I just stumbled upon this video of Okkervil River performing ‘The Valley”, off of their new(ish) album I Am Very Far. It’s an amateur video, but the sound and video quality are both phenomenal, as are the lyrics|
“We watch the sun switching in the sky, off and on, where
our friend stands bleeding on the late summer lawn, a
slicked back bloody black gunshot to the head. He has
fallen in the valley of the rock and roll dead.”
Nick Rynerson is a writer, social media director for Charis Community Church, nostalgic and enthusiasm enthusiast living in Normal, Illinois. In his free time, he writes, attempts to play mandolin, reads and hangs out with his groovy wife. Nick has a soft spot for any song with a banjo and thinks Bruce Campbell is the easily best actor on earth. However, he has a particular distaste for pasta, argumentative comment threads and snakes. Nick is passionate about the Church, orthodoxy and whatever he's been reading about recently.
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