The big personal news for my musical week was seeing Fontaines D.C. at House of Blues in Boston on Thursday night. Those Dublin boys make for one hell of a great live act. I guess this must be what seeing Gang of Four or The...
loretta lynn
This is to all you Aesthetic Stalinists in our comment section, evaluating the quality of art based on the politics of the artist. The idea that Loretta was some marker.
How could I choose anything else tonight? https://www.youtube.com/embed/VQbX_Q35Yhw
Wow, what a huge loss. Just a few thoughts here for now. With the loss of Loretta, Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton are basically the last major artists standing from the country music of the 1960s. There are a few hitmakers like Bill Anderson still...
Back when I lived in Austin in the late 2000s, one of my favorite things to do was to see Alejandro Escovedo at the Continental Club. I probably saw him.