
in support of Thunder From
a Clear Sky I have been fortunate enough to
participate in a number of radio spots. Some of these have
been taped, and, with the help of my friend, Don Johnson,
these tapes have been digitally mastered. They are
presented here to give a little flavor of what I have been
talking about with others on the subject of the book.
The first interview posted is from October
24, 2005, at WSON Radio, 860 AM. It was a great pleasure
for me. I'll talk to anyone about the raid. The whole thing
was like I was in a living room chatting with a few friends
about Adam Johnson and the raiders. click the WSON button
to hear the 22 minute interview. My thanks to Bill Stevens
and the SPEAK UP program.
The second interview posted is from my
October 8, 2005, interview with KBEY Texas News director
Art Dlugach. Art interviewed me during my tour of Burnet
and Marble Falls in October 2005. He had a tape recorder
and a hand-held microphone. We talked for maybe 15 minutes
or so and Art afterwards edited the interview up into two
small pieces for broadcast in Texas. What I've posted is
the raw interview that Art later worked down to the
finished set pieces for the radio. The interview was
conducted outdoors at Fort Croghan. I will publish Art's
finished pieces in the future. My thanks to Art Dlugach,
News Director of KBEY 92.5 FM, Texas.
My third piece in this section is a song
that documents the exploits of Jake Bennet's raid on
Owensboro and specifically mentions Colonel [Adam] Johnson
by name. Bennet was one of Johnson's first recruits in the
summer of 1862 and was likely one of the Newburgh raiders.
This song was brought to my attention by Nancy Hitt of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy. I had the pleasure to
meet Nancy at the Sacramento Battle re-enactment in
Sacramento, Kentucky, in 2005. The name of the tune is
called Rebel Partisan from an album called
Wanted: Border Ruffians. The author and performer
of this song is Terry Warren. I have included an interview
with Mr. Warren next to the song.
Piece No. 4 is composed of two short
one-minute clips from a local National Public Radio station
program called Sonic I. D.s. Sonic I. D.s are short
interviews about various interesting subjects which are
broadcast between larger feature pieces to offer a local
change-of-pace. Daniel Moore of WNIN 88.3 FM is the
producer of Sonic I. D.s and he did two piece on me and
Thunder From a Clear
Sky. Check it out by pressing the WNIN button.
Piece No. 5 is my final speech on Thunder
From a Clear Sky delivered December 6, 2008 at the
Louisville Civil War Roundtable, Big Spring Country Club,
Louisville, Kentucky. This is a great piece, recorded
digitally by John Davis of the LCWRT and presented here
with his permission. It is a massive 76 minutes in length
and is the best recorded speech of mine on Thunder. As
everyone knows, I poke fun at several of the unlikely
events and people that crossed paths with me on my journey
with Thunder. I have some fun exaggerating my first visit
to Henderson and some other things, but I never met anyone
in this experience who wasn't more helpful than they ever
had a reason to be. Thank you.
