
Though recorded by a man who spent his early years as a Brill Building songwriter, Everybody's Talkin' was a folk song first and foremost. Apocryphally, it was a throw-away track, laid down in a single take by an anxious artist eager to get out of the studio and back to his Miami home, but there's a seasoned depth in the lyric, a universal sentiment of alienation, escapism and desire for the hermitage which rings true in everyman. Fred Neil 's original may touch upon cowboy country and pop, but that only helps [...]
I want to like folkie bluegrass music. I really do. I love the artistry, love the sound of the mandolin. I'm impressed by virtuoso playing. I like the melancholia. I love Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, the old farts. I like old country, The Carter Family, even Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn. I want to like what's [...]

I want to like folkie bluegrass music. I really do. I love the artistry, love the sound of the mandolin. I'm impressed by virtuoso playing. I like the melancholia. I love Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, the old farts. I like old country, The Carter Family, even Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn. I want to like what's coming out now. I keep trying, I do. But I keep getting bored. I feel like I'm betraying my roots to say so. [...]