A delayed 20th anniversary piece on The Hold Steady’s seminal 2005 album Separation Sunday, an album and band that, their way, tell the story, private, public and political, of 21st century American life.
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Dispatches right from the edge: Rough and Rowdy Ways and Blonde on the Tracks
Two releases offering a distinct consolation for the end times.
John Prine
And I always will remember these words my daddy saidHe said, ‘Buddy, when you’re dead, you’re a dead pecker-head’. I hope to prove him wrong. John Prine When I get to Heaven There was something nastily appropriate about it. The day after my worried observation that in the age of coronavirus, Bob Dylan and his …
Nostalgia, crises and ‘Murder Most Foul’
As the man himself says: beyond here lies nothing.
Dancing to Architecture 