THOM 8 | Spring / Summer 2017

HEADLINERS
“I think we know exactly why musicians venture
away from their middle American roots – because
the shiny ‘out there’ is so tempting, so tightly tied to
the notion of ‘making it.’ But the risk is always that
when you go ‘out there,’ you may forget the place from
which you came.”
under the nails, ground into clothes and even stains
the skin. But to be marked by the soil goes beyond
the physical; the land also colors the identity of its
inhabitants.
The red dirt and all that it historically signifies –
including the violent relocation of Native Americans
during Westward Expansion, the rush of the land
runs in the late 1800s, and the toil to endure the
Dust Bowl during the Depression – undoubtedly
bleeds into the unrestrained and unaffected sounds
of The Turnpike Troubadours. It’s a sound, a history
and a place worth paying attention to, because we
might just learn something about ourselves.
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