Midwesterners on YouTube
Here you can see videos of the Midwesterners first video 'Carolina' in 1991, The Midwesterners at the 2007 Madison Area Music Awards, and Richard Wiegel solo at the grand opening of Full Compass in Oct. 2009.
See The Midwesterners at the WORT Christmas show December 2008 at the High Noon Saloon Madison WI.
http://www.youtube.com/user/richardwiegel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f80Y1fpt60s&feature=PlayList&p=7B63375FE760162F&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=87
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Midwesterners on facebook
This is mostly my page, but I've loaded up about 60 of my old band posters, and lots of other band related stuff.
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CD BABY
Buy all The Midwesterners and the Richard Wiegel solo cd here.
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itunes
The Midwesterners and Richard Wiegel albums on itunes.
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The Bowery Boys at Iola People's Fair June 26-28 1970
Part 1: http://jabartlett.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/the-people%e2%80%99s%c2%a0fair/
Part 2: http://jabartlett.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/the-battle-of-iola/
If you have trouble with either of these links, go to http://jabartlett.wordpress.com and scroll down.
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The Bowery Boys at Sound Storm Music Festival
Remembering Sound Storm Music Festival
full article and pictures can now be found here: http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wmh,50344
Madison, Wisconsin, April 15, 2010-- It was 40 years ago today (almost) that Wisconsin experienced its first outdoor rock festival. Sound Storm, a production of Golden Freak Enterprises, touched down in a farm field near Poynette from April 24-27, 1970. Noteworthy acts included The Grateful Dead, Illinois Speed Press, Rotary Connection (featuring Minnie Ripperton), Baby Huey, Fuse (the band that evolved into Cheap Trick), and popular local rockers The Bowery Boys (a band that included a young, long-haired guitarist named Richard Wiegel, still performing today with The Midwesterners.)
The Sound Storm event was a product of the times—controversial, contentious, and featuring a cast of colorful characters. This fascinating slice of local history is the subject of an in-depth article by Michael Edmonds in the latest issue of Wisconsin History Magazine. Over 250 photos from the day are now archived at the website, which include photos of The Bowery Boys.
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The Midwesterners on Car Talk
Midwesterners on Car Talk Posted: Jun 2, 2010
The Midwesterners have just had their 4th song played on the NPR radio show called Car Talk. www.cartalk.com The songs they've played are Rusted Custom Ford, Studebaker, Can't Slow Down, and Unsafe at Any Speed. They have 3 of our car songs yet to play; Ridin' With Chuck, I'm Gonna Run Your Roadblock of Love, and Keep Your Motor Oiled. Thanks to Brian Holtz for sending our CD in to the show, and for informing me that they played a song last weekend (May 29, 2010). And Barry Poltermann previously of Purple Onion of Milwaukee, and now AboutFace Media, reminded me that he put our first car song in a movie, Can't Slow Down in 'The Unearthing' circa 1993? Purple Onion and director Frank Anderson also did our first video of Carolina, 1991, seen under 'videos' on our website. Thanks Barry and Frank and Car Talk.
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Richard on Mad Toast Live
Richard plays solo acoustic guitar on a live podcast show. Airing April 30, 2009. Also a great place to search the archives and listen to some of Madison's best musicians and bands.
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The Kristy Larson Honky Tonk Trio
One of my favorite local bands. Country music historian,author,musician and WORT radio host Bill Malone describes Kristy as "one of the shining lights of Madison roots music". I played on their self-titled 2008 CD, 'Let The Teardrops Fall.'
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Tom & Richard on Youtube
Tom McCarty (from The Midwesterners) and myself played a Literacy Network benefit at the High Noon Saloon, and someone shot a couple videos and posted them here.
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The Swing Crew
A Wisconsin Dells band run by Dennis Reifsteck that I've played in off and on for 20 years. Dennis played bass on two of The Midwesterner CDs.
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Madison Music Project
Isthmus magazine hosts this site which is also linked to www.thedailypage.com,
and here you can see and interview with me and a live video of The Midwesterners
performing 'Carolina' at the Harmony Bar in 2007.
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Paradyme Productions podcast
Rick Tvedt of Rick's Cafe did this podcast of me playing and talking about The Midwesterners in 2006 at this local studio.
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Rollittakeit Video Productions
Ken LaBarre did The Midwesterners video of our performance at the 2007 Mamas. Can be seen on youtube, (search midwesterners).
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Madtown Lounge
An excellent Madison website that hosts local bands, run really well by Allen McGuire, and it's free!
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CDDVDMakers
A Madison cd manufacturing company run by Mark Berschet that's a one-stop place to finish your artwork and cd. I've done 4 or 5 CDs with him.
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Uvulittle Records
A really great Madison record company run by Jon Hain where you can buy our records and other local recordings.
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