Matt Sweeney and Bonnie “Prince” Billy – “Only Someone Running” from Superwolf (2005)
What does it mean that, once upon a time, Glenn and I independently put this song on mixes for our girlfriends?
This was one of the best records (and best collaborations) of the last five years and so many overlooked it.
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At the very least, it means that we (and our girlfriends) have good taste. This is such a great album.
I was about to post “Then The Letting Go” from the most recent B ‘P’ B disc, as this morning I taught Emily Dickinson’s poem from which the Oldsmobile got his title:
After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –
The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’
And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’?
The Feet, mechanical, go round –
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought –
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone –
This is the Hour of Lead –
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow –
First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –
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