Happy Ides of March, happy St. Patrick’s Day, Spring Equinox, and happy five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdown — the beginning of it anyway: 15 days to slow the spread . . . not a great slogan, for what it cost, but that’s what we got. Much of the world is much the same as it was five years ago. Same iPhone, same president, same daylight savings time. Where did the lockdown time go? What did it do to us?
We’ve all been dreaming a lot more than usual, or so it seems. But what happens when we all begin dreaming the same dream? #086: NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET, a new 28-minute episode, with a new soundscape track by RedBlueBlackSilver. Sounds best on the radio at night but you can listen now, because it goes well with a rainy desert day, too.
Hey did you hear we’re going to open up the country again for May Day! We’ll try, anyway. Try to get it going on Beltane Eve. Jason P. Woodbury joins us for another interesting tale about music made here in the American Desert, this time regarding longtime Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, who wrote a number of interesting lyrics about the legends and geography of the Southwest.
Arthur Magazine, mentioned by Jason in this episode, was an important and influential music/culture nationally distributed magazine edited by Joshua Tree’s own Jay Babcock. The blog archives are well worth perusing!
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