Blog: Chewing Pine

(This originally appeared in Skyscraper ) The only overtly southern aspect to the person that is Jay Reatard, over the phone at-least, is the way in which he pronounces New Orleans. On the tongue of Southerners, it becomes one, lackadaisical, charming word and concept. In the name of this one city is intoned decades of a lifestyle that are as distinct as any other culture in the country. To hear the "Night of Broken Glass" record from Reatard, one gets the impression that he might not consider himself a [...]