grand union

Timm Buechler is one talented guy. He primarily plays bass, something he taught himself out of necessity. However, he also writes, sings, is a graphic artist, and he has a thing for 8-track tapes. He has toured with the likes of Paul Collins and Peter Case, played on sessions for Dwight Twilley, and even met Susanna Hoffs (The Bangles) once. After playing bass in different parts of the world, on national tours, and with several local bands, the cool thing you find about Timm is he's still very much in touch with his roots. Today he shares with us his stories.  And his 8-tracks.

"Umbrella" performed by Rebel Waltz
Written by Timm Buechler
℗ 1990 Archie's Tasmanian Music. Used with permission of Timm Buechler.

"Tomorrow" performed by Dwight Twilley
Written by Dwight Twilley
℗ 2015 Big Oak Records. Used with permission of Timm Buechler.

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Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag. At least, that's what we were taught in school. But when historians go searching…there’s no proof to be found. In this collaboration with the podcast Sidedoor, we unravel this vexillological tall tale to find out how this myth got started, and who Betsy Ross really was.

Plus we talk about the real flag that inspired the song, The Star Spangled Banner.

Flag Days: Unfolding a Moment

Join me tonight on a journey on the dark waters of Shrewley Tunnel. In this episode we travel not just through the tunnel but also through history and try to capture the life of those who worked the canals by physically 'legging' boats through.   

Journal entry:

“12th September, Friday

Having Brunch at the Gongoozler’s Rest Café.
The smell of wet earth and fallen apples
A frisson of rain among rowan leaves
Scarlet berries decorating the ground.

A sleepy wasp crawls over my hand.
 I can feel its tiny life vibrating within it.

Later we watch a duck asleep in the rain.
 Days together like this – make the difference.”   

Episode Information

Audio recorded at Shrewley Tunnel on 27th August 2021. 
 Photographs taken during this trip can be viewed on the Nighttime on Still Waters’ Facebook page, Instagram and Twitter accounts. 

In this episode I read extracts from the following books:

J.M. Pearson (2017) Pearson’s Canal Companions: South Midlands. 10th edn. Published by Wayzgoose. 

L.T.C. Rolt (1944) Narrow Boat first published by Eire and Spottiswoode

Sue Wilkes (2011) Tracing Your Canal Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians. Published by Casemate.

John Hollingshead (1860) Odd Journeys In and out of London. Published by Goombridge and Sons.

I also refer to Allan Scott-Davies (2010) Shadows on the Water: The haunted canals and waterways of Britain. Published by The History Press.

General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano interludes composed and per

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Dance writer Wendy Perron, a former associate director of Jacob's Pillow, explores Grand Union, a maverick 1970s improvisation group based in downtown New York. Perron tells their story through the voices of four key members: Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Trisha Brown, and David Gordon.

Special thanks to New England Public Media, for their support of this episode of PillowVoices.