May 2nd, 2005
Decemberists
I saw The Decemberists at the Commodore Ballroom on Saturday night - excellent show. It’s reassuring to know America is still capable of providing songwriters who can deploy words like ‘rastabout’ and ‘purloined’ with effect and accuracy. Most enjoyable moment was the epic ‘The Mariner’s Revenge Song’, an eight minute story of one man’s [...]