Cowbells and Ding Dongs

By Cindy Marabito

Cowbells and Ding Dongs is a podcast with its big toe stuck in Austin, Texas and not the Austin, Texas they tell you about. It's the real deal underbelly in Austin, Texas where we peel back the linole... more

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The podcast currently has 88 episodes available.

Cowbells and Ding Dongs episodes:

July 01, 2023 To Hold a Pen
Jody looks back.
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7min
September 21, 2019 Chapter One - Grace
This is the first chapter of Jackson, the novel when Jody, her dad, Clyde and her little sister, Willie visit the girls' mother, Grace at Rusk State Hospital on Christmas night, 1969.

Listen to Joan Baez singing 'In the Pines' at the close of this episode.

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29min
September 20, 2019 Chapter Two - Christmas '69
In the second chapter of Jackson, Jody, Clyde and Willie face the wrath of the Luther family on Christmas night.

Listen to Hank Williams' "I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry" at the end of this episode.

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18min
September 19, 2019 Chapter Three - Sojourn
Jody, her mother, Grace and sister Willie leave Jackson on a Greyhound bus in the middle of the night one step ahead of the law.

Listen to Tracy Chapman "House of the Rising Sun" at the close of this chapter.
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17min
September 18, 2019 Chapter Four - Jackson
Jody and her family reach Jackson and meet the Dupree family.
Listen to Florence and the Machine's killer version of "Jackson" with Josh Homme at the close of this chapter.
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23min
September 17, 2019 Chapter Five - Meet the Duprees
Jody, Grace and Willie have a strange dinner with the Duprees and learn some horrifying things.

Listen to Huddy Ledbetter's "Goodnight Irene" at the close of this chapter.
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16min
September 16, 2019 Chapter Six - Daisy
Jody and Willie tour Jackson and meet Daisy at the Jackson Zoo.

Listen to Nina Simone's "I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free" at the close of the chapter.

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32min
September 15, 2019 Chapter Seven - Melvin
Jody attends the first day of school at the rich white high school, Murrah, crossing a policed barricade to go to class.

Listen to Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes "Wake Up Everybody" featuring Teddy Pendergrass at the close of the chapter.
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27min
September 14, 2019 Chapter Eight - North State
Jody reports for duty at her new after school job.....at the selective service. Shit's about to get real.

Listen to "Green River" by Creedence Clearwater Revival at the close of this chapter.
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25min
September 14, 2019 Chapter Nine - Eudora
Jody and Melvin dig deep at the library to discover what really happened to Emmett Till and Jody meets an icon.

Listen to Frank Ocean's heartbreaking cover of "Moon River" at the close of this chapter.
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17min

FAQs about Cowbells and Ding Dongs:

How many episodes does Cowbells and Ding Dongs have?

The podcast currently has 88 episodes available.