You know anytime I listen to any country I have to go back to Townes Van Zandt. It's not like any other genre. Whenever I listen to thrash metal I don't have to go back to Slayer. Whenever I listen to pop I don't have to go back to Ke$ha. Whenever I listen to punk I don't have to go back to the Ramones. But when I listen to country I eventually have to go back to Townes cause there's no other artist of any kind who I feel truly understands and expresses purely the misery of simply existing that is the most constant and central feeling of my life and when I get within any distance of him he becomes a siren I must follow.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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