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Channel 19
It’s complicated: Channel 19 year in review, part 3
Part 3 in this year in review, in which the “real Leroy Mercer” reared his head (sort of — yeah, it’s complicated), and Elves Trucking’s time-card hours compliance strategy didn’t look well in light of compliance-review waterboardings, and …
December 30, 2016
Channel 19
The real Leroy Mercer is …
Revisiting a story I wrote on the occasion of the Dualtone label’s 2008 release of classic “Leroy Mercer” prank-call recordings on CD, an attempt to set the record straight on just who the comic genius behind those calls was: John Bean of Knoxville, Tenn., who passed away before the phenomenon of the tapes came to full fruition.
September 3, 2016
Business
The Real John Bean
From 1987 to 1993, Knoxville musician Todd Steed worked at the now-defunct Raven Records store on Cumberland Avenue, “the main strip near the…
February 10, 2009
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