Episode 168: The Traveling Stones

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Music

Ruby by Ali Farka Toure

Party’s End, from Bernard Herrmann’s score to The Egyptian

Future Green by Masuhiro Sugaya

The Boy and the Snake Dance by Charles Cohen

Vier Stucke for Xylophone as performed by Guniid Keetman

Opening from Marcelo Zarvos’ score to Please Give

Herbert’s Story from Mark Orton’s score to Nebraska

Solitary Living by The Flashbulb

Notes

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

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

I found this article about Twain’s time in Nevada particularly helpful.