I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
John DarnielleOver the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
John DarnielleLabor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.
John DarnielleI start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.
John Darnielle