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\"Chords\"<\/a>
\nWe’re in pretty much full on crazy mode cleaning, sorting, and packing for our year long research sabbatical in Colchester, UK. In the process I ran across two old music lists and felt compelled to share.<\/p>\n

The first was a little playbill sheet for bands playing at Karl’s Coffee. Karl’s was the first coffee shop in Morris and had a truly wonderful atmosphere. It arguably wasn’t managed brilliantly from a business standpoint, and this combined with some quite unjustified and obnoxious political machinations in town ultimately doomed them. The coffee shop was purchased and run by another group for a few years, and then changed hands a third time where things seem stable if not nearly as cool as they were in the beginning.<\/p>\n

One of the great things about Karl’s was their regular and regularly wonderful hosting of live bands. In their heyday, Karl’s usually had at least one good band play live every week, and we came to love more than a few Minnesota bands through their frequent performances at Karl’s. Sadly, neither of the subsequent incarnations of the coffee shop have been anywhere close to Karl’s either in the quantity or quality of their music bookings. Both of them have been extremely conservative in the bookings they’ll allow, which has moved some concerts up to campus and caused others to just not happen. Sigh.<\/p>\n

Thus it was really neat to find this little playbill from those glory days. In April of 1999 Karl’s had:<\/p>\n