What do you call a band whose debut album didn't show up to its own release party, whose record label went bankrupt and took their records with them, and whose guitarist eventually left to form a band called God Johnson — and who somehow kept playing through all of it with humor, grace, and one of the best dual-guitar grooves in Midwest jam history? You call them The Big Wu, Minnesota's most lovably disaster-prone and genuinely excellent jam band, and this episode is their long-overdue moment in the spotlight.

In this episode, Schecky traces how a group of St. Olaf College students named their band after a Tom Hanks volcano on the spot at their very first gig, built the Wu Family — 2,500 devoted fans gathering every Memorial Day weekend in a Minnesota field — and made Spring Reverb, their best album, as an act of spite against a bankrupt record label. We break down why Red Sky is the one song every new listener needs, relive the legendary Big Wu Family Reunion shows at Harmony Park where the music ran as long as the night allowed, and share bassist Andy Miller's all-time great quote about being the slowest band in the world even at McDonald's.

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