The Handsome Family is generally classed as Alternative Country or Gothic Country (a genre that I missed). I'll have to include it in an Addenda after I'm done with the main sequence. Lyrics are superb: "When the last light warms the rocks / And the rattlesnakes unfold / Mountain cats will come to drag away your bones."
They're a husband and wife team; he writes the music and she is responsible for the amazing lyrics of all their songs. I have 3 of their CDs and there's not a single song on any of them that is not outstanding.
Actually just came here to say I'll miss your comments over on Freddie's newsletter as well, that's where I discovered this lovely place. He's not wrong, but I will miss the commenters I like for the next month.
James, yes. A month detention is a longtime. It's more like reading a personal essay now. I miss & like the commenters very much. I put that sub on hiatus.
Oh and I hope I am remembering this right, you wrote about the spanish inquisition and how it went on for much longer than anyone thought. I was telling one of Australias greatest living authors that storya few months back.
O thank you-- that made my day. I teach books & library history. When I get my classes ready I run into so much interesting stuff. Mostly I am struck at how much people have tried to censor each other over the centuries. That plus destruction of libraries or in the case of Turpentine--just not pulled out the archives.
There's a lovely little aside in zeynip tufecki's wonderful book 'twitter and tear gas' .... it's about online radical movements. But one of the first things everyone does in a radical movement is set up an actual physical library to share books. She's talking about soccer hooligans in Turkey and violent people and the sociology of authority, and they all just seem to want to start a library. It's such a strange, wonderful thing. You seem like you are that kind of librarian. :-)
I knew some of the librarians who did the Occupy Library. They even wrote some articles about it...but it never occurred to me that making a library is so often included. You know, you gave me an idea. I think I will write about that. I hope I am that kind of L.
I think he has over reacted a little bit. I don't comment much and just ignore the nonsense. But I am fairly certain that if it was my newsletter I would have thrown my toys out of the pram months ago, so fair enough. But it does penalise the happy majority.
Hope you re-instate your sub in a month, and in the meantime keep up your own good work.
Evocative music, courtesy of "True Detective". Very nice selection!
After I listened to "Carmen Miranda's Ghost," YouTube rolled me to the track "Dawson's Christian" and that made me think of TD. Thanks George.
The Handsome Family is generally classed as Alternative Country or Gothic Country (a genre that I missed). I'll have to include it in an Addenda after I'm done with the main sequence. Lyrics are superb: "When the last light warms the rocks / And the rattlesnakes unfold / Mountain cats will come to drag away your bones."
I'd understand gothic country as something a bit more like this:
Gob Iron - Hills of Mexico (2019) [embedded in the Death Songs for the Living playlist]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpMgy66uNXI&list=OLAK5uy_k1Z9SKn3vMBosr-qY1DR9tstBGo87RPoM&index=6
(I'd understand gothic southern rock as being something like this:
Guadalcanal Diary - 2x4 (1987) - Where Angels Fear to Tread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h4NDivJ1J0
which wanders over this on the same album:
Guadalcanal Diary - 2x4 (1987) - New Born
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2NzeN9elDk )
elm
"let her rise again/let her move to us/ten thousand years/waiting in the dust"
They're a husband and wife team; he writes the music and she is responsible for the amazing lyrics of all their songs. I have 3 of their CDs and there's not a single song on any of them that is not outstanding.
I had a flatmate who was a huge fan back in the day so I've heard their first couple of albums a lot. They also seem like a lovely modern couple .https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/may/23/handsome-family-interivew-folk-music
Actually just came here to say I'll miss your comments over on Freddie's newsletter as well, that's where I discovered this lovely place. He's not wrong, but I will miss the commenters I like for the next month.
James, yes. A month detention is a longtime. It's more like reading a personal essay now. I miss & like the commenters very much. I put that sub on hiatus.
Oh and I hope I am remembering this right, you wrote about the spanish inquisition and how it went on for much longer than anyone thought. I was telling one of Australias greatest living authors that storya few months back.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/28/the-labyrinth-by-amanda-lohrey-review-a-meditative-and-sprawling-novel-to-lose-yourself-in
Even if it wasn't you, you got the credit :-)
O thank you-- that made my day. I teach books & library history. When I get my classes ready I run into so much interesting stuff. Mostly I am struck at how much people have tried to censor each other over the centuries. That plus destruction of libraries or in the case of Turpentine--just not pulled out the archives.
There's a lovely little aside in zeynip tufecki's wonderful book 'twitter and tear gas' .... it's about online radical movements. But one of the first things everyone does in a radical movement is set up an actual physical library to share books. She's talking about soccer hooligans in Turkey and violent people and the sociology of authority, and they all just seem to want to start a library. It's such a strange, wonderful thing. You seem like you are that kind of librarian. :-)
I knew some of the librarians who did the Occupy Library. They even wrote some articles about it...but it never occurred to me that making a library is so often included. You know, you gave me an idea. I think I will write about that. I hope I am that kind of L.
I think he has over reacted a little bit. I don't comment much and just ignore the nonsense. But I am fairly certain that if it was my newsletter I would have thrown my toys out of the pram months ago, so fair enough. But it does penalise the happy majority.
Hope you re-instate your sub in a month, and in the meantime keep up your own good work.