Autumn Souvenir

Minutemen The Punch Line Mott The Hoople Live Rick Danko Rick Danko Waylon Jennings Waylon Live Bruce Springsteen Save My Love 7" Okkervil River Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See M. Ward Post-War Elvis Costello This Year's Model

Although about 90% of the content on this blog is about music, I rarely give straight-up record reviews. This is primarily because records take me a long time to process, usually about a year. I really don't know how music critics have the ability to listen a few times and deliver their take. I can do so with movies and books, but music takes almost endless listens. And more often than not, the truly great records take a long, long time. The best ones are never fully absorbed. It's little surprise that the Darkness box set had me giddy, and bordering on manic. Okay, manic. As I've mentioned in earlier posts, Darkness on the Edge of Town is much more than a record for me. I can say with absolute certainty that it played a large part in shaping my views, outlook, understanding, and morals. Growing up short on mentors, it was this record, in my early twenties, that taught me the lessons I needed and longed for. It was the characters, the landscape, the emotion and the lives....