Adam Forkner squishing us near Lajitas, TX. Photo by Curtis Knapp.

A year ago we were building fires, doing chores, and making new music and visions out in the Far West Texas desert, under the bright sunlight and the otherworldly Night Lights. Now, 12 months later, we've gone all around the world and back to Marfa, TX, to present the music we recorded out there to a conclave of strangers and friends alike. This time around we brought White Rainbow and a crew of ghost riders with us to introduce them not only to this desolate and psychedelic part of the world, but also to give them a first hand experience of the transcendent shit we've been rambling on about since we left.

In addition to returning to our temporary 2008 home of Marfa, Texas, we were blessed with the opportunity of a second desert-lizard show in the "ghost town" of Terlingua. Vance Knowles, the music and film director of Ballroom Marfa (the arts organization that brought us to Texas) called us a week before we landed in Marfa and asked us if we wanted to drive down to Terlingua the day after our Ballroom performance to play another show. He explained to us that Terlingua is where people go when they think Marfa is too uptight. We found that this is true.

The only thing we knew about Terlingua was nothing. I mean, we'd seen the word on the Jerry Jeff Walker record Viva Terlingua, but that's all. In any case, 20 or so Marfians followed us down and as seen in the following video, things got weird. Boyd Elder baptized us all in synch to our music. Dogs ran wild, dusty locals danced hard, Adam and Jona DJed the instant after party at the end of the Earth. Da Stanky Leg echoed across the canyons all the way to Mexico.

Sincere gratitude to everyone for setting us up, printing beautiful art-object posters, BYOBing, dancing, hanging out, taking us on long drives, getting us presents, picking us up when our car ran out of gas, and making us feel welcome in our adopted metaphysical hometown. We've already had a powerful start to 2009, and it wouldn't have felt right without Marfa.

Extra gratitude to Ross Cashiola, Vance Knowles, Gory Smelley, Rob Crowley, Boyd Elder, all of Ballroom Marfa, and all of La Posada Milagro.

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