{"id":1959,"date":"2009-05-03T11:21:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T18:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2010-11-22T15:10:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T22:10:51","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-geraldine-ricky-trees-talk-too-lp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-geraldine-ricky-trees-talk-too-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; Geraldine &#038; Ricky &#8220;Trees Talk Too!&#8221; LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1961\" title=\"geraldine-ricky-trees-talk-too-lp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/geraldine-ricky-trees-talk-too-lp.jpg\" alt=\"geraldine-ricky-trees-talk-too-lp\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/geraldine-ricky-trees-talk-too-lp.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/geraldine-ricky-trees-talk-too-lp-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/geraldine-ricky-trees-talk-too-lp-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n<p>Long before I co-wrote the musical <a href=\"http:\/\/colorpurple.com\/\">The Color Purple<\/a>, in which trees are a powerful symbol, I believed these lumber providers were among nature&#8217;s most powerful species. But I never knew they could talk. Geraldine Murray, who claims God delivered her the gift of ventriloquism while she was asleep at age 14, apparently felt differently. Her wooden friend, Ricky&#8217;s, voice could make your ears bleed, perhaps causing the tree, well actually shrubs, they&#8217;re sitting in front of to creak loud enough for Geraldine to interpret it as speaking.<\/p>\n<p>Geraldine &amp; Ricky cut a few albums on the World Records Of Nashville label in the 1960&#8217;s. Though all that survives in my collection are the covers &#8211; vinyl cracks a lot easier than wood &#8211; they are among the Kentucky Derby champions in the Christian Kitsch LP race.<\/p>\n<p>Geraldine and more wood:<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1963\" title=\"geraldine2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/geraldine2.jpg\" alt=\"geraldine2\" width=\"250\" height=\"237\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1965\" title=\"geraldine3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/geraldine3.jpg\" alt=\"geraldine3\" width=\"250\" height=\"237\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before I co-wrote the musical The Color Purple, in which trees are a powerful symbol, I believed these lumber providers were among nature&#8217;s most powerful species. But I never knew they could talk. Geraldine Murray, who claims God delivered her the gift of ventriloquism while she was asleep at age 14, apparently felt differently. &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-geraldine-ricky-trees-talk-too-lp\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,87,193,213,13,263,247],"tags":[61,3232,3245,265],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheesy-lps","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-lps","category-music","category-nature","category-religion","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-worst-album-cover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}