Jordan Dotson

Writer

about

Everything They Say Is A Song

October 3, 2017 By Jordan Dotson

It’s that bluegrass sound, but with a little bit more edge to it. It’s something I’d want to listen to, sound-wise, growing up in this area. The Appalachian culture and the way the people in this region talk, the sayings they have, it all lends itself to good songs. Everything they say is a song line.

…Kentucky singer-songwriter, Tyler Childers, in this Rolling Stone article, whose new album Purgatory was produced by the mush-mouthed sage Sturgill Simpson, as well as David Ferguson, sound engineer for Johnny Cash‘s iconic American Recordings, and which at times sounds as raw and haunting as Ray LaMontagne singing at a country funeral.

Filed Under: Hip tunage Tagged With: David Ferguson, Johnny Cash, Purgatory, Ray Lamontagne, Rolling Stone, Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers

Kings, princes, generals and whores…

April 24, 2014 By Jordan Dotson

History is written in blood…

…from this excellent Rolling Stone interview with George R.R. Martin, who as far as I’m concerned is just about the most honest, intelligent, and valuable writer alive.

Really. All he’d have to do is take a heartwarming liberal political stance. Say that the Song is an allegory for Western political persecution of the lower class, post-colonial atrocities toward “the other,” whatever, jargonjargonjargon. Mix in some chummy back-patting with John Stewart. Hello Nobel Prize. But no, he doesn’t, because he’s a storyteller. So that’s what he does. Tell a story for the sake of the story. How few writers actually do that. How few writers admit that they don’t have answers…

george-rr-martin

When can we be redeemed? Is redemption even possible? I don’t have an answer.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: A Song of Ice and Fire, George RR Martin, Rolling Stone