State Fair! Vol. 1: The Midway, by Aaron Rosenblum

State Fair! Vol. 1: The Midway

by Aaron Rosenblum

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	1.	The Guesser 11:56
	2.	Lean Wit It 03:32
	3.	Make Bozo Swim 08:23

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Recorded August 21, 2013 at the Kentucky State Fair and Exposition Center, Louisville, Kentucky

Three portraits of idiomatic American dialect captured at the Kentucky State Fair by field recordist, musician (Sapat, Son of Earth), and radio producer (Radio Presque Rien, Kentuckiana Sounds) Aaron Rosenblum. Three generations engaged in the great project of separating fairgoers from their cash, trading money for personalized amusement, anger, frustration, and heroics.

The elderly guesser (pictured on the album cover) who, after a lifetime of estimating “your age, your weight, or what month you were born,” is also casually, accidentally, or intentionally something between an oracle and a philosopher who “might know the truth, but I might not.” The young game operator, already a master at both the game - lifting a prone glass bottle upright using only a fishing-pole like rig with a ring for hook - and the art of making it look and sound easy while making the prizes seem worth the effort. The middle-aged dunking booth insult clown weaving a ceaseless stream of invective, criticism, and bile into a soliloquy of vocal tics, imitation sound effects, and horror-show laughter designed to hypnotize and enrage, the contestant’s real prize being a respite from his tirade as he hits the water.

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released June 12, 2023

Recorded August 21, 2013
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Tascam DR-2d audio recorder, internal microphones

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