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Kym Register and Catherine Edgerton aka, Midtown Dickens when guitars, banjos, accordions, ukuleles and other implements of musical jocularity are in hand seem to be having more fun than everybody else. A lively exchange with the Independent Weekly offered plenty of insight into why that might be the case. (One theory is that it has something to do with thanking people....)
Kym and Catherine: We've often wondered that ourselves.... Parking decks proved to have good acoustics and we both loved music, so we'd hang out in them for hours staying out of and getting into various forms of trouble with a guitar and harmonica.
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IW: Can you tell us about the big show or, to use its proper name: "Midtown Dicken's Get Down Showdown," complete with the subtitle "Making things way way way longer than they need to be since 1982"? Please tell us about some of the bands, and what's bringing all of you together?
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palace station hotel and casino IW: OK, the perfect radio station is going to play a three-song set with one of your songs in the middle. Which song of yours would you want it to be, and what two songs by other artists would you want to precede and follow your song? And, of course, why? (Sorry for making this kind of sound like an essay question.)
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Randy Whitt calls on elements of country music, but they share the stage equally with touches of pop, rock and most notably and even surprisingly soul. For the full-on honky-tonk/country-rock effect, you need to catch him out in front of his band the Grits. "I'm really fortunate to have those guys playing with my dumb ass" is Whitt's self-effacing take.
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