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- David Schulman
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- Location: Takoma Park, Maryland
- Joined PRX: Dec 15, 2003
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- "Walter Backerman, Seltzer Man"
- Summary: When Walter's grandfather drove his cart there were thousands of seltzer men in the city; today Walter is one of the last.
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Review of Walter Backerman, Seltzer Man
David Schulman
Posted on July 12, 2004 at 03:05 PM
Eric Nuzum is right -- for a piece to be viable for stations via PRX, it needs to be easy to use, without extraneous material. So the Dean Olsher intro here should be cut, and the identical script provided for local station staff to read. But the piece itself is such thing of beauty -- a beautiful, beautiful piece of sound and storytelling. It's masterful: disarming, and funny , and then you get this amazing truer-than-life scene between Seltzerman and an old customer. For anyone who hasn't heard this piece before, I won't spoil it with more words. Listen!