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I just applied to four or five jobs, hopefully come Monday morning someone will notice in their inbox. On Monday morning I have to try and get up early and phone the government. I’ve been sick the last 3 or 4 days, even opted out of the Sadies concert. Now I’ve dragged myself to Bean [...]

Last night I went down to Malkin Bowl to finally see the Sadies. I got there a bit late but still in time to see them take the stage. My extra ticket, went unused. I could’ve gone to so many 10 to 15 dollar shows, the actual tickets were only 37 but with all the [...]

So while eating a late lunch I turn on the TV and flicking through come across what appears to be the Sadies on CMT. At first I didn’t know who it was, just some guys in nudie suites playing in a barn, very Gram Parsons. Then I say those are the Good Brothers and that [...]

Jon Langford was a Welsh punk rocker who somehow ended up in Chicago fronting an alt-country side project. A funny thing happened on the way to irrelevance though, some really great song lyrics were written. People bought into the fact that the attitude and politics of punk wasn’t always missing from country music, that there [...]