Thursday, May 2, 2019

this is, stylistically, a little bit outside of my sphere of influence; i neither grew up near a corn field, nor do i have ancestors that did, so this whole rural/roots thing is just not culturally relevant to me. it's one of the annoyances i'm dealing with right now in this era of reactionary white revival: my ancestors are mostly catholic, and mostly came over in the industrial revolution, so, while i'm firmly lower class, i'm neither interested in white slave music nor am i interested in black slave music. it's not that the rock era transcended any of this, so much as that it just leapfrogged it. it's beyond it, temporally. so, if you're going to try and go back and run a principal component analysis on it, i'm going to end up listening to sinatra and klezmer and ethnic sounding irish folk, rather than country or blues - things nobody is interested in.

but, i'm always going to stop to listen to an interesting guitarist, and i'd stop if i overheard this one.

for one beer, anyways. maybe not two...

https://raddleshack.bandcamp.com/