♪ IN THE MORNING I WAKE UP ♪ ♪ I WANT MY HANDS ON A COFFEE CUP ♪ ♪ AND THE EASTERN SKY LIGHTS UP ♪ ♪ AND I FEEL JUST FINE ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ AS I HEAD OUT TO THE ROAD ♪ ♪ EACH STEP A CRUNCH OF SNOW IN THE MORNING LIGHT ♪ ♪ I KNOW I'M GONNA GET MINE ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ TRUE TO ALL THE WORDS I'VE SPOKEN ♪ ♪ NO PROMISES ARE BROKEN ♪ ♪ THE SUN IN MY EYES CHASES ALL MY DOUBTS AWAY ♪ ♪ IN TOWN ON THE BOULEVARD SOME WORK WILL COME MY WAY ♪ ♪ I'M GONNA MAKE A DOLLAR IN THE SHIFTING LIGHT OF DAY ♪ It's the 30 Minute Music Hour.

I'm Andy Moore.

It's Jeff Burkhart!

♪ IN THE BLUE LIGHT OF DAY ALL THE SHOPKEEPERS SAY ♪ ♪ I AIN'T GOT NO WORK OR PAY NOT JOB TO BE FOUND ♪ ♪ AS THE SUN SINKS TO THE WEST ♪ ♪ LIKE MY LAST REFUSED REQUEST MY FEET COULD USE SOME REST ♪ ♪ AND I'M FEELING DOWN ♪ ♪ ALL THE EMPTY WORDS I'VE SPOKEN ♪ ♪ MY PROMISES ARE BROKEN ♪ ♪ AND IT LOOKS LIKE ALL THESE DOUBTS ♪ ♪ ARE HERE TO STAY ♪ ♪ DOWN ON THE BOULEVARD ♪ ♪ NO WORK CAME MY WAY MY HOPES ARE DIM ♪ ♪ AS THE SHIFTING LIGHT OF DAY ♪ ♪ WELL THE FOLKS AT HOME CAN'T SEE JUST WHAT'S BECOME OF ME ♪ ♪ I DON'T EXPECT THEY'D LIKE IT ANYWAY ♪ ♪ IN TOWN ON THE BOULEVARD NO WORK CAME MY WAY ♪ ♪ MY HOPES ARE DIM AS THE SHIFTING LIGHT OF DAY ♪ ♪ YEAH MY HOPES ARE DIM AS THE SHIFTING LIGHT OF DAY ♪ Hey, Andy, want me to play another?

- Play another, Jeff!

- All right.

- Play another!

- This is a song I just wrote not too long ago.

♪ YOU LEFT YOUR MARK ON ME ♪ ♪ JUST LIKE A DREAM ♪ ♪ YOU HOOKED ME SO EASILY ♪ ♪ I FOLLOW THE SIGNS BEYOND THE NEON LIGHT ♪ ♪ BUT AT THE EDGE OF TOWN THE MOON IS MAD TONIGHT ♪ ♪ YOU PROMISED THAT NIGHT LONG AGO ♪ ♪ BUT THE SKY HAS CHANGED THE COLOR OF ITS GLOW ♪ ♪ WHERE ONCE THERE WAS LOVE ♪ ♪ THERE'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF LIGHT ♪ ♪ THE STARS ARE GONE AND THE MOON IS MAD TONIGHT ♪ ♪ ♪ THEY SAY THERE'S BEAUTY ♪ ♪ IN THE STARS AND THE SKY ♪ ♪ THERE'S MAGIC IN THE PLANETS OUT TONIGHT ♪ ♪ BUT WHEN THE DARKNESS COMES ♪ ♪ THERE'S TROUBLE FOR EVERYONE ♪ ♪ THE CLOUDS ARE OUT AND THE MOON IS MAD TONIGHT ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ SINCE THAT DAY THE NIGHTS ARE SO LONG ♪ ♪ I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT ALL WENT WRONG ♪ ♪ I CAN'T SEE A THING AT NIGHT ♪ ♪ IT'S WRONG BUT ONCE FELT SO RIGHT ♪ ♪ I'M SINKING DOWN AND THE MOON IS MAD TONIGHT ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ WHY DO I FEEL SUCH PAIN ♪ ♪ IN DARK AND LIGHT IN SUN AND IN RAIN ♪ ♪ IN THE NIGHTFALL OF MY MIND THERE AIN'T NO SUNSHINE ♪ ♪ I'M SINKING DOWN AND THE MOON IS MAD TONIGHT ♪ ♪ THEY SAY THERE'S BEAUTY IN STARS AND THE SKY ♪ ♪ THERE'S MAGIC IN THE PLANETS OUT TONIGHT ♪ ♪ BUT WHEN THE DARKNESS COMES ♪ ♪ THERE'S TROUBLE FOR EVERYONE ♪ ♪ THE CLOUDS ARE OUT AND THE MOON IS MAD TONIGHT ♪ ♪ WHEN THE DARKNESS COMES ♪ ♪ THERE'S TROUBLE FOR EVERYONE ♪ ♪ THE CLOUDS ARE OUT AND THE MOON IS MAD TONIGHT ♪ - Jeff Burkhart!

- How's it going, Andy?

- Good.

That sounded so good.

- Thanks a lot.

- It's just beautiful.

This is the part where we talk and I hook you up to a lie detector.

Is that okay?

- That's okay.

I'm fine with that.

- All right.

Want to bring that machinery in for us?

That is just a beautiful song.

We asked you to bring a whole bunch of your own songs.

Those first two were yours, obviously.

Tell us about those first numbers.

- Sure.

Actually, the first number I wrote with a friend of mine, Owen Temple, who you know.

Owen moved back down to Austin, Texas.

Recently, he lived here in Madison.

That one, I just finished up not too long ago, "The Moon Is Mad."

I wrote it when I had a little break.

- And it has a real, kind of honky-tonk charge on it.

You and Owen have performed that when he's been in Wisconsin, haven't you?

- That first song, we played that a couple of times.

And I play it with the Dirty Shirts, as well.

- The Dirty Shirts, Jeff's other band.

Where'd that name come from?

- A friend of mine said, "Hey, you're starting a honky-tonk band, right?"

I said, "Yep."

He said, "Do you have a name?"

I said, "Nope."

And she said, "How about the Dirty Shirts"?

And I said I like it.

- Done.

- And it was done.

Pretty much, that's how it happened.

- Now, the second song was almost a kind of a lament.

I don't know if it bothers you for me to hear kind of Gillian Welch, David Rawlings in that.

- It does not bother me at all.

I'm very honored.

- It has that real, sort of mountain miner.

- Yeah, I listen to a lot of their music.

I like their melodies a lot, so I was trying to mimic something similar to that, that mountain sound.

- Yeah, and you really pulled it off.

- Thanks.

- It has a couple of kind of tricky chord changes.

Right when you think it's going to go here, you kind of angle it off over there.

Were you trying to like, sort of get three songs into one?

- That was the goal.

I really try to economize as much as I can in my song writing.

- Three for one.

Are you charging us for three?

- I'm not charging, no.

This is one song.

That's all it is.

A bargain.

- We talk about Gillian Welch, and people like that.

People are starting to wake up to that.

A lot of people see these artists on shows like, like we air on "Austin City Limits."

But why do you think that people are going back to the country, for want of a better expression?

- I think that people really like the authenticity of that style of music.

I feel that, probably, there's a resurgence of interest in that type of music, because people are a little bit bored with sort of that Top 40 Country Music.

You know, some of it's okay, and some of it's pretty good.

But by and large, what you hear on Country Music radio right now is not really all that country.

And so people, I think, really kind of were hungry for artists like Gillian Welch to come out and start recording some original music that's done in that very traditional sound, but still kind of moving the music forward.

And I think there's a lot of interest in people who like, you know, No Depression magazine, and that sort of thing.

There's some great artists who are doing some really great stuff.

- What do you get out of it?

- I think pretty much the same thing that I suspect a lot of people do.

There's a real love of that sort of tradition and the folk nature of it.

The fact that there's just so much heart and soul, and so much behind the music and tradition.

You know, being able to hear the echoes, you know, of Ralph Stanley and the music of Gillian Welch is just sort of exciting for me.

So, that's what I get out of it.

It's just hearing, you know, sort of the way the old folks probably sang it.

And yet, at the same time, moving the music a little bit farther beyond that.

- It's really coming through.

We've got all these cameras and everything.

So will you play a couple more?

- Sure, yeah.

- Then I'll come out and bother you a little bit after that.

All right, thanks.

Jeff Burkhart.

- This is another song that I perform every now and again with the Dirty Shirts, a honky-tonk band here in Madison.

( tuning guitar ) ♪ ♪ ♪ YOU LEFT IN THE SUMMER ♪ ♪ TO FIND A NEW PLACE TO STAY SAID IT'S BEEN ♪ ♪ GOOD TO BE HERE BUT I'LL BE ON MY WAY ♪ ♪ AND IT MADE ME LONGING WONDERING WHERE YOU WOULD BE ♪ ♪ THE NORTH STAR ALIGHTING THE SPACE ♪ ♪ BETWEEN YOU AND ME AND I DON'T DREAM ABOUT YOU ♪ ♪ OR IF YOU FOUND SOMEONE NEW I GUESS I SHOULD THANK YOU ♪ ♪ FOR LEAVING THIS THING WE KNEW ♪ ♪ I WISH I'D KNOWN SO LONG AGO ♪ ♪ IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO I'M THINKING ABOUT ♪ ♪ HOW I DON'T THINK OF YOU ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ IT'S THE SAME OLD STORY EACH NIGHT AND EACH DAY ♪ ♪ I CAN'T FIND THE TEARS NO PRIDE AND NO SHAME ♪ ♪ ALL MY FRIENDS SAY I'M HAPPY ♪ ♪ GLAD TO SEE THEM EACH DAY ♪ ♪ THE LIFE OF THE PARTY IT'S WHAT THEY ALL SAY ♪ ♪ AND I'M GLAD FOR YOU NOW YOUR TROUBLES SO FEW ♪ ♪ I'M A NEW MAN MYSELF TRYING OUT THESE NEW SHOES ♪ ♪ I DON'T WORRY ABOUT YOU AFTER I'VE HAD A FEW ♪ ♪ I'M THINKING ABOUT HOW I DON'T THINK OF YOU ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ AND I'M GLAD FOR YOU NOW YOUR TROUBLES SO FEW ♪ ♪ I'M A NEW MAN MYSELF TRYING OUT THESE NEW SHOES ♪ ♪ I DON'T WORRY ABOUT YOU AFTER I'VE HAD A FEW ♪ ♪ I'M THINKING ABOUT HOW I DON'T THINK OF YOU ♪ ♪ YEAH, I'M THINKING ABOUT HOW I DON'T THINK OF YOU ♪ ♪ ♪ I think I'll do another one.

How's that?

- Do another.

♪ ♪ ♪ HOW DID YOUR PAST GET STUCK IN A PAWN SHOP ♪ ♪ SEEMS EVERYTHING YOU OWNED IS HELD IN HOCK ♪ ♪ AT THE ONLY STORE OPEN ON THIS WHOLE DOWNTOWN BLOCK ♪ ♪ ON THE SHELF BY RECORDS AND PISTOLS ♪ ♪ I FOUND YOUR OLD GUITAR ♪ ♪ AND YOUR CHEVY NOVA DOWN AT THE SALVAGE YARD ♪ ♪ WE GOT HEARTACHES ALL AROUND ♪ ♪ WE GOT MILES OF RUSTED TOWN ♪ ♪ THE OLD-TIMERS WONDER ♪ ♪ HOW IT ALL SLIPPED THROUGH THEIR HANDS ♪ ♪ FACTORIES CRUMBLE AWAY ♪ ♪ LIKE THE LONG-GONE GLORY DAYS ♪ ♪ OF A BROKEN HEARTLAND ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ DOWN IN THE ALLEY BY THE WAREHOUSE ♪ ♪ A PAINTING ON A BRICK WALL YOU DID ♪ ♪ YOU WROTE YOUR NAME IN LETTERS SIX FEET HIGH ♪ ♪ SO THERE'S NO MISTAKING THIS IS WHERE YOU LIVED ♪ ♪ AND THE DREAMS WE HAD ♪ ♪ I THOUGHT THEY WOULD ALL COME TRUE ♪ ♪ THEY JUST FADED OUT LIKE THIS OLD PICTURE YOU DREW ♪ ♪ WE GOT HEARTACHES ALL AROUND ♪ ♪ WE GOT MILES OF RUSTED TOWN ♪ ♪ THE OLD-TIMERS WONDER ♪ ♪ HOW IT ALL SLIPPED THROUGH THEIR HANDS ♪ ♪ FACTORIES CRUMBLE AWAY ♪ ♪ LIKE THE LONG-GONE GLORY DAYS ♪ ♪ OF A BROKEN HEARTLAND ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ AND I THREW YOUR OLD GUITAR OFF THE BRIDGE ♪ ♪ INTO THE RIVER ♪ ♪ INTO THAT SAME MUDDY WATER THAT TOOK YOU AWAY ♪ ♪ GOT HEARTACHES ALL AROUND ♪ ♪ GOT MILES OF RUSTED TOWN ♪ ♪ THE OLD-TIMERS WONDER ♪ ♪ HOW IT ALL SLIPPED THROUGH THEIR HANDS ♪ ♪ FACTORIES CRUMBLE AWAY ♪ ♪ LIKE THE LONG-GONE GLORY DAYS ♪ ♪ OF A BROKEN HEARTLAND ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ OF A BROKEN HEARTLAND ♪ ♪ ♪ - That was a pretty one.

- Thanks.

- So pretty.

Now, we'll just kind of interrupt you long enough for you to tell us about this gorgeous guitar.

I know that a Wisconsinite built it.

Somebody who lives, actually, kind of in the hood.

- That's right.

- So tell us about this gorgeous instrument.

- You know, Andy, this is a recent acquisition for me.

I've had it for about two weeks now, and I love it.

I can't stop playing this guitar.

It's such a beautiful instrument.

It's made by Todd Cambio.

It's Fraulini guitars.

I don't know, you might be able to get a shot of inside there.

In that sound hole.

- Can you get in there?

- It's a Fraulini.

At fraulini.com is where Todd sells his guitars.

I think I'm the second guitar owner here in Madison.

But Todd's a neighbor of mine.

He used to be just a couple blocks away.

He builds beautiful guitars, and I'll tell you a little bit about them.

He started making guitars full-time about two years ago.

And the name "Fraulini" is a combination of two last names of his ancestors.

There are seven sisters that he has named all of his guitars after.

This one is the sixth model, and it's the first of that model.

The Annunziata.

You know what the name means?

- I'm afraid I'm going to have to start taking notes.

- Look it up.

- Okay.

- The Annunziata basically is the announcement of the birth-- the virgin birth of Christ, basically.

So this is an Italian family.

- It's a secular show, though.

- It's a secular show.

I'm not going to proselytize, or anything like that.

This is a beautiful guitar.

Todd, obviously, is very true to the tradition of guitar making.

This is sort of modeled after some old Stella guitars that were built in the '20s and '30s.

And Todd's done a really wonderful job of replicating that sound.

This already sounds like a vintage instrument.

- It's unbelievable.

It's maple body.

And it's got power.

It's bright.

And we want to hear you play it some more.

- All right.

- You've got a couple more?

- I sure do.

- I should forecast with you.

You play a couple more.

We'll see how the time is.

But most likely, after two songs, then we'll probably need to show some credits and then be over for the night.

Thanks for being on the 30 Minute Music Hour.

- Thanks a lot, Andy.

I'm going to do just a couple more songs here.

Obviously, original songs here.

I'll just take a little sip.

And again, a couple songs that I just finished working on, pretty recently.

Todd didn't guarantee that his guitars would always stay in tune, though, Andy.

That's part of the live nature of this show, right?

- Exactly.

(Jeff tuning guitar ) What do they say?

Close enough for bluegrass.

(Jeff laughs ) [tuning continues] That's good.

♪ ♪ ♪ YOU WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW THEY'RE ALL GONNA GO AWAY ♪ ♪ THE DAY WILL COME YOU'LL BE ALL ALONE ♪ ♪ THE FAMILY GONE SOME DAY ♪ ♪ WELL I'VE BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD BEFORE ♪ ♪ I KNOW JUST HOW YOU FEEL ♪ ♪ YOU SAY IT'S NOT WORTH TALKING ABOUT ♪ ♪ THE STING OF LIFE TOO REAL ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ WELL YOU KNOW THAT IT'S NOT EASY ♪ ♪ ITS NOT EASY GETTING THROUGH ♪ ♪ AND YOU WANT TO BE A KID AGAIN ♪ ♪ I KNOW I FEEL IT TOO ♪ ♪ I KNOW I FEEL IT TOO ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ YOU WANT TO BE A KID TODAY I WANT TO GO BACK TOO ♪ ♪ THE RIVER FLOWING BY THE WATER'S COOLING HUE ♪ ♪ TO WAKE AND LET THE DAY PASS ♪ ♪ JUST PLAYING KICKING ROUND ♪ ♪ THE SKY SO BIG AND GLOWING ♪ ♪ PLANTING COLORS ON THE GROUND ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ WELL YOU KNOW THAT IT'S NOT EASY ♪ ♪ IT'S NOT EASY GETTING THROUGH ♪ ♪ AND YOU WANT TO BE A KID AGAIN ♪ ♪ I KNOW I FEEL IT TOO ♪ ♪ I KNOW I FEEL IT TOO ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ TIME IS GONE AND CAN'T BE FOUND ♪ ♪ YOU SAY YOUR TROUBLES ARE LIKE MINE ♪ ♪ I SCRATCH THIS SCRIPT UPON A PAGE ♪ ♪ FADED MARKS AND HIGHWAY LINES ♪ ♪ IF I COULD HAVE MY WAY MAYBE MAKE A TRIP BACK HOME ♪ ♪ PATCH UP ALL THESE SORROWS FIND A WAY TO GET ALONG ♪ ♪ WELL YOU KNOW THAT IT'S NOT EASY ♪ ♪ IT'S NOT EASY GETTING THROUGH ♪ ♪ AND YOU WANT TO BE A KID AGAIN ♪ ♪ AND I KNOW I FEEL IT TOO ♪ ♪ I KNOW I FEEL IT TOO ♪ ♪ ♪ ( tuning guitar ) Thanks a lot for having me, Andy.

It's been a lot of fun.

- Thanks for coming.

♪ ROLLING HILLS ♪ ♪ SPREAD BEFORE MY EYES ♪ ♪ THE ROAR OF THE RIVER REIGNS ♪ ♪ PINE TOPS LINE THE BLUEST SKY ♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ A FALCON FLOATS OVER AN EMPTY FIELD ♪ ♪ WITHOUT MOVING ITS WINGS ♪ ♪ AS CREEKS AND STREAMS GO FLOWING BY ♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ EACH DAY AND NIGHT AS THE WORLD FLOWS BY ♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ A MOUNTAIN JUTS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE SEA ♪ ♪ WITH TREES THAT BARELY CLING ♪ ♪ MOSS SPRINGS UP WITH EVERY STEP ♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ EACH DAY AND NIGHT AS THE WORLD FLOWS BY ♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ A FALCON FLOATS OVER AN EMPTY FIELD ♪ ♪ WITHOUT MOVING ITS WINGS ♪ ♪ AS CREEKS AND STREAMS GO FLOWING BY ♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ RIDGESIDES RIPPLE WITH WAVES OF GRASS ♪ ♪ ECHOES OF CATTLE CALLS RING ♪ ♪ EACH NEW DAY I HOPE WILL LAST ♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ YEAH, HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ EACH DAY AND NIGHT AS THE WORLD FLOWS BY ♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ TRAVELING THROUGH TOWNS AND FIELDS I GO ♪ ♪ IN AWE OF MOST EVERYTHING ♪ ♪ FROM OPEN VALLEYS TO PEAKS OF SNOW ♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ YEAH, HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ EACH DAY AND NIGHT AS THE WORLD FLOWS BY ♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ YEAH, HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

♪ ♪ EACH DAY AND NIGHT AS THE WORLD FLOWS BY ♪ ♪ HOW CAN I HELP BUT SING?

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