The Light Saw Me
Desert Oracle Radio
Ken Layne
4.9 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Take a look around, the void is closing in. Jason Boland joins us from Texas to talk about The Light Saw Me, the tale of a cowboy taken up into the sky—a tale told by Jason Boland and the Stragglers on their new record, which features some narration from our host Ken Layne.
As Hank Williams sang, "I saw the light." But what are those strange illuminations seen from Joplin, Missouri, to Marfa, Texas? And what crashed in Aurora a century ago. And just what did they bury up on Boot Hill?
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| 0:00.0 | Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, |
| 0:11.0 | now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert. |
| 0:16.9 | Night has fallen on the desert. |
| 0:21.7 | Our cold desert, the ground still damp in a lot of places for a change. |
| 0:31.8 | The days are noticeably a little bit longer now. |
| 0:38.0 | And two weeks since the solstice passed. |
| 0:45.1 | Passed over once again, praise the Lord. |
| 0:51.5 | A hymn of praise to Ra |
| 0:55.2 | When he riseth in the eastern part of heaven |
| 1:04.8 | What year is this |
| 1:06.6 | Well we are in the new one now. |
| 1:14.8 | The solar year. |
| 1:27.0 | We are at the beginning of a new solar year, and do not worry, we will get to the lunar year next month. |
| 1:35.4 | But the solar year began with the passing of the winter solstice, December 21. |
| 1:39.2 | No astronomy app required. |
| 1:44.4 | Just notice that special day is an especially short one. |
| 1:49.5 | And afterwards, the days get a little bit longer. |
| 2:00.6 | Before long, all this rain we've had is going to turn into a beautiful bounty of ragweed. but other stuff too. |
| 2:04.8 | Good stuff. |
| 2:06.0 | Maybe you'll have a good crop of desert dandelions this spring. |
| 2:12.5 | Dandelions for the sandy washes and the sandy shoulders of the back roads |
| 2:18.8 | and ragweed for the house flippers who scraped the lot |
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