From the Aeolus 13 Umbra YouTube Channel.
Taxi
Driver — A Portrait in Sound, produced for WAMC
Northeast Public Radio in 1995, is a look behind the scenes at the daily
operation of a busy taxi company in Albany, New York. The murder of a cab
driver, one house up from where I was living at the time, compelled me to find
out more about the business.
Walking
into Capitaland Taxi in 1995, every stereotype about cabbies from film and
TV came to life in living color — and smell in some cases.
Taxi companies are indeed the last port of call for many who have been
customers in the Hard Luck Café. However, at the same time you’ll find educated
and articulate rugged individualists, such as Phil, interviewed for this piece,
who are a match for any philosophical raconteur. Phil bummed around Europe in
the 1970s before landing in Albany, getting married, and raising children — all
the while driving a cab in the heart of the bustling capital of New York State.
Phil personifies the very ideal of the philosopher-cabbie and shares a
street-level view of our common humanity as fellow travelers in life.
Wherever
you are today, Phil, this one’s for you.
Note: Due
to the age of the source tape, the pitch of my narration is slightly higher
than normal (compared to Interview with Peter Yarrow, WAMC (1995)).
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