Goth cabaret band Dust Bowl Faeries have kept making music through The 2020 Plague. On their latest record, The Plague Garden, the songs draw from New Orleans Voodoo rituals, Eastern European music, traditional Yiddish folk song, and vaudeville. The band members play all sorts of instruments from accordion to singing saw, lapsteel guitar to ukulele and the band's leader, Faerie Queen Ryder Cooley, may have a checkered past of using instruments as weapons, nay – machines, like Woody Guthrie. With conversation about childhood trombone traumas and full hip-wading fishing, Hudson Valley hauntings and exorcisms, and the demon cat, Hieronymous, Dust Bowl Faeries join us and play remotely for the podcast.

Set list: "Vampire Tango," "Dustbowl Caravan," "Candy Store"

"Vampire Tango,":

"Dustbowl Caravan":

"Candy Store":