Buzzard Dust: Aluminum — 62 Tracks, Nearly Two Hours of Appalachian Folk, Bluegrass & Dead Air
The second full-length installment of the Buzzard Dust Mixtape series has arrived.
Following Buzzard Dust: Copper, the project continues with Buzzard Dust: Aluminum — a bigger, stranger, and considerably longer entry in the series, running 62 tracks across one hour and fifty-eight minutes.
This isn’t simply a collection of songs. Aluminum is built as a full broadcast experience set within the fictional world of WDAR 99.6 Dead Air Radio, complete with station identification, advertisements, intermissions, definitions, farm reports, lost-and-found announcements, and a steady stream of Appalachian music. In short, it’s an album that doesn’t behave like an album.
What Is Buzzard Dust: Aluminum?
Buzzard Dust: Aluminum is the latest full-length installment in the Buzzard Dust Mixtape series. It weaves together Appalachian folk, bluegrass, old-time Americana, lo-fi recordings, backwoods music, fictional radio programming, and satire into one continuous broadcast.
The idea behind Buzzard Dust has always extended beyond simply sequencing songs together — it’s about building a place: a fictional corner of the American South where old music, strange characters, questionable advertisements, roadside businesses, homemade recordings, and late-night radio transmissions all coexist. WDAR 99.6 Dead Air Radio is the voice of that place.
The result feels less like an album and more like tuning into a strange radio station somewhere out in the hills. A bluegrass song. A cigarette advertisement. A station identification. A farm report. A song about bad decisions. A Dead Air Definition. An advertisement for something nobody should probably buy. Then another song. You simply keep listening.
62 Tracks. One Broadcast.
At 62 tracks and nearly two hours, Aluminum is considerably more expansive than a conventional album. The broadcast features music from a wide roster of contributing artists, including Billy Wayne Goins, Harlan Pritchard, Barry Buhgs, Kenny Lyons, Doc Rutledge, Emmitt Odem, Justin Bray, Neven Cochran, The Red Clay Ramblers, Jesse Goggins, The Ricky Sprague Band, Lula Mae Carpenter, Byron Pelson, Russell Brown, Johnny Lee Winslow, Uno, Johnny Downs, Brent Tittle, The Muskegon Brawlers, Jed Clayborn, Micheal Smith, Everett Smiles, Christopher Jameson, Gary Monroe, Amos Treadwell, Tiny Addams, The Froggies, Brook Thompson, Elmer Odems, Timmy Marquette, Caleb Marshall, Chris Hill, Matt Adams, Jesus Anderson, Charlie Ray Jones, Peckerwood Woody, and Zac Strickland.
There’s a lot of ground covered across those nearly two hours. Some tracks are rooted firmly in folk and bluegrass tradition. Others wander into stranger territory. Some sound like they might have been sitting on a shelf for decades; others feel like they wandered into the broadcast by accident. That’s intentional — Buzzard Dust isn’t trying to sound like one polished genre. It’s trying to sound like a world.
Welcome to WDAR 99.6 Dead Air Radio
One of the biggest differences between Buzzard Dust: Aluminum and a conventional album is what happens between the songs. WDAR isn’t simply there to announce the next track — it has its own programming. Throughout the broadcast, listeners encounter fictional advertisements and radio segments including:
- WDAR Buzzard Dust Non-Filter’d Cigarettes
- WDAR Chill n’ Fill
- WDAR Dead Air Definitions
- WDAR Farm Report & Lost n’ Found
- WDAR Dingleberry Chocolates
- WDAR Cokehead Mattress Fort Studios
- WDAR Invisible Suspenders
- WDAR Cokeheads Pocket Sized Front Porch
- WDAR Uncle Earl’s Problem Juice
- The WDAR Buzzard Dust Tobacco Company Theme Song
There are also station identifications, intermissions, and the kind of unsolicited explanations that probably should have stayed off the air. These segments aren’t filler between songs — they’re part of the album.
The Advertisements Are Part of the Story
Traditional albums generally try to keep the listener inside the music. Buzzard Dust does nearly the opposite, deliberately breaking the fourth wall. A song might be followed by a completely ridiculous advertisement. A fictional radio personality might interrupt the music. WDAR might decide it’s time for a definition of satire. Then, without warning, the music starts again.
The interruptions create the feeling of listening to an actual broadcast rather than a carefully organized playlist — there’s a bit of chaos to it, and that’s part of the fun. The fictional businesses and products also help build out the larger Buzzard Dust universe: Chill n’ Fill, Buzzard Dust Tobacco, Dingleberry Chocolates, Cokehead Mattress Fort Studios, Invisible Suspenders, Uncle Earl’s Problem Juice. They’re all pieces of the same strange world. You don’t necessarily need to understand all of it — just stay tuned.
From Copper to Aluminum
Buzzard Dust: Aluminum follows Buzzard Dust: Copper as the next major installment in the series. Where Copper established the format, Aluminum pushes further into the idea of a continuous radio transmission. The two releases are connected by the larger Buzzard Dust identity, but each broadcast has its own songs, personalities, advertisements, interruptions, and strange little moments. The goal isn’t for every installment to sound identical — it’s for every installment to feel like another transmission from the same universe.
With Aluminum, the broadcast has gotten considerably longer. At nearly two hours, this is something you can put on and let play — while working, while driving, while sitting on the porch, or simply in the background while you wait to hear what WDAR decides to say next.
A Mixtape With an Old Radio Soul
There’s something about old radio that fits the Buzzard Dust concept naturally. Before music became something instantly searchable, sortable, and algorithmically recommended, discovering music could mean simply turning a dial and seeing what you found. A song you knew. A song you’d never heard before. A commercial. A news report. A strange local announcement. A station identification. Then another song.
That unpredictability is what Buzzard Dust: Aluminum is trying to recreate — not a historically accurate radio broadcast, but the feeling of stumbling across something unexpected. WDAR just happens to be considerably less professional than the radio stations of old.
The Sound of Buzzard Dust
The music throughout the Buzzard Dust series draws heavily from the traditions of Appalachian folk, bluegrass, old-time music, Americana, country, and primitive string-band sounds, while also embracing lo-fi textures and deliberately rough edges. It’s music that doesn’t require everything to be polished. There’s room for imperfection, room for humor, room for songs that sound like they belong on a front porch alongside songs that sound like they shouldn’t have gone near a microphone in the first place.
That mixture is what gives Buzzard Dust its character — old-fashioned in some ways, experimental in others, and intentionally ridiculous when it needs to be.
Listen to Buzzard Dust: Aluminum
The complete Buzzard Dust: Aluminum broadcast is available now on YouTube as a continuous one-hour-and-fifty-eight-minute transmission.
🎧 Buzzard Dust: Aluminum — Full Album
62 Tracks | 1 Hour 58 Minutes | Appalachian Folk, Bluegrass
http://www.YouTube.com/@TumbleDweeeb
If you’re listening for the first time, start at the beginning and let the entire broadcast run. Don’t skip the advertisements, the intermissions, or the station IDs — they’re part of the experience. Listen to the whole transmission.
The Complete Tracklist
Time Track 00:00 WDAR Intro — The Tubes Are Still Warm 00:14 WDAR Buzzard Dust Non-Filter’d Cigarettes — Standing Outside Doing Nothing 00:29 The Wolf — Billy Wayne Goins 02:57 Bad Luck — Harlan Pritchard 04:33 WDAR — Feedin’ the Bugs Intro 04:46 Feedin’ the Bugs — Barry Buhgs 07:47 And Y’r Point Is? — Kenny Lyons 09:51 Bullseye — Doc Rutledge 13:28 WDAR Chill n’ Fill Advertisement — Highway 72, Buzzard Roost Alabama 15:13 WDAR Dead Air Definitions — Satire 17:05 WDAR Nosey Intermission 18:12 Ed Martin — Emmitt Odem 19:43 Signs — Justin Bray 22:24 Rhett from Ceará — Neven Cochran 24:44 WDAR Farm Report & Lost n’ Found 26:43 WDAR Drunkard Intermission 27:34 Well Now — The Red Clay Ramblers 29:08 She Swears She’s Single — Jesse Goggins 31:50 Envy Never Sleeps — The Ricky Sprague Band 35:44 Over and Over Again — Lula Mae Carpenter 36:59 WDAR Buzzard Dust Non-Filter’d Cigarettes — Block the Doctors 38:07 WDAR Dingleberry Chocolates — Fresh Off the Dingleberry Tree 39:29 Walk — Byron Pelson 42:10 WDAR Station Identification — Good Luck Asshole 42:24 Yella Dog — Russell Brown 44:15 Pot Likker — Russell Brown 47:41 Cocaine Carolina — Johnny Lee Winslow 52:21 County Line Common Sense — Uno 54:44 WDAR Envy Never Sleeps — Neither Does The Devil 55:38 WDAR Unwanted Explanations — Artist Integrity 58:09 WDAR Cokehead Mattress Fort Studios — We Charge Just As Much As The Pros 59:43 Fuck Your Mattress Fort — Johnny Downs 01:01:19 Tin Weasel — Brent Tittle 01:04:31 WDAR Dead Air Definitions — Judge Accordingly 01:06:42 WDAR Invisible Suspenders — The No See’ems 01:07:10 The Way She Looked At Me — The Muskegon Brawlers 01:09:52 Nonsense Words — Jed Clayborn 01:11:33 I’ll Get Gone — Micheal Smith 01:14:17 Backwoods Shit — Everett Smiles 01:16:15 WDAR Cokeheads Pocket Sized Front Porch — Fits in Your Overalls 01:16:42 WDAR Station Identification — No Good Judgement 01:17:02 Bad Decisions — Christopher Jameson 01:20:28 Holding Me Back — Gary Monroe 01:22:42 Google Famous — Amos Treadwell 01:25:04 Little Trailer in the Woods — Tiny Addams 01:26:31 WDAR Intermission — My Goats Are Learning Algebra 01:27:31 WDAR Buzzard Dust Tobacco Company Theme Song 01:29:04 WDAR Uncle Earl’s Problem Juice — Tired? Confused? 01:29:36 Ice Cold Beer — Emmett Holland (The Froggies) 01:31:24 Dust and Something More — Brook Thompson 01:35:09 Mirror, Mirror — Elmer Odems 01:36:26 The One That Didn’t Get Away — Timmy Marquette 01:38:51 WDAR Buzzard Dust Non-Filter’d Cigarettes — When The Sun Slips Low 01:39:51 I Ain’t Shit — Caleb Marshall 01:40:51 Code Words — Chris Hill 01:43:26 If You’re So Concerned — Matt Adams 01:46:16 WDAR Dead Air Definitions — Parody 01:47:42 Church Of One — Jesus Anderson 01:50:44 Chasing Fame — Charlie Ray Jones 01:52:36 The Mayor — Peckerwood Woody 01:55:01 WDAR Unwanted Explanations — Fly By Night 01:56:05 Exactly Dumb — Zac Strickland
The Buzzard Dust Transmissions Continue
Buzzard Dust: Aluminum is another piece of the larger project — a mixture of music, radio, humor, fictional Americana, and whatever else happens to wander through the door. It’s not trying to be perfect. It’s trying to be interesting — to feel like something you might discover late at night while turning an old radio dial. Listen long enough, and you might even forget you’re listening to an album. You might just think you’ve found WDAR.
The tubes are warm. The microphone is on. WDAR is on the air.
Judge accordingly.
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