Blog: Daytrotter

Sophisticated Longing And Endlessness Disconnected

Lisa Hannigan: Lisa Hannigan is not an old woman at all. The woman sharing this coffeehouse table with me right now is and right now, they have a lot ...

Complications Of Fractured Spooks And Breakables

Drink Up Buttercup: Long live complication, or so it will be whether the fix is in or it isn't. There will never be a detour around the convoluted expression of ...

Old-Timey Bones And Cobbler

And The Moneynotes: Something that's felt good and almost eerily natural lately is trying to imagine what it would be like to be slightly more bluegrass-like, as if ...

A Warm Rain Touching Everything [1]

High Places: We're taken somewhere that has no seasons, just bat droppings and a continual proprietorship by a darkness that harbors Caribbean ...

A Night's Charming Charm [1]

Preservation Hall Jazz Band: The days of the sharp-dressed men and women – when the suit and the shoes a person was wearing meant that they respected ...

Danger Comes In Threes

Those Darlins: Once in a while you meet a woman who has the sort of impossible-to-fend-off influence, the alluring presence to bend ...

Calling The Bloody Sun And All Fires

Young Coyotes: For a good period of time this afternoon, there was a blaring streak of sunlight ripping through the window and causing the ...

Doing Everything To Fight The Hopelessness

Fake Problems: Some places are desirable and the reasons for that often are detrimental to its general liveliness or likeability. Take Florida, ...

As A Home-Cooked Meal And Scrape-Getting Into

Hacienda: It's Monday today, right? And the bulk of the St. Patrick's Day celebrating is in the books. The green beer is a fading memory and the ...

Stories Of Dusk And Carpenter Nail-Eating

Golden Ghost: One of my brothers-in-law seems to be inclined to snap photographs of the scenery outside of his airplane window as the silver birds are ...

Out With The Dim Grays As Light Spills In

Luxury Pond: It's not down the line, but there's some kind of awakening, a slippery unraveling playing out in nearly every ...

Spoken Like An Addict

The Love Language: Stuart McLamb, when he sings, "Lalita, don't you hate these kisses?" it's as if we're somewhere we're not supposed to ...

Really GETTING The Soul

Local Natives: I've never jumped out of a plane. I've never even considered jumping out of a plane. I've barely ridden on a roller coaster – the only ...

It's All In The Riddle, The Winter, The Dead And The Scattered

Ben Weaver: Ben Weaver is a hobo. A hobo with a heart of gold, but a hobo nonetheless. Or at least that's what he might like you to ...

Choosing Days Like The Nights, And Damp

Speck Mountain: Some people just don't do sunny very well. A three-day jag of overcast, moping and drizzly weather is cause for breaking out the ...

A Heart's Content Is Alright

The Rumble Strips: The songs of the Rumble Strips make a lasting living by being utterly of the moment, vivacious and expandable. They aren't ...

Of All The Nights They've Loved Before, The People They've Crossed

The Lonelyhearts: You can't keep your eye on Andre Perry and John Lindenbaum every hour of every day. Don't know if anyone's tried that yet, but ...

Who Cares About Love, An Answer

Kate Walsh: She'll admit that she's often been mistaken for the American actress, in name and sometimes in looks, but Kate Walsh the ...

Something New Like Whiskey Feathers

Desolation Wilderness: The wait always tends to be so much longer than one would prefer it to be when a change or a move is supposed to happen, or is just ...

Make Lovers Out Of Everyone [1]

The Botticellis: Once upon a time, for all of us, everything was some form of amazement. A finger snapping, a kitty licking your small hand, a tide of ...
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