Trailed by Twenty Hounds
Desert Oracle Radio
Ken Layne
4.9 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Hey did you hear we're going to open up the country again for May Day! We'll try, anyway. Try to get it going on Beltane Eve. Jason P. Woodbury joins us for another interesting tale about music made here in the American Desert, this time regarding longtime Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, who wrote a number of interesting lyrics about the legends and geography of the Southwest.
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| 0:00.0 | Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert. |
| 0:17.6 | Night has fallen on the desert? |
| 0:21.7 | Hey and did you hear the good news? |
| 0:25.0 | The good news about how we're going to open up the country again by Beltane, you know, |
| 0:33.0 | May Day, May 1st. |
| 0:36.1 | That would be a beautiful thing. |
| 0:40.8 | The thing about spring equinox, vernal equinox, |
| 0:46.8 | Vernal. |
| 0:47.6 | Vernal. |
| 0:48.9 | Vernal is kind of a dumb-sounding name. |
| 0:54.5 | I mean, sure, it's from Latin. |
| 0:59.0 | Vernis, that's nice. |
| 1:01.2 | Var and old Norse spring. |
| 1:03.6 | We get it. |
| 1:07.1 | But when you say Vernal, |
| 1:24.4 | especially up here in the high desert where I am, I mean just out here in Hicksville, you say Vernal and it sounds like somebody's cousin, you know? |
| 1:29.5 | Hey, your cousin has kind of been hanging around. |
| 1:33.7 | Upsetting my dogs. |
| 1:37.1 | Oh, you mean Vernal? |
| 1:40.0 | He don't mean nothing. |
| 1:43.0 | He's just out there smoking dope. |
| 1:43.9 | It ain't illegal. |
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