Congratulations to Jim, Elena, and their new triplets.
God bless the kind clerk at Waterloo Records in Austin who convinced me that I should buy The Mountain Goats’ Nine Black Poppies ep/mini-album so many years ago. It led me down that slippery slope of fandom and Mountain Goats record collecting, though I confess that it’s been way too long since I’ve put Sweden on the turntable. Forgive me. The show tonight was fantastic with members of Shearwater and John Vanderslice backing on various songs. John even played “Nine Black Poppies”, in spite of not playing “Cubs in Five” (has anyone ever heard that live?). His voice was going in and out during the last show in Philadelphia, but tonight, it was definitely incredible.
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
:::scott:::