With the help of special musical guests The Piners, Gina & Barnaby analyse the lyrics of bluegrass, heartland Maine anthem Lonesome Rider to uncover in which ways women+/* can be alone, lonely, lonesome, self-partnered, or whatever they want to be.

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The Piners. “Lonesome Rider”, The Piners, Brick House Music, 1999, track 2. Spotify, open.spotify.com/track/4xNhf5QFdU0kbYzd3EFw83?si=6ea0150eecc6433d

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The Vagitators Podcast is written, recorded and produced by Gina May Walter & Barnaby Alive.

Music & sound by Nina Guo: https://www.facesound.org/

 

Episode cover photo, curtesy of Suzanne Reichenbach