Cowboy poetry is often very structured. The good poets play with that structure and surprise you with twists or a pauses, jokes, word play. Henry’s poems do somethin’ else entirely. They feel like suddenly you’re walking down a path and you don’t know where it’s goin’, or if it’s goin’ anywhere, but it usually does and then you’re somewhere a little different and he says thanks and puts his hat back on and sits down in a chair at the back the stage.

The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering started in 1985, becoming an annual roundup of cowboys, ranchers, poets, artists and the many combinations therein, hailing from all parts the American west and sometimes beyond. Hosted by the Western Folklife Center, the gathering is always held in January/February when folks’ ranches are dormant. Elko’s oft-snowy streets are then marked by the soles of boots, mostly of the cowboy variety, some rounded, some pointed, and most of them pointing into the Western Folklife Center’s Pioneer Saloon, or up the front steps of the Elko Convention Center.

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A song bounces from slope to slope, emerging from the valley as an echo. Just of out earshot from Spokane Falls we meet star Taiwanese yodeler, Ho Lan.

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The word “transit” comes from the Latin “transitus”, meaning to pass across or through. Off the subway in Brooklyn, down the stairs into the busy green room of On Air Fest, we meet Jazmine (JT) Green.

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Thanks to: Eleanor Qull, Jemma Rose Brown, Ray Pang, all the folks at On Air Fest.

Jazmine's album "As A..." available here

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From the backroom of a Basque hotel in the Great Basin, Tuvan throat singing flows out through the bar, over the train tracks, and into the vast sagebrush steppes.

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Year 5 • Prologue -- notes on maintaining the desk and wandering far from the home mountain.

This year you'll hear more of the interviews left long form; more intact. More raw material, collected from the road.

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Plus, a guest episode from our friends at Twenty Thousand Hertz.

The guest episode is called Dias Irae, and I think it works as a companion piece to Devil Music.

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I reported another episode for 99% Invisible. It’s called The Los Angeles Leaf Blower Wars.

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In the season finale of Devil Music, we walk down to the crossroads to make a deal. 

Featuring: 

The myth of Bluesman Robert Johnson selling his soul at the crossroads.

Steven Johnson, president of the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation and grandson of Robert Johnson.

Chris Smith of the great podcast, Sounding History.

A trip to the cemetery in Compton, CA where Robert's guitar mentor Ike Zimmerman is buried.

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Aja defines the Satanic panic as 2 separate but connected things. First, a specific era in the 80s and 90s where moral hysteria spread and court cases about satanic ritual abuse lead to the very real imprisonment of innocent people. Second, the Santanic Panic is a mode of thought, a moral panic, whose framework continues to exist and sway legislation and public opinion to this day. 

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