74. Kingfisher, Part 6

A Hopeless Endeavor: A Joanna Newsom Podcast

The penultimate episode of the longest series we’ve ever done on a song. Thank you so much if you’re still listening. Thank you so much to Katie for the brilliant voice memo. Here is the excellent Blessing All the Birds article: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/171895685753/kingfisher-lie-with-the-lion-arthurian-threads/amp. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. Our email is [e-mail]. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. Thank you so much, as always, to David Pizarro for his sick beats, and for doing the audio processing every single week. Here is a link to all his Joanna beats on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mA6TgWNi9EDhDt2C7. “We came by the boatload, and were immobilized: worshipping volcanoes, charting the loping skies. The tides of the earth left us bound, and calcified, and made as obstinate as obsidian, unmoving, save our eyes: just mooning and blinking from faces marked with coal. (Ash cooling and shrinking cracks loud as thunder rolling.) I swear I know you. You know me. Where have we met before? Tell me true: to whose authority do you consign your soul?”