I don’t remember how old I was, but I was very young, seeing a clip of the ‘68 Comeback Special on TV and thinking, “this is the coolest guy I’ve ever seen. That is what I want to be.”
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Feels only fitting to be here after listening to Peter Guralnick’s Last Train to Memphis off and on during this road trip. I even bought a jacket at Lansky’s - a replica of the one Elvis wore at his wedding. Believe me, I will wear it every chance I get.
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The South is a friendly place. People are much nicer than anywhere else I’ve ever been. But it can be a lonely place too. I don’t know if I love it because of that, or I am the way I am because it is the way it is. Chicken or the egg.
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After Andalusia, we made our way on two lane American blacktop across Georgia, through little towns with cafes and white wooden churches, and the occasional town square with the antebellum courthouse in the middle.
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Life can be really heavy sometimes, and back home in the midwest and the South, the air is so heavy, it’s like the weight of the past and present both is on my shoulders and I can’t think about adding the future just yet.
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Great art never asks for permission, it demands to be heard. Mick understood this better than most and it’s a shame he’s not as celebrated as the artists he helped mold.
My connection to these people through their art only grows and for whatever reason, whenever place connects us, time gets a little thinner. It doesn’t make any sense to the practical side of me, but the emotional part of me cherishes these moments.
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When sharing my previous list of music documentaries, I realized I wrote it in June of 2023. I’ve seen a lot of music documentaries, biopics and music related films since. So, I went through my viewing history as well as the DVDs I’ve purchased and came up with this list of things I’ve seen since June of 2023. I tried to avoid duplicates, but because I will sometimes re-watch things, and these lists are long, I apologize if I missed one or two. I’ve also decided to make some notes on a few of these that I think are of particular worth. Hope you enjoy some of these as much as I did.
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The reality is our culture preaches individualism while at the same time it does everything it can to crush it.
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This morning when I got in the car, the first thing Apple Radio played was “Lisztomania” by Phoenix. My initial thought was how my tastes had changed in the time since that record was released, because now I’m a huge fan of Franz Liszt. And, in the wake of Brian Wilson’s death, coupled with it being quite some time since I last wrote a blog post, I thought exploring how our tastes change would be a good topic for a post.
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I certainly don’t have all the answers, but I am endlessly thinking of how to be a better writer and a better man. Nobody gets anywhere in anything by thinking you have it all figured out.
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I hope you all have a fraction of the fun listening to it that I had making it. Truly a great moment in my life and I am pleased to share it with all who want to share in it.
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She said it, not me.
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Hoosiers have contributed at high levels to every genre of music in American popular music.
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There were TONS of great music released in the 80s, these were just pivotal moments in my life before punk rock. While punk blew my doors off, you can’t go from “Mary Had a Little Lamb” to Black Flag, you have to ramp up.
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In 2024, I learned to believe in myself.
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I know I’m old. I’m a young Gen X’er. I find myself, more and more, saying, “Man, things used to be so much better than they are now.” Some of that is just middle-age rearing its ugly head, but some of that is true. One place where I wholeheartedly believe it is true is when you compare mixtapes to playlists.
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I will say at the outset, I don’t think these things say much about you.
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This record moves me in a way that few records continue to move me through the years. Often, a record will coincide with your life in such a way that it means everything to you in that moment. Then the moment changes. You can enjoy that record, it can make you nostalgic, but it’s not relevant to you anymore.
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