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Scott Timberg on Creative Destruction

Legends of the High Desert

June 4, 2010 by Scott Timberg

A few weeks back I had the pleasure to visit Joshua Tree with my wife and son. I guess for some people the place invokes U2, but it always makes me think of Gram Parsons and his hippie/ Dylanesque updating of the high-lonesome sound.

Here is my piece that runs in this Sundays’ LATimes. It’s both a meditation on the power of music and a trip-with-kids story. It’s also one of the few trips I’ve taken as an adult that I have really screwed up, at least the Pioneertown part. (I keep thinking of Sam Shepard’s play “True West” whenever I am in its faux-Wild West environs.)

A lot of fun to be out in the desert with Ian and his 3-year-old’s perceptions.

I look forward to going back and seeing a show at Pappy and Harriet’s, where Lucinda Williams, Jim Lauderdale and others play regularly. (The place seems to be stretching beyond country and alt-country these days: England’s Arctic Monkeys played a post-Coachella show there a few days after we left.)

I’ll fill out this post shortly.

Filed Under: alt-country, byrds, Gram Parsons, Joshua Tree, the west, west coast

Comments

  1. 韋于倫成 says

    June 5, 2010 at 12:15 am

    大肚能容,了卻人間多少事,滿腔歡喜,笑開天下古今愁。 ..................................................

  2. 姿思穎穎 says

    June 8, 2010 at 2:32 pm

    you always know the right thing to say!............................................................

  3. سكس امهات says

    June 28, 2018 at 11:38 am

    great man !

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I'm a longtime culture writer and editor based in Los Angeles; my book "CULTURE CRASH: The Killing of the Creative Class" came out in 2015. My stories have appeared in The New York Times, Salon and Los Angeles magazine, and I was an LA Times staff writer for six years. I'm also an enthusiastic if middling jazz and indie-rock guitarist. (Photo by Sara Scribner) Read More…

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