It's Official!

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Who knew? Apparently Nashville has the best music scene around, so good for us. Here's the local coverage.

You should probably all move here.

Magical Misery Tour

The lyrics are evidently taken from an interview John did with Jan Wenner from Rolling Stone.

Somewhere along the line I got a subscription to Rolling Stone. Mostly, it sucks hard (the Jonas Bros are on this month's cover...), but it still throws us old guys a bone. Two quickies this month feature the Great Alejandro Escovedo (has anyone listened to "Real Animal" yet?) and a short interview with Craig Finn from the Hold Steady.

Interestingly, both talk about their experiences playing with and meeting the Boss. Describing his encounter with Bruce, Finn says, "There are a lot of opportunities in rock & roll for your heroes to disappoint you, but I have a hard time believing Bruce has ever disappointed anyone." Indeed.