Episode 168: The Traveling Stones

Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 5:11 p.m.

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Music

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  • Ruby by Ali Farka Toure

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  • Party\\u2019s End, from Bernard Herrmann\\u2019s score to The Egyptian

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  • Future Green by Masuhiro Sugaya

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  • The Boy and the Snake Dance by Charles Cohen

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  • Vier Stucke for Xylophone as performed by Guniid Keetman

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  • Opening from Marcelo Zarvos\\u2019 score to Please Give

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  • Herbert\\u2019s Story from Mark Orton\\u2019s score to Nebraska

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  • Solitary Living by The Flashbulb

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Notes

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  • You should read Dan De Quille. He\\u2019s a good writer! I like his book on the Comstock Load, Big Bonanza.

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  • Also check out The Tall Tales of Dan De Quille, by C. Grant Loomis from 1946.

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  • I found this article about Twain\\u2019s time in Nevada particularly helpful.

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