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Madison singer/songwriter Jeff Burkhart is Live in the Lair on Max Ink Radio
Max Ink Radio · Sat May 10, 2025
You found Wisconsin's local music authority. This is MagSync Radio. We are local music.
Jeff Berkhardt is a singer and songwriter and performer who has been featured on PBS Wisconsin
and is performed at the Marquette Waterfront Festival, high-name saloon,
Willie Street Fair, the Burr Oak, Harmony Bar and other great venues on Madison's East Side
growing up in a small town, Indiana, Jeff Cutt classes to find adventures on the backroads,
bounced around in North Carolina for a couple years, then landed in Madison, Wisconsin,
where he found many great musical collaborators, collaborators, playing locally and regionally
at coffee shops, bar rooms, taverns and outdoor festivals. With a bunch of shows around Madison
this summer, Jeff Berkhardt is live in the Lair on MagSync Radio, presented by the Aaron
Weber Group. Jeff, welcome to MagSync Radio. Thanks, rocker. Thanks for having me.
Now you came in tonight with a guitar strapped on your back. Are you a cowboy?
I am not, but I do have a steel horse. Nice. Sounds like a little Bon Jovi reference there.
Tell us about growing up in a small town in Indiana. Sure. I grew up in Peru, Indiana,
or Peru, Indiana, as they call it. Peru. Peru. And it's a circus capital of the world. My
family doctor was the head clown in the circus. Oh, wow. Yeah. So it was an interesting place to
grow up. You know, small town, Wabash River runs right through there. How many people you think in
Peru? Probably about 10 to 15,000 or so. Oh, okay. Something like that. There's a few. Yeah. So
this small town, it was a good place to grow up. Now how did you get started in music?
I got it. My first guitar when I was probably 16 or so and just took a couple lessons and
didn't really take very well. But then when I went to college in Indiana, I started playing a
little bit more. I got an acoustic guitar and just, you know, got turned onto, you know, stuff like
Neil Young and Bob Dylan. And I just started learning, you know, by listening to stuff.
What was your parents role? Would you say in your musical upbringing? Well, my dad was, I think
he was always pretty musical, but didn't really play that much. But my, his mom was a piano player.
Oh, really? So my grandmother had a piano and an organ in her living room. And I was always just
go over and just pluck around a little bit with it and just was always fascinated. I never learned
how to play piano very well. I never took lessons, but I was fascinated by music always as a kid.
Does she have one of those pump organs? Is this a really old one? Or what kind of organ?
I think it was a Whirlitzer. Yeah. Now what instruments do you play? Just guitar or do you play
other instruments? Yeah, I double around with a little bit of bass and other instruments, but
mostly just guitar. Yeah. So tell us about cutting classes to find adventures on the back roads.
Well, I was not challenged as a high school student. It was not that interesting. So I had some
friends who were kind of near-do-wells and we'd go out and just hang out and find whatever adventures
we could and drive around in the country roads. It was kind of boring where I grew up. So we just,
we had we found ways to have fun. Nice. Well, let's get to live music in the
layer with Jeff Berkhardt, presented by the Aaron Weber group. The first song you have for us tonight,
it's called Breathe It In. Is this song about smoking weed? No, it's not. Tell us about this song.
So this song I wrote a couple years ago, I was actually on an airplane and coming down
in Phoenix and you just kind of the sun was setting and it was really beautiful and I just kind of
had imagined this. Oh, I'm sorry, this is this is a different song. Breathe it in. Breathe it in.
Breathe it in is a song I wrote about, you know, just feeling like nature is a really important thing
in my life. Yeah. And wanting to, you know, get out and be in nature and that just is a healing
thing for me. So that's what I wrote this song about. Breathe it in. You're listening to Live
on the Layer. This is Jeff Berkhardt on Maxine Credio.
All the life floods me on the skies every star.
The street where I live, pastream I all the time.
It's never quiet, what does that go in all night?
I think with my try to run away together. Spend some time out in the mountains.
Clear some ground where we can sleep all night.
Get back to the woods.
When the oldest sound is who God's calling. When my heart is Augustine.
Where I get the chance to breathe it in.
And the dawn's early light, we can start out on a hike.
Spend some time just to figure out what's right. I feel the warm breeze.
In the shift in the light of day, where we can find a way to slow down life and escape this Russian style of living.
This is how we can run away together. Spend some time out in the mountains.
Looking out over the valley so wide, I can't feel so good.
Watching the eagle's soaring over our heads, it'll do my heart so good.
Oh, I need to do this. Breathe it in. Get back to the woods.
Where the oldest sound is who God's calling. When my heart is Augustine.
Where I get the chance to breathe it in.
And the dawn's early light, we can find a way to slow down life and escape this Russian style of living.
And the dawn's early light, we can start out on a hike.
And the dawn's early light, we can find a way to slow down life and escape this Russian style of living.
All right, that is Jeff Bercard live in the layer. That was breathed in. That was really good.
Thank you very much. We're here with Jeff Bercard live in the layer presented by the
air and webber group Jeff bouncing around North Carolina for a few years. I mean, that sounds dangerous.
Well, wasn't so dangerous, no, but it was it was a fun time. It was nice to be down there.
But it was great to move to Madison. What were you doing in North Carolina?
I took a position as an AmeriCorps volunteer at the Durham Literacy Council.
And I was helping with technology and GED programs and took on a lot of different activities and
worked with a variety of kids and seniors, just teaching classes and just really kind of feeling
my way and finding things that I was interested in. Were you doing music down there?
I was, yeah. I actually met a guy through a tutor training who told me that he had played with
Bill Haley in the comments. And I was kind of like, I don't know, I don't know about this guy.
He was tutoring some folks at a homeless shelter where he was residing. And so I was like, well,
why don't we get together and play and turned out he was really, really good. Wow. And he just
introduced me to a whole lot of different styles of music. And I learned a lot from him. His name was
Jimmy. And so I hooked up with him, hooked up with a couple other folks and played a couple of
shows and just really fell in love with old-time music and blues and rock and roll and that kind of
thing. So it was a good, good musical place to be. Were you ever able to look it up? Did he
actually play with Bill Haley? I was never good at confirming. But he was good enough to do.
He was really good. Yeah. Then you landed in Madison. What brought you here to Madison?
So in 1998, I met my future wife. And she moved down to North Carolina within about a year or
so we had a long distance relationship for a while. And then she didn't like living. Where was she from?
She was from Indiana. Okay. She lived in Indianapolis and I lived in Durham at the time. And we met
in Bloomington, Indiana. And so when she moved down, she lived there for about a year. And she did not
like living in North Carolina because she has bad allergies and didn't like the fact that nothing
ever died in North Carolina. No, it was never any frost. So I see. So we she went to law school here
and so we moved up here. At UW Madison. Yeah. That's right. Okay. Yeah. So we moved to here in 2000
and have been here ever since. Wow. All right. Well, let's get back to some live music
in the layer with Jeff Berkhardt presented by the Aaron Weber group. The next song you have for
us tonight, it's called Half a World. Is this a flat earth conspiracy song? No, no, it's not.
This is the song I was good. I was introducing before I put it in here. So Half a World is,
yeah, it's a song that I wrote while descending in an airplane and just kind of started that idea.
And just imagined like being really far away from somebody that you miss. So that's what the
song is really about. All right. This is Half a World. You are listening to Jeff Berkhardt live
in the layer presented by the Aaron Weber group on Maxing Radio.
I was away the moonlight slices across the desert and waves of space we start our
touch down on the city's outskirts. I was a wind in the trees who were a songbird,
a brightly singing and a big open space leading down to the lake and stood on the banks
really used to wrap your arms around me. But now we settle into this new way fly.
Where are we going? Half a World away. Half a life time a minute. Let's see.
Half a World away. I've got nothing left to give.
When I come back to Midwest USA I've tried to come here and come back to where we started.
But now I'm half a World away.
We're taking an empty trail and follow the town to the river.
There was nobody there so we sat by the banks and left the water and flow all around us.
Time took away what we used to be now all that's left. Here's the dreaming.
I've been on the boat and arrived to see where I left all I love behind me.
You used to wrap your arms around me. But now we settle into this new way fly.
Where are we going? Half a World away. Half a life time a minute. Let's see.
Half a World away. I've got nothing left to give.
When I come back to Midwest USA I've tried to come here and come back to where we started.
But now I'm half a World away.
The space between my heart and mine it fades away I'm left behind your voice comes through in waves like in the waters.
All the towns look the same they are painted all beige and gray and the place I live for years is now torn down.
Half a World away. I've got nothing left to give.
When I come back to Midwest USA I've tried to come here and come back to where we started.
But now I'm half a World away.
I've got nothing left to give.
When I come back to Midwest USA I've got nothing left to give.
All right that is half a World. We're here with Jeff Berkhardt live in the
Lair on Maxine Gradio presented by the Aaron Weber Group. Jeff tell us about playing with the
Dirty Shirts. The album two dollar turpentine made the isthmus newspapers best album list of 2010.
Tell us about the Dirty Shirts.
Yeah we were a honky-tonk band that played for many years at the high noon. We had a regular honky-tonk
Tuesday happy hour that we played and that was just so much fun. It was mostly doing stuff like
George Jones and Merle Haggard and Hank Williams and stuff like that but I slowly integrated
some of my own songs kind of in the same mold and we recorded that album over at D&A Studios.
Yeah we worked with Brian Daley over there and he did a great job with it and it turned out
really fantastic so I was really proud of that record and the Dirty Shirts was a really fun
group to play with. We hung around for about 8-10 years and just kept playing shows and
and we are still buddies and actually played with a couple of those guys last weekend.
Which who are the players that they've been? So Pat Locterman was on bass. Ted Weigel was on guitar.
Okay. Yeah. Kurt Kellesvig played the steal lap steal and Colin Bazzale on drums and Brian
O'Donnell played Fiddle with us and then we did a couple of shows in 2019 about six shows actually
doing the two Grand Parsons albums GP and Grievous Angel back to back and we added a few more people
to that group and it was really fun. We had a great time and played at the Waterfront Festival
and and played it had a great big show at the high noon and that was it was just a really fun
project to work with. Well the Dirty Shirts are they going to be playing any shows anytime soon?
No, I don't think so. No. Where does the name Dirty Shirts come from? I guys got laundry
problems or what? So if you're familiar with Chris Christopherson. Yes. So he has a song
Sunday morning coming down and in that song there's a line that goes I woke up and found my
cleanest Dirty Shirt. So we used that actually. I was given that name by a friend who said hey
if you thought about this as a name for your band. So I was lucky. Good suggestion. Yeah.
Do you play any other projects? Yeah. Well so last weekend we played at the North Street Cabaret.
Bruce Orange was the name of the group and we did all songs of John Prime and that was a great
great turnout. Standing room only and we had a really fun time. It was with the Mad Folk Society
and I think we'll probably do that again at the Willy Street Fair in September. Oh nice.
And I also play with the Echo Rays, another band. Rock band that is mostly songs that I'm playing
today. Oh really? Wow. That's very cool. The Echo Rays. Who's all in that band? Danny Hicks who
also plays Bing Bong and Rob Garza. He's a guitar player. Rob Garza plays with a rare element
and he's a bass player and Tony Sellers who's the drummer and he's played with Dick the
Bruiser and a couple other projects. Wow. Yeah. You got some players going on here. Yeah. That's a
lot of fun. Your latest album Just a Kid. It was self-recorded in an old warehouse on Madison's East
side. Tell us about recording Just a Kid. It was such a weird experience. I have to say because
we weren't really hanging out with people very much at that time. Oh during the lockdown. Yeah,
it was during the Omicron and so I just went to this four thousand square foot warehouse and
just brought my guitar and my laptop and just recorded a little bit every day and eventually
wound up with an album. Is this with a band or is it just you solo? Just me. Yeah. Just you solo.
Yeah, I made different parts for the record because I was just bored. I was just decided,
well, I'll do the bass. I'll do the guitar and added some percussion as well. So it was a lot of fun.
Was this warehouse empty? Well, yes except for me. Really? Yeah. Sounds scary at night. It was a
little bit freaky but I got used to it. Like an old building or very old. It was like built in
1917 and it leaks and the whole thing, you know, going to the bathroom was kind of a freak show
experience. And he goes. I think there are some ghosts in there. I can't verify that but there's
some creeks and sounds in there. Let's see. So you recorded with your laptop you were saying. Yeah.
Let's see. And that's all written down the like lockdown. Well, let's get back to live music in
the layer with Jeff Berkhardt presented by the Aaron Weber group. The next song you have for us
tonight, it's called On My Mind. Okay. What's on your mind? Well, this song is on my mind.
Well, you know, it's hard to say. It's just it's kind of a little bit of a love song, I guess.
Oh, yeah. A love song. It's really love song. It's really love song. Yeah. All right. Let's hear it.
This is Jeff Berkhardt. You're listening to Maxing Gradio live in the layer presented by the
Aaron Weber group. This is On My Mind.
I watch you, but I know by sitting a warm rain on a gravel road. I wanted to express my understanding.
The head of the road. I waited to follow. Walked down the road feeling hollow. I waited for a long time
to find the path that seemed to be right and I tried to let it ride and get back to the other side
and another place and another time and you were on my mind.
You had the starlight and your eyes had met. I tried to hold on to my mind and sympathize.
I waited to follow. Walked down the road feeling hollow. I waited for a long time to find the path
that seemed to be right and I tried to let it ride and get back to the other side and another
place and another time and you were on my mind.
All right, Jeff Berkhardt. On my mind, you're listening to Live in the Lair on Maxing Gradio.
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All right, here we are back in the Lair on Maxing Gradio. We are local music. I am rocker here with Caleb
and we have Jeff Berkhardt in the studio playing live music and doing some interview.
Jeff, tell us about your approach to songwriting. I mean, do music or lyrics come first?
I would say it's about half and half, honestly. I'm right pretty regularly. Just
scrolling things out. So probably more lyrics than the music itself. But I really enjoyed just
like having that as a therapeutic outlet. What do you find inspiration usually to write about?
Well, what do you look at? Yeah, I think there's just so many different things. I mean,
I was hanging out with a friend one time and he said, you know, at this point in my life,
what do I have to write about? And I kind of think, I feel like it's exactly the opposite for me
because there's just so much stuff. There's so much material. There's so many memories
that I have of growing up and relationships. And so I just align that by just journaling.
And I find that to be really helpful in kind of piecing together my story and making sense of
the world, making sense of myself and my brain. So it's just, you know, I do this for therapy.
And I really enjoy it. Any plans to record new songs or new album?
Actually, we're doing that right now. Actually, that song that I just played on my mind,
we just recorded a couple of weeks ago in the warehouse. Yeah, exactly.
Are you doing that with a band or is this so long? Yeah, with echo rays. So we've got a nice,
kind of rough cut that we just put together. And hopefully we'll have it out. We'll send it over to you.
Are you going to do singles? Are you going to do an album? How are you going to a CD? What do you
do these days? Yeah, it's a hard question. I don't know. I think we're just going to put,
you know, we're going to try a couple of songs and just, you know, do it digitally and put it out
that way. But I would love to do a record. That would be really fun. Lionel? Yeah. Oh, yeah,
there's I love vinyl. Jimmy K loves vinyl. We'd love to get some vinyl here. Anything else
you're working out? So, you know, the other things that we're working on right now,
I mentioned the John Prime project, which was really fun. And I'm just working on
writing and getting things down and practicing, you know, the songs that I've written right now.
So, yeah. Well, now speaking of lyrics, you were once executive director of Madison,
nonprofit called the literacy network. How did literacy become a passion of yours?
Especially after you're cutting classes. Right. Well, you know, I did okay. I was fine.
But I was looking around after I graduated at Indiana and I found a literacy organization
and I wanted to volunteer. You know, my inspiration was really that I had a teacher who
really believed in me and took me under his wing and helped me to believe in myself. And I
thought, well, you know, maybe there's other people that are kind of in similar situations
and could use them help. So, I volunteered and had a great experience. And then I started,
you know, as an AmeriCorps member in North Carolina. And when I moved up here, I started working
in adult literacy as well at the Dean County Job Center when I first moved here. And then that
position opened up for me at the literacy network. And it was just such a great, great thing to do.
And I loved it. And I still love it. I still love the work and I still support it. And
still stay in touch with my former co-workers. But it was a good time to move on.
You were actually the executive director at one point.
I was the executive director for 14 plus years. Wow. So, what's the current state of literacy in
Madison and maybe the greater the country? Yeah, I mean, I think if you look at
literacy on all levels and at all ages, we look at child literacy and think about
kids who are reading at grade level. It's a pretty low number. It's a sad situation. And the
number one predictor of a child's literacy is the literacy level of their parents,
specifically their mother. And so, I thought, you know, this is a great way for us to give back
and support both the adult and child literacy by helping adults to become their child's first
teacher. So, that's really the motivator for me. And, you know, there are lots of people in this
city in the state who struggle with English as a language, as a second language. And so,
we help folks who are struggling both with reading and writing in the language side of it.
But the estimates are that there's about 55,000 adults in Dane County alone who struggle with
literacy. Wow. You know, and that's amazing because I remember when I was touring in Iceland,
they said, Iceland had a 99% literacy rate. And one in 10 people put out a book of poetry.
Wow. Amazing. So, that is like, you know, the next level over there. That's really interesting
that you say that it's really tied to the mother's literacy. Yeah. That's a really interesting
fact. Well, let's get back to live music in the layer with Jeff Burke, our presented by the
Aaron Weber group. The next song you have for us tonight, it's called We Got A Fight. Oh, yeah.
Is this about my right to party? It is not about your right to party.
No, I just wrote this one. So, I'm going to put my harmonica on. Oh,
yeah, go about Dylan style here. All right. There goes the headphones. Hold on just a second.
We got some, we got a harmonica being. Yep. I'm going to dive into that.
Monica. So, I just wrote this. I actually included some direct quotes from an insider in the Trump
administration into this. He helped me finish this song. I assume it was a man, but I don't know
for sure because it was an anonymous source. I was doing Adam's apple. All right. So, yeah,
this is a song I just wrote and we got a fight. All right. We got a fight. This is Jeff Burke.
Are you listening to Live in the Lair on Maxing Radio?
All the families that are ripped apart, even legal ones, are passed off as administrator there's
they cannot be remedied. We have crossed the line in a couple months where there is no wrong,
no more holding on. One man's going to do what he's going to do.
There is certainty in killing democracy, loss of camaraderie with all of the countries,
sloppy policy, and demagoguery is not what it used to be.
Illusion, relactions of fascism have their vengeance. There's only a remnant of honor and truth.
What else can we do? We got a fight for the right to fight tonight.
We got a fight for the right to fight tomorrow. We got a fight for the right to fight tonight.
We got a fight for the right to fight tomorrow.
Yeah, he's going to do what he promised to do on the campaign trail.
We got a fight for the right to fight tomorrow.
We got a fight for the right to fight tomorrow.
Illusion, relactions of fascism have their vengeance. There's only a remnant of honor and truth.
What else can we do? We got a fight for the right to fight tonight.
We got a fight for the right to fight tomorrow.
Yeah, we got a fight for the right to fight tonight.
We got a fight for the right to fight tomorrow.
Yeah, we got a fight for those rights.
What I like about that song is that these days it seems everybody's fake news and disinformation
and really literally sometimes rewriting history like in Oklahoma,
but you can't rewrite your song, Kenya.
That's right. There's a little bit of almost like historical documentary.
It could be in the song. It's a permanent record when she put that down.
Right. It's the nation's artist. They say it in England.
During World War II, should we stop funding art and they're like,
what are we doing it for?
In the art is so important to inform people.
Jeff Berkhard, we are live in the Lair and Maxine Gradio.
You are not planning to move from Madison anytime soon.
Are you doing any consulting with nonprofits easily?
Yeah, I'm doing a lot of things.
What are you doing? Helping a couple of different organizations
with fundraising. That's always a hard one.
Yeah, especially Mounties.
Yeah, absolutely. But one of the organizations I'm working with
is the Community Immigration Law Center.
Oh nice.
They are just, they're knocking it out of the park with house parties and small donations.
Really?
Yeah, just doing great stuff.
And so,
Pretty style.
Yeah, exactly.
Just talking with people directly and telling them what we're up against.
What is that? What do they do?
What do they do with integration?
They're facing deportation.
And they are, now this isn't a new organization.
No, they've been around since 2009.
Well, they just got their butt kicked in probably as far as busyness goes.
Well, yeah, I mean, it's, they've always been pretty busy.
Yeah, but definitely there's a whole lot more that's happening right now
with the recent happening.
So, yeah, we're working on helping to build up the capacity of the organization.
Now, did I read the year?
Also, at one time going to law school?
No, I didn't read a law school.
Okay, I must be confusing it with your wife.
Right.
Tell us about collaborating, collaborating with other local musicians.
Do you have any songwriter, songwriting partners around town?
You know, I haven't written a whole lot of songs with other people,
but I collaborate a lot with, with folks on, you know, seeing those songs to fruition.
So, the band that I talked about echo rays,
it's really fun to work with them.
And, you know, they introduce, you know, really interesting ideas
and make the songs come to life.
So, it's just a lot of fun playing with them.
I do some songwriting collaboratively with my friend Owen Temple
who used to live here, but lives now in Austin.
And so, we do Zoom meetings every once in a while
and we've come up with a few songs.
And it's really fun to do that too.
Now, how do you go about networking with people around Madison?
How do you meet these people?
It's so easy, you know.
If you're a Madison, it's just such a musical town.
And, you know, it's great to, I just told you
that you had one segment before I came on.
Yes, yes.
And you're like, you mentioned like five of my friends or something.
And just that one segment.
So, you know, I share a practice space with some folks
and so we get to know people that way.
Just, you know, sharing bills with folks.
And so, you just learn who's playing in town
and what they're doing.
So, it's really fun.
Well, let's get back to live music in the layer
with Jeff Burkehart.
You might want to grab your headphones back again.
This is presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The next song you have for us tonight is called Sunlight.
Is this song about the truth?
It is.
It is all the truth.
It's more than three chords, though.
Tell us about this song.
This song is, oh, sorry, this song is, gosh, you know,
it's so hard to describe songs sometime.
It's kind of, you write them and then you're like,
well, I don't know what this is about, but I like it.
But this song is just about the passage of time
and kind of feeling that and appreciating what you have
and all the things that are in your life.
So, that's kind of what this song is about.
All right, this is Sunlight.
You're listening to Live in the Layer
on Maxing Radio with Jeff Burkehart.
Sunlight.
Warm in all the air with beer.
Making all the time we see
and time is gone.
My, my,
stretches back to the dead.
When I saw you in the middle,
that's in all the room.
We had sparks inside our hearts and sparks inside our hearts and mine.
Here we go.
All the Sunlight faded and was gone.
Dreaming of places that we hope to go.
Where the Sunlight warm the sands on distant shores.
Moonlight creeping through the window,
we tried to keep the dark away,
by making our own lies.
So many ways, we tried to make a better thing
to get back to the time.
What we have was new.
I can't try to hold on to you.
The last guess of the summer as the light faded away.
Oh, Ben, that you were where I wanted to be.
Waitin' for this life to take us both away.
Oh, Ben, that you were where I wanted to be.
Very nice.
Sunlight, that is Jeff Berkhardt.
You're listening to Maxinc Radio live in the lair.
I'm rocker here with Caleb.
Jeff, you have some shows coming up all summer,
including June 4th at the Willie Street Co-op.
Do you do a lot of busking?
I don't know. I don't do a lot of busking.
That's got to be a busking gig though, right?
No, they book it now.
So it's in the garden back behind the co-op.
Oh, I see.
I'm used to going in the co-op,
and there's always buskers out front.
Yeah, they stopped doing that.
So now they're doing garden shows in the back.
And it's really great.
Just show up with an acoustic guitar and just play.
Do they have a PA system?
Electric or it's just...
All acoustic.
All acoustic.
That's a free street co-op in the back of the garden.
Yeah.
Learn something new every day.
More shows coming up.
June 21st is Make Music Madison Day.
And you're going to be playing that.
Where are you going to be playing that day?
Over on Lake...
Lake View Avenue...
with my friends Peter, Lighty, and Andy Moore.
We're going to be doing songs at John Prine.
I think that's what we're going to do.
Which worked it all out?
Is that, like, is that a venue?
Are you guys playing that corner?
I mean, for those who don't know, Make Music Madison Day is June 21st
and Make Music Madison the Festival, they take out permits
so that you can play anywhere in Madison.
Right. So are you guys playing, like, kind of a stage
or are you making your own thing?
Or it's just around the corner?
It's Peter's neighbor.
This will be the third time we've done it.
And she has a big yard that kind of goes down to the lake.
So you have a free view of the lake.
And we've had lots of people show up for that show.
And it's just so much fun.
So it's a beautiful site.
I'll have to send you the address.
It's the 2100 block of Lakeland.
Yeah, Lakeland is the name of the road.
And then you're July 4th.
Yeah.
The 4th of July you're at the Memorial Union Terrace
with the Echo Raise, your band.
Yeah, that's right.
And then September 21st at the Wille Street Fair.
Where can we keep up with Jeff Berkart online?
My website, JeffBerkart.com.
JeffBerkart.com.
That's B-U-R-K-H-A-R-T.
That's right.
All right, we have time for one more song tonight.
We have about three minutes right now.
Okay.
This one is called 79 Delta 88.
Is this about a boat?
A boat?
A big car.
That's exactly what it's about, man.
All right, let's hear it.
79 Delta 88.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was a long hot summer.
I was driving a wreck
to the B-A-D.
It'd had up a mile zone in a stick.
A-haw.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It had a C-B-A-M at them knobs.
I couldn't play a tick,
so I got classic rock.
Coming through the air from
1976,
almost Indian stations that played
the Eagles.
I drove travel roads
over hills to the lake
to climb a quiet tower.
Get over a hot brick.
Right and low,
keeping close to the street.
White lines in the mirror,
land a full city beat.
In my seven to nine depth to 88,
I drove that cover across the street.
Rolling down the road
with the dashlights blinking
I popped in on seven thin licking
with its rapid loss seats.
A-haw.
All right.
Jeff Brickhart live in the
layer. We are maxing. We'll be right back.
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listen local.
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