I am all-in on the use of footnotes in the Weekend Guide, particularly when they are about the Red House Painters.
When I was, like, 19 I went to Bert's Records in Newark to buy RHPs' "Retrospective" on CD. 4AD! It was actually a double CD!--do you remember the era of double-CDs that you would open up and then continue opening up? Real heads know what I'm taking about (I hope).
"Retrospective," the second disc of which was mostly weird b-sides and such, was also super instrumental for me when it came to realizing that fans of their favorite band will listen to basically any demo or rough track of their favorite band's favorite song. "Mistress" is mine.
Thank you, Dan, so much for the newsletter! No drummer! I am reading Norwood by Charles Portis (no dust!) at the moment. Most beautiful song of all time? "Goodbye" by The Sundays.
No drummer 💁♂️- a few days ago I was riding around town in my pickup truck, listening to 88.5 when “goodbye” came on. It has been years since I had heard it. I’ve had it looping in the house ever since! What a track.
Jon Mack loves Portis. I read Dog of the South and was all in! Don’t know why I haven’t picked up another Portis since. I’m going to grab Norwood. Thank you my brotha!
I am all-in on the use of footnotes in the Weekend Guide, particularly when they are about the Red House Painters.
When I was, like, 19 I went to Bert's Records in Newark to buy RHPs' "Retrospective" on CD. 4AD! It was actually a double CD!--do you remember the era of double-CDs that you would open up and then continue opening up? Real heads know what I'm taking about (I hope).
"Retrospective," the second disc of which was mostly weird b-sides and such, was also super instrumental for me when it came to realizing that fans of their favorite band will listen to basically any demo or rough track of their favorite band's favorite song. "Mistress" is mine.
Thank you, Dan, so much for the newsletter! No drummer! I am reading Norwood by Charles Portis (no dust!) at the moment. Most beautiful song of all time? "Goodbye" by The Sundays.
No drummer 💁♂️- a few days ago I was riding around town in my pickup truck, listening to 88.5 when “goodbye” came on. It has been years since I had heard it. I’ve had it looping in the house ever since! What a track.
Jon Mack loves Portis. I read Dog of the South and was all in! Don’t know why I haven’t picked up another Portis since. I’m going to grab Norwood. Thank you my brotha!