Gary Tunstall "State of Mine" from Stuck in the Present Live at The 10th Frame Appleton, WI Jul 2, 2005 PODCAST EXCLUSIVE!

Gary tours around the upper midwest sometimes, and it's kind of a crapshoot. My friend Sharon and I have seen him in bars packed with diasporic Tech alums (and a few stunned locals) and we've seen him with three other people. This past July in Appleton, it was the latter kind of night. It was a warm summer evening, and Appleton's smoking ban had gone into effect the day before; besides us, there were never more than a dozen people in there. Ironically, we'd seen Gary play this particular venue before, and it was so crowded that Sharon found herself selling access to the bar.

It's really a striking contrast to the shows he puts on in Houghton. I actually recorded the same song as Monday's clip, "Straight Up," at this show, and would've included it if I thought anyone would download an extra 30MB of Gary just to analyze differences in performance technique, but this clip shows a lot of the same distinctions.