In this amusing and bittersweet tale of musical obsession, Dan Epstein looks back on the ever-evolving role that country music has played in his life since he first discovered it as a child via Buck Owens and Hee Haw. The story culminates with a pilgrimage to see Owens himself at his Crystal Palace in Bakersfield, a trip that goes horribly awry and forces the writer to confront some harsh truths about his notions of “authenticity,” and his relationship with country music in general.
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Stopgap compilations of scattered singles and demos rarely give us any real insight into a band's deepest concerns. But Incesticide is no typical compilation album, just as Nirvana was no typical band. In his essay, Seth Colter Walls looks at the way Kurt Cobain used Incesticide to artfully re-assemble and re-contextualize his own history during a critical juncture in Nirvana’s pop ascendancy, creating a patchwork quilt of song-styles and influences that continues to tell us much about Cobain and his band that their big albums can't.
