Audio: The Trains Are Gone
Stepping into the way-back-machine, this is a recently unearthed excerpt from a recording project I did my junior or senior year of undergrad, circa 1998…or was that ’99 and 2000?
Sometimes the moxie, silliness, and serendipity I have amaze myself. I didn’t think I had it in me. This wasn’t part of the intended musical art project of train recordings. This was one of those moments when an unknown colorful character I encountered on the tracks started relaying, unprompted, what he felt was a political decision that impacted the labor and economic status of Muncie, Indiana, clearly implicating a former mayor and the local university. Clearly, according to this man, “Muncie is fucked up.” I seem to recall that there might have been something prior to this part of the recorded conversation, regarding Amtrak and its discontinuation of service in the late 80′s-early 90′s. What possessed me to start recording, I don’t know. But man, is this a gem.
Dan Canon. Muncie. Ball State. Trains. Jobs. Sometimes a man just wants to be heard. Let him have a voice. Let him have the mic.
Tell me how you really feel, brother.
Bye.
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