I have not written anything much longer than a tweet or occasional paragraph in a chat about anything outside of work in years so bear with me. My thoughts really are (less than) half formed on all of this and so I have just written a bunch of questions to myself.
- Why don't I ever want to listen to anything straight forward roots rock/americana inflected from the past 20+ years? Why does everything feel like it's marketing for the sake of marketing?
- For me, in fact, was the form perfected by and consequently died with Tom Petty's passing?
- Can it survive without Dylan who I don't even really like?
- Why am I obsessively listening to three Mekons albums from 1989-1993 which are extremely roots inflected and indeed exp