Sitting around the campfire in Wadi Rum smoking a hooka with our guide, Ahmed, watching the stars and playing a little guitar.

Wadi Rum, Jordan,  Aug 1, 2014. "Desert Blues"

A recording of the Dead Sea's syrupy waves near midnight, looking at the lights over Jerusalem from the Eastern shore in Jordan. 

The Dead Sea Near Midnight, Aug 3, 2014

A short recording of the reeds blowing at the site of Jesus' baptism on the River Jordan.

Jordan River, Aug 4, 2014

Dave Deacon: fiddle
Sean M. Conrey: Guitar
Michael Grimm: Harmonica
Brandon Murphy: Guitar
Andrew Bender: Drum

"Sally In The Garden" at Emily and Brandon's Wedding

"Somnium Clementinum" by Mercury City Suburbs

Using initial recordings made from a Korg Littlebits Synthesizer, this track has lyrics taken from the Youtube auto-captioned lyrics of Nimrod Workman's "Mother Jones Will" (available through the Alan Lomax archive), passed through the iVona text reader. Drums are programmed on the WebAudio Drum Machine, bass derived from Garageband, and Telecaster guitars performed live. 

"Nimrod Workman" by Mercury City Suburbs

Recorded using a Korg Little Bits synthesizer run through a Donner Yellow Fall Delay. See video for tune at: https://youtu.be/E3uge8Ww7S8

"Even the Law of Gravity is Behaving with Lamentable Levity" by Mercury City Suburbs

"Telescope" by Mercury City Suburbs

A clip from the NPR show Savvy Traveller with Rudy Maxa. The theme of the episode, which aired on May 22, 1999, was "Travel Music," and I had called in with a story about how the Steve Miller Band's Greatest Hits was the middle ground for everyone on the school bus that we rode from Jackson, Michigan to Utah, Arizona and Colorado for a backpacking trip in the summer of 1990.

Savvy Traveller "Jacktown Packers/Steve Miller Band Story" May 22, 1999

For about 6 weeks in 1996, then production director at 92.3 Radio X (based in Kalamazoo, Michigan) Sean M. Conrey (on-air pseudonym "Tad Sinic") produced a daily music news magazine covering recent news in the "alternative rock" world. Here are two episodes from May of that year. There is an archive of all six weeks on reel-to-reel tape in the attic...just need to digitize them.

Sean Conrey

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