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Thursday, November 15, 2001 np: americana rises from the ashes of my heart... good jesus mcchrist. who played the cruel trick on setting up the greatest alt-country festival to ever exist for me while i was in london? i mean..shouldn't big celebrations of american roots music be going on in the united states rather than in london? it would make sense. but alas. okay, so to recap: night one: the handsome family/jim white - two of americana's most gothic contenders. and both put on shows to knock you speechless. the handsome family is just straight up old-fashioned macabre and it's beautiful. songs about people dyin' left and right. one of my favourites, my sister's tiny hands, recounts twin siblings, born wrapped around eachother, close as could be, and one day while picking sour apples (jesus! what writing!) the sister is bitten by a snake and dies. the narrator goes on a drunken binge killing snakes with a sharp stick afterwards. and what happens when he still hears her laughter in the wind? he fuckin' burns the forest down and chokes the river up with stones! and the song ends! holy god. they are stellar. jim white is the spirtuality of the night. ghosts, drunks, demons and murderers. the lost souls of our bodily-vehicles wandering earth in a never ending dance of trying to find our way out of here. it's beautiful, beautiful stuff. any of his two albums are pure genius. pick them up if you can. afternoon: i saw peter bruntnell play. a quite spiffy english roots/folk musician. he writes amazing stuff.
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