Looking for America: A 20th Century Hero’s Journey

by Doug Elliott

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Looking for America: A 20th Century Hero’s Journey, Of Ginseng, Golden Apples, and the Rainbow Fish: Live at the National Storytelling Festival, Groundhog-ology (and Marmotabilia): Of Whistlepigs and World Politics, Crawdads, Doodlebugs and Creasy Greens: Songs, Stories, and Lore Celebrating the Natural World (American Library Association Notable Recording Award), Raccoon and a Possum – Stories And Songs ‘Specially For Young Folks, Bound for Carolina: A Musical Journey Celebrating the Plants, Animals and People of the Southeast, Everybody’s Fishin’: A Cross-Cultural Fishing Extravaganza, Sail on Honeybee: Adventures in the Bee Yard, and 1 more. , and , .

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1.	The Travel Urge and the Magic Token 07:09	buy track
2.	Standing by the Highway- Hitchiking New Jersey 12:02	buy track
3.	Homeward Bound 12:58	buy track
4.	"Turn Around -- we're going back." 06:57	buy track
5.	Factory Epiphany 05:58	buy track
6.	"I've Been Everywhere" 25:31	buy track
7.	Freight Train Hopping 18:26	buy track
8.	California Dreaming- Lessons in Harmonica, Yodeling and Taoism 07:51	buy track
9.	The Spruce Grouse 09:25	buy track

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We are all heroes and we are all on a mythic journey. Come on. Let’s go! The open road is calling! Grab your pack. Stick out your thumb. Climb aboard and join in on this modern mythic adventure. Travel with master storyteller, Doug Elliott, on a journey of discovery. These true cross-country hitchhiking and freight hopping tales, delivered in his own outrageous storytelling style, explore not only this amazing nation, culture and era we are a part of, but also the universal Hero’s Journey we all embarked upon at birth. You’ll be transported from congested northern freeways to sunny southern swamps and from the bowels of throbbing factories and big-city railroad yards to vast deserts and the high Rocky Mountains. You’ll meet astounding characters and hear rousing narratives and music ranging from gospel to 60’s rock, country and contemporary songs, including tunes by Leon Russell, Hank Snow, Jimmy Rogers and Country Joe and the Fish. It’s all textured with regional dialects, lively harmonica riffs, guitar, fiddle and soulful yodels. You’ll return from this rollicking journey of discovery with new insights, unusual perspectives and more than a few belly laughs.

Elliott has done some traveling. As a young man, he hopped freight trains and hitchhiked across the continent from Maine to California and from Canada to Guatemala. For most of a decade he was an itinerant herbalist traveling around the country with a van full of herbs, teas and old time remedies, and for a short time he was a migratory beekeeper hauling a trailer full of honeybees between North Carolina and Florida.

These days he travels around the country performing, teaching and telling stories. He has been featured at the National Storytelling Festival, the American Museum of Natural History in NY, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and the Smithsonian Institution. He has trained rangers for the National Park Service and guided people on wilderness experiences from Down-east Maine to the Florida Everglades.

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released April 26, 2020

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Whether he’s singing about catfish, pontificating on possums, extolling the virtues of dandelions, telling wild snake tales or wailing out a jivey harmonica tune — either on a backwoods trail or in a concert hall — Doug performs a lively collection of traditional tales, ancient legends, inspiring stories, folklore and outrageous personal narratives. ... more

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