X co-founder and folk songwriter John Doe discusses the path from isolation to inspiration.
One of the most popular gateways to all things underground in 1985 was an exciting new media platform called VHS , and for just a few years, before Blockbuster began its epic rise-and-fall march into oblivion, there was a wonderful nationwide cottage industry of independently owned"mom and pop" video shops.
Doe, whose gone on to forge a parallel career as an Americana troubadour, has seen a lot of changes in his 69 years. Growing up in Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Maryland, he took a chance on California in 1977."I wanted to live a Bohemian lifestyle, and sure enough I found one." "I called up Kevin in April of 2020 and said, 'What are you doing? And he said, 'You know what I'm doing, I'm sitting on my ass.' So we just started getting together on Tuesdays."
Here, Doe has not only been swinging his favorite hammer, he's pulled it out of a vintage soft-leather tool bag that has his initials imprinted on the side. While the pre-industrial theme is maintained throughout the record with songs of threatening weather like"Down South," or the soft cries of a person seemingly questioning the existence of God in"See The Almighty," not all of the songs are influenced strictly by the distant past."Guilty Bystander" – accompanied wonderfully by conjunto preservationist extraordinaire Josh Baca of Los Texmaniacs – was directly influenced by the murder of George Floyd.
"Our narrator gets to the end of the journey … and sees an easier place to live, a place that they can have some way of surviving. Fables are supposed to have a moral, maybe the only moral in this is to survive. To survive the alienation, to survive isolation, to survive loneliness. To survive whatever struggles you might have."
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