Tommy Douglas Keenan – Rockinghorse
What does every single rockstar or film actor do in their spare evenings? Why, of course, they’re working on a script. What’s it about, you ask? Why, inevitably, it is about themselves, and if any studio is interested, it can be made for a slightly bigger budget than a cartoon with the big-eared freaks flying around that made-up world on the back of dragons.
You wouldn’t, really, get up on stage unless you felt you had something to say. But, certainly, you wouldn’t think of performing in front of people unless you can picture your biopic in great detail. The film will portray the actor as a noble but cursed figure fighting their genius every step of the way. In a manner of speaking, Tommy Douglas Keenan has just starred and directed that production.
Of course, it’s not quite a 3-hour film epic just yet, but it’s a song that Keenan’s built up to sound as heroic as Custer’s Last Stand. It’s an eerie kind of country music sound that “Rockinghorse” explores that comes complete with particularly sweet melodies. And, it’s all an illusion, a trick, a way to see things bigger than they actually are. Tommy Douglas Keenan is playing it up for the camera, and the results are certainly interesting.
Ghosts on the Wall – Ridgeline
No need waiting for the morning newspaper anymore (do they even print those?), or rushing at 7 on the dot to hear the news on television. Sure, they’ll provide some information. There’s no getting around that fact.
However, the news is sponsored now in the same way that television shows used to be. Do you remember getting cigarette ads on The Flintstones? Probably not, but check your history books! They did, and modern propaganda is just as strong.
So, who do you trust? Well, there are only a few things that have remained true through the years. Folk songs written centuries ago are still being sung for these very qualities, and Ghosts on the Wall could be all the news we need.
“Ridgeline”, a modern folk-rock track about a community swallowed up by misery and greed, is a perfect report of a place that won’t likely make the news reports. Through it all, Ghosts on the Wall deliver the gruesome picture of the events in a tone that brings to mind Springsteen’s “Nebraska.” This might be all the truth on the matter that you need.
