This piece leaves a yearning and aching in my heart for something intangible like a moonbeam on a clear night. It's something you can't hold onto but stare into so intensely that it becomes part of your being. Though born and raised in Kansas City, I'm now in densely populated New York and long for free range. Vast wide-open spaces are hard to come by, except in the mind of lucid imagination. When rules for living get too strict, one feels restricted and cowboy poetry allows a loosening of the reins. This is not a story of real life as one lives it, but of our lives when we look back to see what made us. In moments when we abandon foresight for hindsight we find elegance and mystery is in our journey.
Great stuff entirely. Claes Andreasson does a thoughtful and wonderful examination of a stretch of Americana frequently overlooked beyond Baxter Black. Wonderful interviews, terrific examples of the kind of expanded vision of cowboy poetry it takes either an anthropologist or a non-native to recognize. Ditch the puzzle master on Sunday -- listeners will cheer when they've heard this.
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Sondra Sneed
Posted on November 29, 2004 at 03:05 PM | Permalink
Review of Sounds in a Cowboy's Head
This piece leaves a yearning and aching in my heart for something intangible like a moonbeam on a clear night. It's something you can't hold onto but stare into so intensely that it becomes part of your being. Though born and raised in Kansas City, I'm now in densely populated New York and long for free range. Vast wide-open spaces are hard to come by, except in the mind of lucid imagination. When rules for living get too strict, one feels restricted and cowboy poetry allows a loosening of the reins. This is not a story of real life as one lives it, but of our lives when we look back to see what made us. In moments when we abandon foresight for hindsight we find elegance and mystery is in our journey.
Jackson Braider
Posted on November 19, 2004 at 05:05 PM | Permalink
Review of Sounds in a Cowboy's Head
Great stuff entirely. Claes Andreasson does a thoughtful and wonderful examination of a stretch of Americana frequently overlooked beyond Baxter Black. Wonderful interviews, terrific examples of the kind of expanded vision of cowboy poetry it takes either an anthropologist or a non-native to recognize. Ditch the puzzle master on Sunday -- listeners will cheer when they've heard this.