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Texas Overture
by Texas Overture
A "para-anthropology" podcast exploring mystical, psychological and paranormal phenomena throughout Texas history.
Episodes
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From the Archive: Hobos & Bozos (ft. Bill Daniel)
This week, we're excited to resurrect the first of several very special lost tapes from the Texas Overture archive. TO Episode 3: Hobos & Bozos with Bill Daniel Originally released on April 1, 2023, this is one of our favorite episodes—and one of a few we had to take down because they included…
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Minor Regional Artists (with Tessa Granowski)
Hey everyone🌠 In today's episode, we're joined by Tessa Granowski, the wonderfully curious curator behind Nature of Things. Earlier this summer, Faith hit the road to catch Tessa's show "Minor Regional Novelist" in Dallas, which explored themes of Texas regionalism, identity, and place through…
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Summer Dispatch (live at Barton Springs)
In this special edition of Texas Overture, we're bringing you a beautiful triptych of audio experience.. .We'll hear Faith's reflections on place and memory after a formative journey through New Mexico. Then, we check in on Camille as she processes her new volunteer experience with Austin's most...
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The Myth of Red Texas (with David Griscom)
Hey everyone, and welcome back… This week, we’re happy to sit down with author and political commentator David Griscom to discuss his debut book, The Myth of Red Texas: Cowboys, Populism, and Class War in the Radical South. There is a commonly held belief that conservatism and rugged…
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The Disappearing Pictographs
Hi everyone… we’re back! In this episode, we take a research trip down to the Texas-Mexico border to view a portion of the 335+ fading pictographs scattered across the rocky walls of Seminole Canyon… Through this, we discuss the work of artist Mary Virginia Carson and cognitive anthropologist and...
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A/C & The Endless Interior
After a two-year hiatus, Faith and Camille are finally back with a new episode of Texas Overture! In this installment, we go on a journey through time from 1920s San Antonio to 1950s Austin. We end up, of course, in the year of 2026, where we discuss how air conditioning has transformed both the...
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The Jewel of West Texas
We explore the life of "Border Healing Woman" Jewel Babb. Babb lived for nearly 90 years in the West Texas desert as a mystical healer, mother, and goat herder. Source: "Border Healing Woman" by Pat Littledog
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The Charmed Life of James Avery with Sam Cummins
Fellow Texan Sam Cummins of Nymphet Alumni fame joins us for our Valentines's Day special. Together we explore the life of a notorious Texas jeweler of legend. James Avery is known for his tinkling silver charm bracelets, sleazy love life, and vigorous Episcopalianism. We discuss the TX archetype...
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2024 Overture
2023... what a year! We catch each other up on our personal lives ( Faith journeyed to West Texas, Camille ritualistically burned effigies) then list the films, books and songs we had on heavy rotation in the past calendar year. Plus, as a special end of year treat, we answer select calls from TO...
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The Marian Apparition Episode
In honor of the Christmas season and the recent feast day, we pay respects to the Virgin Mary and her place in South Central Texas culture. We discuss Mary as a unifying maternal figures, Juan Diego and the Virgin de Guadalupe, Ingo Swann’s “The Great Apparitions of Mary,” and the implications of...
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West Texas Desert Forever
Wrangling tumbleweeds, we explore the deception and promise of the West Texas desert, Baudrillard, the mythology of Marfa, Donald Judd's unique criticism and minimalism, the viability of artist enclaves, the precarity of small towns, 10,000 year old clocks, the rise of 'instagrammable spots',...
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Spiritual Map of Texas
We're back -- and we're developing a Spiritual Map of Texas. Born from a dream Faith had, we each select a special TX location and unravel its many layers on historical, emotional, geological and geomagnetic levels...
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Conservation Burial with Campo de Estrellas
We are joined by friends from Campo de Estrellas, a conservation burial cemetery in Bastrop County. We discuss contemporary burial practices in Texas, climate concerns, the allure of lingering in cemeteries, being a good ancestor, memory in land, death in industrialization, and more. Companion...
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Jerry Hunt, The Synthesizer Shaman
We discuss legendary Texas artist Jerry Hunt, a pioneering presence in the development of electronic composition and experimental new music. Influenced by everyone from John Cage to John Dee, Hunt was a virtuosic pianist by trade who made his name through his experimental, interactive, and...
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"Don Pedro, Pray For Us"
We discuss the legacy of Don Pedro, the famous South Texan curandero, healer, and folk saint. We are joined by Ixa, a Texas woman whose great-grandmother actually studied under the man in question, for a broader discussion contextualizing modern spirituality, her family's experiences with 'the...
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Hot Wells & Healing Waters
We explore the glamorous and enterprising heyday of hot healing water resorts in Texas — from Mineral Wells to Marlin. Many of these places were built (late 1800s-early1900s) around natural, mineral imbued springs that were said to have a wide variety of benefits. The attracted everyone from...
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Prophetic Dreams & Precious Scents
In this special episode of Texas Overture, we break traditional narrative form to enact an eerie dream Faith had one fateful night. Armed with our metal detector and a reservoir of "summer feeling" we explore the rich and colorful scent pathways and silent forces of various outdoor locations in…
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Love & Orbs with Zoyd Wheeler
Zoyd Wheeler (@ShakenJack) joins us in the East Texas wilderness to discuss the Archives of the Impossible conference, inter-dimensional love, Husserlian phenomenology, the perils of tragic romance with orbs of light, Medieval mystics Hildegard of Bingen and Margery Kempe, near death experiences,...
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The Conference
A special bonus episode of Texas Overture... We break down our upcoming road trip to the big Archives of the Impossible Conference at Rice University.
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Cryptids of Texas with Ken Gerhard
We discuss the state of cryptozoology in Texas, industrial dance music, Texas Bigfoot, time slips, science, and "The Big Bird" with local cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard.
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The Mystic of Matagorda
We dive into alchemy, the unconscious, and the strange visionary life of Forrest Bess — the East Texas shrimp fisherman, outsider artist, and mystic.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A "para-anthropology" podcast exploring mystical, psychological and paranormal phenomena throughout Texas history.
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A "para-anthropology" podcast exploring mystical, psychological and paranormal phenomena throughout Texas history.
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