The Modern West
The Modern West Podcast Somewhere on the great prairies of Wyoming, Montana or South Dakota, I reach for my Spotify phone. The hum of the highway, the whoosh of the constant wind and the crackling of my blown out truck speaker have kept me in a borderline-meditation state for the last three hours of driving, but now I have resurfaced and need entertainment. I pull off into a truck parking area and rummage in the console for the old Samsung with no calling or texting capability, a cracked screen, dying battery and only two important apps; Spotify and Voice Recorder. The device is slow as molasses and the touch screen is fading, but this little black box holds an entire roadtrip soundtrack. I have my playlists of all genres from Montana songwriters to New Orleans Jazz, all with silly names to help me remember which is which. Motor Breath is the heavy metal playlist for traffic jams and thunderstorms. Hobgoblins is the underground hip hop playlist for late nights. Johnny Bicycles is in