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For the past 60 years, people in northwest Tennessee have tuned each weekday at noon to a radio program on WENK/WTPR called The Swap Shop. For twenty minutes, listeners call or write offering to buy, sell or trade an item or a service in a radio version of the classified ads, things which range from a piece of used plywood, to a green cloth Berkline recliner, to a ten-acre farm. Long Haul sent Nashville-based musician Kurt Wagner (of the great band Lambchop) some program excerpts; he responded with a song, Paperback Bible. The song leads Lambchop's critically-acclaimed CD, Damaged, and one reviewer commented:
"... it's a stunning start to the album. Whether an outstandingly original metaphor for dumping the useless clutter that tends to take over our lives or the surprisingly successful outcome of a songwriting challenge ... ‘Paperback Bible’ is goosebumb-inducing stuff, a simultaneously poignant and funny celebration of the humble details of the daily grind, with a healthy dollop of sympathy for the foibles of mankind ..."