| Let me tell you people something, that Michael Jackson is an incredible singer. Loren Connors may only use one guitar to do what he does, but a guitar’s got six strings and there are pedals and effects knobs besides. All Michael has his is throat. But the totality of it came out: the stillness that lies at the heart of what Connors’ work is all about, and the pain that’s been so clear in it ever since last year’s Departing of a Dream, all keening out from that unrecoverable once-was face. |