Absolutely Everything’s Nothing Something (Part I)

A Muddy Boots Production Sound Painting by Tenali Hrenak ​

Going where sneakers never will…

Overview

More often than not, host Black Hole Tenali likes to present a theme based episode, such as dreams, philosophy, animals, seasonal, and so on. This go-around, however, it's going to be completely different. How so? Well, think of it as an anti-theme. An episode about nothing, or maybe it's about everything, or something. So, maybe this is all a put on and there actually is a theme. Ultimately, it seems that everything’s nothing something, too. Is it all a word-play mystery? You'll just have to listen to find out. For archives + info, please check out muddybootsradio.org ​ I’d be honored if you subscribed + left a rating/review on iTunes ​

Track List

A Side 1. The Carter Family - Hello Stranger John's Old Time Show ​ 2. Ken Nordine - Sound Museum Best Of Word Jazz ​ 3. Yaseen and Mimi - Nalihi Tafuta Excavated Shellac ​ 4. Sonny Terry - Touch It up and Go Good Time Blues: Harmonicas, Kazoos, ​ Washboards & Cow-Bells 5. South Georgia Highballers - Mister Johnson Turn Me Loose Turn Me Loose ​ Outsiders of Old-Time Music 6. Wafadare babee Hun - Niaz Ahmed Barrailiwale (PAKISTAN) Hear Your Favourite ​ Artists: ShellacHead Annual 2016 7. Ezra Buzzington's Rustic Revellers - Brown Jug Blues Gennett Jazz ​ 8. Ken Nordine - What Time Is It? How Are Things In Your Town? ​ 9. The Brute Force Steel Band - Mambo Jambo Brute Force Steel Bands of Antigua ​ 10. Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band - President Blues Memphis Shakedown: ​ More Jug Band Classics, [Disc 1] 11. The Chap Ayam Orkest / Pancharan Muda Kr. Party / Miss Rohani - Dondang Sayang Part 1 [Love Song, Part 1] Longing for the Past: The 78 rpm Era in Southeast ​ Asia

B Side 1. Blind Willie McTell - Georgia Rag Great Blues Guitarists: String Dazzlers 2. Conjunto Matamoros - Bailare Tu Son (Cuba) ShellacHead Annual 2014: Tropical ​ Sound Waves 3. Hattie Snow with Syd Valentine & His Patent Leather Kids - Make That Gravel Fly Gennett Jazz 4. Raja Ali - om Bel Hawa Ya Nas Walaoni (They Made Me Fond of Love) Qat, Coffee ​ & Qambus - Raw 45s from Yemen 5. The Mellow cats - Rock A Man Soul (The Mellow Cat) Jamaica Folk Trance ​ Possession - Roots Of Rastafari 1939-1961 6. Amede Ardoin - Two-Step de Eunice Folk Music in America, Vol. 14 - Solo & Display ​ Music 7. Bat The Humming Bird - Humming Blues Down In Black Bottom: Lowdown ​ Barrelhouse Piano 8. Ken Nordine - Down The Drain Best Of Word Jazz ​ 9. Moondog - Autumn Moondog ​ 10. Shelor Family - Big Bend Gal R. Crumb's Heroes Of Blues, Jazz & Country ​ 11. Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band - Ko-Ko-Mo Blues (Take 2) Memphis ​ Shakedown: More Jug Band Classics, [Disc 1] Instrumental Backing (Bed Music) A Side Intro: leng Tep Bantum - Pinpeat Ensemble (CAMBODIA)- Casbah Hear Your ​ Favourite Artists: ShellacHead Annual 2016 A Said End: Cuartetto Iberia - Zacataque Secret Museum Of Mankind Vol. 2: Ethnic Music ​ Classics: 1925-48 B Side End: Bayati Shiraz - Husni Irani (IRAN) Hear Your Favourite Artists: ShellacHead ​ Annual 2016

Notes

❖ Excerpts from The Masks, an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone + the film Charade (1963) ​ ❖ Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce ❖ Random audio bits and pieces from my bag of tricks are splattered throughout each episode, including, but not limited to: toy pianos, mouth harps, music boxes, a rainbow slinky, ocarinas, gongs, bells, duck calls, wind up toys, a concertina,

service bells (DING!), a pump organ, cat friends, singing bowls, shakers, found objects, bamboo flutes, organ grinder, wine glasses, kazoos, a glockenspiel, field recordings, megaphones, shruti boxes, train whistles, crow calls, vinyl cut-ups, and what have you. ❖ Mark Twain invented a board game called Mark Twain's Memory Builder: A Game for ​ Acquiring and Retaining All Sorts of Facts and Dates. ​ ❖ Muddy Boots site/podcast is a playful and rebellious Bard (Guardian). They have pecan eyes, a dark complexion, and curly golden-blond hair pinned neatly back. They are very tall, quite thin, and their duty attire resembles an elegant auditory uniform in coffee and copper colors wrapped in mystic hazelnut bows. They roam about wearing a cinnamon colored cape. Their preferred weapon is a Tibetan Gong and their mission is to find a legendary sound and defeat a genocidal king. Tune in and join the quest - because we can do more together than any of us can do on our own.