February 2012
10 posts
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In honor of Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday, his daughter invited Jay Farrar (Son Volt and Uncle Tupelo), Will Johnson (Centro-Matic), Anders Parker (Varnaline), and Jim James (My Morning Jacket) to find lyrics from among Guthrie’s archives that spoke to them and put the words to music.
You can feel loneliness and heartache in every note of the Jim James-led “Empty Bed Blues.”...
“The buzzword now is authenticity—If anything, turning ourselves into miniature...”
– William Deresiewicz continues his three-pronged attack on the Millennial ethos. This week, entrepreneurship. Read @FranzKafka. (via theamericanscholar)
