A secret field that summons lightning. A massive spiral that disappears into a salt lake. A celestial observatory carved into a volcano. Meet the wild—and sometimes explosive—world of land art, where artists craft masterpieces with dynamite and bulldozers. In our Season 2 premiere, guest Dylan Thuras, cofounder of Atlas Obscura, takes us off road and into the minds of the artists who literally reshaped parts of the Southwest. These works aren’t meant to be easy to reach—or to explain—but they just might change how you see the world. Land art you’ll visit in this episode: - Double Negative and City by Michael Heizer (Garden Valley, Nevada) - Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson (Great Salt Lake, Utah) - Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt (Great Basin Desert, Utah) - Lightning Field by Walter De Maria (Catron County, New Mexico) - Roden Crater by James Turrell (Painted Desert, Arizona) Via Podcast is a production of AAA Mountain West Group.…
This is a fingertsyle piece - not a pick in sight. Sorry. It's my first attempt at arranging a song for solo guitar. That said, I did double track it (with intentional variances between tracks) due to a lack of confidence... The ultimate intent is for a harmonica playing friend of mine to add a harp track to this (once we figure the mechanics of long distance collaboration) but meanwhile I thought I'd post it here. As ever, it's my 30 year Yamaha FG335 with the laminate top and aging strings recorded into the Xmas toy (Tascam DP-004),…
This was a living room jam session I recorded when I lived in Phoenix AZ about 1986-87 with Jim Elam on the other guitar, Gavin Weiser on bass and lead vocal and me on my old Gibson J35. I started out the rhythm and everyone else just slowly joined in after they figured out what I was playing.
I really wanted to play this as a blazing flatpicking instrumental, but I didn't have the speed on it, so I went the completely opposite direction. BLUEGRASS PURIST WARNING: This is played in a Bossa Nova-style on a classical guitar with a harmonica player. NOOOOOOOOO!
Kind of a gipsy swing style with mandolin, guitar and bass. Music and words are of my own and thank God, I have in a PRO CD" of my own named BUSCANDO RAICES, thanks for listening.
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