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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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The second Wind listener survey!

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.

The Wind will be back in the fall -- thanks for listening.

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

Listen in the 99pi feed, or at https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-los-angeles-leaf-blower-wars/

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If you're new to The Wind:

Start with: "Prologue"

For politics of sound: "Whip Law" // "Judas Priest on Trial"

Music: "The Demon who Eats Demons" (Nepali death metal)

Music History: "Frontier Music" (western film scores)

Fan Favs: "Coyote" // "A Hobo, a Tramp, a Bum"

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Year 5 of The Wind coming this Fall/Winter.

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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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A tour of Himalayan metal music, from the ethnic-metal of Lakhey to Binaash's रमाइलो Death Metal. // दानव जो दानव खान्छ.

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The history of Mailer Daemon, a clip from Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata, Rumble: the Indians who Rocked the World, Charley Patton and the development of the blues, Link Wray, Stairway to Heaven Backwards and Lil Nas X. Plus, the final vote for a fiddle duel between a boy named Johnny and The Devil.

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Warning: this episode includes strong language and graphic descriptions of suicide. Make sure you're in the right place for that.

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