“I knew that it was going to deny me any opportunity to pursue a career in country music, which was hard to swallow because I wanted to do that,” Lavender Country's Patrick Haggerty says of his sexuality. “And interestingly, it turned out I was wrong'
“I knew that I would probably wear a scarlet letter on my back for the rest of my life and that it [would] doom me to obscurity,” the 77-year-old Haggerty says on a call from his home in Washington state. “I was right for 35, 40 years, because that’s exactly and precisely what happened. I didn’t shed very many tears about it. I had a life to live. I considered myself a gay Marxist activist, and that was my true passion and my true calling.
“I had a collection of bits and pieces of songs that I had been writing,” he says. “All those many years, that was the one thing that I did, was continue to write songs. So theThe oldest song, “Gay Bar Blues,” is a 12-bar style tune that Haggerty calls a “pre-photograph” from the 1960s. It still accurately captures the strange combination of emotions that can suffuse queer spaces after a lifetime of experiencing homophobia.
There’s a charmingly unvarnished approach to these new recordings, a mix of classic honky-tonk sounds with the lo-fi aesthetic of K Records or even the country-leaning work of the Magnetic Fields. “I Can’t Shake the Stranger Out of You,” for example, shimmers and jangles like a lost indie-rock classic, both funny and poignant as it describes a frustrating breakdown of intimacy.
That unabashed honesty has proven to be a calling card for Haggerty, who knew that the original Lavender Country album and his outspoken support of socialism would prove too hot to touch for most people, particularly in more conservative country-music circles.
France Dernières Nouvelles, France Actualités
Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.
Alt-J Resurrect 2012 Single 'Breezeblocks' on 'Colbert'Despite releasing a new album earlier this month, Alt-J revisited their early catalog Monday evening with a performance of the 2012 single “Breezeblocks” on 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert'
Lire la suite »
Jennifer Aniston 'anxious' her and Brad Pitt's divorce secrets could be exposedMatthew Perry is set to release his memoir later this year and Jennifer Aniston is said to be worried about any personal information about her he could release
Lire la suite »
Here Are the Lyrics to Chris Stapleton’s ‘You Should Probably Leave’Chris Stapleton unveiled his fourth studio album, Starting Over, in 2020, but its popularity remains strong in 2022 as “You Should Probably Leave” is continuing to take over the country…
Lire la suite »
Lil Durk Packs In With His Crew For Crowded 'Ahh Ha' Music VideoLil Durk has dropped a wild new video for his latest single “Ahh Ha,” and announced a new release date for his next album, ‘7220.’
Lire la suite »
Nearly half of 140,000 who went on strike in 2021 work in health careAcross the country, hospital employees spearheaded some of the more significant strikes of the year.
Lire la suite »
Channel Orange Found Frank Ocean Thinking About ForeverFrom paving the way for out-and-proud Black performers like Lil Nas X, to letting us into his heart, and creating one of the best albums of all-time, Frank Ocean's ChannelOrange changed the world 10 years ago NewRetroWeek
Lire la suite »