All good stuff (and enough to show why Nashville alternatively wrungs its hands and showered him with money) but all from the first stage of his career.
After touring The Hard Way, he had a long descent into heroin addiction, which ended up with him spending time in jail.
The comeback acoustic album "Train A Coming" is one of my favourites, and the albums that followed that one became increasingly politicised. The way ahead is pretty effectively foreshadowed by "Billy Austin"s line about the death penalty - "there's 27 men here, mostly black, or brown or poor, and most of us are guilty, but who are you to say for sure?".
The sense of humour shown on "A Week of Living Dangerously" survived to, though, right through to his impassioned plea for the Secretary of State to skank for him on "Condi Condi" from the latest album.
Hopefully he'll be touring again this year, and I can take you along and show you what all the fuss is about.
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Date: 2006-06-24 04:05 pm (UTC)After touring The Hard Way, he had a long descent into heroin addiction, which ended up with him spending time in jail.
The comeback acoustic album "Train A Coming" is one of my favourites, and the albums that followed that one became increasingly politicised. The way ahead is pretty effectively foreshadowed by "Billy Austin"s line about the death penalty - "there's 27 men here, mostly black, or brown or poor, and most of us are guilty, but who are you to say for sure?".
The sense of humour shown on "A Week of Living Dangerously" survived to, though, right through to his impassioned plea for the Secretary of State to skank for him on "Condi Condi" from the latest album.
Hopefully he'll be touring again this year, and I can take you along and show you what all the fuss is about.