Tales From Around the World with Mike Lockett

  I just arrived back home from the most amazing trip around the world!

 I never did pack a suitcase. I collected no stamps in my passport. I didn't get any coins from foreign lands. My travels were all done right here at my computer while I listened to the Tales From Around The World a storytelling CD from Mike Lockett the Normal Storyteller. www.mikelockett.com and available for download through  www.cdbaby.com

            
             It's that time of year when libraries are kicking off Summer Reading Programs. This years theme in many libraries is "One World Many Stories". How perfect a fit the CD Tales From Around the World  is to that theme. The story adventure begins with  a classic Anansi story from Ghana, we were right there the sounds of the great river slipping past and the spirits singing. Soon I was swept away through Russia, England and Ireland. I spent time with a lizard and a deer down Mexico way and moved round the far side of the globe again before stopping for my favorite in the collection a story from France " The Wooden Shoe Christmas". I left that snowy scene and in moments was in the sunny tropics for another Anansi Spider tale.

       Mike Lockett pulled out all the stops as the saying goes, this CD storytelling collection done with sound effects, bits of music, voiced dialects, and delivered just like you were sitting in front of him made for great listening. It is a great travel CD in two ways, one for its broad sampling of world stories, the other pop Tales From Around The World, in the car CD player on the way to vacation and collect some back seat Peace!

Stop by  Mike Lockett's website maybe you can catch a live performance of Tales From Around the World  with the Normal Storyteller near you!
                                               www.mikelockett.com


     

Review: Tales From The Hills By Mike Lockett

Tales From the Hills  A Storytelling CD by Mike Locket

         The soft mountain music eases us into the CD and whisks us away to a front porch nestled along a creek bed in the cusp of a Appalachian mountain. A tail of wood smoke curls down from a chimney and carries the scent of old apple wood and the rocker is squeaking out a rhythm old as time.

              The stories of Appalachia are as old as the people's history and are timeless lessons delivered in a slow easy style. Jack a predominant character is up to his usual hi jinks. Somehow I can almost see the dusty footfalls as Lazy Jack tries to carry  a donkey on his back all the way home.  Jack's feet and the hind feet of the donkey dragging down a dusty road in a century old tale.

             Mike Lockett is known as the Normal Storyteller. His work is not normal, it is extraordinary in its delivery of simple  classic stories told like he was on the spot the day the event happened. The CD Tales From The Hills has nine stories on it. With one story a night you could get the kids to rush to bed just to listen for a whole week and then some. Let Grandpa listen and use it to cue some family stories you won't believe have been hidden all these years. Your turkey hunting friends are bound to love the tale about Jack's hunt with only one bullet. You see there really is a little something for everyone on the CD.

                                                                                    
                 Don't think you need to rush to the store to find this.  What is not old fashioned is Mike's easy way to acquire his story CD's. Just go visit www.cdbaby.com and you can download the CD right to your computer and burn it to a disc. It is so easy. In just 5 minutes you could be relaxing on a front porch listening to wonderful stories.
              A real treat would be to catch a live performance of the Normal Storyteller Mike Lockett. Check out his website www.mikelockett.com   for more information on where you can hear him up close and personal - just like you were on that porch in the mountains.
. Ichabod the donkey is all ears as he listens to the story of Lazy Jack and the donkey.

www.mikelockett.com   The Story of Lazy Jack and others from his CD, Tales From The Hills