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19 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I already wrote the story behind this song in an article titled "Farewell Song Sweet From My Trees." Nick Cave once said something to the effect that his songs know more about his life than he does. So, for reasons I'm not entirely aware of, I'm po...
17 Apr 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outwardappearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart."1 Samuel 16:7 "Man is hung up on the cover art.God listens to the album."Pablo Smog Collin at House of Stone posted this video yesterday,...
17 Apr 2025 14 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
As someone who was at their first and last shows, not to mention countless in between, I had a bird’s eye view of their all too brief flight path. During that time, Early Empire went from being a good group to one I was going around proclaiming as t...
1 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"No Place For Me" is from the album Wild Irish Rose. It also appears on the Hellfire in a Nutshell collection. Thanks for listening. No Place For Me The sky is redmy heart is deadit's time to head on down the line Don't care about your pastI'm sor...
1 Apr 2025 19 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Though a local live music institution at this point, it’s kind of funny to look back and recall that Cafe Bourbon Street took considerable arm twisting before owner David Brown agreed to host a single show. Considering it was the guys from Sup...
28 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Well, it's confirmed. First actual show in almost 6 years. If you're in the DFW area, I'm playing at the House of Stone in Weatherford on Sunday. It's at some guy's house, presumably of stone. He films the performances. It's a house show, but p...
21 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I found myself in the singularity lane at the border recently, and it was very efficient. If you're tired of long lines at the border, sign up for the Singularity Program. The singularity program is for cars who want to disappear into the transdime...
15 Mar 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Hello, I am currently in a hotel on I-35, in the high-density traffic corridor between Austin and San Antonio, and am considering my options. Which is a worldly way of saying I'm waiting to see where God's finger points. Thank you for your praye...
27 Feb 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
How do you make a sequel to a movie that has never been made? Ask the dust. The idea for American Migrant has changed. A lot. While the desire to keep it apolitical persists, and the goal would be that conservatives and liberals could sit next to...
25 Feb 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"You don't always get what you go after. But you do getwhat you wouldn't have got if you hadn't goneafter what you didn't get."Blaze Foley I have reached another level of expat dissociation. When you live so long with the locals that they talk to...
