The old-favorite album I returned to for comfort this year was:Ĭrooked Rain Crooked Rain by Pavement spoke to me this year for some reason. She’s an excellent source of content, as well as a killer bassist, also she has a sweet new song out called “Maybe It’s All Right” that’s an strong contender for best song of 2020. My friend Cat Popper posted a video of a dude with a Les Paul falling sideways off his chair into an upright piano. The viral video I kept coming back to in quarantine was: The simplicity of focusing on one day, even one moment, at a time. The perspective that all this gives me when I’m feeling down. Figuring out a way to stream shows from home that’s given me a job during all of this. Hell-bent on identifying and appreciating silver-linings. Then old Jerry Jeff went and died and, well, now it’s all even sadder. Since that part of my life has been suspended, I miss it more than I ever imagined I would. The lyrics of that song examine the lonely life of a cowboy, but they feel like they’re really about a traveling musician, which is what I’ve been since I dropped out of college so many years ago. In addition to “Campfire,” the song that I’ll forever connect to this strange year is Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Night Rider’s Lament.” I learned it at the behest of my friend Evan Felker of Turnpike Troubadors who was kind enough to make a setlist for the Friday Friends portion of my programming on StageIt, where I do four shows a week from my basement office these days.
The song that will define “2020” for me is: So many of my friends pop up as actors and soundtrack contributors, it feels like I’m back at Largo in Hollywood at the turn of the millennium.
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I enjoyed The Queen’s Gambit like everyone else, but really the most fun I’ve had in front of the TV during all of this has been joining my 14-year-old daughter Soleil as she rewatches Gilmore Girls. My favorite TV show to stream during quarantine was: When the whole album finally rolled out, it became my go-to album of this weird era. I felt like it was my first real cry of the pandemic and I needed it. The song “Campfire” dropped first and when I heard him sing “Thought that I saw Jessi, she was sitting in a crowd/Thought that I saw Jessi, then I got to feeling proud/To ever have known someone so pretty and so sweet/Who every-time she sang a song, it’d sweep me off my feet,” I just knew he was singing about Jessi Zazu of Those Darlins. Kevin Morby’s Sundowner is the perfect album for this year. The album I listened to the most in 2020 was: The resulting LP was Twelfth, released this summer, but frontman Rhett Miller still found time to do things in quarantine, like hosting his Wheels Off podcast, binging on The Queen’s Gambit, reconnecting with a Pavement classic and marveling at Kevin Morby’s recent Sundowner. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December.Ģ020 found the Old 97’s making a new album under conditions that encapsulated this disastrous year: Recording in Nashville amid a devastating tornado and on the precipice of a deadly pandemic.
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So, How Was Your 2020? is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year.
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