{"id":960,"date":"2010-06-04T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/06\/legends-of-the-high-desert.html"},"modified":"2010-06-04T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T22:54:00","slug":"legends-of-the-high-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/06\/legends-of-the-high-desert.html","title":{"rendered":"Legends of the High Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Here<\/a> 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.)<\/p>\n

A lot of fun to be out in the desert with Ian and his 3-year-old’s perceptions.<\/p>\n

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.)<\/p>\n

I’ll fill out this post shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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