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Music

• Drywall from Johann Johannson’s score to Sicario.
• Castle Song by Green-House
• Tea by Resevoir
• La Valse du Progres by Delphine Dora
• Arrival by Domenique Dumont
• Sarah in Bath from Kryzystof Komeda’s score to Fearless Vampire Killers
• Thread of Light by Golden Retriever
• In Some Spirit World by Geotic

Notes

• This one was pulled together with tiny threads of information, much provided by the NCRA’s website itself. 
• You can find links to three fascinating (really!) studies on the brains of transcribers here, here, & here. 

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Music

• Hallway Rug and a bit of Watering Plants by Omni Gardens
• Dripping Icicles from Lalo Schiffrin’s great score to The Fox.
• Girl Talk by the Howard Roberts Quartet
• Jules et Therese from the score to Jules et Jim
• Franz Waxman’s main title theme to Woman of the Year
• Your Love from the legend, Frankie Knuckles
• Then we go back and forth between Joe Morello’s Timeless and Lara Downes playing Leonard Bernstein’s Big Stuff.

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Music

• La Copla from Atahualpa Yupanqui
• Yes, Brick by Brick and Waende by Caeys
• Space in Between by Federico Albanese
• Kieke by Shida Shihabi

Notes

• My favorite work on Mays is James Hirsch’s glorious biography, Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend. I also recommend John Klima’s Willie’s Boys, about the Black Baron’s 1948 season.
• If you’re looking to get more context for the city during those years, I’d recommend Diane McWhorter’s history, Carry Me Home. 

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Music

• Two from Lambert: Fremd and The Open
• Plantasia from Mort Garson’s amazing, ridiculous album of the same name.
• Two from Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans’ score to Christine: Paranoia and Newsroom. 

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Order Eliza McGraw’s wonderful new book, Astride: Women, Horses and a Partnership that Changed America. 

Music

• Hallogallo from Neu!, basically one of the best songs there is. 

Notes

• There is a lot written about Bessie, including some wonderful children’s books. The best thing I read about her was in Ann Farrar (a journalist and biker herself)’s book Hear Me Roar: Women, Motorcycles, and the Rapture of the Road. 

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Music

• Two versions of Good Morning Melody by Lullatone.
• Peter Maxwell Davies plays his own composition, Farewell to Stromness.
• Dominique Dumont plays Gone for a Wander

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Music

• Pure (Ride the World) by (the extraordinary) Brendan Eder Ensemble
• Violette… from Philippe Sarde’s score to Violette et Francois
• Merry-go-Round and People on Sunday by Domenique Dumont
• Dane by Nils Frahm
• Two different versions of Debussy’s Passepied, the piano one is performed by Seong-Jin Cho, the synth one by Isao Tomita
• Love from Matthew Herbert
• Memorial Park from Bernard Herrmann’s score to Obsession.
• Phantom Signals by Tvarvargen

Notes

• There’s plenty written about Ken Allen, but I particularly appreciated Jason Hribal’s book Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance.

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Notes

• Read about the change in policy here. And the article that helped prompt the policy change here. 

Music

• Pipeline by H.Takahashi
• Sad Seine by Lambert
• Dance PM by Hiroshi Yoshimura

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Music

• Traffico from Carlo Rustichelli’s score to Divorzio All’Italiana and Una Braveta, from his score to Amici Miei.
• Tema Grottesco from Giovanni Fusco’s score to L’avventura.
•  Gloving it from Moondog.
• Musica Bionda from the score to The Sweet Body of Deborah
• The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra plays Natascha from the score to The Perfect Marriage. 
• Waltz from the Brendan Eder Ensemble
• Christa Schonfeldinger plays Grieg’s Smarthold – der Kobold, on the glass armonica.

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Music

• Un geant dans la mer and Triste soiree III from the score to Marie et les naufrages by the genius, Sebastian Tellier. 
• Love is Blue by Jackie Mittoo and the Soul Vendors.
• Rocky Passage by Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer
• Morris Visits Dr. Pratt from John Barry’s score to The Wrong Box
• Adios Muchachos from Andre Popp
• Moonlight in Vermont from the great Dorothy Ashby. 
• Midnight Moon by The Portland Cello Project
• Dance PM by Hiroshi Yoshimura
• And we hear Blind Andy Jenkins’ “Floyd Collins in Sand Cave” followed by Vernon Dalhart doing the same song under the name, “The Death of Floyd Collins.” We also hear Jimmy Osbourne do Andy’s, “The Death of Little Kathy Fiscus.”

Notes

• I have a note in my years-long running list of possible story ideas that says, “event songs,” but I could never remember why. Then I was reading Charles Hirschberg and Mark Zwonitzer’s, Will You Miss me When I’m Gone?: The Carter Family & Their Legacy in American Musicand was reminded of Andy’s story (that book is great).
• I also recommend the always-useful, Country Music USA, by Bill C. Malone for more on Andy and his era as well as Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity by Richard A. Peterson.
• If you want more about poor Floyd Collins, you could turn to Robert K. Murray and Roger W. Bruckner’s, Trapped!: The Story of Floyd Collins.

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Music

• Una Bravata from Carlo Rustichelli’s score to Amici Miei.
• Sunshine on Fish Skin by Girls in Airports.
• The Vienna Glass Armonica Duo performs Mozart’s Adagio for Glass Harmonium.
• The Fellowship by John Shabason

Notes

• The best read on Mills is a 2022 article by Nate Hopper in The New Yorker about the challenges of keeping time on the internet.

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Music

• Dave Pajo/Aerial M does Plastic Energy Man
• Patricia Rossborough played To a Wild Rose
• Mal Waldron plays Warm Canto
• We hear Muff Gets a Share from Joel P. West’s score to Band of Robbers
• We hear another song I absolutely love, Turned Out I Was Everyone, by Sasami
• We finish on Popcorn and Life from Ben Sollee’s lovely score to Maidentrip.

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Music

• Rauelsson plays Mom, in Ukraine
• Group Listening plays Julie With
• Richard Birkin plays Vigil II
• Colleen plays Les Ondes Silencieueses
• Taylor Deupree and Marcus Fischer play Bell
• The Ensemble Rescerche plays Morton Feldman’s Something Wild in the City: Mary Ann’s Theme

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Music

• Feminist from Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurrian’s score to Christine.
• Under Siege from the great Warren Ellis’ score to Mustang
• Warm Canto from Mal Waldren
• M is for Man, Music, Mozart: the Eisenstein Song from Louis Andriessen’s De Stijl album.
• The them to Le Doulo from Paul Misraki
• Manny Returns Home from Bernard Hermann’s score to the Wrong Man

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Music

• By the Ash Tree and Semolina by Slow Meadow
• Opals by Catching Flies
• Mechanical Fair by Ola Kvernberg and the Trondheim Singers
• La Copla by the great Atahualpa Yupanqui
• Holm Sound by Erland Cooper

Notes

• You can find the original recordings, photos, and film clips taken on the 1935 expedition and after in the remarkable online library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
• Of the many books on the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, the one I enjoyed and relied upon most here is Phillip Hoose’s The Race to Save the Good Lord Bird.

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• We hear Armellodie by Chilly Gonzales
• And All Now Vibe by Tara Jane O’Neil

Notes

• The Lavender Scare by David K. Johnson
• Trouble in Lafayette Square by Gil Klein

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Music

• Cul-de-Sac from Krzysztof Komeda’s Knife in the Water.
• The Mistral Noir by Daniel Herskedal.
• Trakors by 1900.
• Eloy by Deaf Center.
• Leaping Dance from the Netherlands Wind Ensemble
• And Facing the Obstacles from Rob Simonson’s score to the Final Member.

Notes

• This episode relied heavily on the work and research of Professor Gabriel Rosenberg of Duke, using his article, “No Scrubs: Livestock Breeding, State Power, and Eugenic Knowledge in the Early 20th Century United States” as a guide and jumping off point for other research.

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• Waveland by Noam Pikelny.

Notes

• I relied a lot on the extensive articles on the Monticello historic home’s site maintained by the University of Virginia.
• As well as Dining at Monticello: In Good Taste and Abundance by Damon Lee Fowler.

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Music
*The first bit is a loop from the opening of a song called I. Permafrost by a long-defunct band called Jerseyturnpike made up of a husband/wife duo from San Francisco. Years ago, I went to their wedding in New Jersey. There was a bounce house. It was beautiful.
* The piece finishes up with the on-the-nose, This is Home, from Joel P. West’s soundtrack to the terrific film, Short Term 12.

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“Happy Land,” off of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ score for The Proposition. (Which is a great western).

“Becalmed,” off of Brian Eno’s Another Green World. (Which is a great, great record).

“Charu’s Theme.” Which is from a Satayajit Ray movie and, I just realized, from The Darjeeling Limited score (which might be my favorite Wes Anderson movie. Deal with it).

Arthur R. Kelley’s “Five Moods for Two Bassoons” as played by Dong-Yun Kwon & someone else (but I don’t need to tell you that, bassoon fan).

“Malice Aforethought” off of Calexico’s soundtrack to a movie called The Guard, which I haven’t seen but I like to imagine is an indie-rock Paul Blart Mall Cop.

and finally: “Wolkenschatten, op. 136: I Tranquillo” by 2-Chainz muse, Gebreuder Ohrentaub from the album, Four Brothers (which also features a four tuba-version of Ebony and Ivory, the Ebony is represented by the brass keys of a tuba, the ivory is also represented by the brass keys on a tuba).

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