Leaning On The Everlasting Arms

Posted by Lance Davis - July 18, 2012 - Andy Griffith, Dillards, Doug Dillard, Iris Dement, Lillian Gish, Robert Mitchum, The Night Of The Hunter, True Grit

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“Leaning On The Everlasting Arms” is a hymn written in the late 19th century, not markedly different in structure or tone from a thousand other hymns and spirituals of the era. Composed by Anthony Showalter and Elisha Hoffman, “Leaning” was inspired by Deuteronomy 33:27, “The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the […]

Do You Want New Wave (Or Do You Want The Truth)?

Posted by Lance Davis - February 25, 2011 - Iris Dement

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, San Francisco, CA October 8, 2006 I’m proud to say Iris DeMent emerges from the same Orange County, California, background as me (her: Buena Park, me: La Habra & Huntington Beach). This song may be folk music superficially, but lyrically it’s punk as fuck. If Iris says justice sinks to the […]

The Pitfalls of the City are Extremely Real

Posted by Lance Davis - February 20, 2011 - Backsliders, Bicycle Thief, Bob Forrest, Chris Hillman, Dwight Yoakam, Emmylou Harris, Flaco Jimenez, Gram Parsons, Iris Dement, Merle Haggard, Warren Zevon, Willie Nelson

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Like California, Los Angeles has been rebuked and scorned in book, film, song, musical, vaudeville, pretty much every medium dating back to protozoan wall art. It’s easy to hate LA. I don’t have much of a problem with the city, beyond traffic, but the entertainment-industrial complex is a whoremaker chewing up everything in its […]