Just listen,

for Pete's sake

Mexico/Arizona
Palomas, Mexico
Street musicians in Mexico
Halloween ceremony in the desert
monkey chant
college graduation story
hitchhinking story by Iris
footsteps, chimes, metal cylinder
bix biederbecke
birds in Mexico
Thai Elephant Orchestra

 

It's that time of week again!!
 
What do you get when you cross vision with mission at the corner of thinkful wishin' and sacred transmission?
 
It's found artist Dain Daller in the great cross country epic No-Fi Field Guide. Sit back, set a spell, and listen to life as the wheel spokes, crickets, birdsongs and raindrops keep fallin' on your head.
 
It's a journey that explores.  Shouldn't you?

Mister Mississippi, Dain Daller, is preparing to set "sail" down the Ol' Muddy in an 80-foot raft with a bevy of Miss Rockaway sailors, then bike across the U.S. of A., all the while sending in his No-Fi field recordings for your listening pleasure.

Who said life isn't grand?

For some people, life is just an excuse to find art wherever they go, whether it's rain drumming on a tent, spokes spinning on a bicycle, thunder lashing out across the sky, goats, chickens, roosters, dogs, trains, violins, whispers, stories...

Yes, peeps du jour,

it's Dain Daller time.

Tune in, turn on,

and drop anchor.

where high art

flows thick as the Ol' Muddy.

Past archives.

This week on ICON Art Radio Bill and Allen interview Dave Butler, organizer of the Dodge Power Wagon Rally, and George Farrier, Wendell Phillip's sidekick on his famous expedition to Arabia in 1950 to find the Temple of the Queen of Sheba. Wendell Phillips is commonly understood to be the inspiration behind the "Indiana Jones" character.

The story of the adventure would make a great Hollywood film – getting the President of Chrysler to give them 17 Dodge Power Wagons, going where no westerners had tread, finding Sheba's Temple and its priceless artifacts, leaving 15 Power Wagons and many artifacts behind as they fled chased by armed tribesmen.

Iowa Contemporary Art (ICON), is presenting an exhibition celebrating the "Legendary Dodge Power Wagon and the Arabian Expedition" through July 21st.

ICON Art Radio airs Wednesdays 8:00 a.m., repeated Sundays at 8:00 a.m.

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