In this episode, we’ll hear a dramatic reading about two boys growing up in the Atomic Age, and how they changed their small town forever
Writer: Jay Kettering. Dramatic reading by Teresa Waldorf of Jay Kettering’s short story The Nuclear Baby Boom: A Children’s Story for Adults.
In this episode, we’ll hear songs from the duo Toy Box, comprised of Beth Melody and LaBarre Bankshot, and learn of Beth’s collaboration with lyricist Gwen McKenna.
Songs: Big Guy In the Sky, Cold April, Leave Me Alone (On the Sofa), Somebody Ought to Slap Your Face, Edge of the River, and Too Bad.
Episode sponsor: The Bell Pipe & Tobacco Shop at 215 West Broadway in downtown Missoula. When you need the Otis—tobacconist—problem solver.
In this episode, writer Ednor Therriault takes us on a mental road trip through Montana with his stories and songs and even shares some marital advice from Mr. Bubble.
Non-fiction excerpts from Big Sky, Big Parks: An Exploration of Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, and All That Montana in Between: A Forgotten Hero in Glacier and Playlists for the Road, and original songs from his various albums: A Cut Above, Mr. Bubble, and Go Butte!
In this episode, we’ll hear from singer/songwriter/musician Sean Howard Burress, who says he’s wholly unfit to pursue a conventional lifestyle, but musters a peculiar existence relying largely on music, art, luck, and the love of his community.
Sean Howard Burress interview about leading multiple bands, touring, and the process of writing songs, which include Sweet Nectar, 2027, Flickering Candles, and Another Tangent.
In this episode, the writer talks about the politics of fishing in Montana, reads about his life and friends, and sings just to make us laugh.
Greg Keeler with Greg Owens
Greg Keeler: Memoir excerpts: Trash Fish: A Life; Waltzing With the Captain; poetry: variety of poems/sonnets; and songs The Ballad of Billy Montana, Indian In-Law, Little Bitch Creek, MCH, A Song To Go, and Neon Dream.
Greg Owens: songs: The Greek Drama Song and Umbrella Song
This episode contains some adult language and themes, which may be unsuitable for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.
In this episode, live performances from the March 26, 2023 Words Out West Songwriters Showcase featuring four singer/songwriters who lent their time and talent for our Season 3 fundraiser.
Featuring: Rebecca Kelley, Read Barbee, Maria Zepeda and Gabrielle Tusberg with Bethany Joyce
This episode contains some adult language and themes, which may be unsuitable for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.
This episode was sponsored by Gallery 709 (at Montana Art & Framing), The Bell Pipe & Tobacco Shop, Rockin’ Rudy’s
All kinds of writers are featured in this episode. From Montana’s current Poet Laureate to a couple of songwriters and a Bozeman playwright.
Some of the writers featured on this radio show include, poet Chris La Tray, songwriters Caroline Keys with Nate Biehl, poet Sarah Aronson and short story author David Allan Cates.
The artists performing in this show include:
1. Chris La Tray: Comet (poem)
and Untitled: (poem)
and Untitled (haiku)
2. Caroline Keys with Nate Biehl: Fort Benton (song)
3. Mark Gibbons: Open Country (poem)
& Negative Canon (poem)
4. Sarah Aronson: Flight Patterns (poem)
and Flatland (poem)
5. David Allan Cates: Clean Break (short story)
6. Bobby Lee Springfield: June Carter and Bocephus (spoken word)
7. Margi Cates with Nick Barr: By the Light (song)
8. Greg Owens: Dead Man’s Underpants, directed by Reid Reimers and voiced by Az Sacry and Hamilton Clement (audio play)
9. Mara Panich: Memento Mori—or You Broke a Bowl, Not My Dead Mother (poem)
10. Jade Taylor: Asphyxiation (poem)
11. Cass Sissel: handle with care (poem)
12. Spencer Kellum with Cole Grant: Staying in Sunday (song)
Words Out West is a podcast that features both established and emerging writers of the contemporary West.
In this episode, we celebrate the fruits of a teacher’s labor. You’ll hear from Professor Robert Stubblefield, along with three of his University of Montana students.
A selection of poems and non-fiction, with Robert Stubblefield, Jade Taylor, Donna Arganbright, and Cass Sissel.
This episode contains some adult language and themes, which may be unsuitable for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.
In this episode, writer, geologist and professor Rob Thomas explains how the amazing history of rocks is related to the mining town of Butte finding its place in the sun.
Selections from Roadside Geology of Montana.
This episode is sponsored by Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula’s independent publisher for over seventy years. Mountain Press publishes nontechnical books for adults and children on geology, natural history, western US history, and more. For more information go to mountain-press.com or call toll-free at 800-234-5308.
In this episode, novelist Claude Alick introduces us to a place of mystery in the island country of Grenada—a village that appears on no map—a place that resides only in wilting memories.
In this episode, we pair writers who were born to be storytellers—poet Mara Panich and singer/songwriter Margi Cates, accompanied by guitarist Nick Barr.
This episode contains some adult language and themes, which may be unsuitable for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.
In this episode, a struggling writer has a breakthrough when she accidentally steals her neighbor’s laundry. A short play written by Bozeman playwright Greg Owens, directed by Missoula’s own Reid Reimers and read by Missoula actors Hamilton Clement and Az Sacry.
In this episode, writers Chris La Tray, Fred Haefele, and Chris Autio take us on three distinct and heady road trips.
Chris La Tray: Comet (poem)
Three . . . Two . . . One . . . Blast off!
Fred Haefele: excerpt from A Life in 12 Pickups (vehicular memoir)
When a pickup truck transcends mechanical essence, rises to become comrade, ally and intimate.
Chris Autio: Truck Topper (poem)
We go on an archeological dig.
Chris Autio: Bad Auto Points in Augusta (poem)
We find a stranger in a strange land.
In this episode, singer/songwriter Spencer Kellum performs some ‘modern spirituals’ as Separate Circles, with piano accompaniment by Cole Grant.
In this episode, Joan Melcher finds her perfect saloon, and chats with the bartender who has the same name as his bar—Moose.
A selection from her non-fiction books Watering Hole: A User’s Guide to Montana Bars and Montana Watering Holes: The Big Sky’s Best Bars.
This episode contains some adult language, themes, and references to alcohol consumption, which may be unsuitable for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised
In this episode, we get up close and personal with Bobby Lee Springfield, a singer/songwriter who gives us the skinny on the ups and downs of show biz.
This episode contains some adult language and themes, with references to alcohol, tobacco and drugs, which may be unsuitable for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.
This episode is sponsored by The Bell Pipe & Tobacco Shop, located at 215 West Broadway, across from the courthouse in downtown Missoula. Home to the Otis—tobacconist—problem solver.
In this episode, Butte native, Leah Joki, reflects on the twenty years she spent in almost every state prison in California—teaching and performing theatre.
This episode contains some adult language and themes, and depictions of sexual misconduct in a prison setting, which may be unsuitable for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.
This episode contains some adult themes, violence and references to combat and war wounds, which may be unsuitable for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.
The narrator in Sean Gallagher’s short story laments the damage done to his older brother after becoming a soldier — the brother who taught him, “That no one wins a fight.”
Morning Is My Favorite Time, short story from the podcast MT3K
In Jay Kettering’s audio play Cacophony, we find that Phil and Stacey were never great communicators, so when they recount how they met, fell in love, and ultimately broke up, let’s just say, it gets a bit noisy.
This episode contains some adult language and themes, and sexual references, which may be unsuitable for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.
Cacophony is performed by Missoula actors Nathan Adkins and Jasmine Sherman with musical accompaniment by Missoula musicians Paul Marshall Allen on violin and Craig Menteer on drums.
This episode contains content which may be unsuitable for some listeners, including descriptions of parents giving up their baby with Down Syndrome to an institution in the early 1950s, . Listener discretion is advised.
In this excerpt from Caroline Patterson’s novel The Stone Sister, the year is 1953 and a young couple is struggling with their decision to institutionalize their baby Lizzie, who has Down Syndrome.
