It’s raining here and in Paris. Go figure. Kurt Wagner always makes me think of the new Nashville. It has connections to Wilco. I think. I haven’t listened to Wilco in a while. It’s interesting how someone or a band can capture the essence of a period of time. The Beatles and Stones did a great job of staying on point. Maybe better the Stones. Of course, they didn’t break up but the still have to compete with the digital jibbity-jab that the 60’s never dealt with. Well. The transistor and it’s miniaturization must have changed music inevitably. The industry had to have gained strength on the basis of that invention alone. Unification.
This is total sidebar — but there’s a great book out on Bell Labs: The Idea Factory. Yep. More fifties and sixties.
Edit 1: Kurt’s songs always seem so stream of consciousness and disconnected from verbal standpoint, yet they do make very interesting visual imagery.
Unless you interpret things literally. Then you’ve got big, BIG problems with this stuff.