Year 2 • Prologue

Hey all, Fil here. Very excited to share Year 2 of The Wind with you. I’ve spent the year commuting to my desk in the woods and continuing my practice of listening. Truthfully, this season was a difficult one to put together — lot’s of creative block and doubts in tandem with the really heavy fire season. And true to form, it turned out completely different than what I set out to make. Fire, wind and change.

And just a note, it’ll be a different release schedule this year. Instead of weekly, a new episode will release about every 2 weeks. I’m going to experiment with more free-form timing, and possibly leave the season open ended so I can add more episodes later.

Lastly a huge thanks to Emily Pratt, Mark Nesbitt, Eleanor Tullock, Erica Wirthlin, Joey Lovato, Sierra Jickling, Em Jiang, Mike Corbitt, Noah Glick at KUNR, Tom Snider at KWNK, NV Humanities, and Mike Branch, (and surely a few folks I’ve forgotten to list).

Thank you for being here, subscribe and review if you’d like, and remember to keep listening.

Bonus Episode: Jessica Bruder (Nomadland)

NOTE: if you’re new to The Wind, head to the PROLOGUE at the bottom of the feed.

For everyone else, this is the first Bonus Episode:

A conversation with Nomadland author Jessica Bruder from February 2020.

Thanks to Nevada Humanities who brought Jess to Reno and who lent me the book.

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Jessica Bruder • Website

Nomadland • Book / Film

Tags, Topics and Mentions: Nomadland, Jessica Bruder, Jess Bruder, Nomadland Film 2020, Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May, Charlene Swankie, Chloé Zhao, Rubber Tramp Rendezvous, Nevada Humanities, Empire, Empire Nevada

A Shout Across the Valley

How did the mythic western cowboy learn to yodel?

The unlikely history of voice breaking in American music, and what it says about us.

The final episode of The Wind Year 1

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Dom Flemons • Website • Black Cowboys

Sourdough Slim • Website

Tim Wise • Yodeling and Meaning in American Music

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“Yodeling, with its function of being a being a field holler that can communicate from long distances, it’s a natural fit for the Cowboys.” - Dom Flemons

A huge thanks to Tim Wise, Dom Flemons, Sourdough Slim, The Western Folklife Center, The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Andy Hedges of Cowboy Crossroads, KWNK, The JT in Gardnerville Nevada, and to Joey Lovato, Emily Pratt, Erica Wirthlin, Sam Greenspan, Eleanor Tullock, Anjeanette Damon, Mike Corbitt, Rose McMackin, Anton Anger, Em Jiang, Riley Harrison, Luka Starmer, Sierra Jickling, Sydney Martinez, Robin Amer, Ray Pang, Ashlea Goff, everybody who howled into the phone for “coyote”, Daniel Rothberg, Tim Lenard, Evan at Podcast Delivery, James Cridland at Podnews, Lauren Passell from Podcast The Newsletter, Nevada Humanities, and everybody else who reached out or just listened this first year.

Tags, Topics and Mentions: Dom Flemons, Sourdough Slim, Tim Wise, Yodeling and Meaning in American Music, Yodeling, Yodel, Cowboy Yodel, Western Yodel, why do cowboys yodel, swiss yodeling, swiss american singers, german folk singing groups, minstrel shows, vaudeville, black vaudeville, the blues, early american music, jimmie rodgers, yodel hole, history of yodeling, singing cowboys, charles anderson, musical theater, vocal technique, shouting across the valley, livestock, field hollers, yips, yaps, yeehaw, vast landscapes, keening, yodle, gene autry, dezurik sisters, cowboy music, national cowboy poetry gathering, elko nevada, elko, winters california, accordion

Time Flies

A fountain of youth, Hermeto Pascoal, a clock store - written and recorded by Eleanor Qull

The penultimate episode of The Wind Year 1

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Tags, Topics and Mentions: Time, Fountain of Youth, Slide Mountain, Dewsù‘i’iš dala’ak, Nevada, Mt. Rose Wilderness, fluttering automaton, clocks, time, time flying, Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian Octopus, Música da Lagoa, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Huun Huur Tu, Throat Singing, Bodies, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Hollywood Sign, Canyon, Metronome, automated time, Willie and Waylon, Sheep herders, Sierra Nevada, Cowboys, Youth