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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

• 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

• Wiegenfield, S. 198 as played Khatia Buniastihivilli
• Van McCoy sings Mr. DJ
• Vier Stucke fur Xylophon
• Love is Blue by Jackie Mittoo
• Calvary by Quicksilver Messenger Service
• Tizita by Tijist Ejigu
• Violin Solo no. 1 by Peter Broderick
• Two Aquerelles 1. Slow
• The Hustle by Van McCoy
• Coffee Beans by Moondog
• Dogs of Straw from Larry Groupe’s score to Straw Dogs
• Flowering Jasmine by George Pelecis
• Visit Croatia by Alabaster DePlume
• Absence by Matti Bye

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• Adrift by Yameneko
• Lagrimas Negras by Antonio Maria Romeau
• Rainfall by Michael Jones and David Darling
• The Big Ocean by Ben Sollee

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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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• We start out with some of Pound for Pound from The Bad Plus
• Go to Waltz by Mother Falcon
• Into the Light by Marisa Anderson
• With Everything that Breathes by Greg Haines
• Day One Four by F.S. Blum and Nils Frahm
• Andrew Cyrille, Jimmy Lyons, and Jeanne Lee do Nuba
• And then Davis S. Ware does Mikuro’s Blues, which I’ve loved for a long time.

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NOTES
* The classic text on Charlie Faust is Lawrence Ritter’s The Glory of Their Times:the Story of the Early Days of Baseball as Told by the Men Who Played It, one of the key texts of early baseball history, first published in 1966.
* The definitive resource on Faust is Gabriel Schecter, who’s written his biography for SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research, and a monograph called Victory Faust: The Rube Who Saved McGraw’s Giants.
* I also want to point you to Rob Neyer’s lovely piece on visiting Faust’s grave.

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