I spent a few days on the road with the legend @frankhurricane recently and wrote 5k words about him. Frank is a towering figure of DIY music, a great American storyteller, and one of the funniest people on Earth. He doesn’t have a manager or publicist and he isn’t really hooked up to the music industry, so you might not know about how special he is if you’ve never been to a show. I wanted to help spread the word, and to pay a little tribute to the great big weird and beautiful American underground more broadly. It’s one of my favorite stories I’ve written. Link in bio!
For Bookforum, I wrote about the great Texas novelist Larry McMurtry, whose chatty, baggy, and affable books took over my life last year. A dream assignment! Link in bio.
Hi! I didn’t see you come in. While you’re there, let me tell you about some gigs…
May 5 at @cassettenyc I’ll be playing Domestic Drafts tunes with two of my neighbors and favorite guys: @beardog.web and @adlankj . Probably playing solo, maybe with some duo stuff interspersed. Guess you’ll have to come see…
May 1st @garcia.peoples plays an extra special May Day celebration of workers and nature and everything else noble and good at the #1 spot @tubbyskingston . Can’t wait to see my Kingston crew.
More stuff on the horizon too, just wanted to highlight those two. Ok back to my book…
I went long on Scritti Politti’s ‘Cupid and Psyche 85,’ an album of amazing musical and intellectual complexity that goes down like cold Coca-Cola, whose uncanny pop songs about pop itself offered a whole new approach to the form that we’re still working through 40 years later. link in bio!
Mark your calendars and cancel your plans - on Friday, January 30th @thebroadwaynyc will host @andycush ’s Domestic Drafts, Philadelphia’s own Flat Mary Road, and @ciwk for an evening of delight! C’mon out and have a good time.
Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 day of show. This show is 21+.
It was a wonderful Domestic Drafts show with @animalsurrender and @wendyeyes@ryans_riddim Duo last night. I knew it was gonna be a good one when I walked downstairs at Cassette and Peter, Rob, and Curt were soundchecking with “Poinciana,” in a version that sounds a bit like Can jamming on Ahmad Jamal’s famous arrangement. Gorgeous, transporting, deeply funky stuff. I’ve seen Wendy and Ryan enough times to know what I’m in for but still always end up gobsmacked, this time by their version of “Wild and Blue,” a song that I can’t front like I knew before they played it—Wendy playing cubist country licks and Ryan making his snare drum sing like a spring peeper. The DD set was a success if I do say so myself, with a couple of songs I’ve never played live before and the crowd paying such close attention it almost freaked me out. @katythekyng joined me for the last few, including a cover of one of my favorite songs ever, “Why Try to Change Me Now?,” filled with beautifully smoky and delicate improvisation from her. @wahssalguod took some nice photos of us. The room was full of friends. Thanks to everyone who played and came out.
Animal, Surrender! *RECORD RELEASE SHOW* with Ryan Sawyer/Wendy Eisenberg Duo & Domestic Drafts(Garcia Peoples’ Andy Cush). Deep sounds and hangs to be had here. Ticket link in stories!
