<PERSON> On Tour: A Documentary
I'm logging this even though I've not watched it all yet. It's divided into 7 segments on the Youtube and I've been watching one a night in bed and the weekend's coming up and I *know* I'm not going to be reviewing anything then so let's just do it now.
Anyway it's more of a *stream of consciousness* re Mr <PERSON> anyway. Just somewhere to get some thoughts out there.
So as a relatively new fan, it seems there is a divide with this guy's work. A lot of Sun Kil Moon fans don't like the extremely wordy direction taken after this film came out. But I honestly can't get enough 10-minute songs of his. When a new album sneaked out last week I went straight to the tracklisting to check the direction was still Word Mountain. *breath of relief*
A couple of years ago Spotify recommended a song. 'This is my Town' on one of their playlists. I love that I can remember how I started this new infatuation. 83
This song is a great example of what I'm after out of him. Ludicrous detail of his day eating out, checking into hotels and picking a guitar to write this song with. Anyway eventually you get to doing a *American Podcasters' voice: <PERSON>. I've not gone that deep yet even. I've not gone further back than the amazing 'Benji'. But it's great knowing that there's this huge body of work I'm fascinated by that I've barely chipped away at yet.
So I think all of the songs featured in this doc are new to me. So far anyways. And they seem sooo different to say 'Chard Enchilada' where he compares a veggie Mexican dish with bassoon players + dogs in Scotland. For 9 minutes 20.
It'll be interesting once I've gone back and caned all these albums and then I can stack up these songs I currently adore against the ones from a different era.
This guy and his guitar fuckin' rule anyway. 83