By Will McGuirk
Its only in life there’s a limit on time, online there’s only attention with a sell by date, so why not make a long song, why not write a seventeen minute elegy for the 60s, and when its this good well is worth the wait and worth the ride and worth paying attention to. It may be President Kennedy Dylan is talking about, but it may be too the American Dream which died with him and if you didn’t believe that then maybe you can see it now.
But in the meantime - this current global choir is getting wider and deeper.
"The town became smaller and quieter. When I also moved away, I felt compelled to write something commenting on the changing identity of 'the Bay', my nostalgia for my upbringing there, and the hopeful future." - Mike McKenna
“Often we have to go a little far in one direction to learn something about ourselves. The months of solitary writing and self-doubt testify to this, but they’ve led to Yesterday Is Gone: an optimistic, steely-eyed gaze into the future.” - Dana Gavanski