catachresis
Headphoneus Supremus
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. . . who would those two musicians or composers be?
A group can count as a 'musician/composer'. It can be anybody from the birth of Southern popular standards (Steven Foster), to the inception of recorded Country (the Carter Family), to the most teflon-coated Nashville pop-whore stealing cheese right at this very moment (take yer pick). The two different musicians might produce similar, complimentary versions of your life story or radically different variants.
Myself--I'm feeling tempted to overthink this, so I'll shoot from the hip. Glenn Campbell for one version, John Doe for the other.
[I think that Vic Chesnutt might fit me more thematically, but I don't admire him as staunchly as I do John Doe. Vic Chesnutt would heartlessly portray the maladaptive freak that I occasionally fear I have become, while John Doe would humanize the mixed-up, middle-aged character with his hobo's bundle of familiar twitches and neuroses. Get the roaring guitar refrain right, John, and I'll consider myself redeemed.]
A group can count as a 'musician/composer'. It can be anybody from the birth of Southern popular standards (Steven Foster), to the inception of recorded Country (the Carter Family), to the most teflon-coated Nashville pop-whore stealing cheese right at this very moment (take yer pick). The two different musicians might produce similar, complimentary versions of your life story or radically different variants.
Myself--I'm feeling tempted to overthink this, so I'll shoot from the hip. Glenn Campbell for one version, John Doe for the other.
[I think that Vic Chesnutt might fit me more thematically, but I don't admire him as staunchly as I do John Doe. Vic Chesnutt would heartlessly portray the maladaptive freak that I occasionally fear I have become, while John Doe would humanize the mixed-up, middle-aged character with his hobo's bundle of familiar twitches and neuroses. Get the roaring guitar refrain right, John, and I'll consider myself redeemed.]