“Scott’s songs are stories that go rolling through your head like little movies. You watch them inside yourself as much as you hear them. And you carry away something of value you didn’t have before. As far as I’m concerned that’s exactly what a good song should do. That and tell the truth. Scott’s songs do all of this.” — Terry Allen Scott Ballew on Talking to Mountains & the Sublimity of Sad Songs Scott Ballew is songwriter from Austin, Texas. He earns his keep as the Head of Films and Commercials at YETI, producing and directing films that inspire …
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Tending to the Spiritual Interior of Language with Lia Purpura
“Lia Purpura’s essays make the tethers between apparently separate things not only visible, but luminous. Frankly, I can think of no better―by which I mean, adamantly, more necessary―quality in art. We are connected to the guy across the way ashing his cigarette. We are connected to the hawk at the dump, the murdered student, the fire ant, each other. And to do it with so much goddamn music! Time and again I found myself re-reading sentences and paragraphs throughout these essays wondering how I arrived where I did. Astonished, and grateful for it. These are some of the best essays …
Deadstock in the Storm with Jeffrey Foucault
“Immaculately tailored… Sometimes [Foucault’s] songs run right up to the edge of the grandiose and hold still, and that’s when he’s best… Close to perfection” – New York Times Deadstock in the Storm with Jeffrey Foucault Jeffrey Foucault is a top shelf songwriter. Foucault has a slew of albums worth your collection and his latest Deadstock should be the first one you pick up. Deadstock has been a real good friend to me in the ups and downs of this season. Foucault’s music makes a grown man like me swoon, sway, and slyly sing his lyrics to myself. This is the type of music that …