Notes by Northwest

Telemachus, archetype of the boy left behind, is portrayed in this novel by Bobby Bacca, whose father, M.M.Bacca, the famous poet, has died. Bobby, an artist who has gone in search of his father’s past, revisits the Bacca legend through stories told by those who knew him best, while his own memories intersect with the effects of trauma pervading the adult lives of his contemporaries.

It was written by former Port Townsend resident Michael Daley, and the town in which the story takes places feels a lot like this Peninsula town. 

Pete SeegerRoll on Columbia. 
The KingsmenMoney
Jelly roll mortonSeattle Hunch
The wailersSeattle  
Kenny LogginsCelebrate me home
TimberboundMile and a half
Merilee RushAngel of the morning
The stoogesLouie Louie  
Sunny day real estateSeven
Crushwater Starry Skikes
Dave lewisLittle green thing
Built to spillBroken Chairs
Enumclaw2002
Stevie Ray VaughnLittle Wing
Robert crayDon't be afraid of the dark
Neko CaseFurnace Room Lullaby 
Norfolk and westernI'm waiting in writing
Moby grapeOmaha
Band of horsesThe funeral
Willie nelson and ricki lee jonesComes love
Foo fightersI'll stick around
Ray CharlesLonely Boy 
Black Tonesghetto space
Screaming TreesI really lost your love 
NirvanaTourette
Pearl JamGlorified G

A general mix of PNW music from Woody Guthrie, Ricki Lee Jones and Everclear.

Woody Guthrie                                                Roll Columbia Roll 
Kingsmen                                                             Shout
The miracle workers                                      Psycho
Diana Schurr & Jose Feliciano                 By Design
Buck Owens                                                       Streets of Bakersfield
Blind Pilot                                                            Story I heard
Haley Blais                                                           Rob the Original 
Blind Pilot                                                             The Story I Heard
Decemberists                                                      Down by the Water 
Jewel                                                                         Hands
Diana Krall                                                             If I had You
Brandi Clarke                                                       Something new
Ricki Lee Jones                                                    Danny's All Star Joint 
Will and Haylie                                                    Colours
Ray Charles and Willie Nelson                  It was a very good year
The Dip                                                                   Advertising
Everclear                                                               This Land it your land 
Haley Hannah Heynderickx                        First I'm Sorry
Crosby Stills Nash       

This episode completes passages from the Ken Kesey book, Sometimes a Great Notion, which chronicles the story of a tough logging family, the Stampers, in a small Oregon logging town.  The patriarch of the family, Henry Stamper, has a motto, Never Give an Inch, and lives it in his actions with his family and the citizens of the small town. The passages we’ll hear today is about the backdrop of a small Oregon town in the dread of November, and we hear a bit about one of the characters who hides a secret.

The author died in 2001 in Oregon, where he lived most of his life, and is remembered for his many novels chronicling the lives of troubled characters, from One Flew over the Cuckoo’s nest to Garage Sale and Sailor’s Song, all of which are available online.  

We are continuing to feature passages from Ken Kesey’s 1964 novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, which has been described as his “opus”.  It’s a story about an Oregon logging family led by a strong-willed father who fights with his family, his friends, and many in their small logging town. In this passage, we’ll hear some of his backstory, which actually takes place later in the book, about settling in rural Oregon. 

Today we will continue to explore the passages from the Ken Kesey novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, published in 1964.   In the passage we will hear today, the underlying tensions of the Stamper family, loggers in a small Oregon town, become more tense, with half brothers Hank and Lee try to keep the family logging operations moving with the back drop of a union strike by other loggers in town. 

For the next four weeks, we will feature passages from Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion, a story about an Oregon logging family set in the 1960s.  If the name Ken Kesey sounds familiar, he is also the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.   The passage we’ll hear today is the first few pages of the book, to the little logging town of Wakonda, where a union strike and an independent family of loggers begin to clash.

Today’s segment is a poem entitled A Narrow Road to the Interior speaks not only to the interior of the PNW forest, but the journey to the interior of the soul as manifest by the very act of of hiking.

David Guterson’s Turn Around Time was published in 2019 by Mountaineers Books.  You can learn more about the author, the book and his other words at his website, davidguterson.com.  

The author of Snow Falling on Cedars chronicles his journeys in the wilds of the Pacific NW in these series of sketches about the people and the land.

We continue with Guterson's sketches about hiking in the PNW which for the author is as much a spiritual journey as it is a physical one.