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DESCRIPTION:All Ages\n\n—\n\nHi it’s John Darnielle and this is the new
  Mountain Goats bio. Every time you make a record you have to have a new b
 io and it’s a whole thing. Sometimes you have to have conversations abou
 t who’d be a good person to write the bio and other times one of the pre
 ss people does it and you vet it and it goes through a whole process\, but
  we are eliminating the middle man this time. My other job involves writin
 g prose and I’m regarded as decent enough at it so let’s fast forward 
 through the prelims here.\n\nDays is the something-somethingth album by th
 e Mountain Goats. If that last phrase has a number in it then you will kno
 w it has been edited by bad people and you should stop reading now. If it 
 says “something somethingth” then we are still together. Like at least
  two other tMG albums\, specifically Goths and Beat the Champ\, Days gets 
 born one day when I have a funny idea. The idea in this case was writing a
  followup to Goths about the 90s and calling it Grunges. I made this joke 
 on the popular recipes blog “Bluesky” and accompanied it with a brief 
 ad-lib called “Contemplating Pearl Jam in the Carolina Dawn” that I re
 corded in my back yard.\n\nBut the thing about jokes is there’s often so
 mething deeper underneath them\, most theories of comedy attest to this\, 
 don’t get me started. I’d written out a fake track listing for Grunges
  but then I wrote a poem about Layne Staley in the underworld getting resc
 ued by Orpheus and I started thinking about the past\, a popular theme amo
 ng writers for many years now\, and then I got both sad and smitten with w
 onder by how the past is a place upon which you both can & can’t enact a
  sort of renovation: can\, by changing perspectives\; can’t\, because yo
 u can’t actually move any parts around or change anything.\n\nYou think 
 about this stuff as you get older\, if you’re lucky enough to be getting
  older.\n\nWe recorded the album at Sear Sound in Manhattan\, still manage
 d by the legendary Roberta Findlay\, with whom I was fortunate enough to h
 ave a talk on the phone during the session\; Rob Jost played bass on it\; 
 he plays in the pit on Death Becomes Her\; he also plays French horn here.
  The group backing vocals are by Catherine Russsell\, Jamie Leonhart\, and
  Carolyn Leonhart\; the layered backing vocals on “Hidden Majesty of Lat
 er Venom Albums” are by Janis Siegal of the Manhattan Transfer\, who was
  tracking on another floor in the same building while we were at Sear. Gia
 nt honor for me to have Janis\, I am a huge Manhattan Transfer fan. I call
 ed my old friend Matt Nathanson to add vocals to “Candlebox.” He knock
 ed it straight out of the park. Mikaela Davis added harp to “Going to Fe
 nnario.” You can read about all this in the credits.\n\nLooking back on 
 what I’ve written I see that “bio” isn’t exactly what you’d call
  this\, as it tells you very little about me\, or about Jon Wurster\, the 
 best drummer in rock and if you think I’m exaggerating then bless your h
 eart\, or about Matt Douglas\, who plays guitars and horns & writes horn a
 rrangements and plays keys besides. I played piano and guitar but mainly I
 ’m the singer. Other biographical details are honestly insignificant to 
 my way of thinking\, who really cares\, but I get that my opinions about t
 his stuff are a little out of step with the zeitgeist.\n\nThis is Days by 
 the Mountain Goats.
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LOCATION:Higher Ground\, Ballroom
SUMMARY:The Mountain Goats at Higher Ground
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CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and performances
CATEGORIES:Music
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