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13th Floor Elevators Music Review The Record That Changed My Life

Mark Lanegan on The 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere (1967)

The 13th Floor Elevators weren’t only innovative for their time. They were so different- I liked that from the first moment I discovered them. Like me, they came from a boring small town, and they established a musical independence that was new in its consequence. Optically they looked like backward hillbillies, but stylistically they conveyed …

Mark Lager Music Townes Van Zandt

Haunting, Melancholy Poetry- Our Mother the Mountain and Townes Van Zandt 50 Years Later

Townes Van Zandt has been nicknamed the “Texas troubadour” and this is an apt description of the tragic singer-songwriter. Similar to John Keats and Dylan Thomas, Townes Van Zandt experienced a creative explosion between the ages of 24 – 25. His lyrics are inspired by the extremes in the landscapes of his home state of …