Blue Bird, Kill County and the Joy of Alternative Country |
Cultural Criticism  Posted by jewalt on Mon, 05/20/2013 -
12:31am in Blue Bird, cultural criticism, josh ewalt, kill
county, music, nebraska, spinoza  from Blue Bird's "Give Me
Light" Love Drunk video, in which HN contributor Andrew Roger
proposes to Jillian Liesemeyer  by Josh Ewalt  Nebraska’s music
scene is no stranger to music oriented around endless suffering.
Sure, there’s hope to be found, but no one listens to I’m Wide
Awake, It’s Morning to celebrate the joys of social life. I’ve
listened to The Good Life’s “Under a Honeymoon” more times than
I’d like to admit. And these days, at age 27, the listening
experience always ends with a vague sense of shame — just
general dirtiness. How could someone my age feel such immature
suffering?  On the other hand, there are bands like Blue Bird.
Blue Bird’s music is unapologetically joyous. As Andrew Roger
writes, Blue Bird’s Marta Fiedler “weaves her past angst into an
upward gaze toward the light.” Ind