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May 10, 1989
FLAGPOLE MAGAZINE
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listen, not the example of the place where they raise holy
hell and drool.
Anyhow, point made. Now back to beer. It is truly
amazing, this Bowling Green thing is: you see, Kentucky
has laws that allow only beer to be sold in "wet" places,
so anyplace is either totally"wet" or it is totally "dry"—
well, Bowling Green is the only "wet" place in the area,
so folks from the likes of Glasgow and horse Cave and
Scottsville and Franklin and Munfordville and a lot of
waaaay tinier places like Ollie and Halfway and Provo
and Drake and Brooklyn (NOT New York, but KY and the
zip is 42209) and Etoile and Rowletts and Jetson (yes,
there WAS a George Jetson; he is buried in a cemetery
near there, butnotnextto Judy or Astro) and Quality (also
known as Forgytown) and Hadley (the post office there
is in a Subletfs Market) must make their periodic jour
neys to Bowling Green to purchase beer and/or booze,
or else they must defy the laws of the Comonwealth of
Kentucky and buy from a bootlegger, which is why so
much of Kentucky is dry, but not Bowling Green.
There are quite a few nice nightclubs in Bowling
Green, which is also the home of Western Kentucky
University, enrollment about 15,000 and this has given
rise to a small scale music "scene" such as what we have
in Athens. A very hip record store, albeit in a mall, has
helped advance the publ ic awareness that there is some
thing but cover bands out there and that original music
is worthy of support. Well, this very fine band comes
from Bowling Green... their name is Goverment Cheese.
They have an EP and an LP on tiny Reptile Records, a
Nashville-based independent, and just today I
venmmtured to the basement that is Reptile's home.
Yup, they are tiny. Government Cheese is worthy of a
national label, but their new LP is worthy of far more
exposure than it has gotten. Okay, sop here is some: and
they have not paid me for it either. If they come to Athens,
you will hear about their forthcoming appearance here,
and again, without anyone having twisted the arm(s) I
have left.
In any event, Nashville has missed me People in the
thrift stores in my neighborhood remember me and have
been glad to see me , my next door neighbors (a band)
have kept an eye out on my house, and my favorite
restaurant has not changed their menu to herald my
return: I only wish they they would add fried green
tomatoes....maybe I was the only one who ordered them.
As Merz and Kerz speed their way toward Music City
USA and as she herself braces for Fan F air, I sign off this
station for another week, mindful that I ought to be back
next week to write this column in person instead of
absentia. Until then, keep 10601-land together and I
miss you all /all.
A P. S. is in order: if I have seemed uptight lately, I have
been. This sojourn to Tennessee has made ine feel a
whole lot better. See you soonly.
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