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🗓️ 8 February 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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“Jeff Davis County Blues” is a song with a particular meaning to Joseph's life. Julian Koster of The Music Tapes and The Orbiting Human Circus (of the Air) joins to share his dream-inspired cover.
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Credits: Joseph Fink (host), John Darnielle (host), Christy Gressman (producer), Grant Stewart (editor), Vincent Cacchione (mixer), Rob Wilson (logo). Produced by Night Vale Presents in collaboration with Merge Records and the Mountain Goats.
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0:00.0 | This is the notebook that I took to Ireland on the, and he was before Tallahassee was out, |
0:08.3 | but the first time that we went out, Peter and I went over there. |
0:11.2 | And then here's the original lyric, Two Riches and Wonders. |
0:13.2 | Oh wow. It has, I mean, seriously, this is what's really wild about some of the songs when I was Texas. |
0:20.4 | I don't think there's a previous draft of that. I think that's the amount of |
0:24.6 | correction that went into it. You've got one line, no, one line crossed out and |
0:29.4 | then like one word crossed out. Yeah. Invent has been changed to I learned because I think I noticed that I was going to need an event somewhere else. So there's that. There's also the fact that now I'm superstitious about pen colors and I won't write in blue or red. I will only write in black ink. |
0:43.7 | Interesting. And this was pretty clear back then I was like, I don't care. |
0:47.7 | Oh wait, no, there must have been a previous draft. You know how you can tell? I am healthy, I am whole, etc. |
0:55.0 | So there must have been a previous draft somewhere else. |
0:59.0 | I know there's a song that I never got written called You and Your Latin Jazz. |
1:03.6 | Like that one. |
1:05.6 | Yeah, I think this notebook went through a bunch of different iterations like it was at one point. |
1:11.6 | Yeah, then it becomes a Sun Sentry Notebook. |
1:16.7 | It went through like this one was around for four albums |
1:19.1 | and there's still a lot of blank paper in it. |
1:21.4 | It feels weird. |
1:22.1 | If I take one of these old notebooks and start writing new songs in it. It feels weird if I take one of these old notebooks and |
1:23.1 | start writing new songs in it it feels bizarre even though it's just paper. |
1:26.7 | I hate writing long hand and so all my stuff I have like all of my old stuff it you can tell it's the old stuff because |
1:34.3 | it's in word perfect rather than word wow I have like folders of word perfect files |
1:39.8 | I learned how to type at seven so basically I have been as long as I've been |
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