| 1. Robert Earl Keene, “Lonely Feeling.”
Every singer-songwriter feels compelled at one point or another to
tilt his sword at the great windmill of the sweeping statement. Most
of the time these efforts get shelved midway through the second revision
once the utter hopelessness of the project becomes clear. Robert Earl
Keene here ties himself to the one-four-five and stares unblinkingly
at the great emptiness that’s coming for all of us if we’ll
only stay sober long enough to greet it. A tremendous song about the
ultimate emptiness of, well, everything. I do not expect that that
anyone who’s really gone into this song will ever really be
able to come all the way back out. |
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