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EPISODE #140: IN THE TIME OF MOURNING

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Rain on the ground, a chill in the air, ghosts on the prowl. We’re back from the Midwest with strange tales from the desert to the cornfields. Hosted by Ken Layne, with soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, plus some of our Pygmalion Festival appearance for good measure. It’s the goth time of year, after all: A time to speak of goth things, such as the occult practices and elaborately dreadful mourning of Mary Todd Lincoln.

It’s DESERT ORACLE RADIO EPISODE #140: IN THE TIME OF MOURNING. This show is supported by listeners like you, no joke & no lie. We’re at patreon.com/desertoracle and you can be, too.

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RedBlueBlackSilver has several albums you can steam online or purchase from his website. Maybe we’ll manage to get a Halloween Campfire Stories together. Sorry everybody flaked out on us, at the most important time of year! LISTEN ON THE RADIO, 10PM Friday Z107.7FM in Joshua Tree/Yucca/29, 9PM Saturday KZMU Moab/Castle Valley, 8PM Sunday on Snoqualmie valley’s 104.9FM.

EPISODE #139: HARVEST OF SOULS

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We’re back from the road with a new episode to celebrate the most glorious time of year: October, Autumn, Harvest, Fall, whatever you all it. It’s EPISODE #139: HARVEST OF SOULS. With new nocturnal gospel music from RedBlueBlackSilver, and strange tales phoned in from our listeners, recorded live in Chicago at Illuminated Brew Works Lodge #1.

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EPISODE #138: BLESSED ARE THE DOOMED

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Congratulations, you people! It is Fall. You made it. Might take another month or two, until you really notice, but summer is officially over.

It’s a new episode for a new season, with new soundscapes by you-know-who (RedBlueBlackSilver). It’s time for EPISODE #138: BLESSED ARE THE DOOMED. Thanks for supporting this program via Patreon.

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NEWS: Desert Oracle/Ken Layne will be performing live & recording an episode for broadcast at the PYGMALION festival in Urbana, Illinois. Friday, September 24, at 8 p.m. Festival tickets available now at PYGMALION. And reading from Desert Oracle, Vol. 1, at the literary event next door, Analog Wine Bar, 10 p.m.

CHICAGO: Live at Illuminated Brew Works Lodge #1, Sunday 9/26 7PM. Tickets are going fast for this one-night show in a newly opened 50-seat occult tap room.

EPISODE #137: BE LIKE THE BIRDS

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It’s officially Autumn, at least if you believe the meteorologists — Meteorological Fall began this week on September 1.

Portents and signs, everywhere we look. But signs of what? Oh, the usual: plague, disaster, but at least we have social media to make it all worse. New sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver, hosted by Ken Layne. It’s EPISODE #137: BE LIKE THE BIRDS. ALSO: Live-show announcements.

Did you know this show is supported by desert weirdos like you? Thanks to everybody who has joined our Patreon!

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NEWS: Desert Oracle/Ken Layne will be performing live & a recording an episode for broadcast at the PYGMALION festival in Urbana, Illinois. Friday, September 24, at 8 p.m. Festival tickets available now at PYGMALION. We are also about to announce a Sept. 26 show in Chicago!

EPISODE #136: FACES IN THE WINDMILLS

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Yul Brynner in 1973's Westworld

Summer’s in the rearview but robots are blocking the road. What kind of world is this? The world of the Future.

It’s time for Episode #136 of Desert Oracle Radio, with your host Ken Layne and soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver. Possibly on the radio tonight at 10 in Joshua Tree, definitely on Saturday night at 9 p.m. on KZMU in Moab and Castle Valley. We should really make a webpage with all the current stations, from Alaska to Vermont. We need to get one of these robots, first, to do the “boring and unpleasant tasks.”

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NEWS: Desert Oracle/Ken Layne will be performing live & a recording an episode for broadcast at the PYGMALION festival in Urbana, Illinois. Friday, September 24, at 8 p.m. Festival tickets available now at PYGMALION.

EPISODE #135: TWENTYNINE PALMS & A SIX-PACK TO GO

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Theatre29, Twentynine Palms CA

Tonight we come to you from Theatre29 in sweltering Twentynine Palms, California. Flash floods, heat domes, weird animals, RedBlueBlackSilver, what else could you want? Other than a livable planet, we mean. Thanks to everyone who came out for the live shows, and everyone who supports the show on Patreon or through magazine subscriptions or however you do it. Stay hydrated but please don’t attempt that by getting in the flash flood waters. about our July 10-11 2021 live shows at Theatre29 in Twentynine Palms. (Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.)

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It’s EPISODE #135: “TWENTYNINE PALMS & A SIX-PACK TO GO.” (And RedBlueBlackSilver already has a “pay what you like” recording of his set with Herb Benham IV out now on Bandcamp.)

Listen at 10 p.m. Fridays on Joshua Tree’s own KCDZ 107.7 FM, from Amboy to Zzyzx, or streaming from Z1077FM.com and Tune In. Get our fancy hardcover book, Desert Oracle, Vol. 1 (MCD/FSG Books.)

EPISODE #134: SUMMER RAIN, CROOKED DREAM

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to our Saturday, July 10 & Sunday, July 11 shows
at Theater29, Twentynine Palms, Calif.

Heat domes and sultry Palm Springs mornings, weird ravens and odd dreams of wildlife appearances. The brain boils in the desert summer. It boils our very thoughts. Plus: A late edition of the Desert Oracle Mailbag, and all you need to know about our July 10-11 2021 live shows at Theatre29 in Twentynine Palms. (Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.)

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It’s EPISODE #134: SUMMER RAIN, CROOKED DREAM.”

Listen on Joshua Tree’s own KCDZ 107.7 FM, from Amboy to Zzyzx, or streaming from Z1077FM.com and Tune In. Get our fancy hardcover book, Desert Oracle, Vol. 1 (MCD/FSG Books.)

EPISODE #133: STRAIGHT TO HELL

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to our Saturday, July 10 & Sunday, July 11 shows
at Theater29, Twentynine Palms, Calif.

Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many heroes had to get across alive. Or die trying: Moses, Laurence of Arabia, C-3PO and R2D2, Beavis and Butthead, Allan Quartermain, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

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New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver and a survival-training presentation by our friends at the U.S. Air Force. And yes we are returning to the stage, July 10-11, that’s a hot-as-hell Saturday and Sunday in Twentynine Palms. Tickets are $20 and they are going faster than free water bottle bottles at the visitor center.

It’s EPISODE #133: “STRAIGHT TO HELL.” With eerie new sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver.

Listen on Joshua Tree’s own KCDZ 107.7 FM, from Amboy to Zzyzx, or streaming from Z1077FM.com and Tune In. To hear Desert Oracle Radio on your community and/or public radio station, contact radio@desertoracle.com or get the show via PRX, Public Radio Exchange. Oh yeah and we’ve got a fancy hardcover book, Desert Oracle, Vol. 1 (MCD/FSG Books.)

EPISODE #132: WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG

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What happens when the perfect solo day hike becomes the ultimate disaster? How do we arrange things better, so that we don’t wind up feeding the vultures? Author Claire Nelson joins us to talk about her harrowing fall and long, long wait for help — a story of fear and bravery and figuring out your life, told in her new memoir, Things I Learned From Falling.

Time for EPISODE #132: WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG.” With trippy new sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver.

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Listen on Joshua Tree’s own KCDZ 107.7 FM, from Amboy to Zzyzx, or streaming from Z1077FM.com and Tune In. To hear Desert Oracle Radio on your community and/or public radio station, contact radio@desertoracle.com or get the show via PRX, Public Radio Exchange. Oh yeah and we’ve got a fancy hardcover book, Desert Oracle, Vol. 1 (MCD/FSG Books.)

EPISODE #131: THE HEAT MONSTER

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Well it finally happened, just like every year. All the sudden, it’s hot again. A week ago, it was pleasant out. Now, we cry in the frying pan. Or we will cry, in the weeks to come. October’s somewhere on the horizon. Unless it’s a mirage.

Plus: The Legend of Tahoe Tessie, which you can read about here in Alta Magazine. Time for EPISODE #131: “THE HEAT MONSTER.” With trippy new sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver.

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Listen on Joshua Tree’s own KCDZ 107.7 FM, from Amboy to Zzyzx, or streaming from Z1077FM.com and Tune In. To hear Desert Oracle Radio on your community and/or public radio station, contact radio@desertoracle.com or get the show via PRX, Public Radio Exchange. Oh yeah and we’ve got a fancy hardcover book, Desert Oracle, Vol. 1 (MCD/FSG Books.)

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