It's a still July morning There's a Jonathan Richman album out called Only Frozen Sky Anyway I'm listening to it as I make my way from Onlime Lesson One to Online Lesson Two and an egg boils in a pan on my stove.
Jonathan is an artist apart. You can bracket him, most obviously with The Velvet Underground, with Lou and John and Nico who were his intial mentors along with artistic inspirations . The painters he loved. The Boston suburbs, Doo Wop.Rock & Roll of a cool spartan description. Being Jonathan.
It's what we're used to. Minimal yet pure joy. No reinvention of the Richman wheel at seventy four. No Modern Lovers this time round although there's a cool backing band who might as well be. A cool take on Night Fever. A hispanic sway of the hips. A feint then speeding off into space. Nobody does it better
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