Yiddishe Cup’s bandleader, Bert Stratton, is Klezmer Guy.

He knows about the band biz and – check this out – the real estate biz, too.

You may not care about the real estate biz. Hey, you may not care about the band biz. (See you.)

This is a blog with a gamy twist. It features tenants with snakes and skunks, and musicians with smoked fish in their pockets.

Stratton has written op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post.

YIDDISHE CUP AND ROUTE 66

by Bert Stratton

A Yiddishe cup fan called and said he had gotten my phone number off a Yiddishe Cup CD.

I asked, “Which album do you have?”

“Yiddfellas.”

yiddfellas CD cover

“Where’d you get the CD?”

“At a swap meet in Kingman.”

“A swap meet where?

“A swap meet in Kingman, Arizona. I like the record. It’s kind of cool.”

“You like klezmer?”

“This is my first record.”

“How much did you pay?”

“Twenty-five cents.”

“Nice. Fifty cents would have been too much.”

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If this is too short for you, read my essay in Belt Mag. “On Being ‘In Real Estate’ in Cleveland, OH”

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5 comments

1 Ken Goldberg { 12.13.17 at 9:17 am }: It sure would be! Forty cents too.
2 Ari Davidow { 12.13.17 at 9:48 am }: Heck, I would have given a dollar, easy. Not the band’s best, but still good!
3 Ted { 12.13.17 at 10:52 am }: I lol’ed. (This comment is too short, the computer says).
4 David Korn { 12.13.17 at 12:56 pm }: I’d have paid double that. (That’s me trying to start a bidding war. Yeah, not original, but still a good line.)
5 dave rowe { 12.15.17 at 9:50 am }: Hope it isn’t too scratched up.

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