In the middle of his “American Childhood” three-song suite, Terry Allen sings with an ominous confidence, “It’s just the war, same fucking war, it’s always been. It never ends.” That stark hopelessness in “Bad Kiss,” the second song in the […]
An unkempt romantic streak runs through the last two decades’ worth of Texas songwriting, identifiable by its occasionally bombastic representations of violence and its more pervasive attempts at inflating even trenchantly average characters to the status of archetypes. As a […]
