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Harvey Robinson, one of the creators of the show, and the owner the actual kitchen in Harvey’s Kitchen always writes the most fantastic episode descriptions. So, here, in his words is an introduction to this episode featuring the band The Red River:

“It had been but a few days since Carolyn and I had stripped off our cleaning masks and dropped the last of our mystery boxes into the new hallway. Our previous apartment had greeted over a hundred different bands from all over the country and their crumbs: a handful of picks, a guitar strap, a hand drawn portrait of a missing band member, and a rosin cloth had either been purged or migrated down the street with us, one hand truck at a time.

About a month previously, a lovely crunchy brown envelope had been left at the foot of our stairs addressed from Portland, Oregon. A location we’ve never visited but heard many a muttering about bicycles in elevators, seed bombings and music. Music. After I tore open the package, out dropped a lovely stenciled translucent wrapper, a couple of snapshots and a CD printed with muted sketches entitled, “The Red River:  Little songs about the big picture.”

The album itself became quite a moving gift. The tracks transition from one to the other like the motions of leaf from the tip of a branch on its fateful journey to paint the fall earth in brilliant ambers and shocking reds.

At once understated and anthemic, “little songs about the big picture” made our transition much more tranquil.”