While Daydream Nation is pretty much acknowledged as their masterpiece, I always felt Sister was underrated...
I may need to change my moniker to Amon Free Soft Dead Crimson Cow. This is the music I've been searching for my whole life. It's what resonates in my head when I'm not thinking.
I would down this so fast, I'd need someone at the ready with the Heimlich Maneuver. My understanding is sausage is a super food, because it is appropriately eaten at any meal.
The audience looks as impressed as being at a box factory on a school trip. And I dig flute; Eric Dolphy and Lyn Dobson made some serious stuff on that silver axe. The Globus stuff does nothing for me. But it's all subjective...
Marty Stuart's life in music is amazing. He played in Lester Flatt's band at the age of 13, also played at the Grand Ole Opry at that time. Eight years later he was a member of Johnny Cash's road band. Between those bands he worked with Vasser Clements and Doc Watson. Marty is a true custodian of country and bluegrass music. He got a better education than most. Before writing this record, Marty spend time with Lakota elders and was adopted by the tribe. He wrote a whole record based on their stories. But in his own style, meaning country music Badlands is no less a sacred endeavor, though it is a far more historical one, and these ballads of the great Lakota tribe are his own. He was guided by the Lakota people and their elders through the true, official record of their existence, not the account in the revisionist American textbooks, and this record has the tribe's blessing. He wrote these songs after being guided through the Lakota lands for a period of years by John L. Smith and the elders of this noble and persecuted tribe who adopted Stuart as family. History, spirituality, legend, the lineage of memory, shame, guilt, and transcendence pass through these songs in equal measure
