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VOLUME 34 • NUMBER 51 • NOVEMBER 10, 2016

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For the love of country

When you’re looking at Joey Canyon, you’re looking at Colorado. His weekly country music television show is produced at Comcast’s Westworks Studios in Centennial. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s John McEuen takes the soundstage. Photos by Peter Jones

Colorado’s ‘Joey Canyon Show’ brings it all home

“This takes you back to a place you’ve never been,” banjoist John McEuen says before launching into a version of Flatt and Scrug-

gs’ “Blue Ridge Cabin Home.” True words, until McEuen plays the song again—and again—and again. It is not that the longtime member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band can’t get enough of classic bluegrass—though that’s probably true—but when you are taping a television show, closeups, mistakes and the occasional

runny nose often call for another take. “Don’t go anywhere,” host Joey Canyon says when McEuen finishes. “The string wizard John has more music for us, including his next song, which he’ll be ‘frailing’ on. I don’t know what ‘frailing’ is, but stay tuned.” At the cut, Canyon walks off set, and says under his breath,

“I’m sure it’s a bluegrass thing”— before he is quickly called back by the director. “In the outro, as you’re talking about ‘frailing,’ you should know what ‘frailing’ is,” she tells the host. “Say, ‘You don’t know what ‘frailing’ is? Find out when we come back.’ It’s kind of more a question to the audience.” “Doesn’t that happen in the

coalmines?” a band member asks of “frailing.” “It’s like fracking,” someone rejoins. Before long, McEuen is down to the nitty gritty, demonstrating the “frailing” technique that has set the familiar “bum-ditty, bumditty” rhythm since the Irish were Continued on page 2

Toilet paper extends life of Littleton roads TP makes world headlines as bitter election season flushes out other stories

City of Littleton crews are sealing cracks in roadways around several neighborhoods with this fall’s mild temperatures. Crack-sealing helps maintain and extend the life of a road—and for the first time, Littleton is placing biodegradable toilet paper over freshly sealed areas to keep the tar in place and off of people’s shoes, bicycles, cars and tires. City spokeswoman Kelli Narde notes the story has made international news likely because of weariness over the U.S. presidential contest. The tar used for crack sealing is really sticky and doesn’t dry quickly. Rather than close freshly sealed areas to keep the tar in

place, placing toilet paper over the cracks meshes with the sealant, is cost effective, and rain and traffic helps it dissipate in a few days. According to the Colorado Department of Transportation’s 2014 Best Practices Guidelines, “After a sealant application, a blotting material may be needed to reduce or minimize tracking of the sealant by vehicle tires. The need for this will depend on the type of sealant material, the ambient temperatures, and how quickly the road will be open to traffic.” Toilet paper is a commonly used and inexpensive blotting material. CDOT also recommends “applying sealant in the spring and fall when cracks are open a moderate amount and before deicing applications have started.” For more information, contact Public Works at 303-795-3863.

Toilet paper does not always make the worldwide news— but this is the end of a hard-fought election season. Although this technique of sealing cracks in roads has been used across the country, Littleton’s program has made the international press—city spokeswoman Kelli Narde thinks that’s because people are sick of the U.S. presidential election. Photo courtesy of City of Littleton


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