John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats Takes It Back to the Boombox

Songwriter, guitarist, bestselling novelist, former nurse, and the mastermind behind The Mountain Goats, John Darnielle delivered an April surprise: a boombox album of songs. As he writes on The Mountain Goats Bandcamp page, "pandemics call for wild measures" - and this was one thing he could do to offset the cost of a cancelled spring tour. The album was inspired by the Pierre Chuvin book A Chronicle of the Last Pagans, and recorded with his trusty boombox to cassette, with stories - "told in beautiful, unnerving, specific detail because he is a very good writer" (John Hodgman, 2012.) John Darnielle shares the story of making said boombox record while in quarantine, and a brand new song from his porch in North Carolina. 

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