Recorded in the 1970s, Bert and I Stem Inflation features 25 tracks, including "Frost, You Say," which Marshall Dodge also released as a book, and "Too Late, Mr. Perkins."
Bert and I Stem Inflation includes 22 hilarious tracks.
1. Bert and I Stem Inflation
2. No News
3. Bear in the Spring
4. The Pet Turkey
5. Too Late, Mr. Perkins
6. Texas vs. Maine
7. Frost, you Say?
8. Life Insurance
9. Lewis Bayard and the Judge
10. Bert and I and the Bricks
11. Bert and I Solve the Energy Crisis
12. Buryin’
13. The Whole Land
14. Suicide
15. The Insect Powder Agent
16. Cutler Harbor
17. Bear and the Slicker
18. Conversation on a Train
19. The Clam Quartet
20. Birth Control
21. Bottle Squatting
22. Harry Whitefield Flies to NY
Bert and I Stem Inflation
Performed by Marshall Dodge and Robert Bryan
Binding: CD
Tracks: 22
Genre: Humor
Ages: All
ISBN: 978-1-944762-35-3
Publication Date: 2019 (Islandport edition)
Dimensions: 5.5 x 5.0 x .50
Shipping Weight: 0.19 lbs.
Marshall "Mike" Dodge (1935-1982) stands undeniably as a godfather of Down East humor, bringing an energy and imagination to the stage that took him from a small Connecticut studio to his standing as the premier "New England" humorist of his era, before he was tragically killed by a hit-and-run driver in Hawaii in 1982. He was just 45. Mike was born in New York, attended high school in New Hampshire (where he first heard "Down East humor"), and graduated from Yale, where he studied philosophy. It was at Yale in 1958 that he and Bob Bryan cut the first Bert and I album and launched what is now a Maine icon.
Robert Bryan (1931-2018) helped launch Bert and I with Marshall Dodge in part by drawing upon his memories from childhood summers spent at his beloved Tunk Lake, where he was fascinated by the area's stories and storytellers. Like Dodge, Bob was born and raised in New York and graduated from Yale. Unlike Dodge, who continued as full-time performer, Rev. Robert A. Bryan used earnings from the early records in the 1960s to help launch and grow another dream––the Quebec-Labrador Foundation, which provides support to remote communities, mainly in Quebec and Labrador.
