GREG BROWNDERVILLE
showrunner / writer / creator
The author of three books of poetry—“A Horse with Holes in It,” “Deep Down in the Delta,” and “Gust”—Greg Brownderville is an associate professor of English and the director of creative writing at SMU in Dallas. He is also the editor of “Southwest Review,” the nation’s third-longest-running literary magazine. Brownderville grew up in the small Delta community of Pumpkin Bend, Arkansas.
BART WEISS
director / executive producer
An award-winning filmmaker, educator, and writer, Bart Weiss is the director and founder of the Dallas VideoFest. He produces “Frame of Mind” on KERA TV, hosts the podcast titled “The Fog of Truth,” and is a professor of film at the University of Texas at Arlington. He grew up in Philadelphia, is no longer an Eagles fan, and is always in search of good film and good ice cream.
showrunner / writer / creator
GREG BROWNDERVILLE
director / executive producer
BART WEISS
producers
GREG BROWNDERVILLE
RIJAA NADEEM
BART WEISS
all scripts and poems written by Greg Brownderville
video production
director of photography
CHRISTIAN VASQUEZ
first assistant camera /
director of photography
on “Amra,” “Kooky Cookies,” “Words like Welts,”
“American Underworld,” “All and Only,”
“The Taste of Honey,” and “Girl of the Garden”
KYLE MONTGOMERY
first assistant director
LIZETTE BARRERA
second assistant director
ACE COWAN
casting director for principal photography
CYDNEY COX
sound mixer
CODI PUTMAN
gaffer
JOSH GALLAS
key grip
TRAVIS MESSERSMITH
assistant camera on “Words like Welts”
and “American Underworld”
JUDD MYERS
production assistant
KEVIN MICHAEL NAIL
production assistant
DONALD "BRAD" CARLILE
videographer on “Satan or Santa”
CHRIS GARDNER
hair and makeup artist for Amra Boustani
IVETH GONZALEZ
the video episodes in this go-show
were shot in and around the following locales:
Augusta, Arkansas
Biscoe, Arkansas
Cotton Plant, Arkansas
Dark Corner, Arkansas
Gregory, Arkansas
Heber Springs, Arkansas
Helena, Arkansas
Hunter, Arkansas
McCrory, Arkansas
Patterson, Arkansas
Pumpkin Bend, Arkansas
Lettsworth, Louisiana
Marksville, Louisiana
St. Francisville, Louisiana
Clarksdale, Mississippi
Jonestown, Mississippi
Port Gibson, Mississippi
Arlington, Texas
Dallas, Texas (Oak Cliff and Lakewood)
Prosper, Texas
Terrell, Texas
big thanks to Stan Ferguson, Teague Griffin,
Jasper Neel, Christian Vasquez, Butler Greenwood Plantation,
Country Burger (Oak Cliff), the Lone Star Baptist Church,
Nancy Edwards and the Kimbell Art Museum,
Tom Clark and the Rex Hancock Black Swamp
Wildlife Management Area, and Shack Up Inn
for kindly granting access to key shooting locations
art
art directors
JAMIE LERMAN
KAILA ROSE PARRISH
art assistants
CHELSEA AKPAN
AMELIA GENAO
GABRIELLA GRACEFFO
podcasting
audio supervisor
(sound design / engineering / editing / mixing / mastering)
SPENCER KENNEY
sound design / engineering / editing / mixing
on “Eyes Undeniable,” “Megafonda,”
“Saxanova,” “Who Can Phantom?,”
“The Transfer Portal,” and “Best Year Biscuit”
GREG BROWNDERVILLE
additional engineering
CHRIS GARDNER
SEAN GORDON
JONATHAN HILL
BART WEISS
thanks to Mike Papin for allowing use of
the 1957 recording of the Guiannée song
to Caleb Evans for assistance with audio editing
and to Kathleen Harris, Dot and Tom Temple,
and Helen and Billy Williams
for participating in our recording session
in St. Francisville, Louisiana
video postproduction
editor
ROBBIE CURTIS
editor on “Words like Welts”
and “American Underworld”
EDWIN HARRIS
editor on “Kooky Cookies,”
“Trainbow,” “Sign of the Times,”
and “Abracajaguar”
BART WEISS
editors on “Three Ways of Looking”
CHRISTIAN VASQUEZ
BART WEISS
editor on “All and Only”
KYLE MONTGOMERY
editor on “Amra” and “Girl of the Garden”
HIEN DINH
editors on “Art Consumers”
and “The Taste of Honey”
HIEN DINH
BART WEISS
sound designer on “Amra,”
“Sign of the Times,”
“Satan or Santa,” “The Taste of Honey,”
and “Girl of the Garden”
GREG BROWNDERVILLE
sound designers on “Kooky Cookies”
and “Abracajaguar”
GREG BROWNDERVILLE
BART WEISS
sound designer on “Trainbow”
SPENCER KENNEY
sound designers on “Three Ways of Looking”
GREG BROWNDERVILLE
SPENCER KENNEY
BART WEISS
sound designer on “Words like Welts”
EDWIN HARRIS
sound designers on “American Underworld”
GREG BROWNDERVILLE
SPENCER KENNEY
editor on “Satan or Santa”
GREG BROWNDERVILLE
colorist
STEVE FRANKO
the go-show platform
creator
GREG BROWNDERVILLE
illustrator
KAILA ROSE PARRISH
web designer
LORYN O’DONNELL
thanks to Farhan Taucef Islam and Jaime Andres
for early promotional web design
cast
Gobody
KRISTIN KEITH
Ju Mon Poy / Father Christmas
RAYMUND KING
Louisiana Gamblin-Green, aka Lucy
BRITTNEY BLUITT
Chad Fonda
CHRIS GARDNER
Today Montgomery / “Room”
CHARLES HILLMAN
Boulos
NHEDRICK JABIER
The Beekeeper Spaceman
DAVID RUFFIN
Beall / Turkey Snipe / The Turkish Knight
MADISON LAIRD
Amra Boustani
MERIAM KHALFOUF
Greg Brownderville / Razorbacker / Abracajaguar
GREG BROWNDERVILLE
Bart Weiss
BART WEISS
cheerleaders of Thisaway High
MABRY TINER
HARLEE BUFORD
CARA BOWLING
LEEANN ROSEBERRY
KARLEE BRECKENRIDGE
MADI BARNETT
KAYLEE SURRATT
KENDALL STOVALL
MELANIE COX
little kid with a broom
JAXSON McBRIDE
zebra referee
ERIC BROWNDERVILLE
zebra convict
BOBBIE FRENCH
giraffe boy
COLE BROWNDERVILLE
La Guiannée protesters
JUSTIN BRUNGARDT
KEVIN GREEN
STEVE JIMENEZ
LAUREN TENNEY
La Guiannée revellers
DAVID ALVAREZ
DE’MAURIE BROWN
DE’MAURIER BROWN
YOUNG EUI CHOI
TRICIA GEORGE
CORTINA JACKSON
TINA JACKSON
QUAISER KHAN
SANDRA KENT
LARRY LANDAKER
ASHLIE LAWSON
HOLLIE LEIGHMAN
MARSHA MARTIN
GWEN MOORES
SONJA MOSLEY
JORGE OTERO
MIABETH PALMER
MONIQUE PETERS
HENRY PHAM
RAZIEL RAGLAND
KIMBERLY RODDU
CARNESHA SCOTT
ROD SHAHAN
DOYLE STALEY
AMANDA TRUESDELL
SARA UNDERWOOD
RAYDEN WALKER
JAREN WHITAKER
KAREN WHITAKER
TERRY WORTHY
donnybrookers
EUNICE AKINLEYE
MATT GROVES
RAHEELA GROVES
APRIL HALDY
MARINA MARTINEZ
KING WILL
KATHRYN YARBROUGH
redwing blackbirds
GREGORY LAWRENCE
TRINITY SMITH
JACLYN WEBB
WYATT WHITELOCK
giraffe-head puppeteer / fortune cookie opener
KYLE MONTGOMERY
matriarch of the Chinese grocery
HAR JEW
voice-only casT:
Patty Sue Frymire
TINA PARKER
Will Durbin
CHAD WHITE
newscaster
DIANA BLACKMAN
Amy Laboda
DESTINY ROSE MURPHY
Pentecostal preacher
PASTOR KENNETH MACK
Scott Gunter
SCOTT GUNTER
student protester
SHEA HENNUM
townsfolk / Internet commenters
ERIC BROWNDERVILLE
GREG BROWNDERVILLE
ANNE BUTLER
GWEN CALVIN
ARLENE FOLMAR
DALE HOWARD
DALE KIDWELL
ROD KIDWELL
HANNAH LANE
music
composers
GREG BROWNDERVILLE
SPENCER KENNEY
ADAM SHERLOCK
performers
ERIC BROWNDERVILLE
GREG BROWNDERVILLE
PAT DAVIS
CHRIS GARDNER
KRISTIN KEITH
SPENCER KENNEY
JAMAL MOHAMED
ADAM SHERLOCK
songs:
ALL AND ONLY
written by Greg Brownderville;
guitars, keys, bass, drum programming, triangle,
backing vocals, mixing, and mastering by Spencer Kenney;
lead vocals and guitars by Greg Brownderville
95
written by Greg Brownderville;
used as podcast outro music;
guitars, keys, bass, drum programming,
backing vocals, mixing, and mastering by Spencer Kenney;
lead vocals and acoustic guitar by Greg Brownderville
BEEBE
written by Greg Brownderville;
guitars, keys, bass, drum programming,
backing vocals, mixing, and mastering by Spencer Kenney;
drums and additional percussion by Ethan Worland;
lead vocals, acoustic guitar,
and backing vocals by Greg Brownderville
ICICLES
written by Greg Brownderville;
guitars, keys, bass, drum programming,
backing vocals, mixing, and mastering by Spencer Kenney;
drums and additional percussion by Ethan Worland;
lead vocals, guitars, and keys by Greg Brownderville
EYELID MOON
— podcast version —
written by Greg Brownderville;
guitars, keys, bass, and drum programming by Spencer Kenney;
lead vocals, guitar, keys, and mastering by Greg Brownderville;
mixing by Greg Brownderville and Spencer Kenney
EYELID MOON
— “My Only Life” version —
written by Greg Brownderville;
lead vocals, acoustic guitar, keys,
mixing, and mastering by Greg Brownderville;
keys by Adam Sherlock
NO ALIBIS
written by Greg Brownderville;
guitars, keys, drum programming,
backing vocals, mixing, and mastering by Spencer Kenney;
drums and additional percussion by Ethan Worland;
lead vocals and acoustic guitars by Greg Brownderville
DAYBEAR
words written by Greg Brownderville;
composition by Greg Brownderville and Adam Sherlock;
keys, bass, drum programming, and backing vocals by Adam Sherlock;
lead vocals, backing vocals, and mastering by Greg Brownderville;
mixing by Greg Brownderville and Adam Sherlock
PIÑATA
written by Greg Brownderville and Adam Sherlock;
keys, drum programming, bass,
lead vocals, and backing vocals by Adam Sherlock;
lead vocals, backing vocals, and keys by Greg Brownderville;
mixing and mastering by Greg Brownderville and Adam Sherlock
PROJECTION X
written, performed, mixed, and mastered by Adam Sherlock
THE GLOSSOLALIA
words written by Greg Brownderville;
composition by Greg Brownderville and Adam Sherlock;
all instruments, mixing, and mastering by Adam Sherlock;
lead vocals by Greg Brownderville
LA GUIANNÉE
traditional; used as podcast intro music;
performed by the guionneurs
of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1957
LA GUIANNÉE, a cappella
traditional; part of a live performance
in the silo spaceship by Greg Brownderville;
mixed and mastered by Codi Putman
LA GUIANNÉE, SLIGHT RETURN
traditional; new arrangement
by Greg Brownderville and Adam Sherlock;
keys, bass, drum programming, mixing, and mastering by Adam Sherlock;
lead vocals by Greg Brownderville
THE STORY BEHIND CHAD FONDA’S SONGS:
To spark Chris Gardner’s musical imagination, Greg Brownderville
supplied a few provisional song titles he had ginned up for the occasion:
“Santa Ain’t Nothin’ but Satan Misspelled,”
“Just Build Me a Duck Blind in the Corner of Glory,”
“Just a Little Snack with Jesus,” and “Cheese Sauce, Cheese Sauce,
Cheeeeeeese Sauce: There’s Just Something About That Name.”
From there, Gardner brilliantly improvised all of
Fonda’s gag-gospel songs.
about THose WILD SWANS:
The voices of wild swans—recorded by the “Fire Bones” team in rural
Arkansas—are featured in several episodes. Greg Brownderville
pieced together melodies by editing the swan voices to a click track. Later,
Jamal Mohamed played doumbek tracks to the swan melodies.
Later still, Spencer Kenney and Greg Brownderville edited the
swan beats, adding various sound effects.
publicity
director of public relations
JOHN WILDMAN
social media specialist
KIERAN DANIELSON
thanks to Bobby Rea
for his good advice
and to Ernest Grumbles for all of his help
poems embedded in the go-show
MOURNING SONG WITH RATTLES
audio + artifact
KOOKY COOKIES
a succession of cookie fortunes; video
TRAINBOW
video
SIGN OF THE TIMES
a succession of church-sign messages; video
CHEERS BY CHAD
a succession of cheer slogans performed
at the end of “Aesthetic Service”; video
SAXANOVA
audio + artifact
AMERICAN UNDERWORLD
an installation poem that concludes
the episode of the same name;
all of the language projected onto Lucy’s body
and used in her installation poem
is real latrinalia found and photographed
in Southern gas stations
by Greg Brownderville; video
BEST YEAR BISCUIT
audio + artifact
THE PLUS
the first poem in “Three Ways of Looking”; video
THE DRAGON
the second poem in “Three Ways of Looking”; video
THE SHOE TREE
the third poem in “Three Ways of Looking”; video
MY NAME IS ROOM
a poem based loosely on traditional mumming speeches;
recited by Today Montgomery in “Rum in the Inn”; video
THE HOLY DOCTOR GOODGHOST PITCHES HER PILLS AND POTIONS
a poem based loosely on traditional mumming speeches
and Pentecostal tongues and interpretation as practiced
in rural Arkansas; recited by Gobody in “That Was for You”; video
all poems written by Greg Brownderville;
handmade artifacts for “Best Year Biscuit”
and “Mourning Song with Rattles” by Kaila Rose Parrish;
handmade artifact for “Saxanova” by Greg Brownderville
special thanks
everlasting gratitude
to Southern Methodist University—in particular to the Department of English,
Dr. Darryl Dickson-Carr,
the Dean’s Research Council of Dedman College,
Dean Thomas DiPiero, Rebecca and Pat DePole,
and the University Research Council—for generously supporting this project
great thanks
to the Art + Art History Department
at the University of Texas at Arlington
a Delta-style “much obliged”
to Hendrix College, especially to Hope Coulter
and the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation
many thanks
to Pastor Hersey Hammons, Paula Hutchinson,
and the entire Lone Star Baptist Church family
of Oak Cliff, Texas, for their kindness,
hospitality, and inspiring moral example
Jake Rubin: Brewer
is real and so is friendship—
cool re: other stuff
a heaping helping of gratitude
to Janie and Alton Brownderville
for that Pumpkin Bend hospitality
props to the junior and senior high cheerleaders
of McCrory, Arkansas; their parents;
and their awesome sponsor, Lesley Norton (go, Jags!)
nothing but love to the cities
of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri,
and Prairie du Rocher, Illinois—
thank y’all for the gift of La Guiannée
shout-out to Tim Cassedy, Rebecca DePole,
Preston Hutcherson, Erinn Beth Langille,
Joe Milazzo, Ross Nervig, Peter Simek,
Abraham Smith, Sherry Wagner, Laura Wiegand,
and Hicks Wogan for their insightful responses
to this project during the testing phase
big thanks to Susan Teegardin
for her support and all the millions of things,
large and small, that she does
and heartfelt thanks to Amelia Genao and Dickens
for every lime ghost toast, for late-night listenings,
and for all the love and faith and encouragement
