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...that dog-hair lodgepole pine and the dead branches of spruce trees.”In this volume, Wright draws on every source he can—religion, science, mythology, and even popular music—to try to pin down an image or emotion. “Sundown Blues?? concludes with the “sundown light” he had just described “chameleoning” away and captures the feeling with the down-to-earth rhythms of a southern spiritual: “No one is able to describe this gold to bronze...
...have been trimmed of the nasal stylings with which Pudnik intoned previous albums and work exceptionally convincingly over the track’s shifting tempos, heavy reverb, and bottomless chorus. But while it works when plucked out from the rest of the album, even “Truck Stop Blues?? falls prey to the same pratfalls, which will continue to plague NFG as long as they remain rooted in making adolescent love songs—and maybe beyond. Every single song on this album is about a failed or failing relationship, and while this has long been constant...
...record narrates the day of its eponymous protagonist’s failed suicide attempt. Each track represents a different moment in J. Smith’s day. Travis eschews chronological order and groups the tracks instead for tonal coherence (though the first and final songs, “Chinese Blues?? and “Before You Were Young,” do mark the beginning and end of the character’s day).Fusing together a multitude of influences and showcasing a fair share of erudite literary allusions, “Ode to J. Smith?...
...other in arrangement and lyrical delivery. “God Knows,” an “Oh Mercy” outtake, harks back to the more propulsive, Hawks-driven days of Dylan’s 1960s height. More traditional outings like “32-30 Blues?? and “Cocaine Blues?? reintroduce the audience to a roots-oriented Dylan who, with his voice muted and weathered by age, seems almost a more fitting troubadour than the explosive, snarling youth that wailed on “Maggie’s Farm...
...could live with her strong anti-abortion stance—even if Roe v. Wade falls, plenty of states will still keep abortion legal. I could even live with the fact that she inspires strange Oedipal-like feelings in me because of her resemblance to the teacher/stripper in Varsity Blues??it’s just the consequence of some childhood trauma that I’ve repressed. But what I can’t live with is not knowing what Sarah Palin thinks about dinosaurs.My concern probably would not have manifested itself had it not been vocalized...