Seersucker, Political Storytelling, and the Beatles

26/08/2016 13 min

Seersucker, Political Storytelling, and the Beatles

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...in which Rex and Paul talk about their epic adventure in the Mississippi Delta, discussing awards for seersucker outfits, hearing great stories from Mississippi politicians, how political storytelling as an art form seems to be on the decline, Little Rock's superiority over Jackson, Mississippi, the Grammy Museum in Cleveland, wondering why the museum neglected to cover Paul's rendition of "When a Man Loves a Woman," the time Rex's sister saw the Beatles in Memphis, the time Rex rode in a GTO, how Imboden girls lip-synched Beatles songs, how Paul missed their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show because of Sunday night church, Memphis in May, the Mid-South Arena, and the wonders of the Alluvian Hotel.