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Musical Yearbook – Missouri Misery
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As a young teen, Bill DeWitt felt stifled by the Leave it to Beaver culture of the 1950’s. It’s safe to say his family life did not match the lives of those portrayed on television. His dad checked out and left, and Bill was punished – harshly – by his mother and stepfather. Sometimes it was for his uncanny resemblance to his biological father and other times because Bill took up physical space. So it’s no surprise that as a teen Bill constantly grappled with what it meant to be a man. After secretly wiring up a radio speaker in the attic, one hot Missouri evening, the music of Muddy Waters changed his life.
I’m always taken aback when people say that – a song changed their life – yet it happens often, and it makes sense when you think about it. Music does not observe any rules. You know, it has a superhero quality to it – it can travel through time and space and show up anywhere it’s needed.
Musical Yearbook is a BAMM.tv production. For all things indie music content, check out BAMM.tv
Credits:
Executive Producers: Chris Hansen, Nick Hansen
Producers: Phil Lang, Sophie DeWitt
Sound and Recording Engineer: Sonia Pina
Opening and closing segments recorded and mixed by Jerad Paul Fox
Written and narrated by Bill DeWitt
Music by Papa Bear and the Easy Love – www.theeasylove.com (show open) & The Ferocious Few – www.ferociousfew.com (blues riff in the story)
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