Progress/Minnesotan Speech Patterns

I am including the rest of the links for the Grateful Dead shows that I started yesterday.  I am only including these because they are easy to find.  Please feel free to search the rest of post for some of the other shows.  I can found at Facebook if you would like copies of these shows just look under St. Dilbert.

I saw advertised a musical that has local appeal to the wonderful folks of Minnesota.  It is called "How To Speak Minnesotan - The Musical."  Many years ago, a great movie came out that poked fun at our accent.  This movie was "Fargo."  I would have been insulted at it, but the accents were very realistic. Joel and Ethan Coen are originally from a suburb of Minneapolis. This scene is just one of the reasons that I find dating hard here at home. Just on the fringes to the north and south of Minneapolis is where I have heard the accent locally.  Up north (anywhere outside the metro area of the Twin Cities), it is more pronunced.  I offer this piece of evidence.  It is a piece of audio taken from a station in the city of Brainerd.  The radio station in question is one that I used to work for many years ago.  I did not put up this audio. 

Here are the rest of the links:

11-14-72                           5-13-73       10-16-89
11-15-72                           5-20-73       10-19-89
11-17-72                           5-26-73       12-31-89
11-18-72                           6-09-73
11-19-72                           6-10-73       3-16-90
11-22-72                           6-22-73       3-18-90
11-24-72                           6-24-73       3-19-90
11-26-72                           6-26-73       3-21-90
12-10-72                           6-29-73       7-16-90
12-11-72                           6-30-73
12-12-72
12-15-72                                               3-28-93
12-31-72                           6-30-74       9-20-93

2-09-73                             3-19-77
2-15-73
2-17-73                             12-01-79
2-19-73
2-21-73                             3-30-80
2-22-73                             4-01-80
2-24-73 partial set 1           5-02-80
2-24-73 partial set 2
3-15-73                             5-07-84
3-16-73
3-19-73
3-21-73                             9-18-87
3-22-73
3-24-73                             7-18-89
3-26-73                             7-19-89
3-28-73                             8-06-89
3-30-73                            10-08-89
3-31-73                            10-14-89                         
4-02-73                            10-15-89


I did not include today's shows.  They are as follows:

Grateful Dead
July 1, 1973
Universal Amphitheater
Universal City, CA
listen here

Grateful Dead
July 27, 1973
Grand Prix Racecourse
Watkins Glen, NY
listen here