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Episode: No Way Out: An Oral History of Sunburned Hand of the Man
Description: Sunburned Hand of the Man is a long-running, free-form band from Massachusetts. They record everything, and their discography has over 200 entries. Membership is fluid, at times determined simply by whoever joins in the jam. One time they started to design a deck of cards where each card had a band member… but there were so many people they would have ended up with a full hand of jokers. There are no rules other than the unspoken rule that nobody tells anyone else what to do. Despite this swirling complexity (or perhaps because of it), media outlets typically onl...