Thank you. And yeah, it's a dream of mine to one day get to tell Gillian Welch directly how powerful her historical excavation/imagining has been for me. The image she paints in that Longread article of how the realization about April 14th came to her just haunts me: "It wasn’t until 1998 or 1999, when I was living in a little shack of a…
Thank you. And yeah, it's a dream of mine to one day get to tell Gillian Welch directly how powerful her historical excavation/imagining has been for me. The image she paints in that Longread article of how the realization about April 14th came to her just haunts me: "It wasn’t until 1998 or 1999, when I was living in a little shack of a house in Nashville. It was like an old slave quarters, and I was always sick when I lived there. So I was sick, and I had a ten-inch black and white TV, and I had it up next to the bed and I was lying in bed watching a PBS documentary on Lincoln. It got to the part where he was shot and they said “on April the 14th…” and I freaked out. I really thought it was very sinister; I think it’s how some people feel when they see a ghost."
Thank you. And yeah, it's a dream of mine to one day get to tell Gillian Welch directly how powerful her historical excavation/imagining has been for me. The image she paints in that Longread article of how the realization about April 14th came to her just haunts me: "It wasn’t until 1998 or 1999, when I was living in a little shack of a house in Nashville. It was like an old slave quarters, and I was always sick when I lived there. So I was sick, and I had a ten-inch black and white TV, and I had it up next to the bed and I was lying in bed watching a PBS documentary on Lincoln. It got to the part where he was shot and they said “on April the 14th…” and I freaked out. I really thought it was very sinister; I think it’s how some people feel when they see a ghost."